Well, before starting the story I'd like to answer from reviews:
Hellspam: Hahaha, I'm glad that you liked it and look no further since the fight is up next. And yea, there meeting will be and interesting one.
EternalKing: I understand your concern, but Lance realized that even if the Excaliburs were destroyed they could always be created again as long as the cores remained intact.
Guest: I'm glad that you like the story, and if I have ideas of what to do with Xenovia. Sona as the alpha in the Harem, that sounds like a good idea.
Yanderelover: Yea, I'll make sure it's hilarious.
Thanks for those who reviewed. Now, let's get to the fight.
Kokabiel Attacks
Issei along with the other members of the Occult Research Club members were walking inside barrier that had surrounded Kuoh Academy, with Issei immedately promoting the Queen. They were later speechless by what they were looking at, there were four Excalibur fragments floating over a magic circle releasing a powerful gold light. Issei looked towards what was happening with a shocked expression on his face.
"What is this?"
"I'm going to make the four Excaliburs into one."
"Balba. How much longer will it take for the Excaliburs to merge?"
Everyone made a shocked expression on their face as they heard a familiar voice over them, they looked up and saw Kokabiel floating in the air sitting on a chair with his legs crossed with a confident expression on his face.
"It won't even take 5 minutes, Kokabiel."
"Is that so? I will leave it to you. So Rias Gremory. Is Sirzechs coming? Or is it Serafall?"
"In the places of Onii-Sama and Leviathan-Sama, we…."
Before Rias could finish, there was a burst of wind along with the sound of an explosion, which echoed throughout the area. They looked forward and saw a large light spear where the gym used to be, Issei made a slightly terrified expression on his face.
"Now. I will have you all fight my pet that I brought from hell."
Kokabiel then snapped his fingers, the ground started rumbling loudly and from the darkness a 10 meter tall three headed dog came from it. The dog then roared with a deafening sound, which shook the very ground under them.
"…Cerberus!"
"You mean the Guard Dog from Hell."
"It lives in the Gate to Hell, no to the Underworld. But to bring it to the Humans' world!"
"We have to do it! We will blow it away, Ise!"
Issei smirked with his usual expression and was more pumped than ever before, he held his hand out and shouted.
"Yes Buchou! Let's do it, Boosted Gear!"
[Boost]
"Ise. This time, we will back you up."
"So do I give him the finishing blow by charging my power?"
"No, I will have you support us. You will be transferring your boosted power to us. Boosted Gear is a Sacred Gear which powers you up and also increases the power of your comrades in a team battle."
"Right, and I'll use my Balance Breaker as a last resort."
"By the way, Ise. Including your power up, how many times can you transfer your powers?"
Issei then started thinking about it, and he had answered.
"Right now with my current stamina, I can transfer 5 or 10 times with the maximum boost."
"I see, now. Akeno!"
"Right."
The Rias then got out her Devil wings from her back and flew into the skies with Akeno, the Cerberus then looked towards them and fired off a large amount of flames towards them.
"Too naïve."
Akeno then got in front of Rias and used her demonic power to freeze the fire almost instantly, Rias then got from behind her and held her hand out.
"Take this!"
She fired off an enormous blast of demonic power towards the Cerberus, the heads of the monstrous God shot out a ball of fire. Rias' demonic power and the fireball and clashed against each other.
"I have found an opening in you."
Koneko then jumped up from besides Issei and delivered a heavy blow onto one of the Cerberus' head, it then roared out of the pain from the attack.
"Here's another blow."
When Akeno pointed her finger up into the air lightning began forming in the sky, she then pointed her finger towards the Cerberus and fired off a powerful blast of lightning. Despite the attack greatly injuring Cerberus, it was still alive and still roaring. At that moment, everyone later heard two more roars and they turned their heads and saw two more hounds coming from the darkness.
"There's two more?!"
One of the large dogs started roaring and charged toward both Issei and Asia, he quickly picked her up and ran away from Cerberus. He suddenly stopped as he heard another boost announcement coming from his Sacred Gear, but he stopped as he saw one of the Cerberus heads was immedately cut off.
"I have come to back you up."
Issei then turned his head and saw Xenovia wearing her Exorcist's battle outfit and wielding her Excalibur Destruction. She then charged towards Cerberus and slashed upwards cutting through its chest, Cerberus fell to the ground in pain with Xenovia walking towards Cerberus with her blade in the air.
"The strike of the Holy Sword. It gives critical damages to creatures of Darkness."
Xenovia then thrust her sword deep into the Cerberus' chest immedately finishing it off, its body turning into dust and vanished completely. The other Cerberus started charging towards them before he could react someone came from the ground and landed on its head with tremendous force. The person who was revealed to be Lance, who wore a confident smirk on his face.
"Now, doggy. Heel!"
Lance held his hand out with a magic circle on his hand and he fired off a large blast of holy power, Asia then looked towards him and smiled.
"Onii-San!"
"You're late idiot."
"Give me a break, I had to make a short detour."
Issei's Boosted Gear then started flashing, he looked towards it and smirked with a knowing expression on his face.
"Buchou! Akeno-San! I have got enough power to take down Cerberus!"
After hearing that both Rias and Akeno, then looked towards each other and nodded in agreement while flying towards Issei.
"Ise! You increased the strength of the cross and holy water in the battle against Raiser, right?"
"Eh? Ah, I certainly did."
"So it's possible to increase both of us at the same time then! Please transfer the power to Akeno and me!
"Yea, it would be enough."
"I think that would be enough."
"Yes. We can do it."
[Please!]
Issei then spread his Devil wings and flew towards them, Issei then placed his hands on both of their shoulders and activated his Boosted Gear Gift.
"Let's do it, Boosted Gear Gift!"
[Transfer]
An enormous amount of power was then transferred to both Rias and Akeno, with demonic power flowing throughout their body. Both of the were shocked by the sudden increase in power, which was now flowing throughout their bodies.
"…We can do this."
Akeno nodded in agreement to what Rias had said with her daring smile, she then looked forward towards their target.
