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Rizevim laughs hearing what this woman just said, after a few minutes he stops laughing and has a carefree smile plastered on his face as he looks at her with disdain.

"My worst nightmare? I think I disagree young miss, you still have a long way to go to reach my level."

Anastasia looks at him in confusion, not understanding where he got his confidence from. 'It looks like Lucifer and Lilith didn't tell their brat about me.'

[Look, another cocky kid, would that be a Lucifer 2.0?] Apollyon mentally communicates.

'Well his father was a bit rebellious, but he seems to be just an asshole. Come on, who abandons their own grandson and has him hunted down by his soldiers.' She answers.

As she mentally judged the man who was similar to a grown-up version of Vali, he grew impatient and releases a portion of his power causing a pressure in the environment that affects Vali making him tremble.

"What happened miss, did some stray cat bit your tongue? Already frightened by this display of power, it seems you are a reckless fool just like my dear Vali." He watched as the woman simply shook her head in disapproval.

Anastasia also releases part of her power matching the pressure exerted by Rizevim, when this occurs Vali no longer feels the crushing pressure of his grandfather which was replaced by a comfortable energy that enveloped him.

"You are quite arrogant, it seems that you will need to be re-educated in the same way as your father." Anastasia raises her sword leaning it on his shoulder and clenches her left fist.

When squeezing her fist, a black and blue viscous substance begins to flow from her hand and when it touches the ground, it expands, advancing like a tsunami towards her opponent. The wave consumed everything in its path, eating away at objects and dissolving them to join the ever-increasing wave itself.

Rizevim even surprised by this kind of unusual attack manages to easily dodge it, still not taking the woman too seriously. He is after all one of the three super devils, only someone like Sirzechs Lucifer or Ajuka Belzeebub are worthy of being personally crushed by him.

She then stops the wave, which falls to the ground changing the color of the same which becomes a black so dark that one could see it as a void, and in it were blue marks that floated and changed over.

"Hey you're good at running away, you got that from father. Little Lucy was very fast at running from me."

"Don't you dare dishonor my father's name in this way, our pure lineage is superior to a mere hum... whatever your race." He gets irritated to hear a stranger openly talking about his ancestry, but he changed his words at the end when realized that a human could not match the pressure he was releasing.

"Oh, did I touch some wound? You seems to be quite proud of his lineage, yet gave an killing order against your own grandson."

"Vali? So that's what it's about... well he may have some of my blood but he's nothing more than an inferior half-breed." Rizevim turns towards Vali. "I even had to get rid of that trash who give him her lesser blood just to motivate him." He smiles, watching his grandson's face contorted with fury. "But he's still pathetic, a waste of my bloodline just like his father."

Vali activated his yet to be mastered sacred gear which granted him a pair of white and blue wings, he then began to run towards Rizevim. "DIEEEE!" Accompanying his charge was the voice of Albion saying [DIVIDE].

Vali was able to halve Rizevim's power but that was not enough. He was simply repelled by his grandfather with a single movement, being brutally thrown back and before he touched the ground he was grabbed by Anastasia's magic that turned the black mather in the ground in a cushion.

"Hey, you don't have to be so brutal at the boy, you really deserve his hate." She tilts her head.

"Vali needs to grow, strength alone makes the Lucifer clan worthy of standing at the top and at the moment he is tainted by his human side, even though that side has bestowed him with sacred gear. A very interesting one by the way."

"Would you torture your family for power?" She gets serious when questioning about it, ready to judge the character of this devil.

Rizevim smiles upon hearing the question and hovers in the air, looking at the her from above.

"I don't need it, I could control the boy but that would be tedious. I already have an unparalleled power that even humans chosen by the sacred gear system can't counter." He speaks with a proud tone while looking towards her grandson. "Not even the thirteen longinus-class."

"If not for power, then you do it for entertainment?" She looks incredulous at him.

"Smart lady." He claps his hands as he speaks with a bored tone. " This world is quite boring so I need to find new ways to have fun. The simplest way is to develop one myself and that's where Vali comes in."

[A bit of chaos is always welcomed, you are a devil of culture.] A voice speaks inside her head proud by the remark.

Anastasia responds mentally to her sword. 'He's a psychopath, and you're as crazy as he is. You were only sealed for going around the world making enemies.'

[A peaceful world is very boring even you agree with me. The only reason you've been quiet all this time is because you made a friend, and he was one of the most peaceful guys possible.] He receives only silence as she takes action in the struggle of the present.

She increases the pressure around Rizevim's wings with her magic forcing him to descend to the ground still filled with the dark substance at the same level as her and speaks with a look of contempt to the man.

