Highschool DxD: Adventure Of Black Flash

by DarkDracul1252

Nawin Makasha, a boy, changed after a dark event occurred in the past that left him scarred. He and his family moved to Japan to start a new life, but when Nawin joined Kuoh Academy, things began to change for him when he is thrust into the world of supernatural by force. Past will come back and haunt, Evil will rain down, Bonds will be severed. Will Nawin and his friends be ready?

116. All-Out Battle! Makasha's vs Lucifer's

Sorry for the late update! I've been busy and fallen ill yesterday.

Hope you all enjoy the chapter! ^.^

"Hana… Release the poison smoke" Nawin commands, watching the dragons gaining distance towards them. The hydra's nine heads take a deep breath then opens their mouth to produce a dense purple and toxic gas. Nawin powers up and claps both his hands forward to discharge a thunderous wind blast that blows the smoke toward the flying creatures. The dragons breathe in the toxic smoke and are instantly paralyze. All three dragons fall past the hydra and crash into the side of a hill behind the hospital.

The three hydra heads move back and shoots forward to the three dragons neck, sinking their sharp teeth in the dragons and successfully kill them, chewing their necks to mince. "Hydra has the strongest poison than any other supernatural creatures, not even the great Dragons stand a chance" Nawin state, his red eyes glancing back at the dead dragons.

"Kill him!" dozens of black knights come from behind, jumping from the hospital roof. Before they could even land on the hydra's back, all of them are pierced by black swords, perfectly striking through their hearts and their limp bodies pounce off the hydra before dropping to the ground. "Seems like someone really wants me dead" Nawin assert, staring at the corpses of the knights "They are going to have to be god to even think of killing me… I will never allow myself to fall by a low-class foe".

Nawin looks down at his hands, seeing small black shards hovering around it. 'With Khaos brigade being here… There's no need for me to hold back anymore' he notes, clenching his hands into a fist which cause the shards to spin around in a faster rate. Nawin looks up and see more portals opening. Two dragons emerge from it, but before he can order Hana to take actions, a woman appears in midair, standing on the sky without needing wings.

Hunter glance back at the hydra, eyeing it with great caution before moving her eyes to Nawin. Her eyes widen ever slightly when seeing the mark on his neck '… I see… So that's her plan.' "Nawin Makasha" she speaks up "Leave the dragons to me. You go help your friends with the battle raging on elsewhere" she states.

"You sure you can handle them?" Nawin question the mysterious woman and he receive a quiet chuckle from the Archdevil "My nickname is Kaliyah, kid" she replies and flies toward the dragons, leaving the astonish Makasha behind. Nawin watch Hunter bringing her massive sword out from the hostels when nearing the dragons, just seeing the unique and intimidating sword, Nawin knows that the woman wouldn't have any trouble.

"Hana…" Nawin whispers and the hydra explodes into a cloud of smoke. The Makasha slowly descends and land gracefully on his feet. He lifts his right hand and twirls his index finger to get rid of the smoke. When the smoke clears Nawin sees Hana stopping in front him in her human form. "Good to see you again, Hana" Nawin said, seeing the happy hydra grinning cutely and does something unexpected and hugs the Makasha "Same! It's great to see you again, Master! It's been a while" she replies joyfully, making Nawin smile and returns the hug "It sure has…"

"There he is! The hydra is gone so strike him!" more group of the black knights appear from the corners and all of them dash towards the two. Hana and Nawin release the hug and watch the attackers getting closer and closer to them. Nawin's red eyes glows brightly and all the men freeze in their spot, like a stone when they were a meter away from the hydra and her master. "W-wh-what?" a man is able to utters out through his gritting teeth and tries hard to move his body, and he is able to move an inch before freezing up again, same goes with the rest. All the men could do is stare into the Makasha's glowing eyes as fear start setting in their own eyes.

"Let's go… Hana" Nawin speaks, turning around and sets off with the Hydra obediently followng by his side. Nawin brings his right hand up and summons numbers of sword that form above the frozen men, then with a flick of his index finger going down, the swords speed downwards and cleave through the men's head, clean.

The beheaded corpse falls to the ground, next to the dismembered heads while the black sword shatters away into shards. "You would honestly think they would send a stronger warrior to take you down, Master" Hana comments, casually "I don't know, Hana… There's a chance what I'm doing is what they are looking for" Nawin reply firmly, not taking in the easiest logic but instead going in deeper to find the person's motive "I've seen those black knights fighting elsewhere in the battles, but there's a specific group of them aiming for me… Clearly someone is commanding them to do so. But, let's put that in the backburner for now, it's time we help Vesarima win this war."

"Hmm…" Hana pause and start sniff around the air, smelling a familiar scent "You pick up something?" "Yeah… I'm smelling a Nekoshou" she informs, surprising Nawin and quickly, the image of the Akumi member flash in his mind. Kitomi, but another one also comes up being Kuroka "You have their scent, Master" Hana points out, surprising Nawin again by this fact "Can you track this scent?" he asks "Yeah, it's strong enough and the scent is still recent… It's heading south."

Nawin close his eyes, coming up with a plan, but a booming sound erupt from the distance which cause him to open his eyes and turn to the direction of the sound to see Lucy battling with Vali. "Alright, Hana," he speaks, turning to the hydra "I want you to follow this scent and find what you can learn from his individual. Call me via the ring if you're in trouble… I'll be there in a flash" he said "Understood… You think something else is going on?" Hana inquire "Yes… Something is happening behind the scene. This invasion could just be a distraction for all we know, but with these specific group trying to kill me and the scent of a Nekoshou on me… There's something going on and you following that scent may tell us, so go" he orders, and Hana dash away in green blur.

A handgun form on Nawin's right hand and he extend it right, behind him then pulls the trigger. The bullet fires from the barrel and drive past a wooden wall. A second later, a body of a cloak fighter plummets to the ground, blood leak from their shadowy face. Nawin dispel the gun and glance back at the corpse, seeing it slowly deteriorating to nothingness 'I'm just a magnet for trouble… Whatever, I fully embraced it at this point' he states.

Nawin's stoic expression crack the moment his sight is set on the corpses of civilians. Men, women, and even children can be see littered on the blooded street. Anything near the hospital have been ransacked and destroyed by the black knights that been ordered to hunt him down. No matter what, the Makasha knew their death was his fault in some way. They could have had time to escaped or hide if he wasn't in this specific hospital, if he wasn't here there was a chance that they could have survived, but that wasn't the case and it angers the Makasha.

Nawin's straight line lip breaks into a furious scowl, then the house on the right suddenly explodes into smithereens. Chunks of woods, glasses, and rocks scatter around the air before plummeting to the dirt ground. Nawin's red eyes shines in rage while black aura emits around him, then without uttering a word he disappears in black flash.

North Gate

Rias is send barreling back by a pummel of a sword smashing to her chin. She quickly jumps up and cock her head to the right to avoid a blade, but the sharp object was able to glaze her cheek, leaving a noticeable cut. Rias counter with a kick to the young General's stomach, knocking him back on his feet, sliding a few meters away from her.

Rias pant hoarsely and deeply before taking a lungful of air into her body with one deep breathe. She slowly gets to her feet and back to her stance "Tired?" the General question in mocking tone "Tired? Yeah I am… Tired that you aren't dead" Rias retorts and blast a destruction beam from her right palm.

The silver-haired man brings the sabre up and twirl the blade to large circle shape. When the blade finishes drawing, a large silver barrier that's shape of a circle form into existence and deflects the incoming beam upwards, sending it to the sky. Being completely occupied by the General, Rias is unable to detect three cloak fighters sneaking behind, their daggers pointing at her back.

"Hell no!" a voice shouts from above and Xenovia comes crashing down at the three enemies with the Excalibur, cleaving the three in half as they were perfectly lined up. Yuuto appears beside the General and brings his sword of betrayal down but gets block by the sabre. The two sword users glare at one another and start pushing their weapon forward, trying to overpower.

A smirk suddenly spread on Yuuto's lip and it alert the General but before he can do anything, Yuuto move his sword to the right and slide it pass the sabre. The blonde extends his right feet and spin around to kick at the back of the General, sending the man forward and into a destruction blast.

