Chapter 5:
The soap bubble flew
It flew up to the roof
But reaching the roof,
It broke and was no more.
"Come with me, Asia and I will have mercy on that boy." Sneered the female Fallen Angel as both him and Asia were surrounded by about two dozens of exorcists, likely exiled ones.
Some time in the past before he became Agent of Mercy, he once had heard a woman said something about Bible God had infinite mercy. Now thinking back, he would have snorted if the situation had allowed him. Even if that dead God had truly had infinite mercy, than he and whoever continued his job, probably Michael, had done an absolutely terrible job in granting that mercy.
But then again, what was the color of mercy? For him, it was any colors akin to the end of a life. The last mercy that only a handful of people Death deemed derserved to receive.
"I-I understand, Raynare-sama." the hesistant answer of Asia snapped him back to the sticky situation he was in. Until now, Issei was still hiding behind the garbage cans. Some might consider him coward, but he thought the pervert had a smart choice.
Now he thought about it, how in the world these so-called exiled exorcists and this Fallen Angel didn't notice the devil's presence? Even without his Time Vision, the pervert was like a sore thumb wanting to be seen from his view and this bunch couldn't.
What a bunch of cannon-fodder.
Aside from that, now he knew the Fallen Angel's name. Not really big important discovery but meh, it was still something.
"Yodaka san... thank you for today... It was really fun. And…thank you for being friends with someone like me." Said the blond nun as she walked towards Raynare, tears started rolling on her cheeks again.
"Now, problem solved. With today's ritual, you will be freed from your suffering, Asia." Raynare made a psychotic and lecherous smile appear on her face before he turned to the exorcists "Three of you disposte this boy"
Well, he could see that coming so that wasn't really surprising. And did she just mention 'ritual'?
"But Raynare-sama...!" anything Asia wanted to said was stopped by a hard slap
"I said I would have mercy on that boy didn't mean the exorcists would have." Raynare's voice now became more and more sadistic as her twisted logic didn't surprise him.
And speaking about twisted, was he himself twisted? Hmm, perhaps on some level, his mind did have one or two screwed knots...
"You heard it, boys! Do it quick!" laughed the exorcist who he recognised was the same one who killed the girl yesterday before he took his leave with most of the cannon-fodders except three exorcists who pointed their guns at him
"Sorry kid." Said exorcist #1 with a non-caring shrugg
"Boss's order, no hard feeling." Said exorcist #2 as he cocked his gun
"No worry, this will be quick." Said exorcist #3 with a rather disturbing smile
Did these cannon-fodders realize that they only needed one person to say all of that? Nonetheless...
"Boost!"
... before he could act, the three cannon-fodders were knocked out cold from behind by a sudden ạttack coming from Issei. So the pervert wasn't the kind of people who would forsake the live of 'innocent' in order to save his own skin. A good heart perhaps, but that didn't make make him become less perverted.
"Hey, are you okay?" asked the perverted devil in concern, making him raised his eyesbrow a little bit. Perhaps...
"... Is it necessary for you to hit your acting friend that hard?"
"EH?!" Issei was clearly caught off guard by his question as he started checking the three cannon-fodders. The punch was really hard and it seemed it would take some time for them to wake up. Taking a small glance at the red gauntlet on Issei's arm, he couldn't help but wonder what exactly the kind of Sacred Gear was and what piece Issei was. As for him...
"You guys are just acting, aren't you? There is no way a human would have wings."
"Um... well..." Issei started stammering as he gave a kick to the guns on the ground
"And these guns are fake. Hmm, I wonder where the hidden camera is..."
... he was enjoying pulling the devil's leg, which also helped him pretend that he didn't believe in the supernatural
"Ah, well. So you're okay then... And yeah, it was all just an act... hahaha..." laughed Issei nervously "... Um... I-I gotta go now! See ya!"
That was easy, he snorted as he looked at the retreating form of the devil. Issei was clearly not the sharpest knife if his poor and full-of-holes act could deceive him. Turning his head briefly toward the sunset, he shrugged his shoulder a little bit before he started walking toward the direction of his house.
