Hello, and welcome to the next chapter!
dragonsayianblue; Yup, things surely are, huh~ He'll at least meet the one canon one we know about, we really don't know much about Serafall's peerage.
Justin D; Hehe, he surely is gonna get it, he pissed off the wrong person. Erm, I suppose in a way, perhaps. He did seem to be able to get through to Akeno, even if only a little bit. Yeah, there was just no place to put him at all.
hellspam; She did yeah, she did her best, and saved his life, because she loved him. And thanks, I try my best to make it emotional, and full of emotions. And yeah, it is a saving mercy, maybe~
Ancient Sith Tulak Hord; Well, thank you very much~ It'll be hinted at what this other version is, but we wont get until later on. And thanks very much, I put a lot of time, effort, and such into doing them, making them complex, have depth, and other things of that nature. Erm, it could be, we'll find out eventually~
Skull Flame; I know, she's gonna have one killer headache after this. Hehe, she's got hammerspace between her breasts. According to Elmen maybe she is yeah, Diodora just takes the stuff, he isn't smart enough to deal it, lol. And no, you didn't at all. He can wield Holy Swords in general, like Xenovia can, he can wield Durandal, Ascalon, Excalibur, and any other holy sword he comes across. Hmmm, it will be shown in the future, for now, guesses are great~ He surely did, don't mess with Makoto or you'll die. Shit's hit the fan, and now are going to mess stuff up. And thanks very much!
Vizard Masky; She did yeah, proving her love for him. He's, going to be morally ambiguous. Evil, good, only time will tell. Oh, you can say they react to one another during this chapter. Aah, we'll soon see what is going to happen~ It is going to be fun to find out~ Yeah, I'd say that is a safe bet, she is gonna be his Knight in the future, Serafall's first. It's never been stated (as far as I am aware) on how many pieces she has free, she's stated she has free pieces left but never how many, in this it was stated a while go, on how many pieces she had.
Nivek Beldo; It really went from 0 to 60 in a second, huh. Ooh no, Vali's not happy in the slightest. Yup, they finally managed to overcome Excalibur, and kick some butt. Thanks, I tried to give everyone a part in it, showcasing their talents, and what not, and showing how well they worked together. Yeah, it was supposed to be shocking, though Irina kinda foreshadowed her own death in previous chapters. I know, they never can seem to get a happy ending huh. Kokabiel is definitely doomed, he's not gonna make it out of this chapter. It isn't Gren, it is the black water guy, name will be revealed eventually. And thanks very much! We are, this is the end of this arc, with the next chapter wrapping things up.
tyson113; Thanks! Maybe so, I just like giving everyone a fair time to shine in different ways. And I'll try!
Harem Master123; Thanks very much! Yeah, she is gonna be on his future peerage it was kinda foreshadowed throughout the arc with different people saying stuff. It wont be long, a taster of original Makoto if you will. Cool suggestions!
Yoga Pratama; Well, I am glad! Thanks very much! Erm, both I'd say, and not really regaining memories, switching personalities, would be a more accurate term.
Guest 1; Oh, no worries~
DocSlendy; Yup, a superpower moment indeed!
ShadowUzumaki55; It was very intense, wasn't it? It was quite the battle, they all fought hard. They all did do their best, and as Makoto said, Millicas is the strongest one there, so it would make sense for her to be able to injure him the most. It was devastating, but also shows the love they have between one another, and how they really do love one another. He will, we'll see how it plays out here~
Anime PJ; Yeah, he's a pretty chill guy, he's not evil, yet he isn't necessarily good, he's more, neutral than anything, don't attack him or piss him off, and he'll leave you alone. It was shocking, but it was also a good kind of shock, from a story telling point of view, at least in my own opinion, and it also shows how far they really are willing to go for the other, how even after time apart, they really do love one another. Well, thank you very much! I try my hardest writing them, so I am glad they are well received! Hehe, they definitely are a doorway to another dimension alright, at least Ise seems to think so. Aah, she has a lot of stuff in there, we'll see more in the future~ And yeah, this chapter is pretty intense I'd say~
Guest 2; Sure, I'll give it a think over~
UsagiAngelRabbit; I know, she sacrificed herself for love, and yeah, they'll both be appearing this chapter! Makoto...well, he's going through many things at the moment.
Kamen Rider W; I don't know, I've never watched that before~
Cf96; Thanks very much!
emperor; I suppose in the fight, he's a little sadistic, and to the others, he's not really good, or evil, he's just indifferent to most things. Erm, I don't know right now, whatever takes my attention I suppose.
Anonymus; Hey! It is yeah, it has reached its end now~ Well thanks, I like that you like that trait of his. Yeah, of course he doesn't want them to be emotionally hurt by it, and in turn, it makes them care more about him as a person as well. It did touch them deeply, it shows that he cares for them, no matter what. Hehe, he might very well do~ Well, you'd be 100 percent right about that! She is indeed! It is pretty hard, I don't know how many stories go that route, but this one is~ And yeah, she can, and in a future chapter, she will be doing just that. She does become more bold, and now she can. Yeah, it is going to be quite the thing to say the least~ Erm, I guess Ophis has the smallest bust size in her normal form and then the bigger up from that would be, then Kunou, then Koneko, then Millicas, then Elmenhilde, then Sona/Le Fay, then Asia, then Ravel, then Irina, then Yumi I'd say. Akeno, Rossweisse, Kalawarner, Kuroka, Vali, Gabriel, Tiamat and possibly Serafall have bigger breasts than Yumi. Hope that answered your question!
Tohka123; Thanks very much! Yeah, she got the shock of her life, didn't she? Poor girl...Yeah, they really fought hard, each and everyone of them fought to the best of their abilities. It was quite the heavy scene with Irina, and the emotions drawn out, but I am glad that it has been well received. Something's come out, and lets say that it isn't happy. I'll try my best!
cha0s0lf; Well, I am glad that you did, and yeah, he's really pissed now!
Neonlight01; Merry Christmas! I know, she got the crap end of the job huh. Well, she needs it right now, she's very scared. I thought it was a beautiful scene when it happened too. Yeah they did, they pulled together, and if Kokabiel didn't divert at the end of that, then there was a good chance that he could have won. Millicas truly was a beast that chapter huh. I know, she truly does love him enough to give up her own life for him. Even Serafall comments on it in this chapter. He really has been pushed to the edge, with everything going on, he snapped, and now, something else has awakened. Well, we'll see what he does now hehe~
Well, with those lovely reviews out of the way, it is time to finish this arc off!
Battle of Kuoh part four!
This new Makoto looked around with interest, like the world was new. Everyone couldn't understand what had happened. They all looked on, even the battle worn Kokabiel didn't know what to expect now, it looked very frightening to say the least.
His lone eye looked around with a curious expression on his face.
He was like a true child, trying to figure out the new world, that was around him, trying to understand what was going on around him, something that he couldn't really grasp on right away, and even the aura around him was strong, dense, and powerful.
"Makoto-san...w-what's going on? Has something happened Makoto-san? I, don't understand at all..."
Asia had to question it, worried for Makoto to have such a look.
So odd, so strong as well though.
Even the wounds on his body, didn't seem to matter to him. By her thoughts, she thought that he could be in more pain than he was displaying and while he was showing it before, right now, Makoto wasn't showing any pain at all, like he hadn't been fighting.
"Yes, I'm currently well, thank you pure girl."
Asia blinked at how Makoto didn't even use her name, that just seemed so out of it that she wasn't sure what she was supposed to do.
"A-Are you sure? Your wounds...you don't seem to be in pain."
"Pain...oh, yes. I feel it, prickly pain. It, doesn't bother me, I have a very high tolerance for pain, have done for most of my life now. These wounds, don't matter to me, this is a good thing indeed, these wounds don't bother me. I'll get them treated later on, it isn't an issue."
His answer made Asia ever more cautious at the same time.
She knew something was definitely off, and she couldn't get what that was either, something about all of this, wasn't a good thing. Or maybe it was? She felt power, and just hoped that somewhere, the Makoto she knew, was deep in their.
"M-Makoto…?"
Ise called, seeing a change in the young man's demeanour, wondering what had happened to his brother, though it seemed odd that Makoto wasn't really responding like he normally would, and Kokabiel seemed frightened of the young boy as well.
Makoto's golden eye shot towards Ise, Ise flinching for some reason.
He didn't know why, but he felt his body tensing.
Whoever was looking at him, it wasn't the true Makoto that he was used to seeing.
No, this one was different all together, and he couldn't make sense of it, why this happened. Because of Irina? Because she died? He didn't know why it was. But, it could have been, Ise thought about that anyway.
"Sekiryuutei, that's what the current one is? This is the current Sekiryuutei's appearance? Seems like a curious thing to me, I don't know what to think anymore. Current one...seems disturbing to me."
"Current, one? What are you talking about exactly? I don't understand at all."
Ravel brought up, but Makoto largely ignored her, moving closer, and ran a finger across the Sacred Gear that Ise had, crossing the distance in the blink of an eye, even Yumi was surprised by the speed, Kokabiel's breath hitching in his throat.
"How did you move so fast..."
Yumi wondered aloud, but Makoto didn't answer, then looked at Ise's face. Ise looked right back at the young boy, wondering what was going on with him right now, he didn't know if he should be afraid, or be happy about this.
"Current Sekiryuutei, I knew a possessor of that Gear. But, when I look at you, I get a sense of perversion. Are you, perhaps a perverted Sekiryuutei?"
Ise's face dipped as Koneko snickered, she thought that it was funny.
"Waaah! Why are you calling me a perverted person!? That's not nice! W-Well, even if I am, it doesn't mean that you should say it like that! It isn't a nice thing to say, you know!? I am a nice person too damn it!"
"...He's right though, you are a pervert. ...Even this Mako-kun can know you're a perverted man, that's how you operate at the same time as anyone else, that's how you currently are, that's who you are, a pervert with no morals, and I dislike you when you do things like this sometimes."
Koneko gave harsh eyes to Ise, who glared right back.
In the meantime, Makoto yanked Ise towards him with his Sacred Gear pulled as well, admiring the gear for some reason. Ise wanted to know why that was, he didn't understand it at all, and that's what he wanted.
"W-Why are you doing that?"