The crimson blast consumes the man whole and when it passed through there's nothing left of the General, not even a shred of bones or pieces of his armor to show his remains. Xenovia rest the Excalibur on her right shoulder and whistle in impress "Your power of destruction is definitely a frightening one, Rias" she commends "Manners, Xenovia" Yuuto sighs out, giving his partner a dull stare and gets one in return "It's alright," Rias giggle out, catching her breath and smile at her knights "I'm glad you two made it in time. Needing to watch out for those cloak fighters while battling a General head-on has tire me."

"Where's Akeno? Shouldn't she be helping you" Xenovia question, looking forward and sees the devil being able to push back the Khaos brigade's black knights and the cloak fighters, for the moment "I don't know," Rias answers with narrow eyes "She disappeared somewhere… Perhaps she is battling with another General, who was planned to help the other on penetrating through the North Gate" "Make sense, by the way, these cloak fighters are summons" Xenovia informs, catching Rias attention "I figured, can one of you find the caster and eliminate them?" she request, and Yuuto takes a step forward to the gate where the battle is raging "I shall find them" he asserts and blurs forward, jumping over the enemy by using their heads as a platform.

Rias and Xenovia chuckle by seeing the blonde's stunt and hears some funny insults thrown to him by the enemy. Rias turn around and see several groups of soldiers arriving to assist. "Men! All of you charge forward with everything you've got! My knight is currently trying to even the number for us! Give them everything you've got!" Rias shouts, and the soldiers let out a mighty roar and charge past Rias and Xenovia to join with the rest of their comrades at outside the gate. Rias turns to her Knight "Xenovia, go wreak havoc" she orders, and a huge grin spread on the Quarta's face "Glady!" she immediately takes off to the battle.

Xenovia jumps over the Vesarima army and crash into the swarm of enemies, then starts flailing her large sword in there. Rias watch on in astonish, witnessing numbers of Khaos Brigade's soldiers are send flying away from the battle, one by one being blasts by Xenovia's freakish strength.

Rias turn to the direction where the Hydra was last seen "With Nawin-kun joining the battle it will help us immensely… But," she turns to the battling raging near the gate "Why do I have this ominous feeling lingering in me."

West Gate

"L-lord Phenex and Lord Gremory?!" the army of men and women shouts out in disbelief, startled by the nobles dropping in front of them from out of nowhere. "Greetings, everyone" Zeoticus greets the soldiers with a warm smile while Rizal crosses his arms and turns to have his back face them, instead focuses his attention on the incoming Khaos Brigade battalions that are marching toward the Gate.

"We've come here to assist you all" Zeoticus informs "I and Rizel shall go head-on to the incoming force and if anyone of them slip past us then it's up to you all to stop them, understand?" he asks, and the army just nod along, not daring to go against the Head of Gremory clan wishes. "Good," Zeoticus smile and turns around to see Rizel already striding off.

Zeoticus sighs and appears next to the Phenex "After all these years and you are still impatient" he remarks and gets a tsk from the blonde "I can never by a coolheaded such as you, Zeoticus… It's tedious" "Tedious you say? At least I was never the first to get my defeat handed because of my recklessness" "You wanna go?" "Perhaps other time, just go release your frustration out on them" Zeoticus said, moving his sight to the army marching close to them.

"Giants are among them… Interesting" Rizel observes the army of hundreds of men and women along with dozens of Giants "Have you notice something" Zeoticus speak "You mean that this invasion is sorely lacking some major Satan-class warriors?" "Exactly, if Rizevim is honestly serious about destroying Vesarima then he would bring all his strongest fighters, not just these low-class soldiers" "Yeah, also, the other old faction Satans are missing… Where's Shalba and Creuserey?" Rizel questions with narrowed eyes.

The army halt and all eyes are on the nobles. "Ahahah! The Capital are that desperate that they brought nobles to battle!" one of the men in the army throws a snarky comment and laughs, the rest joining him. "We all know that nobles here are nothing but spineless and cocky individual who hides behind the Satans like weakling!" more insults are thrown in, and each start to upset Rizel. "They have clearly been given either false information or have mistaken us for other nobles" Zeoticus observe with a dull tone, not taking offense or care by the insults thrown at him, but things can't be said the same with Lord Phenex, who's clenching his arms tightly and gritting his teeth, his eyes glows in fury.

Zeoticus sees the state of anger that Rizel is in and start to feel a bit of sympathy for the fools that are mindlessly spouting the insults. "You mindless, low-class, imbeciles dare insults me!" Rizel howls out with such force the ground beneath him implodes and some soldiers stationed in front of the battalions are send back, crashing to their comrades.

Bright orange aura starts emitting around the enrage Phenex, burning brightly like fire. Rizel's once sapphire blue eyes change to bright orange, just like his flames, and it is directed straight to the shocked soldiers that are now shaking in their boots when feeling the noble's power skyrocketed to Satan's class. Rizel takes one step forward, his feet crush the earth with each step "First you maggots attacked my home, then put my family in danger, and now you insulted me!" Rizel stop in front of the battalions and smirk "I'm going to incinerate everyone of you fools so completely that even the afterlife won't be able to piece you all back together!"

Rizel extend his arm up and opens his palm, pointing it straight at the center of the army. With a large smirk plastered on his face, Rizel discharge a gigantic fire beam that utterly vaporize all the soldiers that stood in the center space of the army. There was no ounce of shreds left behind the soldiers that was in contact by the beam. The rest of the men and women that are standing on the left and right are paralyze in fear and shock by the display they just witnessed.

The Giants from behind saw some of their kin murdered from the attack and roar out in rage, going berserk and start charging toward the nobles. The Giants charge through the army, stumping on the black knights without care. Rizel didn't bother taking notice at the Giants and instead burst right past them in speed and goes for the rest of the army. "Of course," Zeoticus sign in exasperation, watching the Giants stumping towards him, flailing their clubs around like a mindless beast.

The Giant that is in front of the horde brings its club down on the crimson-haired man. Zeoticus response by bringing his right hand out from the pockets of his slacks, lifting it up and stop the massive club. The ground behind him implodes from the force, but Lord Gremory didn't budge an inch from the strike and just looks at the Giant, a smirk plastered on his lip "You guys still used clubs after all these centuries? Don't you think it's time to evolve?" he questions and just receive an angry glare from the tall monster "I guess I shouldn't expect even that from a thickheaded creature such as you Giants."

The other Giants let out a mighty roar and all swing their clubs down at the noble. Zeoticus's turquoise color eyes flash crimson for a moment and the Giants are send blasting away by an invisible force release from Zeoticus's crimson aura. "Mind passing me a sword?" the Gremory request, glancing at the Vesarima army, who are all looking at scene with wide eyed. One of the men is able to snaps out of his shock and dumbly nod, unsheathing his longsword and throws it to the noble.

Zeoticus extend his right hand and catch the sword perfectly by its handle. He turns to face the Giants and disappears in blinding speed that none in the army could even catch. Zeoticus appears back to the position he stood and throws the blooded sword to the ground and the moment the sword touches the ground; the heads of the Giants fall from their large body and rolls around the ground. The Giants headless corpses stood for a few second before all of them comes crashing down.

Zeoticus rest his right hand back into the slack's pocket and stare onwards at Rizel, seeing him going on a rampage and incinerating every soldier in the battalions.

Hospital

"A-are you sure we should be here?" a small group of black knights enters the hospital and sees the bloodied and dismembered corpses of their comrades "This is where the Black Flash is last seen! We need to find a clue, so it will lead us to his location" the large man barges out from the group and stop in front of them "Stop being cowards! He can't be far since the teleportation magic is sealed!"

"Noises… You know, at a rare time that I actually got a chance to have a long, peaceful sleep without being awake by either a messenger or my children… Now I am awakened by all the commotion outside, and you maggots shouting isn't helping my mood" a dark and cold voice comment from the stairs. The black knights all look forward and listen to the sound of a boot hitting the concrete ground. Some start unconsciously shaking from the ominous vibe that's spilling out from the shadows of the stairs.

