''KEEP TOGETHER, DON'T LET HIM IN A 1 VERSUS 1!Siegfried, Jeanne, Heracles, GO!'' – Georg shouted as he fired an array of magic attacks, while the the trio charged at Issei.
Jeanne and Siegfried took both of his flanks while Heracles charged from the front.
''..Promotion, knight!'' – Issei quietly spoke as he changed his course towards the women. The magic attacks flew by his head and a few hit his armor.
..But she didn't do anything Issei expected. She narrowed her eyes and drew her sheathed sword. She held it like a rapier and as Issei closed in, she stabbed it at Issei's core.
He caught the sword and shattered it with his gauntlet. Just as his arm would have reached the face of the women, Issei's battle instinct made him dodge.
With all his might leaned to his left. He heard something crack as his spine bent in an unnatural way.
The sword that held the extremely focused killing-intent went just above his head. He leaned back and span around while bringing his leg up, trying to catch the man who he assumed was Siegfried, but he was blown away.
Quite literally.
He felt the feeling of the attack on his back, but the point of impact exploded.
His body was thrown forward as it crashed trough the ground, raising debris and dust.
He stopped his rolling by extending his arm and pushing himself into air.
His feet touched the ground but Heracles was already in his face. Issei parried a punch that exploded, sending a shockwave of energy to their side. A good chunk of the ground shattered into pieces by this single punch.
Issei stepped in, getting inside Heracles reach. He uppercutted the man in the stomach, but he simply took it and counter attacked.
Issei dodged under it and brought his elbow to his side and used a punch with Chinese origin – while punching he spun his wrist and held a stable core.
The white fumes enveloped Heracles as he was blown back from Issei and in this movement, Issei span around and slapped away a barrage of magic attacks. Some of the magic spikes embedded themselves into Issei's gauntlet but he didn't heed any attention to it.
He jumped up and ducked at the same time as two swords went by his feet and his head. The latter cut into his helmet and made him sick in an instant.
The sword was like poison to him.
[..That's The Gram, avoid it all costs!] –Ddraig spoke to him in his mind.
Issei landed and readied himself for the second charge.
Siegfried and Jeanne jumped at him from both sides at the same time. Issei readied his right arm as he stared at Siegfried's blade.
He raised his right arm at Jeanne's sword as they both attacked.
As Siegfried brought his sword down with honed prowess, Issei's muddy mind pulled parallels with Gilgamesh's way of fighting and his body moved with practiced ease.
He kicked upwards, catching the sword with foot before he could unleash the power in it. He felt sharp pain on his foot as the white fumes pushed Siegfried away.
He quickly switched his view to Jeanne. Her sword, that Issei was ready to catch simply slid trough Issei's palm burned it. Issei's eyes widened under his helmet as he pulled Jeanne closer and swiped his elbow at her head.
She let go of her sword of light and jumped back.
Before Issei could react, he saw the incoming barrage of mixed magic attacks.
''PROMOTION, ROOK!'' – He shouted, just as the magic attacks hit him head on, enveloping him in a mix of fire, electricity and dust.
Issei shuffled out of the raised dust with his back, just as trough the same dust jumped Heracles with his fist raised.
Issei crossed his arms on top of his chest...but suddenly the fist of Heracles opened as his long fingers grabbed into Issei's neck.
The armor around his neck cracked and bent under the pressure. While still midair, Issei kicked at Heracles chest, but the giant man punched him into the knee, effectively stopping Issei's attack.
''ARGGGGHH-'' – He grasped for breath as he grabbed into the arm that was holding him and released his Ki out of the palms.
He was released and as he landed on his feet he was hit by a feeling of vertigo.
He lost his balance for just a split second and was hit in the chest by Heracles, only this time the explosion didn't throw him away..because it exploded inside of his body.
''UGGH!'' – He raised his arms to cover his face but to no avail.
His body convulsed as blood splattered trough his armor's mask, flowing trough his gauntlets fingers.
Heracles used the advantage by grabbing Issei by the face. His world was thrown upside down as he was smashed into the ground and it exploded. The feeling of his face exploding over and over again as Heracles simply kept using his power while smashing Issei into the ground.
He stopped for a second...but that was because he needed to switch his attacks.
