The blinding light burst out for a short moment, washing over the entire group and forcing them to cover their eyes. If it were not for the barrier around them, that light would have swallowed the whole town along with everything nearby and might have even been seen across all of Japan.
"I did it! I'll have Yusuke give me special treatment for this later!" Tsubaki grinned excitedly. She was not sure at first if she could reflect the attack of someone like Kokabiel, so she asked for Yusuke's praise. Now that it worked, she felt she deserved a reward too.
'We'll go on a date to Osaka, I can have my way with Yusuke as much as I want without anyone interrupting us, hehehe~! Hahaha! Kyahahahaha!'
The smile on her face turned into something so creepy and obsessive that even Kokabiel shuddered.
"Another Sacred Gear?!" Kokabiel's face darkened more than under the bed. He growled furiously, "You stopped my attack! Let us see if you can do it again!" He was completely losing his shit. This was supposed to be a quick and easy fight until one of the Maou showed up, and he planned to proudly announce a war while destroying the town in the process.
Not for him to be beaten like this. He had taken more injuries from these stupid kids than he ever did in the war. Even when he fought the strongest human alive, Vasco Strada, the previous owner of Durandal, he never took this many hits.
Swoosh!
"Old man, you've already lived long enough. Why don't you take a break from life?" Murayama turned into a purple light and appeared behind him, swinging her sword in a clean, deadly arc. Her expression stayed cold and cruel.
Yanderes, no matter the type, all had strangely high fighting talent. It was as if they were built to hurt people.
Murayama was exceptionally skilled at stabbing and cutting, and Yusuke could vouch for that; he had experienced it firsthand.
"Annoying brat!" Losing his arm, Kokabiel refused to fall for the same trick. He flapped his wings and moved away from her, preparing to fight back, when he suddenly felt a hot sensation striking him from three different places.
Without even thinking, he knew they had to be the Fire Dragon Roars fired by Aika, Raynare, and Kalawarna.
BOOMM!
Their attacks seemed to anticipate his every move. He barely managed to evade the first one when the other two slammed into him from both sides, enveloping him in another fireball and sending him flying far away, crashing into a building and completely destroying it.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
Without giving him a chance to breathe, Akeno summoned more Holy Lightning, raining it down on him.
Standing next to Sona, Rias watched everything unfolding with very, very cold eyes. She knew they had grown strong, but she didn't expect them to become **this** strong. Akeno, whom she had always thought she knew well, had become insanely powerful. If the two were to fight right now, Akeno would wipe the floor with her.
The two fallen angels she once looked down on had undergone a complete transformation. Even Tsubaki, who had originally been very troublesome to deal with, had become even more terrifying!
'With them around, taking Yusuke will be much more problematic. I need to consult Grayfia-nee and adjust the plans with her,' Rias thought silently, narrowing her cold eyes.
When she first discovered the number of women around Yusuke, she had been confident that with her charm, Yusuke would inevitably fall for her and forget about the other sluts. But reality hit her with a double slap. First, her charm was far weaker than she had thought. Second, Yusuke was actively trying to seduce even more women. This became painfully clear during the match against Riser Phenex, where Yusuke seduced three other sluts right under her eyes.
This snapped the last of her patience and mental resilience. She no longer felt it was viable to use peaceful methods to make Yusuke hers. She was planning to kidnap him and slowly force him to love her back, even if it meant breaking his body and mind.
Koneko, standing next to her, felt an even greater pressure. She had thought that after overcoming her fear and learning Senjutsu, she would be strong enough to overcome any obstacle. To think that other women had become even stronger than her shook her confidence.
Different from Rias, she didn't have any backers like Grayfia or the Gremory house. On the contrary, her only backer was actually her love rival. Even without considering how strong Yusuke himself was, if she tried to use force, the other women would brutally crush her like they did with the two church warriors.
'At this rate, senpai will be completely taken from me! What do I do?! What do I do?! I want senpai to love me back! To look at only me! To only pat my head! To only let me sit on his lap!' Biting her nails, she thought anxiously.
On the other side of the battlefield, Xenovia and Irina, who were supposed to take care of Freed and Valper, stood frozen, watching the scene with wide eyes. Xenovia clenched Durandal, her gaze full of determination. "I will never give up on Yu, even if they were ten times stronger!"
She was confident she could become stronger than them and defeat them. Besides, she did not need overwhelming strength to take Yusuke from them. She could make him fall for her so deeply that he could not live without her.
'He told me that I was a splendid and wonderful woman. He must be in love with me. I just have to make him realize that only my love is real and the others are fake!'
Xenovia's face split into a very wide smile, her eyes turning into dark blue hearts as she tightly embraced her sword, 'Yes! I don't need to be stronger. I can have Yusuke protect me from them. Fufufu, this is even more satisfying and romantic!'
"…It's complete."
Valper's voice rang out suddenly, and the three Excaliburs placed in the center of the school field began radiating an incredible amount of light.
"No, stop him!" Saji snapped back to his senses and rushed toward him.
Issei and Kiba followed suit, the latter moving at full speed to intercept the old man.
The magic circle began emitting a divine light that spread across the school field. Its brilliance forced the three boys to shield their faces with their hands.
When the light finally faded, instead of three, only one holy sword remained at the center of the field, radiating a blue-white aura.
It was somewhat admirable that this old man was neither stopped nor distracted by the fight between Kokabiel and the bloodthirsty Yanderes. He had even managed to finish relatively earlier than expected.
