Occult Research Club
"The nerve of that woman!"
Rias stomped her foot on the ground with a flustered face. If anyone, especially her schoolmates, would see her now, they would wonder if it was their same 'Rias Onee-sama' that they admired.
"I am guessing this is about Naruko-san again." Akeno, Rias' queen and the vice-president of Occult Research Club, said with a chuckle as she poured tea for her king. Her smile only widened as she saw her king pouting at her, answering her question. She didn't say anything more; just held out the teacup, which had Gremory insignia engraved, to Rias.
Rias took the cup from Akeno and then looked out of the window. She saw the perverted trios were being chased by the girls from the Kendo club. She sighed as she took a small sip, "Time is running out Akeno, and my only hope is either Naruko or Issei. The power that we can sense from both of them clearly shows that both have sacred gear, but I have to decide on one of them."
As a devil, it wasn't hard to detect the energy coming from the two humans. The energy signature of both of them was quite unique, Naruko's even more so. And that made the two heiresses believe that both of them might have a distinctive sacred gear.
Akeno came beside her and spoke softly, "Compared to Naruko, Issei has a lot less energy but it will be easy to make him listen to you, unlike our delinquent queen."
"I wish I could take both of them," Rias said without looking at Akeno.
"Unfortunately, you can't be too greedy here. Sona-san understands your situation and that is why she is letting you choose first. But even she wants one of them to join her. So, do you have anyone particular in mind?" Akeno asked.
Rias's eyes caught the girl who was talking with Issei, "Let's just wait a bit more, shall we?"
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From the sitting bench, Naruko was looking at the romantic play in front of her. Issei had the exact goofiest perverted smile her grandfather used to have. And the reason for his smile was the girl accompanying him. Naruko would have gone to Issei and patted him on the shoulder for the sole reason that he was able to go near such a beauty. The said girl had an innocent aura with a killer body and she was clinging really close to the pervert. They were exchanging sweet words. With the soothing atmosphere, it was one of those perfect chick flick moments.
But alas, this sweet romantic drama was soon going to turn into a gory horror movie.
Because anyone with a bit of supernatural awareness could tell that the girl was not who she appeared to be.
"Hey, Issei-kun." The girl called out to him as they stopped near the fountain, "There is something I want to do to celebrate our first date. Can you listen to my wish?"
She wants the 'D'! Issei thought lecherously.
She doesn't want the 'D', you idiot. Naruko was cracking up in her head. She didn't think Issei was this easy to read.
"Will you die for me, please?"
Issei became speechless at her words. He kept blinking as his brain still couldn't process those simple words. The girl didn't wait for his answer as she transformed or more like flashed her entire body to everyone around her, which were just Issei and Naruko. Gone all the innocent aura as it was replaced by bloodlust and wickedness. She looked at Issei with utter disgust, completely opposite from before.
"I will give you six, no seven out of ten for that flashy performance," Naruko spoke loudly, making both of them look at her.
"Naruko-senpai?" Issei looked at Naruko with a dazed expression.
"Who are you and where did you come from?" Raynare asked in a defensive manner. And who would blame her, because she didn't notice Naruko's presence till she practically announced it. And even now she couldn't get a clear read on her power level.
"Namikaze Naruko. I was here, sitting on that bench." Naruko answered the questions in one go. Seeing no one still moving, she shrugged her shoulders. She took out a cigarette packet from her pocket. She didn't look at anyone as she took out one cigarette and put it in her mouth. She was in no hurry.
"Naruko-senpai, you smoke?" Issei asked dumbfounded.
The lighter stopped mere centimeters away from her cigarette. Naruko couldn't help but blink a few times. She looked at Issei and asked in sheer disbelief, "Are you for real? The girl you wanted to fuck literally is going to fuck you figuratively, and all you are doing is looking at her boobs. And I walked right into the middle of a supposed to be murder scene without a damn care and you are asking if I smoke or not?"
Issei chuckled as he scratched his head and looked around, but ultimately his gaze once again settled onto the lady's bosom.
"Doesn't matter as both of you are going to die." Raynare took flight. She stopped when she was around fifty meters from the ground and started floating. She didn't give Issei a second glance but looked at Naruko seductively, "Although I might play with you for a bit."
"Issei," Issei looked at Naruko who finally lit up her cigarette, "This is the time where you scream and run like a bitch."
It took five seconds for his brain to comprehend what Naruko meant by her words. After that Issei took off screaming like a madman.
Clicking her tongue, Raynare threw a holy spear at Issei. But her jaw dropped seeing what happened next.
Naruko appeared in front of the projectile's path and caught the holy spear, by its tip between her index and middle finger. She put back the cigarette pack and lighter back in the pocket and looked lazily at the spear, "So this is the holy spear made by a two winged fallen angel." Then she threw the spear as if it was a trash, "Pathetic, it looks more like a stick with a sharp edge."
