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Rebellion on Hagun Island II
Meanwhile, in Paradise, both Zane and Claire were running down the paths, which each of them were allowed to not "disturb" Taro's guests. Both of them stopped running after seeing that the people were in a state of panic as many armed gehenna guards were running in various directions; most of them were in the direction of the arena were Kensei was. A lot of the patrons there were all looking at them in a state of panic.
"What happening?!"
"I think there's a riot in the arena!"
"Who was it?"
"I heard that it was that kid who went missing last month."
Zane could hear the all chatter from the people near them, based on their tones, none of them had experience in situations like this.
"Well, our distractions are working. I just hope that everyone can hold out until we finish our end."
"…yea."
Zane heard the low tone from Claire who remained standing next to him and turned in her direction.
"I may not be the best at motivational speeches like Maria and Kensei, but I know that thing will work out just fine as long as continue doing our parts," Zane added as he turned back around to the tallest tower on Paradise. "All we can do is have faith in each other. And even if you don't have as much faith in me or Maria, but I know you've got faith in Kensei of all people."
He tried to be as comforting as possible, but as Zane said, he wasn't the best person in situations like this as he was most comfortable with coming up with strategies. Much to his surprise, Claire shook her head and looked at him with a slight smile on her face.
"It's not that I don't trust either of you," she replied. "None of us here, whether in our group or others could rely on the support or trust of adults and could do nothing but rely on one another. That kind of life sounds a little sad but there were a lot of people able to survive together as a single unit rather than alone. Even the teens who've been here for much longer gave their support for us and gave us advice. And besides, I couldn't have asked for better people to be friends with."
Claire smiled brightly in a manner that Zane had seen when she was around either Kensei or Alice causing him to return a similar smile.
"Even Hisui."
"Don't push it."
Though Zane meant it as a joke, Claire's turned away from him with both her arms crossed, while letting a slight "Humph" escape from her mouth. It was almost like a child not wanting to admit whenever someone was right. A second later, her attention was directed towards the object wrapped around his arm using chains.
"To be honest, I didn't think that Zane would have something like that."
Several minutes before
Inside of the residence of Kensei, Alice and Claire, Zane held his hand out as silver chains were wrapped around his arm extending to his forearm. All the chains wrapped around the four corners of a single silver book that had magical text engraved on it with a silver cross-linked to the other chains. Maria stared at the object with a look of shock on her face after recognizing the book.
"This is my source."
Zane declared as he held it in front of him with a smirk on his face.
Maria stared at the grimoire as both Hisui and Kensei to a certain extent could sense that there was something a little odd about the grimoire.
"I-Is that a grimoire?"
Maria questioned with her disbelief being in full display.
"…a grimoire?"
Iris questioned.
"There are books that have different kinds of magic contained in them. Based on the magician who wrote it and from what era, then there could even be ancient or lost magic contained within on. But, I thought that most of the grimoire was found in places such as the Magicians' Association or magic libraries. However, I do recall that the Norse Factions has the most advanced magic among the others and Zane does come from there."
"I found this grimoire by chance," Zane stated as he smiled at the grimoire. "Alright, I need your help, Annelisse."
"Why are you talking to the grimoire like…?"
That question from Layla was stopped as the grimoire released a bright silver light as all the chains were undone and the grimoire enlarged into a normal-sized one.
"…that reaction."
Maria thought as she recalled that the grimoire opened up after reacting to his voice.
"Alright, I don't have time to go into full detail, but even I don't know much about the origin of this grimoire," Zane realized from the expressions on their faces and a lot of them had a lot of them were confused. "To cut things short, this grimoire has a unique kind of sentience referred to as an index, a being who resides inside the book. This one, in particular, is referred to as the Magus Akashic, which is an encyclopedia of different magics."
"So many things are popping at once," Maria sighed to herself and placed her hand on her forehead. "This explains the reason why you've been able to use different spells, but who on earth could create something like this. I can't even recall hearing about the most skilled magicians making something like this."
"I don't know either, but that's what I want to found out in the future. But, it isn't without its limitations, one, in particular, is that I can't use magic that is above my current level of skills. Meaning, I can't do anything like magic that can control time, but Annelisse has been helpful none the less. Because of this, I came up with the perfect idea to give us an edge in this plan."
"What's that?"
"A spell that can temporarily mess with the signals that are sent to the bracelets the rest of us are wearing."
That caused the rest of them to become shocked after hearing Zane speak about it casually, causing various memories to return to their minds of several other magicians who tried that.
"But, if you did that they wouldn't that end up killing us in the process?"
Rui questioned with a hint of worry in her voice.
"I know what you're talking about, but what I plan on doing is a little different from before. Before, all of them tried to interfere with it directly, but I'm planning on interfering with it indirectly."
Everyone became confused about what he was talking about causing Zane to continue his explanation.
"I'll cast a spell that'll create a barrier around us without messing with the bracelet itself, which will be able to hinder the signal being sent to our bracelets. I was planning on studying it a bit more, but we don't have much of a choice but to try it right now."
"Which reminds me."
Kensei spoke out as he reached into his pockets pulling out a slip of paper that had different writing on it.
"When I told Sun-sensei about all of you, he asked if there was someone skilled in magic, then I said that Zane is the one with the magic knowledge. And so, he wrote down a bunch of stuff that is outside of my particular area of expertise."
Everyone knew that Kensei's clan was more into the eastern magic so the magic outside of that system is a little more complicated for him. After receiving the note from Kensei, Zane scanned through it with an interesting look on his face, which soon turned into a smile.
"These notes explain the kind of magics is imbued into it. This is just what I needed, it'll just need to alter some things around and things will work out fine. I was planning on teaching the spell to Claire just in case, then test it on me first."
Zane declared without hesitation caused the rest of them to stare at him in surprise, but neither of them could tell if it was due to his confidence in his magic or compassion toward them. A lot of them thought that it was both.
"Before we get things started," Zane spoke up looking toward Alice. "Alice just how many monsters are you able to create at once?"
"Well, it takes both stamina and proper concentration to create different monsters," Alice replied as she crossed her arms in thought. "I've never gone over six monsters if I were to make any more than that I don't think that I'll be able more without draining my stamina and having to take a break."
"Yea, Alice-chan's stamina is her greatest weakness."
Hisui pointed out, which everyone already knew about as Alice never ran around on her own and instead rode on top of the monsters that she created.
"But, what do her monsters have to do with anything?"
Rui questioned causing Zane to send her a wide smirk.
"Well, it'll be difficult for us to get into that room without another distraction aside from Kensei."
Most of them realized what Zane was referring to, then he turned towards them with his index finger held out.
"This is what we're going to do…."
As Zane started to explain the plan to all of them, which soon resulted in all of them nodding their heads.
