Hello, and welcome to the next chapter!

Blue Eyes Pendulum Dragon; Well, thank you, I'm glad you like my use of her. Yeah, she seems to be used less there than most huh, even though she has cool abilities. Well we'll have to wait, and see what happens~

hellspam; They surely do! They have three pretty intelligent people with unique skills on their group, so it seems like they can do that huh. Koneko was kicking ass huh, and Ravel she can be brutal when she wants to be, it is always a good time~ Ooh, we'll be seeing Ravel again, she might even stay for the Excalibur arc, we'll have to wait, and see~ Yeah, Yumi's fight starts now, and Makoto is gonna show some new skills in this chapter too! She is very adorable~ Hehe, I could see them doing that actually, maybe in the future they will~

DocSlendy; Aah, thanks!

HolyKnightX; Aah, thank you very much! That's Serafall for you, even during serious situations, she's gotta do her best to embarrass...eeh, I mean, try her best to make the situation more...no, she just loves dressing Makoto and the others up for her own army of magical people for her 'war' against Gabriel~ Two Maou's fighting, in a true fight, Grayfia would obliterate Makoto right now, in cuteness however...we'll, that's a personal call for both of them. That's a very good question, we might even find out in this~

Mr. unknow; Aah, thank you very much!

Anime PJ; Aah, thanks mate! I thought, it might as well have some kind of environment type fight, using it to their advantage. Exactly, we very well might see a few scenes like that. And yeah, these fights also develop the characters, like Koneko for one, showing she's not afraid as long as Makoto is watching, and he always will be there for her now. Hehe, there will be more of those in here, and next chapter too~ We'll have to wait, and see for that~

Harem Master123; Thank you! Yeah, people have begun showing their stuff, haven't they? It's pretty cool to do it like this. Eeh, yeah I suppose she will, but it won't make a difference to the Riser fight, not gonna show that since it is gonna end the same anyway. Well, we'll have to wait, and see how it goes down. And yeah, I'll try. Thanks for the suggestions.

ShadowUzumaki55; It has indeed yeah! Koneko's gone full Neko mode after getting encouragement from Makoto himself, and made a promise to herself as well. Yeah, they do have quite the bond with one another, haven't they? They are quite the pair when together, aren't they? Yeah, I am sure that thanks to this, maybe Akeno shall see that she can also overcome herself in the future. Hehe...that's Serafall for you, she always finds a way to add something like that into the fold. Well, she kinda does have that right now, though any of them fighting Gabriel, and if Gabriel wasn't as kind as she was...I don't see any of them right now being able to even fight equally with Gabriel in a fight. Yup, it also shows Makoto is intelligent, and a different fighter to Ise who goes out with fists flying, Makoto has plans and uses them to the best that he could. We'll have to wait, and see for that~

dragonsayianblue; It's only gonna get more epic from here~ I suppose you could say that yeah~ He did indeed, he used what he learned, and put it into great effect. It would be funny if she actually was, at least she is smarter than Riser, and knows how to use what is around her. Ooh yeah, she's very powerful, stronger than Rias, and even Makoto, and Ravel, she's just lacking confidence right now. Hmmm, we'll have to wait, and see how it goes down~

Justin D; It surely does! She does yeah she just isn't shown to enough in the series, when she could be quite helpful. Koneko also showed her stuff, and was ready to fight, even taking down the enemy with her Senjutsu. Yeah, they surely do, though right now, Grayfia is the stronger one, and the cuter one...well, that's personal preferences and all~ I know, even during serious situations, she finds her ways to make things, odd and such. Well, Makoto's team might win, we'll have to wait, and see how it turns out. Wow, that is quite evil. Maybe not for this game, but maybe in a later game that the team is gonna have, they could do yeah. And thanks!

Guest 1; That's vector control, right? Yeah, I don't see why not. That would be pretty cool. Yeah, that would be cool, thanks for the idea! And no worries, that does sound cool too~

tyson113; Here's some more~

UsagiAngelRabbit; Thanks very much! You never know with Princess, she could be around somewhere.

Nivek Beldo; Yup, the day is there, and we're still here for another action packed chapter! Eeh, it will help yeah, and he'll become at least, able to enjoy it, but still the thought would be in the back of his mind and for the foreseeable future as well. It's always there, even if it isn't talked about. Yeah, Makoto is there for Millicas, no matter what else happens, he always is there for her. I know yeah, they surely were like WTF when hearing that~ That's Serafall, she always finds a way to include magical girls in the picture~ The best Queen really is determined by who they love the most, and obviously they are gonna love their own Queen's more than other Queen's, right? I know...that's gonna be something alright~ Aah, thanks very much, I try my best anyway when it comes to things like this. They do, everyone is gonna either have an indivdual battle, or they're gonna show a special power/talent during the battle to make them critical to that fight. Koneko showed her willingness to use it after some pep talks with Makoto, Makoto uses what he learned from Yumi, and the others, and even Ravel showed off too. This chapter shows some Yumi, Kalawarner, even some others too! We're about two thirds there now, next chapter is gonna be the finisher for the match, however it ends. We'll see matches like that during the games. Yeah, a good friend of mine on here designed them for me, so I am thankful to him. Just imagine that, with some black hair, and one black eye too.

Guest 2; She really did, that's Serafall for you~ His Sacred Gear is evolving, and some are even being shown during these chapters, even if most people aren't aware of that. Hehe, that would be pretty cool, in the future he might very well be able to make many things out of ice.

Naroku; Thanks! I'll try!

Blade of Takeda; Thanks very much! Indeed yeah, she might very well do that~ Ravel showed some cool moves, didn't she?

Tohka123; Thanks very much! She did yeah, giving him courage like that! I thought it would be something, different for them to use. Koneko is surely showing her stuff now. And yeah, it does, and this chapter does the same thing as well! And thank you!

Neonlight01; He surely does, even in the novels they weren't really described as nice people. Yeah, everyone's gonna be using their skills here, and showing their stuff. She has done yeah, and Akeno, I have plans for that.

Guest 3; Yeah, I had pretty much wrote the chapter by the time you reviewed, and it would've meant changing a lot to get it to work. But, that doesn't mean, some aspects of that might not be in here, we'll have to wait, and see. But, I will say next chapter is gonna be big for developing Millicas anyway.

With those lovely reviews out of the way, it's time to start the second of this three partner!


Fight for the Gremory part two!

"I won't be losing to someone like you! I definitely can't lose!"

Yumi swung her sword towards the Knight with the blade of lightning. her own blade was covered with fire, hoping to match the power with her blade. But the mans blade itself was stronger than she thought it was going to be, and as soon as the sword struck Yumi's, hers crumbled, and she received cut on her shoulder, lightning passing into her body at the same time too.

"Hah! Is this all you've got!?"

The man swung for Yumi again, but she made a strong sword, focusing on power this time, discarding speed, and blocked the attack with the sword. Though it gained a crack, Yumi's sword managed to stay still, and stopped from being beaten.

"My swords, are a reflection of my heart. Makoto-kun once said my swords were beautiful, so I have to display that beauty towards you too! I won't be able to lose otherwise, did you know something like that too!?"

Yumi's blade collided with the sword of the man, and pushed him back. Because it was focused on power, it seemed to be able to stop the man himself, just enough to push him backwards and swing the destructive blade towards the enemy strongly.

"Swords being beautiful…? That seems to be weak, little girl!?"

The man then came at her with a series of stabbing attacks.

Yumi's speed aided her this time, avoiding all of the stabs, and saw her chance, thrusting the blade towards his torso. However, the mans sword dragged itself across his body, blocking the blade from impaling his body.

"No, you're right about that, swords are very beautiful. The man I have affections for, told me that my swords are beautiful. I have to aim to achieve the most beautiful blade, and I cannot allow that dream to dwindle either."

"Just give up already with your fighting girl!"

Yumi watched as the man swung his lightning sword towards the girl herself. Yumi pulled away with her speed going as fast as she could, but the mans sword cut into the ground, ripping it apart with a lightning blade running through the earth.

"I won't be losing either! Lightning sword!"

Yumi's hand switched between blades, and made a lightning sword.

Twirling it in her hands, she stabbed it into the ground, making it be used like that of a blade that would draw the lightning towards it, a lightning rod of sorts.

Yumi jumped back as the lightning was conducted towards the blade itself. The blade of lightning from Yumi shattered, but it didn't matter as Yumi made another sword of fire, throwing it towards the enemy, engulfing it in flames.

"Such movements won't beat me. Aren't you a Knight as well!?"

The man moved his sword to the left, and broke Yumi's thrown fire blade, smashing it apart. Yumi could see that her blade was broken, and she didn't like it in the slightest, she had to do something about that, or else something was going to happen.

Yumi made a small panting sound as she looked towards the enemy, and made a sword of ice in her hand.

"This is a most difficult type of fight for someone like me."

