Instead of waiting aimlessly, everyone from the Gremory team, except for Asia who was still healing everyone from the Sitri team, went to assist the evacuation effort. Vali, on the other hand, stayed as he wanted to watch the fight, and maybe learn more about Kisuke.
The three from the Hero Faction didn't say anything else and simultaneously sent out attacks towards Kisuke. Jeanne commanded her Dragon to use its breath attack, Georg used magic bombardment, and Cao Cao used his Chatsuka Ratana in an attempt to destroy his weapon.
However, all of these were for naught, as Kisuke responded to them. Timing it to the moment when it had gathered all of the energy it would need, Kisuke used a throwing knife to hit a weak spot on Jeanne's Dragon's throat, which resulted in the gathered energy going wild, destroying the Dragon itself.
In Georg's case, Kisuke just sent bullets of Mana to certain parts of the magic circles, aborting their effects. This was possible because Georg kept using different systems of magic. It's true that he was a genius and could learn almost all forms of magic with just a single glance. However, his finesse in each magic system was unsatisfactory, making the weak points of the magic circles obvious to Kisuke.
In Kisuke's opinion, he was just flaunting the fact that he was a genius at magic by using so many different things at once, 'He should just learn how to improve his magic instead and take more time in studying them. If he were to focus on one system, it'd be a lot less predictable, but if the way he uses it was right, it'd have more utility. Now I'm very sure that he's the desk type of person and not a fighter.'
Cao Cao's Chatsuka Ratana, on the other hand, just shook Kisuke's sword and didn't do anything else.
"What a monster...", muttered Cao Cao after witnessing all of this.
"What should we do?", asked Georg.
"Let's stop holding back."
Georg and Jeanne nodded at Cao Cao.
Jeanne then suddenly pulled out a pistol-type syringe and pointed it to her neck, injecting its contents into herself.
Kisuke became curious to what it was and waited for any changes on Jeanne. And a few seconds later, her Dragon was summoned again, but this time, it was bigger and much stronger. However, Jeanne didn't stop there and took out another pistol-type syringe and injected it again.
Kisuke didn't say anything as Jeanne's Balance Breaker, Stake Victim Dragon, improved with the doping and fused with her. After the fusion, Jeanne's lower body became that of a giant snake body made out of Holy Swords.
While watching this transformation, a purple mist started covering Kisuke and Ophis, locking them spatially. Kisuke observed it and figured that even though they could get out of it, it'd take a few seconds to break out of it, and in a fast-paced battle, many things could happen within those few seconds.
Jeanne, at the same time, surrounded Kisuke and Ophis with her massive snake body and deployed a sea of Holy Swords towards them. Kisuke swung his sword around to destroy those Holy Swords, which were threatening to impale them, but they just kept growing endlessly.
However, Cao Cao thought that it still wasn't enough to keep him in place and used one of his abilities, Kahabatei Ratana, to summon soldiers similar to Yuuto's ability, Glory Drag Trooper.
He summoned around a hundred of what he called Blade Knight Mass, and had them charge at Kisuke. Cao Cao already figured out that, if he didn't want to let Kisuke do his strange illusion technique of getting hit, he had to keep him in place.
In addition to that, Cao Cao used Medusa's eye to turn his legs to stone, slowing him down.
After being covered and trapped in all directions, Cao Cao activated his strongest and most simple ability, Balinayaka Ratana. With a blinding light, Cao Cao's ability orb pierced through everything and reached Kisuke and Ophis, before exploding into a white sphere.
Unlike its usual ability to use the Light element in dealing damage, the spot Kisuke and Ophis were engulfed by a white sphere, 10 meters in diameter. It aimed to obliterate everything inside it, reducing its target into ashes.
However, before they could even see a result, the white sphere suddenly started to pulsate, which wasn't supposed to happen. A few seconds later, the white sphere shrunk, before it burst outward, destroying Jeanne's snake body and reducing the surroundings into a wasteland.
