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There was a nice breeze among the sunlight through the very space that was the city which the Phantom Thieves lived in at the moment. Ann's part-time job shift as a model was finished rather quickly as apparently since they didn't like the weather that was meant for the theme of the upcoming magazine. With an apology to the teenager, the crew left and left her with nothing in particular to do so she just ended up walking around the city in her school uniform since she had not gone straight to the apartment where she resided in.
Ann was on her own walking around in one of the parks that the city had to offer. She couldn't remember which one it was, but she couldn't care less since they all provided such a nice atmosphere and environment to be enjoyed. Taking in a deep breath, she sighed.
"Ughh… so bored…" She sighed while rubbing her head. "Akira, Ryuji, and Haru are all busy at their own part-time jobs. Yusuke is attending the Kendo club. Makoto is studying. Futaba is hanging out with Koneko. What am I going to do right now?" She thought to herself. "Should I study? Nah, too boring."
"Huh? Ann-chan?"
Turning her head when she heard a voice, the ashen-blonde girl found herself pleasantly surprised when she saw who had spoke. "Haru?" She asked, seeing the heiress standing just a couple of meters away from her. She took a single step forward to close the distance. "What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be at work?"
"I've already finished all of the paper-work at the café. I wanted to stay and help some more, but Akira-chan said that I should go back home and finish my homework if there is any left." Haru had a soft look on her face. "He's so caring when it comes down to all of our futures."
"That's our leader for you." Ann agreed, nodding her head to add more weight to her opinion. "Speaking of which, I got a text from Futaba-chan. She's been begging for one of us to go into the Occult Research clubroom and rescue her from Gremory-san. Apparently she's constantly being asked to joint the peerage over and over again everyday."
"Really?" Haru questioned, tilting her head with a curious expression. "That's odd. When Akira-chan told Gremory-san no, she stopped. Maybe Futaba-chan isn't drawing the line hard enough."
"Either way, it sort of makes me scared of what will happen when I awaken my Persona again." Ann commented, slightly shivering. It was an act, but it helped her make a point.
"Don't worry." Haru comforted Ann, placing a hand onto her shoulder. "I'm sure that when the time comes that you'll be strong." She then looked over to her side and noticed something. "Oh, how about we get some ice-cream? My treat."
"Mmm, ice-cream." The blonde of the two hummed in appreciation at the though of the sweet treat. "Sure thing, if you don't mind that is."
"It's no problem." Haru giggled as the two of them began to walk to where they saw an ice-cream vendor just standing around waiting to serve his next customer.
The two of them were close when heard the sound of someone crying. Stopping, the two of them looked over their shoulders to see a child sitting on the ground and holding his knee in pain. The kid probably fell down, and it appeared that a nun was consoling him. Issei was even nearby, seeming to try and help calm the kid down with the nun.
A nun was a pretty strange sight around this place. There wasn't really a church around if the two of them remembered correctly. The two of them then saw an eerie green light. "What the-!" Ann breathed loudly as she saw that it was the nun who was presenting that radiating light. "That looked like something Makoto, Morgana, Akira or me would do when healing you guys!"
In a matter of seconds the child had stopped crying and was back on his feet. Ann and Haru both watched as the nun smiled to the male. They even saw that Issei was even in shock.
But it slightly began to turn south when the mother of the boy found her son. From the distance the two of them were standing, the two Phantom Thieves heard the nun smile and explain how they had helped the boy. But then the words of the older lady fell upon all of their ears.
"You shouldn't talk to someone strange like that. Who knows what she actually is."
Ann's jaw partially dropped while Haru covered her mouth while gasping. They knew that some adults could be cruel, but that was just downright blunt with such an insult!
Seeing the son and mother walk away, it seemed that Issei was attempting to comfort the nun now. Ann was the first to initiate, walking towards the duo. Haru quickly followed behind, already having a feeling what the blonde was going to do. "Uh, hello there!" Ann said, a bit of cheer in her tone to make her seem friendly. "That… uh… was quite a trick there."