It has been just a couple minutes after Kensei had challenged the gehenna guards to a fight in the tournament, in which like usual, there was a holographic projection of the fight being sent across Hagun Island. His challenge as been spread across the entire island causing a stir in their captors, patrons, and captives. However, in one place there wasn't much attention being targeted at the fight.
"Shoot them, shoot them!"
"What the hell is going on?"
"Aren't these the monsters from gehenna?!"
Near the area where the gehenna guards were stationed near the residential areas, there were several buildings, which were built for them to rest and reside in. However, most of the buildings' walls had large holes in them due to the battle that was occurring. Several different shaped humanoid monsters were attacking the guards who were stationed there, most of them sent the guards back into the buildings.
It didn't take them long to realize that these monsters had come from Alice, who had fought several times inside the gehenna tournament. Despite their greater numbers compared to the twelve monsters, none of the enhanced bullets was able to pierce their rough skin. Though some of them were mercenaries who had experience against the supernatural being, this was something above their level. And a lot of them didn't have that much experience in close-quarters combat, which is why they relied on guns to fight from a longer range.
"Are reinforcements on their way?!"
One of the guards questioned as another one of their own was sent backward into a wall knocking them out.
"Some magicians are being sent here, but this isn't the only place being assaulted! That brat from last month is at the arena fighting against the others."
More and more of the guards started shouted in frustration as more and more of them were being taken down, as a result of the children, which were supposed to be easier to guard.
"Wasn't there supposed to be a tracker that tell the locations of those brats?!"
"There is, but it isn't locating them for some reason!"
"We're receiving word that there are other locations were guards are being stationed in the residential areas that are being assaulted by monsters!"
"What?!"
Nearby, Hisui had sat down next to Alice with both her hands placed on her back as a bluish-white aura covered them, while the latter started breathing out exhausted. Her weakened body coupled with going over the step limit of her sacred gear had caused her to become more tired compared to before. Near them is the same kind of wolf which Alice had used to travel around during the tournament and it just laid there waiting for a command to come from its creator.
"Are you alright, Alice-chan?"
Hisui questioned worriedly about the blonde girl who nodded her head.
Zane had known that senjutsu users could heal injuries and stamina, as well as mental fatigue, which was why it was important for someone as skilled as Hisui to remain close to Alice. Alice started to feel far better and better by the moment. This was the second area that she had released monsters on, causing the attention of the guards to be directed on dealing with them.
"I'm fine, but this is the most monsters that I created…I would've passed out a long time ago if it wasn't for you."
Alice replied as she sent her a faint smile.
"No problem, but Zane thought all of this out in such a short amount of time."
"Yea, he's the brains among our group."
Alice sighed as she held her hand out, then watched as her shadow started to twitch and move as if it were alive, which started moving around more and more.
"Alright, I think that I'm ready again."
She stood back up to her feet causing Hisui to remove her hands and stopped using the healing aura of senjutsu.
"Then let's move onto the next area."
Hisui has pulled out a talisman she received from Kensei and was the same one that he had first used to appear invisible in front of others. Before Hisui could use it, however, a magic circle appeared near them and the voice of Rui has come out of it.
[Hisui, Alice. How are things progressing?]
"We're about to head to the next location that Zane asked us to release the monsters. How about you four?"
[Things are going great on our end. We already met up with Abigail and explained most of the situation.]
"That's good. We're about to leave this area before we're noticed."
[Be careful.]
"You too."
As soon as both best friends and roommates said their final goodbyes to one another, the magic circle vanished, then both Alice and Hisui had gotten on top of the wolf. The jade-haired girl soon used the talisman to appear to be invisible, then used senjutsu to mask their presence.
Inside of Residential Area B, Maria and Rui had joined Abigail after explaining the entire situation, while being on the run toward their next destination. Despite her being ecstatic to hear that Kensei had managed to survive, she wasn't able to help but laugh after hearing about the situation.
"Ufufufufu, to think that he met up with Sun Wukong and Yu-Long of all people."
Neither Maria or Rui could refute what Abigail had said as both were close to doing the same themselves after all of them heard about it from Kensei. Though all three of them continued to head towards their destination where a most important task was given to their group, the three of them could see the fight progress through all of the projection screens sent across the island.
"But, even for him, this is a little reckless."
Abigail added after becoming serious for a moment after noticing the wide difference in numbers between both of the sides alone.
"He's been back for not even a single day and he's planning on taking on the gehenna guard alone."
"Well, if things go as we all planned, then he won't be alone anymore."
Maria declared as she stopped signifying that their destination has been reached, both Rui and Abigail didn't even sense the slightest ounce of fear or doubt in her tone.
"If things go alright, that that'll mean we'll regain our freedom."
Rui added as she noted most of the children from Residential Area B had been gathered in separate groups as a magic circle that drawn under their feet with what seemed like a barrier protecting them. Even if things went just as planned, the children would be the obvious targets in the sudden chaos as they could either be captured and used as leverage against them or even taken off the island to ensure that their business could still be saved.
After noticing them, one of the older male teens looking to be around the same age as Abigail began to approach them with a slight sigh escaping their mouth.
"We're all making a barrier around the kids as asked. In the middle of all this chaos, they'll end up being the most dangerous due to their age and inexperience."
"Thank you."
She replied with a smile on her face.
Abigail was well-known and liked not just the children, but others near her residential area, it wouldn't have been odd for either of them to do as she requested of them. Though she could tell that there was a grim expression on a number of the older teens' faces, which both Maria and Rui noticed.
"What's wrong?"
"Look, a number of us did this just because you asked us to. And since all of us knows that the other kids could all end up getting involved in this fight. But…."
"But?"
"This is insane," he had bluntly pointed out. "How does trusting children who are just a couple of years younger than the ones' beings us going to do what others our age couldn't? We've all been here for must longer and we all know what happened before to the others who tried to fight back. And each time, things started getting worse and worse…that kid, Kensei ended up stirring up Taro even more compared to all those other times."
Abigail could understand where he was coming from and realized that consequences that could occur if things all started going awry. Of course, Maria and Rui knew the chances of failure and success as anything could happen to all of them.
"Look, I know that things have seemed bleak for all of us, but if we don't do anything then…."
"Then what, things are terrible for us, but at least we're all still alive right now!"
The male teen raised his voice at Rui who was attempting to explain things causing her to back down a bit, but a more calm Maria stepped in front of her.
"Do you believe that 'just being alive' is good enough? Being fed whatever we can grow on this island is keeping all of us alive and fed. Can that be called living? The people who can survive the longest are those the ones who fight in their life-and-death tournament, and even then there is the chance of catching the attention of Taro's patrons. Then we'll end up being forced to leave and sold somewhere else doing god knows what. Most of them end up being reincarnated into devils, then end up being treated like nothing more than servants…no matter the destination here or somewhere else there is no freedom for us. And even if we end up getting away from our new 'masters' we'll end up being classified as strays and hunted down like dogs."
