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There will be many reference or concept from other animes and games.

But before we start. A thank you to Darklord331 for beta reading my chapter.


Chapter 10 – It's time for judgment

Previously in Hallowed Blade


"I guess it's time for us to make our move. Let's go, Asia."

"Interesting, I can't wait to fight him one day."


Here I am, watching Rias and her peerage going to fight Kokabiel with Asia by my side from outside the barrier. Honestly, Kokabiel can easily destroy that barrier but he's arrogant enough to ignore it.

As we watched them fight the Cerberus summoned by Kokabiel, they had trouble fighting them as two others appeared but they were soon assisted by Xenovia, Jeanne and Irina with their Holy Swords each killing one.

But it was at this moment Valper has managed to fuse four of the Excalibur's Fragments into one.

The power created by this fusion was used by Kokabiel to fuel an Earth-Breaking Spell capable of destroying Kuoh Town in its entirety. To dispel that spell, we have to beat Kokabiel in 20 minutes.

Kiba managed to awaken his Balance Breaker with the help of his dead friends. But it's nearly time he announce it.

"Asia, it's time for us to go." She nodded at me but I placed my hand on her shoulder.

"Asia, no matter what you will listen there, never don't lose faith." She was confused by what I said but she is the most delicate person I know. When she will learn that he is dead, she will be the most shocked.

With that, we approached the school with our robes on.


Sona POV

We are still maintaining the barrier, waiting for the arrival of Lord Lucifer but who knows when he will come.

"Hyoudou, I count on you, man. I can't hold out that much longer." Saji complained but Tsubaki rebuked him immediately.

"Saji! Stay focused on your job!"

"Yes, vice-president!"

I can't fault him for that. I and Tsubaki are fine but the others are starting to run out of energy.

Rias... That presence!

Behind us approaching us and the barrier was two exorcists. But one of them is strong, much stronger than us.

It seems that everyone noticed them.

"Who are you guys?!" Saji yelled at them. They continued to approach the barrier until they were in front of it.

"Who are we? Just some tourists." He fused holy energy into his fist and he punched the barrier hard enough to make a breach on it.

"WHAT!" The members of the Student Council screamed, how can he break a barrier that we all made that easily. Are we that weak or he is...

"Wait. What is your name?" I asked him his name making him stop in his steps. Only an high-ranked exorcist can do that kind of feat.

"You know, do you really I have the time to answer you this when there is a Cadre to be killed." He pointed toward the school making me blush at that. How can I forget that Kokabiel is still here at a time like this?

"But if you want my name, it's Sa-chan." That man as he called himself, Sa-chan, is dangerous.


Ise POV

Kiba and Xenovia managed to defeat Freed who had the Fused Excalibur with him and destroyed it.

The Fused Excalibur wasn't that impressive to Kiba's Balance Breaker, Sword of Betrayer as he calls it, and Xenovia's Durandal.

But then, Valper was killed by Kokabiel. You bastard wasn't he your friend!

Everyone started to attack him but they didn't really have any effects on him.

I'm still boosting my power to give it to Buchou.

Right now, Kiba and the girls are fighting him but Koneko is unconscious.

"Hahaha! You still come at me? All right! Come!" Kokabiel taunted us.

"Holy-demonic sword." Kiba summoned several swords around him but he used his 10 wings to break them all.

But Kiba didn't stop there, he dashed at Kokabiel and slashed at him with a Holy-demonic Sword but he stopped it with two fingers.

"Is this it?" He sighed as he found it disappointing.

Kiba summoned another Holy-demonic Sword in his other hand which was also stopped with two fingers.

Jeanne-san and Irina tried to attack him from behind but they were pushed back by Kokabiel's wings.

But then, Kiba summoned another sword around his mouth and slashed at him in his face.

Wincing, Kokabiel let go of the swords and kicked him away. He then launches at him a Light Missile which was intercepted by Xenovia.

"Balance Breaker! Stake Victim Dragon!" Jeanne-san created a dragon with her Sacred Gear.

But Kokabiel destroyed it with multiples spears of light by bombarding the dragon and Jeanne-san.

Even after all that, we could only scratch him. Is that the power of a Cadre…

Everyone here was making expressions of despair and breathed violently. Only Kokabiel who was at an advantage was smirking.

