20 chapter 20

Castiel P.O.V.

We finally arrived at our destination, our meeting point with our target of protection will be Tedako hall, it is quite a nice place. Good ambiance and quite beautiful, it is a wonderful spot for watching a show… if it wasn't for the company.

"Can you understand words or you troglodytes are too stupid for that? My mom asked for the best and I hope you can prove appropriate on a 2 kilometers radius as I do not want any troglodytes closer than that to me! Please disappear from this place, space, time and position of this universe."

And beside me, there are two others that are NOT making the situation any easier.

"What did you say? You ain't shit to go down your fucking high horse you b-" I gave him a punch on the sides before he gets the whole meeting even worse than it already is.

I know how you feel, but you must keep the decorum.

"Tch, from all the missions it had to be taking care of a spoiled brat along a bunch of idiots." The man with blue hair in a ponytail from the train, earlier identified as Kanda Yu, said with an annoyed face and no less self-importance than our protection target.

He is honestly an utterly annoying dude. Was it like this that Saber felt when she had to talk with Gilgamesh?

The moment we got in the hall the girls entered first while I and Okuyasu checked the perimeter. When we approached the room we heard laughter but as soon as we entered it stooped.

Okuyasu, as the fan he apparently is, tried to go and ask for an autograph but she started acting weird, meanwhile, the girls approached me and Miku simple exploded and her reaction was those words.

"*sigh* This is going to be a long mission." I commented while giving a good look at Miku. She was a 17 years old girl with an hour-glass figure (very developed in all the right places), long indigo hair and eyes. She had a mesmerizing face and a small nose that, combined with her body, gave her a mixed impression of a succubus with a fairy (and considering that I am a fiancé of two fairies I know what I am talking about).

She is wearing a beautiful dress of quite an idol style, being mainly yellow with details in blue and white ruffles covering some parts of it, with a yellow moon clip that had a glowed connected to it, and white flower petals. She also wore a choker around her neck with a white lily attached to it. She also had white gloves that went up to her biceps and high-heeled yellow shoes.

If there was one word to describe her it would be a blooming flower… if it wasn't the clear dislike she has of me and the other boys in the room.

"Whatever you say we are here to take care of your protection. As the leader of the protection team, minus the self-centered jerk there," I pointed to the man we saw on the train. " I want to introduce myself. My name is Castiel Emiya, heir of the Tohsaka Tower." I decided to introduce myself in the most professional way I could think of. Also by declaring my title, it would probably take her down a peg as my position is in no way inferior to her own. "This here is my team Emily Fujimura, Seryu Ubiquitous, Okuyasu Higashikata and one of the Sisters. Also, I'd like detailed information of your schedule so as to take better care of the security, also your request of us being in a 2 kilometers radius is simply impossible to follow as it would make the operation simple not work."

She gave me an annoyed glare. I bet that if it wasn't because it was obligatory for her to work with me she'd literally walk always right now after blowing me up, and not on the funny way.

"Un-pleasure to meet you, troglodyte. About my schedule, you may ask my secretary when she comes back, for the rest do not talk to me or let out your ugly voice. Also keep yourself outside the room, as you and these others wasted space on this vast universe pollute the air." She said.

Okuyasu is just about ready to punch her and the girls are not taking it much better, which I can understand. Kanda seem uncaring for the most part and I honestly do not care anymore, I will simply treat all she says as unneeded information.

I gave a slight bow leaving the room with most of the team but leaving Emily with Miku as even if we guard all strategic points it would be idiotic not to place at least one guard beside her at all times.

This will be a long week.

Later that same day

The rest of the day was mostly uneventful. We needed to go from one event to the next unstop with Miku sending death glares to me after she learned of my relationship with more than one girl, her choice words involving 'scum of the earth' and 'pervert of the century'. I take special offense of the last one as the title is in dispute between the trio at Kuoh or Azazel (what he did to Taiga was a dick move).

After a whole day working by her side and hearing her songs much more than I'd like Miku decided to approach me. Probably to complain some more.

"What have you thought, I am amazing right?" She said with a confident voice, a smile on her face.

I decided to answer her honestly, no point in trying to be nice or gentle with her as she is too annoying anyway.

"No, not really. While you do have a pretty voice your music feels empty to me." I told her, which made her freeze a bit.

