"Yeah, yeah! I'm vulgar! Sorry about that! That's because I stray away! I was kicked out! That's why, screw the Vatican! I'm all right as long as I get to cut Devils whenever I feel like it!" The white haired priest yelled while waving his sword and gun with a huge maniacal grin on his face.
Okay ~ another psycho in town. Oh Joy.
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No matter, from the looks of the situation, this dude was the enemy who attacked Ise, killed the owner of the house, and hit the blonde girl to the ground. In short…
Time for me to go hunting. First, I need to separate that priest from the girl and Ise.
A quick projection saw him getting him hurled out of the house by a short blade dragging him out by the collar. Before he could recover, I rushed forward to try and cut him down, just to be stopped short of cutting his arm by his sword.
"Oh~ who are you? You are not a devil, yet you dare to attack me? You must be one of their pets that go scurrying around in the shithole they belong in! Allow me to end your pathetic existence by cutting off your head!" He gleefully screamed as he swung wildly to cut my limbs. I backtracked a little and readied my stance as he took his. This guy was definitely off his medication if he looked so happy in killing.
"Shirou!" I spared a quick glance at Ise who limped his way out of the house with the others following suit. He looked to be in bad shape with that wound on his leg; his face was sweating and paling from the loss of blood, and he was clearly panting hard from the exertion.
"Mind if I cut in?" I quipped as I stopped a strike from the priest and pushed back.
"By all means." Rias replied. "But I would appreciate if you could at least queue for your turn. I have a few words I like to say to that boy who was apparently handling my servant in such a rude manner." I got a chill down my spine when I heard the sharpness and coldness in her speech. She was pissed all right, with a capital 'P'. Guess she really did not like this guy who attacked Ise.
"Rias, I am sensing some Fallen Angels coming our way." Akeno alerted her with a big frown on her face. Rias paused as she took stock of Ise's injury, then with a grim look she turned towards me. "I understand that we have some bad blood between us, but in the current situation, we need to get Ise to safety and…"
"Go." I focused my attention on the guy as I answered. "Keep him safe then."
"Wait a minute! We can't leave Asia behind! We need to save her!" Ise argued as he attempted to move only to be held back by Kiba and Koneko while Akeno started to draw a magical circle in the air. Struggling futilely, he tried to reach out to the blonde girl who had a sad smile on her face. "ASIA!"
And with that, they disappeared in a bright flash of light, leaving me to deal with the priest and the blonde girl who started crying when Ise disappeared. "Ah damn it, they got away!" The boy cursed as he stared at the spot where they disappeared, before glaring at the girl. "And would you just shut up, you stupid girl?! Or would you rather I tear your clothes off and just screw you right here and now to shut you up!"
'Ching!' The blades shook slightly as my grip got tighter and I glared at the boy. Truthfully, I was a little put off by Rias who basically dropped her problems on me, but given what I have seen and heard, I was now feeling really happy that she left him all to me.
I was going to make him scream.
A quick step forward brought me right into his face and his brief moment of surprise was enough for me to cut off his left arm cleanly. "GAGH!" Freed clutched his stump in pain before looking at me with a distorted expression of pain and rage. "Oh, so the pet has some bite in him huh? Allow me to defang you, by pulling out all your teeth!"
I parried off his thrusts and slashes with some minor difficulty on my part; evidently he was a lot better at swordsmanship than I thought, and his loss of an arm was doing little to hinder his attempts at cutting off my head. Then without warning, a blur of blonde and green came between us.
"Mr Freed, please stop!" The girl named Asia spread her arms out with her back to me as she tried to dissuade the priest in English. "Please no more, I am begging you!"
"Get out of my way!" Freed snarled before raising his arm and knocking her to the floor, drawing a little blood from her blood as the result of using a lot of force. Okay, now he was really asking for it.
I pushed forward with my attack to get him further away from the girl, eventually finding an opportunity to kick him hard through a tree and into the fence. Now I could finish the job and…
The scent of blood and feathers was the only indication I needed to use Bakuya to shield myself before a light spear hit the ground and exploded right in my face, sending me crashing through the walls of the recently deceased owner. Pushing the debris off me, I briefly shook my head to rid myself of the dizziness before setting my sights on the new arrivals.
Great, that was so typical of my line of work. Oh Joy.
"Well, isn't this a pleasant surprise?" Raynare cooed as she dropped down on the ground and placed her hands on her hips, while her other companion landed next to her. Her companion was a woman arguably a little older than her, with long hair and a coat that left an opening at the top for her very abundant assets to be shown. Seriously, was every single female from the supernatural side born a supermodel or something? That had to be a limit to such a thing in this world?!
"I must be really lucky, I was thinking of finding you and failing your skin once I was done crushing every bone in your body." Raynare took steady steps while lightly swaying her hips. "But you save me the trouble of having to find you."
"Likewise." I replaced Bakuya before readying my stance. "I have yet to settle the score with you."
Rayanre chuckled as she gave an expression that was a mixture of sadistic pleasure and somewhat excited loathing. "In a way it is a shame that we are fighting each other, you are kind of my type, but I would find solace in reaping your soul."
"HEY, GET IN LINE LADY!" Freed butted into the conversation looking extremely ticked off. "I'm the one who is fighting him, so wait your turn!"
"Hmm... Is that so?" Raynare gave a mocking smirk as she looked at the state of his body, lingering on the stump where his left arm used to be. "Well I guess you would not need a 'hand' then?" She then turned to look at Asia who came into view, her expression of mocking amusement replaced with a frown of annoyance. "What happened to her?"
"TCH! The girl kept getting in my way when I tried to cut down the devils and this guy, so I knocked her around a few times." Freed replied lazily as he used his remaining hand to clean his ear with his pinky finger. "She just won't shut…"
"CRASH!"
Whatever thing he wanted to say got cut off as Raynare raised her arm and with a quick swing, slammed him with enough force to get thrown into the wall this time, causing the already unstable house to crumble and fall around us. "You damn fool! I have been tolerant with your attitude for a while now, but I will not do the same when it comes to your treatment to some of the females in this group!" Raynare hissed at him, before turning to a frightened Asia, her expression quickly replaced with that of almost humanly concern "He did not hurt you too much, did he?"
"Erm, no Miss Raynare." Asia bowed her head while trying to cover her bruises. Raynare just stepped forward and placed her hands lightly on her cheeks, cradling her face to look straight into her eyes. "Okay then, why don't we get you home and get those wounds tended to? You should not have any injuries on you. After all." She paused before continuing in a rather creepy undertone. "We can't have you injured before the ritual."
Crap, I do not like the sound of that.
"It is a shame, but I guess we would need to take a rain check, Shirou Emiya." Raynare wrapped her arms around Asia while her companion went to drag Freed by the collar and dragged him out of the rubble. "But rest assured we would meet again very soon."
Damn it! I jumped forward to reach out for the girl, but with a great flash of light, the group disappeared without a trace, leaving me grasping at air and in the middle of a wrecked battlefield.
I really hated this world big time.
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