The woman who was partially responsible for the destruction just took large gulps of air as she tried not to fall over from overexertion.
Then she smiled.
It was finally over...the blond was seemingly destroyed in the large-scale destruction.
Then she saw something come flying out of the smoke towards her.
All she saw was hard azure eyes glare at her from under blond locks.
"This time...stay down."
A hard blow smashed Vretiel upside the head and once more sent her flying down to the ground. She made a large crater when she landed and spittle came flying out of her mouth from the blow.
She stared hazily up towards the sky as a blond man came flying at her with a raised fist-
That was the last thing that Vretiel of the fallen angels remembered from that day.
Issei was running down the stairway of the abandoned church to reach the underground cavern. The stairs seemed almost endless for the human teenager!
He was terrified, he had no idea whether the girl from before was right in her analysis of the fallen angels. For all he knew, he could be running headlong into a trap.
But that didn't matter right now. All that mattered was making it in time to save Asia!
Although it didn't change the fact that there were a hell of a lot of steps here! Maybe it was because that everyone who was living here in the first place were superhuman?
But after several more flights where Issei's legs felt like they were going to give out, he finally saw it.
He saw the end of the steps!
They were still a ways away but at least he saw his goal in sight.
But before he reached the underground area, he felt the ground begin to rumble above him violently. He glanced up warily, suddenly aware that if something massive happened above ground then it might cause the area he was in to cave in.
He seriously hoped that Naruto took care of any fallen angels that were capable of such a thing.
When he finally made it to the underground room safe and sound, he noticed that he wasn't alone.
Fallen angels.
At least three of them.
Issei widened his eyes as he realized that one of them was the woman that kidnapped Asia!
His fear gave way to anger as he remembered the hopeless feeling that he got when he watched the woman take Asia away, begging for her to stop hurting him.
But before he could act out on his anger, he noticed that the three fallen angels surrounded a large structure that had something on top of it.
...A cross?
There was someone on that cross too...it looked like...
"Asia!" Issei shouted out in horror, the nun was held up to the cross with only a white cloth to keep her modesty. His shout also alerted the fallen angels to his presence.
"What!? Who the hell is that!? How did you get past Vretiel-sama!" Dohnaseek shouted to the human boy that shouted out the nun's name. Before Issei could respond to the shocked query, someone else answered for him.
"Huh...you have nothing to worry about Dohnaseek. That is the human that I told all of you about. Little Asia's 'friend' that tried to help her back at Kuoh Town. He was too weak to do anything though." Kalawarner spoke up with a hint of disdain in her voice, she didn't care much for the human boy's life. Mittelt grinned at this knowledge.
"So he came here in order save his damsel in distress? Awwww! That's so cute! It's too bad she's going to die anyways!" Mittely practically chirped with a smile on her face, but the perverted boy ignored their words.
"Hey! Let Asia go! I won't let you hurt her!" Issei shouted out in anger, seeing his friend like this was terrible for the young man. Even though he was an idiot, even he knew about the story of what happened to that guy on the cross in the Bible...
He was not gonna let that happen to Asia!
"There is nothing you can do human." a feminine voice spoke up.
Issei looked to see the voice come from right next to the cross which held Asia. The young woman regarded the perverted boy without much care as she determined that he wasn't the threat the she was afraid of.
That threat was still outside.
This one wasn't worth worrying over.
"What the hell do you mean by that!? If you don't let her go right now then I will beat the shit of you!" the brown-haired boy shouted out in anger, refusing to believe that saving Asia was a hopeless cause.
Raynare finally regarded the boy with a hint of irritation before speaking again.
"I mean that unless we stop the ritual willingly then you can't save her. The ceremony takes the Sacred Gear that is inside the girl's soul, if you try to interrupt us in order to stop us...we may make a mistake and kill her. We would fail in taking the Sacred Gear...but you would fail in saving her as well." Raynare spoke with a glare, that was the entire reason for why they were in a secluded area without any distractions.
Issei stared at the fallen woman for a second before losing the strength of his legs. He sat down to compensate but his feeling of hopelessness was growing.
No...
She was right there.
She's right in front of him...!
Yet...
He couldn't do anything.
If he called the fallen's bluff then Asia might get killed.
If he waited then Asia would get killed.
No matter what he did...Asia would most likely die.
"No! This can't be how it ends! I won't let it!"
Issei ran past the fallen angels which were focused on the ritual on the ground to reach Asia on the cross. He ignored Raynare as well as he reached towards Asia.
"Asia...? Come on...please. Wake up." Issei begged quietly, refusing to let the tears that were building up to fall. He carefully touched the nun's cheek to wake her up.
Slowly, the girl's eyes fluttered open as emerald green eyes trained themselves on the boy.
"...Issei-san?" the nun whispered.
Issei nodded with a smile. "Yeah! It's me...I came for you...don't you worry about a thing! I will definitely get you out of here!" Issei spoke in comfort, to himself as much to the girl.
Asia just gave him a sad smile.
"Issei-san...in case I don't make it...I just want to thank you. You gave me...the most fun I have ever had...in my entire life..."
Issei just shook his head.
Stop.
"...Stop talking like you are going to die here...Asia...we are gonna make it out of this! No doubt! We just need to hold out! So...stop..." Issei said quietly, not able to stop the tears that were beginning to overflow.
"Thank you...so much...Issei-san. I'm sure that...God gave me this precious time with you...I was so happy..."
Stop.
"No! You're not going to die here! I promise! I promised that we would have more fun later right!? I still have to keep my promise!...I don't...I don't want you to die Asia!" Issei cried with tears going down his face, he hugged her small frame as she was held by the cross.
Asia's eyes began to close. She was losing consciousness.
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