Upon hearing Maria's declaration, the male teen couldn't find anything plausible as a refute, but he couldn't find a single positive about this situation either.
"…what plausible thing could you come up with to make us believe that things will turn out alright? What kind of hope does anyone of us have?"
Hearing him question them caused Rui to once again step forward and held her hand up, initially making the teen believe that she was about to hit him. But instead, she pointing toward the projection near them, which displayed Kensei fighting against the gehenna guard.
"Kensei Amagiri, despite everything that happened to him before coming here, there wasn't a single doubt, which surfaced in his heart. Losing his entire clan and later his mother, then being forced to live on here didn't result in him losing the desire to live. And last month, he suffered a beating that no one his age could've survived and he recovered from that after being freed of both this cage," Rui started speaking her mind with the faith that she had in one of her closest friends being revealed. "Kensei had the choice to never come back here again and live a life anyone would desire. Did he run away? Did he abandon his friends? No, he trained to become strong enough to come back and everyone here. What would you have done if you got the chance to get away from here?"
Again after hearing those words someone much younger than him, he couldn't give a single response. Maria and Rui continued to stand behind what they had said defending Kensei who was doing his best for them. Abigail this time stepped forward in front of them with her hands placed together as if she were beginning to pray.
"I heard from my father once that even in the bleakest of situations there will always be a light in front of humans, which will guide them to a wonderful future. However, if one doesn't dare to walk forward towards it, then no results would come about and humans will just remain in that darkness. The situation that we are in is as my father said, there is a light in front of us and if we don't follow it, then we won't be able to have a future."
Abigail's words were the nail on the coffin as those older teens who remained near them could hear their words as a spark of hope started to be lit within them. She smiled in a manner that seems as if an angel just appeared right in front of them.
"Please believe in the hope and light named Kensei Amagiri. He deserves that much after choosing to return just to fight for just the freedoms' of those important to him, but for all of us."
And those words hammered the nails in causing the male teen to nod his head in agreement, then scratched the back of his head as he glanced to the side.
"Fine then, we are almost finished putting barriers around the children as asked, as well as the magicians doing as Zane had instructed and are creating a magic circle meant to transport."
The male teen replied as he started going toward the other teens who continued to gather the children inside the area together in barriers.
"Thanks for telling them to have faith in Kensei, Abigail-san."
"No no, you don't have to thank me. I just told them what my father used to tell me," Abigail waved off her thanks and gave them a generous smile. "Besides, I have faith in him as well."
"Sister Abi."
Abigail could hear the soft tone from a younger blonde girl who seemed to be carrying around a small stitched up plush bunny.
"Yes, Jess."
"Are we going somewhere?"
"Umm, if things go fine," Abigail replied kneeling in front of her. "Then we'll be going somewhere else and we'll never come back."
"Promise."
"Promise. Now, go join the others."
"Okay."
Jess smiled cheerfully and ran to join the other children inside the barriers.
"Jess arrived here just a month ago after Kensei because her parents were scared of her," Abigail had informed them. "She was so confused about what was happening and respond to that her sacred gear activated and rampaged. It took her a long time to calm down and her sacred gear also calmed down turning into that adorable little plushie. I know that sacred gear users can't have a normal life since normal humans and other supernatural beings would view more as dangerous, but that doesn't mean that any of them should live in fear."
Hearing that caused Maria to direct her attention toward the projection screen.
"You're correct," Rui replied further having more respect towards Abigail. "Well, I need to head out. There was a task that Zane had told me to do after helping you all gather everyone."
"Alright, be safe."
in response to her compassion, Rui nodded her head with a smile on her face and headed towards the place that Zane had informed her to go.
"Kensei, you better win this fight and keep your promise."
In the middle of the arena, several guns and magic started being fired at the lone target who continued to run all around the battlefield. And that lone target was Kensei who avoided each of the bullets with little to no effort while dodging the magic aimed at him at a hairsbreadth. If it wasn't for his martial arts training with Sun Wukong, which sharpened his basic physical abilities and learning senjutsu, then doing all this would've been more difficult.
Kensei had dove behind a large boulder as he heard all the bullets and magic being smashed against the stone, which started to wither down as their attacks smashed against it.
"I don't want to do anything reckless like diving into gunfire and magic."
He said to himself as he glanced to the ground noticing the small pebbles on the ground formed from the boulder he was standing behind, then picked them up. Kensei stood behind the rock in an attempt to find the timing in the pattern of attacks and after noticing an opening he jumped upward into the air, then clenched his fist gathering a bit of spiritual power in his hand infusing it into the pebbles.
"Fūtan."
Kensei launched the pebbles at the armed gehenna guards without needing the chant the usual spell, releasing a series of wind bullets at them.
[Argh!]
Several of the armed guards had either their weapons broke from the bullets or had their arms numbed due, as a result of the hard impacts from the wind bullets. Taking that chance, Kensei rushed at the defenseless guards at a fast pace with his sword unsheathed and slashed each of them across the chests cutting through their white armors causing their blood to spill out from the opening.
The moment that their bodies touched the ground, a magic circle appeared under them giving off light as their bodies vanished from sight. It was an automatic transport magic circle, which removes their bodies from the arena as soon as the guards were unable to fight anymore. Not taking skipping a beat, Kensei continued with his assault of the gehenna guards wielding his katana.
"Dammit!"
Several of the guards pointed their guns at him, then started to fire releasing a hail of bullets.
In response to the hail of bullets being fired at him, Kensei covered himself in touki, raising his bodies' defenses higher compared to before. He could tell the path of the bullets based on the angle of the guns but knew that he couldn't avoid them if they came at him all clustered together at proximity to him.
"Tch."
Kensei felt the bullets smash against his skin causing a painful sensation on his skin, but none of them can penetrate his skin. He had trained in just the basics of senjutsu, meaning that he gained better control over using touki compared to when he just figured it out after being angered. Though he couldn't expand it without wasting a lot more ki, which was a chance that Kensei couldn't take considering the situation. This meant that his touki has to remain just cover his skin meaning he still could feel some of the impact that was being most strikes.
He ignored the pain from the bullets smashing against his touki while cutting most of the bullets that he could in half and after propelling himself from off the ground using a strong kick. He rushed forward towards the gehenna guards all aiming their bullets at him, then channeled ki into his blade causing it to shine with a bright light.
"Zantetsuken!"
Kensei shouted as he sent a powerful slash that slashed several of the gehenna guards causing their bodies' to fall on the ground.
"Son of a…."
Before more of the gehenna guard could start shooting their guns, Kensei rushed forward hitting a number of the guards using several punches and kicks in rapid succession. One of the guards behind him pulled out a second handgun from their hostler and aimed it at Kensei's head.
