"What do you mean by another hole?" William asked.
Do all the people I fight have dementia or something?
"I originally told Mammon to dig 9 holes to bury these idiots, but now that you're here, I'm going to need another hole."
He laughed, "You're cocky as always I see, Tsukiko. But I think you're gladly mistaken." He replied.
"Mistaken? What do you mean by that?" I asked confusedly.
"Did you stop to realize why I gave that idiot whom you killed Ascalon? I love my Type X Ascalon, it was the only holy sword I could've used, but now that I possess your gens, I can also use Durandal!" He shouted.
"Wait, what? He can use Durandal now?" Belphegor asked.
I smirked, "Oh, so you like when another man's gene is in you, huh?"
"Tsukiko, how can he use Durandal?" Belphegor asked.
Belphegor, he can't use my original Durandal! He can only use the fake copy of it.
I sighed, "Do you remember when I told you that the church is creating mere replicas of my holy sword, and using my genes to make anyone can wield them, Belphegor? Well it looks like he's
one of them."
"Oh, yeah, I remember now. So he can use some cheap copy of Durandal." He laughed.
Exactly, it's just a knock-off version of my majestic blade.
William interrupted, "Cheap copy! How dare you, a fucking devil, call my durandal a cheap copy!" He shouted.
Well he's not wrong, it's just a mere replica of my original sword.
"You're going to pay for calling my durandal a cheap copy. With the holy power within me, I call you now, sword Durandal!" He shouted.
After I heard the chant to summon Durandal, I fell to the floor and burst out in laughter. But after seeing the sword, anyone could tell that it was a cheap knock-off of the real holy sword, Durandal.
"You scumbag, what are you laughing at?" He asked.
"You see, that's not even the right chant to summon Durandal."I laughed.
"I told you that your sword is a mere replica, a cheap knock-off. I will show you how to summon the original holy sword Durandal." I replied.
"With my holy power, I call you now holy sword Durandal!" I chanted, and the original sword, Durandal, appeared in my right hand.
"My Durandal may be a replica, but I'm going to show you that something, the replicas are better than the original. Let's have a hero's duel." William muttered.
A hero's duel is a competition between the hero's class of the church. The hero's duel was created by Archangel Michael because the heroes except me, of course, always complained that they are stronger than that hero, so how did he rank higher than me and blah blah blah.
Michael grew tired of it and created Hero's Duel, ranking the heroes by their strength.
The hero's duel has two rules: rule one, any weapons, skill, ability, spell are allowed, and rule two, they should defeat the other hero within one minute and without killing them.
"Yes, I'm glad to have this opportunity. Now that I'm not a part of the church, I'm going to take my revenge on you for all the times you blame your mistakes on me!" I shouted.
Before I could take my sword stance, Belphegor shouted at the top of his voice, "If you're going to fight, do it in the training grounds, this is a palace, not an arena!". Shit, I completely forgot I was in the palace for a while.
"Hey moron, let's not have our duel here," I uttered.
If this wasn't the place I'm living at, I would've fought him there and didn't care about what happens later on.
"Oh, look, he's taking orders from a devil! How far have you fallen, Former hero Tsukiko?" William laughed.
"I'm not going to say this again, let's not have our duel here. I don't want to destroy the place where I live."
Before he could open his stupid mouth, I used Flashstep, then grabbed him by his neck and went to Lucifer's training ground with him.
"Huh, where am I? And how did I get here?" He asked.
"How did you even become a hero of the church?" I asked. "You're so slow that you never see me or feel me carrying you by your neck to this training ground."
"You did what now?!"
I sighed, "If it were Leo in your shoes, he would realize that I grabbed him by the neck and carried him to this training ground. But I guess you're still as slow and weak as always even if with my genes in you."
William's facial expression changed from confused to a hint of rage after hearing those graceful words that came out of my mouth.
"Hey! What are you standing there doing? Why aren't you attacking me?" He asked.
Did he really think I would attack him first? Sorry, but I don't attack the weak first.
"Do you really think I would attack you? Please, I wouldn't dare to attack the weak first." I smirked. "And plus, if I attack you first, you're going to die and that wouldn't be fun because I want to savor my revenge I have for you." I laughed.
He sneered, "Bastard, you're going to pay for calling me weak! Durandal slash!"
Durandal slash is a base power of Durandal. When enough grace is accumulated in the holy sword, it can release it into a gigantic light slash.
"Oh, so this knock-off Durandal can use Durandal slash, too, huh?" I thought to myself.
While the slash was approaching me, I took a stance and parried the slash back to him. He narrowly dodged it and the slash forced a gigantic hole in the wall behind him.
"Shit, I'm lucky that I dodged that slash. If I didn't, I would've been right now." He thought to himself.
He continued to use Durandal slash over and over, and I kept parrying them back to him over and over again.
"Come on, William is that the only thing that knock off version of Durandal can do?" I asked. "If you're trying to kill me, use Durandal's strongest attack, or is the reason you're using Durandal's slash that it's the only attack it can do?"
William looked at me with the 'oh so you found out about my secret' look.
"It looks like I was right." I laughed.
"Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up! I'm going to finish this right now! Movement!" He yelled.
Movement is a sub-skill that I derived from Flashstep, because most mages, crusaders, and heroes can't use Flashstep, so I created movement.
He used movement and when he's at his striking range, he slashed at me.