Roszen stood with Krex at her back as Hell Antenoras surrounded them, more falling from the ceiling or out of portals. Briallan lit a flame. "Krex..." Her familiar looked to her. "This doesn't look too good." Her eyes quickly scanned to Vurnomon, his wicked smile never leaving.

"Don't worry, my lady. I have your back." Krex lifted up his shield.

One of the demons seemed to get bored of waiting and charged at the two, then the rest followed. Roszen sidestepped one of them and sliced at it. Blocking a blow to her back with her tail, pain registered through her tail. "These guys are strong if I can feel it like that..." She ducked under another swing then quickly jumped over all of them, pulling out Luna Rosa and sliding the bow across the strings. A firing squad of rifles were summoned and open fired at any demon below her. When she landed she was separated from Krex, who was doing good at keeping the demons off himself. She swapped Luna Rosa to WMD in twin minigun form and mowed down any demon that got in her way. Or at least tried.

When the Hell Antenoras were knocked down by the WMD, they quickly got up and rushed Roszen with renewed vigor and disregarded any allies nearby, causing a chain reaction. "Oh fuck..." She hopped over any that got close to her, making them attack each other. If there's one thing about these demons, they are hardy. "Krex! Fly by!" Roszen jumped, charming WMD into the double missile launchers. Krex flew up and caught Roszen and flew about the room shooting rockets at their enemies. All the while Vurnomon sat on his throne watching, his smile growing more wicked and distorted.

Krex let Roszen go, landing on one of the demons. Using it as a surfboard, she used Hell Tiger Queen with her knives to slice at and mangle many of the demons, killing a good number of them, but more just kept coming. It seemed that no matter how many they took down they were just replaced. Roszen pulled out Briallan, fire igniting across the blade. "Krex!" she yelled out, pouring power into the blade, the flames growing hotter. Krex materialised next to her, allowing her to unleash a tidal wave of fire. That put a dent in their numbers.

Just as everyone was about to attack, Vurnomon began clapping. "Wonderful, simply wonderful!" Every demon stopped while Roszen and Krex stayed on guard. "I knew there was something special about you." He was about to say more when everyone heard someone hitting a wall. They all saw Dante hitting the barrier at the entrance. Vurnomon smiled wickedly at Dante. "Oh look! Daddy's here!" He got up from his throne. "Now the real fun can begin!" He slammed his staff to the floor.

At that, every demon left the battlefield, and Akko's table lowered to show the girl. The demonic script on the table began to glow. "No, no, not again..." Akko shook her head, knowing what was going to happen. "ROSZEN!" Tears fell from her as her cry for help turned to one of pain and agony. Demonic energy arched and flowed as she screamed, trying desperately to get away as she looked to Roszen to save her.

Roszen stared in shock as Vurnomon laughed at their predicament. "I can stop this very easily; I want you to swear your undying loyalty to me a-" He was knocked across the jaw, flying to the other side of the room.

"Better idea," Roszen said as she cracked her knuckles. Her eyes changed to their gold and red hues. "I kill your ass, free Akko, and bring her back to her home."

Vurnomon rubbed his jaw as his smile grew again. "Doesn't matter, I'll get my new Courtesan; the brat will either be another pawn or die!" He began to chuckle. "Either way I'll get you and get rid of that brat!" He twirled his staff as his chuckling evolved into laughter.

Roszen didn't say anything, just pulled out Briallan and one of her knives, then charged head on. Krex flew up to Akko, using his energy to try and counteract Vurnomon's spell. "I'll try and by as much time as I can, if I'm lucky I can get her out!"

"Roszen..." Akko's horse voice barely reached Krex. She was still in pain, and strong surges came periodically, but with Krex's help, she was able to breathe properly. "Help me..."

Vurnomon laughed as he blocked Roszen's strikes. "You really think you can defeat me?" He sent a punch to her stomach, knocking her back. "Your mother did the exact same thing, and look what happened to her!" He blitzed to her side, swinging his staff to her head. She deflected it with Briallan and sliced at him with her knife. It connected, but the knife scraped off with sparks. Vurnomon smiled and kicked Roszen back. "Recognised this?" He waved his hand to where she tried to cut him. "I gave your mother the same gift, but unlike her I am far more proficient with this."

