Here's the next episode! Enjoy!
*From now on, I'm not going to add author's notes at the bottom until it's the end of the episode. I find it too redundant to do.*
"ASHEEEEER!" Issei cried out in grief. Despite his open eyes, he was unconscious and couldn't answer her. Her breath shuddered as she continued to cry, looking down at the ground in grief.
Episode 5: I'm Gonna Defeat My Ex-Boyfriend! - Part 1
"I've been craving this kind of power for years!" Raynark gleefully proclaimed with the rings of Asher's Twilight Healing on his palms. "With this, I can conquer love! I need this power right now!" He put the rings into his chest, making him blush and gasp as green light shone across the room. Issei, Yumi, and Kabu covered their eyes. They then saw the fallen angel laugh maliciously and turned around to them, glowing green. "I'm now the SUPREME fallen angel! I can finally get pay back to those that've insulted me before!"
Infuriated by his pompous attitude after everything that happened, Issei gritted her teeth, glared up at him, and yelled, "YOU'LL PAY, YOU BASTARD!" She then got out her bow and arrow and shot the explosive arrow at the crowd of priests and nuns. Some of them lunged for her, but she shot the same arrows at them as well.
One nun swung her light sword at her, but Yumi used her Holy Eraser to block the attack. The nun gasped as she saw the light extinguishing. Kabu then fearlessly punched her away. Soon, the two engaged battles between the priests and nuns. The brown-haired girl watched in awe as they were knocking them out, one-by-one.
"Kiba? Kabu-kun?" she murmured before smiling. They were clearing a way for her, despite the sheer number of them. "Thanks, you guys!" She then ran through the middle and up the stairs, crying out, "ASHER!" She reached to the top, catching her breath. It hurt her to see him like this. She walked towards him somberly, Raynark stepping out of her way and smirking. "Asher-kun..."
"This is the reward you're getting for going this far," the fallen angel said, snapping his fingers. The chains around Asher broke, making his bulge bounce a little and his body fall. Issei caught him.
"A-Asher-kun?" she asked softly yet worriedly. "Are you...alright?"
He began to stir, slowing opening his eyes to see Issei's watered ones. "I...Issei-san...?" he murmured, a smile slipping across his face.
She smiled back at him. "I'm here for you. Remember that."
His eyes began to water. "Th-thanks..." He began to catch his breath.
"You can have him, since he's of no use to me now," Raynark stated as he walked behind the brown-haired devil.
She looked back and glared daggers at him. "Stop messing with me! Give him back his Sacred Gear!"
He scoffed, turning his back on her and showing his butt. "Don't be silly. I even lied to my superiors to carry out this plan." He then formed another light spear. "Unfortunately, you devils saw what happened." His eyes flickered with malice as he turned his body to her. "But dying with him won't be so bad, now would it?"
As Yumi knocked out another nun, she shouted at her comrade, "Hyoudou-chan! We're coming to a disadvantage here!"
The brown-haired girl looked down in sorrow. "You were my first boyfriend..." she muttered.
"Yeah I was," Raynark replied. "I wasn't surprised by how innocent you were though. It was fun teasing a girl who's inexperienced with guys."
"And I was going to...cherish our relationship..." she continued, sniffling a little.
He chuckled and proceeded to act like 'Yuuto'. "'You were so caring when I looked slightly troubled! But that was all only pretense.'" Issei started to feel pissed off. "'To see your cute, silly face when you're confused and at wit's end!'" This bastard...mocking her like this...
"Yuuto-kun...I really loved you...and even dressed up for you on our first date..." She began to cry again. "I was so determined to make the date a wonderful one..."
'Yuuto' laughed. "Oh really?" He then returned back to his normal voice and demeanor. "Well, I didn't see anything go wrong on that date." He frowned. "But it was getting too fucking boring." Issei's heart dropped, being at a loss of breath.
"Yu-Yuuto-kun...?" Her voice was shaky...and hurt. Everything she did for him...all for nothing...
Multiple light spears aimed at Richard, but Akihiko jumped in front of him and used a magic circle to shield it. "Not bad," said Milo, who was sitting on a tree with Galanaki and Donnasia.
"But we'll see how long that fragile barrier lasts!" shouted the blue-haired fallen angel.
"The magical barrier only makes things worse for you," added the elderly woman.
The blonde fallen angel scoffed. "Or are we supposed to let the others go because of it?" He pointed his finger at them. "Nah! We won't let you escape!" Richard looked at him with a serious face while Akihiko was smiling. "Your servants might be in for a beating right now! Especially that perverted girl who fell in love with Raynark-sama! I'm sure she's long-"
Richard smirked at him and interrupted, "Don't underestimate Issei." Milo shot him a confused look.
"Eh?"
"She IS my strongest pawn, after all," he added confidently.
