The next day is day 5 of training the devil kings to prepare them for the upcoming battle with the fallen angels.
"Satan before we fight, I'm going to tell you about Ascalon. Ascalon has three abilities: Ascalon Thrust, Ascalon Slice, and Ascalon Spark. I want to use all of them against me, plus your ultimate sword stance." I uttered, pointing at Ascalon.
If you're wondering, how does an ultimate sword stance work? It's simple. When a swordsman pours every single last drop of their energy into the sword at the tip of the blade, that's what's called "an ultimate sword stance.
"But before that, I'm going to put up the barrier," I muttered, snapping my fingers to activate the same barrier I used yesterday.
"Ok, with my holy I call you now, Ryū-Goroshi No Ken!"
Satan looked at me with a baffling expression. "That's the Dragon Slayer sword right? So why are you using a sword that can't harm me?"
I sighed, "This sword has the same wavelength as Ascalon, that's why I'm using it."
"Use Durandal to fight me." He added, "What's training without getting hurt?" He asked.
I sighed, "I thought you would say that,"
I dismissed Ryū-Goroshi No Ken and called for Holy Sword Durandal.
"When you're ready, activate your swordman skill and attack me," I muttered, holding on to Durandal
"This is the first time I'm actually using a holy sword. I'm excited!" Satan roared.
Satan took a sword stance and activated, "Ascalon Spark!" Dashing towards me, he only left a trail of sparks behind him.
When he got in my attack range, he activated, "Ascalon Thrust!", trying to impale me with his blade.
I side-stepped to the left, dodging his attack, then I used the dull part of Durandal and hit him, sending him flying straight through the barrier and training ground wall.
The devil kings were flabbergasted because they thought I killed Satan with one hit in Durandal.
"Shit, did I hit them too hard? I know he has the strongest durability out of the devil kings but I don't think he will survive that hit." I thought to myself.
Lucky satan came back through the hole, completely fine.
"Are you ok, Satan?" I asked.
"I'm perfectly fine, but what about you!" Satan unleashed multiple "Ascalon Slices!" towards me, in a direction.
"He's smart. He unleashed multiple of them in different positions; thinking I won't be able to block them all." I added, "He guessed wrong!" I thought to myself, then parried away his attacks.
While I was hitting away his attacks, he activated, "Ascalon Spark" and dashed to an opening he saw.
"Huh?" Satan uttered, after I grabbed his sword with my left hand on his failed attempt to strike me.
"Satan, how many times do I have to say this? I don't need to be on my guard so don't think you're seeing an opening!" I roared, then smashed him into the ground.
I picked him again, threw him in the air, jumped up, then kicked him out of it, crashing into the ground.
Meanwhile, outside the barrier, the devil kings were chattering to each other.
"Thank goodness I'm not the one training today, are you guys seeing how he's treating Satan?" Belphegor asked.
"Yeah, I think because he knows that Satan can handle it," Leviathan replied.
Back to the training ground, and Satan took his ultimate sword stance, activated Silent Step and Ascalon spark, doubled his speed, then thrusted at me.
"Even if you double your speed, you will never match up to my speed," I uttered, after grabbing Satan's sword once more.
I grabbed him by his neck and smashed him to the ground, crushing it more on impact.
Suddenly, after I smashed satan to the ground, a dark energy started seeping out of him, overflowing in the atmosphere, shaking the training ground, and crumbling the earth beneath us, and that's when I knew Satan had also awakened his true power.
But something was wrong; he had skipped past three stages and jumped to stage 4, and just like Mammon, he couldn't control it.
He got up, kicked me away, picked up his sword, and threw it at me with full strength.
I parried it away, but that's what he wanted me to do, he dashed towards me, leaving a trail of light behind him, then tried to punch me in my face.
"You know what, training's over, Divine Push!" I roared, pushing him away, through the barrier and wall again.
A few seconds later, I went after him and I found him, crashed into a nearby house.
"Damn, if I didn't do that, I would have to use overdrive on him, and he would definitely be dead right now." I thought to myself, carrying the now unconscious Satan on my back.
"Thank goodness he's already, Tsukiko, why did you have to push him so hard?" Leviathan asked, curiously.
"If I didn't, I would've used Overdrive on him," I muttered.
After they heard the word overdrive, they all got a flashback about the day I killed Lucifer.
It was a dark rainy day, Lucifer, the other devil kings, and their troops advanced on Earth, trying to kill Pope John, when I heard it, I teleported to where they were and unleashed a basic church spell, amped up with my grace, wiping out all the 200,000 troops they brought with them because I didn't want to destroy Vatican and the area around it.
"Ha, look who it is, hero Tsukiko, or should I say, Michael's lapdog. How's sucking up to that bastard Michael doing for you?" Lucifer asked, taunting me.
"He's doing better than your...." Before I could speak Lucifer spat on me.
"Who gave to authority to speak in my presence? If you don't want to die, just leave, and make us do what we're here to do."
"That's it, you just pass the line, I didn't want to kill you because you're a strong fighter and I respected that about you, but because your father died and gave you the Demon Sword Gram, you've become arrogant," I uttered, wiping off his spit.
"Arrogant? We will see about that, come to me, Demonic Sword Gram!" Lucifer roared. "And now activate stage 5!"
"I will just have to finish this and get it over with, with my holy power, I call you now Holy Sword Durandal!" I roared, "And activate Overdrive!"
"Overdrive, what's that? Anyway, it doesn't matter what you do, you will never win against me!" Lucifer roared.
Lucifer dashed at me fast as light, swung his sword unleashed a devastating amount of reverse grace out of it.
I parried it back to him, charged as him, then activated "Durandal mutilation!", dicing him up into multiple pieces before he could see me, feel it, or utter another word.
Leviathan and the others snapped back to reality and let out a devastating scream, "You were planning on using that on Satan?!"
"No, I said I would've, not I was going to. Anyway, training is over, tomorrow I will be training Leviathan." I uttered, snapped my fingers, changing the training ground back into an inn.
After that, I took a bath, headed to my room, and fell asleep.