"Akeno! Thunder! Resound!"
Akeno then pointed her finger towards the sky and started controlling the thunder, she then pointed her finger towards her target. Sensing the upcoming attack, Cerberus started trying to run away from the attack, but it was stopped as one of their legs were chopped off and was later stabbed with several demonic Swords that came from the ground. Both Kiba and Van had arrived, with both of them smirking slightly.
"We won't let you escape!"
"Kiba-San, Van-San!"
The lightning started covering more than half of the school ground, and the sound of Cerberus' roar was overshadowed by the lightning. Once the noise vanished, the Cerberus was completely eradicated to nothingness. Rias then looked towards Kokabiel with her hands directed towards it, and fired off a large blast of demonic power towards him.
"Take this! Kokabiel!"
"It's huge!"
Issei was shocked by the massive blast of demonic power, as it started flying towards Kokabiel. And he only stretched out one of his hands, and began blocking the attack with only one hand. With a single movement of his hand, he redirected her attack into the air and destroying
Kokabiel showed them a malicious smile after seeing the smoke coming out of his hand.
"I see. Rias Gremory's power would grow this much because of the power of Red Dragon Emperor. Interesting. This is very interesting indeed."
"…It's complete."
Everyone then turned their heads and saw that that four Excaliburs were completely fused together and releasing a powerful bluish-white aura.
"The 4 Excaliburs are going to become one. And now because of the light created by the Excalibur when it turned into one, the spell on the ground is also complete. This town will collapse within 20 minutes. The only way to dispel it is by beating Kokabiel."
Everyone eyes then widened after this sudden realization, that their homes would be destroyed before the Maou and their reinforcements even arrived. Kokabiel then directed his attention towards the ground and shouted.
"Freed!"
"What's up, Boss?"
Freed then emerged from the shadows and looked towards Kokabiel with his usual sadistic smirk on his face, he later commanded.
"Use the Excalibur in the circle. It shall be the last entertainment. Fight while using the Excalibur that has turned into one from the four Excaliburs."
"Yeah yeah. Geez. My Boss sure uses people recklessly. But but! It's like I'm so honored to use the Excalibur-Chan which has become super wonderful! Something like that?! I will just chop some Devils now!"
Freed started walking towards the fused Excalibur and picked it up in his hands, and pointed it towards everyone. Kiba then looked towards Freed with an annoyed expression on his face, but was stopped as Xenovia walked next to him.
"Rias Gremory's Knight. If the cooperation is still valid, let us destroy that Excalibur together."
"Is it okay?"
Xenovia looked forward and narrowed her eyes towards Freed, and glared towards the Fused Excalibur that he was wielding in his hands.
"At worst, it won't be a problem if I collect the fragment of the Excalibur which is acting as the core of it. Since Freed is wielding it, that is a holy sword but it isn't a holy sword. Even if it's a holy sword, it's the same as any other weapon. It changes depending on the person using it. That is a sword of heresy."
Kiba then looked towards Balba who was laughing to himself with an angered expression on his face.
"Balba Galilei. I am a survivor of the Holy Sword Project. No. I am the one who was killed by you to be more precise. I have continued living by being reincarnated into a Devil."
"The survivor of that project. This is such a misfortune. To meet you in a far east country like this. I feel fate. Fufufu."
Kiba narrowed his eyes even more at response, as Balba continued his explanation.
"You see. I like Holy Swords. I like it so much that it comes out in my dreams. Possibly because my heart was fascinated by the legend of Excalibur since I was a child. That's why when I found out that I can't use Excalibur I went into despair."
He smiled and continued his life story, despite no one actually caring about it and Van commented with an annoyed expression.
"None of us actually cares old man."
"I held admiration for those who can wield it because I couldn't. That feeling got so powerful that I started an experiment to create those who can use them. Then it was complete. It's thanks to you and the others."
"What? Complete? You disposed of us after finding us to be a failure."
Balba shook his head and continued.
"I realized that there was an essential factor needed to wield holy swords. So I used the numerical value of the factors to investigate its capability. Most of the test subjects had the 'elements' but they didn't have the numerical value needed to wield the Excalibur. Then I reached a conclusion. Is there a way to take out the elements and gather them?"
Xenovia's eyes widened at explanation, out of understanding.
"I see. I understand now. The thing which is put inside the holy sword wielders when they received a blessing is…."
"That's right Holy Sword wielder girl. We take out the holy elements from those who have them and crystallize them. Just like this."
Balba reached into his pocket and pulled out a crystal which released a bluish-white light.
"With this, the research on holy sword wielders improved. Even so, those fools from the Church banished me for heresy and took away my reports on the research. By looking at you, I see that the project was succeeded by someone. That Michael. He made me look like a criminal and this is the result? Well it's that Angel we are talking about. Even if he takes the elements out from the test subjects, he wouldn't go as far as to kill them. That part only would make him more human than me."
Kiba looked at Balba with a completely enraged expression.
"…You killed my comrades and took out the elements needed to wield the holy swords?"
"That's right. This orb is from back then. I have used three of them on Freed though. This is the last one."
"Other guys besides me died because their bodies couldn't synchronize with the elements! If I think like that, that makes me special."
At that moment, Freed started laughing sadistically with a deranged expression on his face and Van commented while clicking his tongue.
"It makes you a special kind of crazy."
"…Balba Galilei. How many lives have you sacrificed for your greed and experiments…?"
"If you say that, then I will give this orb to you. My research has reached the stage where it is possible to mass produce them in the right environment. First of all, I will destroy this town with Kokabiel. Next I will gather the legendary holy swords stored around the world. Then I will mass produce holy sword wielders and start a war against Michael and the Vatican with the combined Excaliburs. I'm going to show the result of my research to those foolish angels and their followers who have convicted me."
Balba took the crystal in his hand and threw it towards Kiba's feet. Kiba leaned down silently and picked it up with tears in his eyes.
"…Everyone…."
As Kiba was holding the crystal in his hand started releasing a shallow light, and it began spreading throughout the area. The lights then started turning into a more proper shade and several people appeared around Kiba with their bodies' glowing with the same glow. Akeno looked at them and commented.