The nun flinched a bit and turned to face Ann and Haru as the former arched an eyebrow when she got a good look at the Sister. The nun herself looked to be about fifteen or sixteen, so about the same age as Futaba. She had long, shiny blonde hair that licked just below her rear end, green eyes, and a petite but still well-developed figure. She could honestly say that the girl was very beautiful and quite… meek looking as well. Her attire consisted of a dark teal nun outfit with white accents, a white veil, a satchel on her right hip, and brown boots. There probably wasn't any other possible way to stick out even more than she already was. The bright, blonde hair alone did the trick.
Ann should know. She lived it.
"O-oh, h-hello!" The nun said with an awkward bow. "I-i-it's very nice to meet you!"
"Huh? Takamaki-senpai? Okumura-senpai?" Issei asked, standing off at the side with a surprised look with a startled blink. "What are you two doing around here?"
Haru bowed a little. "Sorry. We didn't mean to startle the both of you."
"Ah, n-no! You guys didn't do anything like that at all!" Issei stammered a little bit, his hands raised and waving them around a bit.
"It's okay." The nun gave a small smile before her eyes widened and she looked like she remembered something very important. Oh, I almost forgot to introduce myself to all of you. My name is Asia Argento."
Issei gave a friendly smile. "I haven't really introduced myself to you either. My name is Issei Hyoudou. But my friends call me… just Issei." He finished awkwardly, attempting to sound cool at first but botched it at the end of it all.
"My name is Haru Okumura." Harun introduced herself. "It's nice to meet you."
"I'm Ann Takamaki." Ann stated, letting the nun know her legal identity. "It's just that I've been wondering about that thing you did just now with that green light." She scratched the back of her head. "That was a pretty neat trick."
Asia smiled kindly. "It is a gift bestowed to me by God."
Ann didn't buy it one bit.
The way Asia's smile suddenly turned somber and depressed further supported her doubts. There was definitely more to it than that. However, it wasn't really her place to pry for information if the girl didn't want to give it away. It would just be rude of her to ask Asia something like that off the bat, and that was reinforced even more by the fact that she and Haru had just met her. But still… Ann was almost certain that what she and Haru just saw was a Sacred Gear in action.
Judging by Haru's silence, the girl was also thinking the same thing s Ann.
"No gift would make you look so sad." Ann commented sincerely.
"Ann-chan is right." Haru added. "A real gift would put a smile on your face, don't you think?" She finished off with a friendly smile.
"Takamaki-senpai and Okumura-senpai do have a point." Issei threw in his own opinion. Seeing how three girls were staring at him, he immediately blushed a bit in a sheepish moment while unsure where to look. "Well… I mean they are called gifts for a reason…" He mumbled in embarrassment.
Asia blinked in surprise before smiling kindly again. "The three of you are really good people."
"Depends on who you ask." Issei responded, still unsure where to look. He soon resorted to looking up to the sky.
The bright, blonde girl began to giggle a bit at the boy's reply. But it was quickly interrupted when a sudden, loud grumble resonated from somewhere. Ann, Haru, and Issei looked around for any construction equipment but didn't find any. A few seconds later there was another rumble, but this one was much louder than the last. Ann arched an eyebrow as the blonde girl in front of her blushed and looked away bashfully.
"S-sorry, I guess I'm still a little hungry." Asia said with a nervous laugh.
"A little?" Issei cringed. That was even louder than… well… something that was loud.
"I see." Haru's face was a bit concerned. "Well, I know a place where you can get something to eat." She offered while looking at Issei and Ann. "You all are welcome to come along if you would like."
"Oh, I don't want to impose on you…" The blonde nun responded apologetically.
"M-me?" Issei pointed to himself. "…Would you really be okay with that?"
Haru smiled and gently took both of their hands. Don't worry about it." She told them as she began to drag them along as Ann began to follow along in tow.
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Asia looked curiously at the food that had just been brought to her by Akira who gave them all a raised eyebrow but didn't ask any questions. She had no idea what it was since she let Haru order it for her. It seemed to be just a normal curry with a combination of meat, carrots, and pita bread. She glanced up to Haru to see her blinked at her in concern. She then smiled and gave her a nod of encouragement.
Giving a nod back, Asia lifted the combination of food using the bread, bit down, chewed, and then swallowed. "Haru-san, this is amazing!" Asia proclaimed with an excited look on her face, stars metaphorically forming in her eyes.
