Dragon of the Elements

by Draconis678

After observing him fighting against the Demon King of his world, Lucifer Sirzechs brings a demon by the name of Kenshin to Kuoh where he soon passes out from his injuries, he is reincarnated as a Devil by Rias who reincarnated the soul he just took in. How will this new twist affect the world around him, and did his family have history in this world? He would soon find out.

123. The Strongest Youkai

Draconis: Without further adeiu, let's get started!

Kenshin: Someone's enthusiastic.

Draconis: Eh, just in a good mood. Also, as I finished writing this on April the 9th. It was Rias' birthday. So happy birthday.

Rias: Thank you~! So what did you get me?

Draconis: Me? Err...hrm...it will probably be very belated, but I could write another lemon for you and Kenshin. I know I said that I'd-

Rias: (Waves him off) Oh don't worry about it, do what you feel's best. I don't mind if the others get involved either.

Dragon of the Elements

Chapter 123

The Strongest Youkai.

Draconis: Begin!

Erubetie and Kanade faced each other down. They both panted softly. "You're good." Kanade said with a smile.

"Thank you, you are as well Lady Kanade." Erubetie said. "As I understand it. When you ruled over the Noah Region. It was a bastion of purity of nature. It was basically a holy ground for slimes and aquatic based youkai."

"It was." Kanade nodded. "Any impurities I found in my region I dealt with myself, when Ragnarok happened along he also helped me." She added with a fond smile. "He was a good friend."

"Also, you didn't have any interest in ruling?" Erubetie asked.

"Not really. That was more my subordinates role. I just punished criminals and fed off those who were in the 'Servant' Class." Kanade said. "The criminals were those I devoured."

"They say that your criminal code was also harsh...Is that true?" Erubetie asked.

"Only toward polluters." Kanade said shaking her head. "As you know pure water and nature are integral to our survival...Ragnarok and Mother said they would punish me harshly for devouring people for offenses like petty theft, fighting among each other and what not, other that Kanon and I were responsible for corpse disposal...which neither of us really liked, but understood."

"That's fair." Erubetie nodded.

As they were talking, waves of slime collided each other. When Erubetie would get a spire of slime through, she had to dodge several. They were both calm as they fought. "Slime Partisan!" Erubetie shouted.

"Slime Spears!" Kanade shouted.

"Grrgghh..." Erubetie grunted as a few broke through the barrage and stabbed into her torso.

"Sorry, but partisans have secondary blades on the sides of their tips. If I strike those I can knock them off course." Kanade said as a slime wall melted down in front of her as Erubetie's slime retracted back toward her.

"? !" Kanade and Erubetie turn feeling a massive welling of dark mana to the west of them. "What is that? !" Erubetie said.

"Mother...she's activated the Vessel of Darkness." Kanade said.

"Doesn't that mean that Kenshin is in danger?" Erubetie asked with wide eyes.

"Of course it does...but at the same time, She only used it against Ilias." Kanade said. "Does she consider him worthy of it?"

"...Kenshin probably demanded it." Erubetie said with a sigh.

"? !" Kanade rounded on Erubetie. "Are you serious or just daft?" She asked.

"Unfortunately, I'm serious. Kenshin hates it when people hold back on him." Erubetie said with her eyes closed.

"Then he truly is insane." Kanade said. "Mother is at her absolute strongest in her Vessel of Darkness." She added with a sigh. "A shame, he was quite handsome." She was knocked back as Erubetie punched her in the face. "What? !"

"I know you possess more slime spirits than me by a massive margin, but please don't discount me, Lady Kanade." Erubetie said.

"Heh, I see...well then, forgive me!" Kanade said as her left fist slammed against Erubetie's face.

"Gah!" Erubetie staggered backward before welling her youki up, a ball appearing in front of her hand. "Akuma Hirameki!"

"Gah? !" Kanade gasped out as her right arm was blown off.

"Melt Storm!" Erubetie shouted, sending a massive torrent of slime at Kanade before she could react.

"? !" Kanade's eyes widened as she was engulfed by it. "Hrmn...you think you can overtake me? You're awfully confident for a youngling." She said as her own slime exploded outward, pushing back against Erubetie's.

Erubetie felt something enter her as her eyes widened. "Wh-What is this? !" She thought.

"What? !" Kanade said as Erubetie threw her back. "!" She looked on in surprise as Erubetie's shade of blue got darker, a pair of dark purple gloves formed on her hands and arms, while a pair of dark stiletto boots formed on her legs, shins and feet."

"What is this?" Erubetie said looking down at her hands and legs.

"I know what this is." Kanade said closing her eyes. "You unknowingly took my cells when we clashed just now."

"G-Gghhhh...!" Erubetie grunted, her lips down turned into a scowl as her body bubbled. "W-What's...happening to me...? !"

"Your body is adapting to the increase of power it's getting now that your cells are fusing with mine." Kanade said.

"A-Aaaaaagggghhh!" Erubetie's body glew brightly as she let out a cry. Her own youki reserves expanding rapidly.

"? !" Both Alipheese and Kenshin paused their battle to look over at where the two strongest slime youkai were fighting. "What was that? !"

"Hrm...It doesn't feel like either of them have used their ultimate technique." Alipheese said. "Hmm...I see, your Slime Queen Erubetie took in some of Kanade's cells."

"What does that mean?" Kenshin said.

"Kenshin, your slime queen Erubetie is the strongest slime outside of Kanade, but still she's no match for her." Alipheese explained. "So what do you think would happen when she takes in the the cellular makeup of the Ancestress of all the colony and slime type youkai."

"Shit!" Kenshin immediately tried to open communications with Erubetie, but was forced to dodge a stab from Alipheese. "I'm trying to make sure she's OK goddamn it!"

"Trust in her, besides...I'd worry more about myself." Alipheese said raising her hand toward him. "Dark Gospel!"

"!" Kenshin was engulfed by a blast of dark magic.

"You won't be able to absorb any of that to heal." Alipheese said. "Not when I put violent intent in it...!" She watched as Kenshin exploded from the dust her attack kicked up, smirking.

"You're right, I should trust in her, still that was a good attack, let me give it some applause!" Kenshin said as his Colt appeared in his hand, trained on the Dark Goddess, dumping the clip.

"Interesting weapon!" Alipheese said.

Back at Lucifer's castle, everyone heard a snickering and turned to Mana. "Haha, good one Kenshin." She said.

"...Still I hope Erubetie is OK." Issei said.

Back with Kanade and Erubetie, the latter finally calmed down. "Haa...haa...haa..." She panted.

"So how does it feel?" Kanade asked.

"..." Erubetie looked down at her purple hands. "It's...hard to explain. It's like...the power of every slime spirit that makes me up suddenly had their power expand greatly...but then...it condensed. It also felt like I was trying to divide myself into two other beings."

"Yes, as the war raged on all those years ago...the spirits in me would grow ever stronger. I eventually had to split myself apart, lest I lost control of myself. It was the advice Mother gave me, but Ragnarok had another idea. What if he helped me hone my power...I still needed to consume vast quantities of biomatter, mostly male essence from loyal followers, the very bodies of those criminals I mentioned as well as the corpse disposal, but it worked. After awhile I just divided myself to give myself more children to care for." Kanade said. "I was grateful to him for that." She said with a smile.

"Well, who should I train with?" Erubetie asked.

"Well, do you have anyone you're in love with?" Kanade asked.

"..." Erubetie blinked curiously. "Did you...love Ragnarok Kuroshi?"

"Well in a way similar to how Mother loves him and Tamamo loves that Kenshin fellow." Kanade said. "Ragnarok had insane stamina, like me, but still...I was rejected..."

"Well...maybe you could put yourself forward to Kenshin? Just...you'd have to contend with Undine." Erubetie said with a smile.

"Oh? My little niece? I wouldn't dare steal him from her, but I would at least like a taste...I can be quite a glutton after all." Kanade smiled. (1 )

"Well, while he's busy with your mother, maybe you could..." Erubetie trailed off.

"Oh? Are you asking me to train you?" Kanade asked.

"Well..." Erubetie smiled. "It would be an honor to learn from my great ancestress."

Kanade was taken aback for a moment by the show of respect from the current Slime Queen. Slowly a smile spread across her face. "Very well...however."

A thick slime tendril slammed Erubetie in the abdomen. "Gah? !" Erubetie gasped out.

"Taking in my cells has made your slime thicker and more solid." Kanade explained. "Add into that, your vitality has probably also increased exponentially."

"But why was your strike...able to attack me like I was a human?" Erubetie asked, panting. "It should have just stabbed into me."

"Thicker slime is much harder to pierce." Kanade explained. "That...and I hardened my own."

"Hardened?" Erubetie asked.

"Pay attention. I won't explain it to you, my training with Ragnarok was like a trial by fire in and of itself!" Kanade said as she rushed forward.

"? !" Erubetie crossed her arms, wreathed in the purple slime gloves and absorbed these blows.

"Haa! You're still open!" Kanade shouted, burying her fist into Erubetie's abdomen.

"Gulh? !" Erubetie gasped, doubling over, however she immediately rose up and sent a fist at Kanade's chin.

(splash)

"? !" Erubetie's eyes widened as Kanade smirked, while Erubetie's fist was jammed inside her head.

"Surprised?" Kanade asked. "We Colony types don't have a brain or heart to destroy to guarantee an instant kill. The beings that make us up, in our cases, the slime spirits that make us up are the brain and are the heart." She said. "We can not be defeated until they have all been exhausted!"

"Gulh!" Erubetie was assailed by numerous strikes from Kanade.

"Come on, you wanted me to teach you how to control this power, fight back!" Kanade said.

"Why...are her fists getting hotter as she attacks?" Erubetie thought, before slashing her arms outward, batting Kanade's arms away.

"!" Kanade's eyes widened with a smirk as Erubetie began punching at her, forcing her on the defensive. "Yes! That's it! Come at me current Slime Queen!" Kanade shouted.

"Why are your fists so hot when they contact me? !" Erubetie shouted.

"Hahaha!" Kanade laughed. "Fool, have you not practiced how to fuse your cells together?"

"!" Erubetie's eyes widened. "Fuse my...but that's only reserved for my ultimate move!" Erubetie thought.

"When Ragnarok and I trained, I learned to localize it, then to later unfuse it." Kanade said as she batted Erubetie away.

"..." Erubetie stared at her for a moment. "Then...maybe I should try it as well." She said as she rushed forward, punching Kanade in the cheek.