"Because, it has been ages since I have seen it, Ddraig, you're in there, aren't you?"
Ise's eyes furrowed when Makoto said that, wondering why he was speaking to the Sacred Gear all together.
[...I thought that it might be you.]
Everyone was stunned that the Sacred Gear of Ise's actually responded.
"How have you been, from the interchanging times between our meetings?"
[It seems, times have changed, and so have you.]
"Yes, it does seem to be the case. This body is now a Devils body, though I suspect Serafall is the one who has done this. I can sense her aura inside of this body, she has made me her Devil, I wonder why she did that..."
[Do you, not remember?]
Everyone couldn't help but notice that Makoto and Ise's Sacred Gear were making a conversation happen between them. Kokabiel was pissed off about it, making a spear of light in his hand, aiming it at the boy.
"I won't be ignored! How dare you!? Fucking die you piece of shit! I don't want you around anymore!"
Kokabiel launched the spear of light at Makoto's body, intending to take him out.
"No!"
Kalawarner went to do something, but the boy merely put his hand back, deflecting the spear that dug deep into the ground, a strange aura around Makoto's hand as he did that, everyone's eyes flying open at what he did.
He, just deflected a spear of light from a very powerful Fallen Angel, and it was, amazing to see such a thing happening. Until now, everyone hadn't been able to do that, besides Millicas and that took effort. But now, he did it without even seemingly caring, and talked right towards Ddraig once more.
"No, it seems my memories are a little hazy, though they are slowly bleeding through. I get the sense Kokabiel has done something again. He always was annoying, and now, it seems these people have been damaged. Well, Kokabiel wont be alive for much longer now. I'm gonna have to take the piece of trash out. But Ddraig, your current host, is he how I thought?"
[...It is as you said, this person is a mass of sexual desire.] Ise frowned when the Dragon answered honestly. [Though, he does seem to have some potential...if only it retains to his perversion, especially the techniques that he uses, it is a difficult thing indeed to deal with sometimes.]
Ise swore that he heard a sob coming from Ddraig, he didn't like it suffice to say.
"And your fighting partner, Albion, I can sense that Dragon nearby. It seems like Albion has been busy as well, a new host. Such an era I've come to know, I wonder what's going to be happening from here on out? Strange indeed."
Ise, wondering what was going on, couldn't hold back, curious as to what was going on.
"Hey, stop talking and tell me what's going on please! I don't understand what's going on, please tell me!"
Ise wanted to know right there and then, he couldn't hold back anymore. He needed to know.
Ddraig seemingly silenced himself, and Makoto's eye turned towards the brown haired boy, trying to make sense of Ise, trying to see what he was about, and why he was like he was, he didn't understand at all what Ise really was, he just seemed perplexing.
His eye then went towards Rias, and back to Ise, looking between the two of them. Kokabiel himself was getting impatient, yet didn't want to fight constantly with the boy, he had to be cautious, and didn't know what he was supposed to even do at that moment in time.
"The lust you have for this red headed young woman, you want her. How curiously. Odd, very odd indeed. Did you know about that? Perversion is the Devils...wait, you are a Devil. So, the Devils reincarnated the Sekiryuutei. Was it perhaps, Sirzechs that did it? The aura seems quite similar, but not precisely since it seems weaker than it should be, even if several years have passed by it shouldn't be this weak..."
"You know my Onii-sama?"
Rias was surprised to say the least.
Makoto quickly glanced at her.
"Yes, I vividly remember that person, but you are...you hold potential, but you currently hold no true power."
"I-I'm not weak..."
Rias defended, she didn't know if she should be angry or sad that she was being called what he was saying about.
"You...hold none of my interest."
Rias face faulted as Akeno bit her bottom lip, from trying to laugh. But, she was also worried about what Makoto had become. She could tell that by his mannerisms, he was different, but she couldn't quite place her finger on it.
"Why don't I? Are you ignoring me as well?"
"Does that happen a lot?"
Rias hung her head downwards, nodding her head.
"It seems like everyone has an opinion on me lately, and all of them have been bad ones, and I don't know what to even think to be honest...b-but, who are you anyway? What are you exactly? I don't understand. Why are you in that body?"
"I am, something that you don't understand at all, that's all you need to know. I can, also smell alcohol on your breath, are you drunk right now?"
Rias didn't accept that answer, it was too vague more than anything else. It felt like a kick in the teeth honestly, it felt like she was being messed around and it wasn't the best thing in the world, it felt like she was going through things that she shouldn't.
"I don't understand what that means though! And I am not drunk either! Please answer me and tell me what's going on because I really don't understand at all, it is a very scary thought to say the least, I am very scared right now, and I possibly can't comment on something like this...how scary this is, I don't like it at all...why aren't you answering me and telling me who you are…? Please tell me what's going on right now, because I'm unsure of what's going on with you, please tell me..."
Makoto chose to not answer her, and turned his head away.
But then Makoto disappeared, reappearing next to Yumi, bent down already, and his hand on Yumi's blade, admiring it.
"A mixture of holy and demonic, what a perfect blend I'm seeing here. Then, with this, truly God has been killed, or is dead, whichever it is seems to be true. Well, it is beautiful, and I have seen something like this, what a day and age that we have seen. Holy and demonic forces colliding together, who would have thought it?"
To Yumi, it was like he was trying to block out the pain and everything going on, made Makoto seem different, and she wasn't so sure what it was that had happened.
"Makoto-kun, what's going on…? Is it because of Irina-san...I'm sorry about that...what happened was..."
Makoto just cocked his head to the side, and didn't give an answer. He took the blade off Yumi rather quickly, holding it in the sky, like he was admiring it, snow falling from the heaven's above. In actually, it was the Sacred Gear in the sky, the large bird creature, that was releasing the snow.
Asia placed a hand on her face as the snow fell down, and in actuality, the girl could see the snow was coming from the eyes of the bird, like it was crying out of the soul of the person, and that seemed more depressing than anything else.
"This sword, young blonde haired girl, is a mark of the times that have changed. God's rule no longer applies here, and it seems Michael is in charge then...though his powers don't compare to God, I am sure Michael is doing fine. But to let this happen...seems like things are a little different."
Makoto handed Yumi her sword back, Yumi wondering how he was able to hold the sword so easily without her permission, since it was her Sacred Gear, and had a combo of holy and demonic powers, it just seemed weird to her.
Makoto looked at the others in the area, at each and everyone of them. When his eye went onto them, it was like an icy chill had run up and down their spines, and even through their blood as well, it caused them to feel weird about everything that's going on.
"Fallen Angels...no, half breeds, a Nekoshou, a Vampire, and Devils both reincarnated and pure blooded Devils it seems...I even sense humans here as well...what an event, something has happened, clearly..."
"H-Hey, Makoto? Are you just playing a weird game where you're pretending to be here like this, because of Irina? You know, you don't have to put on something like that, you don't have to be strong right now. I know that you cared for Irina..."
Ise didn't know how else to say it, he wasn't sure honestly.
Makoto though seemed to be unsure of what Ise was truly talking about.
"Who is, Irina?"
The blonde and black haired boy quizzed Ise with a genuine confused expression on his face.
"W-What are you saying? Irina, the girl you loved...right? Didn't you love her?"
"Love her…?" Quizzing eye met Ise's own eyes, who directed his hand towards Irina. Makoto cocked towards Irina, then tilted his head. "Oh, you must mean the other...one second, it seems my memories of my other life are coming through...either way, I'm not the same person that you knew of beforehand, he's currently sleeping."
"Sleeping...then who are you and what are you doing in my Otouto's body!?"
Ise demanded right away, Rias placing a hand on his shoulder to pull him back. But she didn't account for Ise's strength, and he moved closer to the boy, who held a steel gaze on the person that was before him.
"Ise! Don't be foolish, we don't know what's gone on in Makoto's body, and this...person, we don't even know what he is. The power alone is terrifying...Ise, don't mess with this person, we can't be sure what they are going to do here, alright? Please, just stop..."
"Buchou, this thing has hijacked my Otouto's body and you want me to be silent? Are you mad!?"
"Why do people keep thinking I'm mad?! I'm not mad!"
She roared, but then stiffened her gaze, and felt like crying when Makoto looked at her.
But Makoto dashed around the area, going faster and faster, then reappearing in front of Kokabiel. Kokabiel blinked at the sight before him, seeing the person before him, Kokabiel took a hand back, and moved ever backwards from the young boy.
Makoto looked up at him from the lone eye he had, and then cocked his head once more.
"Kokabiel, you seem to be here, without an arm. What happened? Did someone take off your arm? Was it perhaps the other me? My memory is, hazy and I only recall little. But, my memory is coming back, so don't lie to me or I'll have to become heavy handed with you."
"P-Piss off right now!"
Kokabiel hissed with disdain, something that Makoto didn't do, and instead, lightly gripped the man's arm. Kokabiel winced at the pain, trying to pull away. But Makoto's grip was harder than it was before, so he had trouble getting free.
"What coarse language you're using, is it restraint? You can't speak to me like that, it isn't nice at all. I am not swearing, and neither should you either, I don't want to hear that from you ever again, do you understand me?"
Kokabiel felt even more fear raising within him, he felt slowly, but surely terrified that something was going to happen, Makoto didn't seem to care all that much honestly, it seemed like he didn't care at anything that was going on.
"I don't care, leave me alone! I hate you so much! Fuck off and die already! You shouldn't even be out! I wanted you to join me, not turn on me! So, fuck you already, and don't even try and attack me anymore, I want you gone!"
Kokabiel thrusted his foot at Makoto, but he pushed it away like there was nothing wrong at all. Kokabiel winced even more than he should do, then sent a flurry of kicks at Makoto's body, but his free hand deflected all of the kicks that Kokabiel sent at him.
"Is this the best you can do?"
Makoto asked the Fallen Angel before him, a strange power within his palm. No one knew what it was, it didn't feel demonic, but it wasn't angelic either. It wasn't the power of light, it seemed to them it was more raw, more powerful than anything that they had seen beforehand.
"Shit...whoever this person is, is really capable to deflect Kokabiel like that. Makoto-kun was weakened before, but now, it seems like he's kicking butt, and not even breaking a sweat, just who is this person..."
