Chapter 7.
Occult Research Club Action! Taking Down A Stray Devil
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Days passed, all lived by Yatomichi Ryuma smoothly and smoothly, without any interference from other parties, except from Rias' Pieces, including the red-haired girl herself. These days, he was often invited to come to the Occult Research Club Building to talk about some matters, regarding spiritual factions.
Even so, Ryuma didn't feel bothered at all about the invitations from Rias that were given to him every day, as long as it wasn't a conflict that could undo the peace of the three Factions, he didn't mind it at all. Also, Issei had slowly begun to accept the fact that as a Devil, he began to be able to carry out the daily duties as a Devil Peerage.
Today, just like the previous days, Ryuma is sitting on his bench staring at the view outside the window right beside him. Calm and peaceful, it was only this time that he could see this kind of scene, a scene he had always dreamed of, where all creatures did not need to fight with the aim of eliminating each other.
Because he is an Archangel who was first created by God, Ryuma has gained a lot of experience, memories of battles that are completely endless. Fallen Angels and Devils, none of these two races he has never killed with his own two hands, as an Archangel, it is his duty to always protect the Throne of Heaven from the hands of destroyers.
For centuries, thousands of years, until countless times, he has joined various battles, some even to the point of making him completely unable to forget the war. To be precise, when the great war between the three previous Factions, involving the Angels, Fallen Angels and Devils Factions, a great battle that also marked his downfall.
Ryuma's eyes filled with tears, when he saw how cruel the great battle was, to be able to make an Archangel cry, surely the battle had at least left a deep wound in his heart. But then, he quickly blinked his eyes for several times, while trying not to remember the very heartbreaking incident.
It is enough that he regrets in despair, it is enough that he curses himself for all the deeds he has done himself, now, Ryuma has no intention of repeating the same thing, he will correct all his mistakes, only then will he be free from this endless nightmare.
"Hey, Yatomichi-kun seems to be gloomy... Aren't we going to comfort him?" One of the girls whispered to her friend, when she saw Ryuma who was wearing a gloomy look.
"I think the same thing as you, however, it doesn't seem like he needs our presence. It seems that he wants to be alone." The other girl replied disappointedly, as she realized that Ryuma didn't seem to want to be disturbed at all.
The two girls couldn't help but let out a deep sigh, disappointed that they both had absolutely no chance to get close to Ryuma, a handsome young man of Kuoh Academy who was even able to rival the good looks of Kiba Yuuto. Of course, a handsome young man will be treated very differently by girls, plus that Ryuma's nature is not perverted at all, really being a dream young man of female students.
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The day changed again, but still with the same activity. Ryuma is currently seen walking with Issei beside him, coincidentally this morning, Issei walked on the same road used by Ryuma to arrive at Kuoh Academy.
"Hey, man! Do you know that yesterday I just met a nun? I even drove her to the church!" Issei said excitedly, telling Ryuma that he had just met a nun yesterday.
"Really? Isn't the church a forbidden place that even you shouldn't approach?" Ryuma asked with a slight chuckle, it seemed like Issei was too ignorant of what Rias had told him.
"I know about it. But isn't helping someone a good thing? Even though I am a Devil, it does not mean that I should not do good." Issei replied softly, looking at Ryuma with a big smile on his face.
"You're right, we as creatures, will remain the same. No matter which Faction we belong to, we will always carry out the same orders from the Creator." Ryuma said with his voice that sounded low, the look on his face looked gloomy, looking at Issei with his teary eyes.
"Dude... Has something happened to you?" Issei asked with concern, he didn't expect that Ryuma's reaction would turn out to be like this.
"No... I only remember my memories..." Ryuma retorted gently, revealing a smile on his handsome face, as if what had just happened to him, had never happened at all.
Although Issei felt that Ryuma was hiding something from him, he decided not to question Ryuma about it, of course, the black-haired young man had privacy that absolutely no one else should know. However, he also understands that Ryuma's memory is a painful one, where he was once an Angel of Heaven, now a Fallen Angel, is really a bitter memory when we lose our pride, and replaced with deep regret and sadness.
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"We received an order from the Devil Noble, to eradicate a stray Devil hiding in Kuoh City. We will start our hunt later in the evening." Rias said firmly, staring at her Pieces with a look on her face that looked very serious.
"Wow! What is a stray Devil, Buchou?" Issei asked puzzledly, questioning what a stray Devil was to Rias Gremory.
"Stray Devils are Devils who have run away from their masters. They are willing to give up their ties with their masters in order to achieve freedom in this world, where they can do what they want without any shackles that constrain them." Ryuma explained in detail, explaining what a stray Devil was to Issei.
"It turns out that you know too, Ryuma-kun..." Rias said in her soft-sounding voice, adorned by a beautiful smile on her face.
"Of course, Miss Gremory. I have met them countlessly, and I have also counted how many stray Devils I have returned to where they belong." Ryuma retorted, this time his voice sounded so cold and flat, the look on his face also looked very flat, without showing the slightest expression on his face.
"There's no need to be so formal with me, Ryuma-kun. You can call me by my name, Rias." Rias said while smiling softly towards Ryuma.