"Ghh? !" Kanade grunted, feeling heat from Erubetie's purple fist. "Haaaa!" Erubetie yelled assailing the Ancestress with multiple punches.

"Grh!" Kanade batted her away and smirked. "Good hits, you're already starting to get the hang of it."

"I'm a quick learner!" Erubetie said before rushing Kanade, wrapping her arms and slime around Kanade, completely restraining her ability to move.

"G-Ghh! Let me go!" Kanade said thrashing around, Erubetie's slime bulging around as she tried to escape.

Erubetie smiled, her lips planting on Kanade's cheek making her freeze. "You've used this technique to aid you in battle, but what if it was taken to an extreme hm?"

"? !" Kanade's eyes widened in horror. "Wait, Erubetie, I know what you're going to do, but such a thing will kill you and I!"

"Will it? Let's find out shall we?" Erubetie said as her body heated up further, even beginning to glow. "Nuclear Fusion!"

Kanade's eyes widened in horror "No Erubetie! If you do this, you might not only kill us! But everyone else in the Deadlands! Tamamo, Kenshin, Draco, Yukari, Miyuki, Evangeline, Saja, Kanon, Hiruko, Minagi, Alma Elma, and even Mother!"

"They'll all make it." Erubetie said. "My childhood friend Luka liked to read. Sometimes I'd read with him. He had picked up a book on human sciences and I read with him about the power generation of nuclear sciences. By this time I'd have taken in tens of thousands of slime spirits. We all agreed that we'd all use this as a last resort...and I feel those parameters have been met." She said as her body heats up further, hers and Kanade's slimes both bubbling from the heat.

"Get...Off of me!" Kanade struggled to no use.

"To think you're going to lose to your own power. After all, your cells made me stronger." Erubetie said.

"Not enough...are you stronger than me now? !" Kanade shouted.

"Indeed...now...let's go greet the Impure World together." Erubetie said while closing her eyes. "I'm sorry Issei, but I think I'll have to miss that date." She whispered. "Would you even want someone with this appearance, these hideous arms and legs?" She said as the deutertium and tritium inside her, both isotopes of the scientific element Hydrogen began to condense.

"Erubetie! Don't do this!" Kanade shouted.

"It doesn't matter what you say Ancestress." Erubetie said holding Kanade tightly. "We're both going to Hell together, get ready."

The nuclear fusion inside Erubetie had begun. "You won't do it yourself, because it would wipe out all of Makai...so it's my win, lets go...Kanade-Sama."

"Aaaaaahhhhhh!" Kanade screamed. "Get off of me!"

"It doesn't matter." Erubetie said. "To protect the peace we gained not only for Makai, but for the Alliance of Devils, Angels, Fallen Angels...and the various gods. I'll gladly lay down my life...as they promised to protect nature. "Colony Fusion Bomb!"

(boooooommmm!)

"? !" Kenshin and Alipheese paused their battle again, seeing a mushroom cloud erupt from where Kanade and Erubetie were fighting. "Wh-What the hell?"

"I see...Kanade must have used her ultimate skill." Alipheese said.

Kenshin's head snapped toward her. "Her ultimate skill is to turn into a fucking nuke? !"

"A simple explanation but yes." Alipheese said with a smile.

"Aren't you worried? ! That was one of your fucking daughters!" Kenshin shouted.

"Kanade knows how much power to put into her bomb technique." Alipheese said. "She's sti-!"

"Mother...I can't go on anymore." Kanade's voice rang in her head.

Alipheese spoke out loud holding her head, a worried expression on her face. "Kanade, you know how much power you have to use to use that ability! Why did you-"

"It wasn't me..." Kanade said with a tired voice.

"!" Alipheese rounded on Kenshin who was already speaking with Erubetie.

"You what? ! That explosion just now was you? !" Kenshin asked.

"Yes...and I can't go on anymore. I don't think Kanade-Sama can either." Erubetie said.

"..." Kenshin let out a sigh. "Alright Erubetie, get some rest."

"Rest then, Kanade. Don't die on your Mother. I don't want to lose you." Alipheese said.

"Thank you Mother." Kanade said as her head tilted toward Erubetie who's current laying position was inverse to her own. "That was impressive." Kanade said with a smile.

"Well, like I said, Luka liked to read, and I just picked things up from his reading." Erubetie said with a smile of her own, albeit tired.

"Hmhm!" Kanade giggled tiredly, smiling. "Well I'm glad my successor is so studious...anyway, let's just call this a draw." Kanade said raising her hand.

Erubetie smiled and grabbed Kanade's hand, squeezing it. "Indeed...good match Kanade-Sama."

"To you as well, Erubetie-Sama." Kanade said, showing the same respect Erubetie showed her.

Erubetie vs Kanade- Draw!

(break)

With Yukari and Hiruko.

"Gah!" Yukari was batted backward by several of Hiruko's tentacles, which proceeded to slip back under her dress.

"Come on, is this all you got?" Hiruko asked with a smug smile.

"Krrhhhh!" Yukari growled, diving toward Hiruko, slashing Kazeken at her. "Katensho!" She shouted.

"Hmph!" Hiruko blocked the Katensho using her tentacles. "Hm...I wonder if Mother will let me take that boy's semen as repayment for this."

"That boy?" Yukari said before her eyes widened. "You mean Kenshin? !"

"Of course. I'd love to feed off him before Mother kills him~!" Hiruko giggled.

"..." Yukari bowed her head, her body shaking.

"Hmmm? Are you angry~? Come on then..."

"Hrrrgh!" Yukari's eyes glew with a green glow as she punched Hiruko in the face.

"What the? It feels like she just got stronger." Hiruko thought seeing Yukari's eyes glow ominously.

Yukari looked down at her hands, pulling out a mirror to look into her eyes. "I see...I've gone back into the Demigod State have I? What caused it? Was it her threat to suck Kenshin dry? To allow the Dark Goddess to kill him? Bah, it doesn't matter." She shot forward. "Kamikazeken!"

"Kurh!" Hiruko grunted as Yukari's fist connected with her face faster than her tentacles could react. "Haa!" She sent them all at Yukari, wrapping them around her limbs.

"Hahahaha! I've got you now." Hiruko laughed.

Yukari's eyes glew ominously as she smirked. "Do you now?" She said as several wind blades cut through Hiruko's tentacles, freeing her. Yukari flew upward. Kazeken at the ready. "Katensho!"

This time, Hiruko had no time to block as the Heavenly Fire Strike impacted her. "Aaaggghhh! !" She screamed.

"Haa...haaa..haa...haa..." Yukari panted only to jump out of the way as numerous tentacles shot toward her. "!" She looked up seeing Hiruko jump out of the smoke left from her attack with a smirk.

"I see I will have to take this more seriously! Scylla Blitz!" Hiruko said as numerous tentacles rushed Yukari.

"That's insane!" Yukari thought as she prepared to defend herself. She would hack apart as many tentacles as she could, but realized that like a hydra, her tentacles regenerated instantly. "Aaaaagghhh!" Yukari cried out as she was sent to the ground with numerous wounds and bruises.

"Hahahahahaha!" Hiruko laughed. "You're the most fun I've had since Eden!"

"!" Yukari grabbed all of her tentacles in both hands, smirking with a glare.

"? !" Hiruko gasped in surprise.

"Unless your name is Kenshin...I refuse to take a backseat to anyone!" Yukari said, turning, throwing Hiruko over her shoulders, sending her slamming to the ground.

"Hellfire Flash!" Yukari stabbed Ryuuga at Hiruko.

"Aaaaaaaaahhhhh!" Hiruko screamed.

"Haa...haa...how does Kenshin deal with this form?" Yukari said looking down at her hands. "It's so tiring...!"

Yukari was knocked to her left by Hiruko, only to be kicked to the sky by a second Hiruko. "!" She gasped in shock as a third Hiruko waited for her up above.

"Haaaa!" Hiruko slammed her tentacles into Yukari's stomach.

"Gulah? !" Yukari gasped out, stomach acid and blood shooting out of her mouth. She stabilized herself and glared down at the three Hirukos. "What the hell?"

"It could be said that this form of mine is an aggregation of tentacles given a human form. I am able to transform and divide at will." Hiruko said. "I hope you taste good Yukari Tsuki, because I'm going to consume you!"

"? !" Yukari dodged the first Hiruko's attack only to get smacked to the ground by the second Hiruko's tentacles, landing in a bed of the third Hiruko's tentacles. "Gah? !" She felt her skin burning as the third Hiruko smirked.

"Mmh...you do taste good. I'm glad." The third Hiruko said.

"Salamander!" Yukari thought.

"Huh? Oh shit! Right!" Salamander said, her attention being pulled away from Kenshin's fight with Alipheese. "Don't worry, me helping you won't affect Kenshin." She said.

"Even when I'm in the Demigod State?" Yukari asked as flames erupted around her, burning and melting the third Hiruko's tentacles.

"I don't know how to explain it, but it's like something is trying to awaken in Kenshin." Salamander said. "Like...maybe his Demigod State is only half awakened."

"What?" Yukari thought as she dodged tentacle swipes from Hiruko and her clones.

"I feel the same with you, but I feel it's related to your 'Knight' piece." Salamander said.

"I see...so maybe the elements have combined with our Evil Pieces." Yukari thought.

"That is plausible, yes." Salamander said. "Look out!"

"!" Yukari's eyes widened as she saw all three clones of Hiruko send their tentacles at her. "Krhhh!" Flames erupted around Ryuuga and Kazeken as she went into a spin "Kaiten Mouretsu!" She shouted.

"Aaaaaggghh!" Hiruko cried out in pain. "!" She gasped as Yukari dived down, stabbing her first clone in the chest before leaping across her and beheading her second clone. Yukari then pinned down Hiruko herself, holding her at blade point with Kazeken.

"Give up, You're done here." Yukari said.

"My, such deadly accuracy." Hiruko said with a smile.

"I followed my brother on his path on becoming an assassin...because I loved him not only as a sister but as a woman!" Yukari spat. "So I won't allow you or your mother to kill him! Even if it kills me!"

"Wow...Such dedication." Hiruko said. "In any case...I was just kidding."

Yukari paused. "Huh?"

"I was just kidding. Though I'd like a taste of your brother or this Issei person he's associated with. I wasn't going to kill them." Hiruko said as Yukari let her up

"Seriously?" Yukari asked.

"Yes, for the last time." Hiruko said before she was slapped over the head by Yukari. "Aaah! What was that for? !"

"For being a bitch! I was so worried about Kenshin!" Yukari shouted.

"OK I'm sorry jeez! I won't do anything to him!" Hiriko whined.