The addressed teenager giggled happily. "I knew that you'd like it." She stated with a smile. "It's similar to normal specials here in at Neko no Mise. But I put in an order of pita bread to see how it would sell compared to it normally being with rice. But I think most of the flavor comes from Akira-chan's cooking technique."
"Oh right, you're one of the supervisors for this place." Ann said, such information coming out of the blue.
"Yup." Haru nodded her head in confirmation. "Since I want to try and open up a café eventually, I thought that working here would be a good start. Especially since they brought me up to a partially-high position already to handle the paperwork."
Ann soon looked over and couldn't help but deadpan as she watched both Asia and Issei both ignore the small talk the two Phantom Thieves had as they both inhaled their dishes with impressive speed. Although… "I still can't believe you ordered the Voodoo Vindaloo again, Hyoudou-san."
Looking up, the brunette had his lips closed but jaw dropping as if about to speak. Quickly holding a hand up to show that he was just quickly going to swallow, he commanded the food to go down his throat as he chugged his glass of water. "I mean it does make my stomach feel weird, but it tastes so good!" He finally breathed as he partially slammed his glass down. "By the way, I really should thank you for the meal, Okumura-senpai."
"Issei-san is right. We both should be very thankful." Asia added.
Haru waved the two of them off gently. "Oh, think nothing of it. I'm just happy to see Asia-san and Hyoudou-san enjoying the food here."
"Actually, I've been wanting to ask you something, Asia-san." Ann asked, getting the fellow blonde's attention. "If that's alright with you. I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable."
"Oh no, go ahead." Asia smiled brightly.
The ash-blonde nodded. "Are you from Europe or something?" She asked her curiously. "I've never seen you around town and you don't really see many people with blonde hair and green eyes."
The girl nodded in understanding. "You are right, I am from overseas. I'm here because I got transferred to this town's church."
Ann slightly glanced over to Haru before looking over to where Akira was working. Despite the distance they were at, the leader of the Phantom Thieves had pretty good hearing as he eyed Ann and raised an eyebrow.
It was odd why it was this town specifically after all. This place was populated by a few Devils as well as who knows how many Fallen Angels. Considering the amount of activity started growing, such a transfer was a bit sketchy. "That… makes a bit of sense. But why were you transferred here?"
There it was, that look again. Asia had the same look when she said that whatever she did to that child was a gift from God. It really didn't suit her. Ann preferred the sweet smile she usually had. It was much lovelier than the melancholic look that she had right now.
Issei seemed to see this and his expression formed into concern. "Hey, Asia-san. Is everything okay?"
"Huh?" The nun looked up to see everyone staring at her. "Y-yes! I'm fine… I'm okay…"
"Are you sure?" The brunette asked, leaning back into his seat. "You don't have to say anything if you don't want to. But it's not good to have negative feelings bottled up in you."
A second passed as Issei's words processed through Asia's mind as it caused the blonde to smile gently. "Yeah… I don't want to say anything right now. But thank you for being so kind, Issei-san."
Seeing the brunette stammer once again, Haru giggled in amusement as Ann grinned before she felt a vibration in her pocket.
Pulling out her phone, she saw that there was an incoming call. "Hello?" She asked, a small period of silence following. "Are you kidding me?! Right now?!" Taking the phone off of her ear, she looked at the time and groaned before placing it back onto the listening flesh. "I can be there in about half-an-hour, give or take a couple of minutes." Hanging up, she got up off of her seat. "Sorry, but I have to go now. Work just suddenly told me they relocated and want me there immediately." Taking out a pen and a napkin, she began to write something on it. "Here, this is my number. If you ever need something, don't hesitate to call me."
"Same for me as well." Haru grabbed the pen when Ann was finished.
"Me too!" Issei added his own contact information onto the material as Haru handed him the pen.
Asia blinked while nodding hesitantly. "Um… While I appreciate the kind gesture, I don't have a phone with me so I'm not sure if it is okay for you all to give me your numbers."
"Oh, it's no problem. You should take it anyways just in case you do get a phone by some chance you can contact any one of us." Ann smiled as she handed over the napkin with their numbers to the nun.