"'Yuuto'," Raynark said to the brown-haired girl, who looked both glum and pissed off. "I chose that name because I wanted to come off as a gentle lover for you. Turned out to be the perfect disguise so I can kill you at dusk." He chuckled a little before frowning. "But you HAD to survive and HAD to make Asher your boyfriend afterwards." He got back to his "Yuuto" voice once again. "'I can't believe you, Issei-chan. You'd choose him over me?! Not only that, but you took him on another fucking boring date as well? Tch, women. But hey, it might as well be interesting to a country boy like him. Oh, I don't know, maybe he was like...'" He paused to mimic Asher's voice. "'I've never had so much fun in my life, Issei-san!'" He then laughed after, making Issei's blood boil. She couldn't believe she actually loved this asshole...
"RAYNARK!" she yelled angrily with tears streaming from her eyes.
"Don't say my name so casually, bitch!" he yelled back with a killer look and another light spear in his hand, ready to impale her. "You're defiling it!"
She held the blonde-haired priest close and thought angrily, HE'S the devil here! I won't... He tried to stab her with the spear, but she quickly dodged it and ran down the stairs with Asher in her arms. The "supreme" fallen angel scoffed at her, irritated.
As she was running, Yumi and Kabu were still fending off the nuns and priests to clear her way, unrelenting. Kiba? Kabu-kun? She stopped and turned back at them. The blonde was pointing one of her swords at the crowd while the shouta was in a fighting position.
Yumi turned to her and shouted, "Hyoudou-chan! Run! Kabu-kun and I will hold them off for you!" She paused as she blocked a nun's attack, only for Kabu to hit her after. "Go! We can handle them!"
"But I-" Issei said before Kabu interrupted her.
"Just hurry up and run." He kicked a priest in the head after he tore his tie with his sword.
The female pervert admired their willingness to help her and turned back, saying to them, "Kiba, Kabu-kun...please call me 'Issei' from now on!" She paused to run up the stairs. "Please! We're a team, after all!" Yumi and Kabu smiled at her as she ran up the stairs with the priest in her arms. Thanks, you guys... She looked down at Asher, more tears coming through her eyes. Asher-kun...please hang in there...
"'Pawn'?" questioned the little boy. "Oh yeah, you depict your servants as chess pieces. As if the game wasn't boring enough!" He sighed. "Aren't the pawns those pieces that stand in front or something like that?"
"Basically lambs to the slaughter?" asked Galanaki.
Akihiko scoffed. "Well~, our club president would never sacrifice any pieces~," the raven-haired man replied.
When Issei and Asher reached to the hall of the church, she laid him down on a seat. He was sweating like crazy, his breathing shaky. Panting, she begged softly, "Please Asher-kun...please hang in there...you'll be free once we get the hell out of here." He then opened his eyes and tensed up a little. He raised his hand up to her, making her grab it with both hands and squeeze it gently. A couple more tears fell out of her eyes, smiling through them. "We'll return to having fun together, we'll always have fun together..."
He smiled back at her and said weakly, "It wasn't for long...but...I'm glad that I made a friend...finally." He squeezed her hands with his gently to comfort her.
"Wh-what are you saying?! There are many other places I wanted to show you!" More tears came out of her eyes while his sparkled in happiness. "There's the - um - karaoke bars, th-the amusement parks, the bowling alleys...we can take more silly pictures and get more Racchu-chans!" The priest smiled widely and chuckled a little, loving her enthusiasm. "A-and that's not even the half of it! There's the...um..." She began to sob and tighten her grip on his hand, like she was never going to let him go. "My friends...I'll introduce you to them. Matsuyo and Motoe...they might be two perverted girls, but they're really nice too..." She began to cry on her hands and his hands and continued sobbing. "They'd be glad to be your friends, Asher-kun!" She tried to smile and stop sobbing. "Then we'll have a BIG party! With cake and confetti and..." She trailed off, losing her smile. What the hell was she babbling about? She wished she hadn't babbled, but her handsome friend was going to die and she couldn't control herself.
Asher, however, liked her babbling. He thought that if they were to happen, it would be so nice of her to do so. "If I were born here and gone to school with you, Issei-san..." he said sentimentally, still keeping his smile. "It would be so wonderful..."
Issei continued to smile at him through her tears. "Let's go - no, you HAVE to come...please?" she asked pleadingly. She removed her hands from his. However, his hand cupped her cheek, making her gasp and blush in surprise. He wiped the tears from her cheeks, his eyes as glassy as hers and his heart thumping.
"You're crying for me..." Tears escaped from his eyes, though they weren't all from sadness. "I am so happy...that you care that much about me..." He closed his eyes and smiled gratefully yet sadly. "Thank you so much...thank you..." His hand then slipped from her cheek and touched the ground. His eyes remained shut and he still kept his smile. Asher, however, wasn't moving.
That only meant one thing...
Issei covered her face with her hands and continued to cry and sob. "Asher-kun..." she muttered, distraught. "Why...why did you need to die?" She then hugged his body, her tears falling on his shoulders and back. "You were a kind guy...that would cure anyone including devils..." She then opened her eyes, looked at the ceiling, and angrily shouted, "God! I know you're there! Don't take him! Please, God, please! He didn't anything wrong! He just wanted some friends! Even though I'm a devil, listen to me! Does his life mean nothing to you since he became friends with a devil?! Please, I beg of you!" She sobbed into his shoulder, grieving over his death.
