"Didn't you ask me to assist from the side?" Luo Guang said with a faint smile. "This is the result. If you have any other questions, you can ask those Fallen Angels. I intentionally left them alive."
"So... it was because of your promise." Rias was very surprised and touched. When she made the offer, she had only wanted to get closer to Luo Guang. She never expected him to take it to heart. Her heart started beating faster when she looked at his face, a face she was almost used to seeing.
"I always do what I promise," Luo Guang said, his expression serious. "I'll leave the rest of the cleanup to you, okay?"
Luo Guang finished, but Rias didn't respond. Akeno discreetly nudged Rias with her elbow. The latter was startled awake from her thoughts and looked flustered. "Huh? What... what did you just say?"
"I'm leaving the aftermath here to you. I won't be involved." Luo Guang chuckled inwardly at Rias's reaction.
"Okay, of course. Since I wasn't able to help with the main event, I'll handle the cleanup. After all, I am the lord of Kuoh City." Rias quickly returned to normal and straightened her chest as she made her promise. "Also, no matter what, I really have to thank you, Luo Guang."
"No problem. I didn't come away empty-handed anyway." Luo Guang shook his head.
It was then that the girls noticed a blonde girl in a nun's habit with emerald green eyes standing behind Luo Guang. From the bits of conversation she had overheard, Asia knew that the curvaceous young women in front of her were the devils who had taken over the city. As a saintess raised in the church, devils were naturally evil in her eyes. Even though she had used her Sacred Gear to heal a devil before, her fear of them had not lessened.
"Who is she?" Rias asked curiously. It was strange to see a well-dressed and defenseless nun here.
"Asia Argento, a saintess of the church. You've probably heard of her. She was framed, trafficked here, and was about to be taken advantage of without knowing it." Luo Guang's explanation was brief. It wouldn't take much to find out this information.
Asia's eyes widened slightly when she heard the word "framed." If it weren't for that devil, she might still be with the church. But did she regret it? No. Asia firmly believed that the Sacred Gear God had given her was meant to save lives, and a life was a life regardless of its worth.
"President, there's another student here in a Kuoh Academy uniform. His aura is weak, but his life isn't in danger." Koneko said from a distance.
Rias wanted to ask more questions but was interrupted by Koneko. Upon seeing Issei Hyoudou, Rias looked surprised. "Why did the Fallen Angels bring him here?" She was clearly aware of Raynare's deception but hadn't acted because she wanted to find out the truth.
"President, it seems the Sacred Gear in him is gone," Akeno said.
"Huh?" Rias was stunned.
"It's here. The Fallen Angel used a ritual to take it out of his body." Before they could express their shock, Luo Guang raised his arm, revealing the crimson gauntlet on his wrist. It was a dragon-like gauntlet with a glowing green gem on the back of the hand and overlapping scales at the end.
"A regular gauntlet. So this was the Fallen Angels' true goal. But why would they want a Sacred Gear? It's just a common one."
"This isn't a common Sacred Gear. It's one of the Longinus, the Boosted Gear of the Red Dragon Emperor," Luo Guang said.
Everyone present was shocked by Luo Guang's words. Even Raynare, in the corner, looked up abruptly, her beautiful but bloody and dirty face filled with disbelief.
"A... a Longinus..."
"It's actually a Longinus!"
"But it looked like a normal Sacred Gear!" her two companions said in disbelief.
Raynare's real target was actually the healing Sacred Gear in Asia's possession. She had removed Issei's Sacred Gear as a way to test the ritual's success rate and to give her two companions a taste of success. But who would have thought that the gauntlet they considered a common Sacred Gear was actually the legendary and most powerful Longinus. If she could have had that power, she could have become a supreme Fallen Angel in an instant!
At this thought, Raynare's anger toward Tatara grew even more. Those flesh-eating monsters were utterly despicable!
"You're telling me all this, aren't you afraid I'll tell someone?" Rias said with a playful tone, trying to calm her nerves.
"You won't, and even if the word gets out, it doesn't matter," Luo Guang replied.
After getting the Longinus of the Red Dragon Emperor, he knew his path forward would be much smoother. He wasn't worried about other factions targeting him. If one came, he would kill one. If a group came, he would kill the whole group.