"The various powers which are present in this battlefield made the spirits within the orbs appear."
They looked at Kiba with a dear and sad expression.
"Everyone! I…I have always…always thought about it. Was it alright that I was the only one that survived…There were those who had more dreams than me. There were those who wanted to live more than me. Is it alright that I am the only one to have a peaceful life…"
One of the boys then walked towards Kiba and smiled at him, before stating.
[Don't worry about us anymore. You are alive at least.]
The spirits of the boys and girl started singing a song together in harmony, Asia looked towards them and responded.
"…The Sacred Song."
One of the lights started flying over towards Van, who made a confused expression on his face as the light transformed into a young boy. The boy then smiled towards Van and asked.
[Hey, you're Isaiah's friend right?]
"Uh, yea."
[I see you have the Demon Sword Muramasa, but you're still not able to use it correctly.]
"Kid, if there's a point that you want to make you'd probably want to hurry up."
[You know there was a legend about a murderous spirit that had an insatiable desire to cause bloodshed, but was later sealed inside of the Demon Sword that would be known as Muramasa. To control the blade's bloodshed, they sealed a calming spirit inside of another Holy Sword of Japan and this Holy Sword is known as Murasame.]
"How will that help me since I…."
[I know where it is. I can also give you the capability to use it, if you look after Isaiah.]
"I don't need you to tell me that kid, despite being a pain in my neck…that guy's like a brother to me."
The young boy smiled and his body then transformed into a dark light and then went inside of Van's body, with information beginning to enter his mind. With the remaining kids, their bodies started to glow brighter and brighter, with the light surrounding Kiba who was in the very center of them.
[We were no good alone.]
[We didn't have enough elements to wield the holy swords. But.]
[It will be okay if we are together.]
[You have to accept the holy sword.]
[It's not scary.]
[Even if God isn't watching.]
[Our hearts are always…]
[ONE.]
Their spirits went up into the skies and they turned into a big white light which fell down to Kiba, who was standing in the middle of it. Through what was happening everyone in the Occult Research Club started tearing up slightly except for Van who only smirked.
[Partner.]
Issei looked down at Ddraig as he had tears in his eyes, which he started wiping away with his free hand.
[That Knight has reached it.]
"What do you mean?"
[Don't you remember this feeling? The Sacred Gears change and evolve while using the feelings of the possessors as a key. But there is a different territory to that. When the feelings and the wishes of the possessors does a dramatic change that it changes the flow of this world, the Sacred Gear reaches it. Yes. This is….]
Ddraig began laughing out of enjoyment, before answering the question that Issei had already realized.
[Balance Breaker.]
Kiba then looked forward towards Balba with a renewed determined expression.
"Balba Galilei. As long as I don't kill you, there will be those who would suffer the same fate as us."
"It's been said from a long time that research always comes with sacrifices. Haven't you realized that yet? And even if I don't continue my research there's one man who'll continue unless someone's able to end his life."
Kiba gritted his teeth and clenched his fist tightly, he then started hearing his teammates starting to cheer him on.
"Kibaaaaaaaa! Cut down both Freed and Excalibur!"
"Kiba do everyone here a favor and kick that psychopathic priest's ass!"
"You are the Knight of the Gremory group and my comrade! My friend! Fight! Don't waste their feelings and spirit!"
"Yuuto! Do it! You have to finish this yourself! Surpass Excalibur! You are the servant of Rias Gremory! My Knight will not lose to a mere Excalibur!"
"Yuuto-kun! I believe in you!"
"…Yuuto-Senpai!"
"Please do your best!"
At what Issei, Van, Rias, Akeno, Asia and Koneko had said tears started rolling down Kiba's face and he smiled brightly.
"Hahaha! Why are you crying? You were singing with joy with the Ghost-Chans. It's really a nuisance. It's totally the worst. You know I hate that song. Just listening to it makes the hair on my skin crawl! I don't want to hear it anymore. I'm totally at my limit! I'm going to cut you into pieces and calm myself! With this ultimate Excalibur which has merged 4 of them!"
Kiba then looked forward towards Freed who was laughing at him, and he started walking towards him.
"…I will become a sword."
Kiba held his hand upwards and continued.
"I shall become the sword of Buchou and my comrades! Please respond to my feelings now! Sword Rebirth!"
From Kiba's entire body both demonic and holy powers began to combine together until a single sword appeared in his hand. He reached his hand forward and gripped it tightly in his hand while pointing it towards Freed.
"Balance Breaker: Sword of the Betrayer. You shall receive the power of this sword which has both the power of light and demonic powers with your own body."
Kiba then pressed his foot against the ground and charged towards Freed with his Knight's Godspeed, and immedately made it in front of him. Kiba slashed his sword downwards, but Freed blocked his attack and sparks started flying between both blades. Freed made an irritated expression on his face as he felt the aura started was being released by Kiba's Sword of Betrayal.
"That sword surpasses the originator of holy swords?!"
"If that was the Three Excalibur, then I could not have won against it. But that Excalibur cannot cut the feelings of me and my comrades!"
Freed then clicked his tongue and stepped back after he pushed Kiba away from him, he then held his Excalibur forward. Freed's Excalibur started twisting around and came towards Kiba randomly with intense speed, with his killing intent being easy to read. Kiba smirked and started parrying away Freed's attacks effortlessly.
"Why?! Why isn't it hitting?! You are supposed to be the unrivaled Holy Sword-Sama, aren't you?! Weren't you supposed to have lots of legends of being the ultimate sword?!"
Freed's expression was filled with both enjoyment and impatience, he then looked towards Kiba and declared.
"Then! Then I have to add this as well!"
The tip of the Fused Excalibur vanished completely even though Kiba couldn't see it, he could still read Freed's killing intent. Kiba began parrying away everyone of Freed's attacks, with Freed narrowing his eyes angrily.
"Yes. Keep him there like that."
They turned their heads and saw Xenovia with Excalibur Destruction in her left hand, while holding up her right hand towards her side.
