"My name is Sanosuke Kiriya, I am in your care." Sanosuke bowed.
Serena was lost. She didn't understand what had just happened. Only a few days ago, she had met this mercenary under the most unexpected of circumstances in her life and now he was to be her new classmate. 'This isn't an anime!' She thought. There was no way that something like this would ever happen! She also realised something, since Sylvia was talking about a new student coming today, he couldn't be…
Could he?
"So then Sanosuke-kun, your seat is at the back of the class." The teacher gestured towards the seat by the window.
Sanosuke nodded before he continued walking down to the back of the class with his seat at the corner by the window. He seemed to pay no attention to her.
He must have known that they were here. For now, she would have to get her answers at lunchtime.
-x-x-
Life 3: Of Devils and Fallen Angels
-x-x-
It was lunchtime, and Serena wanted to talk to, more interrogate, Sanosuke. She knows that he knows her and that she has a mountain full of questions to ask him. But it didn't help when everyone else in the classroom were bombarding him with questions!
"Sanosuke-san? Where are you from?"
"So what do you think of this school so far?"
"So what kind of hobbies do you have?"
"Could you not be so relentless in your questioning?" Sanosuke asked politely. "I don't think I can answer all you're questions at once." he admitted. He does have to admit, high school is much nicer than he had hoped for. But either way, he needed to go check something out. "If you'll excuse me I have to go somewhere now." He stood up from his seat and began walking but not before throwing a quick glance at Serena. "I'll see you lunch when is over!" He waved good-bye before walking away.
-x-x-
Sanosuke stood outside on the roof of the school. Looking into view of the whole school, one would say it is an impressive school. On the ground in front of him was main field where the school physical education class would take if they were outside. Going past that, and up a flight of stairs were the two tennis courts, fenced up to keep the tennis balls from flying everywhere. Even past there were quite a lot of trees. Manade Academy was expected to be a very privileged school just by sight alone.
Serena hid in the shadows behind the open door, observe intensively. But to her surprise so far, he hasn't done anything out of the ordinary.
"You know you don't have to hide, I'm not here on business matters." Sanosuke stated.
Serena was surprised. Had he always known that she was there? She walked outside hesitantly, and asked. "Then what are you doing here?" That was no good. She needed to talk more confidently!
He looked over his shoulder and replied, "To learn."
"Don't lie as if you didn't know we were here!"
"Believe what you want." He chuckled before he turned back to the scenery in front of him. "You're not going believe me even if I tell you." He closed his eyes and took in a deep breath. "Coming back here…it feels so different. Its like I've stepped into a different world when I came back." He said.
"Came back?" Serena asked before she slowly walked towards him, instinctively.
He turned his head to the mountain just outside the town. "I was born in a dojo near the mountain." He told her. "My father was an accomplished swordsman, my mother was a Fallen Angel, but she passed away when I was little. My father raised me as a warrior until 4 years ago I left."
Four years ago…that was before she came to the town. "Why the sudden leave?" she asked, as held onto the railings beside him.
Sanosuke looked away. "I don't want to talk about it." His tone seemed more serious from before.
Serena couldn't guess what was the problem but she could tell it must something bad for him to have a sudden change in his tone. "If you could, would you tell me more?"
He looked into her eyes before closing his own and smirked. "Might as well, I've decided since we're going to be classmates after all, there's no need for unnecessary secrets. But I expect the same courtesy in return." He said before looking to the sky above them.
"Since then, I travelled the world, offering my services to whoever was interested. Be it the Church, the Fallen Angels, or the Devils. They hire me, give me a target, and I kill my targets. Devils, Angels, Ghouls, Fallen Angels…" he looked into her eyes, "Even Humans. I didn't care. Just name me a target and tell me the reason, I will do it if I think its fair. Since then, I've been known as many things, assassin, hit man, hunter, mercenary."
Serena then asked. "So who hired you for the extermination of Stray Devils?"
"It's the wife of Densdria Aim, Millias Aim. I'm sure you would understand the reason." Sanosuke answered simply.