Before long, she stops with that smile and starts looking possessed with me, if her red face and hateful glare are to be believed.

"You love my songs, right?" I feel that something tried to get in my head but it failed miserably.

Strange.

"No, not really." I answered honestly. I don't really like songs like those that don't feel like the artist even likes it. No true connection or emotion on it.

She seems shocked about something. Oh, I get it now. She was trying to influence my mind. But is it so surprising for me to be capable of defending my mind well enough?

"H-How is this possible? Everyone always listens to what I say, how can you ignore me?"

"Simple really, I am immune to all mental attacks. Yours may be strong but anything bellow low super-level is useless on me and even those are mostly negligible as well with only mental attacks of low Leader-level and above being dangerous." I told her. This present of Zelretch is very useful, not perfect but useful no doubt, and with my soul current capacity added to it I can honestly say that at least on this I am capable enough.

"But I am a goddess." She exclaims after I answered her. Clearly shocked by it.

"You are the daughter of gods, not a true goddess yourself just yet or you'd be Leader-level already. Now if you allow me I will look around the perimeter of the building as I am having a bad feeling." I say taking my leave after asking Seryu and the Sister to take care of Miku that still seems baffled.

While going out I could see that Okuyasu trying to mix up with the ordinary people in the building to be unnoticeable, but it works just as well as an elephant trying to be an assassin (I mean, look at that pompadour, cool as it may be).

Kanda was just reclined on the wall no movement from him besides his glare that was always in anyone passing him by, or on me and my team, or at anything that annoyed him which was a wide spectrum including a bird chipping happily on the distance, he got serious anger problems. Letting this situation slide I went to the floor below.

We were on the third floor of a hotel that Miku will be having a handshake event later, I decided that it would be for the best to use my mystic eyes on the public so as to identify any great sinner as they are the most likely to try something.

After looking for any signs of great sin (fast way of finding assassins and evil in general) all I can see are minor ones like petty stealing, and defamation, or as I'd say any other day on a school.

Huh, what is that? As I decided to look out the window I noticed a white-haired man walking a bit far away, he has a considerable amount of sin surrounding him. It is mostly rape and murder and, considering the feeling I get from him, it is not necessarily in this order.

Shit, this may turn bad and fast. I better warn the others by a message while I go and eliminate this individual. I have no idea if he is after my target or not, but allowing something like him to go is not something I will accept.

"Guys we have a situation, I just noticed an individual on the outside that seems to be bad news, he has decent power levels and I bet he could cause massive casualties if left be. I will go confront him right now so while I am gone rise your protection over Miku. Understood?"

After a moment to process what I just said I heard a chorus of "Yes!" from everyone. Good, working with competent people is really great. Kanda seems uncaring for what I could see as he did not bother to give meany affirmation of what I just said, but I will count that he did.

Outside

As I approached the person I noticed how he looks like. He has silver-white hair and a pretty face for a man if it wasn't for the maniacal aura he is exuding. He is also wearing a priest cloth and with a necklace being a Rosario but no matter how you put makeup in poop it will still be poop.

"I wonder if there are any shit devils or devil lovers around here~? I want to see they screaming so much~." He then looked at me and seemed to realize that I got some reserves of magic on me. I left the mystic code Rin had made me home as it not only masks my power but it also impacts on my fighting strength, something I would never allow in a mission. "Hey shit blondie, do you know where I can find some shit to kill~? I want to kill and rape and kill and rape and kill some more to quench my boredom."

I stayed silent while getting closer to him. I could feel a considerable amount of magic energy in him, probably mid mid-class. Depending on what weapon he has and if he has a back-up or not this could end up bad. I better use that item, it may be a waste but this place is too public to fight and I must end it quickly.

His grin starts to get even bigger seeing me approaching him.

"What is this~? A little shit that is unafraid of dying? I love to make those kinds scream like little girls, it gets me so turned on!" He lunged at me without a second thought and without realizing the small cube I throw at him.

This small cube shinned fast and the light covered both of us, now is the time for a true deathmatch.

Death Arena

"Where are we you little shit?" The white-haired 'priest' asked.

"This here is the death arena, a special zone made by Tohsaka Tower using the principles of a reality marble. It has two effects, it brings those in its area of effect in this space and locks the two sides in a death match. No one can leave here until at least one of us is dead." I explained.