"But. Seeing that even after losing the masters you serve, you Devils and followers of God can still fight, huh!"

Suddenly Kokabiel spoke. What was he trying to say?

"…What do you mean?"

Buchou asked with doubt. Kokabiel started laughing aloud as if he found it truly amusing.

"Hahahahahahahahaha! That's right! I totally forgot! The truth wasn't revealed to you lower guys!

Then I will tell you. In the war between the three sides, not only the Four Satans but God also died."

…! …Wh-What… What did he just say…? Everyone here was shocked and couldn't believe what he just said.

"It's normal for you guys to not know about it. Who can say that God has died? Humans are an incomplete bunch.

Without God, they cannot control their hearts and obey the laws, you know? Even us, the Fallen Angels, and Devils couldn't tell this to those below us.

You won't know where the information about God will be leaked from. Even among the three-powers, only the people at the top and certain people know about it. Though it seems Valper noticed it earlier."

…God didn't exist anymore? No…that couldn't be… It was impossible… I mean, isn't God supposed to be immortal?

"After the War, what was left were the angels who had lost their God, the Devils that lost their Satans and the majority of high-class Devils and the Fallen Angels who lost most of the Fallen Angels apart from the leaders. So it wasn't a mere exhausted state.

All of the factions fell so low, that they had to rely on humans to continue their generations. Especially the angels and Fallen Angels that could only continue their generation by mating with humans.

Fallen Angels can increase if the angels fall. But pure-angels can't increase their numbers after losing God. Even pure-Devils are rare, right?"

"…Lies…it's a lie…"

Slightly further away from me, Xenovia seemed like she started losing strength. She had a panicked expression that was too unbearable to look at.

It was the same for the two other exorcists, Irina and Jeanne-san. They had the same panicked expression on them.

"The truth is that another big war wouldn't happen unless you do it on purpose. It means that all three-sides went through hell in the past war.

Everyone decided that it was meaningless to continue having a war if the start of it all, God and the Satan, were dead.

Even that bastard Azazel declared that "there is no second war" after losing the majority of his men in the war! It's hard to bear! It truly is hard to bear! To lower your gun once you already shot it!? Don't fuck around. Don't fuck around!

If we continued on from there, we could have won! Even so, he...! Is there any value in Fallen Angels who can only live by inviting humans who possess Sacred Gears!?"

Kokabiel declared his argument strongly. His face was expressing anger. The real truth made an impact on us more than we thought.

"…God doesn't exist? God is dead? Then the love we were given by him is…"

Kokabiel answered Jeanne-san's doubt with a laugh.

"That's right. It's normal that there is no love from God and no divine protection from him. God is gone already. Michael is certainly doing well.

He's taking the place of God and is taking care of the angels and humans. Well, if the "system" used by God is operating, then the prayer to God, the blessing of God, and exorcism would function.

But if you compare it to the time God was present, the number of believers decreased. That Holy-demonic sword brat over there was able to create the Holy-demonic sword because the balance between God and the Satans broke.

In reality, Holy and demonic powers cannot merge. If the ones who rule the power of Holy and demonic powers, God and the Satans, disappear, then lots of unique phenomenons occur.

From here on out, I will start a war! I will take your heads as a gift! Even if it's only me, I will continue from where we left off!

I'm going to show Sirzechs and Michael that we, the Fallen Angels, are the ultimate beings!" He laughed to the Heavens.

Don't mess around... Like hell, I will let you do that!

But then a strangely familiar voice made its appearance.

"How stupid..." We all looked toward the school entrance to see two exorcists.

"Sa-chan... A-chan..." Jeanne murmured when she saw them.

"Asia, heal them." The smaller one, Asia I think, started to come toward us and started to heal us. A Sacred Gear? She took off her white robe revealing a young girl with long blonde hair and green eyes.

She had tears flowing from her eyes but I think that was because she heard that God is dead.

"Sakuya..." Xenovia called the other one Sakuya... What... that name...

The exorcist took off his white robe and it was him... My brother... He was an Exorcist? Since when? I didn't know what to think anymore...

"Ise-sempai's onii-san..."

"Sakuya-kun was an exorcist..." I looked toward the others to see them also shocked, especially Buchou.