Serena understood, it was for simple revenge that she hired Sanosuke to hunt down her husband's former Peerage.
"I guess I told you too much." Sanosuke apologized before he bowed. He then rubbed the back of his head. "Now to live up to your end of the bargain. Lets start off simple, why don't you tell me your name?"
Serena swallowed a saliva. "Serena Aves. My real name is Serena Asmoday, of the distinguished Asmoday family." She said proudly.
"So you're the King? I would like to say you are bit young." Sanosuke smiled.
Serena puffed her cheeks and turned her back to him. "And you are also a bit young for a mercenary who's travelled the world. I sorry but for a world-class hunter you seem to carefree right now for me to take you seriously." She exclaimed with her eyes closed.
She heard him chuckled. Serena was surprised at how nice this atmosphere was between them. She honestly thought there would more animosity between the two of them.
"Does Sylvia-san know about this?" Serena questioned, changing the subject.
"Sylvia?" Sanosuke repeated. "You know her?" he asked.
Serena nodded. "Yeah. She told me that you were coming here yesterday, though she didn't tell me your name. I could tell it was you when I put two and two together."
"Honestly…yeah I think she does, but she doesn't want to touch on to it." Sanosuke added.
Serena pondered. "Then that means she knows about the world of Angels and Devils?"
"Why don't you go ask her that?" Sanosuke suggested. "Her secrets are hers alone to share."
"I guess I will then." Serena said back.
A small silence grew over them. They just didn't know what to say to each other as of this moment before Sanosuke stated. "I was surprised that you and your Peerage are commuting here. It makes it easier to find at least one of you now."
"What do you mean?" Serena asked.
He looked to her, a serious face on him before saying. "I would like to request an alliance."
"Alliance?" Serena repeated, before asking. "
"Think about it…your team and I have the same orders, just from different people. Mine from the wife of the victim, yours from your devil elders. I'd prefer to end this before it goes out of hand. I don't hold any hostilities for you or any of your people. So don't worry, I won't stab you in the back. That's the last thing I would ever want to do."
Serena thought about this surely, it would highly beneficial if they were to have an alliance. But can she trust him? He does honest enough to trust him but he could be lying. Before she say anything another voice joined in.
"Hey Sano-chan!" both of them heard. They both turned around to see Sylvia waving at them as she jogged up towards them. "Hey Serena-san is here too!"
"Hey Sylvia-san," Sanosuke greeted.
She whacked his shoulder, "You're mean, you know that? You could've at least let me know that you were coming up here! We could've had lunch together, right Serena?" Sylvia turned to Serena.
Serena waved her hands, "No, its okay. I was just about to leave anyway. We are having a club meeting at the end of today, I suggest you should come if you are serious about this. I'll show you the way after lesson." She told him before she walked away.
"I will," Sanosuke told
She turned around and joked, with her voice raised so they can hear her over the wind. "By the way, you look funny in white. Black is definitely your colour." She turned back around and walked back into the school building.
Sanosuke only smiled back. Even if she was a devil, she's a nice girl. He turned his attention back to Sylvia who had a suspicious look on her face.
"What is this? You knew her already?" Sylvia got really close to his face.
"I only met her a few days ago." Sanosuke defended.
"You didn't even see me when you got back and yet you've become good friends with one of my friends. You're cruel, Sano-chan!" Sylvia roared.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"
-x-x-
"So what do you think of him?"
Serena noticed Xarin at the bottom of the stairway.
"When I felt his presence close to you, I got worried. So you talked to him." Xarin observed.
Serena nodded as she continued walking down the stairs, "I did Xarin-san. He has suggested an alliance between us to finish off the Strays."
"An alliance? Princess, do you think that's wise?" Xarin argued. "We can't simply form an alliance with him? What if he turns his back on us?"
"That is why I want him to come to the clubroom after school. To see if he was serious." Serena answered back before she went to class.
-x-x-
"First we've lost Jacob and Nina, now we've lost Asara. At this rate Souta, we will all be killed." Said a feminine voice.