Yumi murmured out, as the Knight grinned darkly.

"That's right, it should be. Don't ever underestimate someone like me, the Knight and my friend the Pawn, of Zephyrdor-sama. We have one of the better teamwork's in the group, and we won't be losing to someone like yourself."

"And I won't lose either!"

Yumi charged forward with her immense speed, even going as fast as to disappear from normal sight.

The Knight grunted, seeing Yumi, and swung left, where Yumi was, and the blade clashed against one another.

"Freeze."

Yumi's cold voice was then augmented with a cold sounding wind too. The blade of Yumi's began moving slowly, and particles of ice began forming on the blade of lightning itself, the Knight's eyes widening in pure shock.

"W-Why is my blade freezing!?"

The man tried to move his blade, but the ice grew on the lightning blade, almost stopping it from doing anything.

"I've been studying Makoto-kun's Sacred Gear, and saw how it can freeze, and tried my best to replicate that. However, in terms of freezing, Makoto-kun's Sacred Gear, is the superior one. But this isn't so bad either. So, freeze with my blade."

Yumi's voice sounded different to how it usually was.

She was usually calm, and collective too. But this time, this fight was the one for a good cause, and she didn't have time to display kindness, and used what she thought would be for the best to beat the enemy that was before her.

"N-No! Hey! Can't you increase the power!?"

The Knight directed towards the blade itself, as it wriggled around. The ice covered parts of the blade, supressing the blade itself, the lightning itself slowly getting snuffed out by the ice that Yumi's blade made.

"It seems like you're going to lose now!"

Yumi was about to slash deeper against the mans sword…when she saw some sparks surrounding the blade.

Sparks of yellow lightning surrounded the blade, making it seem deeper and bigger than before. The heaven's themselves opened up, and clouds appeared, a booming thunder in the air. Yumi looked up, noticing the sound, and saw something strange…

The clouds in the sky thundered with lightning surrounding the clouds itself. Yumi then saw the sword reacting to that, so she quickly dropped her blade, and threw herself back, just in time to save herself from a bolt of lightning came crashing down, ripping the land asunder.

"Aaagh!"

Yumi didn't have a choice but to make a wall of swords to defend herself, the lightning was that powerful. Though it did protect her, she didn't like the fact that the Knight was giving her this much trouble.

When the lightning dissipated, Yumi looked over, and saw the man standing there, with his blade freed from the ice all together, and looked to be a little tired. The mist around them was a little dense, and his eyes seemed to be heavy as well.

Seeing that, Yumi had a mixture of relief, yet worry at the same time.

"Well, Knight of Millicas Gremory. You almost had me there. If you had sent your Queen to freeze my blade, no doubt it would've taken out the Pawn. But as you yourself had said, the freezing of your blade doesn't compare to his own freezing power. But now, that doesn't matter. I'm going to have to defeat you."

The lightning around the blade increased higher and higher, making Yumi feel bitter about everything that was going on.

Yumi's teeth gritted as she made another sword in her hand, thinking about what she was supposed to do in these kinds of situations. The fight before her was difficult, the Knight was on a good level, an opponent that she didn't think Zephyrdor would actually have in his group.

[Zephyrdor-sama's one Pawn, retires.]

Then, as the situation seemed bleak, Yumi heard something beautiful in her ears, and something devastating to the mans ears.

"W-What!? Our Pawn lost!?"

"To Makoto-kun, too."

Yumi smirked, as she thought about Makoto, and how he could've taken down the Pawn.

"H-How do you know that it was him?"

The odds of Yumi actually knowing that seemed to be quite low.

But the girl had a smile on her lips, a knowing smile too.

"Because, it was in our estimations that you'd send a Pawn. Also, our Bishop, Queen and King surmised that with the Pawn, would be with a Bishop, and Rook, am I wrong in assuming something like that?"

The mans eyes changed as the blade on his hand began glowing denser and denser.

"J-Just how did you guess something like that!?"

"Though I am somewhat of a tactician myself, those three are quite intelligent together, and can make estimations based on what is going on with the battle, and based on your King's personality, and your peerages overall working. We've got some ideas of how the battle is going to go. However, we didn't expect to meet you right here like this."

The Knight didn't like that, slowly walking forward.

They didn't even need to run fast with the blade, it was intimidating all the same with Yumi's hands trembling at the sight of the Knight.

When making it to Yumi's body, he readied his sword as Yumi got her own sword at the ready.

[Zephyrdor-sama's one Rook, retires.]

Yumi smiled once more as she heard that, and also saw the Knight himself begin to feel a little dizzy, as his movements were more sloppy by the second. The man swung his sword for Yumi's neck, slower than before, but Yumi dodged to the side, swinging for the mans face…

"Ngh!"

Because of his more muddled mind, the blade managed to land a strike, cutting the mans cheek, and some blood came out of his wound too. The blood ran down his face, as he held a hand to his head, his eyes slightly spinning.

"Something wrong? Seems like…I'd have to say Koneko-chan beat your Rook now."

"D-Don't say such things! Just because you've gotten lucky so far, don't you even know that they are the weaker ones of the peerage? The group we sent there, we thought that your group would be so shit that it wouldn't be able to handl-"

[Zephyrdor-sama's one Bishop, retires.]

And then that was the final nail in the coffin for the man before her.

"And your Bishop's been taken out too. Sorry, but we're not messing around now. Even if you sent the weakest, we'll overcome the strongest. We'll have to do our best here, we can't let anyone down now. And I won't be defeated by you."

Yumi made a stance with a sword in her hand. Though she was slightly battle damaged, she wasn't going to give up this time, she wasn't going to quit. She had things to prove, and she also had things to do as well, and this was one of them.

Though the mans eyes felt a little heavy, he didn't stop going through and swung his strong lightning infused blade towards Yumi, releasing a large bolt of lightning.

"Don't mess with me!"

Yumi was at close range, so she wouldn't be able to dodge it.

"Sword Birth!"

Placing her hand on the ground just in time, Yumi avoided the worst case scenario, making a wall of swords. Though the swords were broken from the huge blast of lightning, it only hit Yumi's body with a third of the power.

"Ho-How do you like that…?"

The mans voice was more distant than before.

He looked a little distant than before, though Yumi was on the ground, sparks coming off her body. She had received a shock to her system, but she couldn't give up yet, she knew that she couldn't give up yet.

Everyone else was doing their best, they had to do their best too. Makoto, Koneko, and Ravel had all done their best, and now, it was her turn to do her best too, and she wasn't going to give up now, she definitely wasn't going to give up now, she was going to fight to the best of her ability.

On shaky legs, Yumi took to his feet, and made two swords in her hands. From the blades, water surrounded her blades, but the mans heavy eyes couldn't really make out what's going on, he just felt so…sleepy, like he was going into a dazed state.

"I've only got one plan left…this has to be the only thing that I can do now…I've got to do it, I've got to end this fight now…and make sure that I can fight with the others too…I've got to end it here, and now…yes, that would work, I've got to try my best now."

Yumi had a resolute look in her eyes, knowing that she would have to do this now. She didn't want to lose now, and she wasn't going to lose either. She was going to do her best against the man that was before her.

Making her plan, Yumi stepped forward.

"I think it's time to end this, wouldn't you agree?"

Yumi knew this would be her last chance, she didn't have a chance less to fight now, and did what she had to do.

"Oh, thinking of finally ending my time here? Don't get cocky. Because your other pals stopped the weaker members, I wouldn't really be classed as that. I'm about, middle tier of the members here. The other Knight is stronger, the Queen is the strongest. You don't have anyone that could take the Queen, just to warn you. Even if you take me, somehow, then don't mistake that this is going to end you. I will take you out right now, understand me!?"

The man charged up his sword, the lightning flowing through the body of the blade. It looked powerful, stronger than what Akeno could produce so quickly.

But Yumi had to do it this time, so she rushed forward as fast as she could, stabbing at the blade.

Because of the speed, and his mind feeling fuzzy, he didn't see it coming until she appeared before him, stabbing with one blade towards the lightning sword, and the other towards his chest, so he went to release the power of his blade.

"Sh-Shit!"

The man blocked with the blade on her blade as the lightning was released, and Yumi's other sword stabbed him in the shoulder, as she placed the butts of the swords together, as best as she could, the lightning conducting on the blades without his command, he couldn't stop this, and Yumi was so fast that she could do it as a moments notice.

"Seems like your own attack will end you!"

Yumi made a sword appear out of the ground, holding up the two swords in the air, so the lightning flowed freely between the blades, and entered the mans body, giving him a large shock, Yumi letting go of the swords, and took a step backwards.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!"

Because of the shocking of the blades inside of him, he felt the full force of the attack, shocking his body more than he thought. He didn't even think that he would feel something like this, but could see the wisdom in Yumi's eyes.