The darkness in the ground wraps around Rizevim's legs and forces him to bend slightly to keep himself upright due to the force.

"Did you leave a coin fall or it was just your dignity?" She mocks him for bowing.

Rizevim gets angry and he waves his hand activating something, but no results are acquired.

"How are you doing this? It isn't a sacred gear..." He tries to touch the darkness with his hand but passes through the substance that does not feel solid to his touch, but which presses hard against his leg. 'Maybe it is a different kind of magic?' He analyzed in his mind while feeling a internal burning effect from this strange dark matter.

"What's the problem? It is kinda simple, you knelt because I made you kneel." She raises her palm and the dark ground makes thorns that hold him in the ground piercing his legs.

"What the hell do you want and who are you?" He grunts when pierced but doesn't show any other reaction except for anger, just staring at her curiously with a murderous glare.

"Me? I've already introduced myself as your worst nightmare. But if you want to give me another title how about you call me as the legend of the past who has returned to crush your generation."

"If you're not going to introduce yourself, at least don't talk nonsense. What do you intend to do?" As he speaks he tries to forcefully free himself failling but making some progress as the darkness gets looser.

She ignores his question pondering upon seeing his submissive situation.

"Should I crucify you? According to the bible it was the way to atone for all sins, or the way was asking for Yahweh's forgiveness with a change of heart... who cares." He is pierced when she flicks her fingers, but later forces the situation and gets out of his restrains in the middle of the black matter shape change to giant nails.

He dodges the attack swiftly, and in the place he escaped there were huge nails that looked more as spears.

He takes off hovering in the air so as not to maintain direct contact with the ground that is full of the substance controlled by this woman.

"I'm sure of one thing, I don't like you." Rizevim speaks.

"The feeling is mutual." She then swings her hand to the side and new thorns pieces fly in his direction, but this time Rizevim break them with his brute power.

"You are very arrogant woman. I will make you regret fighting with me."

"A nightmare has to psychologically destroy you, so respect is not necessary. And as for regrets, I already have many, but you are not qualified to become one of them. Anyway, ready for the nightmare?"

"You can't be my nightmare, after all, it is not something from the material or phenomenal world." He laughs trying to restore his superiority over them.

"What is your greatest fear?" She becomes interested in the matter, Vali who was nearby also listens attentively.

"My only nightmare is boredom. A time of peace as desired by the three factions is what I hate... no actually I despise the most." Rizevim opens his arms smiling ecstatically like a maniac.

"So you wish to keep fighting, but what have you done to make your wishes come true?"

"What I did is not the point." Rizevim launches a surprise attack in the form of a sphere of condensed energy that is easily split in two by his enemy's blade. "Let's start our fight young miss."

"Sure, but you should give more respect to your elders even if I like to be called young."

Rizevim looks confused at her, how this young woman would be his elder. Then he shakes his head dismissing the idea.

"Miss, entertain me." He starts shooting more demonic energy blasts towards her.

This time Anastasia simply raises her hand causing the darkness to mold itself like a barrier.

"Is it your best?" Moving her hand the barrier turns into a wave that hit Rizevim.

"I'm not even close. I can do this all day!" He screams raging at her.

He charges forward punching her only to be repelled by the large sword his enemy was wielding. Anastasia simply hits her target like her sword is a baseball bat facing a incoming ball.

Rizevim doesn't give up, he launches some blasts of energy that are cut by the edge of the blade. He tries to teleport and engage in a hand-to-hand duel, forcing his enemy to do the same, he is surprised by her punching him with enormous strength.

On her arm he can see some unknown runes shining like tattoos at the moment she gained the monstrous strength to punch him.

"Wow, I'm surprised!" Anastasia smiles as she sees her "grandson's" futile attempts.

"Are you going to make an excuse now?" He asks, panting from the continued effort. "Come on, I know you're about to give up. You can't beat me, you're only capable of being defensive."

"Not at all. I'm just surprised you thought you could win this fight." She repels him using her magic to create a point of gravitational attraction behind him.

Rizevim along with several of the walls of the residence he was in are pulled by gravity, Rizevim is in the center being surrounded by the other objects that form a giant sphere.

The male old devil tries to make his way out by force but finds himself unable to break from the inside out, until the sphere begins to be filled by the black substance that was shaping like swords to pierce him.

He decides to try something different and uses his demonic energy to destroy the central sphere created by the magic that was causing the attraction making it possible for him to leave the mortal environment.

Rizevim realizing he couldn't deal real damage to his opponent, starts targeting Vali because he's an easier target.

Anastasia casts some barriers with her magic, but she fails to stop all of Rizevim's attacks. Vali is injured by one of his grandfather's attacks causing him to agonize in pain.

