Hey my fellow readers! I apologize for taking long, I wanted to check the spelling and grammar before hand, but I feel like I might have missed a couple.
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Chapter 18:
BOOST! Issei's sacred gear glowed brightly.
"Amen!" Irina dashed swiftly towards him and leaped into the air, preparing to strike Issei.
"Issei-san, watch out!"Asia cried out
Issei quickly leaped back, barely dodging Irina's attack. He noticed that a piece of his shirt was cut off by Irina's sword.
"Whoah! Unofficial match my ass! You're already getting serious!"Issei exclaimed
"Fuahaha. I've returned after being away for a long time, but now here I am trying to harm my childhood friend! Faith is simply to harsh on me!"Irina said cheerfully while blushing.
"Issei-kun, don't let her direct attacks hit you"Rias warned him.
"Roger, president! Boosted gear!"Issei activates his gear
BOOST!
"The red dragon emperor gauntlet. Eh? Adding Asia's Argent's twilight healing and your sword birth aside, your team has a nice collection of heretic gear." Xenovia said
"I wield this sacred gear, because it's part of my revenge for my comrades. My comrades who were killed for nothing!"Kiba charged at Xenovia, clashing with her holy sword
"With this, I shall destroy the excalibur, and strike down its wielder!"Kiba stated as he firecely swings his sword at Xenovia.
"It is said that by simply touching the sword, demon could be gravely injured. He's completely at a disadvantage."Akeno stated
"Yuuto-kun should somehow hold on using his speed, but Issei-kun on the other hand..."Rias averted her eyes at Issei, seeing that he was able to parry Irina's attack with his sacred gear."Seems to be unaffected by the effects of the holy sword's."
"Oh yes, that left arm of his is already the arm of a dragon."Akeno said
"You're getting too cocky, Issei-kun!"Irina whined
"If it's come to this, I just have to do it. No, I can't accept it if I don't. Hell, it's going to be my loss if I don't!."Issei activated his gear once again
BOOST!
…...
Kazuma's house...
Kazuma finally arrived home after picking up two ninja's from the village that will be attending to school with him. Both of the ninja's were kunoichi's standing behind him, carrying there bags of clothes.
The kunoichi standing behind him on the right side was Nozomi Uchiha. She has dark violet long hair down to her waist, with a light purple lotus flower hair clip, dark green eyes, and has a slight voluptous body curve figure. She wasn't wearing her kunoichi gear, but instead a cute light blue blouse, with a black pants that was knee length and black shoes.
The other standing on the left was Miro Hirano. She has dark brown over her shoulders and bangs that covered her left eye, light orange-red eyes, and has a more voluptous body figure. Just like Nozomi, she also wearing regular clothing that consist of a purple long sleeve shirt, with a dark brown jacket over it, blue jeans and dark brown boots.
"There, home sweet home."Kazuma smiled cheerfully while opening the front door, seeing the kunoichi's look of amazement at his home.
"So this is where you live? Aren't you worried that your parents will wonder why you brought us here?."Miro said while looking around.
"No, my family lives next door. I bought this house when I came here, so you guys don't have to worry."Kazuma explained
"Hehehe, you hear that Nozomi-san, Kazuma-san bought a house for himself. So now you can do naughty things to him with no disturbance."Miro giggled, making Nozomi blush.
"L-Like hell I would! I don't care about living with him, I'm only decided to participate so I can see what the school outside the village looks like!."Nozomi exclaimed while blushing.
"But Nozomi-san, when we were chosen to go to school and live with Kazuma-san, you were so excite that you wanted to practice on how to act like Kazuma's house wi-"Miro's mouth was closed by Nozomi
"D-Don't say anything about that, Miro-san!"Nozomi exclaimed with an embarrassed expression while blushing redder.
"Did I miss anything?"Kazuma thought as he watches them.
Suddenly, a knocking sound was made at Kazuma's front door.
"Weird? Who could it be at this time?"Kazuma thought.
When he opened the door, Kazuma's eyes widen by surprised.
Before him was Raynare in her old school uniform, but what caught him by surprise was a tall man appearing to be in his twenties with an average build, black hair, golden bangs and black goatee, wearing a gray japanese kimoto.
"It's been a while, Kazuma-kun." the man smiled
"Raynare-chan, A-Azazel-sama!? What are you two doing here?"Kazuma asked
"I wanted to check out Hyoudou Issei-kun's house while he was with miss Gremory-san. But, Raynare-chan mentioned that Kazuma-kun lived next door, so I decided greet you while I was around and I know Raynare-chan wanted to see you as soon as possible."Azazel explained, making Raynare blush.