"The same goes for you as well, Rias. You can call me by my name." Ryuma said kindly, this time the look on his face returned to normal, revealing a gentle smile on his handsome face.
"Ara... Ara... Does that also apply to me, Yatomichi-kun?" Akeno asked in his distinctive voice, placing her index finger on her left cheek.
"Sure, Akeno-san." Ryuma replied kindly, allowing Akeno to call him by his name, just like Rias.
"Ara... Ara... Thank you, Ryuma-kun..." Akeno said with a big smile, licking her lips with her tongue, accompanied by the blush that formed on both of her cheeks.
"I also invite you to come, Ryuma. I will show you how we, the Devil Nobles, act in dealing with stray Devils." Rias said firmly, revealing a smirk on her face, with her eyes so piercing.
"Alright, Rias. I will witness it with my own two eyes later." Ryuma replied, agreeing to Rias's invitation to come with her later tonight, to see how Rias and her Peerage acted in wiping out a stray Devils.
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Brak!
A pair of doors made of sturdy iron, were thrown a few meters back at high speed. From behind the entrance, six humans walked in together. They are none other than Rias with her Pieces, namely, Akeno, Koneko, Issei, Kiba and one who is not from one of her Pieces, but another creature, namely the Fallen Angel named Ryuma.
The six of them began to enter a room of the building that looked very dark, with no application except moonlight that tried to squeeze in through the shattered windows. The building in which they stood today, was the lair of the stray Devils they had been assigned to eradicate, as it had killed countless humans as well as inferior Devils.
The place is a building that has been abandoned for a long time, it can be seen that the walls of the building have been destroyed a lot, windows have been broken, and there is absolutely no sign of living things inhabiting it, except for a creature that is very different from other creatures. From the moment they first set foot here, they could already feel an extremely evil aura, which was already waiting for them to enter.
"Issei, stay near me. What you will see, is the form of a Devil who has betrayed its own master." Rias said coldly, warning Issei to stay near her.
As for Issei, he could only nod his head lightly, because this was the first time he went directly into the field, especially this time, what he would see was the form of a lowly Devil who had the heart to betray its own master. Meanwhile, Ryuma from earlier looks just silent, but both of his eyes seem very sharp, a sign that he is very aware of what is around him.
"It's here." Koneko said flatly, pointing to one corner of the room that looked very dark.
"Hey, I didn't expect you to see me... But it doesn't matter, after you come here, don't expect that you will be able to get out of here again."
A woman's extremely cold and intimidating voice could be heard through the room, making anyone who heard it shudder in horror. Especially for Issei, the brown-haired young man looked very scared, his body seemed to tremble, and his eyes were constantly twitching to find the source of the terrible sound.
Unlike Issei, Ryuma was not affected by the terrible sound at all, because from earlier, he already knew that there was already a creature who had been waiting for him and Rias. He can see what no one else can see but himself, no matter if it is a Devil, a Fallen Angel or an Angel, no being other than himself has this kind of blessing.
In front of him, he could see a silver-haired woman who had a pretty face, however, her body was inversely proportional to her face. The upper part of the woman is indeed shaped like a woman in general, but the lower part, is the body of a spider that is very large, really terrible.
"A woman?" Issei asked in confusion, when he saw a silver-haired woman peeking out from behind the wall.
"She is not an ordinary woman." Ryuma said briefly, looking at the woman with his piercing eyes.
"What do you mean? Isn't she a beautiful woman-"
Issei's speech instantly stopped, both eyes bulging, cold sweat pouring out profusely on his body, as he saw a scene he had never imagined at all. In front of him now, was a woman with a very tall body, without wearing a single thread on her body, and revealing a pair of big breasts.
"Breast!" Issei exclaimed so excitedly, jumping up and down with joy because he saw a very beautiful scenery for the men.
"I hope you won't regret what you said, Issei." Ryuma said softly, looking at Issei who was excited with his two eyes that looked so very sharp.
"With the surname Gremory, I will eradicate you forever, Viser!" Rias said coldly, pointing at Viser with authority.
"Brash! I will make you covered in red blood like the red color of your hair!" Viser curse angrily, as he began to squeeze his own breasts.
"Woah! It's really amazing!" Issei exclaimed excitedly, accompanied by blood that began to come out of both nostrils.
"What the..." Ryuma sighed in disbelief, after seeing what the stray Devil was doing before him.
"You should indeed be completely abolished!" Rias said coldly, staring at Viser with his two sharp eyes and filled with murderous lust.
Not long after, on Viser's nipples, a small red magic circle appeared. And at a very high speed, her two nipples suddenly shot a green liquid at Rias and her Pieces. Luckily, none of Rias' pieces were hit, not even Issei, because the young man was being protected by Ryuma.
Tshh!
The wall instantly melted when exposed to liquid from Viser's nipple, making Issei who saw it feel both shocked and incredulous. As it turns out, it is true that Viser is not an ordinary woman, now he knows that she is an evil Devil who can kill him so easily.
"It looks like you're going to withdraw all your remarks, right Issei-kun?" Kiba said while giggling when he saw Issei who was surprised by Viser's true identity.