"T-t-thank you very much. It is very kind of you all to do all of this to somebody you just met. Thank you for the meal as well, may God bless your kind soul." Asia replied gently as she clapped her hands together in gratitude while muttering a quick prayer.
Issei's head suddenly slammed down onto the table as he groaned in pain.
"Hyoudou-san, are you all right?!" Haru exclaimed, rushing over to Issei's side.
"I feel like sunshine right now." The brunette responded in cheery, sarcastic tone.
"…" Ann didn't know how to respond to such a reaction and chose not to. "Do you maybe need help finding your way to the church you're looking for?"
"It's okay. Issei-san already offered to escort me there. But thank you for the offer nonetheless."
"Alright then…" Ann said slowly as she got up out of her chair and began to run out of the door while watching Haru help Issei off of the table with Asia's aid.
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The dark blanket of night covered the city as late evening took over. As such, much of the town had calmed down and things were starting to slow down. Although, as with nearly any other town or city, there were something that just picked up as night fell.
Grumbling, a pissed off Ann walked down the street on her way home after a long photo-shoot, dinner, and another photo-shoot right after. How in the world was it her fault that the lighting wasn't correct whenever the picture was taken?! Stupid adults finding ways to pin their mistakes on other people.
She just wanted to go home and get some sleep. How could this night get any worse?
At that moment, the sound of gunshots ran through the air and at the same time a young man's cries of pain were also heard… There it was as well… The bad thing she had practically been asking for. Ann was pretty tired yet energetic, so her mind was not in the right place while her body was quick to react though as she took off sprinting towards the source of the gunshots.
The problem was such loud sounds were dangerously close to her location. She ran as fast as she could in hopes of preventing whatever travesty that was sure to happen.
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Issei Hyoudou was in pain, and a lot of it.
He had a hole in his leg and a large cut on his back. They both burned, almost as much as when the Fallen Angel stabbed him with that spear of hers, but not quite. Why did he have a hole in his leg and a large cut on his back again? Maybe blood loss was making his head pretty light, but he was forgetting at the moment.
Ah, now he remembered. When he arrived at the house where he was supposed to fulfill his contract, he found out that the client was dead and that some white-haired dick that called himself an exorcist was the one behind the killing. In a nutshell, the situation was completely shitty in every meaning of the word. The fact that the exorcist was an asshole certainly did not help things.
"Oh dear, oh dead, having second thoughts?" The exorcist taunted before posing himself to strike. "That way of thinking is what I hate the most!"
Issei closed his eyes and prepared for the worst to come. But… it didn't happen. Instead, he saw a shoe – his shoe – nail the cunt's head and was a hard it as the exorcist actually stumbled a bit. Whipping his head around at the source, his jaw dropped in horror. "Takamaki-senpai?!" Issei exclaimed.
"What the hell is going on here, Hyoudou-san?! Ugh, what is that smell?!" Ann groaned, pinching her nose when the scent of copper invaded her nostrils. Her eyes soon laid upon a corpse in the room, pinned against a wall while gutted like a fish. Blood painted the surface the body was stuck against as it only spread to the floor. She gagged. "Oh God…"
"Takamaki-senpai, you have to get out of he-gah!" Issei ran towards Ann to try and get her out of the house but then cried out in pain as he fell to the ground when the same leg was shot again.
Snapping her head up, Ann could clearly see the guy she had nailed with the shoe she found at the front of the house. He was short, but probably taller than Futaba. He looked young, maybe in his mid to late twenties. He had chin length white hair and red eyes. His clothes were considered clerical, unsurprisingly, and he had a silver cross hanging across his neck.
"And who the hell are you supposed to be?" Ann asked, noting the weird sword that the weirdo had as well as gun. Bending her knees, she helped Issei back onto his feet.
"Freed Sellzan, shitty devil killer and boy-priest at your service." The man identified himself in a disturbingly crazed manner. "You've got some nerve for getting in my way, you shitty Devil."
"I'm not a Devil." Ann pointed out, getting a surprised look from Issei.
"Wait, you know about Devils?" The brunette asked.
But he was unable to get his answer as Freed spread out his arms in a wide manner. "It doesn't matter!" He almost cheered, his tongue hanging out of his mouth. "Shitty Devils! Shitty Devil lovers! They're all the same! They deserve to burn in Hell!"