"I understand, I shall exterminate them one by one. We will survive this, Savalia-sama!"
-x-x-
Keisuke picked up his stuff, "Yo, Saya."
"Hey, Kei. We're still going today right?" she asked, since yesterday he did kind off blew her off after seeing new student. Today she tell him.
"Yeah, today's club meeting is going to be a short one. I'll see you then." Keisuke told her.
"Sorry I'm late!" He noticed everyone was staring at Sanosuke in the middle of the room. He noticed Sanosuke standing in the middle of the room. He noticed Xarin with his Zanbatou by his side, Christie with her nails grown out into claws, Kaoru with her Khakkara in her hands. "Hey guys, whats going on?"
Serena sighed as she answered him, "That what I've been wondering, but they were just adamant on being protective of me." She then shouted to the rest. "Hey, we are not here to fight. Just try and be civilized, please?"
"So Serena-sama, what is he doing here?" Keisuke asked after he regained a bit of his composure.
"You'll see." Serena smirked before she turned to Sanosuke. "Tell them what you told me today."
Sanosuke nodded. "Young Devils of the Asmoday family. I am here to request an alliance with you until the Stray Devil problem is taken of. I understand that many of you don't trust me and I understand. I would've done the same thing but right now we have the same goals. Why don't we work together to achieve it?"
There murmurs amongst the peerage. Surely what he said was true, but is also dangerous by the fact Sanosuke could back-stab them at any point of time.
"I can vouch for that." Keisuke said. The peerage turned to the silver haired boy.
"What do you mean, Kei-chan?" Christie asked.
"Yesterday, when he and I fought a stray devil together, the Knight Asara. He held no sense of contempt from working with me and made a plan for us to beat Asara. I believe this alliance would be a fruitful alliance." Keisuke explained.
"All in favour raise you hand." Serena said. It was a unanimous decision.
"Then its decided!" Serena held out her hand. "We welcome you, Sanosuke Kiriya. Let's get along." Sanosuke smiled and shook her hand.
-x-x-
"I'm back!" Sanosuke said after he slid the door closed. He noticed two boxes stacked up on top of each other by the wall in the entrance. Leaving the questioning to Valshion later, he placed his shoes into the shoe cupboard and was about to walk into the corridor until he saw a familiar face poking out the entrance of the living room. She stood in there in the corridor, her school uniform replaced by a white shirt under a thin blue jacket and black trousers.
"Welcome back, Sano-chan," Sylvia said with a smile. She tossed him an orange juice box.
"Thanks." He replied. "Should I cook for tonight?" he asked Valshion.
"No, its ok. I'm cooking for tonight! We're having some nice steak tonight!" Valshion before she went into the kitchen.
"Hey Valshion! Whose boxes are those?" Sanosuke asked.
Valshion laughed slightly before replying. "There're yours, silly." Valshion went back to cooking.
Sylvia added, "We went out after school and bought clothes and a few other stuff for you."
Sanosuke sighed and looked to the both of them. "You know that was not necessary. I'm fine with what I've got."
"Which is why we bought clothes, I'm surprise you barely have anything!" Sylvia replied before she realised something. "You know its been a while since you and I sparred." Sylvia said. "You ready?" Sylvia asked, smirking.
"Huh?" was all he said before she dragged him into the dojo.
-x-x-
Both stood quietly inside the main hall of the dojo. Swords in their hand, for Sylvia it was a pure white rapier with a silvery blue circular hilt and handle with no guard, strapped around her waist was a silvery blue scabbard, in Sanosuke's hand was his trusty katana, the Kokusen, inside the scabbard. Sylvia was still wearing her same clothes. It might be weird for these two to be fighting with real weapons but they were born into families of warriors, they understood the other's feelings through duels.
'The sword is new…' he noticed before he asked. "Did Valshion-obasan make that for you?"
