"Damn this wizard!" Raynare yelled as she turned to once again, but before I could make a move, she paused for a mont before her scowl deepened and her energy dissipated. I also noted that whatever caught her attention, it was behind . "Damn, they are here!"
...
… Okay granted, I was a little rusty in the detection departnt, but I don't think I would have missed out anyone behind . I focused my senses to the surrounding area, and only after taking a quick whiff did I understand Raynare's agitation, because a few tres behind , I caught the scent of overwhelming sweetness.
The sa scent as the crimson-haired girl.
"Hmph!" Raynare stood a little taller and glared at . "Count yourself lucky that so interference has arrived. Next ti you will be dead." Raynare opened her wings and took off in the air, pausing to look at Dohnaseek. "Get up you oaf! We are leaving!"
The man did not reply and instead looked at with his good eye. He was certainly not smiling anymore given the damage I gave him. "We will have our rematch boy, mark my words!" With that, he opened his wings and followed Raynare who vanished in a flash of light and feathers.
Oh, like hell I am going to let them go for what they did to Issei!
"Oh no you don't!" I threw both of my blades right at him, cutting off both of his wings and sending him crashing to the ground. "GAGH!" Dohnaseek glared at as he stabbed the spear into the ground to lift himself up. "Damn you boy! That's it, I don't care about anything else! You will suffer for this!"
Yeah, like I haven't heard that before. Now then, ti for so much needed practice.
"Spirit and technique, flawless and firm"
I traced a fresh set of Kanshou and Bakuya and launched them from my arms, the blades flying about sideways. Dohnaseek quickly used his spear to deflect Kanshou while stumbling to avoid Bakuya from stabbing his neck.
"Our strength rips the mountains"
"Our swords split the water"
I traced a second set of blades and charged forward, slashing at him just as the other two blades ca back from behind him. With the previous set attacking his back, Dohnaseek panicked and attempted to parry off both attacks. He managed to block the Kanshou in my hand but failed to stop the first Bakuya from slashing his shoulder. He stumbled to block the first Kanshou, thus giving the opportunity to cut his back with the other Bakuya.
"DAMN YOU BOY!" He scread as he swung wildly at . I simply jumped back and threw my blades to the sides to add to the pair flying in the air, while tracing the final set in my hands.
"Our nas reach the imperial villa"
"Trace Overedge."
I flooded the blades with my Prana, feeling the blades get heavier as they lengthened and expanded beyond their original size. It was not an even expansion; as they grew, the blades started to crack and splinter from the hilt, until they resembled nothing more than a pair of black and white wings with feathers of broken steel adorning the back.
Dohnaseek, who was busy alternating his attention between the flying blades and myself, turned pale at the sight of my elongated blades as I rushed forward at him. He brought up his spear to try and block the blades.
Too bad he was a second too late.
"The two of us cannot hold the heavens together."
"Crane Wing Three Realms!" I shouted as I slamd the blades into him just as the other two pairs ca from behind and made contact with him. With a loud explosion, the blades completely shattered, sending the broken shards of steel straight at him, completely shredding his body and clothes, tearing into his flesh and sending him flying a few feet into the trees and bushes. The attack continued on, sending his already battered corpse crashing into the trees and causing them to topple over him, completely covering his body and leaving behind a smoking wreck.
For a while, I held my stance, waiting to see if he managed to survive the attack. Only when the final tree dropped, I stood up slowly to check the area. When no one else ca to avenge him, I quickly turned around and made my way to Issei. It did not take too long to get back to find him still on the ground with the staff disappearing into the wind.
"Oui, Issei! Wake up!" I rushed to him and checked his pulse. I was relieved to see him breathing a little heavily; at least that ant he was alive. But when I checked the wound, relief turned to surprise. I rembered the size of the wound was a lot bigger than it should, yet the wound was a lot smaller now. Even the [Staff of Asclepius] would have trouble closing a large wound like his since I was not its real owner and it was rely a fake that I projected.
But as I checked it again, a scent ca from the wound that made pause in fear.
"Oh no…" I closed my eyes to concentrate on the scent, praying I was wrong. When I talked to him earlier, he was most certainly human. But now as I was tending to him, I could catch a faint scent from him. The sa scent that appeared at the Academy.
The sa scent that was evident in the Student Council.
The sa scent as that crimson-haired girl.
The sa scent as the ones behind !