"And what the heck are you supposed to be, a priest? You sure have a disgusting mouth." Ann commented offensively. She then realized that she had just made a mistake since she had just went into this battle without a plan.
"Oh, I am going to enjoy raping you!" Freed lunged forward with his sword with rage.
"You stay away from her!" Issei shouted as he attempted to punch Freed. The exorcist ducked under it and smirked as he jumped and smashed his knee into Issei's face. The Devil groaned in pain but managed to grab Freed by the collar and headbutt the man's face and caused Freed to recoil back a few steps.
"That's my face, you dick of a Devil!" Freed roared.
"Takamaki-senpai, just go! I'll be fine!" Issei exclaimed loudly, wincing at how he was in extreme amounts of pain with two holes in one of his legs and a cut on his back. It didn't help that they were applied because of the powers of holy light apparently. Grinding his teeth to bear the pressure, Issei lunged forward to stall Freed.
But Ann didn't run. She knew that it was stupid of her not to, but she had a small excuse that she was tired. Still, that never dulled her senses at the moment as her mind was sharp due to the sudden pump of adrenaline. Her body told her to just get out of the house. Her instincts told her to stand her ground and help Issei.
Her fists tightened in frustration when the brunette was knocked down by the white-haired douchebag. "Hey, asshole!" Ann exclaimed, managing to get Freed's attention as he stood right over Issei. With her body moving, she ran right towards the exorcist and landed a sucker-punch to his stomach and toppled Freed over. Quickly draping Issei's arm over her shoulder, she began to drag the boy away as fast as she could.
She didn't get far when she heard a gunshot and had pain pierce her leg.
Stumbling, she had to use the closest wall for support since Freed had shot her right in the leg. "Takamiak-senpai, just leave! It's not worth it to stay around to help me!" Issei pushed off the girl and tried to engage Freed once again.
Ann couldn't help but be frustrated with herself. Slamming her fist against the wall, she released a growl of frustration. The hand that was balled up tightened so tensely the knuckles began to turn white. Her perfect teeth grinded together, unable to ground out the pain in her leg.
It was just so damn annoying that she couldn't do anything in a situation like this!
"My... It Has Been a While."
Gasping, she felt it pulse within her. Something inside her wanted to get out. The voice had spoken… and wanted to be free once again. Her sudden breath managed to stop the fighting between Issei and Freed as they both craned their heads over towards Ann who was still standing in place.
"Tell Me… Who Is Going to Help Your Precious Little School Companion?"
She began to scream, cry, shout in agony as the voice continued to spread like a disease. Falling to the ground, she began to thrash around. She constantly arched her back off of the ground, immediately to slam it back down over and over again in moments of regaining strength and suddenly losing it.
"Running Away Was Never the Option."
Watching Ann wriggle around, Issei took advantage of the situation as he slammed his fist into Freed's stomach to push the asshole away. Dodging the swipe at his legs, he leaned back to barely avoided a shot to his head before being tackled towards a wall by Freed's shoulder. The brunette cried out when he was stabbed with the sword made of light.
"Such Is the Scream of the Inner and Outer You That Dwell Together."
Ann's screams were ignored as Issei continued to try and buy as much time for Ann as he could. Hitting the back of the exorcist's neck, Issei attempted to use his good leg to kick the side of the exorcist. If only he could manifest his Sacred Gear already! Why the hell wasn't it coming out?!
"I Am Thou, Thou Art I..."
Finally, her screams got loud enough to grab the attention of Freed and Issei once more. Feeling bored with the Devil who was knocked to the ground, Freed slowly took his time to walk over to Ann. "Ohh, you just want me to do you already? Well, don't mind if I do." He sang out.
"Don't you dare touch her!" Issei growled out, holding on tightly to Freed's pant leg.
"And don't you dare touch me, shitty Devil!" Freed kicked the brunette's head to force the boy to release his grip.
Ann released a final cry before going silent and still.
"Do You Remember The Contract?"
"I remember… Carmen." Ann whispered before slamming her fist on the ground and began to get back up. A sudden burst of blue flames erupted from her face. Within that single flash, a red mask set itself up over half of her face that looked like the face of a panther. Behind the mask, her eyes were a piercing yellow color that stood out in the eyeholes. "That's right! No more holding back!"