"Of course, I asked Valshion-obasan to make me a sword." Sylvia said before she gazed into the sheathed sword in Sanosuke's hand. "Kokusen, that sword belonged to your father, didn't it?" she asked. "My mother told me what happened. But she told me to let it be and that you were strong, I had no choice but to believe in her. I'm sorry for not being there for you."
"Its fine," his eyes held some form of sadness, Sylvia could tell. "I left soon after…So you wouldn't have been able to see me back then. Plus I've should've been here anyway."
"Alright, when the coin has reached the floor the match will start. The match will also be timed so when I blow the whistle, that's the end of the match." Valshion announced. She flipped the coin and watched it somersaulted a hundred times in the air as it came down.
The sound of the coin hitting the floor echoed across the room. The match started.
Sanosuke pulled his sword halfway out, barely blocking the first strike by Sylvia. 'Fast,' he thought. She had certainly no doubt continuously trained hard over the years. No doubt she will be a deadly fighter in the future. He fully unsheathed his sword and came in with a strike to the ribs with his scabbard but she jumped away in time.
Excellent reflexes.
He placed scabbard by his waist and gripped the sword. He charged.
Both came in at high speeds, blades clashing each time they exchange slashes. Sanosuke parried a slash before he elbowed her chest and came in with a horizontal slash. She jumped back and thrust her sword forward for it to be swiped away by his own sword.
He was on the defensive now, she knew that, she just has to keep on pressing on the offensive and not give him a chance to counter attack.
She did one more thrust against his blade, forcing him backwards.
'Now!' she thought and came in for another thrust.
But she never got the point. With a sudden rebalancing of his centre of gravity, she missed. Sanosuke smashed her sword to the ground and came in for the attack.
The whistle blew.
Sanosuke's sword held at her neck.
Sanosuke smiled and let out a breath he didn't know he held in. 'If this had been a quick draw duel, she would have won with her speed, no doubt about that,' he thought.
Sylvia was breathing heavily, no doubt she was not used to fighting this intense before. No doubt, whatever he did over the last four years has made him really strong.
"You've improved," Sanosuke said. "I'm honestly surprised by you're fight, did your father teach you that?"
"Of course. He wanted me to be at my best. But I guess I'm not as strong as I would have hope for." Sylvia sighed.
Sanosuke patted her head. Sylvia blushed under his touch. "Hey what are you doing?"
"Lets go eat, I'm starving!" Valshion exclaimed.
-x-x-
Keisuke was walking towards the shopping centre with Saya beside him. Currently, the two were just having a stroll. Since it was almost closing time, not many people were in the shopping centre anyway.
-x-x-
The meal that Valshion made was steak with salads on the side. It looked good,
"Its really good, Valshion-san! Where did you learn to cook like this?" Sylvia asked.
Valshion then held a smug look on her face. "As expected from a genius cook like moi, I've managed to blend the sauce, the texture and taste of the steak with perfection!"
They heard the door bell ring.
"I'll get it!" Sylvia told
"Hey Serena-san, Kaoru-senpai and Xarin-sensei," Sylvia greeted. "What brings you here?"
When Sanosuke heard the names, he went out of the dining room to the front door.
"Hey Sylvia-san, I didn't know you were here. I'm just here to talk to Sanosuke for a while since he's thinking of doing a taster session with the Expedition Club." Serena lied slightly, trying to smile honestly. She saw Sanosuke walking up towards the four.
He looked to Sylvia. "I'm sorry Sylvia, but could you let me talk to them alone for a while?" Sanosuke requested. "Lets talk outside."
Sylvia bit her tongue, she wanted to deny it but if it was about his fights with the Stray Devils then she should just leave it.
"I'm sorry," he whispered. He grabbed a pair of shoes and walked out with Serena, Kaoru and Xarin behind him.
"We've received word on the Stray Peerage's movement from our familiars." Kaoru reported. Sanosuke turned towards them. "It seems that many of them have begun moving. Its as though they are moving towards the shopping district out in the open."
"I guess that would be the case. With three of their members dead, they're asking for a fight."
"But by walking out into the open, that is just asking for some unwanted attention." Kaoru thought out loud.
