Chapter 653 – The end of the rebel exorcists

“Giant?”

Vasco’s focus was distracted by the power Eiji was showing. This was the first time he had seen someone have that kind of ability.

He wondered if Teodoro was okay?

“Vasco-san, didn’t you once say to always focus on your opponent in battle?” Xenovia who was on Team Eiji said with amusement.

She was proud of the power her man showed even though she knew he held back a lot just to show off. Otherwise, Teodoro would have died just from receiving a glare from him.

Instead of wearing the Durandal Vasco had given her in the past, she now wielded the sword Eiji had given her, the Durandal of Fate.

The sword emitted a blue holy aura and made its wielder seem unrivaled.

Vasco couldn’t help but glance at the sword in Xenovia’s hand before saying, “Sorry, it’s been a long time since I’ve fought and was surprised to see the power the youngsters of today have.”

At that moment, he realized that his subordinates had been easily defeated by Irina.

With Kusanagi in hand, Irina walked over to Xenovia and stood beside her. Unlike in the original work, only the two of them would now fight with Vasco.

However, Vasco did not dare to underestimate them and took out the Durandal Replica that the Church had given him. The oppression he was now emitting would make an ordinary person faint from fear, but Xenovia and Irina were excited to see him.

If it was him, they could definitely test how good their swords were.

“Before we start fighting. May I know why you’re not using Durandal, Xenovia? Irina, you’re also no longer using the Excalibur Mimic that the Church gave you.”

“Although I know the swords in your hands seem to be stronger than Durandal and Excalibur Mimic. Where did you two get those swords?”

Vasco was curious.

Xenovia and Irina smiled at each other and said simultaneously. “This is a gift that Eiji gave us. Isn’t it natural to use a gift from your lover rather than someone else?”

“…..” Vasco who had been single until now nodded with a little sourness in his heart.

The youngsters of today knew how to play.

They mix romance into the fight!

And Eiji, he’s dating Xenovia and Irina at the same time? He really does have a harem as he had heard. Still, where did he get those swords from?

Those swords even felt stronger than any Holy Sword.

[Xenovia, Irina, your words make me embarrassed! Gosh, let’s show Vasco how strong my women are.]

The heroines: “…..”

Eiji, are you a spectator now?

Xenovia and Irina will do it.

They’ll show off to him!

Eiji still stood in his position and was in no hurry to take the next action. However, his Susanoo slowly evolved to its second form.

Do you know the Susanoo with an arrow that Sasuke once showed? It has that kind of appearance!

“I see. Then let’s start.”

Right after Vasco said that, his two-meter tall figure suddenly disappeared and appeared behind Xenovia and Irina. The Durandal replica in his hand had also been swung at an extreme speed.

Such speed would have made Xenovia and Irina two weeks ago react late. But after receiving the gift from Eiji, they had practiced so hard that with minimal movement, Xenovia parried Vasco’s slash and Irina immediately made a deadly counterattack.

*Clang!*

Vasco was shocked and felt the danger of death because when Xenovia managed to block his slash until the ground beneath their feet shattered— Irina swung her sword at his neck.

However, he managed to dodge the attack by tilting his head and jumping to the side.

Still, he could not help but glance in the direction of Irina’s slash because there, many buildings within a radius of several tens of meters were cut.

‘That’s a very sharp sword.’ Vasco commented on Irina’s sword in his heart.

‘The durability of the sword Xenovia used is also very remarkable.’

If it was an ordinary sword, it would have already broken from receiving his holy power-based slash.

“Haaaa!”

“Doryaa!”

From the third point of view, the figures of Xenovia and Irina flickered as if they had teleported with Vasco. Only those with sharp enough eyes knew that the three people were using pure physical power.

The ground, buildings and anything around them were cut or shattered into pieces every time their swords collided with each other.

The remaining rebel exorcists were terrified and did not dare to help Vasco. If they did, they were worried that their bodies would be cut off.