Kazuma couldn't help but sigh deeply while scratching the back of his head.
"It's alright, ummm... let's talk inside, I don't want the others wondering why the leader of the fallen angels is in front of my door step."Kazuma said
"That sounds like a good idea."Azazel agreed while smiling
As the two fallen angels entered the house, Raynare noticed two girls behind him with large bags.
"Kazuma-san, who are they?"Raynare questioned
Before Kazuma could introduced them, Nozomi introduced themselves instead.
"I'm Nozomi Uchiha and this is Miro Hirano. We're Kazuma-san's new roommates that will be living with him from now on. And who are you suppose to be?"Nozomi crossed her arms with a questionable gaze at her.
"My name is Raynare and as you can see, I'm Kazuma-san's slave master."Raynare stated proudly while crossing her arms.
"S-Slave m-master?!"Nozomi gasped while Miro giggled and Azazel chuckled to see what happens next.
"Slave master?"Miro giggled at Kazuma.
Raynare suddenly wrapped her arms around Kazuma left arm. Kazuma couldn't help but blush as he feels Raynare's soft breasts pressing his arms.
"That's right, I haven't been with him for a while, but we used to sleep together in the same bed, right Kazuma-san?"Raynare stated cutely, making the others surprised
"Kazuma-san, I didn't know you became such a player with other womens while you were gone."Miro smiled
"Wait! I could ex-"
"Kazuma-san, I don't know what two did, but you have my support."Azazel smiled, easily giving him a thumps up.
"Azazel-sama, not you too!"
Suddenly, Nozomi wrapped her arms around Kazuma right arm.
"It's not like I care about what he does, but... Kazuma-san and I took a shower together while being naked!"Nozomi boldly stated while blushing
Everyone was now quiet. Kazuma and Raynare froze in place, Miro was surprised and Azazel smiling proudly at Kazuma.
"That does it! Kazuma-san take off your clothes, we're taking a shower!"Raynare declared while dragging Kazuma to the stairs.
"I'm not gonna let you!"Nozomi pulled Kazuma's arm.
Raynare tried to pull back, but she suddenly lost her balance and fell down with Kazuma and Nozomi as well.
KA BANG!
"Ooouchh... hey, you guys alright?"Kazuma asked, slowly lifted his head.
"Ummm, Kazuma-san..."Miro called and pointed out while grinning.
Kazuma turned and noticed what she meant by now. Both of the girls were on him, but Kazuma's hand was grabbing hold of Raynare's butt while the other was wrapped around Nozomi, holding her breasts.
"Nice catch."Azzazl complimented with a thumbs up again.
"What's that suppose to mean!"Kazuma exclaimed
When Nozomi gain consciousness, she noticed Kazuma's hand was on her breast and started blushing while growling lowly.
"You...you..."
"Nozomi-san, this is not what it lo-"
"PERVERT!"Nozomi yelled and threw a powerful punched at Kazuma, knocking him out cold.
…...
As Issei fights Irina, he suddenly made a wide grind on his face, making Koneko sense that he might try to do something perverted.
"Shido Irina-chan, I'm going to take a good ogle look at that grown up body of yours!"Issei thought
"What's with that perverted look?"Irina mumbled
"Please, be careful. Issei-senpai is capable of obliterating the clothes of any women that he touches."Koneko warned
"He can?"Irina asked by surprised
"Koneko-chan, why would you tip off our enemy?!"Issei complained
"Your an enemy of all women."Koneko bluntly stated
"That's not even funny."Issei replied
"What a terrible techinque you have, Issei-san. Not only have you become a demon, but even your heart is darken with malice. My lord! I beg of you, please do not forgive this sinful pervert!"Irina prayed
"He is the worst."Koneko commented
Kiba and Xenovia's sudden clash pushed each other back from the impact. Kiba stabs his sword into the ground and pulled out two blades next to him.
"Ablaze Forth! And Glaciate!"Kiba called forth, activating their powers of fire and ice.
Kiba then charges fiercely at Xenovia while swinging his swords with great speed.
"Too weak!"Xenovia easily destroyed both of his swords with one strike, making Kiba shocked.
Xenovia then pireced the ground with her excalibur of destruction and caused a sudden explosion, shaking the ground with great force. Once it settled down, everyone was surprised to see that Xenovia created a large crater on the field.
"The holy sword of destruction, Excalibur destruction. It's name isn't just for show, you know!"Xenovia stated as she makes a fighting stance with her sword.