"Well...if he wants to do it with you, I can't do much about it." Yukari lifted Hiruko's hat off her head and patted her head. "I gotta say, you're really cute!" She said hugging Hiruko.

"E-Eh? !" Hiruko gasped.

"What?" Yukari asked, looking down at Hiruko. "I like cute things~!" She said embracing Hiruko tightly.

"Even though I'm just a mass of tentacles given form?" Hiruko asked. "O...Only mother has complimented me on this."

"Oh Hiruko, don't put too much pressure on yourself. I did and it only led to pain." Yukari said.

"But, what about Mother?"

"Kenshin won't kill her." Yukari said looking down at Hiruko with a smile. "He promised Tamamo that he wouldn't. My brother, whom I love with all my heart and soul, is a person who keeps his promises."

"Then it's my loss." Hiruko said with a smile as she shook Yukari's hand. "It's your win, Yukarin~." She said with a giggle.

"It was a wonderful match Hiruko-Chan." Yukari smiled returning the gesture before Hiruko leaped forward and kissed Yukari on the lips.

"U-Um...w-what was that about." Yukari said after pulling Hiruko away.

"I love cute things too, and you are just the cutest! I wanna keep you as mine!" Hiruko giggled.

"Um...OK?" Yukari said her eyes turning into black dots.

Yukari vs Hiruko- Winner Yukari?

Hiruko turns to scowl at the sky. "No, She beat me fair and square. I just want her to spend more time with me."

"O-OK." Yukari said with a nervous tone.

(break)

With Miyuki and Saja.

"Haaaa!" Miyuki shouted, punching at Saja with her fist wreathed in lightning.

"Hrmmn!" Saja crossed her wing arms in front of her, taking the blow. Behind those arms was a smirk. "You're pretty spunky girlie. I'll give you that much!"

"Damn, her guard is so strong!" Miyuki thought.

"Haaa!" Saja flexed her wings outward, flinging Miyuki off of her.

"!" Miyuki used her wings and stopped herself.

"Take this!" Saja said whipping her tail across Miyuki's chest.

"Aaagh!" Miyuki gasped out. "I'm even in the Vessel and that hurt like hell!" She thought.

"But unfortunately that's all you have...is spunk." Saja said before leaning in to whisper in Miyuki's ear. "Your brother was a fool to challenge Mother. She's the Mother of all Youkai, so it stands to reason she's the Strongest Youkai."

"Well, what can I say?" Miyuki said as an Earth Gauntlet formed over her fist. "Onii-Chan's always been the reckless type!" Miyuki said as wind launched out of the gauntlet, slamming into Saja's face before she could react.

"Gaah!" Saja gasped out, being knocked back before her tail wrapped around Miyuki's left ankle.

"? !" Miyuki reacted immediately, slicing off her ankle and foot.

"Huh?" Saja said pulling the limb back. "Oh nice reaction!"

"Che..." Miyuki scowled as she regrew her severed limb.

"You know, back during the Divine Wars. I was actually Mother's retainer." Saja said.

"Retainer? I guess that fits someone as strong as you. I've never gotten Tamamo to take me seriously in one of our spars."

"Oh? You have yet to best Tamamo, yet you sought to challenge me?" Saja asked with a smile, not at all mocking. "I commend your bravery Miyuki Tsuki."

"What does that mean?" Miyuki asked.

"It means out of all of the Six Ancestral Youkai. I have the greatest amount of innate fighting ability and power. That's why Mother chose me to be by her side until Ragnarok showed up."

"I see...and were you upset at this?" Miyuki said trying to goad her.

"Not at all." Saja said shaking her head. "When Mother and Ragnarok met, she seemed to be happy in the first time in years. She doted on him constantly, but also constantly demanded they do things her way." Saja said. "In a conversation I had with him, he voiced his annoyance with her domineering, that the guys liked to do things their way too and just wanted to prove that to her. He finally got his chance the week before he disappeared...I don't think I've ever seen Mother that pleased. I asked about it and Mother said, even giggling, that she's finally found the one to be her mate. That my services as her retainer weren't required anymore."

"Naturally you reacted negatively to this?" Miyuki asked.

"Of course. I challenged Ragnarok to a fight to retain my position, but he defeated me." Saja said. "He then said."

"Alipheese has been looking for someone to stand on equal ground with her since Ilias' light repelled her. She seems to think I'm that person even though I was defeated by her."

"So, what if Kenshin-Onii-Chan beats her? Will she try to mate with him instead?" Miyuki asked.

"Beat Mother? Hahahahaha! Such a thing is impossible! Mother is the Strongest Youkai, the creator of youkai! Your brother was foolish to challenge her! Even if she threw the gauntlet first!" She held her hand out, as the handle of a whip appeared in her hand. "Behold...the 'Immortal Trashing Whip' that I used to end scores of Ilias' angels." She then slashed it outward. "Five Sided Pit of Pain!" She said swinging her whip at Miyuki.

Miyuki crossed her arms in front of her as the whip sliced into her. "Aagh!" She cried out, bleeding from the arms, shins, thighs chest and face.

"Hmmmnn...that's a nice look for you, Tsuki Miyuki." Saja said.

"Che!" Miyuki flexed her muscles and regenerated her wounds. "Damn this is bad. I can't do that too many times." She thought. "What was that all about? Aren't we all just fighting until Onii-Chan and your mother finish their fight?"

"My sisters might see it that way, except for maybe Kanon and Kanade, but for me this is a fight to the death." Saja said. "I won't allow you past me to go help your foolish brother. My pride as Mother's retainer won't allow it, but tell you what? I'm kind enough that I'll give you a freebie." Saja held her arm-wings out at her sides. "Strike wherever you please."

"Oh come the fuck on! You really think I'm gonna fall for that trick? ! Even then, why would I strike someone with their guard completely down? !" Miyuki said.

"I'm not tricking anyone!" Saja said. "Come on! Bring it!"

"Urgh! Fine!" Miyuki charged forward, her fist covered in red lightning.

(splash!)

As soon as Miyuki's fist connected with Saja's chest, blood splashed on the ground...however...it wasn't Saja's.

Miyuki stared in shock as blood dripped from her punching arm. "Wait...what? ! How? ! She didn't even attack, so why am I the one bleeding? !"

"Bleeding from the pressure of my youki hm? Is this really all you got?" Saja asked. "That's really too bad."

"!" Miyuki jumped back as Saja tried to grab her arm. "What was that? ! She penetrated my own aura so easily. I even had Wind Shell active!" She thought.

"Alright...now it's my turn. It's been awhile since I've used this, so forgive my rustiness." Saja said raising her whip.

"Grh!" Miyuki rushed forward gripping the arm that held her whip. "G-Grrrhhh!" She growled as Saja pushed against her. "Damn! She's so strong! !" Miyuki thought.

"Haa!" Saja yelled out knocking Miyuki back.

"!" Miyuki's heart raced as Saja slithered toward her. "Calm down! Calm down! She can be beat! You just have to hammer at the wall hard enough!" She thought before dodging. "Gh!" She leaped in the air, the elements surrounding her leg. "Elemental Ax!"

(clench!)

"? !" Miyuki gasped in shock as Saja clenched her leg with both hands.

"Nice try, but no." Saja said tearing off Miyuki's leg.

"A-Aaagggh!" Miyuki screamed in pain.

"Had enough? !" Saja said slashing her whip at Miyuki carving scars into her chest.

"Haa...haa..haa..." Miyuki hobbled back on one leg.

"Now do you see how hopeless your situation is?" Saja mocked.

"K-Krrrhhh!" Miyuki growled. "I can't plan my way out of this...no...I just have to KICK HER ASS!" She thought as her leg regenerated and she shot toward Saja. Miyuki punched toward Saja's face only to have it grabbed by Saja's free hand-wing.

But even through this, Saja's arm shook, meaning she was having trouble holding Miyuki back. "Nice move!" Saja complimented.

Miyuki recalled how she used to act before coming to Kuoh, no...before Kenshin disappeared. She loved fighting, she wanted to be strong, so she wouldn't be left behind by Kenshin and Yukari...and now she had a chance to prove it! The only reason she became a pacifist after Kenshin vanished, even though slightly, was because she'd watched her friends die and wanted to prevent that...but now...she knew...the only way to prevent that against people who wouldn't stand down was to FIGHT. She brought her free hand forward, slamming into Saja's stomach.

"Guah? !" Saja spat out as she was driven back, but she smirked. "Interesting."

"You reminded me of who the fuck I am." Miyuki said with a fierce look. "I only abandoned my joy of fighting because my friends kept dying around me..."

"That's war for you..." Saja replied. "I can't tell you how many of my comrades, my friends...my daughters died while I still lived. We all feel like this...Tamamo's just the best at hiding it, the trickster."

"I'm sorry." Miyuki said.

Saja smiled. "No need to apologize. It's a choice we made thousands of years ago. We don't deserve to feel regret."

"You do though." Miyuki said. "Everyone feels regret Saja. Hell, Tamamo's lived through numerous wars because of Alipheese's request. You don't think she's swimming in regret?"

"..." Saja narrowed her eyes in thought. "That's right...Tamamo, you've been out here all this time, instead of sealed with us." She thought. "The things you must have witnessed...and yet...you still found love with that Kenshin character."

Miyuki quirked an eyebrow as Saja smiled serenely. "Huh?"

"Tsuki Miyuki, youngest daughter of the Kuroshi and Tsuki clans...if you make it out of this...tell my sister Tamamo I am happy for her." Saja said.

"If I make it out of this?" Miyuki said before Saja's whip became thick as steel and stabbed at her. She blocked with her arms, but felt intense pressure.

"You didn't honestly think you were stronger than me, did you? !" Saja said.

"G-Ggghh...!" Miyuki struggled against Saja's now sword like whip.

"I may hate excessive cruelty and atrocities, but I do enjoy fighting strong opponents and fucking them afterwards. It's just so fun~!" Saja said.

"!" Miyuki's eyes widened. "Oh shit, if she beats me she's going to fuck me? !"

"Your ass is quite nice, maybe I'll have my tail take it for a ride." Saja teased. "Anyway, I'll keep you alive long enough for THAT!" She said as her whip stabbed through Miyuki's arm and into her chest.

"Khh? !" Miyuki looked down at the whip and wound as the latter retracted.

"You shouldn't have held back." Saja said with a disappointed tone.

"Hold back...I...wasn't...!" Miyuki gasped out.