His muscular leg came down on Issei's chest and abdomen and it exploded once again...as he kicked and punched on the knocked down and out Issei.
Like that Issei was smashed away from reality.
His already dull and murky sight and hearing cut away as his consciousness ran away like marbles.
He remained floating in his own brain fluid...or at least that was what he needed to assume because he couldn't quite understand what else it could be.
His body was heavy and unresponsive as he sunk deeper and deeper into the darkness.
Issei's brown eyes became dull and lost their shine as the darkness enveloped him.
..he was about to accept his fate when an arm appeared before his face. A muscular arm with rugged fingers.
He moved his arm upwards while it cracked like a rusty, worn out tool.
His bloody fingers wrapped around the extended arm and he was slowly pulled up, outside of the depths of his own death.
He got up, surprised at the lost pain. He turned to see who was the person who saved him.
White hair and a hollow expression.
''..You..''
''You. Or me.'' – The person snickered. –''..It doesn't really matter, does it? We both are you and me.
Issei was looking at another Issei. The other him was wearing slim black pants and a white shirt.
''..I am dying, aren't I?'' – Issei asked himself.
''...'' – He didn't answer himself. –''..This view is depressing...how about this?''
He asked and the view changed. The lurking darkness was scattered away as a view constructed around the two of them.
A familiar view. The island where the soldiers rest. His soldiers.
''..Let's take a walk?''
Himself asked Issei.
And they did. They moved in the familiar direction that Issei was used to.
They stopped by a grave. The grave where Margit rested. Where her's and his dog-tags fluttered in the wind.
The other him went to the right side of the grave while he went to the left.
''..Do you remember what you promised yourself..or me..at her grave?''
Issei looked down at his teacher's resting place. The wind fluttered his bloody hair. –''..Of course. To become strong. To never die before her.''
He smiled bitterly. –''..Yes. Are you strong? Am I strong?''
''..Not strong enough.'' – Issei responded as he looked at the clouds that flowed in reverse.
Silence.
Issei looked down at himself. His pants were ripped to pieces, his back was bare and he was bleeding. His arms were creaking as he moved them. His ribs were broken and his lungs were impaled.
Issei touched his face and felt the stream of blood flowing over his head and down his back. His hair was more red than white and he felt like sleeping...but he was still breathing.
''..You are dying...your body is beaten and broken...only death awaits you now. With every step you will take further you will only feel pain and sadness.'' – The other him spoke up, disrupting the silence.-''..The decision is yours to make.''
The scene changed again. The sea, the clouds and the ground shifted away as they remained standing.
The scene shifted back into a white a corridor. Behind Issei the way was flooded by a white light while to his front, behind the other Issei's back the white floor turned into a checkered board of white and black. At it's end, corrupted darkness lurked.
Issei looked at it more. He noticed the dried up, dark blood that dirtied the white tiles.
''..You can choose between pain and relief. Between suffering and end. Between the fight and the rest.
The whiteness behind him felt soothing. It tried to pull him in..but he stepped closer to himself.
''..My decision has been made ever since that day.'' – He said.
''..I know that.'' – He responded to himself.
Issei hugged the other him.
'...I'm sorry I'm so weak.'' – He said.
''..You will need to go down that route. That pain..that suffering, that unbelievable backlash of anger and madness.'' – The other him responded.
He let go, as only his left hand remained on his other self's shoulder.
''..I know.'' – He stepped forward, passing himself.-''..For this is what is needed.''
His bare feet felt cold on the checkered tiles. The silence slowly was drowned out by whispering and laughter. His feet left blood sprints on top of the already dirty tiles as he walked forward.
His footsteps echoed over the hallway. He heard the clattering of chains as he stepped even deeper into the hallway. He passed an old chair.
And the path ended. The wall of shadows now began to devour him, as he stepped into it.
With one foot inside the shadow he turned his head back. The other him was simply looking back at him. He smiled bitterly.
As Issei stepped inside the shadow and felt the voice of her, her slender fingers on his body and the cracking of fingers, he heard the other Issei speak.
''Even though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil...for You are with me.''
That Issei cracked his finger.
Everything disappeared as he was swallowed by the darkness. The pain disappeared.
A moment earlier Heracles had stopped beating on Issei because he was already dead. Issei's heart had already stopped beating.
