Life 2. Legendary Holy Sword
Part 1
It is 4:00 AM. I cannot sleep. Why? Because Haruka is sitting on a chair looking at me.
"Why are you doing this?"
"I couldn't sleep, so I came here to see if I could get tired by looking at you sleeping. But you aren't sleeping, so I cannot look at you sleeping if you don't sleep."
"Then, please, stop, doing that is creepy."
"I'm a Devil. I'm a dark being who incarnates evil. I'm meant to be creepy."
"Can you stop calling Devils "evil"? You know you're one, right?"
"I'm criminal persecuted by the Church. I'm evil."
I sit down to have a more serious talk with him.
"You say you're persecuted, but I haven't seemed that."
"You found me wounded. Wounded because of the attacks from the Exorcists I worked with. They're all dead now. I don't have a place to go to."
"How were they killed?"
"After attacking me, a Devil appeared and killed them. For that I wanted to become one."
"Well, at least there aren't any other Exorcists that are after you."
"There are. In fact, there is an entire group outside of this house."
I stand up and look through the window. There is a group of people wearing Exorcists uniforms!
"I need to tell Ram."
I go out of the room to inform the rest of the peerage.
Part 2
"Ok, you must remember this. Exorcists possess the light of the Angels. I already called Silverage; he said he's in Japan so he won't be using a magic circle. We just have to stand until he comes and victory will be ours."
I haven't seen all of Silverage's power, but he was able to considerably injure Penemue-sama, and even Azazel-sama seems to be worried about his power, so he clearly deserves the title of the strongest young Devil.
We come out of the house and see the Exorcists face to face. Haruka almost faints after looking at their leader, but Xie Xie holds him so he doesn't fall.
"That blonde man… he's Spadaccino Nero-san."
Nero! I heard his name while looking at the recent news of the Underworld. He killed the heir of the Agares clan using his Holy Sword. I even heard rumours that the Agares were meant to be on Lucifer-sama's tournament, but because of said death, they weren't able to send a representative since the current heir of the clan is still a kid. That opened the door to Silverage…
"I'm glad that my name is known even to Japanese people… now Devils, you must die in the name of God!"
I count the number of Exorcists. There are 7 counting Nero. Looking at their uniforms, there are 2 low-classes, 3 middle-classes, 1 high-class and the ultimate-class Nero.
We must win! Azazel-sama, Lucifer-sama, I'll fight against the Church in your names!
An Exorcists wielding a sword made of light is coming towards me! From his uniform, he's one of the low-class ones. I can win!
I create a ball of demonic energy and throw it to him, but he cuts it down with the sword. Then I must use my B plan.
"Holy Lightning!"
The lightning lands perfectly. Maybe the holy energy won't do too much damage to a human, but the thunder may be enough. Copying it from Baraqiel was indeed a good idea.
I then create a ball of Fairy magic. I'm not used to controlling this magic, so I can't do much with it beyond energy balls.
The Exorcist seems hurt due to my attack. I must finish him!
I create many shadow tentacles to wrap around his body and immobilize him. I then turn the tentacles into blades and pierce through him!
He isn't dead, but it doesn't seem like he would move in a while.
"3."
As I hear that, I turn around and see Ham. He used his 3 blows technique on that middle-class. I felt that once, so I know it's really painful.
"No human has been able to tank this technique."
He's right, neither Akai nor I could just take this attack. Both of us felt to the ground by the pain.
On the other hand, Mint seems to be the only one who isn't fighting.
"Since you are the only who isn't fighting, you must be my opponent."
Mint says that to his opponent. She is also a middle-class going by her uniform.
He creates a demonic energy ball on his right hand and a Fairy magic ball on his left hand. He then combines them into his unique Demonic Fairy magic (he gave it that name). The ball then becomes way bigger before being sent to his opponent!
"Being strong is boring."
A one shot! He defeated her with just one shot! Truly someone worth 2 Bishop Pieces!
Suddenly, I feel a really strong wind. It clearly is Rina, who created a… tornado?!
"Just because you have the light of the Angels doesn't mean you're an invincible opponent to me!"
The Exorcist soon gets taken down by the tornado. From his uniform, it was a low-class.
"Stop wielding that abomination in front of me!"
A middle-class says that to Haruka. She clearly appears to fear Haruka's Holy Demonic Sword.
"I went away from God's light, so my only way of living is by being a Devil!"
He stabs the girl with his sword despite clearly not wanting to kill her, since it was a non-totally deadly spot.
"Sorry."
He apologizes before his opponent falls to the ground. She doesn't seem unable to fight, just loath.
"You didn't kill me in that instant, so you must be a righteous swordsman despite being a Devil."
Haruka helps her by treating her wound. Maybe he's creepy and really straightforward, but he's a nice person on the inside. I'm glad of having him as my comrade.
"My blows… they aren't landing… who are you?"
Xie Xie says that while looking at the blue haired high-class Exorcist.
"I'm María Hernández, the greatest Exorcist from my country. As a warrior from the Church, I have the deed of using my Holy Swords to beat you."
She's wielding 2 Holy Swords, not just light made ones. She just blocks Xie Xie's punches with her great technique. Since she's touching a Holy Sword, Xie Xie must be suffering.
"How can this be?"
I turn to Ram, and there are many injuries in her body. This is actually pretty scary since she comes from the Phenex clan, she must be able to heal herself.
"Apparently the Holy Power of my Durandal stopped your immortality. I must say that the heir of the Agares was a better match since I'm only using 70% of my strength right now."
Durandal?! I read about it in Devil text books, it is a Holy Sword that is said to be on pair with Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi and Excalibur!
"So you really hurt my fiancée that much. Then I have no choice but to defeat you."