"Of Course... You've Restrained Yourself Again for Far Too Long."
The same blue flames that had erupted from her face now flared out from her left hand. As Freed ran up to cut her, she grabbed his wrist with that single hand and stopped his attack right in its tracks. She could feel the power rise within her.
Balling up her right hand, it also let out a pulse of the fire as she nailed Freed right in the balls and sent him soaring to the other side of the room.
"But Do Not Worry. I'll Gladly Lend You My Strength Once More."
Grabbing her mask, she tore it off and screamed while being covered by a pillar of blue fire.
As the color began to die down, red contrasted against the blue as it brightly presented itself on Ann. Changing from her casual wear, she now had on a skin tight red latex catsuit. There, however, was a cutout for the cleavage to present itself with a zipper at the front and back. What finished the her outfit were simple things, pink gloves, dark red thigh-high boots, and a clipped on tail at the back.
"Whoa…" Issei breathed, unable to stop himself from staring at Ann's chest. He couldn't really see it before due to the type of clothing the ash-blonde girl would wear. That as well as Issei would be the one running away when she chased him and the rest of the Perverted Trio. Although he was surprised that she wasn't mean to him when they were with Asia. His eyes however trailed towards the large figure standing behind her. "H-ho… Ah… Hah..."
Its skin was pink… but its bust was huge and revealing almost everything! Just live Ann, the cleavage of the figure was showing. Despite its much barer presentation, the outer half of the body part was covered in some kind of black material. It was hard to tell what it actually was since it over was around her shoulders and provided a collar before disappearing along the arms and body of a red and black dress with a few designs all over the body.
The arm and stomach were nearly blended in with the rest of the body. Black was the main color that took over the two areas. But within such a dark area, the only color to be provided as well were red hearts littering the dark color while there would be a strip of light-pink adjacent of the color vertically. The same could be said for her heeled boots except around the bottom, the actual heel and tip of the footwear being crimson red.
The rest of the dress had one layer of cloth overlapping another layer about five times. Red was once again the main color, but then bright pink (that looked like orange or peach) and black highlights helped make the dress look more appealing. Around her waist were several large and small roses with a long thorny vine wrapped around her body. Where such vines led to was a bit of a surprise.
The first vine led to some kind of male figure in a suit being used as a footstool for the lady. The male didn't seem to be bothered or love the treatment. He wore a formal suit with a red-bowtie and the vines were wrapped around his neck. The most peculiar thing was that his head was a metal box in the shape of a heart as his eyes were also that shape but his mouth was round and had bars like a jail cell.
The second vine was the same, leading to a male that looked identical to the first. But the secondary object floated in the air, dangling yet looking mesmerized by the thing that had captivated him.
The head and face looked rather… peculiar. Well, the face was hard to describe since it's face was actually covered in a black panther mask that covered even the back of her head with material looking similar to the kind that covered her cleavage. A cigar was in her mouth and was lit up, smoke lazily climbing upwards. It had black hair as well, in an odd fashion of having it in the style of twin-ponytails while using a drill-hairstyle look as well.
"You are so fucking disgusting." Ann said slowly, making sure Freed got every single word that came from her mouth as she stood her ground with a completely healed body. "You almost make me ashamed of being human."
"Auuugh! You bitch! The only time you're supposed to touch my dick is when you're making me feel good!" Freed exclaimed, grabbing his balls as he began to get back up off the ground.
Walking, she stood in front of Issei protectively. With a swing of the figure floating, the woman that had been summoned looked towards the brunette. Right before his eyes, he could see his flesh regrow and there were no longer any holes in his body within seconds. Even the pain had disappeared. "How…" He breathed in fascination.
"You just go and murder someone… Someone who must have had a family… friends… maybe they loved someone or someone loved them. But you took that away without a single trace of remorse!" Ann continued on as Issei slowly began to get back up as stare at Ann in awe. "And you also hurt a student for no good reason at all! You're the shitty one around here, you complete dick!"
"Hah?! Didn't you hear me earlier?!" Freed picked at his ear with his pinky, looking to see if he had gotten anything that may have been inside. "That asshole is a shitty Devil! A demonic-being that is disgusting and should just go die! Just like shitty Devil-lovers like yourself."
