The spiky-haired boy and the nun were standing on the empty street which have major road with 3 lanes in each direction.

Both were confused since it is too early for this street to be so empty.

While the boy was calm, the nun was trembling.

Kamijou glanced at the nun and noticed her anxiety.

「"Hm? Is there something wrong, Index-chan? Do you know why this street is so empty?"」 asked the boy with visible calmness.

"It is..."

"It is Opila runes" interrupted Index the voice of the adult woman.

"?!"

Index immediately widener her eyes from the shock.

Kamijou and Index turned to the source of the voice.

They turned their backs and saw the woman with scabbard in her right hand.

The distance between the duo and the woman was 45 meters.

The woman had cold expression on her face.

"…a spell which creates isolated area that no one enters."

「"Oh, I see."」

"…Touma…" whispered trembling Index while clinging to the Kamijou's T-shirt "…this woman is very dangerous. She is a saint."

「"A saint? A golden or bronze?"」

"I'm serious, Touma. The power of saint is the equivalent of nuclear bomb."

"She is right. " said the woman. She most likely has better hearing than the average human since she managed to hear Index whispers.

「"Thanks for conformation!"」

" So your name is Kamijou Touma? The one who purifies God and exercises the Devil? Very nice name, kid."

In response, Kamijou suddenly has started pouring his tears down his face.

"?!" the woman and Index were surprised.

「"Oh, I'm so sorry for crying!"」 the boy started to wiping out his tears 「"I was just happy because sexy Onee-san like you gave me a compliment!"」

'…..what is wrong with this boy?' sweatdropped Kanzaki.

She decided just to ignore it and continue.

"I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Kanzaki Kaori."

「"Well, nice to meet you!"」

"You were facing my partner yesterday."

「"Your partner? Oh, I remember him!"」

"Really?"

「"Yeah! And If I'm not mistake I made him suffer greatly!"」

After that response, Kanzaki tightened slightly her grip on the scabbard. It was obvious with his tone and smirk that he doesn't have any regrets.

"Touma, what are you going to do? She is much more powerful than the average magician!" asked Index with worried Index.

「"I will come up with something, Index-chan. But more important thing is that you need come back to apartment, okay?"」

"But…!"

「"Like I said before: No Buts!" 」

"…Fine! But please, stay alive!" after she said that, Index immediately ran to the opposite side.

"Thank you for sending her away." said Kanzaki.

「"Welcome!"」

Actually, in her original plan was sending Index away to make Styil capture her. But he was in a very bad condition to chase her, so the plan a little bit changed.

"Listen, kid. I don't want to pronounce my magic name. What about we make the deal?"

「"Magic name? Sounds like straight out of the Shonen Jump! And the deal? Honestly, it sounds great!"」

"Very good, so.."

Suddenly!

Something was moving

Something faster than the average human eye can see!

"!" Kanzaki reacted to that.

She immediately raised her scabbard and with supersonic speed swung it horizontally to the left side to dodge it! Like a batter in the baseball game.

BUMP!

"Something" was dodged .

"Something" flew to the left side and fell on the ground.

And it was the oversized screw.

The screw was bend to the left from such a hit.

「"Oops! I did that accidentally! I swear!"」 said Kamijou with fake panic. Of course, he was lying like always.

"Are you screwing with me, brat?!" asked Kanzaki with pissed off tone.

「"Screwing?"」 rhetorically asked Kamijou with his fake confusion as he put his index finger under his chin 「"of course I'm screwing with you."」finished the sentence spiky-haired boy as he put his usual toothy grin.

"Tsk. So we wouldn't do that peacefully? Do you want to me pronounce my magic name so much?"

「"Mmmm...maybe?"」

"Then let's begin the battle." declared Kanzaki as she prepared unsheathe the sword.

「"Oh well, it's not my fault!"」said Kamijou as enormous screws appeared in both of his hands.

The distance between them was 45 meters.

After Kamijou started to charging at her.

"Salvare000!" pronounced Kanzaki her magic name as loud as possible.