"Still having this level of destruction power even after getting split into seven... heh... seems like I really have crossed the bloodly road just to destroy all of them."Kiba muttered
"Kiba-kun, you're..."Issei thought in concern
"Geez, Xenovia-chan, there you go suddenly destroying things again. Okay then, how about we settle this now?"Irina said and charges at Issei.
BOOST!
"Now's the chance!"
EXPLOSION! Issei's sacred gear exploded with great power flowing into his body and sprouted out his devil wings.
"Dress break!"Issei charges at Irina with a huge perverted smile on his face.
Irina suddenly stopped and dodged his attacked."How indecent!'
"I'm not done yet!"
Issei tries to touch her with great speed, but Irina would barely dodge his perverted technique. As Irina tries to evade, she noticed that he was becoming faster.
"Issei-kuns movements suddenly became nimble and more percise!"Akeno stated
"It's just his will as a pervert."Koneko bluntly explained while Rias couldn't help but sigh deeply.
"What's with that now, geez!"Irina whines while running, but stops as she saw Issei right in front of him.
"Don't underestimate how perverted I can be!"Issei leaps into in the air, flying towards Irina.
At a split second, Irina quickly ducked down, dodging a bullet of Issei's fearsome dress break. As Issei flies over Irina, his line of path was unexpectedly heading towards Asia and Koneko. Issei's hands landed on the both of girls during his fall and accidently snapped his fingers as he landed roughly on the ground, activating his dress break. Both of girl's dress instantly got shreded into nothing, showing there naked bodies. Issei couldn't help but get a nose bleed from the beautiful sight.
"No!"Asia exclaimed in embarrassment as she quickly ducked herself to cover her body.
Issei clapped his hands together."I thank you from the bottom of my heart! No.. I mean.. this is a...!"
Koneko didn't give Issei any sign of warning as she threw a fearsome uppercut at him, sending the pervert devil flying up in the sky and fall, making an instant K.O.
"You're total pervert."Koneko stated, covering her chest.
"You know, I think this is your divine punishment. That's why you have to seal away this lewd technique of yours. Okay?"Irina suggested, poking him with a small stick.
"No way..."Issei lightly mumbled
"Huh?"
"No way in hell..."Issei mumbled louder, slowly lifting himself."I've invested my entire aptitude for magic in this. Would you have me develop a technique that allows me to see through women's clothes instead? I made such a choice bearing my thought, worries and all. I shall... I shall destroy more womens clothes... and then... and then... and then someday, as I gain the ability to destroy them just by looking, I shall continue my fight!" Issei stood on his two feet, proudly declaring his desire.
"For someone who can fight on with that kind of will, I think you got a loose screw already."Irina commented, feeling creeped out.
"Lechery is my strength! Lechery is my justice!" Issei roared, threw his hand at Irina with all his might, but failed as Irina quickly made a backflip and strike Issei with her sword. Luckly, Issei barely dodged her attack.
"I may have underestimate you a little. Your movements are good. However..."Irina smirked
Suddenly, Issei's started falling on his knees.
"Issei-kun!"Rias exclaimed
"Ouch... what the heck is this?"Issei mumbled, noticing a scratch on his stomach that was made by the holy sword.
"That was just a scratch!"Asia said by surprised
"That's the damage incurred by a holy sword."Akeno explained by surprise as well.
Issei forcefully got himself back up while pressing the wound on his stomach."This is nothing..."
RESET!
Issei sacred gear shut down on him, causing his body to fully collapse.
"It's no good. I can't muster my strength..."Issei muttered as his sacred disappeared.
"Huh?"Asia muttered as she saw Issei's gear vanish.
"The boosted gear canceled it's ability. It's already at its limit."Akeno explained
"This fight is already finish then."Irina said
"That can't be helped. Shido Irina-san. I accept your victory in this duel."Rias announced.
"Damn..."Issei mumbled in frustration, losing a duel for Rias and Asia.
Suddenly, Kiba started channeling all of his powers into one sword, creating powerful great demon sword.
"Which sword has the most effective power? Your holy sword, or my demon blade? Let's see which is better!"Kiba chargesd fiercely at Xenovia.
"Hmmp, too bad."Xenovia muttered
They both clashed once with there blades and Kiba tried to swing first, but Xenovia used the cross guard blade of her holy sword and hit him in the gut. Kiba spat out blood from the contact and collapsed.