"And you're just a shitty person in general that needs to be taught a lesson!" Ann suddenly raised her hands to produce some kind of weapon.
It had a fancy D-guard and shiny handle. The actual guard part protecting the handle looked like it was made from bronze though as it had a copper-like color and a think gold design along the outer shell. There was even a hilt for the weapon. Instead of a blade though, there was a tiny column with a single going point. At the tip of the point though were three gems adjacently placed around on the left, top, and right of the area. On the left was a sapphire in a diamond shape. On the top was a pale emerald with the shape of a diamond. On the right was a ruby with the exact dimensions and shape as the previous two gems.
Yanking the top though, the weapon was revealed to be a whip as an orange energy tether kept the handle and the tip connected. Stretching her weapon to make a point, she looked like someone dangerous in a kinky way depending on the person.
It was very interesting that her shiny Naraka Whip came from what could be considered a dark Persona: Black Frost.
"I've had enough." Ann grounded her teeth, pulling at her weapon to emphasize her frustration. "I'm going to enjoy beating the crap out of you!" Stomping one foot down, smoked pour out of the Persona's cigar violently. "Let's go, Carmen!"
No mercy, no holding back. That's what Akira had warned them when it came down to Fallen Angles. The same could be applied to this case. Carmen seemed to take a deep breath quickly as Freed ran forward recklessly. With a fast exhale though, a giant cloud of smoke erupted from the Persona's mouth and stopped the exorcist in his tracks as he coughed violently.
The smoke also provided cover for Ann as she rushed forward. Hoping that Freed would be confused, she was slightly disappointed that the cunt wasn't. But she still managed to get the drop on him as she unleashed a fury of lashes.
Despite being unable to fight for so long, her flexible body simply danced on the fly and forced freed to defend himself. Every time he tried to block one attack, two cuts appeared, and the attacks that he didn't block and tried to dodge instead would still cut him anyways. His clothes and skin were getting shredded by the vicious assault. The look in Ann's eyes were angry as her whipe splattered Freed's blood over the walls, ceiling and floor.
"Gah!" Freed grunted as Ann kicked him away. The unexpected assault had pushed the two over by the corpse and far away from Issei who stood in place in shock. With Carmen standing right next to Issei, the Persona lobbed several balls of fire towards the exorcist while he was distracted by Ann. But the Persona missed as it shot past the both of them and landed on the floor. A pillar of flames looked like lava as and intense heat came from a large column of fire where the projectile had landed.
"Go to Hell!" Freed screamed as he jumped back and aimed his gun at Ann. He smirked as he attempted to pull the trigger in a last-ditch effort.
Freed's eyes widened with horror as his gun was suddenly tangled in the whip and Ann pulled the firearm out of his grasp. Spinning around with momentum, she eventually turned back to face Freed, but now there was a new weapon in her hands.
A tommy-gun was what she held. Almost like her whip, it was purely a color of shiny gold. There was no stock to the weapon at all. There was just the main body of the weapon, an iron sights, and the barrel. The handle was a large as one would be on a nice pistol, so it fit perfectly in Ann's hand. The ammunition clip was circular, larger than the size of the handle and provided the front cover part of the trigger guard. The barrel was supported by the action bar and there was even a long front sight to accompany the lengthily compensator as well.
In simple terms, it was a modified golden tommy gun.
Wild Hunt made from Odin was overcomplicated for a simple weapon.
Issei's excitement now turned to a scared look at how violent the blonde was being. Ann pulled the trigger, inflicting a few bullet holes into the exorcist. But none of them seemed to be lethal. Unfortunately, there was a sudden click in the middle of the spray of bullet as Ann let out a growl of frustration. "Wait, it jammed?! Are you kidding me?!"
Before she could do anything about it though, there was a sudden scream that stopped her from what she was doing. She turned around and her eyes widened to see Asia standing nearby. She looked terrified and it looked as if she was starting to cry.
"Ann-san… Issei-san… What is going on here? Why are you…?" She seemed to trail off when she noticed the dead body in the room which promptly caused her to scream again.