That was definitely not a level of combat they could participate in unless they wanted to die. Still, they did not expect former exorcists like Xenovia and Irina to be able to push Vasco.

They even saw that the strongest exorcist in history had several small slash wounds on his muscular body.

“No way! No way! Vasco-san… Ugh!”

In the distance, Teodoro finally walked out of the ruined building with limping steps due to his injuries.

He was naturally surprised that Eiji was not injured in the slightest and slapped him until he felt like his soul was about to float out of his body.

However, he was more surprised to see that the person he admired the most, Vasco seemed to be in an unfavorable situation while fighting with Xenovia and Irina.

He wanted to help but at this moment Eiji’s mocking voice rang out.

“Boy, you’re finally awake. Did you sleep well?”

“Eiji, I’m going to kill you!”

Teodoro felt extremely humiliated and angry, but unlike before, he looked at Eiji who was standing inside the purple-colored giant with fear.

Of course, he had heard that Eiji was very powerful and had even killed several Gods.

But, he didn’t believe it and thought a child prodigy like him was no less than him. At least before the truth slapped him in the face.

Eiji was stronger than him.

“Kill me? With just your little power? Boy, you’re stupid. I’m getting tired of your dog barking.”

“Take this and die.”

Eiji controlled his Susanoo to perform the famous move. From the perspective of Teodoro and the spectators, the purple giant was now holding a bow and arrow. At the tip of the arrow was a black flame surrounding it that looked terrifying.

Teodoro froze even though he knew he should dodge, he felt like something was holding his body!

“No! Why can’t I move? Ahh! Ahh! Eiji, wait… I…”

Teodoro was frightened and hesitated to beg for his life.

Eiji used Ruler’s Authority to lock Teodoro’s movements and shot him.

“Teo!”

Seeing the giant arrow flying towards Teodoro, Vasco who was quite far away from the boy could not let him die.

He avoided Xenovia and Irina’s slashes by turning around and running towards Eiji’s attack.

“Stop!” Xenovia was angry that Vasco dared to run into Eiji’s battlefield. She and Irina chased after him but were too late.

Although his body was very muscular and large, the spectators were surprised that Vasco was running so fast. He stood in front of the arrow that Eiji had fired before jumping and slashing it with his sword.

The Durandal replica in Vasco’s hand emitted a golden pillar of light and when it collided with Eiji’s attack—

*BOOMMM!*

An explosion that looked like a giant purple and gold colored mushroom was created. Strong winds blew in all directions. Eiji was not surprised because he had already predicted that Vasco would not stand still when he was about to kill Teodoro, but alas…

[Worthy of being dubbed the strongest human in the original work, Vasco is still alive after blocking my attack.]

The heroines:

What? He’s really still alive after blocking your attack, Eiji?

After all, they still hadn’t clearly seen whether Vasco was alive or not because of the smoke from the explosion.

[Of course it wasn’t my serious attack. I only used a little output but Vasco was naive because he dared to block my attack enveloped by black flames, Amaterasu.]

The heroines watching the fight were confused but when Vasco’s figure finally came into view.

They were dumbfounded because Vasco was actually alive after blocking Eiji’s attack, but one of his hands seemed to be on fire?

Vasco was relieved that he managed to block Eiji’s attack and wasn’t hurt at all. He was very confident in his endurance and it never let him down. That was what he was thinking before he saw his left arm being burned by black flames.

“…!”

Feeling the heat eating away at his flesh, Vasco’s expression changed and was not as calm as when he tried to block Eiji’s attack earlier.

He flailed his arms until they spun like helicopter propellers to put out the flames but…

“Why is this fire so hard to put out?!” Vasco shouted in panic.

Eiji laughed and used the Law of Vibration to make his voice heard throughout the battlefield. “The name of that fire is Amaterasu, the highest level fire element that represents the Material World and Light. Unless I want that fire extinguished, it will continue to burn until you turn to ashes, Vasco-san.”

Hearing this, those who first heard the description of Amaterasu’s fire were horrified because it was terrifying!