Akari emerge out from the shadows and her cold blue eyes shoot straight at the group, freezing them in place. Fear latches onto their hearts when seeing the chilling and menacing eyes from the General of the Reaper Army. A lit cigarette is firmly place on her lip, she pulls it out and exhales smoke "Looking for the Black Flash… That's what you said, correct?" she questions, before placing the cigarette back in her mouth, inhaling it while staring at the large man and sees him resurging his nerve and glares back at her, which amuses Akari to no end "Yeah! Do you know where he is! We are going to kill that son of a bitch" "As much as I like the phrasing of that… I won't allow you to kill the boy" she said with a smirk, exhaling out smoke and opens her lip wider to drop the cigarette to the ground.

Akari step on the cigarette to distinguish it and slowly stride toward the group "If anyone were to defeat or kill him… It will be me" "Oh yeah?!" the large man brings his hammer down to the Crimson Reaper. Akari tap her right feet to the ground and boost toward the man, jerking her right hand forward and penetrates through the man's heavy armor, striking right through his heart.

Akari opens her blooded palm that's sticking out from the man's back. Small crimson orbs form on the fingertips and discharge four small beams that hits the soldiers in the head, killing them effectively. Akari close her hand and rip it out, causing the large man to fall pass her, collapsing face-first to white floor that was once shining clean but now is just stained in countless of blood.

Akari exit building and looks unfazed when taking in the scenery of destruction and chaos happening in Vesarima. Houses destroyed, grounds scarred with craters and cracks, dead bodies littered the blooded streets. Swiping her right hand to get rid of the blood that's on her hand, Akari starts contemplating on her next action "What the hell should I be doing now? Helping these devils is off the counter." 'It's not off the counter, Akari' Azazel's voice invades the woman's mind, Akari didn't look startled by this, instead she looks annoyed most of all 'Lord Azazel… I absolutely hate when you just pop up in my mind like that' she speaks up in seething tone and a frown grows on her face, when hearing her leader chuckle sheepishly, not taking her warning in at all but just treat it as an amusement for himself.

'Anyway,' Azazel's tone turns serious, and Akari listen 'A lot happened when you were asleep' 'I can see…' 'Khaos Brigade has invaded and I, along with the other leaders, excluding Sirzech and Serafall are trapped in an impenetrable barrier' 'That's humorous' 'Now is not the time for your sarcasm, Akari' Azazel scold 'Fine… What do you want me to do?' 'Assist Vesarima with this war' 'Are you serious?' 'It's an order, Akari… If you choose not to accept it then I will demote you this instant' Azazel warns in a steel tone, piercing right into the General's mind and shows her he wasn't jesting.

Akari scowl, clenching her teeth tightly before releasing a deep sigh 'Fine… I'll swallow my pride for once and help these maggots' she replies in a seething tone, showing her displeasure at the order but goes along with it 'Good, and don't do anything reckless like leveling up this whole place' Azazel reminds and disconnect.

"That old man… Sometimes I just want to cleave him with my scythe" Akari murmurs, rubbing her forehead and wince slightly from the pain. When feeling this pain, Akari thinks back at the battle she had, showing how it ended in a draw when she was given a vicious headbutt by Nawin Makasha. "That was a draw… We still have some unfinished business, Makasha…" Akari clench her right hand and crimson aura emits around her "When this war is over we shall settle it! I won't allow a stupid draw to be the result of our battle!"

Near East Walls

"Hah!" a black knight roar, stabbing his lance through a Vesarina guard's heart, killing him instantly. The civilians cry in horror, and some parents hold their children tightly and begs for mercy at the black knight's units marching toward them, wearing a menacing expression on their faces.

"Haha! Now times to kill you scums" "Kill the man, we can have some fun with the women!" "Yeah! Now you're speaking my language!" hearing these comments, one of the men push his family back and stands up, glaring at the sickening knights "You sick bastards! You talked such things and hurt innocents! You people are lower than scum!" he shouts and receive a hard-right hook to his face, knocking him to the ground.

"Daddy!" the daughter shouts, wiggling out of her mother's hold and runs to her father then tries to help him up. The girl turns around to face the men "Leave him alone!" she shouts, glaring at the grinning knights with her teary brown eyes. "Eehh! Think your tough, girl!" the man lifts his hand up and brings it down to the child's face.

A black blade swings down from the side, out of nowhere and slice down at the man's hand like butter, easily cutting through his scale mail. The father quickly moves to the side to shelter his daughter from the blood spattering down and the dismembered hand falling, the hand bounce off the man's back and lands on the ground.

"Haaaaaaaaaahaaaahaa!" the man shriek in pain, grabbing his dismembered right arm in pain and stumbles back. The civilians and the knights turn toward the left to see Akame standing there, holding her sword down, the red lightning cracks around the black blade occasionally.

The leader of the unit, a tall and lanky man with shaggy brown hair steps up and bring the sharp pummel of his halberd down at the screaming subordinate that's flailing on the ground in pain. The spike pummel stabs at the man's head, killing him instantly. "That's annoying" the leader utters with a scowl, not taking his dirty brown eyes away from Akame.

Akame slowly walk forward and stop in front of the scared civilians "All of you… Close your eyes" she commands in strict tone that made all comply, closing their eyes and held onto their children dearly. "Who are you?" the man questions, leaning the halberd on his shoulder and stare hard at Akame "Your Death" is the reply he gets, before Akame zooms forward.

In a swift movement, the Leader shoots the halberd forward and Akame leans her upper body back and drops to her knees, sliding forward and misses the sharp weapon by inches from above her. Akame slides past the lanky man then jumps up, spinning in the air a couple of time before launching her sword down on a soldier's head, going all the way down his throat and chest, while landing her feet on his shoulder.

Akame pulls her sword back from the frozen and dead man. "You bitch!" two men comes charging from the sides with their lances pointed forward. Akame hops and kicks the standing corpse to the right. "Gah!" the knight on the right gasp when the heavy corpse puncture though his lance and cause him to stumble forward, faceplanting himself to the ground.

Akame spin around and brings her right feet up and precisely aim a kick to the incoming lance with such force that the weapon flies off the man's hands. The knight freezes in speechless and looks at his empty and shaking hand with shock before the black thunder is launch through his forehead, killing him instantly. The dead man drops to his knees and Akame place her right feet on his chest, then kicks him away to free her blooded sword.

Akame suddenly extend her left hand in the air to grab the lance that she kicked away and turns around to throw it at the other man that's getting up. The lance impales right through his armor and stick out of his chest, pinning him in the ground. He lets out an agonizing shriek by the unforeseen attack and tries to get himself off the ground, but with lance pinning him and a corpse laid on his feet, it is proving impossible.

The Leader of the group was just standing there with a lazy expression plastered on his face, as he watches his men getting slaughtered and doesn't bother to lift a finger to save them. Akame's red gaze slowly turns to the Leader, looking at him with such coldness that it sends a shiver down the older man spine, but he keeps his composure and smirk "I was waiting for a good fight for a while now… All those guards have proven useless to keep me entertained. Lucky for me that you suddenly appeared, Sweetheart" he holds his halberd tightly and brings it up, leaning it on his shoulder and begins making way to the Makasha's Knight.

"Call me Zacka" the man said and stop beside his last men, that's still barely alive and pinned to the ground. "C-Caption" the man begs for help and gets the blade of the halberd cleave down his head, cutting it into two, splitting his skull open and pieces of his brain spills out, dropping to the ground. "I don't take kindly of my own men displaying weakness" Zacka assert without remorse and pulls his weapon back. "Now," he faces Akame "Shall we fight?"

'Taking in his composure after seeing what I did to his men… He must be confidents in his skills. Doesn't matter, I'll cleave through him like the rest… I will complete Nawin-kun's order' with that set-in mind, Akame gets to her stance. She lowers her knees ever slightly, gripping the handle of her sword with both hands and hold it beside her face, pointing the tip of the blade straight at Zacka.