"Your weapon is a high level demon blade, and its wielder of equal capability. You tried to fight using a lage sword despite having insufficient strength to hold it, and as your specialty in speed negated. I never thought you were incapable of even realizing that simple fact."Xenovia comment and started leaving.
"W-Wait..."Kiba mumbled loudly, trying to get up.
"You should really try fight with a cool head next time. My senpai."Xenovia smirked
Kiba clenced the grass tightly in anger.
"This is just about it. Was that alright, Rias Gremory?"Xenovia asked as she picks up her cloak.
"Yes, I am grateful that you didn't use the holy sword to finish them off."Rias replied
"Then we'll be counting on what we agreed on earlier?"Xenovia asked
"Just in case, I'll just like to inquire about something. Have you already found out the idently of the fallen angels who did it?"Rias asked
"The one who was directly involved with it, was Kokabiel, one of the Cadres of the Grimori Organization."Xenovia answered
"Grimori Organization?"Issei asked
"It's a fallen angel organization dubbed as the Watchers of God's Children."Akeno said
"A Cadres of an organization? Are you trying to kill yourself?"Rias questioned
"I would rather destroy the holy swords themselves, than allow those fallen angels to take hold of them."Xenovia replied
"We're already prepared for this. One has already been killed anyway. It was a priest that was sent here to do a preliminary investigation."Irina explained
"The one who did that, was Freed Sellzen."Kiba brought up
"Freed!"Issei exclaimed by surprise
"That rogue priest?"Rias muttered
"I happened to meet him at the time of the incident. He was defintely holding a holy sword at that time."Kiba explained
"A rogue priest. I see, so that's how it is. I thank you for delivering such information. However, I would like to refrain from being involved any further in this matter. If you'll excuse me then."Xenovia said and began leaving
"Hey, wait up Xenovia-san! Well, that's that. Issei-kun, call me any time you want to receive judgement from me. Chu.. Amen."Irina said and kisses her cross while leaving with Xenovia.
…...
Kiba was now in the woods, swinging roughly with his sword of betrayer. It was night time as everything gotten darker from his surrounds, but it didn't bother him one bit due to his devil perks. As he trained harder than before, he began having flash backs of his past, remembering the sad and painful memory of his lost comrades who had sacrifice their lives just to save him. But in the end, he became a reborn devil, thanks to Rias Gremory. He was thankful to her kindness and more, but no matter how much kindness he recieved, he didn't think he deserved them.
"Yo." a familiar voiced greeted Kiba.
Kiba stopped and quickly turn, seeing Kazuma stand next to a tree.
"Kazuma-san? What are you doing here?"Kiba asked by surprised.
"I just got back from my village a few of hours ago. But, the better question is what are you doing here?"Kazuma asked
"Just training."
"Training? This late at night?"
"I am a devil after all, I feel more energized at night."
Kazuma chuckled."That makes since, but does it have anything to do with the fight againsts the two affiliates from church?"
Kiba clenched his hands tightly around his sword, remembering that horrible taste of utter defeat.
"So you watched the whole fight?"
"No. Kuro came back home and told me about it since I asked him to keep an eye on things while I was away. But what suprise me is that you lost because you weren't fighting like you usually do. What's up with that? The Kiba-kun I know would've definitely won even against a holy sword."
"Sorry, I had other things on my mind lately."
"Is it because they had the pieces of Excalibur sword with them?"
"So Rias-san told you about my past?"
"No, but ever since you were acting weird a couple of days ago when you saw the picture, I had a feeling that would be the case."
"... A few years ago, before I was reborn as a devil, I was in a project with others like me who might've been chosen to wield the holy sword, Excalibur. It was hell as we gone through horrifying experiments and non stop training day by day, praying every day so that we didn't lose hope while wondering when will this torment end. But when that time finally arrived to see who was chosen, no one wasn't blessed enough to wield the holy sword..." Kiba pause for a couple seconds, then he continued.
"Then one day, a group of men came into our room, wearing gas mask and used a device that started releasing strong poison gas on us. We tried to escape, but they guarded the exit, so we had no way out. As we were slowly yet painfully dying, my comrades mustered enough strength to take them on and told me to escape. That night, I ran as fast as I could through the cold snowy woods, seeing more men from the project trying to pursue me. As soon as I was far from there reach, thinking that I could make it out alive, my body started to slowly felt weaker from inhaling the gas and the coldness made my body numb. At that moment... I collapes and died... That was the day I died as a human and also the day I became a devil."Kiba explained his sadly tale to Kazuma.