"Die you little bastard!"
Bang! After the guard fired the gun, Kensei noticed the direction and speed, then pivoted his body turning around away from the bullet's path. In response to that, he rushed towards the guard and spun himself around before he struck the guard hard in the back of his neck using a chop knocking him unconscious. In response to their defeat more and more magic circles started to appear taking away their bodies.
[What a wonderful spectacle! Our little challenger is holding his own against the gehenna guards! I wonder what kind of training he had done to become this strong! Now that this little warm-up is finished, what will he do against the next guards?!]
"As soon as I'm done here I'm gunning for the announcer next."
Following Alexei's announcement, more magic circles started appearing from them were several more guards all armed with either swords or guns. Neither of them made a single movement as Kensei turned in their direction in a somewhat cautious manner as he stared at them.
"There's something up with the guys who just showed up, from their stances, almost neither of them are grunts like the guys that I just beat up," Kensei said as he fixed his grip on his sword. "…eh."
One of the sword-wielding guards rushed forward at Kensei at a speed that he wasn't expecting at a moment, but he could sense an attack being aimed at him and bent backward as a sword went passed his head. Floating just above his head were the strands of hair that the guard had cut off.
Following the rhythm of their ally, one of the gun-wielding guards released a hail of bullets at him the moment their comrade moved outside of their line of fire. Before the bullets could make contact with him, Kensei started to run sideways avoiding the bullets but jumped backward after some of the gunfire was aimed in his path. One of the unarmed guards jumped up into the air in the same direction as Kensei, with his fist pulled back and threw a strong punch at him.
Kensei turned himself around and crossed his arms in front of himself to guard against it, due to the force behind that punch, he was sent backward toward the ground. Before hitting the ground, he recovered by using an ukemi, which is a maneuver letting him sustain no damage from the landing and stood back up to his feet in a prepared stance.
"These guys are professionals."
Kensei said letting out a little bit of a laugh.
Meanwhile in the VIP rooms where Taro and the old devils, were the human started to release a slight laugh out of his mouth as he stared at the trouble that Kensei was now having.
"Hahaha, taste that brat. Did you think that I just hired a bunch of mercenaries who just survived supernatural that they experience? Among the gehenna guards, I hired also trained former exorcists. I don't know what you did for the past month, but there's nothing that you can do against them."
Taro started to gloat about his guards as he smirked about the predicament that Kensei was in, while the others behind him stared at what was happening.
"Taro-dono, I think that we have an interesting idea."
"Huh, what would that be?"
"Doesn't he have some friends who live around the same area as him?"
"Ah, I know where you're getting at," Taro realized their plan and started to contact the other outside guards with his device. "This is Taro Aoyama, this is an order to take either Alice Evangelista and Claire Belial or even all the other friends of Kensei Amagiri."
[…T-Taro-sama. We have a situation.]
Upon hearing that from the guard give that reply caused his brow to furrow in aggression.
"…what was that?"
The guard could hear the anger coming from that question alone caused his voice to falter even more.
[W-We believe that Alice Evangelista began to release her monsters at different locations where all of the guards are being stationed.]
"You believe? What her signal?! Where are those other brats who hang around their little group?!"
[Th-That's the thing….we don't…know.]
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE?!"
Taro's angered voice echoed throughout the soundproof room causing the old devils to become confused, while the maidservants jumped in response to his anger.
[We connected the technicians to get a read on their locations. …but, neither of them could locate them using all their bracelets as if they're being jammed.]
Everything that was happening was causing Taro to almost lose his mind, with Kensei returning and causing this kind of trouble and….
"Wait, a second," Taro realized something as he stared at the arena. "That little brat is a distraction, I don't know what either of them is planning, but he must have met them before arriving here. But, there's no one among the usual group who can come up with something like this."
"*Sigh* Taro-dono are you telling us that you allowed yourself to be tricked by these brats?"
Hearing that from one of the old devils caused them a vein to begin to pop on Taro's forehead, most of them had even started laughing about the situation.
"What do you mean 'allowed yourself to be tricked'? I used the magic that YOU provided me and YOU all looked over telling me that it was a system without flaw. Neither of you told me that those bracelets could be jammed all the other older brats in the past tried to remove them and ended up dead! If I end up getting caused with all of these brats from different factions, which you all assisted me in finding and capturing, then you'll up being in just as much trouble as I am! So, don't even attempt that blaming crap."
All of them remained silent due to his outburst as everything that Taro had shouted as all correct.
"I hate being corrected by a human of all things, but he's correct. With all that we had invested in, if all the things that all happened on this island were revealed, then we could be in trouble. That was the sole reason that we had decided to erase and modify the memories of those who ended up being servants to other high-class devils. No, rumors of this island's existence have started to become a rumor and that Brat Ajuka will without a doubt have at least some interest in its existence and will without a doubt inform Sirzechs. Most of us believed that choosing a group of young yet powerful pure-blooded devils to become the current maou would let us do our business all behind their backs, while they continue with their own business with running the Underworld for their so-called peace and balance. But, Ajuka, in particular, ended up becoming someone we can't act rash against."
The male old devils had thought as he stared at Taro who remained panicked and talking with the guard.
"Neither of us desires to lose our position due to a human's mistake, we should cut all our ties with Taro as soon as possible. This island as well may need to vanish. However, he brings up a good point…what has he had done in the past month. Has he informed someone else about all of this?"
During the fight against Kensei and the more experienced gehenna guards, there were slashes on his cheek and arms caused by both the swordsmen guards. Both of them were attacking him in unison, with Kensei fighting the two of them off using his singular katana or redirecting one of them with his free hand, while not at all touching the cutting edge.
He didn't need to glance around the battlefield, he could tell based off their ki that the gunmen were encircling them with their weapons pointed at him. The same unarmed guard that he fought against was nearby waiting for a chance to strike him again.
"Their skills are nothing to laugh about, though neither of them is on par with Hayashi, they also make up for it with their both teamwork and experience. I can keep up the pace with these swordsmen and fighter," Kensei surmised in his head as he felt his heart beating at a quicker pace. "This is bad…. I know that I should be worried about this…but…."
"…."
One of the swordsmen fighting Kensei remained silent but was surprised by this ten-year-old being able to keep up with him in skill. As both of their swords were locked together, he started at Kensei and realized that the slight hint of a smile on his face despite the wounds.
"…what is the matter with you?"
"So, I'm getting a word out of one of you for the first time?"
"We're mercenaries…even former exorcists most of us hired to kidnap, control, and also kill you brats. So why is it that you're smiling despite having all of those injuries."
"Because there's so much room for me to grow."
"…what?"
From behind him, the other swordsman brought down his sword toward Kensei, the latter removed his right hand from his katana and covered it in touki. Without turning around to face the other threat, he caught the blade in his hand using his touki-covered hand.