By the time that he had been done, the Pawn was released from the sword, and the Knight stood there, unable to move. The Pawn felt weak, trying to comprehend what the hell just happened and looked at the Knight, but he didn't move even an inch.

Yumi thrusted her hand outwards, making a sword.

"Time to end this!"

With a single slash, Yumi disappeared, and reappeared behind the men in question.

A few seconds, nothing happened…

""Gwaaaaaaaaah!""

That was until blood spurted out of their newly made wounds, falling to the ground with a thudding sound. Yumi looked back, as lights appeared all over their bodies, Yumi's eyes looking strongly towards the pair of them.

"You said that we were weak…I don't think that's it. Honestly, we might be weaker than you, but we're not weak. And, we don't have to be stronger than you, to beat you. Because, we've come up with one of the best strategies that we could do right now. Today, you lost to me, Kiba Yumi. But, I must say that the fight itself…was good, and I have no complaints if you're my enemy in the future either. You, did have a strong power, and next time, I would enjoy a battle between us."

The Knight smiled despite the pain that he felt.

"Heh…a true Knight…maybe I did underestimate you…Kiba Yumi…funny, I've never met a female Knight like this before…I could almost be into-"

"Oh, don't fall for me, because I kind of have a boyfriend right now." Yumi's face curled upwards, a cheery smile on her face. "Though, if you want to say anything about it, my Makoto-kun is where my heart belongs~"

The Knight groaned as he disappeared, together with the Pawn.

[Zephyrdor-sama's one Knight, and one Pawn, retires.]

Yumi took in a breath at the announcement, and then released it determined more than ever.

"Makoto-kun, did you see it? I won against these people…and we'll have to continue onwards, fighting. Just make sure that you survive until the end of the fight, okay? I'll definitely do my best to survive."

Yumi was now more determined than ever to do this, she wasn't going to stop now, and she knew where she had to go next…she had to carry on with the plan, no matter what she was going to do with the future of the fight.


After seeing the determination of the others, the people observing the fight truly were marvelling at the group Millicas had put together, seeing their individual fights, and were impressed more than they thought that they'd be.

"Yahoooooooooooooooooooooooo! Go Ma-tan! Destroy them with cuteness! Mess them up with your adorable powers! This is a good thing too! Make them suffer for what they have done! Make sure that they suffer for everything that they have done! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah boy! You're the best ever my cutest Queen! Don't take any shit from anyone else!"

Serafall was the most pumped right now.

She was thrusting her arms up in the air in triumph. She was pleased with what Makoto was doing, and the others as well. She couldn't be more pleased right now, she was just so excited that she wasn't able to contain it either.

"Wo-Wow, Serafall. I have to say that your Queen, isn't so bad, huh."

Sirzechs complimented Makoto for what happened during their fight.

"Of course! My Ma-tan is the best! He's smart, and cute too! Don't lose Ma-tan! Use your cuteness powers to devastate the lands! I believe in my cute Ma-tan! Go Ma-tan! You're the cutest boy in the world! Use that cuteness, and devastate the lands amazingly with your powers! I know that you can do it my cute Ma-taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!"

At least, Sirzechs couldn't deny her enthusiasm, it was intriguing to see what was going to happen in the future with these people.

"My, this is a good display…they truly have some good members of the team. A team that hasn't been together all that long either. Hyoudou-kun, and the others have good teamwork, and even good thoughts. I wonder…if I were to face this kind of team in a fight, would I also be taken out too? No, I would have to come up with countermeasures…but, it does make me feel interested on the future of this kind of group, am I looking at Hyoudou-kun's future peerage…? It looks like they could be too."

Sona couldn't contain her thoughts for much longer.

She was impressed.

She truly was impressed with what she could see right before her.

The fights entertained her, and the planning did all the more too. She was curious as to where this was going to go though, she couldn't deny that she was excited to see where the fights were going to be going.

As Rias looked around, she saw something that she didn't think that she would.

"Holy shit! Princess please don't hurt me!"

That's right, Princess sat on a far away chair, and looked towards Rias, a deranged look on her face.

Rias couldn't look and had to turn, fear creeping in.

Ise shot up, and looked...to see nothing.

"P-Princess isn't there Buchou."

Rias shuddered her body, looking around.

"S-She was...should've taken that into the games, that bitch could kill anyone."

Rias felt a shudder going down her spine, and she felt like her world was breaking apart.

Sirzechs glanced towards Rias.

"Rias? Who's Princess?"

Rias put a hand to her forehead, and took in a deep breath.

"S-She's a deranged pussy who likes hurting me. And Ise...anyone that's pure...and Riser who's evil..."

Sirzechs looked towards Serafall for answers, so the girl leaned forward.

"She's talking about Gabriel right now, a deranged pussy."

Sirzechs cracked up as Sona shot her a dry look.

"It's not Gabriel-sama."

"Well, maybe it's Gabriel in cat form! You don't know Sona-chan, she's that twisted, she'd do that to hurt me!"

Sona rolled her eyes once, then looked back towards the screen to the matches.

Rias felt something on the back of her neck, like a paw, and shot round...but nothing was there.

Rias took in a few breaths, calming herself down.

Ise turned to the screen, and a question that was on his mind, he had to ask.

"Erm…Buchou, why's Koneko-chan a cat now?"

Ise didn't know anything about Koneko being a Nekomata, and it was a question he thought of a while ago, but didn't know how to bring it up until now, so that's what he did, aiming his thoughts towards the girl in question.

Rias herself had an astonished face on.

"I'll tell you later…but, seeing Koneko's heart being opened by Hyoudou-kun…it seems like she really has begun to have feelings for the cute Shota-kun huh…and even to use Senjutsu, and his words towards her…it wasn't something that I could do…"

Akeno placed a hand on Rias' back, gently rubbing it.

"Ara, do not be concerned Buchou, I think this is a wonderful thing. Makoto-kun and Koneko-chan are cute together, don't you think so? Just look at how close they are to one another, and it seems like their plan is working too."

Akeno pointed out to Rias, impressed with her Kohai's in action, with their fights being something quite intriguing.

"I suppose you're right…but, wow, I didn't think that they'd be able to come up with something like this. It is quite, spectacular. To use such things in such ways…honestly, I don't think I would've come up with something like this."

"Neither would I, Rias."

Sona came into the conversation, surprising the likes of Rias.

"Is that how you feel about this fight Sona?"

"Honestly, I am quite intrigued by what is going to happen. The fight between all of then so far has been quite sided with Millicas-sans group…but, I have a feeling that it soon is going to go down hill from here…as even they said it, and I've heard the rumours. Even the Queen he has, is stronger than Akeno there."

Sona didn't like admitting it, and Akeno felt bitter about that too, but that was the reality that was before them.

Ise's worry became fully alert.

"R-Really Kaichou!? D-Does that mean Makoto's in danger!?"

"That's right…they are going to be in danger now. The hard part is yet to come…let's just how they haven't wasted much energy during this beginning stage of the fight. However, it does seem Hyoudou-kun, Ravel-san, Koneko-san and Kiba-san aren't that bad to continue onwards. The most battle damaged is Kiba-san due to the lightning shock…but, it shouldn't hurt her performance much…but the worst is yet to come."

That didn't bold well in Ise's mind, he was extremely worried for Makoto and the others now. Especially since, the battle was only just beginning…it wasn't something that Ise thought that he would ever have to deal with.

As the games went on, Rias had to wonder...did she really see Princess?


Back on the battlefield, Yumi had just lavished in her victory, when Makoto, Koneko, and Ravel come running over, and smiled when seeing that Yumi was okay, seeing that there were no viable injuries on her body.

"Yumi-senpai! You're okay!"

Hearing the voice of her, somewhat boyfriend, Yumi relaxed her body for a moment.

"Makoto-kun, Koneko-chan and Ravel-san. I'm glad that you're okay. I can presume that you guys took out the Pawn, Rook, and Bishop from before?"

Makoto confirmed it while nodding, and they hid away from plain sight, so they wouldn't be able to be spotted so easily, it wasn't something that they would be able to do either, they had to do something about this now.

"We took out our intended targets, and we also think that the plan is moving steadily along."

"That's right, we've seen our plans already working on the opposite group. The fighting style of Zephyrdor-sama is quite simple. He uses a strategy of where his pieces can be used, a thing he can do because he has a full set of pieces, or near enough anyway."

Makoto furrowed his eyebrows, as Koneko knew what Ravel was talking about.

"She's talking about sacrificing pieces to get down our own pieces. Because, Zephyrdor has a more servants than us, he is able to use his pieces to his advantage, against us who isn't a full set. Though it seems quality over quantity is what is going to make the difference here."

At Koneko's explanation, it didn't seem impossible either.

"I guess that's the type of person that he does things like that. But wow Yumi-senpai, you managed to take out two pieces at the same time. That's amazing of you! You're really amazing to do something like that!"