-x-x-
"Thank you for tonight, I know I am taking out your precious to spend time with me." Saya told him.
Keisuke waved his hand. "Its no biggie, I did cut our arrangement short yesterday due to some urgent business." He suddenly remembered. "Oh yeah, yesterday you wanted to tell me something."
Her ears perked, "Oh that, Kei-kun." She hesitated, "I've been meaning to tell you…" She wanted to sound resolute. "To be honest I-"
A barrier appeared enclosing the two within the shopping area by the fountain.
"What?! Now?!" Keisuke exclaimed before he felt a sudden presence. He quickly grabbed Saya and jumped out of the way before a massive fireball exploded behind them.
"What the hell just happened?" Saya gasped in surprise as more fireballs erupted behind Keisuke's tracks. Saya kept on screaming as the explosions erupted.
Once he had found a safe spot to land, he said to Saya, "Saya-chan, hide right now!" She complied before he summoned both his spears and looked to the source of the fireballs.
-x-x-
Xarin realised, "Unless…" He looked to his master. "Princess, it appears they are hunting for our blood."
The other three gasped.
Sanosuke gave quick thought, if that was the case they need to know who's at where at the moment and alert them. "Serena-san, who in you're peerage would be at the shopping district now?"
Kaoru tapped her finger to her chin. "Christie told me she is currently fulfilling a contract."
"Which leaves…Keisuke…where is he?" Xarin asked.
Serena remembered something from earlier today. "He told me he was going out with Saya-san. Oh no…" she realised. "Keisuke's in danger!"
"I'm going to the district." Sanosuke told them. "If they are going to attack in the open. Then we have to counter this."
Xarin nodded. A pinkish magic circle appeared under him, "I'm going there first. Princess get the young Prince!" he teleported away.
Serena nodded.
"I'm going to go pick-up Christie!" Kaoru added, opening her own pink magic circle before disappearing into it.
"I'll see you there." Sanosuke told her. Serena nodded before she disappeared into the magic circle.
Sanosuke ran inside. "Valshion! Sylvia! I'm going out!" he told them before he left the compound.
"Ok, have a safe trip!" Valshion waved.
Sylvia was now worried. For him to leave so suddenly, she could only hoped that he was okay.
-x-x-
"9 against one…can't say I like these odds!" Keisuke cursed. The stray devils are here most likely gunning after him. He looked to the barrier around him, the closest wall would be about 40 m away. He just needs to break through so that the others can sense that he's in trouble. But can he make it? He needs to be able to be just far enough to throw his spear to break through it. But can he do it? With odds like these.
No choice.
Keisuke sprinted. Its was no good as the samurai from before blocked his path and slashed at him. Keisuke blocked the attack but was kicked back in the stomach. He blocked another slash from another angle but he receive a slash from behind. He cursed. This was not going to be easy.
-x-x-
Syvlia stood from her seat.
"Sylvia?" Valshion asked as she had the bowl of rice.
"As expected, I'm worried." Sylvia told Valshion. "I'm going to where Sanosuke is!" Sylvia stated before she grabbed her sword and jacket before leaving the compound.
-x-x-
Keisuke dropped to the floor under him. Blood was trailing down his face and upper body. He was feeling weak from the fighting.
"Looks like he is at his limit," Kojiro hinted with glee. "That'll teach ya to mess with us."
They heard a chuckle. The stray peerage looked to see Keisuke slowly getting up, using his pears to support him.
"You seem to be having fun for someone dying." Souta said, unimpressed. "Tell us what so funny?"
Still on his knees, Keisuke held out his left spear and stabbed it through the air behind, revealing it to be the barrier wall as it broke down around the fighters.
Souta cursed. "Take him down!" but before anyone could do anything a sudden burst of wind and lightning came in their way. Souta created a barrier around the peerage to protect themselves.
When he dispersed the barrier, he saw the young man's reinforcement had arrived.
"Hey what took you guys so long?" Keisuke joked as Xarin picked the young man up. Kaoru went to heal his wounds as quickly as possible.
