Chapter 4 - Junior, You Dare?!

The next day arrived and I already woke up. Well, that's not true. I actually didn't sleep. Well, I did. But when I went to sleep. My omnipresent view of my surroundings didn't cease and when I noticed Asia was waking up. I also woke up immediately and took out the bread from my shadow.

"Meow."

I crawl up to her face and nuzzle on her.

"Oh, Ray. Good morning." She said with a half asleep voice as she petted my fur. It felt good for some reason. Better than Serafall's caressing.

"Meow." I called again and purred before moving to fetch the bread and place it on her hand.

"What's this? Bread?" Asia woke up and looked at the plastic bag. "Did you get this for me?"

I hurriedly nodded and nudged the bread to her, telling her to eat it before that bitch Raynare didn't even bother to give her anything to eat last night and immediately threw her into this room telling her to sleep.

"Ah! Thank you, Ray." Her eyes become wet at the kindness shown to her.

I felt like my heart was crushed seeing such a pure girl being subjected to such injustice. Fuck god, wait he's dead. Fuck Michael and the Church for throwing her away when her exile wasn't even her fault.

If not for knowing ahead of time that Asia wouldn't be happy to see me tear apart the Heaven and the Church. I would already crush them with my own han— Err, with my own paws.

Asia makes her prayer to thank for the food before she feast it like she never ate something this delicious before. Well, I doubt she actually ever ate a mango swiss roll before.

"Do you want some too, Ray?" Asia offered half for me but I shook my head and pushed her hand back, saying she should eat it herself.

It took some back and forth before she ate the other half because she is insistent on making Ray eat the other half, saying she felt ungrateful to eat all this alone when he is the one that gets the food.

Later, that bitch Raynare's subordinates, Mittelt come and ordered Asia to prepare herself and present herself before Raynare.

Ray can already see what is gonna happen next as he sees Freed Sellzen's arrival from the shadows and guess Asia will be assigned to that mad priest.

As much as I want to immediately murk the mad priest. I must wait until Asia realizes that Raynare and her band of misfits are evil people first and then he can start eliminating them. Then I can help her escape.

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Nearly the whole day went by and I had been simply observing the town while lazily perching on a tree branch using my shadow which meld with all the shadows across the town and became my eyes.

Freed Sellzen and Asia only get to work during the night time when Devils are out doing their contract. Freed is using purging Devil worshippers as an excuse to kill and brings Asia along to watch him.

But when he killed his first victim and turned his victim into a grotesque display of art, Issei Hyoudou arrived as the original story should. I sort of expected some kind of changes in the storyline because my interference caused Issei and Asia to never be acquainted. But there are indeed changes though.

I sensed another Devil is following Issei as a watch out considering the Devils had become extra careful after what I did in the park and caused them to think there is unknown danger lurking in the town.

"Good evening!" Issei called from the front door only to notice the door was left ajar.

Thinking maybe the homeowner was leaving the door open for him, Issei walked by without much thought.

Issei entered the Devil Contractor's house to find Freed Sellzen inside and the contractor had been mutilated beyond recognition with a pool of its blood covering the floor.

"This… blood?!" Issei made a panicked yelp and stumbled backwards while trying to hold back his dinner that was raising up his throat as the trauma from being killed by Raynare still fresh in his mind.

"It's the punishment for the wicked. Well, I'm just quoting the holy scripture." Freed said with a grin before he stood up from the sofa and greeted Issei. "Well. Well. Well. What do we have here? A Devil? Let me introduce myself, I am Freed Sellzen, an exorcist and a priest from a certain organization."

Issei's face immediately paled. "Priest?" He repeated the word as dread immediately gripped his body.

"Yes. Yes. A priest. Well, a shitty Devil like you didn't need to care because I'm going to stab your heart with this marvelous sword and score a headshot with this fabulous gun. Hahaha!" Freed immediately took out a Light Sword and Light Gun.

But before Freed could attack Issei, a terrified cry interrupted him as he turned to see Asia returning to the living room and noticed the corpse turn art exhibit on the puddle of blood.

"Hmn? Ah! Asia-chan, my lovely assistant. Did you finish setting up the barrier already?" Freed asked but his questions were ignored.

"What is this, Father Freed? Why did you kill this person?" Asia asked with a distraught cry.

"Oh! Right, you are a beginner. Well, this is our job. Asia-chan~ Our job is to kill these worthless trash beguiled by the Devils."

"No! Why! Why must you kill them? We could lead them back to the right path and return to the grace of god."

"Haah, you must be joking. These people are sinners and it's my job to make sure they are dead just like this guy over here!" Freed returned his attention to Issei and attacked him but Issei managed to summon his Sacred Gear just in time to block the strike.

Then, Asia suddenly ran in front of Freed to stop him from attacking Issei.

"Oi, oi. You must be joking, Asia-chan. Are you trying to shelter a devil again." Freed shook his head with an exasperated look of disappointment.

"No. I just would be able to bear looking at you killing another innocent person." Asia said while herself is being gripped by fear. Yet she still valiantly stood in front of Issei defiantly, unwilling to see another death.

"Are you serious? He is a Devil you know. Reincarnated Devil. But still a Devil. Yet you are still going to stop me?" Freed said with an annoyed look.

"Sinner can repent, Father Freed. Killing them just like that is wrong. They can still seek forgiveness from god." Asia said defiantly.

"Tch. I want to carve you up so badly. But that fallen angel woman said I can't harm you." Freed said calmly before his face morphed into a grin. "But, a little punishment shouldn't be a problem." He lecherously licks his lips and slash his Light sword to cut off Asia's clothes.

Suddenly, a crimson red magic circle appeared and Issei immediately recognized it as the Gremory clan's teleportation magic circle.

"Issei!" Kiba arrives first and is about to rush and stop the priest from killing Issei only to find Issei isn't harmed at all other than a little pale and terrified.

"What is happening?" The rest of Rias Gremory peerage arrived and saw the Light sword was suspended mid air with numerous dark tentacles gripping the sword.

Obviously, no one in the room recognized the power used to stop Freed. The power that seems to manipulate the shadow like a tangible object.

Suddenly, Rias received a transmission from Serafall Leviathan. "Rias! Leave that place immediately the—" It was cut off halfway and when Rias tried to open the teleportation circle again, it was too late. The room was trapped into another dimension.

The whole room was devoured by pitch black shadow and from the shadow, numerous eyes opened up from within the shadow and looked at Freed Sellzen.

"W-WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!" Freed tried to resist and cut the tentacles but nothing worked.

"Freed Sellzen. You dare harbor malicious intentions on my ward." A deep echoing voice resound across the room and the origin of the voice was the cat that appeared before Asia, separating her from Freed.

From the little light source present in the room, it cast some light on the unassuming cat and to those that are attentive. They can see numerous shadow tentacles coming from it which have eyes darting around which give anyone a creep just by looking at it.

"For your sin, your sentence will be death." The voice declared before the shadow underneath it expanded out into a massive maw that swallowed Freed in a single bite and then chewed it with a loud and sickening crunch from the bones breaking being crushed.

"Let's go, Asia." The cat turned around and looked at the nun girl before the shadow enveloped them and they vanished as everything went back to normal minus the corpse of the contractor, mutilated and scattered in the pool of his own blood.

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