"Ah…well, they fused together. I mean, the sword and the Pawn fused, and then there's the Knight himself who wasn't bad either. But, he mentioned that the pieces used actually, were the weaker ones, and the moderate ones too."

At that, the others turned their heads down, sighing deeply.

"…Even then, we've got to press on. Millicas-sama, and the Fallen Angel haven't done their part of the plan yet. It seems like we have to also create a distraction on what is going to happen, though I don't know what to do right now…"

Koneko furrowed her eyebrows, wanting to know what she would be able to do now.

"Well, we've got to carry on the plan regardless." Ravel argued her thoughts. "Though Millicas-sama's group haven't succeeded yet…we'd have to modify the plan slightly. Originally, the plan was for the enemy to be drawn out now, so we could fight them with the main plan being in effect. But since it has been sometime since the beginning of the game, the mist should've reached their sides and affected them."

"You'd think something like that would have happened by now. But, I don't know…I don't know what to think now, it seems dangerous to worry about something like this…well, that's how it is going to-"

[Okay girls, and boy! There's another enemy coming for you! The power level of it, seems to be the third strongest on the field. Even more so than their secret Pawn, this enemy seems to have the third or fourth strongest people here!]

Makoto was cut off, and the game wasn't over yet.

"The third or fourth strongest…could it be the Rook?"

That's what Yumi thought about it, and it was confirmed with a nodding head from Ravel.

"By my estimations, it should probably be the Rook. Though, it seems weird that they are sending the Rook now…is it because we're together like this? Could they know that we're together like this now?"

Ravel didn't have a time to think about it, as the Rook came tumbling towards them. The Rook was large, it was larger than they all thought he would be. He easily towered over them, and he held an axe in one hand, and a shield attached to the other one too.

"Right…we were right about the Rook it seems…"

Yumi didn't know whether that was a good, or a bad thing.

Whatever it was, it was something they had to deal with.

"Right, we have to deal with the Rook. According to data, this Rook is very good with dealing with offensive moves, and boasts a stronger offence than the Rook Koneko-san dealt with beforehand either."

Ravel informed them as the Rook edged closer and closer.

"Brilliant, just brilliant…"

Makoto knew he wasn't going to like this, but the Rook roared, and swung his axe downwards towards them all.

"Try this!"

Yumi and Makoto at the same time brought up their swords to defend, but Yumi's sword broke immediately, and Makoto's sword gained a crack in it too, the pressure of the blade the man used forced them off their feet, and went flying away.

"Makoto-sama, Kiba-sama! N-No!"

Ravel gathered her flames of the Phenex, and shot it off in a wheel towards the enemy at the same time Koneko fired off a sphere of Senjutsu power towards the enemy too. But, the shield of the Rook raised up, blocking the attacks, even Koneko's Senjutsu didn't get through either.

"…My Senjutsu didn't even reach his body?"

Makoto, and Yumi walked back over, having recovered from the attack they received. Though they had some marks on their bodies too.

"His strength is unreal…"

Yumi remarked, Makoto nodding his head.

"But, there's four of us here. We'll have to fight the enemy and beat him, we've got to defeat the enemy that was before us."

"You're right Makoto-kun, let's try this together. We also practiced together, let's try it now."

Makoto and Yumi held their swords out in front of them, and then went the opposite direction, using their speeds to throw off the Rook. In their minds, they thought that this would be for the best, something that they wouldn't be able to give up either.

"Ngh!"

The Rook swung for the right hand side, Makoto being there had to jump away. The axe collided with the ground, creating a shockwave towards the young boy. Makoto himself took in a breath, and placed his hand forward, releasing a blast of demonic power.

The power of demonic, and the shockwave met one another, knocking him down to the ground due to the backlash.

"Here!"

Yumi saw her opportunity, and swung her sword for the mans neck, but just before it came into contact with him, the mans shield raised up, blocking the sword, and then the man punched forward, slamming his fist into Yumi's gut.

"Gwaaaah!"

Yumi went flying out of the area, skidding across the ground and made a collision with the ground.

"Yumi-senpai!"

Makoto was worried for the young girl, and his eyes turned angry, more so than normal anyway.

"Flames! Come to my side!"

Ravel put her hand forward, shooting off a condensed ball of flames towards the enemy Rook. The Rook itself sliced through the flames easily, and charged for Ravel herself who took to the sky on her fiery wings just as he made it, slashing towards her.

"Here!"

Koneko thrusted her palm towards the mans chest, ready to pierce the mans chest with Senjutsu…

At the last second though, the Rook caught the girls hand, and flung her away from him, hitting her across the ground. Koneko's Rook defence kept her safe for the most part, though it still hurt her nonetheless.

But then, the Rook charged for Koneko, attempting to bisect her from above, Koneko got to her feet right away, the axe however slashes through Koneko's body, causing some blood to erupt out of her, and flung her into a nearby building, Koneko releasing a cry.

"Koneko-chan…Yumi-senpai! Let's do it together this time!"

"R-Right, let's go Makoto-kun!"

Yumi and Makoto rushed from the right, and the left hand side.

The Rook saw Makoto coming first, slashing towards him with his axe. Makoto raised his blade, defending against the Rook's attack, clashing their blades against one another's, sending a wave of cool air between the two of them.

"Here!"

Yumi, while Makoto was stalling the enemies axe, came at the Rook with the sword going right for his face, hoping to take him out with one stab.

But the Rook raised the shield, blocking Yumi's sword all together, making her attack stop.

But this also gave Ravel ample time to gather flames in her hands, aiming them towards the enemies before her, and then condensed it into a strong sphere, something stronger than she usually had done before.

"Try this!"

Ravel unleashed the sphere of fire, making it head right towards the enemy itself.

The Rook ground his teeth, then pushed Makoto's blade away, only to come up with a sideways slash, the sword of Makoto's blocking the blade, but it cut deep within the young boy, blood coughing out of his mouth and he was flung away with the pressure of the attack alone.

"Makoto-kun! Y-You bastard!"

Yumi didn't like how this was turning out, and made another sword, slashing towards the Rook. The sword itself was about to stab the Rook when he forced his shield away from her, and slashed her across her chest, exposing some of her breasts, and then slapped Yumi away, who skidded, and landed on the ground with some wounds.

It was at this time, Ravel's flames were about to touch the man, when he thrusted his shield in front of him.

"N-No! I won't stop!"

Ravel increased the flames as they clashed against the mans shield. Ravel tried her best with her attack, pooling as much power as she could muster, and she saw the shield gaining a crack, but that's all she got before the flames were dissipated.

Makoto with shaky legs, got off the ground, seeing the wound in his side, using the swords ice to freeze it for now, decreasing the swords size overall.

He looked towards Koneko, seeing she was wounded.

He looked at Yumi, seeing that she was wounded too.

Then he looked towards Ravel, and saw that she was panting…

And then he knew.

Makoto knew that he had to do something…

His friends, and himself were getting battered down, no matter how they looked at it.

It wasn't something they would be able to do, they had to fight together…but, he had to take this one out, they didn't have the luxury of fighting a drawn out battle, because they also had half a peerage to deal with…they didn't have the luxury of losing right now.

Slowly, his hands cupped together.

"It's time for my new technique…"

Murmuring to himself, Makoto's hands lit up with fire, and ice, his new technique being shown.


During the training!

"Aaah! Damn it!"

Makoto fell down to the ground as the power burst in his hands. Ashes, and ice flakes fell between Makoto's hands, sweat dripping off his face, and his brow drenched in said sweat. Makoto felt regret as he looked at his hands.

"Mako-kun, you've got to control both sides perfectly. It's easier to do it for the ice side because that's your Sacred Gear. Allow your power to flow naturally between both. If this is the special move you wish to have, then you've got to search for the balance."

"I'm trying…even Ise-nii made a new move…and I want to use my own move too…something strong…"

Akeno walked over towards Makoto, placing hands on top of his own hands, gently smiling towards him.

"Because you compare yourself to Ise-kun, there's a confliction within your heart. You want to emulate your Onii-chan, when you are your own person. Ise-kun and you are different. Remember, your Sacred Gear, and his are different. Your ice powers, and your fire demonic power, are like you and Ise-kun. He's the fire, and you're the ice. He's quite head strong, and gets fired up easily. While, you're more calm, and collected. If you want that unison for this new technique, then you have to use your powers together, the fires of Ise-kun's soul and the coolness of Mako-kun's soul too."

"Akeno-senpai I…"

Makoto didn't know what else to say, so Akeno gently embraced Makoto's body, his face falling against her chest, his face heating up to a marginal degree.

"Stop trying to be like Ise-kun, and be yourself. Until then, you won't be able to do it. Your ice, and fire, can combine, I believe in Mako-kun very much. Besides, you've already been practicing that other technique too, and that takes a different kind of thought process to this. This is a unity, and that is a refine of your control. If you want unity, you have to unify yourself deep inside, okay Mako-kun?"

