DXD : Draconic Rebellion Chapter 108 108

"Ah!" Ise let out a sound of understanding before adopting a sheepish expression. "I'm afraid that got destroyed by those knights there." He pointed while looking away from . I could only let out a frustrated sigh while massaging my eyes. Great, now I needed to make another dagger.

Typical.

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"Well boy, you definitely made this day very interesting." I turned to face an old man dressed in priest clothing and having an expression that clashed with his cold eyes. "You are an unusual entity that has been in the way of our plans for quite a while. I dare say that you are the first one in a long ti that I actually had to bring out so of the contingencies to deal with you."

"I guess I should be honored, Galilei Valper." I eyed him while alternating my sights on him and Kiba. "Though considering what I have heard about you, I will rather not."

"Ouch, you hurt my feelings boy." Galilei remarked without much truth in them. Yeah, sothing told that he and Kirei might get along in so way. Maybe it was because they were both 'fake priests' as Rin would put it.

"Everyone, are you okay?!" My attention was briefly directed at the Student Council coming the distance, but my body was automatically moving forward to intercept the mind-controlled knight who was rushing forward with the automated armors to blindside them. With a quick projection I managed to block his initial strike while demonic spears impeded the assault by the armors.

"Whoa, the heck is going on?!" Tsubasa yelled before looking at with wide eyes. "And what the heck happened to you?!" I rolled my eyes at the similar expressions by the others, no doubt wondering the sa thing.

"Long story short, I ended up facing Kokabiel earlier than expected, we fought each other, I used so spells and [Hell's Trident] to hurt him, Kokabiel started getting high, I am now here with an unconscious blonde fallen angel and half-battered devils." I gave my answer in the flattest tone possible as I pushed back Kiba a fair distance away from us.

"Wait what?! You fought against Kokabiel alone!" I had to admit, despite being taller and covered in blade-mail, the glare coming from Sona Sitri looked ready to lt the steel off my body. "Are you insane?!"

"I have been asking that since day one." Rias comnted as her group drew near. "Clearly there are a few screws loose sowhere. Asia would need to look into that."

"Don't worry, Emiya-san. I will do my best to heal your head injury!" Asia made that promise with such a cute yet determined face that I could not bring myself to tell her that this was sothing she could not fix. Believe , I should know, after all Rin and Luvia tried to fix this issue to no avail.

Joy.

"Well, looks like the whole gang is here." Everyone looked up to find Kokabiel coming down slowly, looking a little calr now that we had stopped fighting for a mont. "Aside from your two exorcist experints that is." Kokabiel continued while looking at Galilei with a hint of a stink eye.

"That part is likely because of Lyle fighting with Creed as we speak." I said drawing his attention, noting the looks of surprise from the Gremoy Group while the Student Council seed to have gotten the confirmation that I sent him to head Creed off.

"Well then, from the looks of it, I am guessing Lyle has gotten his answer then." Galilei said as he looked at with a keen eye. "Well that is a bumr."

"Hmph~ I could care less about those two." Kokabiel let his eyes wander at the others. "The devils and the exorcists were surprisingly resilient, but still not good enough if they have so much trouble with two underlings and a puppet of a devil." His eyes then went to , and his frown got replaced by a sinister smile. "You on the other hand, are soone who has peaked my interests quite a fair bit. I haven't t such an interesting human in such a long ti, boy~"

"Erm, Shirou, don't take this the wrong way." Ise stamred as he looked at the both of us. "I am so glad that you are the one handling him, I do not need that type of attention from a guy." I could only put the palm to my face again at the sheer crap I was in.

Honestly, if I could get a dollar for every villain who had an interest in , I would have been able to retire in the Bahamas by now. Then again, that amount would probably be taken away by Rin for her jewel-craft in an instant.

"For you, I am willing to do sothing I haven't done for a long ti." With his remaining arm, Kokabiel reached into his coat and pulled out an object that was wrapped in charms written in so forgotten language. "For you, I am willing to go this far to fight you." He bit hard on the charms and tore them off, revealing an apple that seed to glow lightly in the dark. There was an odd feeling from it that prompted to gaze at it with my projection, and the results I got made my heart stopped for a mont.

You have got to be kidding ! That was!

"A Fruit from the Garden of Eden!" Galilei's voice resounded in the silence as he watched with sowhat reverent eyes. "This is not from the tree from which Adam and Eve ate the Fruit of Knowledge. That is a different fruit altogether."

"Indeed, that is so." Kokabiel agreed as he looked at the fruit for a mont. "I got this from one of the many trees in the garden before I fell. Normally this would not be able to last long outside the garden, let alone of Heaven after so many years. But there have been attempts by the humans to grow the seeds outside of Heaven and though they were not entirely successful, they were able to bear enough results for to attempt my own. I have managed to grow one of them with my own set of spells, and I am finally able to make it bear fruit. Of course, it would not be as potent as back in the garden. But by human standards, this would do nicely."

"Yes…" Kokabiel turned his eyes back at with the eyes of a hunter who has found a worthy prey to have its head be placed on his mantelpiece. "For you, I am willing to do whatever it takes to win this fight, and in this case, I will do so by fighting you with my full strength!" With that, he took a huge bite of the fruit, the juice oozing out of it seemingly turning red upon contact with the air, giving him a sowhat animalistic look that feasted on flesh and blood. But the effects were obvious the mont he swallowed the fruit; the injuries on his leg and other parts started to steam and before long the skin lost any trace of his injuries. The amount of Prana that burst forth from him was enough to send so of the less prepared individuals to their knees and sweating while I managed to withstand the brunt of it and rely grimaced at the feel of it.

But the biggest change ca from the stump which started to glow brightly. Then with a splitting sound and a few rays of light, an ethereal blob of light ca out of it and took form into the shape of an arm, and after a while, the glow diminished to reveal a brand new arm.

Great. Just bloody great.

"Ah co on, that is SO UNFAIR!" Ise threw his arms up in exasperation as he looked at the situation and voiced out our possible thoughts. "Why can't you just have one missing arm? At least make it easy on us by having a handicap damn it!"

"Too bad little devil, that won't do at all." Kokabiel flexed the fingers of his newly acquired arm before looking at . "So then, how do you want to fight now? Do you wish to continue our little bout, or perhaps you wish to work together with your buddies over there?" Before I could reply soone else decided to butt in.

"We will be helping you Emiya. Not a word otherwise." Sona stepped forward to speak while throwing a glare that dared to say otherwise.

"Indeed." Rias stepped forward while looking at Kokabiel. "I want to make sure that you will at least feel so pain from ."

"Oh, so the princesses want to join in. fine, you may do so." Kokabiel shrugged as he folded his arms and looked at us. "Tell you what, I would be generous and even give you 10 minutes to discuss whatever plans you need to fight . It is the least I can do since the magician was able to entertain so far. Though I highly doubt you can do anything of the sort to match him."

'Gee~ thanks for the big vote of confidence and appreciation.' I grimaced for a brief mont before turning to the others while keeping a subtle eye on the mind-controlled knight. For the mont, it seed that Galilei was content enough to hold him back, wanting to see what would be our attacking strategy.

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