"To think they sent another child after me. Are they mocking me or something?" Kokabiel sneered at Sakuya.

"It because there was no need for that. Ise, boost yourself. You'll transfert me your boosted power later." What?

"Here I come." Sakuya started to emit a white aura around his body. This feeling... It's the same as an Excalibur...

"Blade Blacksmith." Sakuya created a blue sword on his hand and several magic circles appeared around him then he rushed at Kokabiel who was smirking.

Kokabiel launched multiples spears of light at Sakuya who launched swords from the circles.

The spears of light and the swords were destroying each other, Kokabiel created a sword of light and their swords met each other.

"Is that all you can do... How disappointing..." He shook his head but Sakuya smirked.

Kokabiel's sword started to freeze and break apart taking him by surprise.

"What!" "Cocytus Zero!" Sakuya attacked Kokabiel who defended himself with his wings.

The area in front of Sakuya was frozen, as well as two wings of Kokabiel.

Kokabiel stepped back from Sakuya and started to laugh like a madman.

"It seems you are a little better than Sirzechs's little sister and the others."

"I'll take that as a compliment." Sakuya continued to fire swords from his magic circles then he looked at me.

"Ise, what did I tell you. Boost yourself and transfer it to me later." Blinking, I did what he said and started to boost myself.

Sakuya started to mumble something while bombarding Kokabiel with swords.

"How amusing... Do you really think you can beat me? Even if you infused your body with Holy Energy, you can't beat me." Kokabiel mocked as he deflected all the swords sent at him but Sakuya just smiled.

Sakuya planted his sword in the ground which froze the school's ground and Kokabiel's legs.

"Do you really think this will sto-" As he was distracted for a few seconds, the swords coming at him injured him so he deployed his wings to protect himself.

"I stand in the place bathed in heavenly light, thou art where the gate to the Underworld opens, come forth, divine lightning!"

Several magic circles appeared enveloping Kokabiel and some appeared in the sky just above him.

"This is the end! Indignation!"

A massive lightning bolt was summoned and struck Kokabiel. That lightning bolt was stronger than any lightning spell that Akeno-san did until now.

Even the time when she was boosted, her spells didn't have the same power as Sakuya's.

Right now, we could only see smoke caused by the impact so we don't know if Sakuya got him.

But when the smoke disappeared, we saw Kokabiel who had scratches and burns on his body.

Even with that spell, it's almost done nothing to him.

"Aha... AHAHAHAHAHAH! You are indeed stronger that Sirzechs's sister and her group. But it looks like your trump card wasn't enough to beat me." He smirked at Sakuya who sighed but still had his smile on.

"Who said that was my trump card..." Then Sakuya's body started to emit electricity with his white aura transforming it.

Sakuya's body was coated with white lightning and his straight hair became spiked.

"Holy Lightning..." Akeno-san murmured as she looked in shock at Sakuya.

Sakuya's ice sword disappeared and he started to chant something.

"You who symbolize royalty. You who are more dazzling than any silver. Come to my side and give your strength."

The space in front of him got distorted then he put his hand in the middle of the distorted space.

"Engrave that name in your soul as this is the sword that will destroy you, Kokabiel."

He put his hand in and pulled something right out of the dimensional gap. What appeared was a single sword that gave out a holy aura.

"Clarent."

"Clarent, one of the strongest Holy Sword and the one who destroyed the Original Excalibur but when it was used to kill Arthur Pendragon, it lost its blessing and became a low-ranked Holy Sword." What? Then why did he bring that sword?

"You may think that Clarent is a low-ranked Holy Sword but..." And then Clarent started to shine, it started to give the same feeling as an Excalibur... no, even stronger...

"It's been 8 years since I got chosen by this sword and 8 years that I tried to give it back its blessings. I worked hard so that Clarent surpassed the Excalibur's Fragments." Clarent was then coated with white lightning just like Sakuya who started to walk toward Kokabiel until he disappeared...

Kokabiel protected himself by instinct behind him with a sword of light only to block an attack from Sakuya surprising everyone.

"So fast!" We couldn't follow him, even Kiba isn't that fast.

"You damn brat!" Kokabiel tried to screw Sakuya with his wings but he missed as he disappeared again.