"So…I should just be me…and unify myself…right?"

Akeno nodded as his face left her bust.

"That's right my cute Mako-kun. You can only be yourself. Ise-kun is Ise-kun, and Mako-kun is something else entirely. I've already taught you how to use demonic power, you know how to summon fire with demonic power, and even use ice too. I've taught you how to do it, all you have to do, is combine it. Remember, it was you who stood up to the Fallen Angels, you who tried your best again them. And it was you, who wanted to help Millicas-sama, even though you had no obligation to do so. I know that you can do it, Mako-kun. Fufu, you also have to prove to be a man right~? With those girls after you, you have to show a manly side too~"

Makoto gained new determination as he looked towards Akeno's eyes, seeing how kind, and compassionate she was right now.

Something inside Makoto knew that she was right, and knew that he would have to do what she said too. Makoto, understood what she was saying now, and stood up again, putting his hands together. ice in the left, and fire in the right.

Slowly, his hands began meshing together, to make something else entirely. The powers of fire and ice were no longer conflicting forces, but something else entirely. The powers combined the destructive power of fire, and the piercing power of ice. Together, they combined to make the perfect sphere.

"I-I did it Akeno-senpai!"

He cheered, he couldn't be happier right now.

"Wow…Mako-kun, that's something I…I knew that you'd be able to do it."

Before Akeno's eyes, was a sphere that held both fire, and ice together. It was a perfect blend of fire and ice at the same time. Makoto's bird was nearby, and provided the ice for the attack, the power of fire came from his demonic power.

"No, it's thanks to Akeno-senpai that I was able to do this…"

"Fufu, that's something I expected from my cute Mako-kun, what a thing to see~ Good boy~"

Akeno leaned closer, and gently placed a kiss on Makoto's cheek, greatly embarrassing him, causing his face to heat up at the same time.

"Y-You kissed me…?"

"Fueee, to kiss a cute boy is good too~ I quite like Mako-kun's determination, I know that you'll be able to do it, you know? So, use that new power, and blast through any enemy that happens to come across you, okay?"

Makoto nodded, now more determined than ever to do what he needed to do, for himself, and for everyone else counting on him.

After Makoto finished thinking about it, his lips curled upwards.

"Thank you, Akeno-senpai. Because, I was able to unify my doubts, and get rid of the worries, and leave nothing but unison. I understand now, Akeno-senpai…thank you for helping me with this kind of attack."

End Flashback!


Makoto continued gathering fire, and ice in his hand. The ice and the fire continued mixing together, forming a sphere of a perfect mixture. Though Makoto himself knew this wasn't the strongest form of the attack, he couldn't currently do the strongest form of the attack.

Once the attack was done, Makoto was ready and aimed his power towards the Rook.

"Okay, here we go! I'm ready now! Try my new technique, Fiery Ice Wave!"

By combining two elements together, Makoto's fire, and ice mixed together perfectly, and he took aim at the Rook that was before him, the Rook that had managed to do many things towards them all…but he wasn't going to stop now.

"Ngh!"

The Rook went to charge, but Makoto thrusted his hands outwards, releasing a powerful beam of ice and fire at the same time. The power meshed together perfectly, and went towards the enemy Rook before him.

"Pierce and be gone!"

Makoto's ice and fire attack met against the shield of the man. Makoto's powers combined together to break right through the shield, and hit the mans body. Burns, and icicles pierced the Rook's body in a glorious powers, knocking the man down to the ground.

The powers attacked the Rook, and lights of the Rook went all over his body. Because of the strong attack, Makoto's attack finished off the enemy Rook, and teleported him out of the field all together, leaving nothing behind.

[Zephyrdor-sama's one Rook, retires.]

Makoto smiled, as he fell down to the ground, panting.

"Makoto-kun, are you okay!?"

Yumi rushed to his side, hugging onto the boys form.

He looked up towards her, nodding his head.

"It takes a bit of power to use that. I can't use it repeatedly right now…and I need to take a breather. Well, we won against the Rook anyway."

They all gathered together, and bent their knees at the same time, feeling fatigue in them. The fight was hard, and they had to expend a bit of energy to finish off the enemies, and of course, they were wounded too.

[Incoming! I don't know how, but they slipped through my detection and I only noticed them now! We've got to abort! I repeat! We've got to abort that area! There's a high concentration of power heading towards you!]

Everyone became on alert from Elmen's warning's, and though they were tired, looking around for the enemy, but Koneko sensed something up above.

"Get out of the way!"

Koneko grabbed everyone and threw them away just as a large torrent of light fell down upon them, breaking the area apart.

"KONEKO-CHAN!"

Of course Makoto was worried at seeing the devastation before them, and went to rush forward, but Yumi held him back.

"Don't Makoto-kun! That light is really dense!"

"But Koneko-chan is…"

Makoto felt depressed, angered, and other negative emotions as he saw Koneko being enveloped by such things.

"Hahahahahah! Did you like that!?"

Makoto, Yumi, and Ravel heard a noise, a laughter, and looked up to see a robed woman with a gleeful look in her eyes. Makoto didn't like that, and went to charge, but Yumi stopped him, holding his hand tightly.

"Don't Makoto-kun, the power coming from her…she's most likely the Queen."

"Even then, she did that to Koneko-chan…"

"As Yumi-sama said, we have to keep calm Makoto-sama, that's how we have to do this now." He knew Ravel was right, and just bit his bottom light as he saw the light died down, but a dust cloud formed around her too. "Now, you must be the Queen of Zephyrdor-sama, am I wrong?"

Ravel, being the most calm right now, addressed the enemy who snickered.

"That's right, I am the Queen, and we saw through your Vampire's detection ability with the fog. Got to admit, that it wasn't such a bad idea either, but when teleporting to locations, it doesn't matter at all. However, we have to applaud you in hiding your Vampire's location, we haven't been able to find her at all, how lovely."

"So, the hiding technique Elmen-sama also used was a good idea…well, it seems that she has good skills with hiding at least. But, they've discovered half of the plan too, that's not something I thought would happen…but, we've got to do this now, we cannot hold back anymore. However…discovering about the Vampire's mist of detection, but it seems that they haven't found out the other aspect either…good, we can still use this to our advantage."

Ravel thought to herself, Makoto's eyes sharpening.

"So that's how Elmen-chan didn't detect her then…"

Makoto mused to Yumi who nodded, holding out a sword.

"Well, that maybe the case, but it seems to be working for us for now. But, I have to admit, that it seems like that we're going to have to change our method's too. Either way, the light you used right now, that didn't seem to be magic, and I don't remember you being a Fallen Angel or Angel either, a hybrid that is, so how did you use light?"

Ravel was intrigued more than anything, as the information that they had on their group didn't say anything about a light ability. But, there are something's that they didn't know about the group before them either.

"Well, that's my secret for now. However, we'll be sending you some gifts, enjoy them for a little while longer, alright? We will have to do this together, okay? Have fun with the incoming enemies, they are to die for~"

None of them liked the sound of that as the woman disappeared with magic, a cackling sound escaping from her lips as she disappeared.

When the dust cloud, Makoto saw Koneko's body being in pain, some blood coming out of her, and even her uniform was ripped in parts, exposing some of her body, though her panties were in tact as well. But her small breasts were visible all the same.

"Koneko-chan!"

Makoto broke free from Yumi, and rushed her, holding her in his arms.

She looked up towards Makoto, and held a pained expression.

"…Mako-kun, you're safe…"

"W-Why did you save me and us…?"

"…Because, you're important to the plan…if you go out, then the plan will be ruined…and I am also…the least useful here…"

Makoto's eyes ragged with tears, shaking his head.

"D-Don't say that, you're going to be okay…we'll get Asia-chan here…"

"No…Senjutsu, also has a healing application." As she said that, a small aura formed around her. "Though…it isn't the same as the Bishop healer…nor Phoenix Tears too…but, it shall be enough for me to continue…however, I will…slow down the group now…I won't be able to…fight like you beforehand…"

"Koneko-chan, don't worry, we'll get Asia-chan too…"

Not wanting to lose her, Makoto thought it would be for the best. However, they didn't have a choice as they suddenly were caught off guard when a light shined in the sky, a teleportation magic and this time, they readied themselves.

What appeared in the sky was a young looking boy that had a weird face. He had knuckle dusters on his hands, and his eyes looked quite dangerous. Though Makoto was ready to fight against this person as they landed on the ground, Koneko stood up on shaky legs, and sharpened her eyes.

"…Leave this Pawn to me."

"Koneko-chan that's…"

Makoto wanted to argue, but Koneko nodded her head.

"Allow me to finish this Pawn off. According to the data, the last Pawns should be a pair of twins, and a creature that took the rest, am I wrong?"

Ravel shook her head.