Heracles was sitting on top of Issei and breathing heavily. He raised his fist again.
''..Stop. He's dead. No need to mutilate a corpse.'' – George said, as he narrowed his eyes. A pool blood had now formed around Issei and Heracles.
''..Poor Flame Shaker...his first serious job and he got an end like that.'' – Jeanne spoke and she turned to the last person who hadn't done any fighting. –''..I hope you will train harder from this example, Staring Blue.''
The man was shaking at his knees and was sweating profusely. ''..Is..Is every SS ranked criminal this strong?''
''..No. Ddraig is different from most of them because he has the aura of death that is making you shake like a leaf.'' – Siegfried responded and turned to walk away.
Then the ground shook.
Issei's fingers moved. It cracked. His arm creaked as he blocked the punch that Heracles was about to throw.
Issei's armor's helmet was shattered into pieces from his earlier attacks.
His eyes met Issei's. Trough his blood covered hair and face, two dull, unreflecting eyes with sharp irises looked at him...and pulled narrower.
'YOU-'' – He shouted just before he was grabbed by the mouth. Issei's spine made a cracking sound as he got up in a ghoulish way – by bending in his knees upwards.
''..Let's play, Heracles-chan!'' – He said, together with some blood that spilled out from his mouth.
''MMGHH'' – Heracles tried to say something but his mouth was blocked.
''MOVE, MOVE!''- Georg screamed as he fired magic rockets at Issei.
''Ah, alley-!'' – He said in a childish manner as he span around, grabbed Heracles neck with his other hand and changed his grip around his neck, in such a way that now his fingers touched on the backside of the neck while his thumbs held down on his jaw.
''..Uppp!'' – He shouted and pulled Heracles into the air, over himself. His giant body blocked the magic missiles as he was crashed into ground, shattering it into a spiderweb pattern in every direction.
Issei grabbed Heracles, threw him off the ground by his leg and roundhouse kicked him in the side, launching him past Georg.
The whites fumes from the kick masked Issei's frame for a second. As the fumes dispersed, Issei's armor was repairing itself. Everything except the helmet had fused back.
[..Now you've done it.] – Ddraig spoke...but Issei didn't hear it.
Heracles was caught by Staring Blue who was reluctant. He landed and slid backwards.
Issei's foot shattered the ground as he kicked off and his boosters left a red trail in his wake.
Siegfried and Jeanne changed their trajectories to intercept him, but they were too slow.
''Promotion, Knight!'' – Issei shouted as he disappeared from their view.
''BLUE, ESCAPE!'' – Georg screamed trying to stop Issei, but he couldn't.
Blue froze up as Issei appeared in front of him. Issei backhanded Hercules who was still in Blue's grasp. His limp body was thrown to the side as Issei's eyes locked onto Blue's.
''Too late.'' – Issei whispered, as his lips curled into a wide smile and his eyes narrowed even more, holding a look more sinister and freezing than anything he had ever seen before.
It took less than second for Issei to move from being a hundred meters in front of Georg to being 200 behind him. It took even less than that for Heracles to be blown away...
..and it took even less than the previous understanding for Blue to understand that it was hopeless.
He had raised his hands, but they cracked and bent in different directions as Issei punched at him once.
The second punch to his jaw broke it, together with his spine. His eyes went unfocused as Issei span on his one leg and kicked high.
The upper and lower part of Blue's body was split in two as Issei's was enveloped by a barrage of magic. Every kind of magic. Norse, Devil and Human magic rained upon him as Georg screamed with anger to his voice.
The magic barrage was blown away when Issei smashed his fist into the ground and released his phantom bullet. The sound of his attack echoed over the vast space and raised dust in a circular pattern.
''You are so fucking annoying!'' – Issei shouted at Georg and kicked off again in his direction.
The two swordsmen jumped at him from both sides as Issei raised both of his hands, each in the attackers direction.
''PHANTOM BULLET!'' – He shouted, as both Siegfried and Jeanne were catapulted backwards and Georg raised his hands with wide eyes.
A point blank magic cluster exploded in Issei's face as Georg jumped backwards..but trough the dust and smoke Issei jumped out high, with his leg extended upwards.