The one who says that is Silverage! He has neither Akai nor Yami with him, but there's a boy on his side. Hmm, actually, this boy looks pretty similar to Silverage…
"Silverage! Thanks the Devil King you're here. This man is Spadaccino Nero of the Durandal."
Silverage seems really excited after hearing that.
"So the one who killed the Agares heir is here? This is going to be fun!"
Silverage clearly is a fight maniac if he's this excited to fight against the dreaded Nero.
"Goldentime, can you help Xie Xie? She seems to be on troubles."
"Sure, onee-sama."
This boy Goldentime just called Ram "onee-sama"? What kind of relationship do they have?
While Silverage starts to fight against Nero, I pay attention to Goldentime and María.
"A pleasure to meet you. I'm Goldentime Erklight, Silverage Lucifuge's Queen and a middle-class Devil. Going by your uniform, you're a high-class Exorcist, so you're someone who puts a match."
So he's Silverage's Queen, huh. And unlike his King, he seems to have good manners.
"So you actually are a middle-class. If that's the case, then I have no choice but to do this."
María puts a battle stance as her aura starts to increase. Then don't tell me she'll-
"[Balance Break]."
A huge number of armoured knights with Holy Swords appear before her! She did it! She activated the ultimate state of a [Sacred Gear], the [Balance Breaker]!
"This is the [Balance Breaker] of my [Blade Blacksmith], [Blade Knight Mass]."
Goldentime starts to applause. Well, since achieving [Balance Breaker] is a rare phenomenon, she truly deserves those applauses.
"Now I'm sure I can use against you my [Twice Critical] with a technique that I learned."
[Twice Critical] is a common [Sacred Gear] that doubles the power of the possessor for a certain amount of time. But what is this technique he's talking about…
As a gauntlet, [Twice Critical], appears on his left arm, a thin white aura starts to cover his body.
"This power is called Touki. It's the manifestation of life force itself. Normally, only senjutsu users would be able to use it, but since I made an extremely intense training, I'm now able to use it normally."
"He truly is amazing, right?"
Ham who got close to me says that.
"Goldentime is someone whose physical strength goes beyond mine, to the point he became able to use the Touki… that [Twice Critical] only makes him a fearful opponent to have."
Ham is praising Goldentime's great abilities. So this guy is even stronger than Ham… that truly is something scary.
Goldentime charges at high speed against the knights, being able to destroy one of them with a single punch!
"Let's go ahead."
Goldentime gets slashed by two of the knights, but he punches them and soon defeats them. He keeps moving around punching the knights, however, some of them manage to slash him anyway.
Even when the knights were defeated one by one by Goldentime's punches, he clearly seems to be hurt thanks to the power of their Holy Swords.
Goldentime and María look at each other closely, clearly recognizing the strengths of the other one.
"You're truly a magnificent opponent. I praise you for that."
"Let's put an end to this, Devil."
María summons 2 Holy Swords while Goldentime seems to pretty hurt after defeating the knights. Not even I can guess how is this going to end…
Goldentime charges once more against María, but his left punch gets blocked by the Holy Swords.
"I can see this Touki is also protecting you from the holy power of my swords."
"Good observation. If it wasn't for it, I'll be way more damaged."
Goldentime then hits María's torso using his right hand. Even I can feel the pain. After being sent flying by the punch, María stands up once again.
"Nice attack. Now, take this!"
Many Holy Swords are created in line in front of María until they hit Goldentime! He has many swords piercing trough his body, and now even his Touki armour disappeared.
"Great move. Seems like both my Touki and my boost are now gone. However…"
Suddenly, another Goldentime appears from behind María and punches her in the face!
Just what the hell was that?!
"That's something I learned only a few days ago. My brother told me how to create a clone of myself by giving away part of my stamina."
The Goldentime that was pierced by the blades disappears. María on her hand seems pretty hurt.
"I'm not going down yet!"
María takes out a gun and shoots at Goldentime! However, he seems to have endured it.
"You were a good opponent, but this is the end."
Even after being hurt with many attacks charged with holy power, Goldentime uses his great speed once again and lands the finishing blow on María.
"Congratulations."
"Thanks Ham, but she was harder to beat than I thought."
"You could have defeated her sooner if it wasn't for her holy power which deals a huge damage to Devils like us. Even I'm sure I couldn't have defeated her if I were the one to fight. You truly are an exceptional Queen, Goldentime."
Rina praises Goldetime's power. Well, after seeing that I'm not surprised why.
"How's Silverage doing?"
All of us look at Silverage, who is fighting against the famous Exorcist Nero.
Nero appears to be really hurt, but Silverage has some slashes from the Durandal on his body.
Nero moves his Durandal and launches waves of holy energy, but Silverage blocks it using a magical barrier.
"You have been a better opponent than expected, Nero. But there's no way you can win."
Silverage creates a blade from his shadow. However, unlike Akai's or mine, his is a physical sword.
Both Silverage and Nero charge towards the other with their swords, and I can see both of them slashed the other. However, unlike Silverage, Nero falls to knees from the damage.
"You're right. I can't win. You're the strongest opponent I've ever faced, Silverage Lucifuge."
Even the famous Exorcist Nero praises Silverage's great power. I have no idea how we are going to defeat this man in a [Rating Game]…
"What a shame he isn't on his best condition. I'm so lucky to have brought this bottle of Phoenix's tears!"
The weird guy who said that gets close to Nero and uses Phoenix's tears on him, making Nero's wounds disappear on the smoke. Why was that?!
"Who… who are you?"
Nero asks that question, but the answer is something I didn't want to hear.
"I'm no other the sin of Greed from The Seven Deadly Sins!"
Damn you, Seven Sins…
