7 Chapter 7 - Can You Anger Someone To Death?
Author's Note: Haven't read through this yet, I'll do it later.
As Koko's fist made contact with the stray devil, it was like time slowed down for a moment before it shot off with a meaty thud leaving a trail of purple energy behind as it flew towards the forest, the force of the punch spreading outwards from the point of contact cracking the surrounding area.
Quickly sending psychic energy through her gauntlets, a TT field instantly appeared around her silhouette before she bent her knees and shot after the stray devil with the sound of a bullet firing, further cracking the ground beneath her.
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The stray devil eventually ended up landing in a clearing roughly the size of 2 football fields next to each other. Harshly crashing into the ground the stray devil continued involuntarily rolling for about a dozen meters before managing to reduce the momentum, barely having time to staggeringly right himself, before Koko shot out of the shrubbery in a flash of purple.
Landing a few meters away from the stray devil, Koko looked at his miserable appearance. Barely standing straight, the stray devil was panting while holding onto where Koko punched it, it's eyes slightly unfocused before locking onto her figure. Just staring at her for a few moments, it's eyes widened slightly in recognition, before narrowing as his body started slightly shake in rage.
"Who the fuck are you supposed to be, huh!?"
"Sup my name's Koko, I picked it myself."
The stray devil's eye twitched at her nonchalant reply.
"I don't feel any holy magic from you, so you ain't with the church fucks, you just another nobody trying to play hero or something!?
"Nah I was just a bit curious since you appeared on my radar a few hours ago and wanted to check it out."
"..."
The stray devil could feel his blood boiling. He grit his teeth while feeling the nerves in his temple getting closer and closer to bursting, it wasn't long after that his anger broke through his composure. Forgetting about the power of the punch he recieved not too long ago, he roared.
"Are you underestimating me!? You're just a fucking human, do you think you can beat me? Me!? I'm a fucking Mid-Class devil and it won't be long before I reach High-Class now that I've escaped that pathetic fuck that thought he could control me. After that I'll eventually reach Ultimate-Class, you don't know who you're messing-"
While the stray devil was going on a rant, Koko was currently messing with pieces of debris she found in her hair in thought. If this was a 'Mid-class' devil and there were both High-class and Ultimate-class above that, this guy was probably fodder material, which got her thinking. If she by chance met someone faster than her, she needed something to help her be able to actually hit them. Now the question was, did she want something to make her enemies slower, herself faster or something else entirely?
...
...
Why not all three?
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Eventually running out of steam, the stray devil looked up to see Koko absentmindedly using her fingers to flick small pieces of debris at one of the trees at the edge of the clearing. Staring uncomprehendingly for a few moments, the stray devil eventually felt a blood vessel pop.
"Hey!"
Hearing a shout Koko blinked a few times before emerging from her thoughts and looking towards him.
"Hmm? Oh, you're done?"
"..."
The stray devil started twitching and shaking as he felt his anger returning with a burning vengeance. Coursing through his veins it reached a point it clouded his mind as he jumped towards the infuriating little girl with a shout of rage, using every little bit of demonic energy he had recovered in his attack.
Koko looked at the incoming attack nonchalantly while a smug smile gradually appeared under her mask.
"I can do that too, you know?"
As his fist got closer and closer, Koko opened her mouth just before it made contact and spoke.
"Boop."
An instant later, a devestating sound wave exploded out from Koko quickly spreading through the clearing ripping up the ground and kicking up dust. After waiting for a few seconds the dust gradually settled and Koko could see the aftermath of her attack. With her as the center, a huge area of the clearing was cracked and broken up looking like a bomb had gone off, the trees along the edge had also been ripped through the roots and sent flying.
Waving the last of the dust away, Koko walked over to the stray devil's body, looking for a moment she went and got a stick before walking back. Poking the face a few... dozens of times to make sure it was dead, she decided to give the head another few punches to make reeeally sure it wouldn't be getting up again.
"Welp... he's probably had better days."
The stray devil's whole ribcage had sort of just caved in, it's limbs were bending the wrong ways and what was left of it's head had blood dripping out of it's ears and nose.
Standing up again, Koko placed her hand on her chin in thought while looked at the devestation around her and then at the remains of the stray devil's body.
"Hmm~"
"..."
Eventually she just shrugged.
"Meh, not my problem."
When she got back to the scrapyard, she started working on a device that would mask anything 'supernatural' happening around the scrapyard since she didn't want every Dom, Hick and Barry to know where her base was before she set up some defenses.
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Looking at the destruction around them two people in church robes inspected the battlefield, having heard the sounds of fighting the two had rushed towards the source but when they arrived, it was already over. Spotting the stray devil's body, one of them walked over.
"Hey, there's a stray devil over here."
"Really? Let me see."
The second person also walked over and looked down at the body, while the first person crouched down to take a closer look.
"What the hell did this? I can't sense any lingering mana in the surroundings other than the stray devil's."
The second person rolled his eyes.
"Who cares, let's just report it and get back to the Vatican."
The first person just let out a sigh before standing up while shaking his head.
"Yeah, yeah, I know. We'll have to erase the traces of the fight first, though."
"Urgh!"