"You dare to ridicule me!" Raynare screamed as she started to throw holy spears at Naruko in rage, who just dodged the incoming spears without much effort. Seeing her range attacks were not working, Raynare created one spear but instead of throwing it, she flew right toward Naruko intending to pierce her. Naruko once again caught the holy spear by its tip between her index and thumb. She took out the cigarette with the other hand and blew the smoke directly on Raynare's face.
Raynare jumped back as she screeched, "You bitch!"
Naruko lazily titled her head to dodge another spear that came from behind.
"Dohnaseek," Raynare shouted, though her voice sounded like she was annoyed but honestly she was relieved. The newcomer was a middle-aged looking man wearing a big trench coat. Like Raynare, he also had two wings, which were grey-black in color.
"I took care of the target, Raynare." Dohnaseek looked at Naruko and smirked, "I can't believe you are having a problem with a human."
Naruko wasn't listening to any of them as she was trying to concentrate on Issei's life signature after hearing the newcomer's words. It took her less than a second to pinpoint his location. Issei was barely alive but the appearance of the new presence beside him got her attention.
Naruko smirked, "This should be interesting."
"It will, let's see how strong you are human," Dohnaseek said as he created his own spear, not knowing that Naruko's words were not meant for him.
Naruko didn't even bother to acknowledge what they said as she extended her arm. A ripple started to form in midair right in front of Naruko's stretched hand as if space itself got distorted. And from the ripple, a handle of a sword came out. Naruko pulled the sword out from there and put it on her shoulder, it was a massive broadsword shaped like a giant butcher knife.
"Kubikiribocho."
Both of the fallen angels tensed seeing the sword. But before they could take any actions, no, before they could even blink Naruko was behind Dohnaseek. But Naruko's speed wasn't the most frightening part. It was the fact that somehow Dohnaseek's head was inside the circle close to the top edge. They didn't know how she got there, or how Dohnaseek got his head inside that sword. They weren't even given a second to think or a moment to scream as Naruko just smirked lazily at the guy who just opened his mouth; but before he could utter a single word,
"Bye-bye."
Naruko yanked the sword to the other side, effectively decapitating Dohnaseek. Seeing this Raynare started to shake, heck she was too scared to even talk. After all, the human who they were thinking was below them just killed Dohnaseek with ease in less than a few seconds. And the worst part, she didn't see her moving at all.
"I am not in the mood to kill a woman right now, so scram before I shove this sword up to your pretty face," Naruko said without even looking at the scared woman. Raynare didn't need to be told twice, she flew off as fast as she could without even looking back.
Naruko put away the sword and walked toward where she last sensed Issei.
It didn't take long to get to the unconscious pervert. Naruko looked down at his wounded body and sighed, "I gave you more than a five minute window and this is how far you came?" Naruko took her cigarette and dropped it onto the ground before stepping on it. Then she looked at her side and smirked, "I didn't know you are the stalker type of girl, Rias-chan."
Rias came out from behind a tree, but unlike their previous encounters, this time Rias had a smirk on her face with a confident aura surrounding her, "My apologies, it is not every day you can see a human beheading a fallen angel like that. I must say it was an impressive display of power, Naruko-san."
"Finally we are on a first name basis, are we?" Naruko smirked as she turned to face her.
Rias let out a light giggle, "So Naruko-san, the infamous delinquent queen of Kuoh Academy, the ingenious rule-breaker, the tomboy prince and now the spectacular swordswoman. What else are you hiding?" Rias came and stood very close to Naruko, making her raise an eyebrow at her bold move.
"Well, well, has my charm finally started to work?" Naruko whispered huskily.
Rias was surprised and her face showed her expression just for a second but Naruko caught it. And she knew why Rias was surprised. Because just then Rias used her Devil's charm with full power but unfortunately for Rias, Naruko wasn't someone to fall for such petty tricks.
"You are avoiding the questions, Naruko-san." Rias pouted cutely, making Naruko chuckle.
"We both are hiding quite a lot of things, isn't that right Rias Gremory-chan?" Rias's eyes widened hearing that. Naruko emphasized on the Gremory part to tell her indirectly that all along she knew about her being a devil.
"It's late right now so why not we call it a day?" Naruko looked at Issei and then back at Rias again, "Why not we get to know the real each other, just you and me." Naruko didn't wait for Rias' answer as she turned around, "Meet me in front of my house after school tomorrow, I am pretty sure you know where that is."
Rias didn't get flustered like other times. She looked at Naruko's retreating back with a curious look and a devious smile,
"You sure are a mysterious person, Namikaze Naruko."