Jeanne was already unconscious, so only Cao Cao and Georg could see the crater that the white sphere had created. In the middle of it were Kisuke and Ophis, with green pulsating hexagonal shields around them.
Cao Cao gritted his teeth and cursed, "He's virtually unscathed... What the hell is he?"
"What should we do?", asked Georg. After Kisuke disabled his magic, he'd been feeling very nervous and became scared of him. After all, he was the first one to have done something like that to him, and the only other person he thought could do the same was Ajuka Beelzebub.
Cao Cao didn't hesitate and commanded, "Let's retreat. Retrieve those two."
Georg then started working with his Dimension Lost to transport all of them away. Slowly, a purple mist surrounded each member of the Hero Faction. Seemingly ignoring this, Kisuke asked Cao Cao, "Hey~. Tell me about that eye."
Since the Dimension Lost was already set, nothing else would be able to stop their escape, so Cao Cao answered truthfully, "I got this as a replacement for the eye that the Sekiryuutei destroyed. It's Medusa's eye, and I got it for a hefty price. Though it was thanks to my connection that I was able to get it in the first place."
"I see," Kisuke muttered and a wide magic circle originating from him suddenly appeared at everyone's feet.
"...What's this?", murmured Cao Cao in confusion.
But straight away, Georg suddenly shouted, "Cao Cao! This is bad! The space around us was locked and I won't be able to transport us right away!"
"Wha...!? When did he...? !!?" But before they could figure out when Kisuke had set up such a large magic circle, Kisuke suddenly pointed towards Georg and muttered, "Bakudo no 63: Sajou Sabaku (Winding Binding Chains)."
A golden chain then emerged from Kisuke fingertips and shot towards Georg. Georg attempted to dodge it but it was too fast for him. Cao Cao also intercepted it with his spear and cut it. However, from the cut, the chains branched out to many more chain links and continued to chase after Georg.
Despite their best efforts, one of the chain links caught up to Georg and wrapped around him. Kisuke then pulled him back, giving an upward momentum to the chain, which dragged Georg upwards, before slamming him back on the ground.
Georg was able to put up some defensive magic, but Kisuke just repeatedly slammed him on the ground, creating multiple craters of various sizes all-around.
Soon after, Georg's magic failed and a few of his bones were broken, rendering him unable to move.
Cao Cao tried to free Georg through all of that, but through Kisuke's clever manipulation of the chains, he wasn't able to do anything aside from chasing after him.
Releasing the chains, Kisuke then used Flash Step to instantly appear in front of Cao Cao, "Did you really think that I would let you get away that easily?"
Cao Cao immediately thrust his spear towards Kisuke and was able to successfully impale him. However, the next instant, Kisuke and Ophis suddenly popped like a balloon, 'What!? Again!?"
"You've been observing me too much, just showing you a lot of things at once confused you." Cao Cao heard Kisuke's whisper from behind him just before he felt a heavy foot smashing him from behind, launching him towards the ground.
Even so, Cao Cao thought that this was good, as he'd be able to get away for a moment, which would give him more time to think and plan. But all of his next plans were broken when he suddenly felt a hand grabbing his neck. The next thing he knew, Kisuke and Ophis were already in front of him, catching him in midair.
"By the way, I need this eye so I'll be taking it." After saying so, Kisuke mercilessly dug out Medusa's eye from his eye socket, which caused Cao Cao to scream from the immense pain, "AHHH!!!"
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Editors:
28th00: Yep, they dared to desecrate Medusa's body? You really think Kisuke would ever let you escape? It was personal before, but now it just got serious. That eye belongs to his maid. Ophis totally helped gank him, providing emotional support to Mr. Hat. This whole fight is the equivalent to a level 100 level cap that was fighting level 80's and having it all in the bag, getting instaganked from a rare encounter interrupt that is a level ???. Scary. They're so far outclassed that they don't even know how nerfed Mr. Hat is currently, without Benihime there, since she has a massive percentage of his power with her. She's sulking for a reason.
Alexander: Wonderful enemy-trashing chapter, I could eat three rice bowls with only this as a side dish.