Seeing the boy she brought with her get hurt by her carelessness the expression on her face changes from relaxed to serious.

"Do you fear me now? Do you feel hate? Don't worry your end will be the same as the boy." Rizevim smirks at her.

"There's no reason to fear or hate a weaker being, because for worms like you, all I feel is pity." She glares at Rizevim coldly and turns around, speaking to Vali in a tutoring tone. "Kid remember this scene because If the strong stand up, to the weak only the embarrassment remains."

"WEAK?" Rizevim looks enraged. "Do you even know with who you are talking?"

"The loser who got beaten by me?" She innocently tilts her head

"No no no, I am the greatest among all the devils. I am the heir of Lucifer. I am the encarnated evil. I am the super devil Rizevim Livan Lucifer!" He hovers above her looking at her with a proud expression and a sickly grin with blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.

"You're a deluded coward who needs a taste of my fists of love to correct yourself."

She raises her arm vertically and lowers it completely, as a reaction from the dark mass a tentacle suddenly appears grabbing Rizevim's leg and pulling him to the ground.

"Seriously, are you asking for a break?" Rizevim speak at the same time as the movement is executed but soon understand what is the meaning of her raised arm. "FUCK."

Vali still hurt said in a low voice from a safer distance. "So I finally will get to see what this love fist technique is all about."

She closes her fist causing the dark matter to envelop Rizevim's body like a straitjacket as she approaches with a smile.

"This might hurt you, but it will hurt me more... who I want to deceive." She raises her fist in the air and the dark matter envelops it making her hand look gigantic. "It will not hurt anything for me, but for you it will hurt a lot. So RISE and SHINE sweetheart." She brings down her gigantic fist that blocks the sunlight causing a feeling of inferiority in Rizevim's heart.

When her punch touches Rizevim's head, he sinks into the ground that was filled with darkness, which then compresses itself around the target, burying it.

From within the huddle of black mass could be heard the male scream of pain, until after a while it ceased.

Anastasia then stepped forward and removed all the darkness with a simple snap of her fingers. When removing the dark matter, there was only a large crater in the shape of a giant pit.

When looking at the crater, they notice blood, but no sign of Vali's grandfather.

"Did he run away?" Vali looks surprised at the huge hollow pit.

"Yes he did."

"Because you let him go!" He raises his voice receiving a glare from the female goddess.

"Kid, don't say any word to me in that tone. Yes, he ran away because I let him go, but that was for you sake."

"How would his escape be a good thing for me?" He looks frustrated, but not overtly complaining in fear of the possibility of being the next vitim of the Ana's love fists.

"He is your grandfather and your personal enemy. I could eliminate him today, but that wouldn't be good for you."

"Why not?"

"You would keep the memory of him inside your mind forever like a psychological trauma, and you would go on dreading him like a nightmare you never got over." She approaches and pat his head. "You must face him yourself, and you will defeat him with your own strength!"

[She is right partner, it was not the correct time to challenge him. One day we will kill him together.] Albion advises the boy.

"I swear... I will destroy him!" Vali clench his fist thinking about it.

Anastasia get close kneeling in front of the boy, she placed her hand over the boy's clenched fist and gently opened it.

"Vali, the trouble with the ideology of an eye for an eye is it that everyone involded ends up blind."

"Are you dennying my vengeance?" He stares directly at her eyes with anger evident in his eyes, he immediately takes his hand away of her grasp slapping her hands away. "You said I had to do it with my strength, now you tell me I shouldn't do it. What's your problem!"

"I'm not saying revenge is wrong, but living for revenge is. Revenge is just one of many goals in your life, if you keep it as your ultimate goal then your life will be meaningless."

[She's right, living for revenge with it as the ultimate goal is depressing. Ddraig and I always fight among ourselves, but we don't do it exactly for revenge, at least I don't remember as any kind of revenge. In fact it's to prove who is the strongest dragon, it's a matter of pride.]

"But this hatred it's all I have left." Vali looks down at his hands.

[Wrong, you have me and now that strange woman. Think about it, you need to find something that motivates you to live after taking revenge on your grandfather, but don't rush for now. It is something you can find during your journey, be it friends, power or even love.]

"How about we leave the underworld and go to the human world? You might find something interesting there." She holds out her hand and he hesitates to take it. "Is it really okay if I go with you Ana?"

"No problem at all." She smiles and another voice comes from her sword. [If not even your first ancestor caused her much trouble, just imagine a brat like you.]

Vali is taken aback by the mention of the original Lucifer, but he quickly he puts his hand on Ana's open palm. They are teleported to the human world immediatly.