"Talk"

'Thought'

'I'm gonna have so much fun watching you fight Kobeni~'

"Shut up Future."

Aki Hayakawa tries his best to ignore the Future Devil in his eye, as he hid around the corner and looked to find Kobeni Higashiyama, aka Supido-Kyo, who currently stealing from what looks to be a place that sells beds, though was currently only taking pillows and blankets.

'Denji failed negotiations, and Power rushed forward with violence, so I doubt that saying anything would convince her to trust me.'

Aki sighs softly in disappointment, clearly wishing that he didn't have to fight her, but knows he wasn't given a choice in the matter.

'I'll try my best to avoid hurting your baby, Kobeni.'

Aki, once steadying his nerves and motivating himself to continue on with the mission, stepped out of his hiding spot, all while pulling out his sword, which looks different than before.

"Kobeni Higashiyama, under the authority of "The Public Safety Commission", I strongly recommend that you surrender now and come with me."

Aki really doubt that Supido-Kyo would listen, but he was still hopeful and gave her one last chance to listen, unfortunately, yet as expected, she didn't, in fact, as soon as she noticed him, she attempted to go straight for the kill, thrusting one of her claws and attempted to pierce Hayakawa chest, but much to her surprised, he was able to not only block the incoming attack, but also gave a counter attack since she was distracted by her own surprise, kicking her chest and knocking her down to the ground, luckily she didn't hit the ground hard, especially with all the pillows and blankets everywhere, though she wasn't really given a chance to stand back up as Topknot place his foot down on her and kept her pinned down.

"Please Kobeni, this is my final warning…"

Aki was basically begging for Supido-Kyo, but she said nothing, he couldn't even see her face to at least guess what she was feeling, the only reply that she gave was trying to knock him off by swinging her tail at him, which he was able to avoid and jump away, thanks to his future vision, which also allowed him to see a incoming attack, and act accordingly to it, not only that, but thanks to his new sword, courtesy of the Angel Devil, it allowed him to keep up and swings his sword fast enough to handle to speed of the Kineceleran Kobeni, the Devil Hunter knew that he had all the advantages, and he wasted no time pressing it against Raptor Higashiyama, which of course caused her to stumble a lot in pure confusion, she was used to being faster than her enemies, in fact she knows that she was faster than Hayakawa, yet this wasn't about speed anymore, this was about stopping her and preventing her to make any significant moves, whenever she tries to land a killing blow, he would dodge it, whenever she tries to dodge an attack, he would change his attacks to make sure it still hits, she even tried to run away, but he would always find a way to block and stop her, either jumping in front of her, or even stepping on her tail, it left her lost, she couldn't figure out what to do, and all this cluelessness, not to mention extreme stress, left her very tired, resulting in her falling on her hands and knees, panting and trying to catch her breath.

"I tried to warn you, Kobeni, I didn't want this to happen."

Aki, also panting from all the moving, but was now able to relax once he saw, at least assumed, that he had finally defeated Supido-Kyo, though he stayed on guard and held his sword readily, not wanting to underestimate his opponent.

"Now then, please listen and trust what I have to see, I truly want to help-"

'MIRAI SAIKO!!!'

Unfortunately, before Aki could take Supido-Kyo into custody, he was suddenly interrupted and startled by the Future Devil suddenly yelling out of nowhere, obviously surprising him, though before he could question it, he was again startled when he received another small future vision of being attacked by the Deviltrix host again, which he attempted to counter attack, however, thanks to the earlier distraction, he wasn't to realize and see the full future that was about to happen and sadly made the wrong mistake in his actions, said action being him aiming his sword at the incoming Kineceleran Kobeni, hoping it would forced her to back off, but much to his horror, instead of doing that, she just pushed forward, letting the blade stab through her shoulder, and allowing her to get close enough to smash her helmet face into Topknot's face, which he didn't have a counter for and was forced to take it, resulting in his nose getting broken, plus some head trauma as well, before falling on the ground, to dazed and hurt to even get back up, which was what the Raptor Higashiyama wanted, and once she was finally free from the threat, she was able to do what she needed, first pulling the sword out of her shoulder, grabbing all the blankets and pillows she came for, and then, she just left, not wanting to waste her time in killing the Devil Hunter and just wanted to find safety, and sadly Hayakawa couldn't do anything to stop her, much to his frustration.

"Y-You fucking Devil, why did you stop me?!..."

And Aki aimed his frustration and anger at the one responsible for such a distraction, that being the Devil of Eventuality.

'I did you a favor, you should be thanking me.'

Though frustration turned into confusion by what the Future Devil said to Topknot.

"W-What the fuck do you mean by that?"

Aki clearly wanted answers, which the Tree of Fortune was happy to give, in his own cryptic way of course.

'Let's just say, stopping Kobeni now, will cost you victory in the future, your future.'

And while the Future Devil didn't reveal a lot, the Devil Hunter was able to understand what he meant, though he was still very frustrated because of it.

"... You just wanted to make sure our future will cause the most suffering…"

'Maybe, hehehe~...'

With all the damage and people being hurt, I would like to imagine that Kobeni would be doing a lot of, "Fixing", whenever she snaps back to her normal self, which I do have plans for, hehe~

(I decided to start giving Aki a collection of swords, now he has one for Curses, one for Ghost, and now there's one for him to swing and slash quickly, what will he have next of my~)