"Now, after all these years, I have a chance to avenge my fallen comrades. No matter what, I will destroy them all..."Kiba declared in anger.
Kazuma was sadden to hear Kiba's story. He can understand the pain that he went through.
"Kiba-kun, lets spar."Kazuma suggested
"Spar?"Kiba asked by surprise
"Yeah. We never fought each other on one on one, right?. So how about it?"
"I'm sorry, Kazuma-san. But, I don't have any reason to fight you right now."Kiba declined
Kazuma then crossed his arms and sighed."Well, that's too bad, because I wanted to show an interesting weapon that might catch your attention." Kazuma said, starting to make mulitple hand signs.
A small smoke cloud poofed from Kazuma's arms and quickly disappeared, revealing a japanese looking sword. The sword had a dark brown leather strips wrapped around the hilt with a gold piece shown on the bottom hilt, the guard piece was golden colored as well and scabbard was also dark brown with traditional gold wrappings and had multiple japanese sealing inscriptions written on it.
Kiba's eyes widen by shock as he could somewhat feel a strong radiance just like the other holy swords that he encounter.
"What is that?"Kiba questioned
"This? The name of this sword is Kusanagi, a holy sword."Kazuma replied
"But why do you have one in possession, Kazuma-san?"Kiba questioned
"Spar with me and I'll talk, alright?"Kazuma replied
"... Fine."Kiba accepted, taking a stance with his sword.
Kazuma took his stance as well while unsheathing his blade, revealing a black blade with dark silver layers on it.
The two stood in silence, waiting for the right moment to begin. Suddenly, strong gust of wind picked up, stroking through the trees while leaves began to follow the wind. As the leaves dances with the air, one started to glide down in the middle of the field between the two fighters. Then, the leaf finally landed on the grassy ground. From that moment, a clanking sound of two blades clashed at each other.
…...
The next day...
After school was over, Kazuma brought Nozomi and Miro to the occult club research room to introduced them to the members.
"Hello, my name is Nozomi Uchiha, it's nice to meet you." Nozomi politely introduced herself while bowing.
"And I'm Mori Hirano, I hope we can get along."Mori smiled cheerfully while introducing herself as well.
"It's nice to meet you two as well. I am Rias Gremory, the president of the occult research club, this is Akeno-san, my vice president and this is our newest member that joined recently, Asia Argento."Rias introduced herself, Akeno and Asia.
"Hello, it's nice to meet you."Asia greeted politely while bowing.
"Ara, ara, so these are your teammates that you mention, right Kazuma-san?"Akeno asked
"Yep, even though we have been a 3 man team for a few years, I consider them my closest friends."Kazuma replied while smiling, making Nozomi blush.
"Ohoho, stop it Kazuma-san, you're making Nozomi blush."Mori giggled
"S-Shut up, Mori-san, it's not like I care about being close friends with him or anything."Nozomi argued while blushing,
"Oh, that reminds me, where's Is-kun and the others?"Kazuma asked
"Issei-san went out to do a few things and I think Koneko-chan went home as well."Asia explained
"And Kiba-kun?"
As soon as Kazuma brought up Kiba, the members became silent.
"Kiba-kun hasn't been to school today, has he?"Kazuma guessed, seeing Rias changed to her slight sadden expression
"So you heard?"Rias asked
"Well, it is my job to keep tabs on you guys if I'm gone or not."Kazuma stated
"Then you know that he left the group last night, right?"Rias asked
"Yeah, I figured as much. I went and talked to him last night."Kazuma mentioned, making Rias and Akeno shocked
"You have?"Rias asked
"Yeah. And in the end I decided to fight him as well and let him go after our little sparring."Kazuma explained
"Why didn't you bring him back!? Wasn't that your job to watch over us in the first place."Rias exclaimed in anger
"Calm down, Gremory-san, even if I brought him back what good would it do if the situation hasn't been dealt with."Kazuma argued with a serious expression.
Rias slowly calmed herself down, but still gave Kazuma a serious stare.
"Look, I understand that your upset, but let him be alone for now. I will make sure that nothing happens to him, I swear."Kazuma declared as he looked at Rias with a serious gaze.
"... I'm sorry, I shouldn't have lashed out my anger like that."Rias apologized
"It's alright, you care for your peerage. It's understandable that your worried."Kazuma reassured, seeing Rias smiled back at him.
"And he has us this time if things get a little crazy, right Nozomi-san?"Miro stated
"R-Right."Nozomi replied
"Oh, that reminds me... Kazuma-san which one of these girls have you slept with yet?"Miro asked, making eveyone besides Akeo surprised.