His thrusters fired a cluster of energy as he was catapulted downwards, just where Georg was standing.
Suddenly Issei's thrusters pushed him to the side, as an wave of explosion scattered past that spot.
In a single motion, Heracles who was bruised up and with bleeding had pushed Georg way and fired his balance breaker at him.
Issei span around midair in a messy way and fired his boosters again.
His leg came down together with him on Heracles face.
At least, he tried to do that.
Heracles had caught the kick...but the force shattered the ground beneath and behind him.
He pulled Issei into the air and slammed him at the ground.
As soon as he hit the ground he rolled to the side as Heracles leg smashed down and exploded just where Issei was previously.
He launched himself into the air and as he landed, Siegfried was in his face.
Issei's eyes widened as he pushed his arm to the front in the last second.
The arm was impaled by Gram. Siegfried assumed Issei would simply die from an injury of this caliber by the strongest demon sword...but Issei simply shouted.
''MISSED.'' – Issei pushed the arm to the front, as the impaled gauntlet cracked and broke, uncovering that the Siegfried's blade had cut into the gauntlet and not Issei's arm. - ''PHANTOM BULLET!"
Issei and Sigfried were blown away from the spot they were at.
Issei slid over the ground as he tried to balance himself.
He stopped by grabbed into the ground and looked at his enemies.
Siegfried, Jeanne, George and Heracles stood together.
''...Stop this nonsense, you fool!'' – Heracles shouted at him. –''You cannot defy your death!''
''..Go fuck youself.'' – Issei responded, with anger to his voice. –''Would you like me to just fall over and di-''
Just as he said that he clutched at his head and screamed in pain. He lost his balance and fell to his knees, already coughing up blood.
His face was turning white from the blood loss.
''..Let's get this over with. I can't keep looking at this.'' – Georg said and looked to his sides.
''Let's.'' – Siegfried responded.
Issei suddenly stood up. He pulled his hair back and looked at them with red, bloodshot eyes.
''...For it's what's needed.'' -He cracked his finger again as the 4 enemies charged.
The charging enemies were blown away by pure pressure.
''I, who is about to awaken,'' –Issei's words echoed over the field.
[HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!][FINALLY!] – The anger and laughter of past possessors appeared.
''What is th-?'' – Jeanne asked, but was overspoken by Siegfried.
''He's gonna use the Juggernaut drive!'' – Siegfried shouted as charged, pushing trough the force that was trying to repel him.
''Am the Heavenly Dragon who has stolen the principles of domination from God''
[DOITDOITDOITDOIT!][IT'S TIME TO RAMPAGE!]
Siegfried's sword, who was just about to come cut Issei's head off, was dodged and Siegfried was hit in the side, blowing him away.
He landed few hundred meters away and spoke up. ''..Goddammit, even in this trance like stage he still hasn't lost his instinct!''
''I laugh at the "infinite", and I grieve at the "dream"!''
[LET US DEVOUR YOU!][YOUR DOWNFALL WILL BE OUR FEAST!]
''STOP HIM!'' – George screamed as he shot his magic at Issei but it was useless.
''I shall become the Red Dragon of Domination-!''
[IT WAS ALWAYS POWER][STRENGTH][DESIRE TO WIN]
Siegfried screamed –''LOOK OUT!''
A barrage of swords rained upon them. Siegfried sped up and knocked the crucial ones away.
A cluster of fire was surging towards them, leaving a trail in the sky.
''Everyone, on me!'' – George shouted and created a sphere like barrier around himself.
As soon as the cluster hit the land, it exploded in a dome like shape, expanding in size. The explosion eerily similar to a mini atom bomb's explosion.
It engulfed the whole field in fire, raising dust and rubble everywhere
As the dust calmed down, they looked at Issei again. He hadn't spoken the last line to his chant...and he couldn't.
His mouth was covered by two slender hands.
From behind Issei, someone was holding his mouth shut. The person's slender fingers were warm. He recognized this warmth.
The anger fell back into the darkness. Her hold over Issei's mind was shattered by her touch. His armor crumbled into dust and the palms slid down and began holding him by the shoulders.
''..Kuroka..'' – He spoke, quietly.
''Sorry we're so late.'' – She said as she pushed her body against Issei's back and began to heal him.