I traced a few daggers and quickly threw them behind , sensing the group scattering to avoid them. I bought a new Bakuya in my hand and stood up while talking in a very angry but restrained tone. "I am in a very bad mood right now, so you have 10 seconds to announce and explain yourselves before I give you the sa treatnt as that guy over there."
A mont of silence, then four figures appeared at both sides of from the shadows. I already got an idea of who was watching based on their scents, and seeing them in person only confird my suspicions and deepened my frown. "Good evening, ladies. I would suspect that this is not a regular walk for you."
"No, it isn't." Rias Gremory flicked her crimson hair lightly as she smiled at . The most popular girl of the Academy was standing with her hand on her hip, and I must admit, even in the night she was an extrely eye-catching beauty whom one cannot drag their eyes away willingly. She seed to encompass the western standard of female beauty: long red hair that reached her legs, great facial features and an extrely voluptuous figure that would put models older than her to sha. If anything, she might give Rider a run for her money when she gets older.
"Ufufu, it certainly isn't a regular walk for us." Her black pony-tailed companion remarked as she stood a little away from her. The second most popular girl was also eye-catching based on the eastern standpoint, with her black hair tied in a ponytail and demure manner coupled with another eye-catching figure, she represented the ideal Yamato Nadeshiko that all Japanese girls desire to grow up to.
On my left, Sona and Tsubaki were looking at and the battle scene with a discerning eye, for a while looking at the blades that were scattered around the battlefield. Wordlessly, I dismissed the tracing, making them disappear back into Prana. I figured they were more or less in the sa group, the question that need answering was 'Are they allies?'
"So Shirou Emiya." I turned my head towards Rias who was looking at with a smile and a look that made a little uncomfortable. "The Fake Janitor, the Kendo Expert, the Ace Archer, the genius student who got the sixth place in the school exam on his first transfer and skipped a whole year. And now a wizard in hiding, huh?"
"Magus." I automatically corrected her without aning to. "And I honestly don't think I'm that much of a genius. News of my achievents have been… greatly exaggerated."
Rias let out a light laugh at my dry humour. "You are too modest, Shirou. I know about your work around the school, but still, you have a lot of hidden talents. You have good tactics and no stranger to combat, not to ntion your swords…"
Yup, I really do not like the look in her eyes when she was comnting about . Ti to end the conversation.
"Can I confirm sothing with you all?" I asked everyone in general. "Why did you not step in to save Issei earlier or help when those creatures attacked us?"
"Ara, but it looked like you got it under control, so we just went to heal the boy while you took on the role of the knight in shining armour." Akeno replied as she loosely took a stance that I recognized as one preparing for sudden confrontations. At the corner of the eye, I could see Tsubaki doing the sa thing while standing slightly in front of Sona.
"You did more than that." I raised the blade and pointed at Rias. "You did sothing else, didn't you? Because whatever you did, I can detect faint traces of the sa scent on him as you."
"It's rude to say that a woman slls, Emiya-kun." Rias pouted while as though offended by my words. "I simply defended my newest addition to my Peerage, that's all."
'Peerage?' I frowned as I thought inwardly. I decided to go for broke and just ask straight out. "What are you girls?"
"Oh, you don't know who we are?" Rias tilted her head curiously as she watched closely. "It seems you really do not know who or what we are, that is rather surprising. It has been quite a while since anyone from the supernatural side knows little of us. Very well then, I shall tell you."
"Rias." Sona spoke with a notable tone of hesitation in her voice.
"I think our secrecy has been blown for quite a while, considering our interactions." Rias replied before turning to . Then to my unpleasant surprise, two wings resembling that of bats erged from her back and opened wide while she took a bow. "My na is Rias Gremory, a devil. Pleasure to et you properly, Shirou Emiya."
Devils?! Wait, as in the actual devils, ones with wings, pitchforks and going around tempting people into giving up their souls and damning them to the seven levels of hell, those devils?! But they were supposed to be fictional characters, and even if they were real, they should not be looking like girls who walked straight out of a modelling magazine?!
Then again it could explain the bit on temptation if they did look that way.
But if what she said was true, and there were devils out and about in the human world, that would an that all the scents at the school belonged to devils, and that would an…
"… I see. So you two as well?" I turned slowly to face Sona and Tsubaki, to see them flinch slightly at the possible expression that was on my face. Hardly a surprise, when one finds out that so of their closest relations were devils who preyed on human souls. "Kusaka-san and Tomoe-san?" Sona closed her eyes as she nodded slowly, clearly pained at giving an answer.
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