"Tell me…" Zacka speaks, still not getting to his stance and instead stare hard at Akame's red eyes, almost like reading into her "Are you a blade for hire or are you a blade that has its Master? Looking at you, there's no way you are a part of Vesarima force" he asserts "By my Master's order, I've come here to slay you" Akame answers firmly and dash forward.

Zacka brings the halberd down and sees Akame breaks to the right, continue the trajectory towards him then launch the sword forward at his stomach. Zacka leans his body to the side, missing the weapon narrowly and swings his right leg forward, smashing it on Akame's stomach and sends her spiraling back, crashing onto the ground on her back. "Haaah!" Zacka let out a shout and jumps forward, spinning the halberd in his right hand before extending it forward, bringing it down to the Knight.

Akame rolls away to avoid from being impaled by the halberd's spike. Stabbing her blade to the ground, she uses it as a poll then with her left hand on the ground, she pushes herself forward to spin, creating enough momentum to send a spinning kick that connects to Zacka's face and sends him barreling away. Akame stops and quickly gets to her feet, pulling the sword from the ground and returns to her stance.

Zacka wipes the blood from his lip and slowly gets up, his back face toward Akame. In a swift movement, he turns around and fires a basic green magic blast from his left palm. Akame release her right hand from the sword's handle and extend it forward, activating the glove and a white barrier form in front of her. The barrier easily blocks the blast, until it disintegrates into nothingness.

Akame deactivate the barrier and stare at Zacka, seeing him return to his stance, the expression on his face harden compare to the laziness shown before. 'It's time I end this' Akame blaze forward in blinding speed that Zacka is barely able to follow, so he quickly reacts by sending a barrage of combos with the halberd from upfront. Akame ducks down and Zacka follows her movement and bring a strong strike downwards, but he is trick when Akame quickly follow with a crouch and a spin to the right. Akame twist the Black Thunder around so she can grip it in reverse style, then swings forward, the blade barely inches below the halberd's back hook that was the only hope of stopping it.

Zacka feels the black blade cutting through his midsection like it was butter, cleaving it completely through the meat and bones. Akame extend her knees to stand up, stopping behind the soldier. She brings the black thunder down to its sheathe, clicks it in and Zacka's upper body drop forward to the ground while the lower body falls back, unspeakable amount of blood spill out from the two-dismembered body parts.

Some of the adults that reopened their eyes during the battle had to hold their hands over their mouth to stop themselves from vomiting when seeing the gory scene. Fortunately, all the parents had a sensible mind and cover their children's eyes from the scene. Akame turns around, away from the civilians. Sensing many mana signatures are heading this way and she can tell it's from the Vesarima's forces "You all will be alright now" she utters softly and disappears in a blur.

Beelzebub Castle

"Where is this pond…" Irina utters under her breath, getting impatient from all the searching. After arriving, the group decided to split up and look behind the castle, which was a larger area then they originally thought to be. It's been over ten minutes, and none have signaled the others that they have found the hidden pond that leads to the Satan's lab.

Kokoro clench her right hand tightly, triggering orange aura to emits around her "I'm so close to leveling this place up… Where the hell is this pond!" she screams out with all her might that the others, who are all far away can hear her, and release a dismal sigh before continuing the search.

Issei scan down at the many trees that grows behind the castle and he spot a large white training ground on a center of the dense and lush forest 'I've seen that training ground for the fourth time already! I'm going in circles!' Issei cries out in dismay, but continue searching, leaning his body to the right and sets off.

"Hmm… This pond is supposed to be hidden, so" Elise slowly unsheathes her blade, creating a hissing sound that rings around the air. "Scream… Blood Queen!" she exclaims, watching her sword transform and swing it down to fire a vertical crimson blast. The other three immediately halt and was about to shout at the Princess for taking a rash action, but they stop, witnessing the crimson blast halts when it was near a section of the forest that was close to the back of the castle.

The image of the forest suddenly starts flickering in rainbow colors before shattering into tiny transparent shards. The crimson blast disburses to reveal a large round pond where the fake forest used to be. "Ohhh! Of course! He said it was hidden so of course there would be an image barrier to hide it" Irina exclaims, and start scolding herself for never realizing it, earning herself some soft bonks to her head while mumbling "Stupid, stupid, stupid" a couple of times to herself. Issei sweatdrop at Irina's overreaction but at least it shows him that she's serious about getting stronger and more experience, which motivates himself on doing the same when seeing his long-time friend showing such pride on her skill and wish to get stronger.

Elise reverts her sword back to its standard state and sheathes it back into the leather scabbard strapped on the right of her waist. "Well done," Kokoro compliments, stopping beside her friend "It was nothing… Now, shall we proceed?" she suggests and the rest nods.

The four descends and lands at the edge of the pond. "So… We just dive in and see the boulder?" Issei ask, looking at the dark water that's either dirty or its been in enchanted by some magic to make it look murky, so it wouldn't allow any intruders to see what's lies underneath. "That's a big pond and it's murky" Kokoro points out "There's no way we'll be able to see down there unle—" she stops when hearing a sound of familiar Schvrmmmm making her turn to the right and sees Irina holding a golden light lance in her right hand "That works."

Irina grins and jumps into the pond with the rest following suit. The moment the four enter the waters, their visions immediately greets with darkness, but that quickly change when Irina raise the light in her lance to an even brighter degree. The group are able to see each other thanks to the light and start following Irina, who's leading forward while holding the lance high to display as much light as possible.

For a few minutes the four continue to swim through the quiet and ominous waters. All of them have their eyes darting to all direction, waiting for anything to come out from the pitch-black waters that the light couldn't reach. Irina's eyes brighten when she sees a large boulder laid at the bottom end of the pond. The others mentally sigh in relief and smile when finally reaching their destination.

Irina turn to Issei and points at him then at the boulder. Getting the signal, Issei nods and charge up the rotation. The girls swim backwards to be in a safe distance while Issei moves forward, stopping in front of the boulder then thrust the rotation forward and obliterate the large rock.

Dispelling the rotation, Issei turns to the girls and point at the large open pipe, telling them to follow him and he'll lead. Irina rolls her eyes and swim past him, confusing the Hyoudou 'She's got the light, Issei' Kokoro dull comment invades Issei's mind 'Ohhh!' 'I swear… Come on, let's follow her'. The four enters the pipe, keeping their composure even when seeing the ominous darkness lingering inside the pipe.

Vesarima

Koneko hops to the right, avoiding a huge club that comes smashing to the ground. She jumps up and knee the Giant in the face, staggering the monster back, but she wasn't finish and bring her right fist to its face that knocks the large monster to the ground. Another club come swinging from behind and smash Koneko while she's still in midair. The Rook is blast away by the vicious attack and sends her crashing into a large wooden house. The whole house crumbles from the impact, causing the woods, stones, and glasses to bury the Rook whole.

"Haha! Good job!" the soldiers howl in victories while the few Giants that remains standing let out a mighty roar to the sky. The army were about to set out, but they halt when seeing movement in the destroyed house. Rocks and woods rolls down and a figure slowly push the large objects out. Koneko push herself off the clutter and slowly stands up. She pants hoarsely and hold her right shoulder firmly, her white shirt is ripped and reveal a blooded bruise on her right arm and shoulder.

"This little bitch just won't die! Kill her!" one of the men commends the Giants. All four monster stumps toward the Rook, dwarfing over her small frame, and all lift their clubs up when in front of her. Koneko lift her uninjured hand up for defense and wait for the impact as the Giants brings their massive clubs down.

A booming sound erupt, and a tremor can be felt from a dozen meters away. Koneko slowly opens her eyes, and it widens when seeing Nawin standing in front of her, holding up the four club with just his right hand. He glances back at her and send a wink with a faint smile before turning back to the Giants "Hurting my dear Nekomata… That just earned you'll a spot in the list" he states and ignites his mana in a violent wave that sends the Giants blasting away.

The four monsters crash a meter away, on their back, daze by the harsh force. Nawin gaze turns to the army of thirty men, who are all staring at him with shock, some with fear when they recognize who he is. Koneko blinks once and the next thing she saw are all the thirty men collapse to the ground, all blooded and covered in sword wounds. Her expression turns to disbelief and awe, watching with wide eyed at Nawin, who stood behind the dead army, his back facing them, and holds a shadow longsword that is coated with blood 'S-such… Speed!' is the only thing she could utter in her mind.