"Softening up against me...was the worst thing you could do. Even Ragnarok made this mistake against me." Saja scoffed. "Mother looked at me as the Leader of the Six Generals...or what you know as the Six Ancestors...I'm insulted that you held back." She sneered as she pulled her whip back, blood spraying out of Miyuki's chest.

"G-Gh...? !" Miyuki's eyes widened as the arm she'd blocked with fell to the ground. "G-Gaah..." She fell to the ground gasping for breath.

"What a poor ending." Saja said looking down at Miyuki. "Someone who could honestly fight me, in this day and age...it's been so long since I've felt such a rush. In that since I am like Ragnarok, since I enjoy a good fight, being at least a third dragon." Saja turned and slithered away. "Well, see you around, maybe." She said.

"No...No no no no!" Miyuki thought as she clawed her hands on the ground. "I can't die here! Mom would be so sad! Onee-Chan would be sad! Vali would be sad at the loss of a friend! Onii-Chan would be heartbroken!" She thought as she looked up at Saja slithering away.

"Hmm, I wonder if Mother will let me have a sample of Ragnarok's reincarnation. " Saja mused.

"No! No! If I don't get up she and Alipheese are going to kill Onii-Chan!" Miyuki thought as her eyes started glowing a purple glow. "Why can't I access that power Onii-Chan gave me? !"

(flashback)

Kenshin and Miyuki were sitting on the deck of the ship. "You wanted to see me, Onii-Chan?" Miyuki asked.

Kenshin smiled. "Yes. I wanted to give you something Miyuki." He said.

"Huh?" Miyuki said before the door behind her opened and Tamamo came out. "Tamamo-Chan?"

"Hmhm~! I love the way that sounds, but I'm here for business." She said as she formed a handsign, her eyes widening.

"Wait, that's the release for Onii-Chan's Malak Seal!" Miyuki said before turning her gaze to her brother's two golden eyes.

"Like I said. I want to give you something. I gave it to Yukari in the heat of battle." Kenshin said as he pressed his hand against Miyuki's belly. "Transfer."

"Embrace!"

Miyuki's eyes glew purple for a moment before she fell over, passing out. Tamamo looked over at Kenshin. "Will she be OK?"

"Yeah." Kenshin said with a smile. "I activated mine in the heat of the moment, I transferred it to Yukari against Yama in Heaven to help her, but I don't want Miyuki's life to be in danger and not have need of this." Kenshin said. "She will need it eventually."

"Even if it's not fully awakened?" Tamamo whispered. "In any of you?"

"Huh?" Kenshin said turning to her.

"Nothing. I was just thinking to myself." Tamamo said.

(flashback end)

"Hey Saja..."

"? !" Saja turned back to Miyuki who smirked widely as she stood up, her eyes glowing a fierce purple glow.

"I didn't hear no bell." Miyuki said.

Saja stared back at her with slightly wide eyes. "Her youki was about to run out...what's going on here and these elements...it reminds me of Ragnarok." She thought. "Her wounds have stopped bleeding too!"

"Haa!" In an instant Miyuki appeared and slashed Saja deeply down her left shoulder with her claws, causing intense bleeding.

"? !" Saja looked down at her left shoulder in shock before crossing her wings against Miyuki's second attack. She dipped under Saja's guard and slashed at her belly.

"Gaah? !" Saja gasped out, throwing Miyuki back, even yet she smiled. "Hahahaha, you're fun!"

Miyuki smirked back. "You are too Saja-Chan, but I won't allow you to rape Onii-Chan! He is mine with consent!"

"Haa!" Saja shouted her youki whipping around her. "Let's see you try and stop me!" Saja said.

"Oh I fucking will!" Miyuki shouted as her fist was surrounded with the elements.

"Come on!" Saja said punching forward. "Poisonous Snake Blast!" She cried out.

"Four Elements Fist! Elemental Spica!" Miyuki shouted as her blast collided with Saja's.

"Haaaaaaaa!" Saja and Miyuki cried out.

"It's...Over!" Miyuki said as she dumped youki into her attack.

"Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh! !" Saja screamed out as she was engulfed by Miyuki's attack.

"Saja!" Miyuki landed on the ground and began healing Saja's wounded body.

"Eennnhh...?" Saja moaned curiously, before looking over at Miyuki. "Why are you...healing me?"

"Because I want to." Miyuki said with a smile.

Saja paused for a moment, then smiled. "Very well then...but why are your purple eyes glowing?"

"Eh?" Miyuki said touching her face. "They are?"

Saja looked at Miyuki in confusion before she nodded. "She doesn't know how to realize and control her powers yet, I see."

"Saja?" Miyuki said.

"Don't worry about your powers if you keep your current work ethic, both physically and mentally, you'll figure it out, along with your brother and sister." Saja said.

"Even with Onii-Chan, but his powers have been with him the longest, even if he gave them to us." Miyuki said.

"Just watch." Saja said turning toward Kenshin and Alipheese's battlefield, prompting Miyuki to do the same. "Let's watch Mother and Onii-Chan's battle." '

"Alright." Miyuki said before Saja's wing cupped her cheek. "Eh?"

"Tsuki Miyuki. You're very kind, you enjoy battle, but don't want your opponent hurt if you can help it." Saja said with a smile. "A true battle medic."

"...Hmn...yeah I guess that would describe me pretty well." Miyuki said with a smile. "Outside of a few exceptions."

"Well we all have those we cannot permit to live." Saja said with a nod.

"Still..." Miyuki said, her smile widening. "May I call you a friend?"

"..." Saja paused for a moment before smiling herself, extending her other wing to Miyuki. "Sure."

"Hehe! Yay!" Miyuki cheered as she shook Saja's wing. "Still you think I went into Onii-Chan's Demigod State?"

"There's no other explanation." Saja said. "Like I said, let's watch his and Mother's battle."

"Right." Miyuki said.

Miyuki vs Saja- Winner- Miyuki!

(Break)

With Kenshin and Alipheese.

Kenshin charged toward the Dark Goddess with both his dual blade naginatas at the ready. "Twin Heavenly Demon Revival!"

(slash!)

Before they met her, Alipheese slashed both Kenshin's arms off and pursue him. Kenshin was left on the backfoot as she chased him. "Shit! Shit! I can't pause to regenerate my arms like she can!"

"What's the matter? Can't fight without your arms?" Alipheese goaded.

"Tch!" Kenshin scowled and kited Alipheese toward one of his blades. The one without slots for his cards. "Chimei Supairaru, don't fail me now!" He thought as he leaned over grabbing the handle with his teeth and swinging his head toward Alipheese's spear as it stabbed at her.

"Oh?" Alipheese said.

"Grrhhhh!" Kenshin growled in an almost feral fashion as his neck muscles flexed, pushing her back.

"Incredible! He's pushing me back without his arms? !" Alipheese marveled. "Yet still...his power remains unawakened."

"Pohint...Blahnk...Kahthenshou!" Kenshin shouted as the area around them exploded in fire. Kenshin jumped back and prepared to regenerate when, to his shock Alipheese exploded out of the fire with only mild burning.

"Come on! Did you really think that'd do me in? !" Alipheese said.

Kenshin jumped upward and kicked Alipheese in the face, sending her backward. He dropped Chimei Supairaru on his leg. "I'm not trying to fucking kill you! Why don't you get that? !" He lifted his leg up, regrabbing Chimei Supairaru with his teeth and rushed toward Alipheese.

"Oh, so if you were trying to kill me you would?" Alipheese mocked. "Awful lot of arrogance you have Kenshin." She said stabbing her spear at him multiple times.

(Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!)

"? !" Alipheese's eyes widened as Kenshin deflected all of her strikes with Chimei Supairaru, swinging his head wildly.

Everyone watching at Lucifer's Castle were shocked too, except for Sirzechs himself who smiled. Well really it was just the Lucifer Peerage that was shocked.

"Whoa...he can still fight, even when robbed of his arms?" Souji said.

"Damn, his pain tolerance must be high as fuck." Surtr Second said.

"Amazing. I must study him sometime." Mcgergor said.

"He's supposed to be the same pawn as me? What the hell? !" Beowulf shouted. "He's like a one man army!"

"I see, it's not that he's unlucky. It's just that he works too hard to rely on luck." Enku, the Kirin said.

Bahamut nodded in respect toward the screen while Grayfia smiled. Sirzechs noticed this and smiled himself. "Like I thought, while Marissa is my choice, you're admiring your choice going to work, knowing he will come through...Kenshin, please keep her happy when I can't." He thought.

"Haaa!" Alipheese stabbed her hand through Kenshin's torso alerting everybody, until it poofed into a clone stencil. She turned to see Kenshin regrowing his arms.

"Finally. I'm not used to fighting with Chimei Supairaru in my mouth, gotta work on that, with both of my dual blades." Kenshin said rubbing his wrists.

"Well you certainly went far with what you did." Alipheese said. "Yet you still hold back."

"Again...what. In the...FUCK are you talking about?" Kenshin scowled. "You may not notice it, but I've been trying my fucking hardest. I'm not holding back!"

"Then why fight me without your arms?" Alipheese asked.

"Because you wouldn't give me time to regenerate them!" Kenshin shouted.

"Oh please! Youkai of our caliber should be able to regrow them instantly, watch!" Alipheese raised her spear, before using the blade of it to slice her right arm off. "Agh!" She grunted in pain. "Damn you for making me feel this pain." She said before extending the stump outward, it regrowing instantly. "See?"

"That wasn't instant! You still needed to throw your arm out." Kenshin shouted.

"Haa..." Alipheese sighed. "Don't make me do it again. I only did that for show."

"!" Kenshin's eyes widened as Alipheese appeared in front of him. "She knows Shundou? !" He thought.

"That said...are you finally returning to your true self?" Alipheese asked.

"My...god damn it! I already told you I'm not Ragnarok!" Kenshin snapped as he defended himself with both his dual bladed naginatas. Not having enough time to call Shiroi Tengoku or Angel Halo back to his sides.

"Again...I'm not saying you are." Alipheese said before throwing Kenshin back.

"Then what do you mean?" Kenshin asked.

"Show me what you're made of, show me the Absolute Killing Perfection." Alipheese said with a smirk.

"? !" Kenshin's eyes widened for a moment before numerous strikes were sent toward him from Alipheese's spear. He blocked half of them before jumping back panting as he nursed bleeding wounds.

"Wh-What's this feeling?" Kenshin thought. "I feel so fucking hot. Yet Undine's power hasn't lessened...it's like all the spirits powers are waiting to come out, but aren't they already out? What's going on...?"