"Wow, a devil repenting in a church?" Raynark's voice asked. She immediately stopped her breakdown to glare daggers at him. He was leaning against the altar with his arms crossed, smirking. "That's one nasty joke there, especially when the devil is waaay too emotional..."
She gritted her teeth, her blood boiling again at the mere sight of him. She wanted him gone, gone for good. She set Asher's body down and screamed from the top of her lungs, "RAYNAAAAARK!"
Akihiko got blown away by Donnasia's power, but managed to get back on his feet. "You seem to think that little girl is so capable," she stated in disbelief. "But she would never stand a chance against Raynark-sama, no matter how good she is." She formed a light spear in her hand.
Milo giggled. "He's her ex-boyfriend, after all!" he added as he flew up higher, showing the top of his underwear, and formed a light spear in his hand. Richard gave him a sharp glare. "Raynark-sama told us what he did to her! Man, it was freaking hilarious!"
Donnasia chuckled as she flew up to his height. "Let's not go there, Milo. Just thinking about it makes me laugh out loud."
Galanaki joined them with a light spear as well. "I'll admit, it was pretty comical to hear." They all then threw their spears in sync.
"President!" shouted Akihiko. Richard, however, had a magic circle appear under him in an instant, blowing his hair and shirt up, his bulge bouncing at the rush of energy, and glowed red. The light spears bounced off of him like they were rubber balls.
"What the - they bounced off of him?!" Galanaki exclaimed in pure shock.
"So, you three decided to make fun of my cute servant..." he muttered in anger. The three fallen angels looked at him with wide eyes.
"Well, well~, you shouldn't try to make him angry~," the raven-haired devil warned with a smile on his face. "You silly fallen angels~!" The red-haired man then shot a large bulb of energy towards them, the three enemies screaming.
Raynark showed a bleeding cut on his arm to Issei. "Look at this: The knight girl managed to do this to me on my way here," he stated so matter-of-factly. Now that he mentioned them...
"Where's Kiba and Kabu-kun?!" she asked furiously.
He healed his scratch and bragged, "Isn't this nice? Now I can heal everything." As the cut became nonexistent, he went on, "It's a nice power for us fallen angels since we don't have Divine Protection anymore." He then laced his hands together. "This firmly secures my status as a fallen angel." He sighed in relief, smiling. "I can now assist Azalea-sama and Shemhako-sama!"
"So?" Issei replied dismissively. He glared at her with sharp eyes. "He never discriminated between fallen angels and devils."
He stopped leaning against the altar. "Believe or not, this is the destiny of those bestowed with a Sacred Gear-"
"There's no such thing as 'destiny'! He could've lived a peaceful life, you bastard!"
He scoffed. "Yeah, right. Sacred Gears are too much for humans to handle. No matter how good they are, unusual powers are bound to be feared and their wielders shunned for it."
What Asher said to Issei earlier in the day echoed in her head, "People in the church started calling me a treacherous wizard because I could heal devils, so I was branded a heretic because of it." She remembered the look on his face when he said, "I have no friends, you see."
That's why he doesn't have any friends...? she asked herself.
"That's just the way it is," Raynark continued. "Humans are like that." His rings began to glow green, grinning. "Even with such an amazing power!"
She shook her head at him. "But I'm Asher's friend! I tried to protect him as a friend!"
The raven-haired fallen angel laughed hard. "But then he fucking died! So much for 'protecting' him, bitch!" He pointed at her with an evil smile on his face. "You failed protecting him then and you failed protecting him now!"
The brown-haired girl looked down and closed her eyes. "I know that..." she said as she clenched her fists. "That's why...I would never forgive...either of us!" She cried and shot open her furious eyes. "I can never forgive any of it!"
"Use your brain," Richard's voice echoed in her head. "Sacred Gear is activated by its owner's will."
"Give him back..." she muttered, looking down at her hands. She imagined Asher and Richard naked.
"The greater your willpower...the more powerful it will become."
A green orb appeared under her left hand and shouted, "Dragon Boost!" Raynark lost his grin and looked at the Sacred Gear forming on her hands. She let out a battle cry and shot an arrow at him, only for him to dodge it quickly.
"Like I said, you wield a Longinus, but you're too weak to use it," he teased.
She gripped hard on her newly-created arrow. She thought of more power, the gauntlet yelling, "Boost!" She then shot the arrow at him, but he dodged that as well, his evil grin returning.
"You've gotten a little stronger, bitch." He formed two light spears and threw them at Issei's sides, making them bleed and her cough out blood.
Eye Catch #9: Asher is sitting on a checkered floor with a yellow-green background and is wearing a full school gym uniform with shorts, socks, and sneakers. His legs are spread apart, showing his bulge, and he's stretching to the right, touching the tip of his sneaker with his hand. He looks focused on the exercise.