"Saint Peter. Saint Basil the Great. Saint Denis. Holy-mother Mary. Please hear my voice."
The space where she hand was started to become distorted and a dimensional storage began opening up, and a single sword came from it while releasing a powerful holy aura that was the same as the True Excalibur. Xenovia then pointed the sword towards Freed and declared.
"In the names of the saints whom reside within this blade, I will release it. Durandal!"
At the sight of the blade both Balba and Kokabiel made a slightly shocked expression on their face along with Kiba as he sensed the aura.
"Durandal?! It's a sword which is so famous that it is on par with Excalibur. And I have it that, in terms of slashing, it is the ultimate sword. Why does she have it?"
"A Durandal?!"
"You were not the wielder of the Excalibur?!"
"Wrong. I was originally the wielder of Durandal. I was also chosen as the holder of the Excalibur. That's all."
Expression became more annoyed by Xenovia's answer, and then Balba asked.
"Absurd! According to my research, we haven't reached the stage where someone can wield Durandal?!"
"Of course. Even in the Vatican, they haven't made someone who can wield Durandal artificially."
"Then why?!"
"I'm a natural born wielder."
Balba became speechless by Xenovia's answer, she then pointed her sword at Freed which released a holy aura that surpassed both his Fused Excalibur and Kiba's Holy Demonic Sword.
"Durandal is a sword which ravages beyond what people can imagine. It cuts anything it touches. It doesn't even listen to me most of the time. That's why I have to keep it in another dimension, otherwise it would be dangerous. Even I, the holder, have a hard time with it. Now, Freed Sellzen. Thanks to you, we can have the decisive battle between Excalibur and Durandal. Right now, I'm shaking with enjoyment. Don't die in a single strike okay? At least use the Excalibur to its fullest!"
"Is that even allowed?! It became a situation like this! You shitty bitch! I don't need any of that for this setting!"
Freed then directed his killing intent towards Xenovia, he then charged towards her with his blade and with a single slash from Durandal the Fused Excalibur started to shatter.
"So it's just a broken holy sword, huh. It can't even compete with my Durandal."
"Are you serious?! Are you really serious?! The legendary Excalibur-Chan is shattered into pieces?! Horrible! This is really horrible! Was it wrong to use something which was broken from the start? The shallowness of humans. The foolishness of the Church. I want to grow up while taking a glimpse of it!"
Kiba noticed that Freed's killing intent was decreasing, and he charged at him with his blocked. Freed tried blocking the attack, but his own sword crumbling away.
"Did you see it? Our powers have surpassed Excalibur."
Freed then fell down on the ground while blood started coming the wound that Kiba had made on the side of his stomach. Balba then looked towards Kiba's Holy Demonic Sword and started mumbling.
"Ho…Holy Demonic Sword…? Impossible…The polar opposite of two things cannot merge…."
Kiba turned towards Balba and began approaching him with his sword in hand, with a slightly angered expression on his face.
"Balba Galilei. Prepare yourself."
"…I see! I understand now! Holy and Demonic. It will be an explanation, if the beings which represents the two becomes unbalanced! Then not only the Maou, but the God has also…"
A spear of light pierced through chest who seemed to have realized something incredible, Balba went down after throwing a solid amount of blood. Kiba then went towards him to conform his state, and he had already passed.
"Balba. You were remarkable. The reason you went up to that conclusion proves that. But, I don't mind whether you are with me or not. I could have done it by myself from the beginning."
Kokabiel then started laughing loudly and landed on the ground in front of everyone while releasing an incredible pressure, he then looked towards them and stated.
"Increase the power of Welsh Dragon and transfer it to the War Kid."
Everyone then made a shocked expression on his face as he declared that he wanted to fight against Lance, Rias then made an answered expression on her face.
"Are you trying to give us a chance?! Don't mess around!"
"Don't mess around? Hahaha. You guys are the ones who are messing around. Do you guys think you can defeat me?"
As Issei was making an angered expression on his face, Lance walked beside him and asked.
"Ise activate you Boosted Gear and transfer the power to me."
"Lance, you're actually going to…."
Issei then looked and saw the look that was on Lance's face, as he noticed Lance was directing his killing intent towards Kokabiel. Issei only nodded in agreement and started activating his Boosted Gear with his announcement sounding every 10 seconds.
After a few minutes, Issei had finished boosting his power and he placed his hand on Lance's shoulder.
"…it's here!"
"Right, let's get this over with."
[Transfer]
As Issei had transferred the stored power into Lance's body, his eyes started glowing bright green with a part of his hair turning blonde along with a massive green aura beginning to be released from his body. At sensing the massive aura, everyone looked towards him with a shocked expression on their face, while Kokabiel started laughing.
"This is incredible!"
"I've never sensed anything like this."
"Hey guys, are we sure he's completely Human? Because this aura is incredible!"
"Fuhahaha! Good! Excellent this power and that aura you've surpassed the power output of an Ultimate-Class Devil and reached the same level as a Maou! You're truly the child of the 'True War God' and that bitch wife of his! Now come, so I can deliver your head to those bastards in He…!"
Before Kokabiel could finish Lance had completely vanished from sight, without time to respond Lance had drove his fist into Kokabiel's face with powerful force and he was sent staggering backwards. Kokabiel then regained his balance, he then looked towards Lance with an angered expression.
"You damned brat!"
Kokabiel then aimed his punched forward at great force, Lance deflected the attack by moving it to the side almost like it was moving in slowing motion. Lance then punched forward hitting Kokabiel in his face with a quick punch, the punch sent him backwards slightly. And Lance followed with a powerful kick sending him flying backwards, after regaining his balance Kokabiel held his hand out and fired off a light spear toward him at high speeds.
He dodged the light spear, Lance then reached his hand out towards it and grasped it in his hand. Once he caught it the light spear started glowing bright, and Lance threw it back toward him. Kokabiel generated another light spear and threw it towards it, once both of them collided it generate a bright flash of light.
"Wh-What, there's no way he…?"
"I'm going to make you pay for what you did to Iri-Chan!"