"W-What are you saying! I didn't sleep with either of them?!"Kazuma exclaimed
"Really? You have three beautiful girls here and you didn't make a move on them?"
"Actually, Kazuma-san slept with my vice president a few times."Rias stated, making Asia and the others surprised
"W-What!"Nozomi exclaimed in shock
"Ufufu, so you did sleep with one of them you player you."Miro giggled while making a grinning face.
"Now hold on! That is a big misunderstanding. Akeno-san and I have not done anything, right?"
"Ara, ara, I would agree, but I was pinned down on his bed the whole night and he wouldn't let me go. You can say that he was forceful in bed."Akeno made a fake frown, putting one hand on her cheek.
"K-Kazuma-san, that's very mean of you."Asia said innocently.
"Hmmp!"Nozomi crossed her arms and pouted angerly.
"Why me?!"Kazuma couldn't help but sigh loudly while the other girls giggled.
…...
Issei, Koneko and Saji were walking through the main street road, searching for Irina and Xenovia.
"Hey, I don't have to be here, do I? The invincible rookie is participating already."Saji whined
"The stronger we are, the better. It'll probably be hard for us to find them. First of all, for there to be girls in white robes on main street..."Issei said
Suddenly...
"Um, blessings on the wandering lambs..."
"We are pitiful compared to you, O Lord, have mercy on us..."
The group saw the two girls holding a sign saying 'Help the hand of love!'
"They're right out of the open."Issei sweat drop
"Yes..."Koneko sweat drop as well
…...
At a family diner, Xenovia and Irina were scurfing down food thanks to Issei treating them out of kindness and somewhat pity from hearing Xenovia's explanation about Irina spending all their money on a fake painting.
"Delicious! Irina-san, the food in this country is so delicious!"Xenovia said happily while eating.
"This, This! The standard of fare at a diner is my soul food!"Irina replied happily while eating as well.
"It's amazing to watch them eat."Saji said with amazement
"I guess they were really hungry..."Issei said
"Here's your hamburger steak." a waitress came and brought them their order.
A few minutes later...
The church girls stomachs were purely satisfied after eating large amount of delicious food. Then the girls went back into reality and realized what they have done.
"What just happen? Even if it's to build faith, the world must be ending to be saved by a devil."Xenovia said out of shock
"We've sold our souls to the devil."Irina confessed
"That's the thanks I get for paying for your food?!"Issei mumbled
"Issei-senpai."Koneko called, giving him a mean stare.
"I've made her mad, too. It's a lose lose situation for me, huh?"Issei said, accepting his defeat.
"Lord, please have mercy on these kind devils."Irina began praying.
Suddenly, the three devils were covering their ears, feeling the aganozing pain from Irina's preach.
"We don't need God's blessings!"Issei stated in pain.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I just did it out of habit."Irina explained
"Well? Why did you contact us?"Xenovia questioned
"We want to help destroy Excalibur."Issei answered
"What?... I understand the situation. I don't mind letting you guys take care of one sword."Xenovia accepted his offer.
"Hey, wait a minute, Xenovia-san! Really?"
"I thought you'd refuse us in a heartbeat."Saji mumbled while complaining.
"The other side even has the leader of the fallen angels, Kokabiel, with them. Honestly, it will be difficult for us to recover all three on our own."Xenovia explained
"I understand that, but..."
"Our chances of going home unharm are about 30 percent."Xenovia said
"We came knowing that even that was generous estimate."Irina said
"That's right. We were sent by the higher ups fully prepared to sacrifice ourselves from the beginning."Xenovia said
"That is a believer's dream, isn't it?"Irina said as she stares straight into Xenovia's eyes.
…...
Park
"I see. But honestly, it's regrettable that an excalibur user would approve of their destruction."Kiba said
"You're one to talk. Didn't you leave the house of Gremory? We can consider you a stray and execute you here if you want."Xenovia said as she starts drawing her sword.
"There's that way of thinking, too."Kiba said, starting to form a sword from his hand.
Issei quickly intervened between Kiba and Xenovia.
"Wait, don't fight before we come up with a cooperative strategy!"Issei strongly suggested
"I can understand why you would resent the holy sword project."Xenovia said and Kiba calmly undo his spell.
"That incident is viewed with great repugnace even among us. That's why the person responsible for it was branded as heretic and excommunicated."Xenovia explained
"Valper Galilei. The man called the Archbishop of annihilation."Irina said
"Valper... that man... was responsible for..."Kiba mumbled
"I told you that among his tools was a stray priest, right?"