"Oh right, nearly forget about these loose ends..." he mumbled to himself before he picked up the guns...
*BANG!* *BANG!* *BANG!*
... three shots and the three exiled exorcists fell into their final eternal sleep. Taking out three paper talismans, he slapped them on the coprses before muttered indifferently and turning away
"Sweet dream."
The three coprses were ignited in black flame before quickly turned into ashes.
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Now, he needed a change of clothes.
7 p.m
In front of the abandoned church stood a figure clad in a stripe t-shirt, a very dark blue coat with a scarf wrapping around his neck, dark blue jeans, black shoes and a fox mask covering his upper face as he eyes the abandoned building with a wary and calculating look. Besides the assumed numbers of Fallen Angel being 4 and exiled exorcists being two or three dozens and the name of 1 fallen angel, he knew next nothing about the church layout as the Time Vision couldn't provide him the layout. Thanked to that, stealth wasn't a good option.
Beside, with the large number of enemies in the church, he would eventually have to go loud no matter how hard he tried to go stealth. Damn those cannon-fodders.
Oh well, guess he would have to knock on the front door.
With a snap of his finger, his USP .45 tactical surpressed and a tactical knife appeared on his hands. Holding the knife in reversed grip with his left hand as his right hand held the handgun, he cautiously approached the church door with his Time Vision activated.
Stacking up at the door,he could see there were three hostiles behind the door. Flexing his left shoulder a little bit to get rid of the strain, he knocked the door three times.
*CREAK!*
The door slowly opened but before it could open fully, he forcefully shoved in and knifed the first hostile before shot down the other two.
Three down, a bunch more to go. After checking and disposing the corpses, he nimbly approached the sanctuary. Oddly enough, he had expected to see a bloody convention in the sanctuary yet all he could see was only one hostile. Not that he complained anyway. It would easy for him to...
"Ohohoho! What do we have here? An intruder, eh?" the maniac laugh reached his ears as a light bullet hit the ground in front of his right foot. Switching back to his normal vision, he was greeted with the same white hair psycho exorcist who had his goons tried to kill him this afternoon.
Ah, this might became troublesome, he grumbled internally as he calmly came into the mad exorcist's view.
"Ah! So the maggot has bravery!" the face of the exorcist twisted into a disturbing look as he ;et out a hollow and manica laugh "Now I give you five seconds to introduce yourself before I turned you into minced cheese!"
Minced cheese? Really? Shouldn't he say minced meat? Meh, whatever.
"Where's Asia?"
"The nun? So you are a servant of that devil? But you don't feel like a devil..." this got a raise of his eyesbrow. Devil? What did he mean? "Anyway, follow the stairs are under the altar. They lead to the place where the ritual is being conducted. You can have her coprse after we get her Sacred Gear!"
So that was what the ritual for. Their target was Asia's Sacred Gear. Having a Sacred Gear that could heal almost any wounds was something that many people would kill for. Though this made time become another one of his disadvantage.
"But since you didn't introduce yourself, you will have to stay here and become my minced cheese!" laughed the psychopath as he pointed his gun at him
'Time Stop'
But before any shot could be fire, the mad exorcist was frozen in what looked like a pale emeral bubble as he leisurely walked to behind his back, knife ready.
*BANG!**BANG!*
The moment the bubble disappeared, the exorcist fired two shots but all of them only hit the empty space
"Heh? Where is that shitty... ARGGHH!" anything the exorcist intended to say was replaced by a painful howl, courtesy of multiple stabs from behind before the psychopath was forced to the ground by a kick to his right knee, his light sword was taken from his hand and impaled through his right chest, keeping him on the ground.
"YOU SHITTY MAGGOT! HOW DARE YOU FUCK WITH ME?! THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL I WILL GET KILL BY SOME UNKNOWN SHITTY MAGGOT! I WILL TEAR YOUR MASK ALONG WITH YOUR FACE BEFORE I TURNED YOU INTO MINCED MEAT!" screamed the exorcist as he let out a short sigh. What a vulgar mouth.
