Cadre - 7

For a moment, nothing happened and there was no reply to Irina's challenging call.

But then-

A sigh seemed to echo through the building, "So the church has sent an exorcist after me?" a distinctly masculine voice drawled almost boredly, it was a nice voice, one you'd expect from a handsome man, it had a pleasant baritone timber to it, "How terribly droll."

Foot steps echoed a moment later, and a man came into view right after, coming to a stop at the top of the staircase. He was a tall man, fine built man with deep brown hair and an incredibly handsome face, with a pair of glinting, intelligent silver eyes and dressed in a fine black suit.

….It was Armani if Kaito wasn't wrong. A suit that probably cost more money than most men made in six months.

'Fuck this guy.' Kaito decided right then and there.

After all, that was the kind of suit Kaito himself dreamed of possessing in the future when he had the money for it and became someone of note.

His silver eyes examined them disinterestedly, eyeing Irina up and down, "A church exorcist with an Excalibur fragment, boring," he rolled his eyes before looking to Kaito, "And slightly more interesting, a Sacred Gear user, dragon-type going by my senses, but nothing special, perhaps a Vritra gear? A waste of time, I've already examined all of them."

He scoffed lightly, "Children, I'll give you one last chance to leave, you're very much out of your depth here," Satanael waved his hand dismissively, "If I must exert myself at all, you will die."

Interesting, not only could he sense Sacred Gears, but on top of that, he could pinpoint what type they were that easily?

Though, more interesting to Kaito, was that he thought he had a Vritra fragment like Sona's boy toy simp.

As much as he hated to admit it, a Vritra gear was on a higher tier than his own Twice Critical. But, the feel of a dragon he radiated was a match for that?

Was it because he had two of them?

"Weird," Irina commented, narrowing her eyes at him, "I was told you weren't the type to show mercy to any enemies, no matter how much weaker than you. Did you have a change of heart maybe?"

Kaito's eyebrow raised at her words. That was indeed weird. Especially since, even if they did leave, they could just tell someone else he was here, someone stronger.

"No, I'm afraid not," Satanael shrugged lightly, very casually, a little too casually in fact, "I indeed don't show mercy to my enemies, but, if someone as powerful as myself actually considered children like you two enemies, I'd become a laughing stock I'm sure. So I suggest you take my generosity while it's good."

'Oh!' Kaito's eyes widened a bit as it clicked, even as Irina turned to him with a frown, "Erm, I'm kind of not feeling comfortable attacking someone that-"

"He's talking bullshit," Kaito cut her off, grinning up at the silver eyed man, "He doesn't want to fight, but not because of any of the crap he said, it's because he can't afford to, he doesn't think he can beat us with how weak he's gotten."

Well, well well. Now this, this he liked.

"Oh!" Irina's own eyes widened in realisation before she scowled at Satanael, "It's not cool to try and manipulate people like that y'know!"

Satanael bored facade faded away, replaced by an angry scowl that he shot at Kaito, "Perhaps, it is no secret that I am indeed weakened at the moment, and exerting myself even for ones as weak as the pair of you will aggravate my wounds," he admitted, "But do not think for a second, That I can't crush the two of you regardless, it will just be an annoyance to do so at the moment."

"The fact you say it like that, makes me like my chances," Kaito bared his teeth, something deep inside of him was practically yelling at him to strike while he was weak like this, "But I'm a nice guy, so how about you hand over Arondight and that sweet suit you're wearing while we're at it and we can pretend we never saw you."

Though just because his instinct was all but blaring that the man had fallen enough in scale to become 'prey', didn't mean he would rely on that alone.

Satanael visibly ground his teeth, while Irina tapped her chin, "That would be for the best actually, that way you can leave without getting hurt, solving things peacefully is the best and the way God would approve of the most."

A snarl escaped the fallen angels lips, "I'm afraid I can't do that, I've lost everything else you see," he bit out, "If you want Arondight, you're going to have to pry it out of my cold, dead fingers children."

That was all Kaito needed to hear.

He took off running towards the staircase.

One step in, a blazing crimson red aura surged out of his body and spread around him in a billowing cloak.

Two steps in, light flashed and gauntlets formed around his fists.

On the third, twin voices echoed from his gauntlets and he launched himself into the air with a powerful, rapid leap.

"[Boost!]

"[Boost!]

He struck Satanael like a meteor and the hallway shook from the impact of his strike.