Before Kokabiel could get into a battle ready stance, Lance appeared in front of him with his fist pulled back and he started launching a barrage of powerful punches into his stomach. With each attack landing into his stomach, Kokabiel started spitting out blood from his mouth. After noticing that the power that was transferred to him was starting to fade away.
Lance pulled his fist back and drove it deep into Kokabiel's stomach, the attack caused him to be sent flying into the air. Lance then held his hand out with several magical calculation started being drawn in front of him with Norse symbols on them with electricity beginning to be generated.
"Take this!"
Lance then fired off a large ball of lightning towards Kokabiel, the very shockwave generated beginning to shatter some of the windows on the school along with cracking the barrier surrounding the school slightly. Sona then looked towards the magical circle and immedately recognized it.
"This is Norse Magic."
Kokabiel regained his posture and held his hand out starting to block the attack, but he looked forward and noticed that his hands were becoming slashed apart by the attack. And he held his hand out to block the attack, he then noticed that his body was being tattered through the attack along with his clothing.
"Lightning!"
While Kokabiel was more worried about blocking Lance's attacks, Akeno fired off another blast of lightning towards Kokabiel. He looked towards her attack, who almost dispersed the attack with his Fallen Angel wings.
"Will you stand in my way?! The one who inherited her power from Barakiel?!"
"…Do not put me in the same group as him!"
Akeno made an angered expression her face and continued her lightning attack towards Kokabiel, who continued blocking the attacks with his wings. Everyone made a shocked expression on their face.
"One of the Leader of the Fallen Angels, he's Akeno-San's father."
After being able to disperse with Lance's attacks, Kokabiel started laughing at them and he declared with an amused expression on his face.
"For you to become a Devil! Hahaha! You have pleasant servants, Rias Gremory! Welsh Dragon! The left over of the Holy Sword Project who reached Balance Breaker! A Lowly Child of a Low-Class Devil! And the daughter of Barakiel! You have weird tastes, just like your brother!"
"I won't forgive you for insulting my brother…our Maou! More than that, the insults you made to my servants will require your life!"
"Then try to destroy me! Maou's sister! The owner of Welsh Dragon! Crimson-Hair Ruin Princess! The one whom you are up against is someone who has been an arch-enemy of the Devils since a long time ago! If you don't see this as a chance, then your reputation will be looked down on!"
Xenovia then went towards both Kiba and Van, while she whispered to both.
"We'll attack at the same time."
Both of them nodded in agreement, with all three of them preparing their weapons and started charging towards Kokabiel. With Xenovia going towards him first with her Durandal, Kokabiel smirked and created a light spear and blocked her attack.
"Hmph! Durandal huh! Unlike the Excalibur that was already broken once, that light is the real thing! Buuuuut!"
The air then shook and Xenovia's body was sent flying backwards, with Kokabiel kicking Xenovia in her stomach and she made an anguish cry.
"Gaa!"
"It depends on the wielder. Girl! You still can't control Durandal! The previous wielder was someone who had unrivaled strength!"
Xenovia fixed her stance and landed on the ground, with both Kiba charging towards Kokabiel with his Holy Demonic Sword and Van who was surrounded his a blackish blue aura.
"Kokabiel! I'll tear you apart with my Demon Sword!"
"Kokabiel! I will eliminate you with my Holy Demonic sword! I'm not allowed to lose anyone any more!"
"Ho! Attacks at the same time from a Holy Sword, a Demon Sword and a Holy Demonic sword! Interesting! Good indeed! Come! You can't defeat me unless you do that much!"
Kokabiel created another light sword in his hand and he started blocking both Kiba's and Van's fast attacks, while blocking Xenovia's attacks with his wings. Koneko started coming towards him with her fist pulled back.
"There!"
"Naïve!"
Kokabiel black Fallen Angel wings started turning into sharp blades and they had cut up Koneko's body, and she fell on the ground with blood coming from her body. Kiba looked towards her with a worried expression on his face.
"Koneko-chan!"
"Hey, looking away while fighting will easily get you killed!"
"Wha…!"
Kiba looked forward and noticed that his Holy Demonic Sword had developed a crack on its blade, through him losing his focus. All three of them were sent flying with a shockwave created by Kokabiel, Kiba looked and noticed that Koneko was currently being healed by Asia. Van then regained his balance and charged towards Kokabiel with his eyes then started turning bright red, Lance started launched a barrage of attacks.
Kokabiel started blocking each of the attacks with his light sword, he then thrust his sword forward aiming for Van's chest. Van then jumped backwards dodging the attack, with Kiba passing by him with his Holy Demonic Swords in his hand.
"Kokabiel! It's not over yet!"
"Hahaha! You still come at me? All right! Come!"
"Holy Demonic Sword."
Kiba shouted and a large circle of holy demonic swords started surrounding Kokabiel, he then smirked with a snide comment on his face.
"You think you've capture me with this?"
With his ten fallen angels wings, he destroyed each of the attacks like they were nothing and he looked towards Kiba with an overconfident expression.
"Is this it?"
Kiba then charged towards Kokabiel with both of his Holy Demonic Swords, but Kokabiel blocked the attack with two of his fingers. Kiba created another Holy Demonic Sword in his hand and slashed it towards him, with Kokabiel blocking that attack. Kiba then created another Holy Demonic Sword in-between his teeth and rotated his head around slashing Kokabiel in the side his cheek.
"Argh! You damned…!"
"Look up, you bastard!"
Kokabiel then looked up and noticed Lance coming downwards towards him with Secace in his hand covered with demonic power. Kokabiel had created a light of light and blocked Lance's attack, but his light sword started breaking apart and he gained a large cut from Lance's attack. Kokabiel stepped backwards away from him, with his wound beginning to burn.
"Alright, guys he's still wounded so lets…."
"Hahahaha! Seeing that even after losing the masters you serve, you Devils and followers of God can still fight, huh! And even you chose to fight even after losing you precious grandfather."
Lance looked towards Kokabiel with a confused expression on his face, Lance then scoffed at what he had said and commented.
