Capítulo 8: Hero?
Akeno was watching her King, who was sitting in her office, with a calm look on her face. She was staring at the chessboard in front of her while playing with the pieces on it, but instead of black or white, the pieces were crimson red.
It had been almost full fifteen minutes since her King had started to play with those pieces and done nothing else. The way she stared at the pieces was also strange Deciding to express her concern that was gnawing at her, she addressed her King.
"Buchou? You look troubled..." She said.
Rias, who was still staring at her pieces, turned to Akeno with half-opened eyes, her expression still stoic. "I'm okay Akeno... It's just... Kiba and Koneko have not contacted me yet..."
When she heard this, Akeno blinked a few times before a look of understanding appeared on her face. "They haven't?" Akeno asked with a slight surprise.
It had been a few hours since Issei had gone home and taken the leaflet that her familiar had given to him. They were very sure that Fallen Angels would make another move on him since he had just rejected one of them to go on a date, which had amused Rias. She was sure that the Fallen Angels would not be happy and would try to kill him today.
However, Rias knew that something could still go wrong, so she had sent Koneko and Kiba to monitor Issei. They did find him and saw a Fallen Angel created a barrier to isolate Ise with her.
That was 30 minutes ago, and until now there was still no report from Kiba and Koneko. That clearly worried Rias. Did something happen to them? Was the Fallen Angel not a normal one? What was going on?
As if to answer Rias questions, a small magic circle with Gremory symbol suddenly appeared in front of her much to her relief.. From it, a small hologram of the Prince of Kuoh appeared
"Yuuto. What's the situation?" She asked. "Why didn't I receive any response from Hyoudou-san's flyer?"
Kiba had a troubled face at the question, as if he was having a hard time to speak. "Buchou... We've lost Hyoudou-san..." Kiba said and Rias seemed to freeze for a moment "I don't mean lost him like he died and can't be reincarnated, but just lost."
"You've lost him?" Rias repeated what he had said almost like a child who was being told that their favorite movie was canceled. "Explain!"
"Well... It's like you said. We were waiting outside the barrier that Fallen Angel created. However, the barrier was a strange one, for some reason it even hindered Koneko's sensory ability. We tried our best to find a way to detect the inside of the barrier, but nothing worked and we couldn't just move in without a plan. So we were forced to wait and when the barrier was down, we immediately searched for Hyoudou-san, but we have found nothing." Kiba reported with a solemn tone "And I mean it Buchou, there's nothing there. There's no sign of any fight or even magical energy, it's as if the barrier was just caging an empty place."
The King and Queen noted that it was clearly troubling and confusing Kiba at same time. "Perhaps it was decoy? Maybe Hyoudou-san wasn't there in first place?" Rias suggested and Kiba shook his head.
"We followed Hyoudou-san until he entered the barrier that the Fallen Angel created, there's no way we were mistaken. Koneko here even sensed that it was indeed Hyoudou-san..." Kiba said before he held out the leaflet with the Gremory symbol on it, indicating it was one that belonged to them. "This is the leaflet we gave to Hyoudou-san too. This is the only thing we found there and other than that, nothing. Not even a trace of magical power."
Rian scrunched her lips into a thin line after hearing that. What did this mean? What did actually happen? Did the Fallen Angel ambush Issei, capture him, and then threw away the leaflet? But Yuuto said there was no sign of any presence, it was as if nothing had been there in the first place. And it was Koneko who had checked it. Koneko, even if she was not using Senjutsu, was still a Nekoshou. That was a trait of her and even if she didn't wish to use it, her sensory detection was always sharp, it was like a bloodline ability that couldn't be deactivated.
"Buchou, what should we do now?" Kiba asked.
"For now?" Rias took a breath and stared at her Knight with steel-like eyes "Come back here, we will investigate this matter tomorrow. If Hyoudou-san has not come to school tomorrow we will visit the Church." She ordered and Kiba nodded.
"Hai."
Rias let out a breath that she was holding when Kiba disappeared, her shoulders slumped and she leaned back into the sofa.
"Rias? Are you okay?" Akeno asked, a worried expression on her face when she noticed her friend's own troubled one.