Kokabiel was then attacked from all directions by Sakuya, he couldn't follow his speed and couldn't block all his attacks. Cuts started to appear on Kokabiel and his two frozen wings were also cut.

"Just what is this speed..." Kiba murmured, I can't blame him. Speed is his specialty as a Knight and Sakuya was way faster than him.

"What's wrong, Kokabiel? You can't keep up?"

"Shut up!" Kokabiel used his 8 wings to attack in all directions but...

Kokabiel, you should have understood the moment you couldn't keep up with my speed. That you already lost.

Sakuya reappeared in front of him and cut his left arm.

"AHHHHH!" Kokabiel stepped back from Sakuya while holding where he got cut.

"YOU DAMN BRAT! FORGET ABOUT THE WAR! FORGET ABOUT WAITING FOR SIRZECHS! I'LL DESTROY YOU AND EVERYTHING NOW!"

He started to flew in the air and started creating a spear of light that began to grow four times larger than its original size. Its power destroying the barrier made by Kaichou and the Student Council.

"That power... Forget the Earth-Breaking Spell, he will destroy the town at this rate!" Kiba yelled as he stood protectively in front of us.

"Rias!" Kaichou and the others joined us since the barrier just got destroyed.

"Sakuya-san..." The girl Asia called softly Sakuya's name who was looking at Kokabiel.

"Don't worry, Asia. Everything will be alright. Ise." I jumped when he called my name.

"Did you boost until your limit?" I looked to my Boosted Gear to see that I reached my limit, I didn't notice it.

"Transfer it to me." He ordered me when I nodded.

He seems to have a plan so I will trust him. In any case, I don't have a choice.

[Transfer!]

An enormous amount of power went to Sakuya through my body. He instantly gained an enormous amount of power.

He was more stronger than Buchou when I boosted her power before, his aura was so strong that he pushed me away, making me fall on my ass. Just how strong is he?!

"Ise, go back to the others." I did it without wasting time, the Holy Energy emanating from him also got stronger so by just being near him gave me shivers.

"There are two kinds of arrogance. One where you are unequal to the task and one where your dreams are too big. The former is commonplace stupidity… but the latter is a rare species that is difficult to find.

You, Kokabiel, are the former." Sakuya said while holding his Holy Sword with his two hands.

His sword was overflowing with power as white lightning began to flicker around like a storm.

"It's time for judgment." "DIE!"

"AAAHHHH!" As Kokabiel launched his giant spear toward us, Sakuya unleashed a wave of white lightning even bigger toward him.

The wave of white lightning swallowed the giant spear of light and evaporate it while continuing its way toward Kokabiel.

"NO! I WON'T BE BEATEN BY A SIMPLE MORTAL! AAAAAAHHHHHHH!" He was engulfed by the wave as it continued its ascension to the skies.

When the wave died down and disappeared, Kokabiel fell down from the sky and crashed on the ground.

He lost 6 of his wings, a leg and he has serious injuries on him.

"To think you survived, as expected of a former Cadre of Grigori. But..." Sakuya said as he approached Kokabiel but was he said next surprised us.

"I didn't get to use my real trump card and my Balance Break. Well, I'll leave it to that." Real trump card and Balance Break? Did he hold back? Just how strong he is... I don't know anymore...

"Just who are you..." Kokabiel murmured softly, he didn't have any strength left.

"There is no need for a dead man to know but I'll tell you since I'm a good man." Sakuya was just above him with Clarent, ready to give him the final blow.

"I'm just an exorcist who kicks ass in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The name's Sa-chan and good-bye. Amen." And with that, Sakuya plunged his sword in Kokabiel's head killing him.


Sakuya POV

Retiring Clarent from Kokabiel's head, I stored it back in my inventory.

Kokabiel was strong but really arrogant. He greatly underestimates me which caused his downfall.

When I looked back to see my spectators, they all looked at me with wide eyes, especially Ise and Rias.

I walked toward my partners while ignoring the looks given by the Devils.

"Are you okay?" They all nodded to me. I went and took the broken Fused Excalibur with me.

"Then let's go. Our missions is over." As I walked away with the girls following me, someone screamed.

"SAKUYA!" It was Ise.

"Why are you an Exorcist? Since when? Why didn't you tell me?!" He screamed his questions while I looked at him calmly.