"Asia-chan! Asia-chan!" Freed wheezed as he quickly moved in front of Asia. "Heal me! Look at what the shitty Devil loving bitch did to my body! Heal me quickly so I can kill them both!"
Ann and Issei both narrowed their eyes at Freed while Asia looked at them with curiosity, fear, and concern. She then looked back at Freed and developed a rather sorrowful and pleading expression on her face, much to the blonde's and brunette's surprise. "Please Father, stop this. Ann-san and Issei-san are good people." Asia pleased with the crazed priest. "They helped me a lot when I first arrived at this city."
After hearing her words, Freed quickly wore an angered expression and slapped Asia's cheek so hard that she lost footing from the sudden painful action and fell over. "You bitch! You're not better that that shitty Devil loving whore over there!" He shouted while pointing to Ann.
"Bastard!" Ann and Issei shouted at the same time before exchanging looks with each other. Ann raised an eyebrow but still gestured over to Freed. Seeing her school-mate nod, she charged towards Freed with Carmen taking better aim at the one who she was going to beat up so badly.
However, before Ann could reach freed, a blinding red light encased the whole room and what appeared to be a magical symbol materialized in the air. A few seconds later, a blast of red-black energy came screaming out of the symbol towards Freed.
The blast hit the crazy exorcist dead on as he was blown away from where he stood. Soon enough, the entire Occult Research club came out of the circle all of a sudden. "Don't worry, Issei-kun, we've come to save…" Kiba started off with a loud voice, but he slowly lost it as he noticed Ann.
"…Yuuto-san?" Ann asked, confused to how the circle suddenly appeared and summoned all of the Devils of Rias' peerage. "Wait, how did you all get here all of a sudden?!"
"I should be the one asking questions." Rias stated, walking up towards Ann with a suspicious look. "What are you doing here?"
But before Ann could answer, a voice interrupted them. "Well isn't this tear-jerking?!"
Everyone turned to the side to see Freed standing at the doorway. He was still heavily injured, but was otherwise not harmed by the energy blast that was just thrown his way. The smoldering hilt of the sword showed that he had managed to block the attack but it got destroyed at the same time.
"It appears that there are too many shitty Devils here at once!" Freed exclaimed, the crazed look from before returning to his face. "Sorry, but I can't play here anymore. It stinks in here!"
Suddenly, the exorcist produced something from his robes and trew it on the ground. A large cloud of smoke appeared blinding everyone in the room. A few seconds later, a scream and rushing footsteps could be heard.
Ann burst out of the smoke and followed the sound of the scream and feet out the door. It should have been so obvious! Tat smoke cover was only a ploy to make a quic get away!
The blonde sprinted out of the house and looked around for any signs of Freed o rAsia. At first, there was nothing. But out of the corner of her eyes she spotted two figures running into a nearby alley. Ann ran after them and quickly reached the alley. But when she got there, they were gone. It was almost like they had vanished like a fart in the wind.
Ann began to think where they had gone before a black feather fluttered down from the sky.
Wait… a black feather…
She crushed the feather tightly in her hand as anger boiled inside of her. Eyeing the sky, she made a vow. She was going to save Asia. The fellow blonde was innocent! The nun literally did nothing wrong!
This was something she was going to tell all of the Phantom Thieves. They will all agree to help her. They will agree to save Asia. They will know the determination that Ann felt. They all will do their best. Together, they were going to search for such a gentle character. They all will find her. She knew they would.
When they do find her, there was going to be no power on the Earth that could stop them!
I am not exactly happy with the chapter. I wanted to add more Issei in because I honestly want him to be able to look up to the older female Phantom Thieves like sisters/idols, no romancing at all since he already has a few people in the DxD series. But… I did a job. It wasn't a good job… but it was one. Yeah, this was pretty weird in general.
I say the fight was a bit disappointing.
But anyways, setting up for the next chapter in a sense? I don't know.
There is going to be a game mechanic I haven't seen in a P5 fic yet so I hope I'm the first one to use it in the next chapter… if I can make it work.
If you can guess who is going to unlock their Persona next, you deserve a cookie. If you get it wrong, you deserve a slightly over-baked cookie.
Buy yourself cake-flavored pie/pie-flavored cake if you can guess the order I'm going to awaken the Personas.
No flames please.