It also has an additional effect of being capable of transferring a small part of the losers' energy or a weapon he carries to the winner; the downside is that even I can't leave or communicate with the exterior world while in here and that the energy levels of the two sides must not be too far apart. It is one of the possible solutions the Tower found to help me get any stronger even if I use it only when necessary as it is always a big danger as I might die in here.

I used this even though I don't like it as a precaution, because if he was to run he could cause much more problems later on.

"Kakakaka, so this is a battle to the death? Just the way I like it!" And with that, he launched himself again at me. He is fast, not as much as Kiba but still faster than any regular human could be. Before I could think it further his sword of light came on an overhead strike that I parried with my sword of Kupriotes.

The pressure of his strike is surprising but still not enough to overwhelm me. With a push, I throw him back but he just came back, starting an assault that was as ferocious as it was unstoppable. It seems like the is unaffected by the charisma that the sword bestows on me, this is troublesome. Charisma is great in that it weakens the opposition fighting spirit but if the opponent is mad he can just outright ignore it.

The attacks continued, but there is no technique on them. He is just a rampaging beast that happens to have a sword. Let's finish this with a strike to the belly.

PIERCE

Before he could react I pushed my sword on his belly, hitting many important organs. As I feel and saw the blood gushing out I felt that it is ov-

BANG

A light bullet pierced my shoulder right through, even if it didn't touch my bones.

Shit, how is he still alive? And since when did he took out that gun? I took my sword out of his wound and jumped back so as to get some distance from him, afterward I took out a phoenix tear I had on me, it may not restore the blood but the injury is gone.

"Did you think this was over? Idiot. You haven't even seen my final form."

And with those words he started changing, his body started growing with many tentacles on his back. He got a horn on his head and tusks in his mouth, his hair got longer and nails became like knives. His skin became green colored and he even grew a tail.

How the hell my detection spell still sees him as a human is beyond me, but the fact that he is a beast is unmistakable.

Let's test the waters.

I hushed toward him and tried to give a swipe aimed at his arm, but the sword failed in its work as it could not cut him properly. It only penetrated around 4 centimeters.

It is almost like his own skin was turned into very small scales, now that I take a closer look, and his flesh is awfully hard to cut.

I could not take much more observations as he turned his eyes to me and two of those tentacles on his back were launched directly in my direction. All I could do was throw myself back, not daring to jump for fear of him sending more of those when I could not evade them (I HATE not being capable of proper flight).

As I used my sword to parry his tentacles I started to think about what my next action should be. I realized then that Kupriotes is in a disadvantage against him, it is a sword made for a king to command an army not fight a beast alone. Also, it is not a true noble phantasm so its specs are far from this level of battle. Lucky me I still have one of the other two gifts my dead left me, and this one is a perfect match for the situation.

Dodging his strikes as fast as possible I deposited Kupriotes and took out another sword. It is an all-black greatsword of around 1,5 meters. It was made apparently made of two plain contorted metal put together as the blade, and with no ornaments or any superfluous detail or anything of the kind, but it had a chain attached to a handcuff that I must put on before I can use the blade.

Despite its plain appearance, it is probably among the strongest swords there are on the world, carrying within it the spirit of an ancient world-devouring wolf (provided by Zelretch, one of his presents that actually were good for anything except to make him laugh) allowing it to have a ferocity embedded on it like no other.

This is the reason why that damn piece of shit that calls himself Beowulf descendent decided to make a rash decision that made us from the Tower serve out the connection to the Gremory clan.

This is the hound of the red plains Hruting. A cursed blade that I honestly love to use, but can't use unless it is in this sort of setting. Now, fighting a beast somewhere where there will not be any possibility of being overpowered by numbers or risking getting my comrades in the crossfire.

Seeing this new sword the beast did not seem to care as it throwing itself at me with claws first. I simply swing the sword and it automatically aims for a weak spot on the underside of the left elbow of this creature while pulling myself to his left, the left that no longer had a hand.

As soon as I finished the cut I feel a surge of strength caused by the curse on the blade that absorbers the blood of the enemy rising the user's parameters in exchange for eroding on my mentality. It is like it grants an artificial Mad Enhancement, reason why I am grateful for another gift Zelretch left me on my 11 birthday.