"Kenshin, I am stronger than any youkai...except you and Ragnarok." Alipheese thought. "That is why I've been killing you...that is why I've been reviving you. So you can finally surpass me at long last! Then you can attain further heights!"

"Heavenly Demon Revival!" Kenshin said slashing Alipheese down her left side. "? !" His eyes widened in shock as he jumped back, earning a cut across his cheek and chest for his troubles. He turned back to Alipheese who smiled, as her wound healed.

"Kenshin, did you think I had died?" Alipheese said. "You're so soft. I worked so hard on my regenerative abilities that they'd no longer be a weakness to me after battling Ragnarok."

"That had occurred to me, but I was just surprised I landed such a massive blow on you." Kenshin said.

"Aaah, I see..." Alipheese said. "But...Kenshin...it's time for us...to bring down the curtain on this conflict!"

"!" Kenshin's eyes widened as darkness pooled around Alipheese as she brought her hands together, bringing about another spear, completely black, but Kenshin could feel the aura and intent exhuming from it. However instead of being scared. Kenshin let out a loud laugh and smirked widely as he met Alipheese's spear with a wide smirk, his opponent mirroring his expression. His eyes widened further as a further bubbling of excitement boiled about in a fervor inside him.

"This...feeling...?" Kenshin thought. "I've never felt this before. Not against Yukari, Mirai, Issei, Vali, Sairaorg or even Euclid!"

Kenshin then realized...that he LOVED this feeling, this absolute RUSH. "Yes..." Kenshin thought as he battled Alipheese. "It's like I'm melting..." He thought as Alipheese grabbed him by the face and threw him backward, going into a tumble.

Yet Kenshin was undeterred as he slashed at her neck. "Flash Kill!" She blocked it. "Heavenly Demon Revival!" "? !" His eyes widened again as it did no damage. "Damn you!" Kenshin roared launching the Draconic Asura at her.

Again however...Alipheese appeared unharmed.

Still this did not deter Kenshin who smirked as he pursued the Dark Goddess. "I...I've never felt so ALIVE!" Kenshin thought. He looked down seeing not skin or muscle clenching his blade, but bone. "Wha...What the? !" He barely had time to reflect on this as Alipheese stabbed at him, making him deflect the strike. He looked down, seeing the melting of his flesh stretch along his arms. "What's going on? ! This...feels so different." Kenshin thought. "Why..." He thought before looking over at Alipheese, only to see bones as well.

Kenshin came to a realization. "I see...that's what you meant. It's not that Issei, Vali, Sairaorg among others bored me...but...it's been too long since I've been awakened to a true battle since I got this body! Where my life was on the line!" Kenshin thought. "Isn't that the very reason I challenged Sirzechs? ! To see where I stood against a Super Devil like him? ! Ragnarok replayed this over and over again in his head...and I have his memories, yet we never knew what standing toe to toe...or in this case toe to tail with you meant." Kenshin thought before focusing on Alipheese. "Thank you, Alipheese. I see what you were trying to do at long last. You knew I was holding back subconsciously for Tamamo's sake, but no more!" Kenshin thought.

"Hm? !" Alipheese's eyes widened with a smile as Kenshin started shoving her backward.

"This is...the most exciting fight of my life!" Kenshin shouted as he threw Alipheese backward, but the Dark Goddess was undeterred, rushing forward and stabbing her spear at Kenshin's chest only to have it deflected. "Grrhhh!" Kenshin growled with a smirk.

"Can I share a dirty little secret with you? One that I've not even told Ragnarok?" Alipheese whispered.

"Huh?" Kenshin said.

"I actually love...doing battle." Alipheese admitted. "Just as much as I enjoy mating and making more children to dote on."

"Really?" Kenshin asked with a dubious look as he threw her back before pursuing her. Alipheese batted him away. Kenshin landed and raised Chimei Supairaru skyward as wind whipped around it.

"!" Alipheese thrust her tail at him only for Kenshin to dodge as dust from the earth joined it.

"That's it, you're fully in control now." Heinrich said. "Yet it still feels like there's more to come." He muttered to himself.

"Actually...to even say it consumes me, doesn't do it justice." Alipheese thought as she stabbed at him again, only for him to dodge as water joined his blade. "It's the truth." Alipheese thought as Kenshin stabbed at her with his other dual bladed naginata. "This little tidbit has nothing to do with you Kenshin...but I'd always known as he laid there clueless. "

A vision of herself standing over Ragnarok who was laying in a pool of his own blood washed over her sight, recalling a distant memory. "This...one man...he's worthy of being my mate." She remembered saying.

As her vision returned to the present, she saw that water and fire had joined Kenshin's blade as he stabbed it at her. "Barrier!"

"K-Khhh!" Kenshin growled. "Even in my Demigod State you can still deflect my ultimate attack? !"

"I am a goddess after all!" Alipheese said. "Isn't it funny Kenshin Kuroshi? You closed yourself off, just so you could enjoy your fights as much as you could. There are a few exceptions sure, but don't you always feel like you're hamstringing yourself?"

"I'll admit...there are times I hold back because I'm having fun, but against certain opponents, like my friends Issei, Vali, Saji and Sairaorg. I throw that out the window." Kenshin said. "But you are right about one thing...I do love being pushed to my limit...which is always growing."

(crack!)

Alipheese's barrier began to fracture. "Hmn...seems like this is it." Alipheese thought. "Kenshin, you are now The Strongest Youkai. Carry it with pride."

(crack!)

Alipheese's barrier fractured even more. "Kenshin, you have to cast away the Quadruple Giga when her barrier breaks! Otherwise you're going to kill her!" Heinrich said.

Watching from a distance with Draco, Tamamo realized this as well. "Draco come on! We have to stop them!"

(shatter!)

Alipheese smiled as Kenshin's blade inched toward her. "Farewell...Kenshin...you and Ragnarok...are the only men in this world to have ever given me true joy." She thought as the elements disappeared from Kenshin's blade, just before it ran her through the chest.

"!" Kenshin's eyes widened.

"Kenshin! Mother!" The two glanced over, seeing Tamamo and Draco landing.

"Haa...with this...we finally have proper-"

"Yeah Yeah Yeah, shut up." Kenshin said throwing Chimei Supairaru backward before taking out a vial of Phoenix Tears and dumping the contents on her wound, healing it.

"...Huh?" Alipheese said touching her chest as she stood up. "But why?"

"I told you before. I promised Tamamo I wouldn't kill you." Kenshin said.

"Kenshin..." Tamamo said, holding her left hand at her chest with a smile.

"But, the imbalance of power between the Divine Realms and Makai...I have-" Kenshin cut Alipheese off.

"You don't HAVE to do anything!" Kenshin shouted. "Fuck! What is it with the Fateburn family and wanting to fucking die? !"

"Huh?" Alipheese said.

"Alipheese the Eighth had Heinrich Hein kill her because that puke Yama sealed her Vessel of Darkness to always be active. Instead of trusting him to be able to break the seal!" Kenshin said. "Alipheese the Fifteenth let the Homunculus Forbesii kill her, hoping it would appease the grudge he held against the Fifteenth Demon King Shin Tatsu. Not only did this NOT work. Forbesii went on to become the Sixteenth Demon King alongside her daughter Alipheese the Sixteenth or better known as Alice. He ruled with an iron fist and if I hadn't come along and kicked his ass. I'm sure Alice would have lost hope!"

Alipheese was silent as Kenshin ranted.

"You don't solve shit by dying Alipheese." Kenshin said. "Don't run from your problems, take from a guy who was running his whole life until his friends helped him. It gets you nowhere!"

"You imply I'm running from my problems? !" Alipheese snapped.

"You wanted me to kill you, death is nothing but a permanent escape! You're just running from Makai and the Divine Realm's imbalance instead of trying to figure out how to fix it!" Kenshin said. "Also, take a moment to feel the air around you."

"?" Alipheese looked around herself, a curious gaze on her face.

"It feels warm doesn't it. Our little scuffle likely bought Makai a few years." Kenshin said. "I exhausted your mana to a level where it would do such."

"But I..." Alipheese said before a hand extended in front of her. She looked up seeing Kenshin smiling at her.

"You love your children, the youkai you created...the grandchildren they bore, so on and so forth...love is a mutual trust...so trust in us to figure out how to save our home from obliteration." Kenshin said.

"!" Tears rolled down Alipheese's cheeks for a moment before she wiped them with a smile. "Kenshin Tsuki Kuroshi..." She reached forward and grabbed Kenshin's outstretched hand. "Thank you...thank you so much."

"Hmn." Kenshin smiled. "Anytime."

Tamamo stepped forward placing her hand over both of theirs. She glanced at Kenshin with a smile. "Kenshin...you truly are a man of your word." She thought.

Alipheese glanced at her daughter before inwardly giggling. "Tamamo, you truly are in love with him...I'm happy for you." She thought.

Kenshin vs Alipheese. Winner- Kenshin!

"Besides. I gotta have somebody to bring Ragnarok back to when we bust him from Yama's control." Kenshin grinned.

"Bust him from Yama's...you can do that? !" Alipheese said in shock.

"Sure can! I'll have to fight him sure, but I'll get him on the ground and then my sister Yukari can copy the apparatus Yama's using on him and figure out how to bust him loose."

"I see, still...I am sorry Kenshin, but because of this fight, most of your own fights might as well become trivial nuisances to you." Alipheese said.

"Ahh, I dunno about that. I got a lot of friends who won't let me get ahead of them." Kenshin said with a grin before his eyes widened, knocking Tamamo and Alipheese away before leaping above a beam of light that shot toward Alipheese's back. He landed back on the ground and scowled.

"Sorry I missed, Kenshin saw it coming."

"Uhyahyahyahya! No worries, I knew he'd anticipate it!"

"Who?" Alipheese said getting back up.

"Ugh...I'd know that nauseating laugh anywhere." Kenshin grumbled. "I was led into a trap." Kenshin said as Rizevim appeared flanked by three other devils and an army of Evil Dragons.

"Right you are Kenshin!" Rizevim said with a smirk. "The pure simplicity of Yama's plan! He tells this snake slut, that Makai and the Divine Realms are imbalanced, presenting Ragnarok, then telling her that he'll give him back if she murders you! Only he would have never done that!" Rizevim laughed.

"..." Kenshin ignored him and glanced at the three devils he brought with him. "Wait...aren't the three of you supposed to be dead?"

Back at Lucifer's Castle, Sirzechs and Azazel narrowed their eyes. "What are Creusarey Shalba and Katarea doing there?"