The battle began.

Late evening.

The sky was peaceful, but below was the opposite.

Below was the hard battle.

The battle between the woman and the boy

The battle between the saint and the sinner.

The battle between the one who was born with blessed luck and the one who was born with cursed misfortune.

They were fighting on the major road.

The distance between them shortened, it was 25 meters.

The road and some surroundings were badly damaged. The road had cracks and cuts. Some streetlights and trees were torn apart. The debris from the road and the surroundings were lying around. Also, there were screws around. Some of them were stabbed to the ground, some of them were either lying on the ground bended.

The boy and the woman had damage as well.

The boy had cuts almost all over his body. His clothes were torn up and stained with blood and dirt.

Luckily, the woman had lesser damage. Despite that she was managing to block his attacks, more precisely, screws. The saint didn't manage to block some of his attacks. One of his screws hit her right front shoulder and rest of the screws hit her legs. Of course, due to being a Saint she had a durable body, so damage wasn't so much critical to her

The fight was going around 4-5 minutes.

Obviously, Kamijou wasn't as strong as an average Saint, so he could have lost after the beginning.

But then, how he was managing to keep up with her?

The answer is the Kamijou's speed. More precisely, Kamijou was capable to move faster than the human eye can see. Of course, he wasn't much more or equally as fast as Kanzaki, but he still fast enough to keep up with her.

Another reason why Kamijou was keeping up with her was the fact that she was holding back. She didn't want to kill him, so she was doing defense by dodging his attacks with scabbard and using Nanasen wires to make some damage on him.

「"So you are holding back specially for me? It is very nice of you, Kanzaki-chan!" said bruised and wounded Kamijou 「"But too bad I wouldn't do the same thing for you!"」

Immediately, Kamijou with screws in his both hands charged at her by accelerating his speed.

The slight shockwave was emitted from breaking the sound barrier.

In a second, he was very close to her to land a hit.

But.

Despite that he managed land some hits on her, Kanzaki had reaction and reflexes much more greater than in the average human, so she saw Kamijou charging at her perfectly.

But.

She didn't prepare to block with her scabbard or just dodge.

Instead, she prepared something another.

So when he was very close to her….

BAM!

「"Gkah!"」

She punched him with her right hand.

Specifically, she punched him in the nose.

The punch was so hard, that he was sent bouncing 12-13 meters back.

「"Ah! My nose!"」 panicked Kamijou as he held his nose and tried to get up. His nose was crooked awfully and bleeding heavily. His dirty and torn-up T-shirt was stained with more blood from heavy nosebleed 「"Oh no! Why you must be so cruel, Kanzaki-chan?! Because of you, I am going to live the rest of my life with this awful crooked nose!"」

"Oh, I am so terribly sorry" said Kanzaki with calm tone making obvious the hint of sarcasm "but if you left Index alone, your nose would've been still in the normal state."

「"Well, if it is needed to sacrifice for helping weak cute girl from terrible monsters like you, then I don't have right to complain!"」

After he finished, Kamijou noticed something at a glimpse.

He noticed as Kanzaki clenched tightly her scabbard and twitched her eyebrow for a moment.

It was obvious that his words irritated her.

Kamijou smirked as he realized that he can physiologically pressure her by continuing what he was saying.

「"..Yeah, you guys are awful demons for chasing such a helpless weak girl. You are probably more disgusting than me! But hey! I maybe can't blame you, maybe it is very easy and satisfied job to chase weak and hopeless little gi.."」

"I've had enough of you." interrupted Kanzaki.

And in the next moment.

Kamijou felt something.

「"Gbwah!"」 instantly groaned Kamijou.

He felt the sharp pain in the gut.

The pain was caused by the hard blow.

The hard enough to cause oxygen leave from his lungs.

The hard enough to make him spitting up his own blood.

The blow was caused by Kanzaki with her scabbard.

And then..

He felt another sharp pain in the gut.

「"Bgwah!"」 groaned Kamijou as he spitted his own blood again.