The Giants slowly gets up to their feet and all of them turn to the Makasha and lets out a furious roar at him. Nawin lift his right hand up, pointing both his index and middle finger to the sky "Black Coffin" he utters, a purple orb appears on the tip of the two fingers. Four large black coffins made of pure mana forms underneath the Giants, building up until it completely imprisons them. Nawin slowly bring both his fingers down and the orb discharge, causing the box to expend by little before suddenly decreasing in booming speed that it made the ground explode. A sound of liquid splattering on a ground erupt from inside the boxes.

The coffins creak and shatters to reveal only a ground paint with a large quantity of blood. Any signs of the Giants are completely erased. Koneko just watched all of this with wide eyed, but she quickly composes herself when seeing the Makasha walking back to her, his red eyes return to brown and retain the warmth in them.

"You ok?" Nawin ask, stopping in front of the girl and without another word picks her up in bridal style, causing Koneko to let out a cute gasp and blushes at the sudden act but didn't struggle or complain. "Yeah, thank you" she softly utters, still holding her injured shoulder and looks up to see a faint smile on the Makaha's face "No problem, I'm glad I spotted you. You did a good job halting them and destroying half of their forces by yourself… If it wasn't for you then the civilians wouldn't be given enough time to be escorted to safety. You saved many lives, Koneko" he praises, making the Nekomata smile and rest her head on his chest.

Koneko close her eyes for a minute and reopens them to see that she is somewhere else. Now she is in a lush green hill and spot countless civilians gathered around in a group with guards among them for protection. Koneko perks up when seeing a familiar blonde hair walking out of the crowd. She smiles when seeing Asia quickly rushing towards them with Gasper following behind.

"Onii-chan! Koneko-chan!" Asia exclaims with relief and happiness "Asia, I see you've been busy" Nawin assert, kneeling to the ground and gently set Koneko on the soft grass "Koneko's hurt" he informs as the blonde stop in front of them. Asia nods and immediately gets to work on Koneko's wounds. "Gasper," Nawin speak, seeing the fidget Dhampir stopping beside Asia "H-hello, N-Nawin-san" he greets back with a blush "You ok?" Nawin question the shy boy and receive a nod "Gasper-kun helped me immensely, Onii-chan!" Asia brightly comment "If it wasn't for him I wouldn't be able to help these people and probably be lost".

Gasper blush at the praise from the blonde, he is more shock when feeling a warm hand touch his head, softly ruffling his hair. He looks up to see Nawin smiling at him "Thanks for helping Asia, Gasper… You're a good kid" he praises, surprising Gasper, before a small smile grace his lip and he bows down "I-it was n-nothing… I enjoyed h-helping, Asia-chan" he replies softly.

Nawin retract his hand and nod "Good, I'm glad you are such a good friend to Asia, just like Koneko here" he said and ruffles the Rook's soft white hair, causing the girl to let out a purr, but then moan in disappointment when Nawin retracts his hand and stand up. "Sorry, Koneko, but I have to go" he said and gets a nod from the girl. "Where will you go, Onii-chan?" Asia question "To the stadium, there's something going on there and I want to check. You three already did more than enough so I want all of you to stay here and help the guards protect the civilians if the invaders show up, understand?" he question and receive nods from the three.

Nawin takes a few steps back and give the three a wink and smile one more time before disappearing in black flash. Gasper turns to Asia "Your big brother is cool" he comments, causing Asia to let out a giggle while Koneko smile in amusement and nod in agreement.

North Gate

"Yuuto! Why are the cloak fighters still among the enemy's forces?! Haven't you taken out the caster?" Rias shouts out to her knight, rolling to the right to avoid a large hammer brought down on her. Xenovia appears behind the large man and thrust the Excalibur through his chest before kicking him to the ground. "Here," she brings her hand down to Rias back to her feet "Thanks".

Yuuto appears in front of the girls, panting and slightly battered. His black t-shirt and blue jeans are covered in holes and slash marks "I've killed him, but there's more coming from elsewhere… There must be more hiding in the forest" he informs. Rias cuss out in frustration and watch the Vesarima's forces pushing back the black knight's army, giving them a few minutes of room to breathe and think of a plan. Rias turn to her knights "We need more hands, so we can scout out the casters and eliminate all of them… The cloak fighters are giving the black knights a huge edge in this battle, they are overwhelming us in numbers and will continue until the casters are taken down."

A sound of chainsaws erupts around the area and the next thing is heard are a bunch of light giggles. The three turns and see Ile and Nel speeding out of the forest and to the black knight's army, completely start massacring through them with their chainsaws. Dozens of fireballs hail down from the sky and hits the charging Giants in their head, knocking them to the ground and burning their faces. The three look up and see Yubelluna flying in the air and looks down at them to give a wink before summoning more fireballs and send it down to the enemies. Isabela drops from the sky and crash-land at the center of Khoas brigade forces, sending numerous of the black knights flying away into the forest or crashing through the trees.

"Yo," Riser greets, walking past the three from behind "Need a hand?" he stops and glance back at them, wearing a smirk. Rias shakes her head but smile "We desperately need them" she said, and watches Riser give a nod, then speed toward the battle, jumping over Vesarima force and sends large flame blast to the enemy's forces in midair.

Rias turn to Xenovia and Yuuto "With Riser and his peerage here, I can send both of you out to find these casters." "We are also here to assist" another voice joins in and the three turns to see Karlamine and Siris walking towards them, the two knights of Riser's peerage. Rias smile in relief "Perfect, thanks you two… We really need knights to handle this since the task needs to be completed as quickly as possible" she informs and turn to her knights "You two fill Karlamine and Siris in about the Casters" she states and gets a nod from the two.

"Good, then move out!" Rias commands and the four disappears in a blur, all sprinting to the dense forest. Rias takes a deep breath and start powering up, crimson aura emits around her body before erupting into an explosive wave of mana "Time to rain down some destruction!"

Lucifer Castle

"Ah, good to see you finally arrived, Kuroka" a man wearing a black cloak with a hood over comments politely, turning to around to see the Nekoshou landing behind them. Kuroka stands up and gives a nod "It's chaos down there," she simply replies and turn to the other member "You ready to take back what's yours?" "Indeed, something that's been stolen from you" the second man asserts "… I'm more than ready" the third man replies, wearing the same cloak, speaking in a deep and compose tone.

The man grabs the cloak and toss it away to reveal his appearance. He is a handsome young man with short black hair and shining blue eyes. The man has pale complexion and build, agile figure. His attire is a weird combination of a Japanese school uniform, such as the black gakuran, and an ancient Chinese attire, with a white robe with blue, gold, and black attire. Instead of wearing the robe, he ties is around his waist and let the sleeves hangs from behind.

The other man also throws his cloak off. He is a bespectacled young man with silver eyes and blonde hair that is tied into a small tail that lays on his right shoulder and there's a large strand of hair going across his face from the left. The man holds a pale complexion and his a lanky and tall individual. His attire is a black business suit that fits perfect with his calm and gentleman expression that is plastered on his face.

Koruka walk past the two men and push the large entrance doors open "Let's head in… We are on borrowed time" she states, entering the castle with the men following behind. A green snake slithers out of the bushes and stare at the closed doors with its slit red eyes 'The scent… It's definitely from that woman.' The snake glows brightly and slowly morph into a humanoid figure. When the light dies down it reveals Hana "What could they be doing here?" she whispers to herself "Guess I'll have to go in to find out."

Hana walks up the cement stairs and when reaching the top, she pauses and turns around to see Akame standing at the bottom of the stairs, looking up at her. The two girls stare at one another with a blank expression, almost like contemplating how they feel about this little reunion, and the stare continues for a full minute. A sudden smirk breaks out from the girls' face. Hana turns around and Akame appears beside her "It's good to see you again, Akame" the Hydra speaks first "Mhm… The feeling is mutual, Hana" Akame reply in honest.

