Chapter 97: Good Girl ; The Box (1/2)

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Warning: Violence/Gore/Cannibalism (Skip to *** to avoid.)

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Utilizing Godspeed, I head out of the church and move to a good vantage point in order to observe the upcoming battle from a satisfactory viewpoint.

Raynare and Aruru are both surrounded by Devils.

What's weird is the expression the Devils have on their faces. It's like they've resolved themselves for something.

Could it be that this isn't the end of it? Are there more Devils on their way here?

Now that I think about it, the only Devils that can be considered my foes are the House of Gremory and the House of Phenex. Apart from those, there are also those Devils that I killed a while ago, along with a bunch of Pure Angels and Fallen Angels.

Thinking of this logically, these Devils can't be related to those noble houses, which means that they're a part of another faction that's yet to be identified.

This means that, back then, it was the unidentified faction that fought me.

What's interesting is that the faction doesn't seem to discriminate against races. The reason for that is when I was attacked, none of the three races seemed to be on bad terms with each other.

I wonder what race the leader of such an organization will be?

Forget that, for now, I should focus on the battle in front of me.

---3rd POV---

Remaining stationary in the sky, Raynare is about to make a move on a Devil that's within proximity of herself. However, before she can do so, a blur appears within her vision before the Devil gets split in half.

She looks over to the cause of this and what meets her sight is a giggling Aruru carrying a bloodied spine that seems to be glowing in an eerie reddish-yellow.

”Come on, sinners! Pay for your actions!” the girl screams enthusiastically before turning into disappearing.

The Devils which witnessed the way Aruru killed all look around uneasily for any signs of her reappearance, while Raynare sits on the roof of the church and observes everything unfold with amusement.

All of a sudden, one of them screams, attracting the rests' attention. Upon looking over, they all witness a Devil missing an arm. What dazes them is that a hand is protruding from the Devil's mouth.

That doesn't last for long as two small hands penetrate the Devil's interiors from the back.

”Enhance!” Aruru's childish voice resounds before she appears seemingly out of nowhere, carrying a darkened spine in one hand and the innards of the Devil she killed earlier in the other hand.

Aruru begins to wave the innards around at a terrific speed before disappearing and reappearing behind two Devils.

The next moment two agonized screams resound as two Devils fall from the sky. One of them has both of her wings on fire, while the other one has a deep cut from his crotch to his skull.

”Die!” she screams once again before discarding both the spine and the innards before dashing in the direction of two Devils who're flying toward her.

Aruru extends her arm inserts two fingers from each of her hands into both of the Devils' eye-sockets.

She ignores their distressing screeches and proceeds to drag them over to a Devil before squashing said Devil's head using the two Devils she dragged with her.

Aruru looks at the three remaining Devils and giggles before raising both of her arms.

The three devils watch with horror as dozens of light spears appear all around Aruru.

”Deus vult!” the petite girl yells before countless spears of light rain down on two of the flying Devils and on the other Devils that feel down.

---1st POV---

Having observed everything from the get-go, I can confidently state Aruru was toying with them.

She most likely can finish them much faster, but didn't do so for some reason. I believe that she wants them to suffer before killing them.

If there is one thing that I'm sure of, it's that she did a wonderful job of frightening them.

The only Devil that's left is presently quivering as tears roll down from her cheeks.

I fly over to where Aruru is, pat her small head, and say,

”You did really well, Aruru. Great performance.”

Aruru, who was already delirious seems to get twice as fevered as she jumps into my arms before exclaiming,

”Father is happy!”

While holding her within my arms, I slowly float over to the Devil and make use of Indoctrination to extract information from her.

As expected, the Devils that appeared really are a part of a previously-unidentified faction, no, organization – Khaos Brigade.

It seems like the enemy was expecting me to leave one alive, as they somehow managed to erase most of her memories related to the organization.

There is also the problem of my questions being too specific due to how Indoctrination works.

I may be focusing on a certain matter when I could have her tell me much more than just that.

So, I need to make her talk 'willingly'.

Floating down to the ground, I have Irene collect the souls of three Devils before creating three human bodies and inserting them in.

I then proceed to use telekinesis to drag them as well as the Devil into the underground section of the church.

Now, as I'm not a fan of forceful reproduction, I will have to come up with an alternative way of making her 'talk'.