"There are so many things that I can improve on and I look forward to doing that in the future."
Kensei got out of the sword lock with the initial swordsman, then he turned his body around aiming a strong kick in the direction of the second swordsman. In response to that sudden kick, the second swordsman held out one of his arms in defense and blocked it.
"There was some good force behind that kick, but…ah…."
Before he could finish, a sudden wave of unease washed across him as he fell to his knees.
"…what was that…?"
"I used senjutsu to damage your body from the inside. You won't be able to build up strength anymore let alone be able to move."
"…senjutsu?"
The initial swordsman recalled hearing about that once and moved away from him by jumping backward, as his comrade vanished through the magic circle under him. At the same time, the unarmed guard rushed at Kensei at quick trained speed.
"Dammit don't rush at that kid like that. If he can use what I think, then rushing in will…."
"I thought of something while I was training for the past month. How can I overcome someone who has far more skill, strength, and experience…it was a simple answer. I just need to outpace them in sheer speed."
Having said that, Kensei focused ki at his feet, then rushed at the unarmed guard at a speed that he wasn't expecting. And struck him at close range he couldn't react to in time, without hesitation, Kensei drove his fist into his stomach driving senjutsu into him causing a loud noise that resounded. This impact caused the guard to slump onto the ground unable to muster the strength.
"I apologize, but I came here to hunt down someone else. So, I can't expend much strength and stamina that I've got to."
Kensei replied as he gave a confident smirk.
Meanwhile, in the location where the highest tower in Hagun Island, Paradise Tower, Zane before they entered the building used magic to appear invisible on both him and Claire. Though of course, the front entrance required proper access to enter, both children were able to enter the building after some guards and technicians had entered the building in a rush.
Zane was able to find the location of the system for the Gehenna Collars were located using information attained from the reception desk on the first floor. Afterward, they started to head toward the upper-middle floor where the control system was located in through the use of the stairs, as a result of the elevators also requiring a code. But, despite this, both of them were able to scale the floors at a quicker pace having enhancement magic used on both of them due to Zane. Both of them continued running at a higher pace realizing the situation that Kensei and the others were in meaning, neither of them could waste must time.
"I'm impressed that you're able to run at this pace with me. Even before coming here, I received training from my Tou-san, but I thought that you would…."
"Be unable to match…? You're not incorrect, I'm not the most physically fit person on the island, which was why I had cast another enhancement spell on myself."
Zane replied in a joking yet serious fashion causing Claire to agree with him.
It took them a couple of minutes, but they were both able to reach the exact floor where the system was located and opened the door leading there but….
"The doors opening!"
"Zane-san!"
The sudden voice from a male caught their attention, then Claire pulled Zane out from in front of the door, both of them later heard the rapid-fire from both the guns piercing through the door. Instead of him being scared, a loud laugh escaped from his mouth.
"Thanks for that Claire. Hahaha, I thought this was too easy," Zane declared. "Of course, Taro would've thought kept the stairs unlock in case someone attempted to break using the stairs and not the elevators."
"What is the matter with you, Nii-san, and Alice-nee? Don't either of you ever consider the dangers that you end up in after things like this happen?"
Claire questioned as she stared at him in shock.
"Let's face it all three of us are all weirdos in situations like this. Kensei is too confident and used to situations like this to become afraid. Alice is almost apathetic unless you or Kensei are involved or uses the situation to devise a new monster. And I just laugh at myself most of the time for not thinking about this."
In response to that, Claire stared at him with a surprised look.
Both of them remained silent, after hearing the guards walking in the direction of the penetrated door. Neither of them worried about being caught as the spell still made them invisible front sight. A moment later, the door opened revealing the gun-wielding guard looking around the staircase with the light on his gun activated, then he rushed to the staircase to hear if someone was running downstairs.
Having realized that everything that fine, the guard returned to his comrades who remained in their original place and called him out.
"Was there anyone there?"
"No."
"Argh, we're going to get in trouble for shooting the door."
"Humph, who do you think ordered us to do that?"
After that short conservation between the four guards, one of them received a message from the other guards. In a short conversation, which Zane assumed was them informing someone about the sudden noises. Based on how fast the noise had traveled, it meant that there were other people nearby them. This meant that if the slight noise was made, then it meant that more people could arrive.
"Alright, Claire remains standing beside me."
In response to that, Claire stood by Zane as he covered both of them in a barrier, then opened the door again. As the guards noticed the door opening again on its own, all of them pointed their guns towards the door.
"Why'd that door open again?"
"I don't know, maybe this place is haunted."
"I don't think…."
Before the guards could finish magic circles appeared out of nowhere in front of them, then several spears made out of lightning shot out of them hitting the guards' bodies. This caused their bodies' to be severely shocked and paralyzed knocking them unconscious. Moments after all of them fell to the ground, Zane used a spell that bound them in magic bindings and hid their unconscious bodies inside the staircase.
"Don't you think that this is a little too easy?"
Claire questioned.
"Taro is underestimating the people he kept captive here. He has treated people here like animals, he put collars on them and threaten them a couple of times with punishment in an attempt to domesticate them. I bet, he never considered that putting humans though children in situations like this would end up teaching them a lesson about survival and getting stronger."
Claire couldn't help agreeing with him about that. A lot of the people here attained experience through their time spent here combined with fighting against monsters daily and making them direct more anger towards their captors.
"If Taro has any kind of sense of urgency, then he'll keep more skilled people positioned somewhere on this floor if not where this place is supposed to be located."
Having given his explanation, both he and Claire started to head toward their next destination. Before making a turn at the corner, Zane ensured to poke his head out to see if there were anyone stationed in front of a room. It is a process that he continued with but stopped after poking his head out in the last corner. Zane pulled back suddenly and turned in the direction of Claire with his finger placed over his lips.
"From what I could see, five guards are standing in front of the door on the other end of the hall," Zane had whispered in a tone low enough for Claire to hear. "Among the three of them armed guards and two unarmed ones, I believe that the last two are at least magicians skilled in magic."
"What should we do?"
"We can't make too much noise without attracting the attention of others."
Zane explained in an attempt to come up with a plan to deal with them without attracting the attention of others.
Meaning if a firefight were to occur with not only the armed guards but also two magicians, then that will without a doubt attract the attention of the other guards.
"Can't you just knock them out like you did the others?"
Claire questioned as she realized that the spell that he used didn't make much noise and even paralyzed them to the point of knocking them unconscious.
"I could knock out the armed guards, but I don't think that plan will work against the magicians," Zane explained as he looked back at Claire. "But, I have an idea to take care of them both."
Upon explaining the plan to Claire, Zane removed the spell, which made them both invisible and stepped outside from behind the corner in front of the guards. It had immediately caught the attention of the guards in front of him, who pointed their guns at him.