Akame grip the black thunder's handle tightly with her right hand and glance at Hana "Did Nawin-kun sent you here?" "Yes, did you catch a glimpse of that black-haired woman?" "I was hiding behind a tree, so yes, the one with the cat ears" "Her sent was all over Master, so he told me to follow her to figure the case and find out who she is" Hana informs. Realizing set on Akame's mind the second she heard what Hana said, her expression slowly morphs to shock 'Could… Could that woman be the person that protected Nawin-kun before I arrived?!'

Akame's expression return to stoic and cold "Let's follow them" she firmly and strongly asserts, wanting to find out why the stranger is helping her King. "That's the plan, we should stick to the shadows for now and see what they are after" "Understood." The girls gently open the doors and slip in the castle.

Near Stadium

"You are getting agitated, Sirzech" Rizevim observe, smirking tauntingly. Sirzech response with a dark glare that would freeze any lower-class devil in fear "Oh ho! That's scary! You gonna use that form?" he questions, surprising Sirzech "What? You thought you could hid that from me?! Hahahah," Rizevim lets out a laughter "I've known from the very moment you achieved it! It was during our last battle… You've gained that form when you defeated me" he spat out the last part with disgust "You achieved a transformation that only four devils in the history to have ever attainted it… But, now it's six with you and Serafall achieving it" "What are you talking about, six?" Sirzech question, wariness dripping in his firm tone "It should be five…" "Hehehe," Rizevim crackle a dark chuckle and smirk "There's another person I know and associate with that has ascend to that level like you and I…"

"Ascending Devil… I've heard that before" a new voice joins, and Rizevim is caught off-guard when witnessing Nawin appearing next to Sirzech. "W-what?! How can you teleport!" he exclaims, but didn't receive an answer, instead, Nawin turn to Sirzech, who is also surprise by his entrance. "Why aren't you fighting this prick?" Nawin question "What you called me, boy" Rizevim spat and start powering up, ready to obliterate the Makasha.

Sirzech extend his right hand in front of Nawin for protection "I can't fight him when we are so near Vesarima, Nawin" he informs, eyeing Rizevim, watching his every movement "It would cause chaos and put the people of Vesarima in great danger" "I see… What's he talking about you can't teleport?" "They blocked the teleportation magic… My guess would be that there's a seal somewhere that is projecting a restriction radius around Vesarima to block the teleportation spell" Sirzech informs "I see," Nawin whispers back, flashes of him and Sayomi being trap in an island resurface in his mind 'Must be the same kind of seal.'

"So, you are the famous Black Flash" Rizevim speaks up, catching the two's attention "I admit that I've miscalculate you… I thought you were nothing but a kid that's been giving too much credit to himself… Exaggeration is the word" he asserts, smirking darkly. Nawin form his own smirk and stare straight at Rizevim's eyes, not being intimidated by his cold gaze "I find that amusing… You, an Old Satan and once considered the strongest devil miscalculated something… I wonder if it really is a miscalculation in your part or you just refused to take acknowledge that a person could rise to such heights in a short span of time… Which one is it?" he questions in taunting tone.

Rizevim's expression darkens and, in a speed, that Nawin couldn't even read. The Old Satan extend his hands up and fires a yellow magic blast. Sirzech swipe his right hand to slap the attack away. A massive explosion detonates in the distance, a size equal to a small city and the tremor can be felt miles away.

Rizevim takes his eyes away from the explosion and turn back to Sirzech "What?" he utters out in disbelief when seeing Nawin is nowhere to be seen behind the Satan. "Gotcha" an unmistakable voice comment from behind. Rizevim feel a hand press on his back and less than a second later he disappears in black flash.

"N-Nawin…" Sirzech utters out in shock, his eyes widen as much as it could by what he just saw "W-what did you do?" "I sent him far away from Vesarima, now." Nawin appears beside Sirzech "You don't have to restrain yourself and defeat that guy" he asserts. Sirzech slowly lets out a chuckle and shake his head "Thanks, Nawin-kun" he said, clapping his hand on the shorter boy's hair, ruffling it "You did your big brother a big help!" he exclaims with a wide grin. Nawin's eyebrow twitches and quickly snatch on Sirzech's wrist "Just finish it" he asserts and teleport the Satan to the location where Rizevim is sent.

Elsewhere

"Gahh!" a massive right hook connects to Lucy's face follow by a knee to the stomach that sends her flying back. Vali return to his stance and watch the blonde regain her footing in the air by flapping the flaming wings. His once clean and shiny silver scale mail armor is now covered in cracks and burn marks. "H-how are you still moving?!" Vali hollers out in astonish and anger "Your mana should be drained by now!" "Maybe," Lucy wipes the blood from her lip and smirk "I just have a massive reserve that even your sacred gear can't suck it dry".

"Huh," Vali hums and look up at Lucy "It doesn't matter… You can't defeat me, with every contact I have with you, I will continue to divide your power until there's nothing left and with every amount of power I take from you, it is added in me, to make me even more stronger… This battle will inevitably end in your defeat, Lucy" he states, "Right now, we are only playing the waiting game."

Lucy silently cuss, knowing what the Lucifer is stating are true 'The only plan I can think of is to use everything I've got into one last attack… But, if that fails and he is able to stand again then it's all over for me.' Lucy starts powering up, her burning aura expends in size and the blues glows brightly. The heat produce from the flaming aura is so hot that the clouds nearby are being evaporated into nothingness.

"Having some trouble, brother?" a silky and smooth voice enters the field, making the two turns to the right to see Valeria walking out of a black portal, similar to the one that's in the sky above the stadium, but in a much smaller scale. The girl is as tall as Vali and has the same silver hair and blue eyes as him. Her hair is loose and flows down to her waist with a dark blue headband bring the accessory on her head. She is pale with creamy soft skin, an agile and hourglass figure with sizable bust. The female Lucifer is dress in a high-collared leather jacket, similar to her brother though instead of it being the color black it's gray and it is sleeveless instead of a long sleeve. A silver metallic pauldron is worn over her right shoulder bearing blue stripes. Underneath the jacket, she wears a red shirt with black skull prints. For the bottom she wears a gray cropped trousers and grey black buckled boots with black soles along with dark blue fingerless glove on her right hand with silver plate knuckles stitched in.

"Valeria…" Vali utters the name of his sister, looking at her with a questionable gaze "You're back already?" the woman flaps her two set devil wings to float beside her brother "The task was a pain, but I finished it in time… Seems like the invasion is having some issues?" "The main task is going smoothly" Vali reply firmly, returning his sight to Lucy.

Valeria sees her brother turning his attention forward and she looks at the direction, seeing Lucy "… You're the Black Flash's sister I clobbered" she points out in slight surprise by the growth of young Makasha, sensing the immense power producing from her. Lucy smirk "And you're the sister of that, jackass" she retorts, pointing at Vali, who's expression turns offended by the insult while Valeria chuckles it off "Thanks for the laugh, kid, but I prefer you not to insult him so carelessly, especially in my presence… Because," Valerie's eyes sharpen "Unlike him… I don't hold back" she states.

In a blazing movement, Valeria swings her right hand up and discharge a dense and blue magic beam toward the Makasha. Lucy cuss and quickly brings both her arms up for defense. A dark figure appears in front of Lucy and with a swipe of their hand, they redirect the attack to the distance. The beam hits a mountain and ignites in a large explosion that annihilates the top half of the mountain.

Vali and Valeria are surprise to see Nawin standing in front of Lucy, his right hands pointing at them. Steams swirl around his hand from deflecting the dangerous magic attack. Lucy lowers her hands and smile brightly when seeing her brother, mentally taking a sigh of relief as well.

"Nawin," Vali whispers, the scale mail's helmet reclines to show his face, allowing him to look at his former friend in the eyes. Nawin drops his hand to the side, keeping his cold gaze at the Lucifers "To think you dare show your face here… Especially when you know full well I'm here" he speaks, his tone sharp like a katana and cold as a night in Antarctica, it sends chills down the three-individual's spine.

Vali stare at Nawin's eyes, seeing they were just as cold and blank as it was when he first met him.