Teodoro cried because Vasco wouldn’t have been burned by that fire if he hadn’t tried to save him.

It’s his fault! He should have been burned alive by that evil fire!

Eiji was truly an evil being, he was even more evil than the Great Devil King.

“Eiji, you cheater! Quickly extinguish that fire from Vasco-san’s body!” Teodoro roared.

“I don’t want to do it, what can you do?” Eiji smiled, that smile was very handsome in the eyes of girls, but in the eyes of Teodoro and the other rebel exorcists?

That smile made them shudder, especially when Eiji’s strangely patterned red eyes swept over them.

They had the illusion that they would be burned by the same fire that was burning Vasco.

[Host, you really are like a villain who oppresses the protagonist’s supporters in this fight.]

‘Miss System, that’s not true. I am the protagonist.’

[Not convincing.]

“…..” Eiji was too lazy to convince Miss System and he was sure many people thought he was the protagonist, right?

They did.

“I…” Teodoro gritted his teeth and looked at Eiji with red eyes. Unfortunately he was not an Uchiha and could not awaken the Sharingan.

Vasco interrupted him by saying, “It’s okay, Teo. We’re fighting, it’s only natural that we get hurt because of our weaknesses.”

In front of everyone’s gaze, he cut off his own left arm. That way, Amaterasu did not spread to her other limbs.

“NOOOO! VASCO-SAN! AHH! IT’S MY FAULT! IT’S MY FAULT!” Teodoro shouted like crazy seeing the person he admired cut off one of his arms.

His level of hatred for Eiji rose to the same level as the devils who killed his parents.

Eiji looked at Vasco in awe as he didn’t even change his expression while doing that.

Vasco ignored Teodoro’s cries and stopped his own bleeding with his muscles. It was impossible for an ordinary person to do, but he was able to do such a thing which proved the abnormality of his body.

Eiji clapped his hands and said, “Amazing, Vasco-san. You are the first person to do that in front of me.”

“Should I be honored? Eiji, how about forgetting Teo and fighting me?”

Vasco said that while holding a sword in his right hand, he didn’t seem to take his left arm that had turned to ash seriously.

He looked at Eiji sharply and the oppression he exuded was more frightening than when he fought with Xenovia and Irina.

Eiji deactivated his Susanoo and took out one of his swords, Ser-Veresta. Unlike ordinary swords, it had a large blade made of fiery purple light and intertwined black patterns.

“Yes and okay, but before that— you should probably fend off the attacks from my girls first. If you’re still alive after that of course.”

Vasco was confused but then he sensed danger from the side. He turned around and found Xenovia and Irina preparing to unleash a completely different attack than before.

“Give me the protection of the archangel!

This is the unrivaled legendary sword! The immaculate Durandal!”

Xenovia pointed her sword at the sky with both hands. Durandal’s blade shone brightly and created a blue pillar of light that pierced through the sky.

“This world and the immortal world… Know that the line dividing the two is a fragile thing. Release your divine wrath! Sword of Gods – Kusanagi-no-Tachi!”

The Kusanagi blade in Irina’s hand emitted a dazzling cyan glow, but most excitingly, a 200-meter-high wave of water with eight giant white snakes and terrifying red eyes appeared.

Teodoro and the rebel exorcists who saw the scene shuddered. With such an attack, wouldn’t they also be swept away?

“Durandal? Kusanagi? So that’s it… Eiji, I might not be able to fight with you. To deal with this attack, I will use everything.”

The Durandal replica in Vasco’s hand emitted Holy Power that was many times greater than before. Obviously it was a replica of Durandal, but in his hands, it released power comparable to the original Durandal.

Vasco ran towards Xenovia and Irina and it seemed like he intended to block their attacks at close range. Xenovia and Irina were already swinging their respective swords.

When their attacks collided, a bigger explosion than before occurred and everyone in the replica Kuoh city felt an earthquake.

“What a pity… It looks like today is not the day to test my new sword.” Eiji sighed and put Ser-Veresta back into his inventory.