Elmen had to wonder, she didn't understand quite well on what was going on with Makoto.
"I don't know who that is either. It doesn't seem like Makoto-sama is putting it on...a second personality maybe? Perhaps, there's more to Makoto-sama than we thought in the first place, I don't understand what this person is..."
Ravel wasn't sure what to think. She felt like this person wasn't bad. If he was, he wouldn't be fighting Kokabiel...or, so she hoped anyway, she didn't know if she could though.
"It is Mako-kun." Koneko answered Ravel's doubts. "It is still Mako-kun?"
"Are you sure?"
Xenovia asked, seeing Makoto blocking Kokabiel's impressive foot strikes.
"Yes..."
Koneko answered, but even she had her doubts on the matter as well.
Makoto was acting strange, and wasn't being himself.
"Well, the Devil wasn't showing that beforehand. He didn't show the ability to do something like that, and yet now, we're seeing him doing it? Why? What's gone on between then and now for him to be able to do something like this? I don't understand at all."
Xenovia was put into a spin, and didn't know what to say.
Makoto himself finally stopped playing around, launching the man away with a flick of his wrist, smashing his body into the school building. He went through the entire school building and reappeared on the other side of it, some of his body covered in new wounds.
"Damn boy, that's awesome!"
Ise couldn't hold back his cheer, glad to see what was going on.
Makoto looked towards him, as Kokabiel came flying back.
"This wasn't supposed to happen! How dare you come here now!? Don't you dare believe I'm losing for even an instant! This isn't fair, this isn't fair at all! I am going to end you myself, that's what I am going to do to you, I'll kill you!"
Makoto didn't look impressed, and just cocked his head.
The light spear that formed in Kokabiel's hand, made the others flinch. But for Makoto himself, he didn't seem to care.
"So, you think you're better than me?!"
Makoto cocked his head to the other side.
"When did I indicate this? I never said about my own powers, nor yours. All I said was-"
"Die!"
Kokabiel launched the spear of light towards Makoto, who held an aura around his hand. He swung his hand out, smacking the spear of light away, and did the same with several other spears of light Kokabiel pushing away the spears of light going towards him.
Kokabiel decided to change tactics so he made a very strong sword of light, rushing forward.
He already felt fatigued from the fight beforehand, but this just confirms that he was, even Ise could see his movements, where he couldn't before. So Makoto could clearly see it, and put his hand upwards.
From the Sacred Gear in the sky, a single sword dropped down, a blade of ice, that held Durandal.
"Seems like Durandal is here. How are you, old friend?"
When it was with Xenovia, it was like a wild horse.
But, Yumi could see that the aura around the ice covered Durandal, the aura wasn't like that at all. It was tame, and gave off a humming noise, making it seem like the blade was okay, and wasn't going to run out of control.
"Durandal...its aura isn't out of control..."
Xenovia was perplexed, she hadn't seen it quite like that before. The blade, wasn't even releasing a dangerous amount of power. It seemed to be in complete control, and that, seemed very weird to say the least.
"Durandal." Makoto began, turning towards Xenovia. "This blade, can be tamed. For someone who seeks precision, it will be calm. For someone who seeks destruction, it will of course run out of control."
Xenovia seemed interested, and worried at the same time, wondering if she was ever going to get her holy sword back.
"That is my blade..."
"It also belonged to someone important at the beginning."
Xenovia didn't know what to even think about this, she wasn't exactly happy.
"Die, die, die, die!"
Predictably, Kokabiel slashed without any thought, and tried to bisect Makoto. The blade the boy held blocked each strike with the icy Durandal, and then made a large swing, holy energy around the blade, and blasted forward.
Kokabiel moved to the side, avoiding the worst case scenario, but he had a wing cleaved off from the holy energy. Makoto looked on as Kokabiel gripped the place that the wound appeared, howling at the pain that he felt.
"Shit...no! I don't accept this at all!"
Kokabiel slammed his hand on the ground and magical circles came around him, and from the magical circles, creatures began coming forward, creatures that the others knew about as well, and the others, didn't know what to do.
The creatures that came forward, where Cerberus', some that the others, knew would be impossible to fight now.
"He has more of those fuckers!?"
Mittelt complained showing her fear on her face, even more so when she clung to Ise beside her, who didn't have much of a comfort to offer right now, he was petrified for a few reasons. One of the major ones, more than the enemies, what was happening to his younger brother, he didn't want anything to happen to Makoto, especially because of something that had inhabited his body.
Kalawarner's hands shook.
"We couldn't fight them all now. We're down and nearly out, what are we going to do…?"
Elmen looked at Kalawarner, seeing her hands shaking, and even now, she felt worried.
"Kalawarner...don't lose hope right now."
"Why can't I? Look at our situation, we've got literally no power left, we can't fight these things as well. We don't have the power to fight. Just look at us. We're going to be out, and we can't fight like this, it is too difficult."
Kalawarner and some of the others weren't happy, or felt like they could either.
Rias held a hand to her heart, wondering what they were going to do.
"Ise, everyone, I think that we'll have to fight. We, have to do something about this."
Rias tried to do her best and show her strength.
But the others weren't exactly thrilled about it. Fighting the Cerberus' seemed more difficult than anything. Kokabiel was a huge obstacle, but now, they also had Cerberus' to deal with, they weren't sure if they could do that.
Makoto however, didn't look impressed at all, he didn't even hold a single fearful expression.
One of the Cerberus' were near Asia. Asia looked towards the Cerberus, and saw the drool of the creature, the snarling making her feel fear by the second.
She let out a cry as the creature tried to bite her.
"Asia-sama!"
Ravel cried, not sure what she was supposed to do right now.
But before the Cerberus could get close, Makoto swung his sword downwards, releasing a large wave of ice and holy powers mixed together. The wave was bigger than the school, cleaving right through the Cerberus right away, chopping it cleanly into two halves, the body turning to dust due to the holy power being added.
"For some reason, this body wants to protect you." Makoto flashed next to Asia, and the dead Irina, picking both up. "It seems, you are important to the other me, so I shall protect you as well. It, isn't something that I am sure I agree with, but it makes sense to someone like me that wants to do something like this. I shall keep you safe from whatever is going to happen."
Asia blushed at the thought.
Even though he wasn't in control over his body, his care for Asia was enough to convince this new Makoto to save her, Asia truly felt loved at that moment.
Makoto flashed next to Ise, leaving Asia, and Irina there. The new Makoto looked at Irina for a split moment, then turned back to the Cerberus' that had plagued them all, Ise counting up to at least five being there all at once.
"Hahahahahaha, that's funny! You saved a little bitch Exorcist that's dead, and that former nun bitch! That's something fun to say the least! But, even you wont be able to take them all! I wont let you win! Besides, God is gone, their souls will be broken by all of this! You can't save them anyway!"
Makoto looked on at the laughing Kokabiel, then directed his hand upwards. Responding to that, the Sacred Gear in the sky began shining like a bright star, it was beautiful, and it even made Asia weep with the brightness of the power that was being released.
Kokabiel looked at it, his face turning even paler than beforehand, as a sigh escaped Makoto's lips.
"Frozen Wonderland."
As soon as Makoto said that, the Sacred Gear released a large spread of cold energy, washing over everyone and everything. In an instant, the place was flash frozen, the ground and the legs of the creatures and Kokabiel, but not the others that were on the good side as well as Makoto himself, Kokabiel and the creatures being stunned. Even the buildings, both new and old, were frozen by the Sacred Gear, it looked beautiful though.
"Frozen Wonderland...it sounds and looks so pretty..."
Asia couldn't help the noticing of that.
"Wow, for an attack, it is a very pretty power...I love the ice, and the cold, this is so beautiful I am lost for words."
Even Elmen did, looking at the ice, and the frozen ground, it made it look quite beautiful.
"You're not wrong, Makoto-sama...erm, this Makoto-sama seems to have such fine control over his powers, to even freeze the area, and not freeze any of us that's amazing to say the least, wow, I am very...amazed by this."
Ravel muttered to Millicas, the young girl fully agreeing.
"Makoto-san, this one, is very different to the one that we know and love...this one is so stoic, and powerful, I can't even sense the limits of his powers, he's amazing, and I am surely shocked that he has such a good power to deal with. Amazing to say the least. But I still don't understand how, and what this person is. Why is he here? And what were those strange marking's in his eye as well...that seems a little suspicious to me."
Kokabiel on the other hand, was shivering, due to the ice, and due to the fact that he had witnessed Makoto's power, it was amazing.
"N-No! That's something I can't deal with! W-What the fuck are you?!"
"I am Makoto, apparently."
Makoto answered, then raised Durandal. In the sky, blades of ice were formed, with the aura of Durandal surrounding them. They each took aim at the Cerberus', and Makoto himself seemed to be the one channelling the power of Durandal through the ice.
"Wow, he really has such control over Durandal, how does he have that…? I don't understand, has he always had the power to do something like that? Maybe so….but, this is very odd, and I am glad that he isn't against me."
Xenovia was impressed, and was thankful he hadn't turned on her just yet.
Makoto however, swung down the blade in his hand, and the icy blades went down as well, each of them slicing through the enemy Cerberus' cutting them from their middle, cutting the middle head in half, and went through their bodies, all the way to the tail, even slicing that in half.
The two perfectly cleaved in half creatures fall down to the ground, where they were consumed by ice. The ice froze them completely, and then it shattered their bodies, the others looking on with very impressed expressions.
"N-No, this can't be...how did you do that!?"
"It's simply control over the Sacred Gear up there, and the sword that I hold in my hand, that's how it is. This, wont stop me, I wont stop for anything, or anyone. I'll definitely end the life that you have going on, because you've annoyed me now. I wont have any of your selfishness either."
Kokabiel weighed up his options, wondering what he was supposed to do right now.
Fight, of flight?
Could he even run?
He didn't know at the moment, he didn't even know if he could escape. He was with some wings left, he wasn't able to move the best, and he didn't know how he was going to handle a situation like this, it wasn't a good thing at all.
"Screw you, you're going to die!"
The man couldn't hold back, and made a sword of light.
He charged at the young boy, swinging his arm wildly.
Makoto just looked on, and then brought up his sword.
"Wrong choice."
A single slash between them.