"Sorry about that, kid…" Xarin scratched his head as he smiled.
"Thank the Maous you're alright," Serena smiled before she looked to the rest of her peerage and Sanosuke. "Everyone! Eliminate every stray devil you see before you!"
"Roger!" The peerage replied.
"I'll take you all on!" The pawn with the two sickles roared.
Sanosuke summoned the Kokusen before he started running towards the pawn with the two sickles. But before he could reach the pawn, he felt a sudden presence and swung his scabbard to the right, barely blocking the sword of the Knight, Kojiro.
"Finally a worthy swordsman!" Kojiro grinned before he jumped back. "I will take your life here." He charged-
A stream of black light blocked his way.
Sanosuke and Kojiro turned to the source of the lighting to see Keisuke carrying his spears. "Don't forget you and I have a score to settle." he smirked.
"Ah yes, the Pawn." Kojiro frowned. "We do have that duel to finish."
Sanosuke was surprised. "Hey, you're still injured, at least sit this one out!"
"I don't care. I'm gonna kick his ass for dragging Saya into this!" Keisuke said, Sanosuke noticed the fierce determination in the silver haired boy's eyes. He sighed, he knew he wouldn't be able to stop him.
"You have my thanks." Sanosuke continued running towards the pawn. 'Certainly, you are an interesting warrior, Keisuke Ryuudou,' Sanosuke thought.
Kojiro watched the black swordsman running away. "You know you're beginning to annoy me." Kojiro said in a more serious tone before turning his head at Keisuke.
Keisuke smirked. "I was beginning to say the same thing."
In a blink of an eye, their weapons clashed.
Sanosuke threw a downward slash onto the two sickles wielding pawn who blocked the blade with ease.
"Krato is my name, murder and death are my game." The pawn introduced himself. "What's yours?" he asked murderously.
"I'm sorry, I'm not one for limericks or rhymes." Sanosuke before the two attacked each other.
-x-x-
Souta pointed at the remaining members of the Peerage. "See there, Kilboar? There is your prey. I want you take their heads." Souta ordered before the Minataur roared. The Minataur charged at the group of students and raised its axe-sword for a downward slash.
Xarin blocked took the full weight of the attack with his zanbatou, "I guess fighting another Rook would be good exercise." He pushed the giant axe-sword off. "Lets play a game bull-fighting." Xarin joked before he came in with a downward slash.
Souta blew away the needles that Christie threw at him. Souta jumped back away from the swiped from her to see that the buxom red head's nails were replaced by claws and were reinforced with metal.
"Now lets not play cat and mouse tonight." She said in a teasing.
Souta chuckled. "You would honestly believe that I would lose to cow with sharp nails?! Don't play with me!"
"Now, you're just asking for a spanking!" Christie roared before she charged.
Kaoru jumped backwards from the punch of the Rook's fist.
"Certainly, this man's defence and power is on par with a Queen's." Kaoru commented as she continued. Kaoru threw a gust of wind at the man but he, Zhang Yue, created a pillar of rock between him and the wind through a magic circle on the ground. Kaoru grew her wings and held her Khakkara high. She lit the Khakkara ablaze as she roared.
Serena noticed that she were surrounded by the two pawns.
"Hey I've never have sex with a high class devil before. If we beat her down here, can I fuck her?" asked one of them to the only female member.
'How vulgar,' Serena thought. "Like you can touch me! Vulgar Strays!" She spat out.
"Ooh, a bit of spunk! I like that in a girl." The same Pawn said again.
Serena is losing her patience with that Devil.
"Get your head in the game! Just kill her!" the girl said before both of them charged.
Serena spread her arms out, her shadow spread out from beneath her. She raised her right arm, the mass of darkness under her create a spike from the ground that blocked the attack. And she did the same for the next attack, before any of the devils realised, their legs were caught by the darkness like quicksand. Serena swung her left hand and a blade of darkness appeared.
"Serena-san! Look out!"