While he was enduring the pain, Cao Cao swung his spear towards his opponent as Kisuke decided to let him go. However, Kisuke already got what he wanted. Taking out a container, he put the eye inside and thought, 'If this is really Medusa's eye, then I'll be able to create a suitable body for her. That way, she won't have to depend on her Mana Body any longer.'
While holding his now empty eye socket, trying to keep his blood from flowing out, Cao Cao snarled at him while he was still on his knees, "You bastard...!!!"
After putting the eye away, Kisuke only gave Cao Cao a smile, "Hey now, I understand that you're furious, but please also keep in mind that this was not yours and I only intend to return it to its owner."
"...Owner? Impossible! Medusa is an ancient monster that had already perished long ago!"
"Whatever you say~."
Feeling humiliated, Cao Cao decided to use his trump card, "O Spear. The true Holy Spear which pierces through God."
"Suck the ambition of the King of Domination sleeping within me and pierce through the gap of blessing and destruction."
"You. Announce the will, and turn into a glow." Finishing his chant, the Holy Spear in Cao Cao's hand started to glow in golden light.
At first, Kisuke intended to stop him, but strangely enough, he didn't feel any threat from it so he took the gamble and waited for him to finish in order to figure out what's going on.
Truth Idea, also known as the Brightness of Supremacy, was a forbidden form exclusive to the True Longinus which was similar to the Juggernaut Drive of the Two Heavenly Dragons.
However, instead of past processors of the True Longinus, the one who activated the Truth Idea was the 'Will of the God of the Bible'. Although it would also lead to the user going berserk, unlike the simple power-up that the Juggernaut Drive gave, Truth Idea's effects depended on God's will in the Holy Spear itself. It would absorb the wielder's ambition and, by responding to how strong the opponent was, it would create many effects and miracles which would be different, depending on what the will chose, such as granting an absolute power to destroy the opponent or a blessing to the opponent to capture their hearts.
But to Cao Cao's surprise, the golden light receded and the Holy Spear didn't do anything. Truth Idea didn't activate, and it became neither of the only two possible scenarios. The spear didn't absorb Cao Cao's will, nor did it give its blessing to Kisuke, "W-what is this!? It doesn't know what to do!? How is that possible!?"
An unexpected result for Cao Cao, but also an understandable one if he knew the real reason. Although Kisuke was born in this world, he did not originate from it. The miracle of the God of the Bible was only limited to his knowledge, and for someone like Kisuke, as a 'will' that only remained, it didn't know what 'miracle' it should give to Cao Cao to defeat him.
"Although it failed, that move sure is threatening. I only took the gamble on letting you finish it because I couldn't feel any threat from it. I guess I'm lucky?", muttered Kisuke.
Nonetheless, Cao Cao couldn't respond to him as he kept staring at his spear and repeatedly asked, 'Why?' If the spear had chosen to give its blessing to Kisuke, he could have accepted it as him not being worthy of the spear, but as someone who liked to figure out anything, it opened a large void in Cao Cao's mind.
Georg had already woken up from his short slumber, and despite his injuries, he tried his best to use Dimension Lost to escape with everyone.
'Hmm... Now then, what should I do with them? For starters, let's capture them.', thought Kisuke as he took a step forward towards Cao Cao, except, he couldn't take the second step because he intercepted a long staff with his blade.
Kisuke then looked towards a small old man wearing a monk's cassock and shades with a cyber design while smoking a pipe with his free hand, "To whom do I owe the pleasure?"
Vali, who had been watching everything unfold, muttered, "First Generation..."
"Kid, let this old man be in debt to you and let go of these troublesome brats.", said Sun Wukong.
Kisuke did an initial observation of the old man and roughly figured out how strong he was, 'Fighting him would be more troublesome than letting these guys go. I already got something out of them, so I don't really care anymore. Also, having this old man in debt to me may prove useful in the future.'
Kisuke then shrugged his shoulders and took a step back.
