As Ryuko and the others braced themselves, Koneko walked calmly towards the doors of the church...only to be stopped by Ira's massive hand, which was larger than her entire body. "And where do you think you're going?" he asked firmly.

Koneko looked up at him blandly. "They already know we're here," she explained in her normal monotone.

"In which case, they will have prepared counterattacks for Devils," Ira explained simply. "Likely Light based. So whoever opens the doors should not have a vulnerability to it."

"And your human skin can handle a Light spear?" Koneko asked calmly with a raised eyebrow.

"It has withstood hardened steel," Ira responded as he stepped forward, lining up with the doors. "Mere Light will not pierce it...in the name of Lady Satsuki!" With that roar, he walked forward, the wood of the door and stone of the frame crumbling before him like paper.

Several shots rang out, only for the golden bullets to bounce off Gamagoori's skin like water droplets, with as little effect. "Oho! You're a tough one!" Freed called out eagerly. "But surely the light burns you Devil shits whether it pierces or not-"

Freed's words were interrupted as Uzu appeared in front of him as though from nowhere on his perch in the rafters, his wooden sword glowing with sacred faith in Satsuki. "You talk too much," he stated calmly as his sword lashed out. Freed's own sword barely moved into a block position...and then he only had time to react. "Men! Do! Kotei!" rang out as Uzu struck repeatedly, Freed barely being able to block the strikes even with the warning of where it was aimed. He was relentlessly pushed back until he was forced to leap down from the rafters.

"Not fair not fair not fair!" Freed cried out as he proceeded to hop about like he was throwing a tantrum. "Devil shits can't use holy power, and neither should human shit allies of Devil shits! What is this?"

"This is your time to pay!"

Freed's face jerked up as blasts of focused sound slammed into him, draining the energy out of his Light sword even as it blasted him back. "What?"

"This is your judgement day!"

As the song sent him flipping end over end, he briefly caught sight of Nonon singing into a microphone, the speakers on her shoulders blasting out solid music notes that vanished as they flew through the air towards him, having only physical presence by the time they reached despite a lack of visual presence.

"We made a sacrifice and now we get to take your life!"

This time the sound seemed to be sucking the strength right out of him. "How can you do this?" he demanded as he tried to reenergize him Light sword...only to see it form rather faintly. "What?"

"We shoot without a gun!"

Rapid fire blasts slammed into him as he found himself hemmed in on either side by Uzu and Yuuto, Yuuto's black blade sucking the energy out of his Light sword with every strike even as his gun shattered from Uzu's sword impacts.

"We'll take on anyone!"

"I call haxxxxx!" Freed screamed out as Ira and Koneko charged up through the opening, slamming their fists into him and sending his head, shoulders, and one arm blasting off into the stratosphere as the rest of him was reduced to a bloody smear.

Ryuko cracked her knuckles as she stepped in. "Geeze guys, didn't even save anything for me?"

"You need to save your strength to deal with the bitch that took your girl," Uzu pointed out playfully. "Right?"

Feeling anger flaring inside her, Ryuko nodded firmly. "Right." She closed her eyes and extended her senses. "They're down."

"On it!" Ira replied as he raised both clenched fists.

"Wait, what?" Yuuto gasped out as Koneko's eyes widened.

Grinning, Nonon simply kept singing.

"It's really nothing new..."

Ira brought his fists down and the floor shattered, the pews falling with them as they descended, landing on several people in black robes before an altar, where Raynare was standing over Asia. Asia was in a white dress that barely covered anything, and chained to a twisted green cross that glowed brightly.

"...it's just a thing we like to do!"

"Delay them!" Raynare screamed out, and the assembled fallen exorcists drew their weapons and charged. Nonon's song led the charge back.

"You better get ready to die!"

Ryuko let the carnage surrounding her wash over her along with Nonon's battle song. Her entire focus was now on Asia and Raynare. While part of her wanted to simply blast through Raynare, she could see that Asia's vital signs were failing...and something was wrong with her very soul. She charged as fast as she could, sweeping her arms before her like blades and cutting anyone in her way to ribbons in the process.

But the delay - what Raynare had demanded - was just enough. The ritual completed...and Twilight Healing fell into Raynare's grip.

"ASIA!" Ryuko screamed out as she slammed into the twisted cross, the entire thing dissolving as its energies were absorbed by her enraged fibers. She gently caught Asia as she came down. As one of the exorcists attempted to attack her, a pew landed on him and left him a bloody smear. Ryuko gently laid her down on the pew. "Asia?"

Asia managed to smile up at her. "I...didn't cry...or scream..." she managed to gasp out as her life began to ebb, her very soul damaged by her Sacred Gear being torn out of her. "I'm tough...enough to...keep up..." Her eyes began to cloud as she went limp.

Raynare let out a gloating laugh. "She held out hope to the very end that you'd get here in time...but just too little too la-" Her voice caught in her throat as the entire world seemed to flinch back, Nonon's song overwritten by rageful pressure.

"RAYNAREEEE!" Ryuko screamed out, her voice somehow choral as a primal need within her drove the power of her Sacred Gear.

"Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost!"