They both dashed, and swung at the other, appearing on the other side of the other.
From the side, the others looked on, as Makoto moved his body upwards, his sword being held up.
Kokabiel's eyes widened when he felt it.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
He cried out as the other arm he had was cut off.
The Fallen Angels arm was cleaved off from the Holy Sword Durandal, that was covered in ice. Blood sprouted out from the stump that was Kokabiel's arm, the arm landing on the ground, where it was frozen by Makoto's Sacred Gear.
Makoto turned towards him, his eye unforgiving.
"And now, it ends, Kokabiel."
Makoto moved closer and closer to Kokabiel.
He looked menacing as he moved, as he flowed, and it was more terrifying than anything else.
Even the others that weren't getting attacked, felt their fears raising up inside of their chests, it just seems, so scary to them.
"N-No please!"
Kokabiel tried to run, but the ice became thick around his legs, stopping him from doing what he was doing. Kokabiel didn't have hands anymore, so he couldn't use light powers. But he had his wings, that were left, and used his wings to turn them into blades, slashing and stabbing at the icy ground that detained him.
"Don't struggle Kokabiel, this is what your life was leading to. You hold no goodness in your heart, only evil intentions, is what I see deep within you, I can feel your evil with my body right here and now, your body is, going to waste away to nothing. I can feel it, you've lost too much blood, you're going to die without treatment, and I am out of sympathy for you. My memories, are returning, and I remember what my other self remembers, and you, attacked, and killed the one named Shidou Irina, someone my other self, loved. You, killed someone, needlessly, to flaunt your own power. You, are disgusting, and therefore, need to be punished for your evil deeds. The punishment, has to be death, that's what you're going to have to deal with."
For a twist, Kokabiel started crying.
It was the first time in years he could recall, but that's what happened.
He cried, the tears flowed down his face, and he couldn't stop them, he felt them burning his eyes, despite how cold the area was, the snow never stopped from the Sacred Gear's eyes, leaking like rain would, so the snow wasn't a normal amount, it was quite the flow of snow and sleet that came down from the heavens above.
Kokabiel turned towards Makoto as he neared him, raising his sword. A holy ice aura wrapped around the blade, along with another power as well that no one recognized. It was a powerful flow of energy, and the blade glowed stronger, and stronger.
Xenovia hadn't seen such a thing before, and she was stunned on how to respond to all of this, she didn't want to respond to any of this, it was a frightening experience to say the least, the blades energy was more powerful than anything that she had witnessed it being.
Kokabiel's eyes widened even more, shaking his head again and again, rejecting the reality that was before him.
"No! I can't lose like this! I wasn't supposed to die by this creature! No, you can't kill me, you have to have a soul somewhere! It can't be just this, this can't be just it! I can't accept this reality that's before me, get out of here right now, I wont die because of you, you fucking scummy bastard! I hate you more than anything in the world!"
The others looked on, not sure how they'd take that.
"So, he's about to die, and he starts insulting the person that could stop him from killing Kokabiel."
Millicas wasn't asking a question, merely stating a fact.
"Well, he's probably gone mad with fear, it seems to be the way in this kind of scenario, that's how it is after all."
Ravel answered anyway with Millicas' unasked question.
"W-Wait a second! You don't have to do anything to me! I mean, I remember you, and your power, we don't have to fight. We can just be partners, that's what we can be! How about that? A deal between us. You spare my life, and I'll work for you, I don't mind! You have to believe me! I never wanted to hurt you! That girl there, was collateral damage! I'm sorry! I'll get you the most beautiful woman! Just don't do this, please don't do this to me, please don't! I'm begging you to not do this! Fucking stop, right now!"
In the end, that's all Kokabiel could do.
He couldn't defeat this Makoto.
He was too strong.
If this was a fresh fight from the beginning, then it might have been a different story. But now? No, he knew that if he tried to fight anymore, he was going to die, it wasn't even a question of if or could, it was a certainty.
Makoto however, just stared at him like he didn't care, raising the blade higher and higher.
"Sorry, I just lost my caring side."
With one swing of the sword, it was done.
The energy from the sword, and Sacred Gear entwined together, cutting Kokabiel down, erasing his existence with a massive wave of holy and ice energy mixed together. The power released, broke the barrier that the Sitri were holding up easily, smashing through the ground, before Makoto pulled the blade up, so it went into the skies, so it didn't hurt anyone.
Everyone stared on, shocked.
Makoto, or whoever this was, managed to defeat Kokabiel with not much effort.
Actually, it seemed like cakewalk.
Some wondered if it was because of the fights Kokabiel had beforehand…
Or maybe, he was strong enough to beat Kokabiel even if he was at the first time they met, the absolute pit of their strength. They, looked, and felt powerful, and that, was an amazing feat to say the least.
The beautiful ice and holy powers disappeared within a few seconds, leaving Makoto stood there.
He didn't gloat, he didn't get swept up with happiness, it was more like he had a serenity about him that couldn't be described by words. He seemed, just so calm that he hadn't ever had another chance to be this calm.
The others looked at the ground, seeing the destruction spell had stopped, and they were all safe, they didn't have anything to worry about...well, that wasn't completely true, they did have something to worry about.
The air was tense with worry for what's gonna happen to Makoto.
They all didn't know how they were going to approuch the subject.
But then Durandal pierced the ground around Makoto, and it shattered the ice.
"Seems like this has been done now." Makoto's lone eye went towards the others, scanning them. "Kokabiel's dead now, you're done here. And so am I."
"What...do you mean, done?"
Ravel bravely asked for the group.
Makoto looked at the Sacred Gear above, and it shrunk down. It flew towards Makoto's body, landing on his shoulder. The small ice bird nuzzled against Makoto's face, who stroked it back, all while having a stoic face Koneko would be jealous of.
"My Sacred Gear friend, it has been a long time, it seems my other self has bonded with you very well, that's relieving. I, love that you have bonded with him so well, thank you for looking after my body until now, no doubt Chelia also thought of this as well."
[My...memories are hazy, but I felt a deep desire to protect you.]
The Sacred Gear admitted to the new Makoto, who showed the ever so hint of a smile.
"Yes, it seems that was Chelia's doing as well, she seems to be keeping information from me, and yourself. I, can't remember why we were, a child again...I don't understand why we were with the Sekiryuutei, he seems to be my other selves Onii-sama, while he was a perverted man, he took care of this boy, so that's something to be thankful about."
Ise didn't know whether to be offended or not.
Ise also couldn't tell what was going on with Makoto right now, and why this was going on.
"This, place has been done. I need, to do something's, I have to find Chelia, and see, what's going on in this era...she'll need my help, that girl." His eye went towards Irina. "You should give her a burial, that girl named Shidou Irina. Though I don't believe in it, my other side wants that at least, and I want it too, so bury that girl, and this boy would be glad that in the end, she found peace somewhere deep inside."
Makoto's body sprouted out some wings, it wasn't Devils, nor Fallen Angels either.
"Wait!" Ise cried, making Makoto stop. "Where are you going!?"
"I, have my duties to do, Sekiryuutei. Maybe try stop being perverted, that's how I see it anyway. That's what you should aim for, because the young woman beside you, is also lusting after you. Perhaps, she likes the idea of you being lustful, she seems to be that type as well."
"You're very blunt, you know that?"
Rias made a harsh comment, but then bowed her head apologetically, trying to do her best, to look apologetic, because realistically he probably could kill her.
"Maybe so, that's fine with me. You, also seem to love drinking alcohol."
"Can't deny that."
Rias admitted sheepishly, as Makoto looked to the sky.
"Anyway, I have to-"
"No!"
Surprisingly, it was Akeno that cried out.
Akeno, with a face full of tears, moved closer, and closer towards Makoto. The young boy looked on, not really expecting to say anything, he just looked as normal as he usually did, not that he wanted to say anything and he wasn't sure what she was going to do.
"What is it?"
"Y-You can't just leave!"
"But I must daughter of Barakiel."
Akeno fell backwards at the revelation he just laid down on her.
"You know..."
"The memory came back to me, you're the daughter of that person. So, why can't I leave here? I have my duties to attend to. I don't have time to hold back for now, I need to go and fulfil my own part of this world."
"You're...the other you is Serafall-sama's Queen! You can't just leave when you want!"
"I would, become a stray."
He didn't seem to mind that, he just had a normal expression on his face. Like, even if he did, it didn't seem to matter to him at all.
"Yes! Very much so! B-Besides, there's another reason you can't go..." Akeno made it to him, practically pleading at this point. "Y-You can't leave me alone all of a sudden...you have to stay with us, with me...I-I don't know what you are, but Mako-kun, the other you, has a life here, with friends, loved ones, you can't just take him away. Can't you go somewhere else, into some other body?"
"This, is my body, it was my body first. It doesn't work like that, that's how it is."
Akeno wasn't sure what he meant by that, but she still didn't quit.
"E-Even then, you have to stay here, were you're loved...don't you want to be loved?"
It was a simple question, but it had many different applications.
The young boy tilted his head.
"My loved ones are dead, or otherwise unavailable. I, don't love any of you." Akeno felt a hit to her heart, as did the others. "Nothing personal, I just don't share the feelings of my other, you people don't mean anything to me. Even me killing Kokabiel, had nothing to do with protecting you people, nothing to do with sentiment, it had to do with me not liking Kokabiel, and wanting him dead. That's all. I hold no attachments here, and now I have to leave so I can fight and defeat who, had done something like this to me."
Akeno didn't know how to feel about that.
It was honest, that's all she could say.
"B-But..."
"I, offer my condolences, I can't tell you, what I feel about you people. I neither like or dislike you. Fallen Angels, Devils, Vampire's or what have you, doesn't bother me. You're all just, people to me, not my enemies. But if you attack me, then I will have a reason to dislike you, so I would suggest not doing that."
They heeded his words, and held back for the moment.
But then as Makoto was going to leave, he placed his hands outwards and spires of ice shot out of the ground, just as a man descended from the sky again, someone that some were familiar with, and some weren't.
"H-Hey, that's the douche nozzle that was in the familiar forest that time!"
Elmen sent an accusing glare towards him, as he melted some of the ice that Makoto sent, making a pathway for him.
Millicas also recognized him, and turned her eyes dangerous.