"Because I have a wish. Since I was 8. You didn't ask." With that, I left as he felled on his knees.

"Wait... I still have other-" "We will see each other sooner than you will think. So wait until then." I said over his words and we left, leaving the group of Devils looking at us leaving.


- In the plane -

The atmosphere was heavy in the plane. Nobody spoke, too shocked by the fact that God was dead.

"So, what will you guys do?" They all looked at me with heavy eyes as if they were waiting for an explanation.

"What will you do now that you know that God is dead?" I reformulated my question and they looked down.

"Sakuya-san, did you knew?"

"Yes, since a long time ago." They fell silent at my answer to Asia's question.

"Then, Sa-chan. Why did you stay at the Vatican if you knew that God is dead?"

"Because it wouldn't change the reason why I decided to become an Exorcist." They all looked at me with curiosity. Well, I never told them my past and how I met Dulio.

"Xenovia, do you remember when we first met?"

"Yes, it was 9 years ago. When we were 8." I nodded at her.

"A few days before, I was nearly killed by a monster." They were shocked at my revelation but I continued.

"I was looking for Ise around until I found an abandoned building. I heard some noises inside so I went inside to check but was I found was a monster eating a man.

When he noticed me, I started to run away but he was toying with me until he decided to eat me.

At the last moment, I awakened my Sacred Gear and I killed it.

But that monster wasn't alone, there were 3 or 4 monsters with him. I couldn't move or fight back but then Dulio appeared and saved me.

After that, Dulio offered to accompany me to the Vatican and I accepted his offer. I wanted to become like him, someone who could protect people.

I wished to be as strong as him to protect everyone and God's death didn't really shock me because, to me, it didn't matter.

Even if God is dead, his teachings are still alive through us and the Angels are trying their hardest to make up for his death.

The Archangel Michael may not God but he is trying his hardest to operate a system that can only be used by God and I'm sure that the higher-ups of the Church already knows about it.

Sister Griselda, Dulio, they all have their reasons to continue being an Exorcist even when they knew about it.

Even if God is dead, I will continue to fight in his name, I will follow his teachings and I will fight to protect innocents from monsters because he gave me the strength to protect those I cherish the most in this world.

This is why I continue to be an Exorcist.

What you will do is up to you, think about it seriously." I said to them leaving them thinking on their own.

Most of it was my honest feeling. I never fought in God's name nor I followed his teaching.

Dulio taught me that as long as they do not know and I pretend to do it. Everything will be alright. Even he claims he does it.

I know that in canon, Irina still believes in his teachings and transferred her belief to Michael when she learned that God is dead.

Xenovia was excommunicated but I can do something to prevent this with Dulio and Griselda. I know she still retains her faith to God as she prayed to him even as a Devil.

Asia, even as a Devil always prayed to him and I'm sure she wants to remain as an Exorcist.

Jeanne, while she is childish and cheerful, she is very protective of the girls. I'm sure that like me, she will stay as an Exorcist to protect them.

But just as the story is deviating from canon, I don't know if their choices will be the same.

All I can do is to wait for their answers and hope for the better.

A/N: And that was the 11th chapter of Hallowed Blade.

I wanna say thank you all for the reviews and a great thank you again to Darklord331 for beta reading my chapter.

I will explain why Sakuya could defeat Kokabiel alone.

Sakuya is physically stronger and faster than the girls and the ORC Club even without using magic. Even if not shown, he was trained by Dulio and Vasco ( for a short time ) who are the strongest Exorcists of the Church.

It's not for nothing he is known as the Strongest Exorcist's apprentice.

With Strengthening Magic, he will enhance his body's capabilities. ( Attack, Defense, Speed )

With his Lightning Magic, he will boost again his speed and reflexes to its limits of his body and enhance Clarent.

And again by fusing Holy Energy in his body and Clarent, another boost in Attack.

There is also Clarent and its ability of "amplification", so another boost in Attack.

The concept of his 'Holy Lightning Mode' is the same as the Raikage Lightning Armour and Killua's Godspeed.

The lightning chakra from the Lightning Armour stimulates the user's nervous system enhancing their speed and their reaction time.

Godspeed use Killua's electric aura to vastly enhance his speed by allowing him to transcend the limits of his physical potential.