He came at her again, foregoing blocking and parrying, letting his armor take all the blows Roszen could get in. With the amount of sparks, several forest fires could be made. "Damnit..." Roszen was knocked back again. "That stupid armor is practically all over his body..." She switched to Hell Tiger Queen and blitzed around him, but instead of using her claws, she just gained enough speed and punched him in the gut. This sent him flying, but he got up without any sign of him being hurt, just that damn smile of his getting bigger.

"Ok... let's try burning it..." She pulled out Briallan but kept Hell Tiger Queen up. The two devil arms combined, elongating the claws, allowing the bladed tail to extend into segments, and the fire dancing across her grew in intensity.

"Oh that's new?!" Vurnomon fanned his face from the heat. "Who knew that you could become a bonfire!?"

Roszen let out a roar and was upon him in a blink of an eye, fist pulled back, gathering flames. Vurnomon was clearly surprised at how fast she was, and just before she landed the punch, she activated her Devil Trigger. The blow to Vurnomon's head resulted in an explosion, knocking both back.

Roszen deactivated her Devil Trigger to save it just in case. She slowly got up, spitting out some blood. "Little Rosy," Luna Rosa spoke in her mind. "I don't think doing that again would be a good idea."

Roszen grunted. "Yeah... not only did I nearly get myself killed, almost destroyed two Devil Arms..." She rolled her shoulder, trying to get feeling in her hand.

As the dust cleared, Vurnomon stood there with his smile wider than ever. "Know it's been a long time since I've had to do this..." Six wings of fire blew the remaining dust away from him. His hair was now fully engulfed in flames; more fire leaked from the cracks in his limbs and his staff shook off embers as he twirled it around. "Congressional, not even your mother could get me to pull my Devil Trigger."

Roszen took an involuntary step back. "Of course he has one..."

Krex had to fly back when the explosion went off. Seeing Vurnomon was very much unharmed, he let out a quick curse, and went back to focusing on Akko. "Just... a little longer... miss Akko..." Krex was going to be spent if Roszen didn't finish this quickly. "Please... hurry my lady..."

Dante banged against the barrier as Vurnomon showed his Devil Trigger. "Fuck!" He began pacing. "There's got to be away around all this..."

Suddenly he felt a familiar sensation of his Devil Arms trying to communicate to him, mainly his recently added one. "Hush, you, I'm trying to think."

It released the feeling again. "Can... cut..."

Dante stopped dead. "The barrier or Vurnomon?"

"...Vurnomon..." Its replies were weak and very simple, as if it was not used to talking.

"Ok then... but how do we get past the barrier?" Vurnomon took a fighting stance, getting ready to attack Roszen. "And we better act fast...

"Blood..."

"What?"

"Sparta... blood..."

Dante looked at the barrier then his hand. "This better work..." He put his hand against the barrier and began to pour as much demonic energy into one point in his hand.

Roszen saw Vurnomon was about to attack and switched to Hell Tiger Queen and prepared to dodge. She managed to dodge the first charge, jumping over him and getting as much distance as she could. She saw him readying up another attack and put up her guard in hopes of defending herself, but it never came head on. Her head was pushed to the side by Vurnomon's hand as he drove her down into the ground and dragged her across. She was eventually thrown the rest of the way. "Dammit... shit..." She tried to pick herself off the ground, but her body was protesting. "Even if I did use my Devil Trigger..." She managed to get to her knees. "I have nothing that can get through his bullshit defenses."

"Is that all you have left?" Vurnomon casually stepped in front of her. "And here I pulled out all the big guns for you..." He put his finger to his chin. "Hmmmm..." He snapped his fingers as his smile came back. "I know! You need more motivation!" With a spin of his staff, it turned into a spear with a sharp point, glowing white hot. He turned around, taking aim at his target, Krex and Akko, pulling back and getting ready to throw his spear.

"ROSZEN!" She didn't know what happened; the only things she knew was that she was now in front of Vurnomon's trajectory, a weapon coming her way, Dante calling out her name, metal striking against metal, sparks and blood. By Vurnomon's shocked expression, it was his blood.

The spear was lodged into the ground as both of them fell back. Vurnomon laughed as he covered his chest, which now had a nasty cut from his right collar bone to his left hip. "Seems we got another turn coat..."

Roszen slowly stood up, holding her side where the spear managed to pierce her, while leaning against Web Weaver's Fangs. She suppressed a shudder when she learned more from the Devil Arm. "Man, I hate spiders..." She took a quick breath. "But you're the only thing I got that can hurt him." She twirled the scythe around. "Time we get this over with."