"Who is that guy?"
Ise asked Rias, but she didn't know either.
"I don't know Ise, he has a good amount of power though, it seems even higher than Kokabiel." Rias expressed her worries, while Ise felt his eyes go towards him with annoyance. "Hey, you, I want to know why you're here right now!"
Rias called the man, but he didn't respond to Rias.
Rias felt her anger rising inside of her chest, like she was going to burst his head with her powers.
Makoto though raised his head at the stranger.
"You've come here, for what purpose, exactly?"
"My liege! You've returned, you've come back! I am so-" Makoto thrusted the blade at him, his head going left, avoiding the swords full impact, but it placed a cut on his cheek. "L-Liege?! W-Whats going with you?! You just tried to kill me!"
Makoto raised the blade and then held it across his body, pushing Akeno away, and increased the aura around him. The young water man backed away from the killing intent Makoto was releasing, it was more scary than he thought that it would be.
"You, attacked this form. This body, you even blinded me, by dissolving my eye."
He could feel the malice in the words of the young man, and felt fear grip his chest more than it should be.
"W-Well, the thing is, I had to so I could bring you back. That Chelia is the culprit here, she didn't even need to do this. She ruined our chances, and now, we have been reverted but, it doesn't matter now, I'm here, and we've been gathering, so you don't have to worry about anything, I'm here to protect you as well. And your eye, that wasn't my intention! I didn't mean to do that you, I only have your best interests at heart! You know that, I'm your loyal-" Makoto drove a fist full of his energy into the man's stomach. "Gwaaah!"
Blood erupted out of his mouth, and he flew backwards, creating a powerful shockwave from the place Makoto punched him. Akeno almost got blew away, but for reasons unknown with Makoto's body, he grabbed Akeno, and guided her back to the others, with his Sacred Gear's ice taking on a life of its own.
"You dissolved my eye, how can I ever forgive you? You attacked me and you tried to kill some people that I cared about. If you understood my wishes, the reason I gathered us all together in the first place, then you would know what was going on, and that's not what I need to feel about this."
Makoto disappeared from the others sights with a burst of speed, even Yumi as very impressed.
"So fast..."
Yumi couldn't help but murmur that out, she hadn't ever seen such a thing before from Makoto.
He reappeared right before the water man, raising the blade.
"No Master please!"
He begged, but Makoto didn't care, swinging down the sword.
The man pulled himself away, as a holy aura and ice mixed together was released in a bursting blast. He raised a barrier of dissolving water, tanking the blast for the most part. But at the last part, it managed to get through with air pressure, smacking him down into the ground, smashing his body across the ice harshly.
"Damn, ruthless."
Elmen was surprised, since the usual Makoto always held some hesitation, even if he did what needed to be done. He still did what he had to do sometimes, and that's what he did now, but with more willingness to hurt , to kill, it was clear to her, and the others that this was a different Makoto to the usual one that was with them.
"Wait, Master! Please, sire! We're here for you! We'll protect you! Just don't do this!"
He pleaded, the others could feel the fear radiating from him massively.
"You've been corrupted by the genes inside of you. I, don't withhold the same genes that you have. Just because, we were bred from what we were, it doesn't mean you have to follow a dark path. I sense darkness in your heart, after everything we went through. We, should protect the light, not taint ourselves in the darkness, therefore, your punishment is, severe beating's."
The eye of Makoto right now was cut, and clear, he wasn't messing around, he was going to beat the person in front of him. Even with that gaze, the water man still held an awe look on his face, like he had seen the second coming.
"You're testing me, I get it. Yes, I understand, I'll show you my resolve!"
The man landed on the ground, and gathered his black water around him. Ise, and the others saw the ground melting, and the water spread outwards, coating the ground in the dissolving world, even melting through Makoto's ice.
Makoto landed on the ground. Just as his feet was going to touch the water, coldness seemed to spread out from the boys body, freezing the black water around him, making the man tighten his eyes on the young boy.
"Impressive, you can freeze my powers. But, don't think I'm going to fail this test! I wont be able to stop this! I'll fight you!"
Putting his hands forward, spears of the dissolving water came from the water on the ground, heading right for Makoto.
"Makoto! Wait, you can't fight that! Is this the same bastard that took your eye!? We'll fight together!"
Makoto turned to Ise, as one of the spears neared him.
Makoto answered Ise as he placed Durandal outwards, the icy holy blade releasing a freezing energy, colliding with the spear, freezing it instantly.
"This, person is someone from my past, and he also, is someone that I, have to fight against. Do, not be concerned, young one. I can, fight this person quite well, I know his powers, and I know what I can do now. And right now, none of you, can be assistance, you're all too weak to fight right now, and would only be used, as distractions. Do, not become involved in this fight that I have with this person before me."
Makoto shot off fast towards the incoming spears.
Using his Sacred Gear, which now had fully wrapped around Durandal, and Durandal itself, along with the Excalibur Nightmare that he had, Makoto swung his blades left and right, releasing waves of holy ice towards the opponents spears.
Each one was frozen by the power, the others looking impressed by it. Makoto took a big swing downwards, releasing another wave of holy ice towards the enemy. He growled, placing his hands in front of him.
"Master, stop right now! Before I have to hurt you! Come back with me! I wont let you go! I wont let you die, I promise! I mean, come on, please don't do this! You know that we can fight together, I am loyal to you, you know that!"
Makoto didn't pay heed, as the man smashed the ice.
He looked...but Makoto wasn't there.
He gasped, taking a step back, wondering where he was, and sensed for him…
But then his eyes became wide when he felt Makoto behind him, the power was unmistakable.
"Shit!"
From behind, Makoto attempted to cleave off his head.
The man twisted, and ducked at the same time. The blade managed to cut off several of his head hairs, Yumi was impressed since she couldn't even see their movements, not really, even as fast as she is, she can't even do it.
The man placed his hands in front of him, and darkness erupted from his fingertips, heading for Makoto.
"I'm sorry sire, but I have to trap you! Dark barrier!"
Darkness sprouted forward from his fingers, wrapping around Makoto like a cocoon, blocking off contact from the real world. It was a thick darkness that surrounded the person so strongly, bending the space around his palms that it looked terrifying to say the least.
Seconds went by, and nothing.
Nothing happened.
Makoto stayed there in the cocoon, and nothing, no one could understand what was going on.
Akeno herself looked on, fearing for the life of Makoto, she didn't know what that darkness was doing to him.
"N-No! What have you done!?"
Akeno growled out, but the water guy began snickering.
"I'm just collecting my Master is all. He seems to not be at full power so I can detain him like this. Don't worry, he's going to be back with his true family now, even if he was turned into a Devil, it doesn't matter right now."
"Let him go!"
Akeno futilely shot forth a blast of lightning at him, but he simply blocked it with his hand, shocking smoke coming out of his palm.
"Shocking." His pun made Akeno annoyed. "Sorry, did I steal your thunder?"
That pissed off Akeno even more, who tried shooting more and more lightning, but she felt the fatigue coming over her again and making her pant heavily, as he blocked each attempt of trying to get through.
She wouldn't give up though, no matter what, and even for a minute, she didn't.
But then she fell down to her knees, panting, while he laughed at her.
"Awwww, do you like my Master? That's cute, but he has to come back with-"
"Let Mako-kun go!"
Koneko this time brought all the remaining power that she had out, Senjutsu balls floating around her palms, which she shot out instantly. The water around him gather, shooting off the water like arrows, attaching to the Senjutsu balls, and dissolved them away, Koneko was surprised he could actually do that.
"Naughty Kitty, you have to learn your lesson, and that lesson is death!"
Koneko took a step back at the sight before her, and knew that he was going to do something. Especially with the water surrounding his hands. The black water spun around dangerously, almost like it was going to engulf her, she felt fear right now, but didn't show it on her face, she couldn't show it on her face.
At that moment, he heard a crackling noise…
It sounded like the formation of ice.
He turned to the darkness sphere, where the ice had come from, but it was freezing. From the inside out, the ball was being frozen, making the man slowly back away from it, very surprised to see what he was seeing right now.
"N-No, I even layered it with anti freezing spells. How are you getting through my lord!? I thought that you weren't even at full power!"
He didn't get an answer.
What he got instead, was Makoto bursting out of the dome, which had fully frozen, and swung his sword rapidly, releasing wave after wave of holy ice towards the enemy.
He placed his water around him in a barrier form. But each layer of the barrier kept getting frozen, more, and more, Makoto moving ever closer, he didn't even utter a word, which was probably more scary about this than anything else.
He didn't talk, that was very scary for someone like Makoto to not do.
"S-Stop this!"
The water smashed into ice again with each wave coming for him. He was having a hard time blocking, raising the water barriers, it was very hard due to the succession that was happening, with the ice continuing to freeze the water, even if it was dissolving. This water, froze faster than it could dissolve the ice, only proving the strength of both of them.
"I'll never stop!"
Charging up the blade of holy and ice, the energy released right at the man. He placed several barriers of dissolving water around his form, blocking the attack...or so he thought. No, rather than block, the ice and holy power froze and broke through the water he was giving off, coming dashing right through it, and appeared in front of the man, making him gasp.
"Lord!"
He waved a hand in front of him, ready to blast Makoto with dissolving water.
But then, he stopped, seeing the holy blade coming for him. The tip of the blade, cut the eye of the man, the same side, the same eye, that he had taken from Makoto. Though Makoto knew it wasn't going to be permanent, knowing that there were techniques to heal an eye.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! My eye! My lord, why did you do this to me!?"
He placed a hand over his eye, feeling the pain he could feel. The ice and the power of the holy blade, made it all the more painful, yet they never seemed to be using their full power.
Rias could tell that neither were truly going all out. Whether that was for their sake, or that was because they didn't have the means to do that right now, she didn't know. All she did know was the fact that they were in a dangerous situation, and neither were on their side. It was clear that Makoto wasn't on their side, he didn't care about them. At least, this Makoto. The other Makoto was fully yeah, the one they knew. But this one, wasn't, he had made it perfectly clear that he wasn't on their side at all.
Makoto lifted his lips ever so slightly, seeing what had happened, readying himself with the blade.