"Freed, huh?"
"It's not uncommon for there to be collusion among those banned from the church. There's a high possibilty that Valper is also involved in the events this time."Xenovia explained
"After hearing that. There's no reason for me not to cooperate with you."Kiba said
"Then it's been decided, right?"Irina said
"We'll return the favor for the food someday, Red dragon emperor, Hyoudou Issei-kun."Xenovia reassured and left with Irina.
Issei could help but sigh deeply."That's great, isn't it?"Issei said with relief and patted Saji's back.
"It's not great! Not only could we have been killed, but we could've started war with the church!"Saji exclaimed
"Issei-kun."Kiba called out, making the others turn to him
"You've saved us so many times."Issei smiled
"I want you guys to stay away from this matter. This is my own personal revenge. I can't involve you guys..."
"We're family, aren't we? Friends? Am I wrong?"Issei stated
"You're not wrong, but..."
Issei clamp both of his hands on Kiba's shoulders."How can I let a precious friend turn into a stray? It's not just me... the president will be sad, too! Is that okay with you?"Issei said in concern
"... President Rias. That's right. I met her because of the holy sword project. Day after, we were involved with experiments. Our freedom was taken away, and we weren't even treat as people. Even so, everyone believed that they were chosen by God. And bore it desperately with the hope that one day, they could become special. However, not one of us became able to wield a holy sword. The experiment was a failure. We were disposed of soon after that in order to conceal what had happen. Even vomiting and writhing on the floor, we looked to God for help.
I thank the president from my heart for taking me in as part of her house. However, I was able to run away because of my comrades. That's why I have to destroy Excalibur with a devil sword filled with their feelings. This is my atonement and duty as the only survivor." Kiba explained his story
Saji couldn't help but cry loudly."Kiba-kun, I had no idea you had such a tragic past! In the case, I don't care about the presiden's punishment... Hyuodou, I'll help you with all my strength!"Saji grabbed Issei's hands while shaking them.
"O-Oh really? Th-thanks..."Issei smiled awkwardly
Koneko approached to Kiba."I will also help."
"Koneko-chan...?"
"I will be sad if you aren't here, Yuto-san."Koneko said
"I guess I've lost. If even you say no... there's no way I can do anything rash on my own, can I?"
"Then...?"
"Besides. We know who the real enemy is... let me accept your help."
…...
Night time...
Kazuma and Akeno were alone at the Occult research club room while Rias was at Sona's house . Even though he was going to head home with Nozomi and Miro, he told them that he'll head back later.
"Here you go, Kazuma-san."Akeno handed a cup of tea.
"Thank you."Kazuma replied, grabbing the cup and slowly drank the tea. Kazuma let out a nice deep sigh of relief."No matter how many times I had this tea, the flavor never gets old."Kazuma commented
"I'm glad you enjoy it."Akeno smiled and sat next to Kazuma on the sofa.
"How's Gremory-san?"Kazuma asked in concern
"She's still worried about Kiba-kun, but she'll be alright."Akeno reassured
"I see..."Kazuma placed his cup on the table, leaned his head back and stared at the ceiling.
Flash back...
Kiba and Kazuma were clashing firecely with their swords, trying to strike one another. As they fought, Kiba tried to quickly thrust his sword through Kazuma's chest, but he quickly evaded the attack and swung his sword across Kiba's face. At the split second, Kiba barely dodged by ducking himself.
Suddenly, Kazuma shifted his body and shoulder bashed Kiba, knocking back several feet from him. Kiba skidded back and stab his sword into the ground to slow himself down. Before he could do anything, Kazuma quickly appeared before him, with a fast swing coming at his way.
Kiba quickly pulled out his sword and barely evaded Kazuma's blade by using his knight's chest piece speed to pass behind him and tried to swing with great speed at Kazuma. Kazuma noticed and quickly shifted his body around to swing his blade as well.
When the two swords clashed, Kazuma's Kusanagi blade overpowered the demonic sword by slicing it in half. Kiba was shock as he watched his blade beaten by a holy sword. Kazuma saw an opening from Kiba's expression and charged, swiftly swinging multiple strikes.
Kiba reacted to slow and barely evaded some attacks, but gain a few cut marks around his body. Before Kazuma could make another attempt, Kiba quickly leaped backwards a couple of times, distancing himself from Kazuma range.
Kazuma didn't chase after him, but instead he causually stood in place.
Kiba panted heavily, trying to calm himself down.
