My fist is dug into her face, and I pushed my fist even further! Raynare went flying backwards with my punch. GASHAAAAAAAAN!! The Fallen Angel crashes into the wall while making a very loud noise. The wall broke and there is a big hole in the wall. Dust starts to spread everywhere. When the dust disappears, there is nothing left in the direction I punched Raynare towards. The hole continues till outside of the building where Raynare is on the ground. She isn’t moving. I can’t tell if she is dead but she won’t be able to move for a while. —I'd finally paid her back. “Serves you right.”
I’m smiling from the bottom of my heart. That’s my true feeling. That punch felt so good. But soon, tears are falling from my eyes. “……Asia”
She won’t smile ever again. After punching the Fallen Angel, I was about to fall down after using my whole power……
Ton. Something supports me from my shoulder. When I looked, it’s Kiba. “Good work. You actually beat a Fallen Angel.”
He’s carrying my shoulder with a smile and is supporting me. What the, even Kiba is torn. “Yo, you are late Casanova.”
“Fufufu, Buchou told me not to interfere.”
Buchou did? “That’s right. I believed that you were able to beat the Fallen Angel Raynare.”
When I turned around to the direction where the voice came from, Rias-buchou is walking towards me smiling while wavering her crimson hair. “Buchou? Where did you come from?”
“From the basement. I finished my business, so I used the magic-circle to come here. It was my first time transporting to a Church, so I was nervous.”
Buchou makes a sigh while talking to me. I see. So that’s why she came from downstairs with Kiba and the others. Then all of the Exorcists are annihilated. Since they had Buchou as their opponent, they had no chance of winning. Then Koneko-chan walks past me. Where is she going? Buchou stands front of me. “Looks like you won safely.”
“Buchou…… Hahaha, I won somehow.”
“Fufufu, excellent. Just what I expected from my servant.”
She taps on my nose. “Ara ara. The Church is in a mess. Buchou, is it alright?”
Akeno-san has a troubled face. “……Is something wrong?”
I ask Buchou timidly. “Church's belong to God or religions related to him, but there are cases like this where it is used by Fallen Angels. In cases like this, if we Devils damage the Church, there will be times when we get targeted by assassins. For revenge and payback.”
—! S-Seriously? “But it won’t happen this time.”
“Why is that?”
“This Church was originally an abandoned one. So a certain group of Fallen Angels had come here to use it for their own greed, and we just happened to have a fight in a place like that. So we didn’t step foot on the enemies' actual territory to have war. So it’s just a small fight between a Devil and a Fallen Angel. This happens every time. That’s what happened.”
I see. So it’s a matter of fact of how you sum it up. “Buchou. I’ve brought it.”
The one who appeared while making a sound of dragging something is Koneko-chan. She appeared from the broken wall, and what she is dragging is a black wing, Fallen Angel Raynare. So Koneko-chan is dragging the unconscious Raynare whom I had punched away. But she said she “brought” it……
She uses unique words for a small girl. “Thank you, Koneko. Now then, let’s wake her up. Akeno.”
“Yes.”
Akeno-san lifts her hand up. Then water appears up in the air. Is that the power of a Devil? Akeno-san splashes the water created in the air on Raynare. SPLASH! Raynare coughs after the splash. The Fallen Angel wakes up and opens her eyes slowly. Buchou looks down on her. “How are you doing, Fallen Angel Raynare.”
“……The daughter of the Gremory clan……”
“Hello, my name is Rias Gremory. I’m the next heir of the House of Gremory. It will be for a short while, but nice to have your acquaintance.”
Buchou greets her with a smile, but Raynare glares at her. Then she sneers. “……You think you’ve got me, but too bad. This plan was kept secret from the higher-ups, but there are other Fallen Angels with me. If I get in danger, they will—”
“They won’t come to help.”
Buchou says it clearly to reject Raynare’s words. “That’s because I already eliminated all three of the Fallen Angel Kalawana, Fallen Angel Donaseek, and Fallen Angel Mitelt.”
“Lies!”
Raynare rejects what Buchou said while sitting up straight. Buchou takes out three black feathers. “These are the feathers of those three. You can tell them apart since you are the same kind as them, right?”
Seeing that, Raynare’s expression darkens. Looks like Buchou is speaking the truth. “When I met with the Fallen Angel Donaseek who attacked Ise before, I predicted that there were a few Fallen Angels plotting something in this town. I ignored it because I thought it was a plan that involves the whole Fallen Angel. Even I’m not foolish enough to take on all of the Fallen Angels. Then I heard that the Fallen Angels were moving around secretively so I went to talk to them, taking Akeno with me. When I met them in person, they blurted that it was their own plan. By helping you, they said, they would get promoted to a higher status. Low life that move around secretively for their purpose usually brag about their plots.”
Buchou smirks. Raynare is biting her teeth with frustration. “They must have looked down on us because it was just two girls who approached them. So I asked them as a parting gift. Fufufu, they were foolish Fallen Angels who didn’t know who was going to die. Since they were willing to help in your pathetic plot, they themselves were low beings.”
So that’s why. The “thing” Buchou needed to take care of was that. She took down the other remaining Fallen Angels……
Buchou was thinking about this whole incident as well……
Without knowing it, I said so much bad things about her……
Crap. I’m so emotional that I feel like crying. “Getting hit by a single shot won’t even leave a trace. The princess of the Duke who has the power of destruction. Buchou is a powerful Devil who is called a genius among the group of young Devils after all.”
Kiba makes a comment to praise his master. “She is also called the “Crimson-Haired Ruin Princess”, you know?”
Akeno-san says it while smiling. R-Ruin Princess…… What a scary nickname……
So that makes me part of the Ruin Princess’ group. T-Terrifying……
Buchou looks at my left arm. I think she’s looking at my gauntlet. “……Red Dragon. Until recently there wasn’t a mark like this…… I see, so that’s what it is……”
Is it me or does Buchou's eyes look like as if she's a bit shocked? “I found out the main reason why Ise was able to beat a Fallen Angel.”
Buchou says it quietly. “Fallen Angel Raynare. This boy, Hyoudou Issei’s Sacred Gear isn’t a regular Sacred Gear. That’s why you lost.”
Raynare has a puzzled face after hearing Buchou. “—[Boosted Gear], a Sacred Gear that is said to be the rarest of the rare. The Red Dragon mark on the gauntlet is the evidence. Even you have heard of that name before, right?”
After listening to Buchou, Raynare puts on a very shocked expression.