"Issei, have you ever played chess?" Rias asked Issei who was sitting on the ground because he was surprised by Viser's attack.
"I've played it once." Issei replied with his voice sounding slightly trembling, replying to Rias that he knew very little about the game of chess.
"We share every different characteristic with each other, just like chess. It's named as the Evil Piece." Rias explained while smiling at Issei, explaining to him about the Evil Piece.
"Yuuto!" Call Rias to Kiba, it's time for Viser to be destroyed, before the Devil further goes far.
"Okay, Buchou." Kiba said with his voice that sounded full of obedience, walking slowly towards Viser while indeed a sword in his right hand.
Swoshh!
With just a blink of an eye, Kiba had disappeared from everyone's sight, converging into the void without leaving the slightest trace. After that, Viser suddenly cried out in pain, because her legs had been cut off by Kiba's extremely fast sword slash.
"As a Knight, Kiba has a very high speed, with his main weapon in the form of a sword." Rias explained while watching Kiba who was cutting off Viser's legs.
Viser wailed with full of pain, the attack from Kiba was so very fast and precise, without taking long, almost all of Viser's legs had been cut off by him. Anger was increasingly formed in Viser, both of her eyes began to turn reddish, accompanied by her face that began to turn into a horrible figure.
"Watch out, Koneko-chan!" Issei shouted when he saw that Koneko's body was about to be swallowed intact by Viser's stomach that had turned into a mouth.
With just a blink of an eye, Koneko's small body had been swallowed raw by Viser, leaving not the slightest part of her body. Issei couldn't believe what he saw at all, he should have helped Koneko, he shouldn't have let the beautiful girl die. However, strangeness occurred in Viser's stomach, it can be seen if the stray Devil's stomach is moving.
Viser's stomach slowly began to open again and revealed Koneko's figure who was forcibly opening Viser's stomach from the inside, the girl's clothes also looked torn, exposed to Viser's dangerous stomach fluid. While Issei, who saw it, naturally felt very relieved, because the cute and beautiful girl was not dead at all and was still alive.
"Take this." Koneko said flatly, punching Viser in the abdomen with her petite right hand.
However, Koneko's fist was not an indiscriminate fist, Viser's body, which was hit by Koneko's fist, immediately bounced far enough and hit the wall very hard. It is certain that Koneko is a Rook, with her characteristic of having very strong physical strength and surpassing other Rias pieces.
"As a Rook, Koneko has very strong physical strength, surpassing all of us." Rias said proudly, looking at Koneko who was standing not far in front of her.
"Then, Akeno..." Call Rias to Akeno, to quickly complete the Viser and complete the task for tonight.
"Okay, Buchou..." Akeno said with his distinctive voice, walking closer to Viser's body lying helpless on the ground.
"Ara... Ara... Even though I still want to play with you, but it seems to have to end here." Akeno said in her melodious voice, the look on her face that seemed so very excited, while raising her right arm up.
Blarrrrr!
A huge lightning bolt directly struck Viser's body non-stop, accompanied by Akeno's hideous laughter. Viser's shout echoed throughout the room, making anyone who heard it feel compassion.
"Akeno is my Queen, she controls magic very much, the strongest Piece I have. And also, she was a sadistic woman." Rias said with a big smile when she saw the torture Vier felt by Akeno.
"Enough Akeno." Rias said, telling Akeno to stop.
"Ara... Ara... Buchou..." Akeno sighed with a sense of disappointment inside her, because she still wanted to play around with Viser.
However, a very unexpected incident happened, where when Rias was stepping her foot to approach Viser, Viser's hand that had been cut off, suddenly twitched and shot towards Rias at high speed. This was immediately realized by Ryuma, by pointing his left arm at the Viser's arm, that arm immediately stopped in the air with a black mist surrounding it.
"Thank you, Ryuma." Rias said softly, giving Ryuma a gentle smile for saving her.
"Then, for you, Viser. Since you have betrayed your own master, and killed him to gain freedom, I, as the daughter of the Gremory family, will punish you!" Rias said with dignity and domineering, standing right in front of the helpless Viser, and began to unleash her strength.
A deep red magic circle formed right in front of Rias, emitting a deep red light that shone very brightly. Then, from within the magic circle, a pitch-red lightning appeared that immediately struck Viser's body heavily.
Blast!
"Arghh!"
A heartbreaking cry came from Viser's mouth, as Rias Gremory's devastating force touch her body. Then in the next second, Viser's body had vanished, turning into tiny grains of dust that could barely be seen by normal human eyes.
"We're done." Rias said as she turned her body towards her Pieces, revealing a beautiful smile on her pretty face.
After seeing for himself how the Devil Nobles acted, a faint smile suddenly formed on Ryuma's face. It was not the first time he saw this kind of thing, even this kind of thing had already impressed him with course. After thousands of years ago, seeing Devil cooperate in conquering their enemies, he didn't mind it all at all, only that he became reminded of his past. Cooperation with Devil was not strange to him, because basically, he had experienced it himself long before the Evil Pieces Sytem were created.
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