Blowing out smoke from his mouth, Sun Wukong tapped the ground with his staff and the Dimension Lost's effect strengthened. A few seconds later, Cao Cao, Georg, Jeanne and Hercules disappeared.
"Are you fine with that?", asked Vali towards Kisuke.
But instead of answering him, Kisuke smiled at Sun Wukong and said, "You owe me one, First Generation-san~."
"Just go easy on these old bones. I won't do anything unreasonable." Sun Wukong chuckled at the swift resolution of the situation, "If you're worried that they'll just get away with nothing, be not. They'll receive an appropriate one after this mess."
"Then I assume Sakra will be the one meting out the punishment?", asked Vali.
"You could say that," replied Sun Wukong. He looked towards Kisuke and then to Ophis, "But what a surprise, this is the first time I've seen the Dragon God so close with someone. Makes me glad I got these old eyes to witness it."
Kisuke grinned, "It's nothing special. I just got a new resident~."
It was then followed by Ophis' words, "I'm going home, monkey."
Behind Sun Wukong's shades, his eyes widened as he started laughing out loud, "Fuhahaha~! Isn't that nice? I guess I should give you some congratulatory gifts. However, I don't think that He would be too happy with this development."
"Sakra, is it?", wondered Kisuke.
"Indra." Sun Wukong then started walking away, "Be careful around him, boy. You're such a promising lad. It would be a shame if he decided to crush you."
To his leaving back, Kisuke replied, "Now that's scary~. I'll avoid him like plague then~."
"Well, if it's someone as unconventional as you, then you'll be fine." Sun Wukong then teleported away.
After he disappeared, Kisuke turned to Vali and asked, "So? Who's that old guy?"
Vali's mouth twitched at his question, 'You talked to him like you knew each other for years yet you don't actually know him?' Vali then shook his head and answered, "The First Generation Monkey King. Also known as The Great Victorious Fighting Buddha. He's a God that is currently working under Indra, one of the current leaders of the Hindu Mythology Faction and also one of the most powerful beings in the world."
"Is that so? Well, if he doesn't pick a fight, that's fine."
Soon after, the evacuation of the citizens of the Underworld Capital, Lilith, was completed and the Gremory team along with Sakura and Cleria returned to Kisuke and Vali.
"Where's Cao Cao and the rest of the Hero Faction?", asked Issei, intending to help Kisuke to deal with them.
Vali pointed at Kisuke and answered with a smile, "This guy sent them crying. I don't think that they'll be messing with him in the near future." Remembering what happened earlier, it made Vali want to fight Kisuke. But then again, he recalled the trouble after fighting him last time and he thought that the trade wouldn't be fair.
"N-no way... Seriously? Him alone? Who is he? He's not some faction leader, right? But even then, only leaders of big factions can face them.", murmured Rossweisse.
Scratching his head, Kisuke replied, "Iya~. They were truly a strong bunch~. I had to use so many of my tricks to fend them off."
'If they were strong for you, then why do you look virtually the same as when you came earlier!? You even had Ophis on your shoulders this entire time!', was what everyone retorted in their mind, but they didn't dare to voice this out. However, thanks to Kisuke, a little bit of pride they had for being known as the strongest amongst the young Devils disappeared.
But instead of them, the one who retorted to Kisuke's words was Ophis, "But I am stronger."
Kisuke chuckled and said, "Yes, yes, you're stronger than them, alright? After all, no matter how much I moved, you didn't fall off."
"Do it again," demanded Ophis.
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Editors:
28th00: Medusa-chan is getting a physical body again! Good for her, she truly deserves it. I bet Kisuke can get her sisters some bodies after working off Medusa's dna for them too. Phis-chama demands you go faster! Sun Wukong absolutely put it together that Ophis gained a home, and he's pretty happy about that too! He's strong and old enough to actually know how Ophis thinks and sees the world, so he'd get the significance of that tidbit being incredibly important. But seriously, give her that ride Mr. Hat, she has your hat hostage!
Alexander: 'Absolute confidence while knowing nothing', would be a free translation of a german saying that I thought of while reading about his conversation with Old Sun.