Issei relaxed his body and closed his eyes.
''..Hey hey, I know it feels good, but don't fall asleep. You've destroyed your body pretty severely. Can't tell if you'd wake up.''
''..Heh. I'll try.'' – He responded and opened one eye.
Two black coats fluttered as the two persons stepped to the front. They looked back at Issei.
Both of them brought up their fist to their chest.
''..What are your orders, sir?'' – The women with short black hair asked him.
''Fleimel..Gilgamesh...give them no mercy.'' – He spoke up.
She nodded while the man with golden hair chuckled. –''..Will do, boss.''
They both turned and stepped forwards the two enemies. Flemeil was enveloped in fire and she began to fire magic attacks without resting while Gilgamesh jumped at Siegfried without a care in the world.
Jeanne and Siegfried raised their swords as Gilgamesh appeared in their faces.
Just as their swords would have cut Gilgamesh in two, sparks and metal clashing echoed over the field.
Both of them were thrown back as Gilgamesh span a sword in each hand. Swords that were not previously there.
He stepped forward and pushed back two of them at once as his swords moved in a blindingly fast speed.
For every sword Siegfried destroyed, he simply made a new one appear in his hands.
George was getting pushed back while Heracles was trying to hit Fleimel, who was teleporting all over the place.
''George, be careful!'' – He shouted and charged past Fleimel.
She shot out fire at him, but he simply evaded that and charged at Issei and Kuroka.
''Let's switch.'' – Kuroka said and they span around. Issei was now resting with his back against Kuroka's back and she simply stared down the incoming Heracles.
Her eyes met Heracles...as she simply stood there as his punch targeted her face.
She didn't move a bit. Heracles punch exploded in her face.
Heracles was thrown downwards as his body hit the ground and slid to the front.
He was hit in the backside of his head by Kuroka...but he couldn't understand how. Her position hadn't changed and he was sure he hit right where she stood.
She exchanged places with Issei again, standing face on against Heracles.
He jumped at her and kicked at her side.
His kick went trough her...or rather...he simply missed her body. He simply missed a kick. It was such a simple explanation that it was stupid. It was impossible.
He attacked again, this time without his power of explosion.
He threw a jab, and just as his fist would have hit Kuroka he noticed two things.
Her glowing, yellow eyes and the fact that his fist, as it went past her face, bent at an odd angle, but his fist was back to normal as soon as he pulled back his fist.
It was only around her that he perceived his fist in an odd way...and he understood.
''You can actually manipulate the space?'' – He asked.
Kuroka didn't respond as she held a serious expression.
''Che.'' – He angrily jumped at her again.
This time his attack wasn't a head on one, but an area of effect one. The place where Issei and Kuroka had stood exploded.
They were standing in that place unscathed.
''..Seriously?''
Kuroka narrowed her eyes.
''3 seconds Issei.''
''Mhm.''
For Heracles, it was an instant. An unbeatable, unfightable skipping of time. Exactly 3 seconds.
Issei was standing in front of him.
He was holding something in his right hand. The thing was still half-twitching, half pumping dark blood into his arm.
''..Ah.''
Heracles fell backwards, before he even could look at the hole in his chest.
Issei released his heart stepped backwards, almost falling over, as Kuroka caught him and wrapped her arm over his shoulder.
The heart made a splattering sound as it hit the ground.
''C'mon, sit down, I'll help you with Ki distribution and everything else that's fucked up in your body.'' – She said, on a rather sad note.
Issei sat down while she put her hands on his back. Issei felt the familiar warmth that overwhelmed him...it was too hot as he began to breath heavily and sweat.
''..Just keep your consciousness...I have to calm down your Ki channels and regenerate organs...goddammit, you are just as big of a moron as your teacher.'' – Kuroka said, with a hint of teasing to her voice.
Issei chuckled. –''..If you had been here 3 minutes earlier it would have been a lot better, ya know.''
''..Sorry.'' – Kuroka responded in a serious tone, not getting that Issei was joking.
''Don't be.'' – He responded to her and brought his arm over his shoulder and touched Kuroka's palm with his own.
Meanwhile, Gilgamesh was having a field day as he was spinning around the field with broken blades all around him.
He looked back at Issei and Kuroka.