"The hell? How can you wound this awesome me now that I unleashed the beast transformation?" He said with shock, but it did not last long as he continued with his deranged face of before. "You know what? It doesn't matter, I got healing capacity to heal faster than you can damage me. I will just devour you now!" And with those few words, he launched himself at me again. Unfortunately, he was proven right as he took the arm that was 'detached' and positioned it back on its original position and not even a moment later he was moving his left arm as if normal.

To make sure that the bad news was even worst it seems that since he used this beast transformation his powers have risen to mid high-class level. He still is using his relentless battle 'style' in that he simple attacks non-stop without a care in the world, fully trusting the healing capacity his body seems to have.

He uses claw swipes, tail attacks, bites and even uses those tentacles at me to try and perforate my body. Unfortunately for him, he is exactly the type of enemy less suited to face Hruting.

No matter how many times he launches an attack, or even if he tries to run, I simply cut him again and again on his weak spots. He tried to use a claw swipe, I cut his tendons open and puncture his lungs when his arms drop. He tries a tail attack and I cut his tail off. He tries to perforate my body with the tentacles, I cut them all. He tries to bite me and I cut off his eyes.

Large beasts are the preferred target of this sword. This and armies but I can't use it against any group. The curse would get too strong and even with the gift from Zelretch I still can't give it enough energy to accomplish the sword full potential I can only go up to 40%.

After about five minutes fighting like this, I had already cut him at least 400 times but he still hasn't fallen down. Actually, he seems just fine. His healing is sickening fast, whoever made him (as I doubt this monstrosity is natural) must have used fused with a hydra, or something like it, to make him heal this fast. If it wasn't me he was facing he might have won even against much stronger opponents due to sheer exhaustion.

"What is wrong, sword boy? Tired already? Too bad as I am just getting started, meal time." And so he rushed at me again. *sigh* Doesn't he knows anything else? He is honestly an annoying bastard, he is no more than a crazed lunatic that happened to be used for an experiment that honestly should never have happened.

"Too bad, the time is up to you. Rot in hell you freak. Open Wounds" I used one of my personal curses, one of the few I created from scratch.

It has a simple and devastating effect of opening the wounds suffered in the last hour. I made it for the case I face someone with a high healing capacity. After going to field missions long enough you start to see what is useful for certain special cases such as this.

After I activated the spell he almost exploded, I inflicted so many wounds during this fight, and he might have been able to heal them all, but it was on a limited number of wounds at a time. When he received a larger amount of wounds it took longer for him to heal as he could not heal himself all at once.

Now that he has already weakened somewhat as he needed to regenerate for too many wounds. No matter the species they always spend some amount of energy on regeneration, according to what Riser told me and considering that he is from the Phoenix clan I trust he knows what he is talking about.

No more than seconds after I activated the curse this fake priest finally died due to blood loss. No final words as I did remove his tongue at least 4 times during the fight. Who lets their tongue out like that and expects the opponent to not take advantage of it?

I sit down on the arena itself, after depositing Hruting on my special space again, so as to eliminate the curse that it put on me. Even if it doesn't inflict any bad side effects right now, just reinforcing my parameters, it still is dangerous to let a curse circulate on the body for too long.

Sakura-sensei always warned me about this and made sure I understand that.

As I removed the curse from my body I noticed a small amount of holy energy entering my body. It seems that as the winner I got a small amount of the holy energy that this damn priest had.

Better than nothing I guess… if it wasn't for the fact that I suddenly feel much worse than before. It is a burning sensation on my back and nerves, too weak to kill me but enough to sting in most of my magic circuits. It seems that this affinity fused with my circuits capacity over blessings, rising them a small bit but the pain itself that I feel is strange.

Well, nothing to do now besides getting out of here, the body of the opponent is generally absorbed by the field reinforcing the field for the next fight (recycling at its best). What can I say, it truly is a death arena.

Outside

I am finally out. In there is just plain awful, the smell is terrible and the death and curses in there are just too strong. It is ideal for my curses but any blessing I try to put into another person is almost fully useless in such environment. Now it is best to call the others and tell I am fine and ask a report about what happene-

BOOOMMM!

Fuck, it is just one thing after the other with me.

I hope everyone is fine.