"Kiba-kun, is it really worth it?"Kazuma asked
"W-What?"
"Abandoning your friends, your peerage and your master, Gremory-san? Is it really worth avenging your deceased comrades?"Kazuma asked again.
Kiba made a grave expression."Like I said before, I will avenge my comrades no matter what... so please, just forget about me and worry about the others."
"Kiba-kun, you know I can't do that. I'm not going to let you become a stray. Do you think your fallen comrades really want you to avenge them?"
At that moment... Kiba instantly appeared with two swords before him with blinding speed and swung fiercely with rage. Kazuma barely block the attack by shock as he witnessed the rage in Kiba's eyes
"HOW WOULD YOU KNOW!"Kiba yelled in anger and swung his sword continuesly."You were never there! You never experienced the pain that me and the others went through!"
Kazuma couldn't keep up with Kiba's sudden unrelenting speed and gained multiple cuts around his body.
"SO HOW!? HOW WOULD YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS TO LOSE THOSE YOU CARE RIGHT BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES!"Kiba roared, made a powerful swing with his swords towards Kazuma.
Flash Back...
In a building that was crumbling down from a sudden destruction, a young Kazuma with many injures around his body, was kneeling down on the cold floor, holding a body of a young girl with a hole in her chest that was pierced by a sword.
"K-Ka...zu...ma..."the young girl spoke lowly with her last breath and died.
"No, no, no! Charlotte! Please don't die! Charlotte! CHARLOTTE!" Kazuma cried his heart out.
Flash back end...
As the enraged Kiba swung his two swords, Kazuma instantly evaded Kiba's attack with intense speed, catching Kiba by surprise. Kazuma was now several feet behind Kiba, making him turn around. He noticed Kazuma's head was tilted down, not looking at his direction.
"You think I don't know how you feel... you're probably right... I don't know how you suffered... but... I KNOW HOW IT FEELS... TO LOSE SOMEONE DEAR TO YOU!"Kazuma roared, rising his head up and glared furiously at Kiba.
Kiba was stunned by Kazuma's eyes glaring at him. He eyes were not dark brown as before, but bloodly red with three black tomos around the black iris.
Kazuma instantly appeared in front of Kiba and swung his blade at him. Kiba barely reacted and blocked with both of his swords, but Kazuma's holy sword sliced both of them.
"Wind Style... Tornado of a hundred blades!"Kazuma's body rapidly spin and created a small yet fearsome tornado.
The strong wind pulled Kiba into the tornado and began making him with multiple cuts. When the tornado finally settled down, Kiba landed roughly on the ground, becoming unconscious.
15 minutes later...
Kiba began to gain conscious as he slowly opens his eyes. He noticed there was a green bright light in the air, assuming he was back at the club room with Asia's twilight healing gear coating over him. But instead, it was Kazuma who was sitting on the ground while healing him
"Kazuma-san..."Kiba mumbled
"Relax. No need to be worried, I'm just healing you with my jutsu."Kazuma reassured
"What happen?"
"We fought and I accidentally tried to kill you with one of my jutsu."Kazuma explained
"That's right..."
The two became silent, not knowing what to say to one another. Kiba tried to speak first but Kazuma started talking.
"... I'm sorry..."Kazuma apologized
"For what?"
"For what I said about your old comrades, it wasn't my place for me to speak for them without even knowing if they wanted vengeance or not. Also, I wasn't trying to kill you, but I let my anger get the better of me and badly injured you because of it. I'm sorry." Kazuma frown.
"No... I should be apologizing, I was frustrated about my fight with the holy sword users earlier because I thought I had the oppurtunity to defeat one of the pieces of Excalibur, but my feelings from the past got the better of me. I know you were doing your job to protect the others and myself included. Thank you "Kiba smiled
Kazuma couldn't help but smile in relief.
"Kazuma-san, you mentioned that you lost someone dear to you, did you mean Issei-kun before he became a devil?"Kiba asked, seeing Kazuma shook his head.
"No... I told you guys that I was in the village for four years, right?"
Kiba nodded
"Half of the story was true... I only lived in the village for three years. The first year was suppose to study at a private school for gifted children, but instead it was at a facility that only aim for one pupose... to wield Excalibur."Kazuma explained, making Kiba's eyes widen shock.
"Kazuma-san, you don't mean..."
"Yeah... That year, I was nothing more but a lab rat for the Excalibur project."Kazuma sadly explained
Flash back end...
[A/N] I hoped you guys enjoyed the two chapters I posted, because now things will start getting interesting.