Flashback

"Old man, where are you taking me?" Nawin question, following Azazel, as he leads him through some village in the underworld. Lots of houses made of woods and stones surround the place. The village is built on the edge of a deep ravine, it is covered and surrounded with tall trees that leaves very little lights to ever enter the dim village, but it also hides it from the rest of the world.

"We are meeting my son!" Azazel answer in an overly enthusiastic tone that annoys the Makasha, but it quickly replaces with curiousness "You have a son, really?" "To be more specific, a surrogate son" "I see… He's someone special?" "Indeed, he is. He wields a Longinus like you, Nawin" Azazel informs, catching the black-haired boy's attention but he didn't comment any further and silently follow the Fallen Angel.

The two exit the village and enter the dense forest. They continue to walk in silence until Azazel abruptly stops, making Nawin halt and moves to the right and his surprise by the view in front. A large basin can be seen in front of them, it's so large that it looked like a meteorite crashed down there and this was the result that it left. The basin is dry and hold no small ponds or life in it. Nawin look closely and spot a person standing at the center, looking like he is training, judging by the numerous smoking craters surrounding him.

"I thought he would be here to train after not reporting back" Azazel muse and jumps down the edge and start sliding down the slope. Nawin shrugs and jumps, following his godfather. The two smoothly lands on the even surface and start strolling toward the person at the center.

"Yo, Vali!" Azazel suddenly shouts out, waving at the silver-haired man. Vali disburse the blue mana that surrounds him and turn around to see his surrogate father and a person he has never seen before. Vali ignores Azazel and focus his eyes at Nawin. The two stares into each other eyes, cold blues clash with stoic browns. Vali start feeling an emotion of frustration, trying to read into Nawin by looking at his eyes, to see what kind of person he is and as much as he tries, those brown orbs are so dull, it's like a powerful barrier is blocking him.

Seeing this, Vali knows that this stranger isn't a normal or weakling. He is someone who's been through a tough childhood and experience stuff that no one ever should at such an age. Even without uttering a word to one another, Vali can almost feel like he can relate to this person, it felt like they share some similar pain in a way.

Slowly and begrudgingly, Vali tore his gaze away from Nawin and to Azazel "Hello… Azazel" he greets back with much less enthusiasms. "Why didn't you report back?" Azazel question, giving the silver-haired man a knowing look "I was going to, but I decided to stop by here and train a bit since the mission barely gave me a challenge… I swear," Vali points to the Fallen Angel, glaring at him with annoyance "If you give me such a lousy mission like that again I'm going to burn down your collection of those books!" he threatens and immediately gets a reaction from Azazel, who start sweating and gulps in nervous.

Nawin stare at the highly amusing scene with dullness, but a faint smile did form on his lip by Azazel's comical reaction. "You know what," Vali start smirking menacingly "I'll go back and burn it right now… This isn't the first time you send me in such a shitty mission" he said and quickly Azazel respond "Wait, Vali! How about," he points at Nawin, catching Vali's attention "If you want some challenge then have a dual with my student!" he exclaims, grinning widely and Nawin can easily tell that this was his plan all along, Azazel was easy to read when he isn't serious.

Vali raise an eyebrow and start finding the Makasha even more intrigue now learning that he is Azazel's student. "Who are you exactly?" he finally questions, intrigue and Nawin picks that up and decides to play with Vali. "How about this," the Makasha speaks "Depend on how well you dual… I'll give you my name" he said and immediately angering Vali, something Nawin fully expected and intended.

"To make it clear" Azazel speaks up, seeing Vali was ready to attack "No sacred gear, just make this an old fashion fist fight" "Huh, fine" Vali smirk, clenching his hands "I don't need my sacred gear to beat this guy!" he exclaims, glaring at Nawin, who's still wearing a stoic expression.

Azazel step back to make some space and Vali stop a few meters away from Nawin. The Makasha's expression doesn't change and does not bother to get in a stance, instead just wait for Vali to make the first move. Seeing this, Vali takes the step forward and break into a sprint "I'm going to wipe that stupid expression off your face!" he shouts and jumps forward, swinging his right hand with all his might.

Nawin bring his right palm up and catch the fist. The ground behind him implodes from the force, rubbles and dust scatter away. Clenching his hand over Vali's, Nawin send a quick left elbow that smash to the side of Vali's face, blasting the silver-haired away. Vali barrels around the ground before regaining his senses and push both his hands on the earth to bring him up and lands on his feet.

Vali's expression hold shock, didn't even feel or sense the elbow coming from the side and is caught off-guard by how the Makasha was able to block his strike with such ease. 'He isn't some novice Azazel just picked up' Vali notes, and shakes his head a few times to get his senses back 'Damn… That elbow was stiff.'

'If it comes down to sacred gears then Vali would come out victories with ease since Nawin still hasn't begun to fully understand his sacred gear or control it… But, when it comes to a normal fist fight then Nawin is superior… You have trained him well, Jonathan' Azazel notes, watching the duel with calculative eyes.

Nawin takes a step forward and breaks into a dash. Vali instantly return to his stance, readying for anything. He throws a right kick when Nawin was in range, but it gets dodge by the other jumping. Vali bring his left arm up to block an incoming kick to his face, then he snatches on Nawin's ankle and turn around to swiftly throw him away.

Vali didn't stop and jumps forward, bringing his right feet down to the Makasha flying in midair. Nawin shoot his right hand to the ground and push himself out of the way. Vali's feet come into contact on the ground, destroying it completely. Nawin lands on his feet and blaze forward to deliver a knee to Vali's gut, who didn't see it coming when the Makasha bursting from the dusts.

Vali cough out in pain from the harsh blow and slid back on his feet. Vali send a left fist that connects with the incoming kick, then pushes Nawin's feet while swinging his right fist up and hits an uppercut to the Makasha, finally landing an attack. Nawin grunts, spinning back and lands on his feet. He rubs his chin and a small smirk form on his lips, Vali also smirk, then the two returns to their stance.

Nawin dash forward and start sending a barrage of punches to Vali, who's dodging all of them, but with great difficulty by the pure speed the punches are being delivered. Nawin lands a quick left jab to the face and right hook to the side of Vali, staggering him back. Nawin stops the punches and shoots his right leg up to deliver a vicious knee to the gut that sends Vali up to the air.

Vali ignores the pains and bring both his arms up into a X shape to block Nawin's incoming right fits aim to his face. A thunderous shockwave erupts from the strike, blasting away the clouds and cracking the earth beneath. The two didn't move as they descend to the ground. When landing, Nawin slowly bring his fist back and takes a few steps back from Vali, staring at him. Vali is surprise by this and hesitantly lowers his hands, staring back.

"Nawin Makasha… That's my name" Nawin answers, surprising Vali while Azazel smile. "Mhm," Nawin rest his hands back in the jean's pocket, turning around and start walking away "You fought well… Vali. You are the first person to really gave me a… Fun fight" he admits.

Azazel chuckle, stopping beside Vali, who's frozen from awe and shock by the Makasha's words. "He likes you," Azazel comments, clapping his hand down on Vali's shoulder before walking away, following Nawin "I'll see you around, Vali!" Azazel exclaims, waving at the silver-haired man.

Vali stare at Nawin, not really understanding how he should feel. He feels a bit of anger that he was push back by this stranger when in pure hand to hand combat, but at the same time, it feels like the Makasha was teaching him, telling him to improve on that area. There was almost a faint understanding feeling building between the two and Vali finds it weird but also fascinating. 'Nawin Makasha…'

Present

"Aside from that fight…" Vali starts off, a smirk slowly forms on his lip "We never had a real battle… Until now, aye, Nawin?" he questions in excitement "Do you honestly want to know the outcome of that, Vali?" Nawin questions, no hesitation or uncertainty in his tone. "We've both grown stronger since then, Nawin" Vali retort, the helmet slowly covers his face once more "Don't think you were the only one that has grown… Since that day I've trained even harder."