"Isn't that the kids that Taro informed us couldn't be located?"
"How'd you get here?"
"I walked through the front door."
As soon as their words left from his mouth, several magic circles appeared in front of him, which were the same he used to knock out the guards. In response to this, the magicians stepped back as the armed guards fired off a hail of bullets at them. However, all of the bullets were blocked due to the barrier that Zane had created around himself, then unleashed the same lightning spears from before hitting the armed guards knocking them out.
Despite losing the armed guards, the magicians created magic circles in front of them, which generate different elemental powers in front of them.
"I know that you're taking advantage of the chaos to assist your friend, but you're children fighting against people far too dangerous to handle."
"Why don't you be a good little brat and return home?"
"I did have a home beforehand and you guys kinda ruined that."
Having said those words with a hint of animosity, Zane created another magic circle and fired it off at them, but it missed its mark by just a small millimeter. Seeing that caused a slight sneer to escape from their mouths as they were repaired to unleash their attack.
"Hah, that was the last chance that you had to strike back and you missed."
"Any last words?"
"Goodnight."
After giving his "last words", both magicians felt a painful impact on their backs as the equipment both of them was wearing was torn apart by a powerful blast. Just before passing out one of them turned toward their attacker and realized that it was Claire who released a point-blank demonic blast from behind and noticed the magic circle on the wall behind them.
"A basic short-range teleportation spell? I lost to…."
"In a fight, you gotta use your head just as much as your power. A lot of you guys underestimate us just because we're kids, but that can work as an advantage."
Zane replied as he did the same thing as before and wrapped the five guards in magic bindings and pulled them into a nearby room, which was used as storage. Afterward, Zane and Claire had entered the room that the five of them were guarding. At that moment, both of them had found what they were looking for. After looking inside the guarded room, resting in the middle was a complex magic device that had a magic crystal resting in the middle of it alongside various equations.
"I wasn't expecting it to be this intricate. I gotta hand it to Taro or whoever made this to come up with something this complex."
Claire who knew about magic didn't even know about magical items as complex as this, but she was somewhat in awe after looking at this for the first time. Build around it seemed to be ten other towers with magic symbols all inscribed on it. Based on what Zane could tell that the towers looked to have been made from the same materials used to create their bracelets. After taking a deep breath, he created several magic barriers on the door to ensure that no one would interrupt them.
"Alright, let's get started."
Zane held his hand out and summoned his Magus Akashic, which floated next to him as he walked towards the main device in the middle of the room. Once stepped in front of the magic device, he activated a magic circle that was meant to scan the equations being used for the device.
"Uh, Zane what should I do?"
"Based on what you explain the Belial Clan can render the abilities of both people and objects 'worthless' as soon as you understand their properties. Though I haven't found out much about those towers, I can guess that all of them are made using the same materials that our bracelets are made of. If this device as the main system, then that would mean that those towers act as the transmitters, then that means that it supports my theory that our bracelets are the transceivers."
"Then wouldn't it be better to break the towers if they're the transmitters?"
"That's true, but that would too easy. If we touch either of them, then we could activate some kind of trap or there could even be a barrier around them," Zane explained as he continued to work on scanning the device in front of him while looking at his grimoire as a reference. "Though I am worried about something, since the spells I used on all of us, was meant to act as a barrier for the signals being sent to our bracelets. Then it would mean that in being this close to the transmitters, the signal will be stronger than ever and the spell could wear off quicker."
"That means that the longer we remain there, the shorter time that we have before the spell wears off."
"Exactly. If I had to take a guess, then that would be…." Zane started before hearing something wrong both of their bracelets causing a shocked looked to appear on their face. "Hahaha, I'd say a couple of minutes or at least several seconds. I'm starting to think that this is one of the hardest jobs, but I think that I got the gist of it. So come closer so that I can explain the properties…quickly."
Zane put more emphasis on 'quickly' after hearing that the noises from their bracelets started becoming louder by the second causing Claire to almost run to him. As he continued to work on the device, Zane started to explain the basic mechanics of the device through scanning it using both his magic circle and grimoire to a degree that Claire would be able to understand without being confused, while both of their bracelets continued getting louder.
"Okay, that's it! Do it now!"
Zane shouted as he noticed the symbols that started to appear on their bracelets, not waiting time, Claire moved forward in front of the device with her hands held up. Claire had used her clan's famed "worthless" and just as an ominous shine came from their bracelets, the light and equations from the magic device vanished.
"Did that do it?"
Break! Drop!
Claire questioned as she noticed the bracelets on them broke and fell the ground as soon as the device broke for a moment, both Claire and Zane stared at them in disbelief. After all this time almost years for most of them the thing that has bound them was now broken off. Though Zane himself felt close to tears, he wanted to save it for another time and glanced towards Claire.
"Let's not celebrate yet. First, let's break these transmitters."
"Alright. Are you ready Radueriel?"
Claire questioned her partner as who responded in a supportive tone.
[Of course, just remember what I said weeks ago.]
"Yes," Claire nodded her head as she held out her hand. "White Nemesis is a sacred gear based on creating a weapon using both the strong will and imagination. The clearer the image, the better the weapon."
As soon as those words left her mouth, a bluish-white light appeared around her hands and soon materialized a white handgun that has blue lights traced across it. Zane noticed the detail about the gun and realized that it was almost too detailed for a first attempt.
"A gun? That seems a little more complicated compared to what you were working on with Maria."
"This wasn't something that I worked on while training with Maria, but I always noticed Tou-san making repairs to his light swords and guns several times before and after coming back from a mission. So, this is one of the clearest images that I'm able to imagine."
"I see. Well, let's get this over with."
Having said that, Zane started to break half of the towers built around the magic device using magic; Claire, on the other hand, had broken the other half using a combo of her light gun and demonic attacks. After placing magic on the magic device, both Zane and Claire quickly left the room with the intent of going on to the next stage in their plan.
"Should we meet up with Nii-san and the others?"
"No, there's something that I need to do first. I just hope that Rui had finished things up on her end…."
"Freeze!"
Zane and Claire stopped as the guards in the building caught them walking down the halls of the building with all their guns trained on them. Since neither of them had the chance to prepare themselves for an assault, it would be almost too dangerous to make a move without being hit. One of the guards pulled out a device that seemed to be for communication.
"We located two children in…gagagagagaga."
Before the guard could speak another word, the guard in the back placed what seemed to be a stun baton on the neck of the guard knocking him out. Upon seeing this the other guards turned around with a shocked sound that came out from their mouths. Claire was initially shocked about what happened, but Zane let out a secret smile.
"What the hell are you…?"
Quickly, the 'guard' struck the other guards near them using the stun baton, while hitting those that had remained in different parts of their bodies' causing them to fall on the ground. Just one guard remained to point their gun at the 'traitor' before the trigger was pulled, Zane struck him with the lightning spear paralyzing him.