''Oh, looks like they're wrapping up.'' – He said and stomped his foot down.
A dome of swords appeared segregated Siegfried, who was surrounded by the swords, from Jeanne.
He kicked off the wall of swords, jumped into the air and threw the two swords in his hands at Jeanne who hit them away.
''Too slow, knight-kun!'' – She laughed as Gilgamesh span around mid air and created a sword that had an odd golden glow. The same color as his hair.
He left a golden trail in his wake as he shattered the ground where he landed. As soon as their blades clashed, she was pushed back.
Two hits and her sword was shattered. As she tried to pull out her rapier, Gilgamesh stabbed his own sword into the ground, lunged at her and grabbed into her elbow, a bone cracking sound echoed as he broke it. He stepped back and spun around, grabbed the dropped sword and spun around again, decapitating her.
The dome of swords around shattered in an instance as Siegfried jumped at him with wide eyes and dual wielding demonic swords.
''Oh, you became serious!'' – Gilgamesh smiled and jumped at him with his golden sword.
Georg was matching his magic power and outburst to Fleimel's, who's main magic was fire.
She threw a giant ball of fire at him and ducked under his attacks, sliding to the front.
Before he could even realize, he was already inside of her range.
Fleimel threw a few quick kicks and a roundhouse kick to his face as he fired magic point blank, scattering them both.
She felt something in the air, completely out of the blue.
Her eyes widened as she shouted at Gilgamesh. –''GET BACK, FOOL!''
She teleported to Gilgamesh who had launched himself in a straight line backwards by releasing his swords magical energy, caught him and teleported to Issei and Kuroka.
Issei's eyes widened and he quickly got up, not minding the vertigo.
The whole atmosphere of the empty field changed...and there he appeared.
''Cao Cao.'' – Issei narrowed his eyes and focused his still rampaging killing intent towards him.
He span his spear around and looked at Issei with a blank expression. He wasn't angry. He simply stared at him for a few seconds and walked over to Georg who was knocked down, to help him get up.
''...Issei Hyoudou. Don't misunderstand. They went out of line behind my back. Rest now.'' – He said, as Siegfried walked over to him and Georg. –''..Because I will come after you in the future...then...you will receive no mercy. ''
The Hero faction looked the Suicide Squad...and they disappeared from sight, together with the bodies.
Issei lost his footing and fell back into his meditation way of sitting. Fleimel and Kuroka quickly began to use their healing abilities.
''..Listen Issei, we will heal you and disappear in..35 seconds.'' – Kuroka said. –''..If we stay longer they will notice the change in the barrier that is blocking the teleportation.''
''..So that's the reason you guys took so long?''
''Aye.'' – Gilgamesh responded, showing Issei his usual self-confident smirk. –''Kuroka broke trough it..because you know, she is that talented.''
''Basically.'' – She smiled. –''..How are you feeling?''
''Hot. It feels like a fever, my body hurts all over and I began to feel my left arm again.'' – Issei responded. –''But I'm not puking blood, and that's nice.''
''Good.''
''10 seconds.'' - Fleimel said as he continued to use her Sacred gear on Issei.
''..But the most, your mind is jumbled up.'' – Kuroka said. –''Your body will recover..but there might some staying things with your left arm and your mind...anyways...you can now pass out. See you back in Japan.''
She said, kissed Issei on the lips and sunk into the ground with Fleimel and Gilgamesh.
As soon as she disappeared Issei widened his eyes at the sudden feeling...of familiarity?
He looked upwards right at the moment the kaleidoscope sky began to glitch out..as a giant, red monster floated in the view. Issei realized at the spot who exactly it was.
''...Great Red.'' - Issei muttered under his breath and he stood up. It didn't feel right, almost disrespectful, to be sitting down.
He flexed his legs to stop their shaking as he stared at the humongous dragon.
He simply floated, magnificently trough the particularly odd looking clouds of the dimensional gap. His massive body cast a shadow over Issei.
Issei's palms pulled into fists as he felt the immeasurable power coming from the dragon in front of him.
He turned his face sideways...as one of his golden eyes looked downwards...at Issei. A single glance...that was pulled away in a matter of seconds.
It was as if the dragon was saying that Issei was not worth his time.
