Chapter 97: Good Girl ; The Box

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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'.

Speaking of ways to make one talk...

I smash the Devil into the ground and order the 'humans' using Indoctrination,

"Eat her."

The next moment, all the 'humans' jump on top of the Devil and begin to tear her flesh off using their teeth.

Naturally, the Devil is stronger and could kill them off, so I break all the Devil's limbs before gifting the 'humans' Organic Constructs and ordering them to modify their teeth.

Aruru is standing to my right, hopping with joy as she watches the event take place, while Raynare coolly stands on my other side.

"Stop! Please! I'll ta-" before she's able to finish off what she wants to say, her mouth along with her tongue gets bitten off.

Looks like that's enough for now.

I pat Aruru's shoulder, which she takes as a signal to go and kill off the 'humans' and dragging the mutilated Devil over.

Using Healing Factor, I fix her up so that she's able to talk again before looking into her teary eyes and asserting,

"Tell me everything you know."

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I'm finally back at the mansion.

Glancing at Aruru who's all cleaned up and holding my hand obediently, I think of the information I got out of the Devil.

As I have suspected, they made use of something to erase their memories. The girl said that the last thing she remembered was a woman using some sort of device on her before being ordered to find me in the church.

Funny thing is, they described me as an insane individual, claiming that I'll stop at nothing to get what I wanted, as a warning for the Devils.

How ridiculous.

"Let's go," I say to Aruru before stepping inside the mansion and heading over to the living room.

There, most of the girls are present, busy chatting, or doing something else.

My appearance garners their attention as they all stop what they were doing and look in my direction, or more precisely, at Aruru.

"Everyone, meet Aruru. She's my new Angel."

Before anyone can say something, Aruru let's go of my hand, walks forward, bows slightly and says politely,

"Hello, everyone! I am Aruru, and I will be living here from now on."

Then, she stands straight and says while beaming,

"Please take care of me!"

Asia, Siesta, Kristina, and Koneko seem to be particularly fond of her as they all introduce themselves to her.

As for the rest of the girls, they're curiously looking at me.

They want me to explain her circumstances, huh? Aruru seems like a genuinely good girl, so I will introduce her as such and leave the unnecessary stuff out.

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"He's in there?" I say dubiously while looking at the 'barricades' on the door.

"Yes," Rias replies.

I look over at her which makes her flinch before murmuring,

"Forgive me."

Reaching my arm out, I begin to stroke her cheek which makes her body shiver before saying casually,

"It's fine. All you have to do is make sure that you hide nothing from me."

In response to my words, Rias nods her head several times before removing the 'barricade' on the door and opening it.

We then walk into the dimly lit room.

Immediately, I sense the presence of a being in the room. Checking it out, I find someone hidden in a cardboard box.

"Yuno, you may go do what I told you to," I say before walking over to the box.

"Yes," Yuno replies before leaving the room.

The rest of the girls are all behind me as I stand and look down at the box that contains another one of Rias's peerage members.

Using telekinesis to open the top, I look inside the box.

However, before I can get a clear view, uncanny energy is released from within the box.

In response to the strange energy, my Code instantaneously encompasses my body with Destruction.

The next moment, a small head cautiously peaks out of the box in my direction.

Beaming a smile, I say,

"Hello there!"