"My grandfather? If you knew anything about me, then you would've known that out of anyone he's the person that I want to kill more than…."
"Fuhaha, fuhahahahahahahahahaha! That's right you don't know! I totally forgot, you don't remember! The truth wasn't revealed to you lower guys! Then I will tell you. In the war between the Three Factions, not only the Maou but also God died."
Everyone made a shocked expression on their face with Xenovia becoming more crush along with Asia, but Lance placed his hand on his head with a pained expression on his face.
"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 Balba noticed it earlier."
Lance then dropped Secace on the ground with his expression being more pain, with both of his hands on his head.
"W-Why's my head hurting so much?! It won't stop!"
"After the War, what was left were the Angels who had lost their God, the Devils that lost their Maou and the majority of High-Class Devils and the Fallen Angels who lost most of the Fallen Angels apart from the Grigori. So it wasn't a mere exhausted state. All three of the Factions fell so low, that they needed to rely on Humans to increase their numbers. Especially the Angels and Fallen Angels who could only increase their numbers 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-Blooded Devils are rare, right?"
"…Lies…it's a lie…."
Standing further away from them, Xenovia started losing her will to fight and wearing a more panicked expression on her face. As Kokabiel continued talking, a blonde haired women started popping into Lance's head.
"The truth is that another big war wouldn't happen unless you do it on purpose. It means that all Three Factions 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 Maou, 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!? And that bastard went as far as to mate with some lowly Human!"
"…God doesn't exist? God…is dead? Then the love we were given by him is…"
"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 to 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 Maou broke. In reality, Holy and Demonic powers cannot merge. If the ones who rule the power of Holy and demonic powers, God and the Maou, disappear then lots of unique phenomenon occur."
At that moment, Asia fell to the ground unconscious with Issei immedately rushing towards Asia to check up on her condition.
"Hahahaha! You know we've all been talking about the death of God, but we haven't gotten to the topic of his bratty grandson!"
Everyone looked towards Kokabiel with a shocked expression on their face, with Xenovia looking towards him slightly composed after hearing that.
"What're you talking about?! If there was child who was born to either Michael-Sama or Gabriel-Sama, then the High-Ups and the Exorcists would've been informed! And this supposed child would've…!"
"Hahaha! Only the Four Maou and the leaders of the Grigori knew if his birth to protect him from any of the rival Factions…not that I cared, but they decided to keep this is a secret after being requested by his father the former Head of the Paladin! Especially after his psychopathic grandfather sealed his memories along with his powers after murdering his own son along with Paladin!"
Everyone then made a shocked expression on their face after Kokabiel stated that, each of them knew that the former Head of the Paladin only had one child and he was right in front of them.
"T-Then, that would mean that Lance is…."
"God's Grandchild…."
"Hahahaha! That's correct, the snarky Knight who's not only the descendant of Sir Lance and Merlin Ambrosius, but also the grandchild of God. The Angel-Human Hybrid child of the Strongest Women in Heaven, Gabriel!"
"Then that nervous feeling that we had got after first meeting him…."
"Gabriel-Sama's…."
"Hahahaha! It seems that the increase in power that he got from the Welsh Dragon must've started breaking away the seal on both his powers and memory. Fuhahaha, the child of the former Strongest Human Male and the Strongest Woman in Heaven what ha impossible existence…no, what a monster!"
At what Kokabiel had said, Lance's hair slightly overshadowed his eyes and he reached his hand out and picked up Secace from the ground.
"A monster?"
"Hahaha! What do you expect to be called, a monster is the only thing that you can be described as your very existence is a complete impossibly…the second to be born after that damned Vanishing Dragon."
"Really, you stole three Excaliburs from the Church, you've killed several Exorcists all just to restart a war that shouldn't have started to begin with and you even tried to kill my loved one! And you have the nerve to call me a monster, if you want to see a monster…then I'll show you a monster!"
Issei and the others started shuttering after sensing a cold killing intent started being released from Lance's entire body. As Lance clenched Secace in his hand, a green light started surrounding his entire arm and started stretching throughout his entire body.
"Hahaha! Are you kidding me what could you possibly…?!"
Kokabiel was stopped as Lance completely vanished from sight, only to appear in front of him with both of his eyes glowing bright green.
"Wha…?!"
Before Kokabiel could finish, he was knocked aside with tremendous force and sent flying crashing towards the ground. Once he regained his balance, he looked forward and was shocked by what he had saw. On Lance's right arm was a bulky silver gauntlet covering his entire arm, with an angered expression on his face.
"What's up with Lance?"
[It's just like Sir Lancelot in the past, if the user loses control of their emotions then the Demon Sword will become to encompass their entire body in armor and grant them a very temporary boost of power for a short period. But….]
"But what Ddraig?"
[Like I said the more boost is only temporary, afterwards the power will rebound against his physical body and cause great damage to it.]
Issei made a shocked expression on his face, but he later heard several explosions coming from their battle and saw that the ground was slightly torn apart. As Kokabiel was being sent flying backwards, he looked towards Lance as he continued charging towards him with a silver armor beginning to cover his entire body.
"You damned braaaat! Don't you dare look down on me!"
At that moment, several light spears started forming around Kokabiel with each of them being aimed towards Lance. Lance only then smirked slightly at what he had saw, the fringe in his hair started turning blonde and he commented.
"You'll have to try better than that!"
Several light spears matching Kokabiel's started appearing behind Lance and each of them started canceling out Kokabiel's, which caused him great shock.
"Wh-What the hell?!"
As Lance was charging towards him, Kokabiel spread his ten black wings and flew into the sky dodging Lance's attack.
"I've got to regain my…."
"Why're you running away Warmonger?!"
Kokabiel then looked up and was immedately slammed back towards the ground, once he regained his bearings he looked up towards Lance and made a shocked expression. Lance was flying in the hair with ten pure-white Angel wings, with everyone looking at him.
"He has ten of them."
"They're beautiful."
"This isn't over yet!"
Lance then started diving towards Kokabiel with immense speed with Kokabiel preparing a light spear in his hand, but before Lance could make a move.