The pain was caused again by Kanzaki.

But she didn't use her scabbard.

Instead.

She used her left foot to kick him in the gut.

The kick was hard enough to send him flying back.

As he landed on the ground, Kamijou tried to get up.

But.

Kanzaki pinned him to the ground by pushing her scabbard to his stomach.

As she pinned him to the ground, Kamijou moaned from the pain.

"….what do you know?" asked Kanzaki almost whispering.

「"?"」

"I said: WHAT DO YOU KNOW?!" shouted out Kanzaki as she started to beat him down with scabbard.

She pounded her scabbard on every part of his body.

From each pound, the spiky-haired boy groaned from the pain.

As she beat him down, Kanzaki continued her speech.

"We are awful demons?! Do you really think I and Styil like to do that, you obnoxious brat?! Because we don't! You don't know nothing! So stop saying like you do!"

She continued.

Blinded by anger Kanzaki struck every part of his body.

Her strikes were hard enough to make cracks on the road.

She struck his legs.

She struck his arms.

She struck his chest and stomach.

She struck his head and throat.

She continued to do that.

…Until she realized.

Her eyes were widened.

That he is was no longer moaning from pain.

In fact.

He was not breathing at all.

His body was a bloody mess and his face was no longer recognizable.

And she noticed that half of her legs and half of the scabbard were covered in his blood.

The trembling Saint dropped her bloody scabbard to the ground and started to gripping her hair

"..No…no…NOOOOO!" shouted out Kanzaki as she fell on her knees "…I-I-I am so sorry…..I am so sorry….." it sounded like she was on the verge of tears.

She was shocked or more accurately: she was mentally broken.

It was because she killed a human.

It doesn't matter if he was her enemy or not.

Her magic was supposed to help and save people, but not kill them.

The Saint stood up with her widened eyes from the ground and took her scabbard.

She walked away slowly, like some drunkard, from his bloody corpse.

It wasn't because she didn't care, it was because she could no longer help him.

He was already dead.

She couldn't revive him with her magic or something.

So she just walked away.

"…I am sorry…"

「"I am not sorry."」

"!"

And in the next instant.

BAM

Kanzaki felt like she was stabbed through her waist and yet, she didn't feel any physical pain.

But instead of physical, she felt some other kind of "pain".

She felt weak.

She felt miserable.

She felt hollowness.

And etcetera.

She looked down at her waist and noticed the tip of some kind of weapon, and that she wasn't bleeding at all.

The Saint guessed that "weapon" was a screw.

The only thing that Saint didn't notice that her hair turned white.

The woman slowly turned back.

And she was shocked.

She saw the smiling Kamijou in a perfect form.

No bruises, no bloody cuts or some other kinds of wounds.

No dirt, blood or cuts on his clothes.

Shortly speaking, the boy was in the good state.

It looked like Kanzaki never hurt him.

"..W-w-what?" the Saint was utterly shocked "..i-i-is all of that was an i-illusion?"

If Kamijou's death, or maybe even the whole fight was an illusion, then why her anti-illusion spell didn't work?

Styil thought that boy is power is magician, since he was classified as a Level 0. And that his power was based on illusion.

So before fight with Kamijou, Kanzaki prepared her anti-illusion spell.

But if it didn't work, then maybe the boy's power wasn't based on illusions?

「"Why do I need to tell you that?"」said Kamijou as in his hand appeared an enormous pan head screw.

The boy threw the screw like a spear.

Kanzaki could've blocked it, but for some reason, she didn't.

Instantly after the screw stabbed through her body.

She fell unconscious on the ground.

The fight was over.

Kamijou stared at unconscious Kanzaki for a little while.

And.

Just walked away.

For some reason, he still considered that he lost.

And in top of that, his mind was disturbing one thought.

Why didn't he just killed her?

Hello, everyone!

Sorry for such a long absence.

Unfortunately, due to University exams, I won' write a new chapter sooner. But I hope you will wait?

Well, I hope you enjoy it!

Also, what do you think about battle? Is it was badly written?