"I can finally use it! Kyahahaha!" Freed, who was standing next to Valper, laughed and grabbed the sword without even asking for permission. Holding it, he ran his disgustingly long tongue along the blade while cackling creepily. "Excalibur-chan has become super super powerful! Hehehe! I will use it to chop these Devils!"
"Chop! Chop! Chop!"
"Devils-chan, here I come!"
"Valper Galilei. I am a survivor of the 'Holy-sword Project.' No. To be precise, I am the one you killed. I have continued living by being reincarnated as a Devil." Kiba stepped forward slowly toward Valper, with Issei and Saji following close behind him.
With Freed standing in front of him as a shield, Valper laughed. "A survivor of that project. What a misfortune to meet you in a far eastern country like this. I can feel fate. Fufufu."
Swoosh!
With a loud bursting sound, Kiba's figure flashed forward, and he appeared before Valper, bringing his sword down. Freed reacted just as fast, blocking him. "I can't have you kill this old man yet. I still need him."
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
The two moved at an unprecedented speed, exchanging blows as their swords clashed. The fused Excalibur was far stronger than the individual blades, and with just a few exchanges, Kiba's swords would shatter, forcing him to summon new ones.
"Shit! These two are moving so fast, I can't even see them!" Saji watched as they moved at a blinding speed and cursed in frustration.
[Boost!], [Boost!]
"Just be ready. An opportunity will present itself," Issei said, charging his boosted gear while staring intensely.
"You see. I like holy swords. I like them so much that they even show up in my dreams. Maybe it is because my heart was fascinated by the legend of Excalibur ever since I was a child. That is why, when I found out that I could not use Excalibur, I fell into despair." Valper watched the fight from a distance and began delivering his classic villain speech.
He went on about his project, how he experimented on those who had holy factors, and how he disposed of them whenever their factors were too low or after he had taken what he wanted and crystallized it.
He also mocked the church with clear disdain, pointing out their hypocrisy. Even though they expelled him and called him a heretic, they were still using his research and supplying their holy sword wielders with holy factors while calling it a blessing.
Kiba reacted violently, especially when Valper casually tossed an orb toward him and said it was something left over from his old experiments. Kiba caught the orb and began to cry, and then, with a surge of pure nakama power, he achieved his Balance Breaker, Sword of Betrayer.
Freed fought back using the combined abilities of Excalibur Rapidly, Excalibur Nightmare, and Excalibur Transparency.
Saji found an opportunity and used his Sacred Gear to bind him, and Issei transferred his power to Kiba to boost him. In the end, they managed to defeat Freed.
"Excalibur Nightmare conjures whatever the wielder can imagine. What an interesting ability." While watching the fight, Rias noticed this, and a thought suddenly popped into her head. "If I can use it, wouldn't I have an endless amount of Yusuke surrounding me?"
The idea hit her so hard that her face turned bright red, her breathing grew heavier, and a thin line of blood slid from her nose. She had imagined something so lewd that even she knew she should never say it out loud.
Puff!
"Excalibur Nightmare?" Koneko's ears twitched as she caught Rias's whisper. Her mind went into overdrive, smoke practically bursting from her head. She also started imagining a very unhealthy scene of her own.
On the other side, Kokabiel finally burst out from the destroyed building. Countless magic circles appeared behind him at an insane speed and began firing Holy Spears in every direction.
Creating a powerful spear capable of blasting the entire town would take a dozen seconds, but to fire these weaker ones, he only needed a single thought. Since these women had been desperately trying to stop him from using his strongest attacks, then he would simply give them a full shower of holy power instead!
BOOMM! BOOMM! BOOMM!
Countless explosions erupted, blasting through the school, tearing apart buildings, and carving out numerous craters.
"Be careful!" Sona cried out as she flew through the air, dodging one of the spears. To the Devils, holy power was their ultimate nemesis. While in flight, she conjured a dense blue dragon and directed it toward Kokabiel, shouting as she commanded, "We can't allow him to move freely! Keep attacking!"
Murayama and Aika spread their wings and took to the air, doing their best to dodge the countless spears while fighting back.
Raynare scooped Asia into her arms and flew upward, moving back through the air as she unleashed another Fire Dragon Roar.
Thanks to their Observation Haki, the group of Yanderes found it much easier to evade his attacks.
"Ah!" Not everyone had Observation Haki, and despite her best efforts, Sona was struck by one of the attacks, injuring her shoulder.
"Sona!" the girls shouted in shock and horror.
Landing on the ground, Sona held her shoulder and forced a smile. "Don't worry about me. Focus on him. We can't allow him to do as he pleases!"
'I can use this as an excuse to make Yusuke pamper me later!' Sona felt a stabbing pain sharper than being pierced by countless long needles all over her body, yet inside, she felt strangely happy, knowing she could use this chance to make Yusuke indulge her even more than he usually does.
"Asia, heal her," Raynare called as she flew down, placing Asia beside Sona before quickly returning to join the other girls.
"Yes!" Asia trembled from fear and shock, her hands shaking as she began healing Sona. "Sona-sama, please hold on. It will be over soon!"
'Tsk! So much for a fallen angel leader. He can't even kill a single Devil! Useless trash!' Wearing a concerned expression, Asia cursed in her mind, feeling utter disdain for Kokabiel, who hadn't even managed to take down a single one of her rivals.
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