Serena jumped when she heard the voice and turned around to see someone wielding a sickle-sword coming at her. She was about to make barrier but she then saw someone with blond hair appearing between her and the curly brown haired Pawn, blocking the attack. The person was female, wearing a simple dark green jacket, white tanked top and a pair of blue jeans. She held a white and silver-blue rapier in her hand. The female intruder looked over her shoulder, revealing who she was.
"Sylvia-san," Serena gasped.
"Don't get distracted!" Sylvia snapped. Sylvia threw the sword off her and aimed for thrust at the Pawn. The pawn dodged to the right
What was she doing here? Serena wondered. why would she be here?
-x-x-
Sanosuke swung a sickle away before he gripped the other sickle with his free hand. He kicked the pawn away before throwing the sickle away. He charged energy into his sword before he came for the finisher.
But a pair of sickles blocked his attack.
Sanosuke looked to see another Krato blocking his attack. This Krato pushed his sword away before punching him in the face. This Krato came in for another attack but Sanosuke was quick to recover and kicked in him away. He went to slash at the original Krato but a second clone blocked him again before Sanosuke was kicked away by the third clone that appeared.
Sanosuke landed and took a quick look to assess the situation. "This is the Sacred Gear, Multi Trick."
"How right you are little bird. Right now you a group of men as strong as moi." Krato told him arrogantly. "There is now way you can beat us." The four Kratos dashed towards him.
Sanosuke blocked the first strike and kicked first Krato away he kicked in the sternum that left him moving backwards. With a straight slash, the Kokusen was knock away from Sanosuke's grip. He cursed at this before he saw Krato delivering a sidekick to Sanosuke's chest. Sanosuke blocked the kick with his arms but the force sent flying, with him landing at a distance away from Krato and his clones. He found him leaning on one knee.
"You see. Now that I've released my Sacred Gear, you are nothing! You will understand that you are nothing but a slice away to your doom." Krato gloated.
Multi Trick…what a pain of a Sacred Gear to have. No matter how many of his clones he cuts down, others will take its place. Sanosuke smirked.
Krato saw this. "Oh…Why are smiling? Or is it you've gone mad from the hopelessness of your situation?"
Sanosuke stood up, "No…" He looked up to face his opponent. "There's a saying, 'He who laughs first, dies first.'"
"Kill him," Krato ordered, unimpressed.
The clones then began charging at the sword-less swordsman. The closest clone was about to slash Sanosuke, but no one noticed the dim lights in his palms.
What happened next surprised Krato. He didn't expect the nuisance to quickly counterattack. Hell he didn't expect one of his clones to be sliced away by another sword.
In Sanosuke's hands were a white bladed falchion and a black bladed falchion in his right and left hands respectively. In his hands were the Song Between Two Lovers, White Black.
Sanosuke saw the same clone coming back at him, but he spread his wing and jumped back, firing two shots into the head of the clone before it burst in flames.
He charged, making his way to Krato. He blocked the attack of the first clone that came his way, slicing him across the stomach. He ducked under the attack of the next clone before coming up and aiming his slash through the neck. He roundhouse kicked the blade of the clone after and cut across the devil chest.
He looked around to see that Krato had regenerated his three clones beside him. After a quick breath, Sanosuke charged at the clones. He'll finish this is one go. He pushed away a slash from the left before he spun with one slash. He threw both swords at them, slicing a limb from the first two clones. He created another pair of falchions and threw them again to distract them. He created a third pair of swords, this time the swords were a pair of broadswords and dashed forward slicing the first three clones in half with ease. He leaped towards the real body and slashed downwards, creating an x mark on the chest of pawn. The pawn then screamed in pain as he fell to the floor.
Krato saw Sanosuke standing over him with a shortsword and his katana in his hands. Krato screamed, "Just what is this?! Holy power?!"
Sanosuke said nothing as he raised the shortsword before plunging it into Krato's chest, ending the pawn's life.
-x-x-
Keisuke blocked a slash from Kojiro and kicked him away. He was about to aim a thrust at Kojiro's head but the samurai pushed the spear aside with his sword though Kojiro didn't had enough time to react for the second spear as it cut diagonally across the Stray Knight's chest. Keisuke elbowed Kojiro's stomach, forcing the man back.