On a second note, now he used 'minced meat' instead of 'minced cheese'. Hmm, that was interesting.
Anyway, he probably should give him a thank-you gift for his insults as well as for what he had done. With that thought, he took out another talisman and slapped it on the bloody exorcist before giving him a farewell
"Sweet nightmare."
As he quickly followed the stairs, the painful scream when the mad exorcist was being burnt alive could still be heard until he reached the final steps led to an old door. Taking a peak from where he stood with Time Vision, he saw the place was full of exorcists, about twenty three, while on the elevated platform behind the four fallen angels was a cross, which had Asia crucified on it.
Crap, now he was in a difficult position. He was outnumbered and even with his strongest firearm, a Franchi SPAS-12, and his abilities, he was still in disavantage and he had no chance to take them out quietly. He needed a plan...
Suddenly, Asia's body started to glow as the blond nun started screamed in pain, thus snapping him out of his thought
"...Aaaaaah, nooooooo!"
"The ritual is finally complete!" Raynare cried in ectasy as her body glowed until it died down, revealing Asia's Sacred Gear on her hands.
Argh, fuck the plan. Switching his handgun to his shotgun as he charged his energy into his left hand, he kicked the old door opened hard, gaining the attention of all the hostile.
"Time Blast!"
As he released the charging energy in his left hand, a pale emeral explosion occured right in the middle of the place, killing many exorcists and making the corpses and objects float in the air before dropping down to the ground.
Ten down, a bunch more to go.
'Time Rush'
Everything around him turned emerald as things became slow. Using this, he dashed toward the still shocked fallen angels and aimed his shotgun barrel at the heads of the three unknown fallen angels
*BANG!**BANG!**BANG!*
He watched the flying pellets flew slowly in fascination. No matter how many times he had seen it, it still amazed him. Shaking his head, he turned to Raynare and aimed at her shoulders
*BANG!**BANG!*
"ARGHHH! MY ARMS! MY ARMS!"
At the moment everything returned to normal, both Raynare's arms was severed while her fellow fallen angels's head were blown off by the close shotgun shot. Blood splashed on the ground and turning the scene into a rather gruesome sight.
Done with the fallen angels.
"Kill him! Kill him!" the cries of the exorcists were the only warning before multiple gun shot were fired at him, with one bullet grazed his left shoulder but he just shrugged it off.
'Time Shield'
A bubble instanly covered around him and deflected all the bullets. Using this, he ran to the nearest exorcists, just in time the shield disappeared as he used the poor bastard as a meat shield.
Eleven down.
'Time Dodge'
Using the short burst of time speed, he dashed toward another exorcist and shot him down before he charged his energy.
Twelve down.
"Time Blast!"
Before the rest of his enemies could react, they was caught in another blast and floating in the air before dropped down, faliing into their last eternal sleep.
All enemies were down. And now...
"Asia!"
... he ran toward the severed arms and took off the rings before he put in on the blond nun's hands. Although the Sacred Gear had been returned, Asia was still becoming weaker and weaker.
"W-who... are.. you...?" muttered Asia weakly as he focused his mind until a clock appeared above her
00:00: 42
She was dying. Using all of his remain energy, he summoned the familiar silver pocket watch before it turned into ember-liked light and transferred to the dying nun
00:05:27
Five minutes?! That was all she deserved?! Was there no way to save her?
""W-who... are.. you...?" the question snapped him out of his thought as he took off his mask
"Y-yo-daka-san?"
The surprise on her face was quickly replaced by a happy yet sad and tearful happy expression that was more than enough to break any person's heart.
(Chapter end)
Authot's note: A fight like I promised and a cliffhanger as a bonus! For how Yodaka looked like in the battle, just look at this fic's cover image and you wil get the idea. Anyway, thank you for reading and please, read and review! Your opinions will help me inprove my fic greatly