SLAP
He was immedately slapped by an unknown person with tremendous force and sent crashing towards the ground. From the impact it caused him to drop Secace on the ground with the armor forming on his body being broken apart and his hair turned back to normal.
Lance landed on his back with a slight dazed expression on his face, along with a red mark on his face that was also smoking slightly. Everyone looked towards what had happened with a deadpanned expression on their face, Issei then looked towards who had arrived.
"What just happened?"
"I didn't expect to see her here?"
"Arara, what have I told you about letting your own anger get the best of you?"
"Ouch, what the hell?!"
Lance sat while rubbing his cheek, with an annoyed expression on his face and glared slightly towards who was standing in front of him. Standing in front of him was his young grandmother Elaine who was wearing her Knightess' armor, she was kneeling in front of him with a smile on her face.
"What? Are you mad about me interrupting your fight with Bat-Face?"
"Screw the fight! I can't feel the left side of my face!"
"Oh, don't be a baby. You're exactly like Galahad, you're always doing something beyond reckless."
"I was going to…?"
Before Lance could finish he spat out blood from his mouth, and started wiping it away from mouth.
"Oh, I'm glad that I showed up…if I didn't stop you then the rebound probably would've been worse…. But, there's no doubt that you could've beaten him without me intervening, but you probably would've been harmed in the process and I don't plan on losing either of my grandchildren anytime soon."
Lance then looked away with a slightly embarrassed expression on his face, Elaine then looked towards Issei and the others, who were looking at her with a confused expression on their face. Elaine then smiled brightly and started waving her hand towards Issei.
"Hey, it's been a long time Ise-Kun!"
"I-It's good you see you too, Elaine-San."
At what Issei had said Xenovia looked towards him with a shocked expression on her face, which later turned into basically having stars in her eyes. Issei then looked towards her with a slightly confused expression on his face.
"T-That's Elaine-Sama?!"
"Do you guys know her?"
"H-How can't you guys know who she is, she's well-known as the 'Crimson War Goddess' and as the 'Strongest Swordswoman'. She's also the current leader of the Du lac Family and the Strongest Knightess in the Chivalric Order, even surpassing her own son who was the Head of the Paladin."
"You really don't need to sound so star-struck."
"Even the Ultimate-Class Devils are wary of her monstrous strength."
Despite everyone else being slightly shocked by, Kokabiel started laughing loudly at the appearance of Elaine.
"Fuhahaha! So the monstrous women decides to show herself, this is perfect you'll be the first one that I kill to start my war!"
"Well, just because I'm a known as a War Goddess I'd rather live in peace while watching my family enjoy like. I'd also like for this place to remain the way it is, since this is where I raised by two darling boys."
"Then try and stop me!"
Kokabiel then held his hand out and started summoning a large light spear that could cause everything in that area to vanish without a trace. Kokabiel then launched the light spear towards Elaine, she held her hand out and started surrounding her hand with flames.
From them a dark crimson ornate claymore sword with yellow flame-like engravings on it. Once the large light spear made contact with the tip of Elaine's claymore, several cracks started appearing on the light spear and it exploded in flames.
"W-What the hell?!"
"The Blazing Magic Sword Coreiseuse, belonged to Sir Lancelot's father King Ban."
"We don't have time for this, he placed a Self-Destruction Magic Circle around the school that'll destroy the entire town if he's not taken down."
"Well, that's not good."
"You monstrous bitch!"
At that moment, Kokabiel started charging towards Elaine while she was looking towards Lance and she summoned a light spear in his hands. Without looking towards him, Elaine blocked the attack with her bare hands and she crushed it instantly in her hand.
"W-What?!
Elaine then unsummoned Coreiseuse, she then breathed outwards while clenching her fist and launched her fist forward towards him. Once her fist was drove into Kokabiel's stomach, the single impact caused three of ribs to break and sending him skidding through the ground. Kokabiel's then started trembling, he then placed his hand on his stomach and spout out a large amount of blood on the ground.
"F-From j-just one punch…."
"I'll break apart anyone who's suicidal enough to dare harm my family."
Elaine started stretching her arm around while surrounding her first with an odd red aura, she instantly appeared in front of him and brought her fist downwards onto his back. And the impact created a very small tremor that even destroyed the barrier. Once the dust cleared Kokabiel was embedded into the ground, with no life in his eyes and Elaine started scratching the back of her head with a slight laugh.
"Hehehe, I guess I went a bit overboard."
"What is this women?!"
"Believe me, this is her when she's tamed."
Van made a shocked expression on his by what he had just witnessed, he then turned his head and saw that Xenovia was completely astonished expression on her face.
"S-She's amazing."
"YOU POWER IDIOT!"
Once Kokabiel was done the magic circle surrounded the school also vanished, Kiba made a sighed out of relief, but he was stopped as he felt someone smacking him on his face. When he turned around he looked and saw Issei looking at him with a smile on his face.
"You did it, Casanova! Hmmm. So that's a Holy Demonic sword. It looks beautiful since the white and black thing is mixed."
"That's certainly interesting I never thought that something like that would be possible."
"Ise-kun, Van I…."
"Well, let's skip the complicated stuff for now. Anyway, we can say that it ended for now, right? Also the thing about your comrades."
"Yeah."
"…Kiba-San. We can do club activities together again, yes?"
Kiba then turned his head and saw Asia looking back at him with a slightly worried expression on her face, he then smiled and nodded his head in agreement. Kiba was later approached by Rias who looked towards him with a kind smile on her face.
"Yuuto. I'm glad you returned. Also to reach Balance Breaker. I am proud."
"…Buchou. I…. To everyone in the club…. Most of all, I betrayed you who saved my life once…. I can't find the words to express my apology…."
As Kiba was apologizing to Rias, she smiled and started patting him on his cheek comfortably.
"But you have returned. That is enough. You can't waste the feelings of your comrades."
"Buchou…. I will promise you once again. I, Kiba Yuuto, will protect you and my comrades for the rest of my life as a Knight of Rias Gremory's group."