"Since you two boys are so into each other, I'll take care of the girl" Valerie speaks, turning her sight to Lucy "We have our own unfinished business anyway". A big smirk suddenly forms on Valerie's face "Let's see who is stronger! Lucifer or Makasha!" she exclaims. Lucy blast toward Valerie while Vali spread his wings wide and bolt toward Nawin in light speed.

Nawin's red eyes glows brightly and bring his right hand up to summons a green barrier, blocking Vali's incoming strike. Valerie swing her right leg forward and connect with Lucy's elbow, the forces behind the attacks scatter the clouds and create a booming shockwave that cracks the ground beneath. Vali quickly flies back when seeing the green barrier glows brightly, then produce a dozen of shards that's send toward him. The scale mail was able to withstand the shards and safely protect Vali.

Nawin notes this and discard the barrier 'I'll need to use something stronger.' Vali swings a spinning kick though Nawin avoid it by ducking and jumps back, avoid touching the Lucifer. "How does it feel, Nawin!" Vali shouts out, smirking "Fighting me now! You can't use any close combat because of the consequences by touching me! You are out of your comfort zone, Old Friend!"

Valerie cock her head to the right to miss a right hook, but she didn't catch a right leg from the side and it smashes to her hip, sending her sliding away. She winces from the stiff kick that will no doubt leave a bruise on her. She smirks and look up "Huh, I actually felt that one" she admits "You've gotten stronger, too strong for such a short amount of time… Why is that?" "Oh, you know," Lucy rest her right hand on her hip, smirking like a fox "I train and drink my milk daily" she answers in a sarcastic and taunting matter, not humoring the Lucifer at all "You think you're cute?" Valerie reply back with a growl "Cute? No… Bitch," Lucy points at herself "I'm adorable" she retorts, and sets the Lucifer forward with rage "You little brat!"

Valerie blaze forward in a new speed that Lucy didn't see coming and couldn't block a fist smash to her face, sending her sliding back. Lucy sees Valerie flying forward, forcing her to swipe her hand to release a wave of fire, forcing the Lucifer to halt and jumps to the right. Lucy burst through the flames, surprising Valerie and she receive a stiff knee to the gut from the blue-haired girl then a spinning backhand to her face, sending her spiraling back.

"You going to dodge all day?!" Vali shouts in annoyance, sending a right hook and once again Nawin step back to avoid it, then he jumps to miss a swipe kick and floats to the right to dodge an elbow aimed to his stomach. "Isn't it an obvious sign that shows you are slow?" Nawin comment, catching Vali's attention "I'm dodging all your offence with ease… You aren't as fast like you so proudly exclaimed. You may be the fastest flying person in the supernatural world, but when it comes to fighting… Compare to me… You are slow."

Hearing that comment enrage Vali. "NAWWIINN!" he yells out and thrust his right fist forward to discharge a powerful and violent wind torrent that envelopes Nawin and send him flying around in the air, out of control. Vali blast forward into the torrent and with his right hand pull back, he swings it forward with all his might and smash it to Nawin's stomach with such force it causes the wind torrent to explode and a shockwave to erupt that can be heard from miles away.

Nawin is send blasting away and falls, before crashing to the earth. Vali smirk widely and sees, when the dust cleared, the Makasha laying in the large crater. Nawin slowly opens his eyes and gets up to his feet. He looks up and see Vali speeding down at him "Thunder Roar Howl" he whispers and with a lift of his right hand, discharges a powerful yellow lightning blast toward the incoming Lucifer.

Vali quickly turn to the right and narrowly dodge the blast, but it took his attention away from the Makasha just for a few seconds, enough time for him to appear beside in black flash, with a hand cannon he got from Shigemi on his right hand. Nawin pulls the trigger and a black magic ball that is a size of a cannon ball explodes from the gun's barrel. Nawin's right hand is send flying back from the massive recoil, feeling like he just shot an actual cannon but in a handheld form.

The magic ball hits Vali by the right of his stomach, the spinning ball grinds the armor and able to penetrates through it and explodes from Vali's back, leaving a large size whole hole on his abdomen area, narrowly missing his livers and other vital organs. "Grrrgh" Vali groans on out pain, hunching forward and place his right hand on the wound. He starts coughing violently and blood pour out from his lip.

Nawin wince when feeling his right shoulder dislocated from the vicious recoil. He quickly returns the gun back to the pocket dimension and grab his shoulder with his left hand. Nawin takes a deep breath and push left hand forward to force the shoulder back in its socket, creating a wincing cracking sound. "Damn… That blacksmith wasn't joking about the recoil" he utters then looks up at the injured Lucifer. "Y-you" Vali speaks in seething tone, the helmet reclines to show his furious glare at the Makasha.

"Gahh!" Lucy shouts, flying past Vali and towards Nawin, who catches her and looks up to see Valerie descending next to her brother. "You ok?" Nawin turns to his sister and ask, concern in his tone when seeing Lucy's battered and bruise form "Y-yeah, I still got some left in the tank to whoop some asses" Lucy reply with a grin, making Nawin chuckle and slowly helps her up "Good, just don't push yourself too far" "Mm-hmm!"

"Here," Valerie toss a vail containing some kind of green liquid to Vali "It isn't really fair that you are fighting him when you aren't at your best" she states. Vali catch the vail and pops the cork out then drinks it. The wound on the stomach quickly stare regenerating along with his magic reserve being replenish.

"What the hell!" Lucy shouts, pointing at Valerie "That's a cheap move! Freaking man up and fight fair!" she turns to Vali "Not only are you a douche and a traitor but now a goddamn coward! A coward that my brother can beat without a sweat!" "What a nice little sister you are to root for your brother so passionately" Valerie comments in a taunting manner, angering the Makasha.

Vali starts powering up and blue mana erupts around him before shooting up to the sky like a pillar of light. Valerie joins in by powering up, her mana is the same color as Vali's. Black mana emits around Nawin before imploding into a large pillar that shoots up to the sky, disbursing the clouds and looks like it's trying to claw through skies. Lucy takes a deep breath and charge up her remaining mana to match with the rest.

In the distance, almost everyone in Vesarima can see the three huge blue pillars and one black that stands out from the rest. The one blue is different from the other two by the intense flames swirling around the pillar. "That's…" Koneko speaks, watching from the hill, seeing the full view of the spectacle "Yeah… That's Onii-chan and Lucy-nee-chan" Asia finish, sensing her sibling's mana.

"The real fight begins now!" Valerie exclaims with a wide grin "I'm getting quite excited… So excited that I might just go all out!" she shouts and immediately, it causes Vali to look at her "Valerie…" he speak "Don't worry, brother" she replies, glancing at him "I won't end it so soon" "That's not what I'm concern about and you know it" Vali push on "Don't use that form unless it is absolute necessary…" "I can't promise you that" Valerie reply truthfully.

"Be vigilant, Lucy" Nawin speak "That Valerie is still unknown and will surely have surprises up her sleeves" "I know, I'll be careful" Lucy acknowledge, getting to her stance. "Do you know of Vali's sacred gear ability?" she questions "Yes, he told me once" "… Alright" "What is it?" Nawin question, noticing Lucy's conflicted reply "It's just… What kind of relationship did you and Vali had?" "I considered him a close friend…" he answers truthfully.

Anger burns brightly on Lucy's heart when she hears that. Snapping her sight to Vali, the Makasha glares hatefully at him, angry that he dared betrayed her brother. Vali sees the glare aimed at him and knows exactly why he is receiving it.

Valerie examines the Makasha sibling and sense their power. Lucy is equal to Satan-class in the amount of mana she holds and same goes to her brother. Valerie looks at Nawin and can feel his power raw power, but she can tell he is still holding back. She can't tell if it's by little or a whole lot, but it concludes to her that he is hiding his true power for reasons unknown. 'Huh,' a big grin form on Valerie's face 'He isn't the only one that's hiding their true power.'

"Let's get this started" Vali comments, getting to his stance with Valerie following suit. "Shall we, Big bro?" Lucy ask, grinning like a fox while Nawin lip form a smirk, then brings his right hand upwards to the Lucifer's, gesturing them to bring it "Let's show them why they should fear the Makasha's"

Next Chapter: Devil's True Power! Draconic Mark Awaken!