"Brother, are you sure you can't send us over?" Rias asked in worry.

"..." Sirzechs closed his eyes letting out a solemn sigh. "I'm sorry Rias...but I can't, the holy and dark magics swirling in the Makai Deadlands present something of a barrier that prevents me from doing so. Rizevim must have come there and had the evil dragons fly him to the Deadlands after Kenshin arrived. There would be no point in sending you, because it would take the same sail time that Kenshin went through to get there."

"So...Kenshin's on his own?" Issei said.

"..." Sirzechs stared at the screen in regret. "Yes."

Kenshin pointed at Katarea. "Azazel gave up an arm for funsies to kill you."

"..." Katarea scowled. "What do you mean by that?"

"I mean that he had a mechanical arm he wanted to try out ready to go, you just saved him the trouble of having someone slice his arm off. He was always capable of killing you. Now how are you three alive because it's my understanding that devils turn to dust upon death."

"I had their blood and DNA on file. Using Forbesii-kun's Homunculus project as a base, I made new bodies for them and brought them back with this." Rizevim said holding up the Sephiroth Graal, the third one that Valerie was still missing.

"..." Kenshin narrowed his eyes, seeing a short figure wearing clothes similar to what Ophis wore. "You brought her too?"

"Of course, why wouldn't I bring my strongest shield?" Rizevim laughed.

"..." Kenshin noticed Lilith glancing at Rizevim, her brow twitching. "She's been thinking about what we've talked about." Kenshin thought. He turned his head to Shalba.

"Kenshin, who are these people?" Alipheese asked.

"The other three aren't worth much mentioning. However that silver haired fuck is called Rizevim Rivan Lucifer, the son of the original Lucifer that Ragnarok killed. He's committed to being evil. Seriously even a pile of literal shit would call him a piece of shit." He turned his head back to Shalba. "If I remember correctly. I killed you myself. Back for another round?"

"Che! This time I'll kill you in bloody turn!" Shalba shouted.

"Sure you will buddy." Kenshin said before turning to Creusarey. "You...I don't even know you."

"I am Creusarey Asmodeus! The true heir to the house of Asmodeus!" He shouted.

"Oh shit? !" Kenshin said pointing at him. "You're that guy Sirzechs dustbusted! I remember now!"

"Krh! You will show me respect you fake devil, slave to the false Satan Sirzechs." Creusary shouts.

"Oh Creusarey calm down...besides, let's begin." Rizevim said shooting a shot of mana at Kenshin, Alipheese, Tamamo and Draco making them split apart.

"Gah..." Draco said.

"Taste my Light of Judgment!"

"Huh? !" Draco looked up, seeing a pillar of light slamming toward him.

Shalba smirked as his attack impacted Draco. He saw Draco's image, but no damage was done to it.

"Whew." Draco sighed out, standing behind him as the image vanished. "That was close, if not for Taimu's teachings I'd be in a bad way...or maybe not. Who knows."

"Krh? !" Shalba growled, turning to Draco to blast him with a ray of light only for Draco to vanish.

"Keep trying." Draco said tapping his bow against his shoulder with a nonchalant smile.

"Ggrrh! Stop toying with me!" Shalba said.

"Dude. I was there when Ragnarok wasted your pathetic ancestors. Actually. I was the one to put a bolt between the original Beelzebub's eyes." Draco said with a smirk. "Dude was a piece of fucking shit anyway. He even suggested raping the lower ranked Devils, angels and fallen angels after they had beaten them.

"You bastard! !" Shalba roared, blasting Draco over and over again wherever he appeared. "That was our right as royals, to do as we pleased with those below us!"

"And that's why..." Draco said as he appeared above Shalba, while numerous arrows surrounded Shalba's location in a dome like formation. "Killing you is as easy as breathing."

"Wha...? You...? ! What the fuck? !" Shalba said, horror seizing him.

"My lover was the Goddess of Time who taught me how to use her magic. The reason I've been dodging you is because of my ability to stop time." Draco said. "You never even stood a chance. When you get back to the Impure World, tell 'em Draco sent ya."

"Aaaggghh!" Shalba roared as all the arrows impacted him.

(click)

Draco clicked a remote in his hand.

(boom!)

An explosion engulfed Shalba as Draco tapped his bow against his shoulder. "Rest in Pieces, you piece of shit." He said as the dust cleared, revealing that nothing of Shalba remained. Draco took out a can of beer and cracked it open chugging it down. "Aaah...nothin' like a cold one after kicking some ass." He said as he burned the can away with fire magic.

Draco vs Shalba. Winner- Draco! Flawless Victory!

(Break)

With Tamamo.

"Hm?" Tamamo noticed she was alone as she stood across from Katerea Leviathan. "Oh, so I'm left with you."

"Left with me?" Katerea scowled.

"Yes left with you." Tamamo said as she slowly approached her. "Also...I sense a disturbance. What's going on."

"Oh? Apophis probably got a headstart. We also sent Azi Dahaka out as well." Katarea said.

Tamamo opened up communications. "Everyone, Status update."

"Fuck! This insanely long eastern dragon suddenly attacked me and the plant woman!" Evangeline said.

"I have a name!" Kanon snapped.

"Minagi and I are fine, we've just been kibitizing about Succubus stuff." Alma said.

"I see. Kanade and Erubetie are currently out of commission. Could you go protect them?" Tamamo said.

"I heard you Tamamo, come on Alma!" Minagi said.

"Saja, Miyuki?" Tamamo said.

"We saw Onee-Chan and Hiruko get attacked by Azi Dahaka!" Miyuki said.

"Yes, we're rushing to their aid!" Saja said.

"I see, good. Mother and Kenshin's duel ended in Kenshin's victory, but Mother is alive." Tamamo informed.

"? !" Minagi, Saja, Hiruko, Kanade and Kanon all gasped in shock.

Miyuki winked at Saja with a smile. "Told you, Onii-Chan is the best!"

"Hahaha...seems Makai has a new Dark God." Erubetie joked.

"Heh, I knew you could do it Kenshin." Yukari said.

"Ara~ Kenshin-Chan's become quite powerful." Alma said.

"Hahahahaha! Way to go Kenshin!" Evangeline laughed.

"Focus, we're being attacked by Rizevim and the Old Satan Faction. Saja, Kanade, Hiruko, Kanon, Minagi you wouldn't know of them, but they are a faction of people apart of an organization called Qlippoth that seeks to end the world."

During this conversation Tamamo had blocked several spells and attacks from Katerea. "You dare call the true bloodline OLD? !" Katerea shouted.

Tamamo glared dismissively and appeared in front of Katerea, slamming her fist into Katerea's sternum sending her flying back.

"W-What? How are you...so strong...?" Katerea said as she landed, holding her stomach.

"Fool." Tamamo scoffed. "I am one of the Six Original Youkai that the Dark Goddess Alipheese ever created. How Kenshin was able to reincarnate me as a devil I have no idea, but my might is simply beyond you."

"Well then, I'll just go down taking you with me!" Katerea said launching her arms forward, her arms, hands and even fingers wrapping around Tamamo's arms and legs.

"Hmph...I saw your battle against Azazel via recording. You think I don't know how to counter this?" Tamamo said as her tails wrapped around her limbs, ripping them off. "Nnngh!" She grunted in pain.

"What? ! You dismember your own body? !" Katerea shouted.

A fireball appeared in front of Tamamo that grew in size. "Like I said. I'm one of the Six...it was foolish for you to challenge me from the jump!" The flame in front of her grew in size before spiraling forward. "Nine Tails Funeral Pyre!" Tamamo shouted.

"Aaaaaggghhhhh! !" Katerea screamed out.

"Hrrnngh!" Tamamo growled as she regenerated her arms and legs. She approached Katerea who laid on the ground. Tamamo put her fingers to Katerea's neck, before feeling a stable pulse. "I see..." Tamamo said before taking out a pair of cuffs. "Maybe we can glean some information out of you." She said before cuffing Katerea's wrists. "Now, to go help Mother."

(break)

Kenshin stood faced with Creusarey Asmodeus. Kenshin stared at him. "Dude...are you sure about this?" He asked with a questioning gaze.

"Enough with the arrogance! Let us fight slave!" Creusarey shouted.

"Ok, let's clear something up right the fuck now." Kenshin said. "I am no slave. I maybe Sirzechs' pawn, but if he tells me to do something I DON'T want to do, I'll gladly tell him to go pound sand."

Back at Lucifer's Castle, Rias turned to Sirzechs. "Is this true Onii-Sama?"

"Hahahaha, it was after the videoing incident you caught us both in, he told me he'd tell me to go screw myself if I ever requested it of him again." Sirzechs said.

"Hahahaha." The members of Sirzechs peerage aside from Grayfia all laughed.

"I'm just saying dude. If you died to Sirzechs when he was barely trying. You don't stand a fucking chance against me." Kenshin said as Shiroi Tengoku and Angel Halo appeared at his sides, while Chimei Supairaru and the dual blade the spirits gave him appeared in his hands.

"I'll show you! I have Lilith's snake and an evil dragon army at my back." Creusarey shouted.

"..." Kenshin closed his eyes, before opening them again, his Demigod golden irises reflecting anger as he lifted his blades. "You know something Creusarey? You remind me a lot of the Great King Faction with how arrogant you are." He said. "Sirzechs, Serafall, Ajuka, Falbium...they could put them down with a wave of their hands with their power, yet they choose not to. Do you know why that is?"

"Because they are cowardly pigs who refuse to put them in their place!" Creusarey shouted.

"!" Kenshin's eyes narrowed into a scowl, gritting his teeth in anger. "No, because they are good people, willing to give people a chance to change their ways!"

"Fool! Satans, no Devils are supposed to be iron fisted and evil!" Creusarey shouted.

"You're the fool here." Kenshin said, disdain in his eyes. "That line of thinking almost got us wiped out, and I'll be fucking damned before we go back to that on my watch!"

"As usual...a filthy reincarnate refuses to listen to his betters." Creusarey said with a sigh.

"You are not my better." Kenshin said. "Tch. Just like the Great King Faction. You just stare down your nose at me for being a reincarnated devil. Let me tell you something Creusarey."

"You'll tell me nothing! Attack!" Creusarey shouted sending his Evil Dragon army at Kenshin.

"I'm taking this from a song I heard so listen up! (1 ) " Kenshin said. "In this world there's the killers and the hopeless." He said as he slashed the first Evil Dragon across the neck, letting it fall to the ground. "You'll become the latter in the minute you're unfocused. You stare down your nose because I was living with the rodents." By this line Kenshin had killed several Evil Dragons in Creusarey's small army.