''...Great Red has never had any courtesy.'' – A girlish voice spoke.
Issei turned his head.
Her black hair fluttered in the slight wind. Her head turned to face Issei for a while. Her black, soulless eyes looked into Issei's dull brown's...and she smirked. A smirk that seemed more evil than happy.
Issei froze on the spot, not feeling her presence at all.
At the same moment a group of people had teleported near to Issei.
Sirzechs, Azazel...and Koneko.
The three of them froze on the spot as they looked at Issei's back.
Koneko widened her eyes on the carnage that had happened here just a few moments earlier. Blood, fire, an unmeasurable amount of blood and the destroyed field – cracks, craters and destroyed pillars.
Issei's back was teared up and scraped, as blood flowed down the backside of his head. The blood had already dried up over his old scars and burns. Everywhere, because he was covered in it from head to toe.
''...is that Ophis?'' – Azazel spoke up, after the while of silence.
They both turned towards the trio.
''..It is me, Ophis, indeed.'' – The Ouroboros dragon responded..but then she turned her attention back to Issei. –''..Ddraig. Do you receive pleasure from getting beat up?''
Issei fumbled. –''...No, I wouldn't say that, Ophis.''
''Ah. I...just assumed that from the way we have been meeting, child.'' – She said, even though she had the appearance of a child dressed in a gothic loli outfit, that was quite revealing.
She raised her hand against Great Red, in a way that copied a pistol. She made a cute gunshot sound as she imitated firing it.
''..One day, the silence I yearn for will be mine.'' – She said...while Great Red...yawned.
''...What a rude dragon.'' – Issei said, while Koneko, Azazel and Sirzechs were baffled by the happenings and were looking at the Dragon of Dragons.
''...Ddraig.'' – She said, turning her body towards Issei once again and looking him into the eyes. –''...You are...interesting. I..think.''
''Mm?'' – Issei responded with noticeable surprise. –''..You think?''
''Yes. I, Ophis, am rather incapable of a rather wide range of emotions...but I have an..interest...in you.'' – She said, with her childish, yet sinister sounding voice. –''..For now, Issei...stay alive. We'll meet..sometime.''
She smirked at Issei again. Her eyes narrowed a bit...and as she was to disappear, Azazel stopped her with words.
''..Ophis!'' – He shouted. –''..You are the leader of the Khaos Brigade, right?''
''Mmm.'' – She responded with a cute hum.
''...We have to take you out then.'' – Azazel said and flared up his wings...and Sirzechs did the same things.
''Denied.'' – She said and turned around. –''..I'm going home.''
Before she disappeared Issei spoke up, one last time. –''..The outfit looks cute on you.''
She tilted her head back...and smiled.
As she disappeared, everyone understood how surreal everything that happened actually was. The two leaders of Hell were simply denied the right to fight by the Infinity Dragon..as the Apocalypse Dragon floated past them...and Issei, who just commented on her gothic loli outfit.
Issei's legs gave out and he fell to his knees with a small chuckle.
Sirzechs, Azazel and Koneko quickly moved to him. Koneko touched his red-haired head and noticed that he was unconscious.
She quickly touched his jugular vein.
''He blacked out.''
''...I guess the interrogation can wait.'' – Sirzechs said as Azazel picked up Issei and threw him over his shoulder.
''Let's get back.''
Oh, boy, here we are. I powered trough this chapter. Its like 5.4k words in 10 days.
I burned out, kind of. Anyways, how are you?
I have no comments, really, only that I'm still trying to decide if i want to go down the ultimate suffering road or not.
If you have anything you want to say, please leave a review! Thanks for reading, and thanks for all the reviews!
HamJabroni Inc - Heh, when I started I did like 3,5k words/7 days, now I simply can't do that, haha. Thanks for the review!
AkaiRyuu-One with his laptop - Well, you flatter me, but my work is not that good. It's riddled with mistakes, inconsistencies and it's generly not the kind of story DxD fans like - they want a harem - this is not one. Thanks for the review!
KingRamses - You almost guessed it! Good job, you can ask me one thing you want to know about this fanfiction!~ Thanks for reading!
Aevun I'm a big fan, so that could be the biggest reason for it!~
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See you next time on The Break-fuck, I meant Broken Wings.~~