Although the smoke of the explosion was still thick, he could see that other than being exhausted after unleashing the ultimate move, Irina and Xenovia were fine.

As for Vasco? His Durandal replica was shattered into pieces and his bloodied body was thrown until he crashed into the barrier. However, he was still alive and only unconscious.

Eiji was a little surprised but when remembering the original work, he felt it was normal.

…

On the other side, a more distressing thing happened to the rebel exorcists who followed Ewald.

Unlike Team Eiji and Team Vasco, they fought with Team Rias which also contained Sona’s group in the abandoned Church in the original work.

The result was obvious.

Their fight finished even earlier than the fight on Eiji’s side.

“Vasco…” Ewald who was battered and kneeling amidst his unconscious disciples glanced at the smoke of the huge explosion in the distance.

At that moment, he knew they had lost.

“Your comrades on the other side have been defeated by Team Eiji. Ewald-san, are you admitting defeat?” Sona asked. She didn’t even break a sweat and didn’t need to use her half-Dragon form just to defeat Ewald.

Except for Saji who was not invited, all of her peerage members also easily defeated the other rebel exorcists.

Rias and the female members of her peerage were the same. Akeno and Koneko toyed with and broke the bones of the exorcists.

Compared to in the original work where they needed a lot of people just to defeat Ewald, Rias and Sona only needed two attacks to completely cripple the old man.

If this was a battle of life and death, Ewald and all the rebel exorcists would already be dead.

“We surrender.” Ewald smiled bitterly.

He had completely underestimated the strength of the young devils in front of him. Especially Rias Gremory and Sona Sitri, their power was no longer the high-class devils he had heard of, they were clearly on the same level as the Great Devil King.

Some of the devils in their group had even reached the ultimate class! What happened before was not a fight, but a one-sided suppression.

However, he originally thought that as long as there was Vasco on their side, they would still win. Unfortunately the man he had always been proud of also seemed unable to defeat Eiji and his team.

From now on the exorcists would not regain their rights. These evil devils…

“Koneko, punch him in the face a little.” Rias suddenly said.

Wordlessly, Koneko appeared in front of Ewald and hit his face. Ewald was stunned, he vomited blood and some of his teeth.

“You… Didn’t I say we had surrendered? Why did you hit me? Oh right, you’re evil creatures! How can you keep the rules?”

“Why? I’m just annoyed and I’m sure the humans get annoyed too when others keep calling them evil creatures. Am I right, Ewald-san?”

Rias smiled but her eyes were not smiling.

Ewald shuddered and dared not argue after they got to this point. So, he just kept quiet.

Rias sneered and said, “Just like humans, not all devils are evil. Although we are also not very nice like the people from the Church, we will not do evil things to humans unless provoked first.”

“Even more so after we signed the peace treaty with Heaven and the other factions. Have you found any other devils so far except Diodora who have done evil things to nuns and other humans?”

She used Diodora as an example because she knew that bastard had done the most damage to the devil’s image in the months before the Alliance was created.

“The same goes for fallen angels, vampires and other races that belong to the Seven Faction Alliance.”

“…..” Ewald.

“Ewald-san, stop being hypocritical. You and the other exorcists cannot continue to stubbornly hunt down devils after this.”

Sona adjusted the position of her glasses and added. “I know many of you hate devils because of grudges in the past. But those things are in the past, I hope you’ll be more objective.”

“Um… Rias, Sona. She’s already passed out.” Akeno giggled and said.

Rias and Sona glanced at Ewald, even though he was kneeling, his eyes were white.

Damn, did they talk so much just to make their throats a little dry?

“Don’t worry, I’ve made sure that he passed out right after Sona finished her lecture.”

Tsubaki’s words made Rias and Sona relieved but whether Ewald changed his mind or not… They didn’t know.

In the worst case, they would just have to kill the rebellious exorcists. With the existence of Eiji who had even made Gabriel his woman, they were sure Heaven would not mind if these people died.

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