Kojiro held his wound in pain and cursed, 'For a injured guy, he's faring better than I thought he would. I can't do much with this wound.' With one hand, Kojiro swung his sword but Keisuke parried the weakened swing and brought both spears up for the finishing blow.
"This is it!" Keisuke roared. He slashed downwards onto Kojiro but both spears were blocked by a scythe. Keisuke saw a young man with messy dark green hair, fair skin and yellow eyes wearing a long black hooded rob on him.
"Joe!" Kojiro addressed the pawn.
Joe pushed Keisuke off before saying. "Kojiro-san! Get out of here while you can!" Kojiro nodded before the teleported away.
"Get out of my way!" Keisuke growled before he slashed at the pawn who blocked the attack.
-x-x-
Sylvia reached under her jacket and pulled a golden handle. The Stray Devil swung his sword but she effortlessly duck under the swing the sickle sword's blade. She then aimed the golden handle straight into the stomach of the pawn and activated the blade.
The pawn roared in the intense, deadly pain. "A sword of light? Impossible!" He roared, struggle for words. He felt his body burning away by the burning poison.
She light kicked blade deeper into the Devil, leaving the sword of light inside his body.
"I was raised by the church! Of course, I would carry a holy sword!" Sylvia explained. She took one last look at her enemy before walking away.
"Damn you, damn all of you in hell!" the pawn cursed as the burn intensified further. Before he knew it, his body had disintegrated.
-x-x-
Keisuke took the full weight of the pawn's attack. The two locked weapons before Keisuke pushed the weapon away and punched the pawn in the face. Keisuke then came in with a stream of slashes with his spears before he went higher and flew down. Using his momentum to kick the pawn hurdling down to the ground.
The pawn had no time to react as he saw Keisuke charging down on him with one of the spears piercing through the torso. Keisuke pulled out his spear and began walking away from the dying pawn, there's still that shitty samurai to take care of.
"Before I die…" he heard the pawn whisper. "…I'm going to take you with me." He held out his left arm and shot a fireball from his palm.
On instinct, Keisuke rolled away from the attack. He heard a sudden scream. He then turned around and saw that the fireball was making its way towards Saya who stood there in shock.
"Saya!" Keisuke shouted. Damn it, what was she doing here? He needed to get to her now.
Saya instinctively tried to protect herself, but she knew that would be futile. She thought of one thing, 'Someone help me!' A flash of light shone between Saya and the fireball. The fireball itself was engulfed in the light.
Everyone was surprised when they saw the light dying out. Pink sakura petals that were glowing were flying around her protectively. The sakura petals absorbed the fireball, leaving Saya unscathed.
"No way…" Keisuke gasped. He wasn't the only one surprised, everyone in his team including Sylvia were surprised.
Souta was surprised too but he had came up with an idea. Since his plans have gone awry, might as well use a contingency plan to escape. He turned to Christie and opened a green magic with blew gusts of wind which forced Christie to cover herself. When she recovered, she noticed the bishop was gone.
Serena's eyes went wide. "She has a Sacred Gear?"
Saya opened her eyes and gasped too. "What is this?" she asked out loud, hoping for something that made sense to her but before anyone could say anything, she felt a blow in her stomach. She lost consciousness.
"Saya!" Keisuke called.
Souta held her under his arm. "I'm honestly surprised, to think that this girl possesses a Sacred Gear."
Keisuke was pissed, "You bastard, give her back! She has nothing to do with this!" He roared.
"We will be using her as a little insurance." Souta countered. "Plus this girl is a Sacred Gear user, she'll be bound to cross paths with us sooner or later. No use in trying to delay the inevitable."
Zhang Yue jumped beside Souta. "We're wasting time here, let us retreat everyone!"
"Then let us meet in the abandoned church on the edge of town for our final battle at 12 midnight!" Souta announced.
-x-End-x-