"Ufufufu. Thank you. But you can't say that in front of Ise, okay?"
When Kiba looked towards Issei, he noticed that he had a slight look of jealousy in his eyes, but he immedately shook it off.
"I also want to protect Buchou by becoming a Knight! But there isn't anyone who can become Buchou's Knight other than you and Van! So take responsibility, and finish that task!"
Kiba the smiled at Issei's declaration, and he nodded his head in agreement.
"Yeah. I know, Ise-Kun."
"Now."
Kiba then started hearing the air beginning to buzz, he then turned his head and saw Rias surrounding her hand with demonic power. With Kiba started making a slightly nervous and frightened expression on his face.
"Yuuto. It's a punishment for acting by yourself. 1000 spanks."
"Hahaha, this is going to be hilarious!"
"You acted on your own to Van, so after Kiba you're next."
"Wait, what?! I was just following him, to make sure he didn't do anything stupid!"
Van made a shocked expression on his face by what Rias had said, meanwhile far from than Lance was laughing with an amused expression on his face after placed Secace in a dimensional storage.
"Even after the actual Life-and-Death Battle they just went through, they're still the same as always."
He then turned his head and saw Xenovia looked towards the ground with a depressed expression on her face. Lance then placed his hand comfortably on her shoulder and asked.
"Hey, are you alright?"
"…I really don't know what to do now…I've believed in God since I was a little girl…and now…it feels like my entire life was just torn out of me. …And now I don't even know what do to do now."
"And I feel like part of my life was just snatched away from me by a psychopath with a God complex, and now everything's started flowing back. Regaining my memory and finding out that my mom's a Seraph, my Uncle's the current God and my grandfather was the God of the Bible…if I didn't move back here, I probably would've never found out."
"…I guess, I might as well gather Balba's body along with the Excalibur fragments."
"Well, if you feel like you have nowhere else to go, you're always free to come live at my house."
At what Lance had said, Xenovia started blushing a deep shade of red and Elaine later walked towards them with a cat-like smile on her face.
"Oh, I see my adorable little grandson's entrapping another girl."
Both Lance and Xenovia then blushed slightly at what Elaine had said, Xenovia then looked up and noticed Elaine beginning to examine her with an interested gaze.
"I-Is there's something wrong?"
"So you're Xenovia Quarta, Griselda-Chan's adoptive little Imouto…I've got say you're really beautiful, a good athletic body as shown through the pervert clothing those in the Vatican choose for you Exorcists to wear."
Xenovia started blushing more and more as she felt Elaine's eye being drawn towards her, she then said with a slightly embarrassed expression on her face while bowing her head.
"Elaine-Sama, I have to say that it's an honor to meet you!"
"Arara, I didn't think that I had a fan. Most of the people thought that I was just some insane chick who slashed at everything that moved, though it seems you've become quite infatuated with my adorable grandson."
"Oh, god where are you going with this?"
Elaine then smiled almost devilishly and started whispering something into Xenovia's ear, once she was finished Xenovia started blushing a deep shade of red.
"What did you just tell her?!"
"Oh~ nothing."
Lance started looking towards Elaine with a slightly annoyed expression on his face, he then sighed slightly and started walking towards the exit to the school. Issei and the others then looked towards him with a confused expression on their face.
"Hey, Lance where are you going?"
"I'm going home, I'm pretty sure there's nothing that I'm needed for. Plus, I need to be alone for a while."
Lance continued walking through the school gates and started walking through the streets, with a slightly wondering expression on his face.
"That was some interesting fight."
"I thought that I sensed you around here…Vali."
Flying in the air behind Lance, with white dragon wings with eight light feathers was a handsome young man who was a little older than him, with light blue eyes and wearing a v-neck green shirt, black leather jacket and burgundy jeans with a silver chain and leather chaps. Without turning towards him, Lance smirked and asked.
"So, I'm guess that Azazel sent you to deal with Kokabiel."
"I was actually planning on making my introduction with the Welsh Dragon, Issei Hyoudou, but I was more interested in how both rivals by fate would do without any interventions. Though I didn't see the Red Dragon Emperor actually fighting."
"Well, I wouldn't dare look down on him, the guys stubborn and won't go down no matter how hard you try and beat him down. So, I'm guess that you knew about me."
"I heard it from Azazel a couple years ago, I'm guessing that the restrictions on the rest of your abilities along with your memories were released."
"Yea, but it also gives me another reason to want my bastard of a grandfather dead, though that's something else that we share in common."
"You're right, but since I have nothing more to do here, I'll take my leave."
Vali then spread his white dragon wings and started flying away from the location, with Lance smirking slightly.
"At least he's better than the previous White Dragon Emperors who're just obsessed with their own powers and went berserk. Well, I might as well get home."
Lance continued walking towards his house with a more calmed expression on his face, before smiling slightly.
"I hope I can see you again soon…Kaa-San"
A/N: And there goes chapter Twelve of the Magic Knight, the Occult Research Club had their first encounter with Kokabiel with Lance, Xenovia, Van and Kiba making returning to help them. Kiba fights against Freed with his Fused Excalibur while unlocking his irregular Balance Breaker, and with Xenovia's help he finally gets some retribution.
Kokabiel then declares that he wants to fight against Lance, while in his War God form and he gets a power transfer from him. After discovering that God had died and that Lance was…okay, I'm pretty sure that everyone already knew. But, instead of Vali interrupting the fight, it was Elaine instead and proved you don't mess with someone nicknamed the 'Crimson War Goddess'. And at the end of the chapter, both Vali and Lance had a small dialogue. Well, until next time later.
Lancelot's Harem: Yumi, Jeanne, Irina, Xenovia, Le Fay, Sona, Serafall, Rossweisse, Yasaka, Valarie, Seekvaira, Kuroka, Lavinia, Yuuma, Griselda.
Issei's Harem: Rias, Akeno, Koneko, Asia, Ravel, Tsubasa, Aika, Isabel, Katase, Murayama, Mira, Kunou, Karlamine, Xuelan, Kiyome.