"Krh? !" Creusarey's eyes widened.

"We are not the same in fact we are different components let me show you!" Kenshin said before hopping into the sky. "I am deadly with a blade you could say I'm surgical!" Kenshin sang as he slashed apart several evil dragons, slicing them across the neck.

"What? !" Creusarey said with a shocked look as the dragons Kenshin attacked all fell to the ground dead.

"I just run it down the nape, murder via cervical. Once this dragon is in play, I am nothing merciful!" Kenshin said as he took out numerous evil dragons with ease. "The illest in the world you could say I'm terminal!"

Back at Lucifer's Castle Issei blinked. "Is...he...rapping?"

"Yeah." Koneko said. "He's channeling DPS right now." She said bobbing her head to a beat that wasn't there.

"You like rap music Shirone?" Kuroka asked.

"Love it." Koneko said.

At the same time, Kenshin landed in front of Creusarey, the nameless evil dragon army laying dead behind him. "W-What? !"

"I'm not proud of it, but I AM an assassin." Kenshin said. "Early in my stint at Rikudou, our intelligence officer Vesper suggested I read up on anatomy to better do my job."

"What does that have to do with anything? !" Creusarey shouted.

"Because I'm an assassin you dolt." Kenshin said. "You're probably wondering how I took out all those Evil Dragons so easily. Well...it's just no matter what kind of specimen they are, as long as they have a concrete physical build. If the cervical part of their neck is severed." Kenshin paused to tap at the back of his neck. "Then their brains are basically useless husks, waiting to die. The rest of their organs unable to receive signals from the brain to do their jobs, the lungs stop working, no longer receiving air, the limbs no longer working as well, as the blood coursing through them no longer has the O2 or nutrients to supply them with...and finally the heart stops beating, because of the lack of O2 and signals from the brain."

"You insane bastard!" Creusarey shouts.

"..." Kenshin smirked hollowly. "I never claimed to be sane in the first place." He said before looking up, seeing not one but two Grendel clones and a Ladon clone bearing down on him.

"Here! Take this!" Creusarey said

"Tch." Kenshin grunted. "When will these fucks stop underestimating me?" He said before taking to the skies. Grendel A thrust his hand at Kenshin.

"Grrrhh!" Kenshin growled, slicing it's fingers off, flying around it's arm slicing through it like a hot knife through butter. He brought his wings out after shooting by Grendel A's shoulder, as it's arm fell to the ground in pieces.

"? !" Creusarey's eyes widened as Kenshin turned back toward Grendel A. "Protect your nape!"

Grendel A covered the back of his neck with his remaining hand only for Kenshin to shoot by him quick as a bullet, slashing his eyes out.

(flap!)

Kenshin's wings flapped as he did a backflip over Grendel A's shoulder and shot toward the ground. Upon landing Kenshin raced toward Grendel A's left ankle and slashed into the back of it deeply. This made Grendel A fall to a knee before Kenshin raced toward the right ankle before repeating his action. Grendel A fell to the ground on his front as Kenshin shot skyward, casting away his dual blades. "Every see that fucking ugly mug of yours, I remember what the real you did in Auros." Kenshin scowling down at Grendel A. "Well too bad for you, but I'm gonna have you foot the bill for what he did." He said shooting downward. Grendel A tried to swat Kenshin away, but Kenshin merely sliced his hand to pieces with his claws and landed on the back of his neck. "HAAAAAA!" He slashed his claws repeatedly at the back of Grendel A's neck.

"Guuuuaaaaaaahhhhh!" Grendel A roared out in pain before finally having it's cervical ripped out, falling to the ground dead.

"Hrmph!" Kenshin scoffed. "Pathetic. At least the real Grendel was a challenge, you're softer than baby shit compared to him. Though maybe he wouldn't be a challenge to me as I am now. Alipheese sure was right about one thing. I fucking hate fights that bore me."

"Gruaaaahhh!" Grendel B charged at him.

"Feh." Kenshin said flying past him, heading right for the Ladon clone.

"Hrmn!" The Ladon Clone fired up a barrier.

(clash!)

"Krhhh! So, it's a tough barrier huh?" Kenshin said as his hand, wreathed in the elements struggled against it.

"Hahahaha! Yes! We enhanced this clones barriers with Lord Rizevim's Sephiroth Graal it's stronger than even the original Ladon!" Creusarey laughed.

"Gruuaaaahhhh!" Grendel B roared slashing his claws at Kenshin, only for Kenshin to backflip over it and slash his claws against the Ladon clone's barrier.

"Hm?" Kenshin looked over seeing claw marks in the Ladon clone's barrier. "Interesting...did they improve the Grendel clones strength as well? Oh well. It doesn't matter if they can't hit me." He thought.

"? !" Grendel B's eyes widened as Kenshin cut off both of his legs at the knees before he landed at the pit of one of his arms.

"Gnome! Weigh me down!" Kenshin thought.

"!" Gnome nodded.

"Guah? !" Grendel B roared out before Kenshin raised his hands.

"? !" Creusarey's eyes widened as hands of rock erupted from the ground and grabbed Grendel B's left arm, ripping it off and throwing it to the side. Kenshin rushed to the right arm doing the same.

"Well then, my Demigod State can't pierce these barriers making him a tough nut to crack. Oh well." Kenshin shrugged as he shot by Grendel B, not once but twice, cutting through his jaw, making his mouth hang open. "Good thing I got a nutcracker on hand." (2 )

One of the massive rock hands sunk into the ground and reappeared behind the Ladon clone. Grabbing it by the neck before it could form a barrier and rammed it into Grendel B's mouth before moving under his chin.

The other hand moved to the top of Grendel B's mouth. Together the two hands pushed against each other as Kenshin held his hands outstretched against each other. "Let me show you what I think of your barrier, Ladon Clone!"

"Wait, are you serious? !" Creusarey shouted as he realized what Kenshin was doing.

"Krrhhh!" Kenshin growled as he forced Grendel B's teeth through the Ladon clone's barrier.

"This can't be! No, Stop! Damn you, STOOOPPPP!" Creusarey said as Grendel B's teeth sunk through the Ladon clone's neck, ripping it's spine out. Kenshin rushed forward, slashing through Grendel B's neck, leaving it for dead.

Creusarey stepped back fearfully as Kenshin turned to him. "No...I had a dragon army at my back...yet he decimated it in mere minutes!"

"Hey buddy they didn't call me Absolute Killing Perfection just because I thought it was a cool codename when I joined Rikudou at ten years old." Kenshin said. "But don't worry...I'll make your end painless just like Sirzechs did."

"Aah...?" Creusarey gasped out as blood shot out of his neck as his head fell to the ground. Kenshin stood behind him and threw his hand out, casting the blood on his hands off. He looked down at the body as it slowly turned to dust. A melancholy look on his face. "I don't like going to that dark place in my mind...yet people like you keep forcing me back there." He let out a sigh as he walked away.

He was knocked from his reverie by a scream. "MOTHER! !"

"? !" Kenshin's eyes widened as he rushed toward the source only to have his eyes widen in shock and horror.

Rizevim stood in front of Alipheese, his hand thrust through her chest. "A-Aaghh...? !" He let out a strangled gasp, his body freezing up as he felt Alipheese's mana dwindling. Rizevim threw the Dark Goddess backward. Tamamo rushed forward and started healing her, but it wasn't taking.

"No no no no no! Mother stay with me please!" Tamamo cried out.

"..." Kenshin stood there in shock. Ragnarok's memories, thoughts and feelings. His now broken promise to Tamamo. Everything stormed about inside him like a mighty maelstrom. He grit his teeth in anger, his body shaking in fury. "Krh...Grrrhhhh...!" His fists clenched tightly, blood rolling down his knuckles..

"Uhyahyahya~! Don't worry fox, I'll send you to death with her!" Rizevim said flying at Tamamo.

"!" Kenshin cut between them in an instant, slamming his fist across Rizevim's face.

"Hrmph...so Creusarey proved his uselessness. Oh well." Rizevim said rubbing his cheek.

"..." Kenshin closed his eyes, his heart was racing, his breathing could barely keep up with it. He could feel Ragnarok's influence crying out for blood. He even heard the spirits weeping. "All of this...because I held back."

"..." Draco watched from a short distance away. "I hope you know what you're doing Alipheese..." He thought.

"She never held back, once the battle between us had gotten serious...and now because of my lust for battle...I made her give up her life." Kenshin said. "...Tamamo..."

"Yes...?" Tamamo said, still trying to heal her mother's wound.

"I'm sorry...I told you...I promised you that everything would be OK, but like always...I can't follow through." He said clenching his fists.

"It's...It's OK." Tamamo said.

"No it's not..." Kenshin said as the veins in his wrist bulged. His anger was building and building. All he could think about was tearing Rizevim apart. "Alipheese was willing to die for this would, for her children...yet what could I..." His eyes widened as he recalled what both Shiva and Alipheese had said to him about the Demigod state as it related to his mental and emotional state.

"Try to work on getting a handle on your emotions while in that form. While your mind is preoccupied with whatever you're feeling at the time, your body is forced to take on the strain of controlling it." Shiva said.

"You should embrace whatever you're feeling in this state." Alipheese commented.

"Really?" Kenshin drawled. "Another god by the name of Shiva told I should control myself, you say one thing, he says another. Who am I to believe?"

Then Kenshin felt something, the embers of life were flickering inside Alipheese, they were faint, but stable. "Tamamo." Kenshin said.

"What?" Tamamo asked, wondering why Kenshin suddenly sounded so relaxed.

"It may not seem like it, but your healing is working." Kenshin said. "Keep it up."

"Ar-Are you sure?" Tamamo said looking down at her mother with wide eyes.

"I AM the Primordial of Life Tamamo. I can sense these things." Kenshin said reassuringly before turning to Draco, ignoring Rizevim for the moment. "Hey Draco, you're the only one that was there back then that I can ask that doesn't have a personal bias, but how do you think Alipheese did as the Dark Goddess, and just as well...why did you follow Ragnarok into her service?"

"Uh...do we really have time for this right now?" Draco asked.

"Come on, I wanna have an unbiased opinion and it just seems strange that you'd become a demon when you fell in love with a goddess." Kenshin said.

"Well...honestly." Draco paused before smiling. "This is just my personal opinion, but Alipheese...she loved her creations, her children to a fault. She was less a goddess and more a mother, always trying to make her children's lives better, as for your other question...Taimu didn't take it personally. She knew how much I cared for Ragnarok."