"You're not wrong…but, that seems to be…"

"…This will be my final fight. I, took down the Rook, and I shall take down the Pawn too. Mako-kun, make sure, Millicas-sama wins. This, is also a part of the games. Sometimes, people have to be left behind."

"…Koneko-chan…I see…I understand. Make sure to win, okay?"

Though he didn't want to actually leave her, he realized that this would be the only chance they'd have. This was the only way they'd be able to win, and though it seemed difficult for him to do this, Makoto didn't have a choice, and neither did the others.

Koneko nodded her head.

"…Yes, I shall win for the group."

"Good, because I'm watching you, you know? I'm watching you as you use your Senjutsu powers. I'll definitely make sure that you don't lose control, you'll be okay, alright Koneko-chan? You don't have to worry, you'll be alright!"

Hearing that, made Koneko feel relieved, and her eyes turned towards Makoto happily, offering a smile.

"Please watch, as I deal with this enemy. Please, from your heart, watch me defeat this enemy."

"Yes, I'm watching."

Koneko nodded as Yumi took Makoto's hand, and together with Ravel, the three rushed off, leaving Koneko alone with the enemy.

Koneko took a step forward, as the Pawn stared at her.

"…Aren't you going to say anything?"

"…"

The boy didn't answer, he seemed more than Koneko herself, silent.

"…I see, then we'll have to have a fight now."

Koneko, though in pain, rushed forward, shooting off a sphere of Senjutsu.

The Pawn however dodged to the side in surprising speeds, and rushed forward, with the knuckle dusters on.

Koneko read his movements with Senjutsu, but he was quite fast, and Koneko found it difficult in keeping him in her sights.

"Hah!"

Koneko thought that she caught the boys movements, and shot off a blue sphere of Senjutsu in that way. But the Pawn stopped right at the second it was going to touch her, jumping backwards, to avoid the sphere, and then continued going towards Koneko.

The Pawn appeared before Koneko in a blinding speed, thrusting a fist for Koneko's chest area. She moved her arms in an X formation, blocking the direct punch that came towards her, pushing the fist away and sent a fist towards him too.

"Ngh…"

Koneko gritted her teeth as his fist missed the boys body, only for the boy to send a kick towards her torso. Koneko didn't have a choice but to tank the kick, but it hurt her more than she thought that she it would do.

However, she was suddenly blindsided when the enemy managed to land a direct blow to her face, thrusting her backwards and sent her crashing into a food stall stand, food and sauces going everywhere.

"Ugh…what a hit…"

Koneko gritted her teeth, not liking how strong the Pawn was.

Koneko already was in pain, and now that she was dealing with the Pawn, she wasn't sure on how she was supposed to do this now.

However, she then saw something on the ground next to her, that looked like powder. The powdery stuff, she guessed it was something like flour, and she could see how it would be good for her to use something like that for her.

"…"

The Pawn didn't even speak as he appeared right near Koneko herself.

Koneko made a split second decision, grabbing the flour stuff, thrusting it outwards in front of her, dousing the area, the Pawn unable to see what happened to Koneko, he wasn't able to see anyone else.

"…"

The Pawn had an astonished face, trying to get the flour away from him…

BANG!

"…Don't make a fool of me."

Koneko's fist retracted from the enemies stomach, causing blood to be erupting from his mouth. Koneko's Senjutsu went into the mans body, causing it to send shockwaves through his body. Using her Rook's strength, she sent him hurdling away from her body, and she rushed out the best that she could, seeing his body crash down upon the ground, ripping it up.

However, when she thought that he would be done for…he wasn't.

Though he was vomiting blood, he stood up, and didn't say anything other than wipe his chin of the blood.

"…His body should be done for now…my Senjutsu should've stopped him…but, he seems to be okay…it seems like the enemy before me, is quite the feeling…enemy. I see…so, even though he's in pain, he's doing it on pure will power alone…"

"…"

The Pawn rushed forward, and Koneko answered with a fist fight.

The pair channelled their powers together, thrusting fists at one another, colliding with one another. Koneko's body suffered more wounds, and so did the Pawn's too. She was having more trouble with the Pawn than the Rook, and was surprised at the same time.

However, she didn't stop, with each punch that she felt.

It hurt.

She truly felt the pain.

But she didn't give up, she didn't give up at all, and did her best to fight the enemy that was before her, even the Pawn seemed to be giving it his all too. Seeing that, Koneko was content with the enemy that was fighting her.

"Time to finish this!"

With her last amount of energy, Koneko thrusted her fist forward with her Senjutsu power…

The Pawn answered that, and thrusted his fist forward too…

Koneko's fist, and the Pawn's fist embedded in one another's bodies, Koneko's Senjutsu wrecking his body, and his fist damaging Koneko over the point of no return, sending them both down to the ground.

With a heavy panting, Koneko and the Pawn glared at one another, as the pain became a little too much. That was a good thing with Koneko's Senjutsu. Though the Pawn got in more hits, her Senjutsu only needed some time to work, and less effort, and this time, it seemed like she had succeeded too.

"…Your power, is not bad."

The Pawn finally spoke, as lights appeared on his body.

Koneko tightened her eyes, nodding her head.

"Your…power isn't bad either. I, also found you, to be the most, difficult opponent."

The Pawn didn't say anything else as lights appeared on Koneko's body too.

She looked at the sky, that wasn't the usual coloured sky, and then a small smile came to her lips.

"Mako-kun…I am sure that…you'll survive until the end…thank you for…giving me the strength…to carry on with…this fight…thank you, Mako-kun…you gave me a new…thing to…strive for…I'll leave the rest…to you…"

With those words inside of her heart, Koneko and the Pawn disappeared together, and Grayfia's voice rang out in the area.


Meanwhile during all of that happening, Kalawarner, and Millicas were heading towards the middle of the battlefield. They couldn't rush it, because it wasn't something that could be rushed. But, they were making good time all the same.

"Millicas-sama, it seems our side is winning the fights."

"For the moment, everything is going according to plan. Thankfully, everyone else is doing the best thing. But, we have to get to that Ferris wheel and set off the plan too. Though, I think that the final battle is going to be somewhere else."

Millicas answered Kalawarner's words, then she took in a breath.

"This battle…I haven't done anything, and I haven't felt this nervous in a while. Even when fighting Raynare and such, I haven't felt like this before, it feels like my heart is beating nervously…weird, I never thought that Devils would make me feel like this."

Kalawarner had to admit that she was nervous. Though she didn't want to feel like this, she was just a nervous mess, she didn't think that she would have to fight and fight Devils. She, didn't want to feel like this…but, her heart wasn't allowing her to do something like that.

"This Devil in particular is really bad too. We'll have to do it, we'll have to fight too…though, I feel regret that I have to leave it to the others. I want to fight and beat the opponents too, I think that would be for the best…"

"You've got to conserve your strength, Millicas-sama. remember, the plan. You're the only one that can take Zephyrdor right now. We all don't have the power…you do Millicas-sama, we have to take this risk or something else will happen, you know what we are getting at Millicas-sama?"

She knew that Kalawarner was right…

But she didn't know what she was going to do.

She didn't know if she could do this. She could feel her nerves coming up. She hated that she was like this, she hated that she would feel like this…but, she would have to do it now. She would have to do it.

[Millicas-san, Kalawarner…ugh, Kalawarner, there are two fast incoming enemies! They seem to be quite fast! Are they Knight's!? But, the Knight has been taken out…could it be another Knight and someone else…? Be careful!]

With Elmen's warning's, Kalawarner summoned a light sword, and Millicas looked around.

"Millicas-sama, I shall handle this fight, do not worry about anything else. Just save your demonic power."

"But…"

Millicas was reluctant to leave it all to Kalawarner, but this time she didn't have the luxury of doing anything other than that.

"We've got to keep with the plan, Millicas-sama. Remember, I've got to do this fight, and you've got to keep your demonic power to yourself until we come across the King. I know it might seem difficult, and even if I am in a bind, don't worry about that. Just wait for me to finish these people off. Even if it seems like I'm going to be beaten, don't interfere at all, this is my fight this time, after all, we can't lose to anyone else."

She was reluctant to actually do something like that.

It wasn't in Millicas to do something like that. But this time, she didn't have the choice but to fight for the best that she could do either. She knew that it would be the most hard to actually do something like that, but she didn't have a choice this time, she had to fight for the best that she could actually do.

Then, the enemies appeared. The two that appeared were two small little goblin like characters, with knives in their mouths. One had red, and the other had blue on, that's how Kalawarner was able to tell them apart.

They jumped, and appeared before the pair of them, Kalawarner summoning a sword of light.

"Well, look who we have here!"

"Aah yeah! We've got the bitch Fallen Angel!"

"How scary!"

The pair seemed to be twins based on how they were talking, and it wasn't something that Kalawarner cared for, throwing her spear of light right before her, the spear piercing between them and caused an explosion, still holding her sword in her hand.

"Onee-san is scary!"