"You took my eye, I scratch yours. Next swing of my sword, I'll pop that eye out of your thoughtless mind. You're not doing my bidding by doing this, you're doing the wrong thing-"
"It's that Chelia, isn't it!? She's done this! I hate that bitch!"
He complained wildly, wanting to end this right here and now.
Makoto on the other hand, didn't stop with the flow, sending several sword slashes at the enemy.
The water man avoided the slashes, though he did manage to receive a cut to his body, and it felt rather painful.
"Master, you've really not understood. Do you not remember what's happened? Do you not remember what Chelia did? She separated us! We should have been together, not blown apart like this! Please don't do this to me! We're supposed to be together like this!"
"We aren't going to be together, while you're not supposed to be attacking innocents, and you took my eye. An eye for an eye. Though I do wish to take your eye out with my blade, which I fully intend to do right now!"
Makoto activated Nightmare, and dashed around, creating several images, all very realistic. Millicas and even Koneko couldn't tell the difference between the illusion and the real thing. Even when using her Senjutsu, she couldn't tell the real thing from the fakes, and neither could the man who controlled black water.
"My lord, you've shown such a skill again, I am very much enjoying this, yes. This is very beautiful indeed, seeing all of this. I want to see more, and more of this my lord, but for now, I need you to come back with me!"
Gathering the black water in his palm, he looked around the area for any slight hint of a place that he could fire the water. He knew that the images all could be him, he also didn't know which one was which.
It took all of what he knew about Makoto to know which one was the real one. But, realistically, they were so real that he couldn't even begin to fathom how this was going down.
He continued to look around, then he thought he finally found it.
"There!"
He shot off a blast of the black water towards the place. He smirked when he thought that he could get him...but, he was off.
The image it touched, was ice, and it froze the water instantly.
"W-What!? I was sure..."
He had to cut off the water before it froze him as well, but that distracted him, Makoto nearing him with the blade.
He naturally pulled away at the last second, but he received a large wound to his chest, going diagonal from the right hand side, making blood erupt out of him. It seemed the reflexes of Makoto were good, very powerful and potent.
He held a hand to his wound, and felt anger rise within him, and also worry as well.
"Y-You really tried to kill me, I can't believe this, why would you want to do this? Why would you do this to me? I don't understand why you'd want to do this to me? I thought that we were really close with one another."
"You have tainted yourself in darkness. As I said, just because we're bred from darkness, doesn't mean we have to be darkness. I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to stop you now, say hello to the others for me in the afterlife, if you make it that far, that is."
Makoto raised his blade, mixing it with his Sacred Gear, and gathered it all together at a single tip, the power forming a sphere that mixed the others.
The black water man pulled backwards, and activated a circle around his body.
"Master, it seems you aren't ready to come back. I understand, I shall wait until you are, I'll prove that I'm worthy enough to return, and you shall also stand with me Master, we'll be together again, a true family."
Makoto unleashed the sphere of holy and ice just as lights appeared around the man's body. His teleportation was faster than what Makoto could stop, so he ended up teleporting away, just as the sphere would have hit him.
Makoto growled, throwing Durandal at Xenovia.
"Aaah!"
She let out a cry as the sword stabbed into the ground, making her jump a little bit.
"I don't need it anymore, he got away..." Makoto's vision blurred, and he waved a hand in front of his face, and like before, it was blurry. "Seems like, I wasted too much power, and I need to return now." His eye went towards Akeno. "It seems your wish has come true. I shall not be leaving just yet, I have things that I need to do."
Akeno felt relief enter her heart, placing a hand over her heart.
Seals began going into Makoto's eye again, layer after layer of the seals.
Once the other Makoto had left him, the real Makoto looked around as he fell down to the ground, exhausted, seeing everyone was giving him a weird expression. He, didn't know why they were doing that, he couldn't remember what had been going on.
The battlefield was still covered in ice, and even though his Sacred Gear disappeared all together now, Makoto still was in a state of absolute confusion, he didn't even know what he was supposed to be doing now.
The eyes of the others weren't exactly helping him either.
"H-Hey, where's Kokabiel…? A-And where did this ice come from…? I don't understand, what's going on? Someone, please...tell me what's going on..."
He spoke up, trying to remember what had happened. He couldn't even remember what was going on with Irina either for a few moments, trying to sort out the mess that was his mind right now, he didn't even know what to think right now.
Ise and the others briefly looked confused by the matter at hand.
"Makoto...you, don't remember what happened?"
Makoto just looked at him, confused on what was going on.
"No, should I Onii-chan?" He looked around once more, but couldn't see Kokabiel. "So...did one of you take out Kokabiel? Was it Millicas-san?"
"No, it was...you."
Ise admitted honestly, but that sounded strange to Makoto.
"No I didn't. I was..." Makoto remembered now, about Irina, and turned his head towards her. "Iri-chan...no..." From before, he felt all of the pain come back, and moved towards her deceased body, cradling her head in his arms. "No...please...come back..."
Just like before, they didn't know how to handle it, none of them did.
He just cradled Irina's dead body, not letting her go.
No one knew what to say, or what to do, all that mattered right now, was how he sobbed for her, and how he wanted to save her, but couldn't.
However, that soon stopped when a presence was felt.
Everyone could feel it, and while everyone was too exhausted, the others tried their best to stand up, to fight and to protect each other. Akeno and Koneko stood nearby Makoto, and Asia, Ravel and Elmen doing the same. Mittelt hid behind Ise, and Kalawarner stood bravely with Yumi. Rias panted as she felt the power coming too, Millicas stood with Rias to try and support her.
From the sky, a majestic looking white armour came down. The jewels on the armour looked stunning, and the brilliance of the white couldn't be detained. Expressions of awe, and fear went towards the white in the sky, and couldn't be stopped by anything.
It was different yet similar to Ise's own Balance Breaker. If anything, the power flow, was different. It was on a whole other level. The power of it though, was that of a Dragon, a very power Dragon at that, and they made no attempt to hide who they were.
Elmen however, was having a bad reaction to all of this.
She felt afraid, very afraid of what was going on before her, and hugged herself sadly, longingly, and with terrifying expressed on her face, whatever or whoever was frightening her, no one else could see it right now due to their eyes on the Dragon armour wearer before them.
"Divine Dividing...The Hakuryuukou..."
Kalawarner said seriously, Makoto barely registering what she said.
"S-She's with Azazel-sama's group, we'll be safe...r-right Kalawarner?"
Mittelt displayed her certainty, but Kalawarner wasn't so receptive.
"Don't count on it, we don't know what could happen yet. You never know with this person what they are going to do..."
"Seems I arrived too late."
The Hakuryuukou began, scanning the crowd with her eyes.
"Are you with Kokabiel!?" Rias roared, seeing the woman. The Hakuryuukou turned towards her, and just blinked, Rias' eyes fluttering. "Don't, just don't start bullying me right now...I wont let you bully me..."
"I'm not bullying you, nor do I want to, you're beneath that." Rias inhaled sharply, Hakuryuukou looking towards the Fallen Angels. "Azazel would be depressed if he saw you two in such a state, you know?"
Kalawarner and Mittelt hung their heads lower than the floor.
Then, Hakuryuukou ran her eyes to Elmen.
At that moment, Elmen thought that she had died.
She swore that she didn't feel her heart beat for several seconds.
But then the Hakuryuukou's eyes left Elmen, she was very relieved to say the least.
Then her eyes landed on Makoto, and saw his bandaged face, where his eye should be.
Her eyes narrowed at the sight, moving closer and closer. She briefly saw Freed on the ground, somehow still alive. Quickly, she moved closer to Freed, grabbing him and hauling him over her shoulder.
Then moved closer to Makoto. Ise on the other hand didn't like that, and moved towards to intercept.
"Hey, if you're gonna try anything funny with my Otouto, then I wont let you!"
Hakuryuukou ignored Ise, moving forward.
Ise twitched his eyebrows a bit.
"Oi! I'm talking to you!"
The Hakuryuukou once again ignored Ise, pushing him to the side.
[Are you ignoring me, huh, white-one.]
A voice was heard from Ise's direction. His gauntlet was glowing, and so was a jewel on the Hakuryuukou's armour as well, seemingly resonating with one another, something that actually shocked everyone around.
[So you were awake, red-one.]
[We finally met, but in a situation like this.]
[That's all right. It's our destiny to fight one day. Things like this happen.]
[But white-one. I can't feel the hostility from you like before.]
[Red-one. Your hostility is incredibly low as well.]
[Looks like both of us have things that interest us more than fighting.]
[That's how it is. We should be having fun by ourselves for a while. It's not bad like this sometimes, right? Let's meet again, Ddraig.]
[That would also be fun, huh. See you then, Albion.]
The jewels stopped communicating and the Hakuryuukou made it to Makoto. Yumi stood in defence of Makoto, crossing the sword across her, but her hands were shaking. Hakuryuukou ignored the girl, pushing past her, and bent down towards Makoto.
"Makoto, look at me."
Makoto looked up, and she saw how hollow his eye was, and she made the connection instantly.
"Hakuryuukou-san I...I couldn't protect Irina-chan...I tried my best...but, I couldn't...I was weak...you were right, I should've just stopped doing what I was doing...my actions got her killed..."
Hakuryuukou brushed a hand over the young boys face, gently taking in his features. The very fact that the armour was removed from her hand, and her slender fingers came over his face, gently caressing his skin.
"No, you were right. I wanted you to be safe, but that's not who you are. If someone told me to stop fighting, I wouldn't either, and you did what you could do. You didn't fail this girl, you didn't kill her. Kokabiel killed her, that spear through the chest, wasn't your fault. And, there's nothing weak about you. I, came just as you killed Kokabiel, there's nothing weak about you, and I saw you take on that other one, the one with the weird ability, you fought very well, very hard, and even lost an eye in the process, you're very strong."
"I'm..."
Makoto wasn't so sure, but Hakuryuukou understood, and continued gently caressing his face.
"I know, you're a gentle soul. This, isn't your fault."
Makoto recognized the voice, and turned his eye towards her.
Using his hand, he brushed off the helmet, to reveal a beautiful face. A young woman of around 17 years old, thick dark silver hair that fell quite far. It wasn't as long as Asia's hair, but it was longer than Xenovia's hair.
Makoto blinked at the sight of the young girl, then his face slightly heated up.