Kokabiel against Vali couldn't react to his speed which was said to be at the same level of the speed of light ( which is stupid ).

Sakuya full enhanced and with his 'Holy Lightning Mode' is a little slower than Vali. Why?

Killua's speed with Godspeed is approximately 240km/h and Raikage A is one of the fastest shinobi only surpassed by Naruto in his Nine-Tails Chakra mode and Minato's Hiraishin.

In canon, Kokabiel is said to be eight time stronger than a Middle-class Fallen Angel since Vali used [Divide] on him three times and he had the strength of a Middle-class.

Sakuya could naturally kill High-class easily so with all the boost from his magic and Clarent, he is close to Kokabiel's natural strength or even stronger.

Kokabiel's arrogant attitude made him underestimate Sakuya and it ended with a quick death.

Also, the information on Kokabiel didn't mention of his speed but if he can't react to Vali then he must have the same speed as Kiba.

I hope you don't find Sakuya too Gary-Sue and that I didn't forgot anything.

Also, please vote for the pole in my profile if you want or not lemon scenes in the fanfiction.

And now, I will try to answer to the review.

Lio4567892012: Well, my vision of Jeanne if she wasn't in the Hero Faction was basically her Nasuverse counterpart but more childish and cheerful.

Doesn't really help since I got her in my team in F/GO.

GGPD: Sorry, but it was for the greater good.

Morregen: Thanks as always. I'm waiting for the general opinion to see if I will write or not lemon scenes.

I hope that fight satisfied you. Honestly, I suck at writing fighting scene.

LMaltez: And I just did ;).

Threatz2001: I erased it by mistake and fixed it. He has bleached his hair to a white blond color.

Veilan: Yes, it's a bad habit that he has. If you look back at the fight with the vampire, he did a last attack at Xenovia, Irina and Jeanne who were injured when he asked for his last word.

Sakuya tries to stop that bad habit but it's quite difficult to actually stop.

Blaze2121: I would say that he is a little under Vali's level.

Naturally as a Devil, Vali has better physical capabilities than Sakuya who make it up with his magic boosting his stats.

The two were trained since childhood by powerful beings. Azazel for Vali and Dulio / Vasco for Sakuya.

But Vali is a little stronger for now.

Toward the certain nekoshou, she wants strong children so if she witness his strength. Maybe but she will be more drawn to Vali and Ise since they both have Heavenly Dragons inside of them.

Guest: Your metaphor is a little extreme. The seals just sealed his abilities to use magic and Holy Energy because they are too large for a normal human.

They didn't do anything to his physical capabilities and his Sacred Gear.

Even without using magic, he's stronger than the ORC Club and the Student Council.

And he was supposed to be on vacation, doing nothing but to relax unless there is some missions for only two weeks.

Deepak Singh Chauhan: Thank you.

He will be an Angel. One who can have pervy thoughts, no. I don't see why he should be special and as long it isn't 'Pervy thought', he won't fall.

Bevim23: I don't like the idea of Half-fallen Angel because they were originally Humans. Doesn't make sense for me.

A different color of wings for the group, no. I don't see the need for that.

They would still be bound by the normal Angel rules. I don't see why they should be special.

You will see in future chapter.

You says that Sakuya took 3 girls from him but he didn't even knew them well except Irina who he though was a boy.

He didn't meet Asia until the fight with Kokabiel and at first in canon, he saw Asia like a little sister. It was mostly because of Asia's love towards Ise that she is in his harem, a love which don't exist in this fic.

Xenovia in canon, wanted his genes as the Red Dragon Emperor since she wishes to give birth to strong children as a way of making up time she feels she lost as a woman while in the service of God, rather than out of any romantic feelings.

Over time, Xenovia has developed genuine romantic feelings for Issei due to his determination to protect his comrades even if he gets injured by doing so but it will be different in this fic.

She already saw that aspect in Sakuya in Chapter 6 against the vampire and there will other moments like that in the future.

In canon, she had a childhood crush on Ise but in this fic, Irina was more attached to Sakuya than Ise when they were young. She and Ise will be more like siblings.

Le Fay and Rossweiss, maybe but they won't be appearing soon. No, one Sacred Gear is enough for Sakuya and I have something else for Incarcerate Anthem.

sonic: Thank you.