"So, did you find it?"
The 'guard' removed their helmet revealing the voice of an older man, however, there were familiar dog-like ears on top of their head, which Claire recognized.
"Yea," Rui's voice also came out from that male's voice and in a single puff of smoke, the male shrunk down into the size of a girl and in the figure of Rui. A tired sigh escaped from her mouth as she had removed the oversize armor that she wore. "You have no idea how difficult doing this was Zane. As I said, I don't have complete control over my transformation abilities and I can't hide either my tail or ears. I don't get how those guys can wear such restrictive equipment."
Claire and Zane listened in as Rui continued to complain about her particular mission before glancing toward her unbound wrist with a smile on her face.
"I almost lost it after feeling this thing fall off. You two did it."
"We're not done yet. Before meeting up with the others there still two things that I need to do."
"Alright, where are we going next?"
"Taro's office."
Zane replied with a sly smirk on his face.
Moments before Claire nullified the magic device, in Residential Area B, both Maria and Abigail stood by looking as almost everyone from the other Residential Area gathered there. Among most of the group were older teens who all had been there for much longer compared to them, who continued to watch as the children were brought into different barriers in the area as the magic circle under them were almost finished bring made. The numbers of all of them measured in at least a hundred.
Most of the teens had all gathered there to watch the fight between Kensei and gehenna guards with a great look of interest on their faces.
"So, this is the kid that vanished last month."
"Hmm, how is he able to bring out that much speed to outpace them."
"Whatever it is, it is letting him gain the upper hand against them in speed."
Some teens were giving praise to Kensei who was fighting for their freedom as informed about it by Abigail who was among those with remarkable faith in him.
Before either of them could do anything else, many armed gehenna guards were marching toward all of them their weapons trained on them. Upon seeing them the teens had started to step in front of the other kids unable to protect themselves or control their abilities.
Maria looked forward and noticed that among all of the guards were Jason and Mason, as well as the others who had sworn their allegiance to Taro with Maria directing her resentment toward the older brother.
One of the guards stepped forward holding a device, which amplifies his voice.
[All of you brats and teens whose gathered in this Residential Area. This is a command that all of you return to all of your assigned areas before we are forced to act. You see, this?]
The guard wielding the voice amplifier held up another device, which seems to resemble the ring that Taro wears on his fingers causing the people gathered there to falter as the guard sneered.
[You see after that brat on the projection screen fought against Taro last month, he worked on creating this great invention, which works similar to his Gehenna Ring and with a single command I can immobilize every one of you. Just. Like….]
Just as the guard made a snide comment, there was a sound that resounded across the entire area, which was all the bracelets wrapped around their wrists being broken and falling on the ground. For a second, the people on both sides were shocked about what happened for different reasons. Almost all the teens who had been kept on Hagun Island for years felt as if a large weight had been released from their shoulders, which caused all of them to almost breakdown into tears.
Maria stared at her freed wrist with a bright smile on her face as she realized that one of their plans succeeded.
"Zane and Claire did it," Maria said as she smiled toward them. "I'm sorry were you about to say something."
"Argh."
Having heard that comment from Maria, the guard gritted his teeth and dropped the device on the ground viewing it as useless at this point.
"What the hell is going on?"
"Did something else go wrong?"
"I don't think that we can take on this many alone."
Several guards began to whisper among themselves, but among the guards, there was one mission among the entire group. 'That' individual moved without making a single sound weaved through the entire guard without their intention being known and appeared on the rooftops.
"Well, this became a spectacle. I didn't think that things would go this bad, but as long as I can make things go in a more desirable course for our side."
It was revealed to be Jason who summoned his golden bow and pulled the string creating a light arrow pointed in the direction of the children behind the barrier.
"Nothing personal, but…I have my survival to worry about."
"You truly are a crude person."
A familiar voice came from behind him and it was Maria who noticed his absence, then climbed on the roof that Jason had positioned himself on. He remained facing the direction of the children without turning towards Maria who continued to glare at him unable to move since he was using the kids as hostages.
"I've gotten better since that brat defeated me last month," he replied as the arrow being formed as shining with a better light as if amassing more power to pierce the barrier. "I was hoping to go to that arena and shoot an arrow in his back, but I was sent here of all places to place guard. I don't believe that there is just a thing as morality in this world there's only the strong and weak."
"Where do you believe that you stand on that scale?"
Maria questioned as she prepared to do something before Jason attacked the children.
"The strong of course!"
Realizing his intent, Maria rushed towards Jason who was prepared to release the arrow on the children who're hiding behind the barrier. But, she was late as the arrow was released after crossing half the distance. The golden arrow was release toward the children who realized that the arrow was coming toward them based on the bright light rushing toward them. However, before it could even reach them, there was another light arrow sent in the same direction as Jason's intercepted and canceled one another out.
"What the hell?!"
Jason stood up and stared at the source of that light arrow, which was Abigail who raised her hand towards the path of his golden light arrow. He stared at the incident in shock not believing that Abigail was able to create her light arrow and intercept his. It didn't seem like she summoned any kind of sacred gear to perform that feat, which meant that it had to be something else.
"Did she have some kind of light power or sacred gear that control light? Dammit, there is no information about her that Taro or anyone had given us."
"How are you target innocent children like that," Abigail said in a tone that no one has heard from her and glared at Jason in a manner that no one expected. "I may not be as skilled or strong in combat, but I am quite confident in my light abilities compared to you. Maria, I know that you still have some unfinished business with this 'man'. I'll handle defending the children with the others as you handle him."
"Same here!"
"Yea!"
Other teens gathered around the children kept behind the barriers as everyone here prepared to fight without worrying about the chance of being bound anymore.
"You have my thanks, Abigail."
Having heard that from Abigail caused Maria to let a slight presence be unleashed from her causing even Jason to turn toward her holding his golden bow.
"Since I don't have to worry about you targeting the children. I can focus on taking you down."
"Tch, what makes you think that you'll end up winning?"
"…I haven't shown this to anyone aside from Lucia and Iris."
From all aside around Maria several swords sprung up from the ground like flowers blooming around her, which released a holy presence. It was a creation sacred gear named Blade Blacksmith, which lets the user creates an assortment of holy swords.
"A sacred gear," Jason was shocked about the fact that Maria had a sacred gear as she hasn't used it even once to win her several fights.
"This is our counterattack."
Maria declared her…no all their intention to fight against their captives and win back their freedom.
In the arena, Kensei has just taken out the last of the trained gehenna guards send after him as a slight breath of exhaustion escape from his mouth. There were wounds on him caused by the swords and bruises on him caused due to the impact caused from their bullets coming into contact with his skin that has been reinforced using what he learned from Sun Wukong.