"Y-You're..."
"So, you remember me then?"
Makoto turned his eye downwards.
"I remember you...of course I remember you...I didn't know you were the Hakuryuukou though...you never told me..."
"I couldn't tell you either. It would have placed you in..." The young woman's eyes went around the area, noticing the others looking on with suspicions. "We'll talk another time, when in less company. But, don't let this deter you, I know you're stronger than you realize, it is one of the reasons you've drawn me to you. And your eye, I always preferred gold than black, you've still got a very beautiful eye."
Makoto smiled gently, nodding his head.
The Hakuryuukou spread the wings of light, and took to the sky.
Makoto looked on as the Hakuryuukou flew into the sky.
Once she was gone in a ball of light, Makoto turned his head back down towards Irina's face, Yumi on the other hand moved to his side.
"Makoto-kun, you knew the Hakuryuukou?"
"...Apparently so. I, didn't know who she was until now...Va-chan really...is supernatural after all..."
Yumi didn't hear at the end of what he said at the end, and just held him as he cried for Irina and her death.
After the Hakuryuukou left, about ten minutes later, Serafall came rushing in, screaming "MA-TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!" again and again, looking for him. She rushed past Xenovia, knocking her down to the ground and made her cry out.
"Why!?"
Serafall didn't care all that much, she was looking for her Makoto.
She waved through the crowd, even bypassing Sona who had arrived beforehand, looking for her Queen, and wouldn't stop looking, she felt worried, more and more so than by the second, she felt it within herself that there was something going on with him.
Then, when she saw Makoto, more specifically his eye, her world froze.
Damage, on Makoto…
She knew that he didn't wear it for fashion and that either he lost, or had severally injured, his eye, and could see all of the wounds on his body. Her eyes turned dark, unforgiving, and those eyes went towards the sobbing Rias.
"Rias-chan..."
"Saji bullied your Queen!"
Saji's face dropped.
"Why!?"
Rias growled, grabbing his collar, dragging him to her, Serafall's face losing its usual cheerfulness.
"Because, if I am going down, I am taking you with me you little fucker! You're the one I hate above everyone else, and you did bully her Queen, so prepare to die!"
Saji cried, wanting to run away, but Serafall grabbed him by the neck, and punched him in the head, repeatedly, without speaking, making Rias scared.
"Sona-chan, I'm sorry but you're about to have one less Pawn."
Sona shuddered, seeing Saji's eyes roll around, and then close.
Serafall harshly tossed him to the ground.
"I didn't need Rias-chan to tell me Saji-san has bullied my Queen. I can already tell, I have a sixth sense for this." Her eyes shot to Xenovia, who flinched. "You also, bullied my Queen."
"Ooh no, it isn't my fault, I swear! I just..."
Serafall slammed her staff into the back of Xenovia's head, knocking her out, the others wincing.
"I'll deal with you later." Her eyes shot to Sona, who shed tears. "Sona-chan...while I love you and me, you and Ma-tan are going to have a threesome eventually-"
"W-We're what!?"
Sona outraged, blushing slightly.
"Threeway, sexy fun time with Ma-tan, me and you, it is going to be the most adorbe's ever~ But right now, my Queen looks nearly dead, so I have to punish you too since you didn't protect my Queen."
Sona shed tears, facing away.
Serafall's eyes shot at Rias, who shed more tears than before.
"Run."
"Shit!"
Rias didn't even need to be told, as she took off crying her eyes out, futilely throwing vodka bottles from her breasts at Serafall in an attempt to stop her, but Serafall didn't mind, and knocked them away.
She even saw the tip of Serafall's wand glowing brightly, dangerously, and even showed a weird look on her face, Rias was very scared right now.
"Buchou, wait!"
Ise called after her, but she didn't pay any interest, and ran for her life.
"Leave me alone Ise! I'm scared right now, please don't make me go back there!"
She cried her eyes out, she poured out her soul, and wished that she didn't have to do something like this.
"Are...we going to die too?"
Ravel sobbed out to Millicas, but she hid behind Makoto, so she couldn't be seen right now.
Rias made it towards the gates of the school, but before she could get out of the gates, she tripped over her feet due to running so fast, just in time to avoid a blast of demonic power from Serafall, which destroyed the path before her, making Rias cry even more.
"Serafall-sama please! I'm sorry! I didn't even know this was going to happen! Please don't hurt me Serafall-sama! Sona's also a culprit in this too! I mean, we didn't and couldn't stop it, I'm sorry for everything that's been happening, it isn't my fault at all! It's fucker Saji for all of this! He's a bastard, and he told me he hates you!"
Serafall didn't hear her anymore, she wouldn't hear her, and froze her entire body, making her unable to move.
"I'll deal with you later." Serafall's voice was cold, and then she turned her moist childlike eyes towards Makoto. "Ma-tan! What happened to my Ma-tan?! Who did this to you!? Was it Rias-chan? If it is, I'll take her out, no problem, and you can have her peerage all to yourself Ma-tan! Please speak to me!"
Serafall wrapped her arms around Makoto, and in a weird way, he was the one comforting her, rubbing her back, rather than him comforting her.
"Sera-tan, the thing is...erm, well this guy, with black water came, and tried to kill...Iri-chan and I, but I got in the way, and my eye...is, gone." Serafall nuzzled against him sweetly, while he petted the back of her head. "And...S-Sera-tan, I-I failed Iri-chan..."
"Who's that my precious Queen?"
Makoto gestured to Irina, and began crying.
"S-She saved my life...she sacrificed herself for me Sera-tan, I couldn't save her...I loved her Sera-tan, and now she's gone, because I wasn't strong enough. It's like Asia-chan all over again, I'm so weak I can't even protect the people that I care for..."
"Kokabiel is...was, a strong person. He couldn't be fought normally by you people. It's a wonder you managed to hold off him for as long as you did. No one blames Ma-tan, for anything. And I'm sure this girl didn't either."
"E-Even then, it's all my fault Sera-tan...I couldn't even save her...I'm so pathetic, you chose me as your Queen, and I couldn't even do a simple thing like protecting Iri-chan when she needed to me the most..."
Serafall waved a hand over his face, over the place that the bandage around his eye was. She winced herself when she did that, seeing how he had already suffered, and remembered what he said, so she used her best voice to give off a soothing sound.
"Ooh Ma-tan, you said you saved her from a black water guy, right?" He nodded while sobbing. "Then you did save her. She just returned the favour. I don't know this girl personally, but she saved your life. And when I wasn't around, again Ma-tan. I wasn't here for you, and I couldn't protect you from this. I should have been here. If I didn't have my duties as a Maou-sama, then I could have saved you from all of this pain, this anguish, you've got nothing to be criticised for Ma-tan, you've done your best. And this girl, if she truly did save you, sacrifcing herself for your life, then she did love you, like I do my cute Ma-tan. She saved you, for her own love. Just thing, this girl is an Exorcist, I can tell by the outfit. Yet, her love was so strong, so pure, that she jumped in the way of an attack, knowing it would be her death, because she loved the Devil you. That's, what we should all strive for Ma-tan. We should all be doing this, getting on with one another, and this girl, did it for you Ma-tan. You're very good."
Makoto couldn't stop the tears though.
Serafall looked on, and couldn't stand seeing the boy like this.
She knew at the back of her head, that she was going to do it.
She knew what she was going to do.
"Say, Ma-tan. Do you want her back?"
"W-Well, of course, but there's no way to bring her back..."
"Onee-sama, you're not..."
Sona knew what she was going to do, and couldn't believe it, but Serafall winked at Sona.
"Sona-chan, my Queen is the cutest ever, and he needs cute people beside him~ Besides, Ma-tan is my cute Queen, and I have to keep him safe, and I failed that. As a King, Ma-tan has been hurting because of my departures. Each time I leave, Ma-tan seems to be getting into more and more danger. And I can see the pain on my cute Ma-tans face. He's already lost his eye because of all of this, why should my Ma-tan suffer anymore anyway? It doesn't seem right to me."
"But, Onee-sama, you only have so many pieces left, and to do this..."
"Aah, Ma-tan will give me the piece back, it isn't an issue~ But geez Ma-tan, seems like you're gathering holy girls with you, is that your secret fetish Ma-tan? Do you want me to be a holy girl as welll~"
Serafall did a very innocent face, even showing a cute pout on her lips.
Sona coughed "...He's not Diodora..." and then grimaced, only knowing a certain amount of something about that.
Makoto bit his bottom lip, shaking his head again and again with a blush on his cheek.
"N-No! But, for Iri-chan to become a Devil...maybe she wouldn't want to...she said that she wants to be an Angel, but she's gone now...w-would she turn into an Angel because she died? Does it work like that Sera-tan?"
"No, I'm sorry Ma-tan, it doesn't work like that. Angels can't be attained like that. It's like with Devils. You're either born as one or not. And that's why we use our Evil Pieces to turn humans and others into Devils. It's like that for the Angels. If a human died, and didn't have any interference from a Devil, using their pieces, then that human would just go, to Heaven or Hell, as a soul, they wouldn't change into one or the other."
"Oh...so, she's just gone then..."
Serafall moved her face closer to Makoto's giving him a slight fright.
"That depends Ma-tan. What do you want?"
"Isn't it selfish to turn her into a Devil? She was a woman of God, so wouldn't it be selfish that she would...be turned into a Devil? She lived her life for God, and now, she's gone to Heaven...even if God no longer exists, wouldn't it be bad to turn her into a Devil under my own selfish wishes….of course, I'm grateful Sera-tan, but I don't know how to do this right now...it is too hard for me to do something like this..."
At that, Serafall didn't know how to reply.
But, out of everyone, Asia moved closer to Makoto, holding onto his hand.
"When I died, and came back, Makoto-san was there for me. When I turned into a Devil, I found it very hard, but Makoto-san was there for me, and I know that he will be there for Shidou-san as well, because even I want her back too...she saved Makoto-san, I didn't get to heal her either, I couldn't save her either Makoto-san..."
"Asia-chan, that's not your fault, the wound was too deep, and her human body couldn't..."
Asia nodded her head, giving Makoto a hug around his waist. He hugged onto her back, and she wouldn't let go, and neither would he either.
