Ritsuka was worried. The person before him was human… which was a slap in the face of everything he fought for.
Still, he knew that that was the reason humanity was what it was. It didn't make it any easier to stomach when he heard the tone that had been used to address them.
The fact that the person who stepped out of the shadows looked like a priest of sorts just made his skin crawl as he remembered that horrible day.
That day when he saw a fist… drenched in blood pierce through one of his oldest friends in Chaldea.
Ritsuka decided it was best to fight fire with fire. Reluctantly, he installed a ruler class card and waited.
Using Amakusa's card was a bit dangerous since he was always so focused on a singular goal of the salvation of humanity. He didn't want to feel the effects of his soul too heavily so this needed to be dealt with quickly.
"You need to leave." Ritsuka answered. Asia seemed taken aback by how dangerous his voice seemed at this point… but it wasn't as bad as the exorcist before them.
She had heard stories about the exorcists working to deal with monsters and heretics.
He stood there where a white vestment with a blue coat over his body. In one hand he wielded a small handgun of unknown calibur and in the other was a short sword that seemed to be made of light. His face was a rictus of hatred… and joy.
"Leave? But I just got here ready to deal with those filthy beasts who taint the word of the Lord. I see one right behind you now." Freed answered with a true slasher smile branded on his face.
"I will defend and deal with you. Please leave." Ritsuka responded without answering his question.
Freed merely looked annoyed at this point. His small provocation didn't get the result he wanted. His face screamed boredom as he stared at the other heretic before him.
It almost made him laugh at how stupid he looked standing there with clenched fists while he held a gun in one hand.
"Oh that's rich! I mean look at you standing there with fist clenched. Scary! Scary! Ahahahah!" Freed laughed at the sight holding his belly even while he wielded his weapons so haphazardly.
Freed raised his gun slightly ready to aim his sights on Ritsuka who had called him out. Afterwards… well the young heretical nun was cute so he might as well have fun with her since Raynare didn't give him the fun he had asked for before she was gone.
"Ritsuka!" Asia screamed as Freed's gun raised up enough to aim at him.
At the same moment a large black sword with a cross shaped hilt flew from Ritsuka's hand piercing the small handgun's barrel and skewering it enough embedded within it. The gun exploded in Freed's hand causing him to snarl in fury.
"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!" Freed screeched in abject rage as he stared at Ritsuka who now had two blacks swords within his hand at that moment.
"Leave or I'll skewer you." Ritsuka stated in an almost patient tone. The edge was there though. A razor thin line between calm and anger which seemed to waver as Ritsuka intently glared at his opponent.
"You can fucking die!" Freed screamed back as he charged forward.
Ritsuka urged Asia off to the side as he began tossing several of those black swords which seemed to come out of nowhere with two always being in his hands at all times. Freed was no slouch though.
With practiced wild swings each blade was knocked off course and to the side flinging off into the night with every step forward.
"Set!" Ritsuka screamed as all those same keys that had been tossed immediately stopped and turned blade first towards Freed.
Magic circles had appeared and knocked the blades back towards him. Freed sensed enough danger to jump backwards as the swords easily impaled the concrete leaving them stuck within without any real effort on Ritsuka's part.
Freed took a few steps back as he realized that he was at a disadvantage in this fight.
The girl was too far to get to for a useful hostage and the guy was being a nuisance overall. If every blade he knocked away would just come back and impale him then it wasn't worth getting stabbed over.
"Leave… or else." Ritsuka issued his ultimatum in a simple commanding tone which just infuriated Freed even more than he thought it would.
Freed wasn't a fool. Far from it, he was a genius of the blade and one so that could kill any monster. Now there was a monster before him who basically made him look like a joke and he wasn't even taking him seriously… or if he was it was done with the idea of sparing him.
Pitying him, in fact. It was more than he could stomach at the moment. It didn't help that he could hear the flapping of wings in the background coming from behind him. He could hear the devil wings a mile away.
"Fine fine… I'll let you live with a warning that I will kill you, whoever you are!" Freed cried out as he jumped onto a long stone wall and rushed off into the distance before the ones he felt could fully see him.
"Damn… forgot to get his name before he ran." Ritsuka growled as he began the arduous task of picking up the black keys since they all came from his inventory.
He was glad that the moment Amakusa's card was in play that they had a spell almost immediately grafted into their hilts the moment he touched them.
As he picked the last of his keys out of the ground he uninstalled the card before anymore time could pass. It was lucky that the encounter barely lasted more than three minutes or so.
While he was stronger than the rogue exorcist using the class cards, he didn't want to kill him. Ritsuka knew he could do so if he needed to… but he really didn't want to.
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