"Can't stop yet, I still don't know the status of everyone else yet," Kensei said as he started to use recover his lost stamina using senjutsu, it would give him enough time to fight for much longer. "Yo, Taro what's taking Hayashi so long to arrive here? Did he stab you in the back or something?"
Kensei couldn't tell the kind of expression that Taro was making as the same kind of spell to keep himself hidden from the outside, but considering that he wasn't talking to him meant that things weren't going good for him. The rest of the guards were taken away through the magic circles on the ground, but no one else arrived using them. However, Kensei started to feel someone else approaching him through the same entrance that he had entered, which leads to the locker room.
"I can sense someone walking toward here."
Kensei thought as he stared at the entrance holding his katana in hand, before scowling after recognizing whose figure it belonged to.
"So, you've survived. To be honest, I'm impressed I've never met anyone who could endure that kind of beating, then survive it. But, what are you planning on doing here?"
He couldn't forget that voice, which belonged to the mercenary leader who his fought almost killed two years ago. She would've won if it wasn't for a last-second interruption by the old devils using him as a hostage causing her to falter for a single second resulting in her death. However, in the end, he required several cybernetic implants to continue his job. Hayashi Namikaze. He stood just a short distance from Kensei who continued to glare at him with an angered look.
"Most of the brats living here has remained here for most of their lives almost the same as domesticated animals kept within a zoo. A lot of them gave up hope to return home a long time ago after failure upon failure of death upon death and loss upon loss. Even if you were to succeed in bringing all of them off this island where would all them even return to? Most of their parents abandoned them out of fear of their mysterious powers whether it was their sacred gears or some supernatural power that were unfortunate enough to be born with. All of them would leave here hunted down by either normal humans who are afraid of them or hunted down by another being among this large world. So, you don't you just…."
"Shut the hell up!"
Unable to handle the words spewing out of his mouth, as well as the crowds' comments about them as if agreeing with every despicable word.
"Who the hell gave you the right to decide that?! What right do you have to decide how someone else lives their life?! Do either of you believe you're gods?! Untouchable! Unbeatable! Every last one of you is just a bunch of pompous bastards who's never done anything for anyone aside for yourselves! Continuing the suck the hope out of other people with nothing else, while you reap the benefits! Continuing to laugh and drink as you watch people who've done nothing aside from surviving! And I can already hear each of you laughing, but let's see if you laugh at this! I already told both a God and Buddha about everything that happened on this island, the latter among them being the Chief God of the Shinto Faction herself! And those old bastards who tried killing me by sending to that mountain to die, I ran into Sun Wukong there!"
Upon hearing those words from Kensei, the crowd became silent, the most notable being the old devils who were all being silent after hearing those words from his mouth. Even Hayashi who has remained calm throughout this entire situation started to sweat.
"What the hell?! This is all your fault! If you had just killed him there, then none of this would have happened!"
Taro surmised as he glared towards the old devils who were equally shocked to the point of breaking down.
"Dammit, did he inform Amaterasu?!"
"That's impossible. There's no way that a child could know the Shinto Chief God."
"That's right, there no way that he could also know the first-generation Sun Wukong."
"It isn't impossible! This brat is among one of the most renown Japanese Clans just under even those among the Five Principal Clans and has served the Shinto Gods for generations. There was even him being able to use senjutsu, which the Monkey King also knows. If what that brat said is true, then Sirzechs and the others will also be informed about this!"
All of them were in a panic realizing that the situation has become completely dire for all of them even if they were to regain control over the children and teens here. The moment that either of them returns to the Underworld, then there is no chance for either of them to come out of this without receiving severe punishment. There even the matter of some of the other old devils who were allied with the business on Hagun Island. All of them would end up losing everything they've worked for. There is no place for either of them to go.
Realizing the silence of the crowd, Kensei began to channel ki into his voice so that he could raise the intensity of his voice.
"And this is to the people who are worried about not having a home to return to! Since coming here, to be honest I was surprised that everyone here was able to work together and maintain a stable life! Several older kids helped me continue living with the two people that I've grown to care about! Whether it was telling what food would be more suitable to survive on and how to make it all last! And hearing about that caused me to feel even madder towards the people who forced them into living that kind of terrible life for years! Who can even call that living?! And so, after all of leave this hellhole behind, let's continue doing that and work together to create a home where all of us can live without being threatened or starving! But…!"
After pausing for a moment, Kensei pointed his katana towards Hayashi who remained standing in front of him.
"If you want that freedom! If you want to live an actual life! If you want to achieve real happiness! Then…!"
Kensei focused ki at his feet again, then rushed towards Hayashi who felt movement and killing intent, then later unsheathed his sword and blocked the ten-year-old's slash.
"Then you have to fight!"
Back in the Residential Area where the gehenna guards had gathered, the older teens listened in as Kensei had shouted that out loud to all of them. There was no trace of falsehood behind his words and this ten-year-old child had just spoken his mind to everyone there. All of them had felt a sensation stirring inside them, which hasn't once occurred in a long time. Maria smiled as she continued to fight against Jason who maintained his position firing off several golden arrows at her.
"Sheesh, reminded that by a bunch of kids can sure just a man's pride."
"How can we call ourselves soon-to-be adults if we continue acting like this?"
"Well, whether or not we can get out of here. There's one thing that we're tired of."
"Yea."
"These pompous assholes are starting to get on our nerves."
As all the teens who originally lost their will to fight started to recover their spirit, each of them started to reveal a separate kind of presence from their powers whether it was their sacred gear, magic or another power. All of their intentions were directed towards the guards in front of them.
"As the kid said…. If we want our freedom."
[Then we have to fight!]
All of them shouted in unison causing an almost thunderous sound that echoed across the area, and now finally, their rebellion had started.
A/N: And there goes the thirteenth chapter of DxD – The Last Amagiri, things on Hagun Island are starting to go haywire for Taro and the old devils are monsters are unleashed, bracelets are released, and all their captives are finally freed. In this chapter, everyone had their parts that they all played with Hisui helping Alice with the exhaustion from using her sacred gear. Claire and Zane who finally reveals his "source", which will be explained in the future and shows what he is capable of with even Maria, Abigail and Rui all showing what they can do.
Kensei continues to fight against the gehenna guard holding his own despite the odds with far more skilled members arriving on the scene. And in the end, he ignites the flame inside the teens who lost the will to fight again before starting his final fight against Hayashi.
Also, there has been a suggestion to add one of everyone's favorite females, Akeno to the harem and as I haven't done so for the others in the individual redoes wanted to hear everyone's opinion about it in any of your reviews. I mean, I can see that there are similarities that they have together.
So, until next time.
Kensei's Harem: Alice, Claire, Hisui, Kunou, Yasaka, Lu Lingqi, Mirana, Sarah, Minako, Koneko, Kuroka, Ravel, Amaterasu, Brynhildr.