"Then, Makoto-san doesn't have to feel guilt either. Makoto-san saved me, and brought me to his side, and Serafall-sama was kind enough to turn me into her servant, and to allow me to go to Makoto-san. Makoto-san is going to be my future King, but Serafall-sama is a very great King too. She wants to make us happy, and I think Makoto-san would be the happiest if Shidou-san is around, even if she is my rival in love, Makoto-sans happiness is my number one priority."
Just hearing that, made Makoto feel good, Asia always had that affect on him.
But, he still thought about it, and what could happen with Irina, and how she would feel.
Would it be selfish if he did it?
Would Irina be okay with it?
He didn't have the answers.
He wished that he could talk to her, to just see what she would want…
However, as he was thinking, he remembered what she said to him not that long ago.
"But...it doesn't matter about that right now. God, I love God, and I serve God. But Ma-chan is also important to me. I've thought about it, if Ma-chan desired, I would always live with Ma-chan, no matter what else happened."
He remembered that, yeah he did.
Then, he remembered something else too.
"Then becoming an actual Angel doesn't matter or not. Ma-chan said such beautiful words to me, so that's okay with me. In the end, being Ma-chan's Angel is okay with me, I don't need to become an actual Angel."
She also said that, Makoto remembered clearly her saying that, and it made him smile.
Irina, said that. If she was with him, it didn't matter what else happened, and that she was an Angel, if he thought she was, it didn't matter if she was a real one or not. It didn't matter, and that thought, made Makoto smile.
"Sera-tan, is it okay?"
Serafall gained a wider smile, kissed Makoto on the lips, as Rias looked on, frozen.
She pulled away and whipped out her Evil Pieces.
"Yup! Ma-tan will have to make it up to me later on~ He'll just have to make me his adorable sexy time partner~" Ise showed a jealous look, while Sona rolled her eyes. "But for now Ma-tan, which piece suits best for this chick huh!? I don't know her, but Ma-tan does, so what's it gonna be Ma-tan? Do you know which one I should use~?"
Makoto didn't know, he looked on and wasn't sure what to say.
But Ravel moved to the side of Makoto, and bowed her head.
"Makoto-sama, the best piece I believe would be the Knight, don't you think so? Because, she has the skills of the sword, and she's rather fast footed, I do believe that would be the best. But, it is your decision of course."
"She's right Makoto-san, a Knight would be good for her. As your future servant, I do believe this would be for the best."
Millicas added in her thoughts after Ravel, so Makoto nodded his head towards Serafall.
"Sera-tan, please..."
"Okay then my cute Ma-tan! Leave it to me! Lets reincarnate this Exorcist into Ma-tans future Knight-chan! This is going to be freaking awesome! I don't get to do this often, so this is awesome Ma-tan! Lets do this!"
Serafall was more excited than usual. She grabbed the piece that was a Knight, placing it on Irina's breast, then moved away.
Using her demonic power, Serafall began channelling it into the piece that was before her, on Irina.
"Now, you, Shidou Irina-chan! Lets do this!" Serafall cheered. "I order, in my name that is Serafall! You, Shidou Irina-chan. I, resurrect you back to this soil as my servant, and have you reborn as a Devil. You, my cute little Knight, be delighted with your new life!"
The glowing chess piece glows and goes inside Asia's body. At the same time, Asia's Sacred Gear goes back inside her body.
Serafall stops her demonic power after confirming that the chess piece went inside Irina's body. The others watched on in anticipation, wondering what was going to happen.
Then Serafall makes a sigh while winking to herself.
"Seems like we made it just in time Ma-tan."
Serafall spoke, Irina's eyes fluttering open.
"Huh...whats going on..."
Xenovia, who was semi conscious, while not admitting it, was so relieved to see Irina the way she was once again, even if she was a Devil. She couldn't deny that this time, there were good Devils around, and this was one of those good Devils.
"Awwww, Ma-tan! She has the cutest voice too! You've got the best eye, seeing such adorable girls to your side! That's it Ma-tan, you have to gather the cutest peerage members around, I wont let anything else come between that! And remember Ma-tan, she's yours now~ You're gonna have to look after her~"
Makoto became emotional, his eye leaking tears.
"Y-Yes, thank you! Even though you didn't have to, you're too good for me, you're the best Master I could hope for!"
Serafall smiled wider, giving Makoto a pat on the head, running her fingers through his locks.
"Ooh Ma-tan, your lovely smile makes it all the more better. Go, and have fun with your cute new Knight~"
"Yes!" Makoto turned to Irina, and hugged onto her. "Iri-chan!"
"W-Well, Ma-chan is suddenly being cuddly with me, what's going on Ma-chan? Didn't I die?"
"Y-Yeah...b-but, you're a Devil, now...I mean, I don't know if you wanted it or not, but I remember Iri-chan saying that she wanted to stay with me, and now you can...Iri-chan, I'm sorry if you didn't want to become a-"
"Yay!" Irina suddenly let out an outburst, hugging Makoto even tighter. "Yes! I get to be with Ma-chan~ I get to be with Ma-chan~ Thats the best, that's the best thing that I could ever do Ma-chan~ You're the cutest ever~ I love you Ma-chan~ I'm gonna stay with Ma-chan forever and ever~ T-Though I've become a Devil now, and I can't face God...God didn't exist anyway, so Ma-chan can stay with me, and I can stay with Ma-chan as his servant too~ I'm just like Asia-chan too~"
Makoto was surprised that she took it so well, but he was happy nonetheless, continuing to hold her body tightly, never letting the young girl go. Millicas, Asia, and Ravel all looked towards Irina's large breasts, Elmen and Koneko doing the same thing. All felt jealousy towards the endowed woman. Yumi, and Kalawarner along with Akeno didn't feel any jealousy, since they all had larger breasts than Irina herself.
Sona looked towards Serafall, wondering if this would really be okay. But Serafall held her positive face, looking at the brightened face of Makoto, she just couldn't help but feel so happy that he was happy now.
Though she felt anger towards herself, because of what happened to Makoto's eye, it seemed so unfair that his eye was like that now, it didn't seem fair at all, and he secretly wished that he didn't lose his eye, but she loved him all the same.
Several hours later, once everything had been said and done, Rias...was still there.
On the ground, frozen, she was a statue.
With what little movement with her eyes she could, she looked around, but she couldn't see anyone.
It was like she had been abandoned.
She was surprised Ise left her like this.
Perhaps, he was swept up in the fact that Makoto was safe again.
But still, she felt abandoned, and felt like she was going to cry...or, she would if she could, truthfully, she knew that she couldn't do that. Because she was frozen. Even then, she wished that she could, as she had been left.
"Shit, is this Serafall-sama's punishments? I thought Onii-sama would have saved me from this nightmare by now...but, no, he hasn't...where is Onii-sama? Shouldn't he be here by now? I don't understand what's going on right now…?"
She couldn't work it out, what had happened.
But then, in the distance she saw, something coming.
Her eyes widened as high as they could, fearful.
What if someone saw her like this?
How was she going to explain this?
She didn't know what she was going to do.
All she could do was wait, and see what's going to happen.
When the thing neared her, she felt her body twitching...and then saw her.
Princess.
Yes, it was Princess, who had come, looking right at Rias.
Rias shed tears of sorrow within her heart, trying to make herself feel good, but it wasn't working all that well.
"MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!"
Rias howled from the ice, not wanting to die.
Princess got close, raised her clawed paw.
"MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!"
Rias' cries translated to "PLEASE DONT HURT ME!" but Princess paid no heed.
"Nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
Princess, thrusting her claws at the ice, shattered said ice around Rias. Rias rolled to the side immediately, putting the POD in her hands, and pointed it at Princess, Princess didn't seem fazed for even a second.
"P-Princess, I don't understand why you're here, but I wont have you hurt me! Get away from me you loony cat! I'll take you out if you do something to me! I'll definitely do it you crazy pussy! Has Serafall-sama sent you to kill me!? She knows you're my worst fear, and now I am going to die! Well fuck you cat, I am not afraid anymore!"
Even though she said that, her hands were shaking dangerously.
Princess moved closer, reaching to her back. She pulled out a cloth, throwing it to Rias.
Rias blinked her eyes, Princess pushing the cloth closer to Rias.
"Princess, have you turned to the side of good, and stopped being evil? You saved me Princess, love you Princess. Thank you, I'll just wipe my face, and I'll treat you to a lovely meal you beautiful kitten who I love more than anyone else."
"Nyaaaaa~"
Princess played innocent with the young girl, who fell for it.
Princess watched as Rias wiped her face the best that she could. As she did, Rias inhaled some of the sweet scent from the cloth, and it made Rias' face turn upwards, a smile on her lips, and a kind song in her heart.
"Ooh Princess, this scent smells delicious, yet also, familiar as well, I can't quite place my nose on it, but it does smell...ooh crap, I know what this..." Rias' face turns dark, as she felt her body feeling dizzy. "Ooh shit, what have you done Princess…."
Rias fell down to the ground, and she couldn't move at all. She felt, odd within herself, as Princess moved closer. Rias tried moving her arm, but she couldn't, it felt too heavy.
She shed tears as Princess jumped onto her chest, running her paw across Rias' face.
"Nyaaaaaa~"
"F-Fuck off please..."
She managed to say...but, she couldn't get away.
Rias, was trapped with Princess.
End chapter!
So, that concludes the fight! With the fight from Makoto (other version) vs Kokabiel, and black water dude (name shall be revealed in future) gone down, showing a hint of the future potential that our Makoto will be able to show. Vali showed up, confirming that Makoto does in fact know Vali, but how, and why, will be revealed later down the line. Serafall scared a few people (and beating up some others too) and saved Irina, and now they can be together! Seems like Makoto's future peerage is getting off to a great start. With the likes of Ravel, Asia, Millicas, Koneko (self confirmed by scaring Rias), and Irina now too joining, we've got some more to go!
Next chapter, we'll be calming down with a few things, but important things happen next chapter, with the introduction of a new harem member, someone that a certain girl in his harem doesn't like at all, and the true reconciliation of Yumi and Makoto as well, it is going to be fun, so until next time, thanks for reading everyone! And Merry (late) Christmas, and a Happy New Year!
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, Ophis. (WIP)
