Chapter 70 – Exorcists

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I talked with Sirzechs for a while after that. While we were talking, I saw Rias who was led by Sona went to the third floor from the window. So she did keep her promise and was about to apologize to Hagoromo Gitsune.

"It seems that I can't stay here any longer. Let's meet again in the future, Riku."

I looked at Sirzechs, crossed my arms, and smiled, "Give me a head-up next time. Don't just teleport here without saying anything."

"Sure, then I will go now. Goodbye." Sirzechs said that and he turned to walk towards the old school building.

I stood in the schoolyard alone while looking at Sirzechs's figure that walked away slowly.

Now, my errand boy had recovered from his injuries, but … he didn't bring any Excalibur Shard. In fact, there were no Excalibur Shards in this town.

I guess Kokabiel took a measure of that and moved the Excalibur Shards outside of this town. But, what's the reason for that? Didn't he want to have a war? Shouldn't he just throw the Excalibur in this town and … oh right.

I am here, the Excaliburs would only arrive in my hand instead of the Devils or Exorcists. So basically, it will be useless. I guessed that he will bring the Excalibur when he attacked this town. This will be troublesome.

I frowned and looked in the direction where I felt Freed's energy. He was slowly moving to the edge of this city. So I guessed right, he wanted to regroup with the main Kokabiel's army. I can't do that.

A Purplish-black magic circle appeared under my feet and I teleported to the location near Freed's. I am in an alley between two houses, more specifically, I appeared right in front of Freed who dragged his feet to walk. When he saw me, he glared at me with a lot of killing intent and shouted.

"Youuu!! Why did you always appear?! I will kill you, I will kill you now!" Freed pointed his left index finger towards me.

He took a light blade that was made for an exorcist from his pocket with his right hand and dashed at me. He's slow, slower than the first time I met him. I looked at him with a tired expression and disappeared from my spot.

I appeared again under his body and punched his stomach. He was blown by the forces of my punch and crashed into a wall. The wall cracked and Freed was laying while grunting in pain and trying to get up.

"Useless, you know that you can't beat me. Now, I wanted to ask a question, you better answer this truthfully or I will kill you now as you had turned useless."

"Grrr. Fine! A-ask anything!" Freed leaned his back against the wall and looked up at me.

His head bleed because of a cut from debris. He looked really annoyed, but his eyes were wandering to the left and right searching for an opportunity to run from me.

"I told you it was useless." I crouched down to match his gaze and summoned Nenekirimaru.

I raised Nenekirimaru and used its blade to touch Freed's neck and said, "Now, where are Kokabiel and his army?"

Freed had sweat forming on his shiny head and he had a terrified expression on his face. But he kept smiling.

"T-I don't know."

I moved my blade a little and cut Freed's skin. Blood dripped from the new cut that was made by Nenekirimaru.

"Lie, you were trying to get out of this town. Tell me the truth."

"I'm not lying!" Shouted Freed. "I just wanted to get out of this damn town and fucking run away from this mess!"

This is a mess. I can't tell whether he was lying to me or not. I had two choices, but I won't risk it anymore. As Hagoromo Gitsune said to me that day, I was acting out of my character because I was too cautious.

I moved Nenekirimaru to the left and swung it to the right, separating Freed's head from his body.

"Useless errand boy, sleep well in hell."

I extended my right hand towards Freed's body and used Youjutsu to call for a blue flame. The flame engulfed Freed's body and head and burn them to ash.

After making sure nothing was left, I teleported back to my Mansion in Kanto and decided to continue my training with Kubinashi and Kurotabo.

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A few days had passed since I killed Freed. Days passed at a fast pace. I sat on the couch in my apartment with Tsura and Kuroka sat beside me while Hagoromo Gitsune was still sleeping in the bedroom as the sun had yet to rise. The reason why I sat in my apartment this early was that there was something different today.

The exorcists had entered the town, and both of them had Excalibur Shards. So they had arrived, but the Rating Game had yet to commence. Tomorrow the Rating Game between Rias and Riser will be held in this town, the place was the clearing behind the Kuoh Academy which was enlarged because of my training.

The clearing had become a natural arena for fighting, so I recommend that place to Sirzechs when we were talking a few days ago.

For the exorcists, the church had contacted us since the Excalibur was stolen, so I allowed them to move around the area. But they had manners though, I could feel their energy move towards me, to my apartment.

"Riku-sama, they were walking toward this place nya." Said Kuroka as she leaned her head on my left shoulder.

Tsura was looking at Kuroka jealously before she decided to lean her head on my shoulder too.

"Yeah, they must be here to take the Excalibur Shard. Unfortunately, Kokabiel had moved them to somewhere else, so… They were here to talk to me. I had one shard in my bedroom, but I bet they will not be able to feel it. I won't hand the shard to them … not yet."

Smile formed on my face as I said that. That Excalibur Shard was for Masaomi, there was no way I would give it to them right now. I don't care about their opinion, but I had that shard before they asked for help.

Talking about Masaomi, I forgot to give him a Phoenix Tear to grow his leg again… let's do it later. I was too immersed in my training that I forgot about him. That guy was too easy to be forgotten, he should talk to me more so I didn't forget him again.

I could feel that the exorcists' energy had arrived in front of my apartment, so I looked at Tsura and said.

"Tsura, can you take them here?"

Tsura raised her head and nodded at me, "Certainly, Riku-sama."

Kuroka also raised her head from my shoulder and stood from the couch. She went to my back and stood behind the couch.

I raised my head to look at Kuroka and asked, "Why are you standing there?"

"I just felt like that this is my spot nya! Also, I could look at Riku-sama nape when you were in youkai form from this angle nya!"

I blinked my eyes a few times and said, "Is that so? Then that's fine."

After a while, Tsura brought two female Exorcists which wore a white robe over their clothes inside the room.

They were looking around the room until finally Tsura pointed at the couch across from me and said.

"Please take a seat."

"Thank you!" Said one of the Exorcists with an energetic tone.

I looked at them with a smile on my face as I crossed my arms.

The Exorcists sat on the couch in front of me and I asked, "So, why did the Church send the two of you here?"