"Heh. I think she was a wonderful goddess too...and that's a wonderful sentiment." Kenshin said as he turned to an approaching Rizevim. "I'm a proud youkai warrior...Ragnarok I know you're in there empathetically, but trust me, flying off the handle right now isn't the way to go. Let me act as the Dark Goddess' sword this one time."

"Are you finally ready to do this Kenshin? Because I don't have all day." Rizevim said.

Kenshin ignored him as he closed his eyes. "I think I'm finally making sense of what Shiva and Alipheese were trying to tell me." He said. "Draco, I'm counting on you to protect Tamamo while she heals Alipheese. Tamamo, while you're healing her, don't give her too much dark mana. We need to keep the balance between her and Ilias."

"Right." Draco and Tamamo said. Tamamo turns to Draco as Kenshin walks forward. Draco smiled. "What is it?" Tamamo asked.

"I think Kenshin finally gets it." Draco said. "To balance out the control of the Demigod State between mind and body..." They both heard Kenshin speaking as Draco went on. "It's OK to embrace your emotions, but don't let them control you."

"Are you four ready?" As four figures appeared around him, two on each side Undine and Sylph on his left while Gnome and Salamander were at his right.

"Un! Let's have fun and protect Mommy, Kenshin-Chan!" Sylph said as she disappeared, wind surrounded his left leg.

"..." Undine smiled. "Very well. I'll agree with you this one time Sylph. Let's do this Kenshin." She said as she vanished. Water beginning to spiral around his left arm.

(clench)

Kenshin looked down, seeing Gnome grab his right hand. He smiled. "I know, Gnome. Come on, let's do this together."

"..." Gnome nodded and disappeared as earth and dust surrounded his right arm. Salamander approached him and grabbed his hand as well, but she smirked. "You know flames are at their strongest when they're raging right?"

"Heh, you don't have to tell me that Salamander. I was just a flame element dragon before I met you four lovely spirits." Kenshin said with a grin. "Still we need to control that raging blaze."

"Heh, you sweet talker. Alright, time to kick some wholesale ass eh?" Salamander said as she disappeared, flames surrounding his right leg.

(Dooooonnnn!)

A massive multicolored aura exploded around Kenshin.

"? !" Saja and Miyuki looked behind them, seeing a massive pillar of power erupting. "Who is that? !" Saja said.

"It...It's Onii-Chan! But why?" Miyuki said.

Draco surrounded himself, Tamamo and Alipheese in a barrier. "Seems it's going well." Tamamo said.

"Yeah." Draco said before smirking. "We're about to see Kenshin's Demigod State perfected."

Suddenly the explosion of power ceased. The ground, trees and air around them going back to a calm state.

"What the...?" Rizevim said. "It's like that storm of power never even happened.

Standing across from him, surrounded in a purple aura, the elements spiraling around his limbs was Kenshin, looking up at the sky. "So...this is what you meant. Shiva...Alipheese." He thought as he started to look down, leveling Rizevim with an even glare as his hair moved about with the wind, no longer on fire as it was when he entered this state or the Vessel of the Elements.

"Oh what now?" Rizevim huffed in annoyance. "?" He looked on as Lilith stepped in between him and Kenshin.

"..." Kenshin went silent.

"Lilith, what are you doing? He's not that dangerous. I want to discipline him myself. Step aside." Rizevim said.

"No, Creator, you need to retreat now. Lilith will handle this." Lilith said.

"..." Rizevim narrowed his eyes at Lilith. "Listen you are to protect me as my shield when I request it, nothing more. I want to destroy this reincarnation of the trash that killed my father."

Lilith's brow twitched at being called a shield again. Something Kenshin didn't fail to take notice of as he spoke. "What Rizevim, you're actually turning down a man advantage to get revenge on Ragnarok? Those are some large ass brass balls you have."

"Please, like I said before in Heaven, you could only ever hope to equal me." Rizevim said. "It is my right to destroy you."

"Hmph..." Kenshin scoffed before turning to Lilith. "See how much he actually values you? Even as I am now, you could easily destroy me, yet he still calls you a shield. Lilith...have you thought about what we talked about back in Romania?"

"..." Lilith went into thought.

"Are you starting to see what I meant?" Kenshin asked. "He calls you a shield. You're not an actual person to him. You never were. Just a source of power and defense for him. Ophis saw this and that's why she left the Khaos Brigade."

"Ophis? You've mentioned that name before, but..." Lilith stopped as Kenshin smiled.

"You could say she's your big sister in a way." Kenshin said. "You two used to be one full being, but then you were split in two, with you carrying three fourths of her total power, and her carrying the last quarter. I'd call her your Mom, but given the current appearances. I'd say Onee-Chan works better." Kenshin said.

"Is he...!" Rizevim thought before shouting. "Lilith! Don't listen to him! He's-? !"

Lilith turned her head to Rizevim with an impassive gaze. "Lilith wants to hear what he has to say."

"Well, what I really have to say, or rather ask...is a question." Kenshin said.

"...?" Lilith tilted her head curiously.

"What do you want? Like I told you back in Romania. You're your own person, your own life. Make your own choices and be free. If you don't like what someone is doing to you, tell them to piss off." Kenshin said with a smile. "I mean...do you really feel like you have any friends in Qlippoth?"

"What are friends?" Lilith asked.

"...Well that answers my second question." Kenshin said. "They probably do you like they did Ophis and ask for a snake and be on their merry way."

"Lilith does get asked that a lot." Lilith nodded.

"But you don't have to do that. It's not your job to provide others with power. They should be bettering themselves." Kenshin said. "According to that time in Romania we found you walking around, he doesn't even feed you that much."

"..." Lilith looked away.

"So I ask you again. What does LILITH want?" Kenshin asked.

"..." Suddenly Lilith's eyes became emotional. "I-Is it really OK?"

"..." Kenshin smiled. "It's always OK. What is it?"

"Well...um...I was left alone one time and turned on the television and saw this show called the Oppai Dragon Show. You were in it too as a being called the Lust Dragon." Lilith said.

"Ehehehehe~" Kenshin wiped his finger under his nose. "Yeah, that was me. I'm also really good friends with the Oppai Dragon."

"Then, could Lilith meet him?" Lilith asked.

"Of course!" Kenshin said with a wide grin. "But you already met him in Romania."

"Well...uhm...Lilith doesn't quite remember it." Lilith said.

"Oh, well I'll let you meet him again personally." Kenshin smiled. "Hell, he'd probably be happy to sign an autograph for you."

"That'd...be nice.." Lilith said.

"...Lilith, do you want to fight me? Do you like fighting at all?" Kenshin asked.

"..." Lilith held her hands at her chest, looking down. "Lilith...will fight if she has to, but...Lilith doesn't want to fight Kenshin."

Kenshin smiled as he appeared in front of Lilith, patting her head. "That's good...because Kenshin doesn't want to fight Lilith either. He wants to save her, and show her how she should be treated."

"..." Lilith's eyes shimmered as she looked up at Kenshin. "Really?"

"Really." Kenshin said with a smile. "And hey, if you want...Kenshin-Onii-Chan will spoil Lilith with all the sweets she could ever want."

"!" Lilith let out a gasp at this. "This...This man...really cares about what happens to Lilith." She thought.

"Lilith! He's within striking distance! Kill hi-!" Rizevim was cut off.

"NO!"

"? !" Kenshin and Rizevim looked down at Lilith who looked back with a glare, tears in her eyes. "Ever since she was born, Creator and others have treated Lilith as little more than an object, only Crom-San and Heinrich-San doing otherwise, and they're both gone!" Lilith wiped her eyes. "All Lilith wanted was for someone to accept her! No one! NO ONE DOES NOW! They only used her! This person! Though we were opposing sides, always treated Lilith kindly! Why would Lilith want to hurt him? !"

"A-Agh? !" Rizevim gasped out in shock.

"What, you thought you could use her until she broke? Sorry, but no dice." Kenshin said.

"Do you accept Lilith?" Lilith asked, looking up at him hopefully.

Kenshin knelt down and hugged Lilith with one arm. "Of course." He said, petting her head gently. "Come over to our side." Kenshin said with a smile. "You'll be able to meet your sister, the Oppai Dragon, and hey, you've already met your older brother the Lust Dragon."

"Older brother?" Lilith asked with a curious smile.

"It's the opposite of what Ophis is to you." Kenshin said.

"OK, Aniki." Lilith said with a smile.

Back at Lucifer's Castle Azazel was shocked. "Wait, did Kenshin just convince the other part of Ophis to come to our side?" He said.

"She has a name." Hikari said with a glare.

Azazel waved his hands, smiling comically "Some people in the room don't know what she is and Kenshin already provided the name."

Hikari nodded. "That's fair, sorry."

Azazel laughed. "It wouldn't be fun if you didn't do the whole menacing gaze routine with me from time to time."

Hikari laughed. "Alright then."

Kenshin stood up and stepped to the side. He took out a small tub with a lid on it as well as a spoon. "Here. This is some ice cream. Go over with them and enjoy." He said pointing at Draco, Tamamo and the still downed Alipheese.

"OK..." Lilith nodded and walked by him.

"Careful not to eat it too fast though." Kenshin advised. "Brainfreeze is a pain in the neck to deal with."

Rizevim glared at Kenshin. "This bastard...He actually rooked Lilith away from me? I thought I kept her isolated enough!" He thought. "Kenshin, I will kill you and take her back."

Kenshin turned to Rizevim. "We'll just see about that. Prepare yourself, Rizevim!"

(chapter end)

Draconis: Whew.

Kenshin Bit of a doozy this one was.

Alipheese: I fight Kenshin to a standstill and get one shotted offscreen?

Draconis: I had Draco reference it, but it will be covered in the next chapter.

Creusarey: Why did I not get to do anything? !

Draconis: Didn't feel like writing an actual fight for you for one. For two you're on screen or on page for moments before Sirzechs wastes you. At least you got more time than Shalba.

Creusarey: (Closes his eyes) I guess that's true.

Anyway- Footnotes.

(1 ) I'm only having the Ancestors lust after Kenshin because of the insane dry spell they've had. They'll do the same to Issei or even Kiba, Vali Saji or hell, even Sairaorg if I have them meet.

(2 ) Credit to DaddyPhatSnaps from Youtube. I hope he doesn't mind that I used those lyrics

(3 ) Eren Yeager likes this. Porco Galliard and the Warhammer Titan dislike this. Seeing as Attack on Titan finished it's manga. I felt like referencing a scene or two and this one just fit.