"No, Akeno... I'm not..." Rias answered with her closed eyes "There's something I don't like about this. I don't know what, but somehow I have a bad feeling..." She said quietly.
"Rias..." Akeno didn't know what to say actually. She herself was also quite confused at what was happening.
"After they come back, we will be done for today. I have so much to think about and I'm tired..." Rias said with a heavy tone and Akeno nodded.
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EARLIER
"Hyoudou Issei..." I grunted with a smile. "So what do you need?"
"Oh right! I almost forgot!" She let out her tongue cutely. Then she opened her eyes and grinned at me. "Onii-chan, I need you to die for me!"
Eh?
SQUEEELCH
A crimson pool of blood immediately splattered onto the ground.
The night was quiet... very quiet... It was normal for a night to be quiet in Kuoh City, because it was this city actually was not very large and only had few places that stayed open for 24 hours straight.
The wind was cold like any wind at night, and it flew strong, weak and normal sometimes. Tonight, the wind's touch was normal, gentle and yet so cold as well.
And there was something special for me, too.
Tonight, the wind was sharp and hurt, damnit!
"You dodged it..." Mittelt stated with wide eyes and surprise but the smile was still adorning her face. "You dodged it..." She repeated and the smile turned into a grin.
It had been close... Very close...
I almost got my kidneys and liver skewered out of my body and I wasn't kidding when I said that, I really meant it .
The last few seconds had been very close to a blur for me. It had been when she had asked that last question. After those words left her mouth, either it was my instinct or sixth sense, my body immediately twisted into right direction and avoided a burst of... of... of light that appeared from her hands.
That light should have pierced through both of my kidneys and liver, destroying them instantly, but due to me being able to twist my body, it slashed part of my stomach and back instead of skewering out my internal organs, destroying a large part of my clothes in the process.
After that, I immediately leaped back while taking the sword on the ground to guard myself and God! It hurt! When the cold wind breezes through your bleeding stomach and exposed back it hurt very damn much!
What was happening to me and what I was currently seeing was utterly unbelievable.
One second I just saved this girl from bad guys and the next one, she tried to skewer my organs by summoning a burst of light from both of her palms! A LIGHT! PINK EVEN! Like the beam in the Ironman movie where Tony Stark shot lasers from his palms or something like that!
And not just that, the sweet blonde girl who was smiling at me now had grown two black wings like those of a crow from her back! I repeat! WINGS! As in the WINGS that birds used to fly!
In the name of the God from the Bible or whatever Shinto Deity was listening, just what the hell was happening?!
"That was very magnificent for a human! I never thought that you'd be able to move that fast! Even a high-class devil would have gotten hit if they were close enough like our position before, especially if unprepared!" Mittelt praised me with an awed expression and a big grin "Wait! Wait! You're a human, aren't you?"
"Of course I am!" I snapped at her, no seriously, this girl's behavior was not funny. She just almost killed me and now she was laughing! Not just that, but she was asking such a strange question! "And what about you? An angel that fell from the Heaven?" I asked with sarcasm.
"Wow! You're also quite smart!" Mittelt praised me again with an impressed expression, and the tone she used was sincere, making me blink.
"You mean, you really are a fallen angel?!" I asked with disbelief and wide eyes.
"Yep! I'm a fallen angel, Mittelt! Nice to meet you, Hyoudou Issei!" She said with a sing-song tone of voice.
"Fallen angel, as in the ones from the Bible? Angels who fell because of sin?"
"Yep! The same one!"
This time I couldn't hide my shock any further. Fallen angels... A real fallen angel, not like the ones from movies or anime! A REAL ONE! Holy Fuck! What the hell did I get myself into?!
"That thing... It contains a devil symbol!"
Mittelt said that while her eyes fell on one certain thing and I couldn't help but follow her gaze. As I saw what the thing was, I immediately recognized it as the leaflet that had been given to me today when I was buying food for Shizune.
"I see... So the devils in this city want to play like that huh? They wish to resurrect you as their slave when we killed you..." Mittelt murmured with a frown, gone her jovial face from before.
"Slave?!"
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