"Very scary!"

The twins snickered as they rushed forward, Kalawarner doing the same thing.

"Take this!"

Kalawarner came with a direct slashing movement towards the enemies before her, but they jumped out of the way, up above, and appeared behind her. Before she could turn around, they took their knives, slashing towards Kalawarner, cutting into her sides.

"Kalawarner-san!"

Millicas was going to help, but Kalawarner stopped her, shooting her a stare as she threw a spear right towards the left hand one. The blue one dodged the spear, and winked evilly towards the busty Fallen Angel.

"Don't worry about me Millicas-sama, just stay out of the way, alright? We'll deal with this, and make sure that they end up doing away with these people. Don't worry about anything like this, even if they cut me, we'll deal with it. Don't forget the plan too."

Millicas lowered her eyebrows, nodding her head weakly, not liking the idea of her being alone in the fight either.

Kalawarner watched as they rushed around in a formation.

One would've been fine, but the fact that it was two of them was the problem, she couldn't keep up with the pair of them at the same time.

"Here!"

When she thought that she caught up with the enemy, thrusting a spear towards him that created an explosion as she threw it, the Pawn wasn't there at all, and she received a heavy slash to her back, some blood spurting out of her at the same time as she turned and slashed with her spear of light, but the Pawn jumped away before she could get him.

"Tch, damn pest."

Kalawarner gritted her teeth, creating two swords of light in her hands, and watched the Pawn's patterns, trying to discern if there was any movement in the opponents attack patterns that could be discerned.

"Onee-san! Seems like you're in trouble!"

"Time to make it double!"

SLASH! SLASH!

"Argh! You fucking's shits!"

Kalawarner received two slashes to her sides.

"Kalawarner-san! I also have too-"

"No!" She stopped Millicas from interfering as she caught the sight of one of the Pawn's, blocking their knife with her sword. "Just stay there already! I'll be fighting this enemy and the other bastard too! This is my fight after all! Leave this to me!"

Millicas looked regretful that she wasn't able to do anything now, and could only watch as Kalawarner received another slash from the left as she duelled with the red Pawn, pushing him away and sent a kick, but the Pawn jumped away before the foot could connect with him.

"Kalawarner-san I…"

Millicas made a regretful face, not sure that this would be for the best but she had to do it now, she had to do it for the enemies that would lay on ahead. However, she didn't have to like it either, she didn't like it at all.

"Onee-san is funny!"

Kalawarner slashed at the red one, but the red Pawn jumped away and stuck out his tongue.

"Fucking die!"

Kalawarner's patience was getting the better of her, thrusting a golden spear towards him with a throw, but the Pawn was aided by the blue Pawn, grabbing his hand and threw him away at the same time he held hands, so they both dodged the spear, it exploding right as it hit the ground.

"Geez, Onee-chan, aren't you going to be able to hit me like this?"

Kalawarner's teeth gritted as her eyes truly blazed with annoyance for the enemies that were before her.

The enemies teamwork was too good.

Even with the training she did, she wasn't able to do anything against the enemies that were before her, she wasn't able to get them, no matter what they did.

She was, just too slow to even touch them.

If she could keep up with them, then she would be able to fight them on equal grounds…but she wasn't able to keep up with them now.

[Millicas-sama's one Rook, retires. And Zephyrdor-sama's one Pawn, retires.]

With that announcement, Millicas gritted her teeth, as a somewhat beaten Kalawarner spat out dangerously.

"Shit, that's Koneko…she was probably more into this than anyone…"

"She took out the Pawn though…we've lost one member of the group, it seems hard, but we have to continue forward, we have to go forward Kalawarner-san…we have to do something Kalawarner-san, we've got to fight this enemy before us. Allow me too…"

Kalawarner placed her hand outwards, stopping Millicas from moving forward.

"Do not worry, I have got this now. Since Koneko has been taken out, we've got to fight the enemy that is before us too. And these dimwits, really have pissed me off more than anything at all, so I'm going to have to take these people out too. Leave this to me now."

Kalawarner wasn't messing around as she placed her hands on the ground.

Slowly, from around her, the lights of the sky became dull as spears of light appeared all around her. There were many spears around her, so many that even Millicas couldn't count them, and knew what she was doing, so she made herself gain distance, and raised a barrier around herself, so she would be protected.

"Geez, what's this Onee-chan doing?"

"Spears of light, we can cut through them!"

The cocky twins thought that they would be able to do it, and charged forward with their knives, doing zigzag movements so confuse Kalawarner…but this time, she wasn't simply playing around, she was going to take the enemy before her out.

"Haha, don't you think you've got me this time, you know? We're not going to be losing the fight this time, and I surely won't be losing to some people like you either. You see, I also have a Sacred Gear that can explode anything that it can touch, and my spears also will explode…but you don't even think about something like that!"

Kalawarner concentrated on her power, and as soon as the Pawn's slashed at the spears, the spears themselves reacted to that, and created a massive explosion all around her. It started on the left, that's where they came from, but it spread to all of the spears, a massive dome of explosive energy was around her, going high into the sky.

"W-Whoa…such power…I didn't know that she had something like that…"

Millicas was in awe at the explosion before her, and it looked amazing to her eyes, she looked truly excited to see something like that, and despite the roaring power drowning it out, she saw that the two Pawn's went up into the sky with burns on their bodies.

As the explosion dwindled down, Kalawarner saw her two defenceless enemies, and made two spears of light.

"Time to end this! Even Devils aren't immune to something like this!"

Kalawarner threw the spears of light, stabbing them through the stomach.

Because it was light itself, and they were Devils, Kalawarner's spears easily caused the vanishing light of the Devils Rating Game to appear, taking out the enemy that was before them, and then Grayfia made her announcement.

[Zephyrdor-sama's two Pawn's, retires.]

Kalawarner smiled, panting at the same time as well.

Millicas walked over, smiling towards Kalawarner who panted back.

"Well done Kalawarner-san, you did amazing. The two Pawn's were quite difficult, their speed alone was on a Knight's level. It seems that Zephyrdor's peerage aren't any laughing matters either. Well, we also don't have to worry about that for now, we're done with all of the Pawn's but one now…and that one is going to be difficult."

"Yes, but we've still got our plans too, Millicas-sama. Do not be concerned, we've got to do something about this too. We've got to do the end game movement now. Are you ready? We've taken out most of their forces now. They've got a Knight, Bishop, Queen, and Pawn left. We've already taken out four Pawn's, a Bishop, two Rooks, and a Knight too. I think that we'll be able to beat the enemies that are before us if we work together."

Though Kalawarner wasn't one for such things, she knew that she would have to do something this time, something that she didn't want to regret either.


At that time, Makoto's group caught up with them, they all sighed in relief at seeing them all okay.

"Makoto-san, Ravel-san, and Kiba-senpai too! Y-You're alright?"

Makoto confirmed it with a nod, placing a hand on Millicas' head, gently rubbing her head.

"That's right, we're alright…though Koneko-chan has been…"

"I know, we heard." Kalawarner gently spoke. "But, we've got to do something now, haven't we? We've got to finish off the plan."

Kalawarner was about to continue when Ravel spoke up.

"But, it seems like we'll have to modify the plan too."

"Have they figured out the entire plan?"

Millicas felt worried, but Ravel shook her head.

"As far as we can tell, it doesn't seem like that. But, the enemy itself knows about Elmen-sama's detection fog, but doesn't know anything about the other part of the plan. It seems sneaking in isn't going to be the right way to do it, we'll have to make it flashy."

"Flashy…we can work with."

Millicas looked towards the large Ferris wheel, Makoto looking towards it too, and smirked at her thinking.

"Millicas-san, how bold of you, to think that you'd do something like that. Seems quite reckless of you."

"Sometimes, it was being reckless that we have to do. It would stir things up though, wouldn't it? We'll have to stir something's up like this…and I think that Elmen-san and Asia-san should come here now, the part of the plan that we've done already, has been enough for us to fight against all of the enemies. Yes…and also, it would bring Makoto-san back to full strength too if they came here, and we'll need it. The Queen is going to be tough."

"Yeah, I suppose you're right about that, the Queen is going to be tough with that light ability. Also, I think that it would be good if we were able to do something like fight these enemies that are before us too. Alright Millicas-san, I guess that we'll be going with your plan."

"Right, then we'll do this!"

Hearing that, they all walked towards the Ferris wheel that was before them.

Once getting there without a problem, Kalawarner set her hands on the support structure of the Ferris wheel, as Ravel used her Phenex flames to set the cars on fire at the same time, something that Millicas nodded at.

"If this doesn't get their attention, then I don't know what will."

"Right…you're right there. Also, it seems that Elmen-chan and Asia-chan will be arriving soon, we'll just have to deal with whatever is going to come here."

Nodding at the black and blonde haired boy, Millicas gave Kalawarner the signal.

"Now! Let's do this!"

"Right! You're right! Here we go!"

Kalawarner activated her Sacred Gear, blasting the support structure off its support, landing it on the ground, and using the natural winds to aid her, Ravel used her Phenex winds to blast the Ferris wheel itself, towards the enemies base.

Resulting in that, the enemies base was set alight with the fires, creating larger and larger explosions by the second, destroying their base all together, Millicas, and the others quite impressed with what was going on before them right now.

"Phew, look at that flaming disaster."

Makoto seemed to be pleased with everything that was going on before them.

However, their sights were soon stopped when something came shooting towards them very fast, so fast that Kalawarner didn't even see it happening, and she ended up getting a blade shoved right through her stomach, shocking her.

"Kalawarner-san! N-No way!"

Not only Makoto, but the others were shocked too.

Seeing that she was being taken out now, it was a very astonished thing to say the least.

Kalawarner looked down at the sight of her wound, then coughed up some blood from her stomach, and lights appeared all over her body. Because she was suddenly taken out, everyone was stunned when Kalawarner disappeared all together.

[Millicas-sama's one Pawn, retires.]

With the announcement, Makoto, and the others all were shocked, and didn't like it in the slightest, something that they wouldn't be able to understand at all. Ravel, Makoto, and Yumi all readied themselves, putting their hands forward, and weapons too.

"Millicas-sama…"

Ravel tried to say it, but she didn't know how to say it while she looked saddened.

"Millicas Gremory!" The man with the sword yelled, gaining their attention. "Our King, is waiting for you, all alone. He is waiting towards the far south of here, right at the end. He wants to settle this between you all. Though it seems like the fight is going to be difficult, why don't you all stay here, and Millicas-sama can go herself. Don't worry though, no one else will attack her, he wants to humiliate her himself, so do not worry at all."

Millicas gritted her teeth, anguish on her face.

"You really think we'd accept something like that? As if he'd actually not attack her."

Makoto didn't think that it would happen, that Zephyrdor would keep his word…

But Millicas stepped forward.

"Fine, I'll accept the challenge."

"Millicas-san that's…"

Millicas turned towards Makoto, and smiled gently.

"We have to do this, don't we? Because, this is the kind of fight that we have to do. Isn't this what we were fighting for until now? Because, we have to fight the enemy like this, don't you think we should do the fighting like this? It's alright Makoto-san…I can handle this…I can't endure it any longer. Everyone is getting hurt because of me, I can't endure it any longer. I have to make sure that he knows how we've suffered here too."

Makoto wasn't sure about this, but he didn't have a choice either, he knew that he didn't have a choice at all, he'd have to fight the enemy that was before them, no matter what he was going to do, he would have to believe in Millicas this time.

Makoto tightened his hand, as she walked forward, and turned towards the end.

"Millicas-san…please be careful, finish off the bastard."

"Yes, I understand Makoto-san, I'll make sure to finish him off."

Millicas walked towards the south, as the bladed man just stared at them all, making sure that they didn't move. Though they wished to finish off the enemies, they didn't have a choice but to fight to the best of their abilities.

As she disappeared from their sights, Makoto noticed that the sword user, who they knew as the Knight, also looked pleased, as he looked towards Yumi herself, they didn't like the fact that they were going to have to fight such things.

"Also, don't forget about our Pawn either! Pawn! Please come here!"

At that, Makoto, and the others heard a rumbling, and the ground was slowly getting turned up too.

"W-What's that shaking?"

Makoto didn't like the idea of what was going on right now…it wasn't something that Makoto would be able to deal with.

Ravel however, pointed forward, and they all saw it…

They saw the monster that was before them, it was really large. It had to be at least a few feet high, and it wasn't something that they would be able to deal with normally, Makoto, and the others remained in shock at the sights before them. It was a large Dragon, a Dragon that had even some fire dancing around its mouth.

"What do you think? The Master also had to save up his pieces for this one, even having to use a Mutation piece too, to reincarnate this Dragon, or I should say the Devil that can transform into a Dragon itself. It isn't something to be trifled with either. But don't worry, our Queen won't be interfering right now. She's going to make sure that, if by some miracle, you won't be able to get by her."

Makoto noticed nearby, that the remaining Bishop was floating nearby, not on Devil wings, but on a ball. He, seemed to weird Makoto out. But the Dragon itself was what the problem was, and they didn't like it at all…they would have preferred to not slay the Dragon.

"Of course…we have to slay the Dragon."

Makoto lowered his eyebrows sadly, knowing that his life would end up being like this.

"Don't worry Makoto-sama, we'll be able to do something…probably. At least, it is only a flame based Devil…Dragon, so we know it breaths out fire, and once the others arrive, the power will be returned to you as well…"

"First of all, the Knight girl right there is mine!"

Suddenly, the Knight dashed for Yumi, who jumped away while avoiding the slashing sword of the enemy Knight.

"Yumi-senpai!"

"Don't worry about me Makoto-kun! I've got this Knight! At the very least, I'll deal enough damage so he'll be able to be defeated! Just concentrate on the Dragon before you! And the Bishop too! Don't worry, we'll make it through this!"

Makoto had to grit his teeth as he watched Yumi lead away the enemy Knight.

Makoto himself along with Ravel stared at the Dragon, and then made teary eyes.

"…Ooh, of course we're left with the Dragon…"

"Seems like we'll have to deal with the Dragon. We'll just have to fight to the best that we can. And hopefully, when Elmen-chan and Asia-chan get here, we can beat this thing, and I'll be able to use my one hundred percent power."

Ravel snapped her fingers, flames dancing in her palms.

"That's right, we'll go forward together. Though they said that it took a Mutation piece, I can't sense much more than a High Class Devils power radiating from it, though we've expended quite a bit of energy during the previous fights. The original plan should have affected these people at least a little bit, so we have to go forward like that, don't we?"

"Right, let's go Ravel-san!"

"You've got it Makoto-sama!"

Together, Ravel and Makoto, confronted the Dragon.


Meanwhile, as that was happening, Millicas walked forward towards Zephyrdor.

Though she could feel the waves of powers clashing behind her, she couldn't think about it right now, and had to continue onwards.

She didn't like it, she wished that she didn't have to do this…

But she had to do it for her peerage.

For her friends.

For everyone that had fought until now, they had to do it for them.

She had to fight for them, because they were fighting hard for her too.

If she thought about it like that, then she knew she would be able to do it. Do something against Zephyrdor, she had to fight against the enemies, so they wouldn't be in a situation where they would have to fight something terrible.

As she walked, she noticed the Queen of the enemy waving towards her, and she had her eyes sharpened on the Queen, she didn't like the person that the Queen was.

She ignored the Queen, and continued going forward, thinking about what happened, and what could happen, and how the peerage had supported her until now. This time, she wasn't going to be able to do anything other than fight the enemies that were before them.

"Ooh, you accepted the offer, Millicas?"

Once she got that, she was confronted with Zephyrdor himself who had a disgusting look on his face.

Millicas sharpened her eyes, and made a cold expression appear.

"My friends, have been doing their best because of this fight. It shouldn't of happened."

"Well, you were stubborn during all of this. If you had only married me, then your peerage wouldn't have suffered this badly. We'll just have to fight you all now, won't we? Don't worry though, you're going to perish too during this fight."

Millicas didn't accept that, and her POD came to her hands, a resolute look within her eyes at the same time.

"I'm not going to bow down to someone like you, I am going to have to end your existence right here and now. Because, my friends have been beaten down, my friends have done much for me, and I will have to fight against you with the best of my abilities! So, don't underestimate us all! We might not be you, but we're strong in our own right!"

Millicas looked determined…but, something deep within her was holding her back.

She felt…nervous about this now.

Though she wanted to be confident, she wanted to fight everyone that was before her, for her friends…something deep within her was calling into question what she would be able to do, something that she wouldn't be able to endure…

All that she could do though, was do her best.


End chapter!

So, Makoto, Koneko, Yumi, and Kalawarner showed their stuff huh! Mainly fighting this chapter, but some moments also showed how characters have progressed too. Even a flashback to when Makoto and Akeno bonded through her helping him develop a new move, and showing the growing closeness between the two of them as well.

The next chapter, will be the end game of the fight, and even Elmen is gonna get in on the action next chapter, and something's will be explained too about what's been happening since the beginning of the last chapter, what Elmen has been doing, and what the plan has been all along, things like that. Well, until next time for the conclusion!

Issei; Rias, Yura, Aika, Bennia, Jeanne, Walburga, Xenovia, Mittelt, Reya, Mira, Katase, Murayama. (WIP)

Makoto; Serafall, Yumi, Millicas (fem), Irina, Gabriel, Asia, Koneko, Kuroka, Rossweisse, Kalawarner, Ravel, Kunou, Tiamat, Akeno, Vali (fem), Sona, Le Fay, Elmenhilde. (WIP)