A raven wants to kill me!

`[Battle Arena: Duel Mode. Difficulty Setting: G]`

Before the fallen angel can step forward, Luka enters the Battle Arena.

[Duel will begin in 30 seconds!]

He ignores the notification and bites his lip.

"Fuck. Fuck. Fuck."

The pinkhead begins to walk from one side to the other.

"A fallen angel. A fucking fallen angel!"

[0 seconds!

Generating G-rank enemy!]

A few meters away from him, a zombie begins to materialize.

"I can't escape from this situation using the system, after finishing the duel it will be transported to the same place and time. Fuck."

The zombie starts roaring and running towards Luka, just before he reaches him the boy dodges to the side. The zombie stumbles and falls to the ground. Without waiting for his opponent to get up, Luka launches an Ice-Make: Shooting Nail! straight into the zombie's leg. The ice nail goes through his knee almost cutting his leg in two.

"Good, with this he won't be able to get up." The zombie starts to crawl towards Luka but is too slow and the pinkhead walks to the other side of the Arena. "The duel lasts 30 minutes, that's the time I have before the system transports me back to the factory. 30 minutes to come up with a strategy to beat or at least survive a battle against a fallen angel... Fuck, Why did my luck run out in such a fucking awful way? Couldn't it have been something like tripping over some dog shit?"

***

"You are a very bad boy, little rat, that tongue of yours is practically begging to be ripped out." The Fallen Angel taunts him with a haughty smile.

Blue eyes look to the side and he sees the only other way out of the factory. The toy factory has two entrances, the side entrance that is behind the fallen angel and the main entrance that is to the left of Luka, on the other side of the room.

`I need a distraction.`

Luka pulls the bat out of his backpack and grips it tight.

"Oh? The little rat is planning to defeat the big bad angel with a tiny stick." The woman scoffs, looking very amused by the idea. For her this is a game, she is the predator that has her prey cornered.

Luka started running towards the main exit in a quick sprint.

"Hahahah you won't escape!" The fallen angel flies in his direction to intercept him.

`Now!` Luka yanks the bat towards her, the bat flying through the air and a slight hiss is heard as it slices through the air.

`Ice-Make: Shooting Nail!` Luka pointed on top of the fallen angel.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk." The fallen angel tuts and catches the bat with one hand, she tightens her grip on it and smashes it to pieces.

"Did you think tha-" The fallen angel is interrupted by the sound of something breaking and her gaze drifts towards that sound.

A machine attached to the ceiling begins to fall when the rope that held it is broken, that machine is just above the fallen angel and she does not have time to react before the machine falls on top of her.

`Thank you for your sacrifice bat-kun, you will not be forgotten. Every time I kill a zombie I will remember you fondly."

Luka didn't wait to see the result of his plan, he channeled a large amount of mana into his body pushing his body to its limits. Right between the main door of the factory and the place where Luka is are the doors that lead to the workers' changing rooms, the redhead runs into the first changing room and, without stopping running, jumps up through the window.

The pinkhead protects his face with his hands forming an X and goes through the glass. Landing on the other side he rolls onto his left shoulder and he quickly gets up and keeps running.

`Just a little more, I will jump the fence and I will vanish into the city.` Sweat rolls down his forehead and he accelerates towards the fence that surrounds the factory.

Luka hears a loud crash behind him and then a loud buzz. He turns his head and sees something golden approaching at high speed. He barely manages to avoid the golden thing, it crashes to the ground a few steps away from him and sends waves of electrical energy in all directions before dissipating. One of the waves crashes against him and he feels as if he has touched a broken power line.

The remnants of electrical energy are still running through his body when he hears a sound of flapping wings and then an ominous voice.

"You won't escape, little rat." A voice growls full of rage.

The fallen angel is right in front of him, hovering a few inches above the ground flapping her wings and sending black feathers in all directions. The fallen angel is covered in a layer of dust and bleeding from a cut on her forehead, otherwise she appears to be fine.Fine and very pissed off, a hundred times more pissed off than before.

A golden thing starts to form in her hands, a lot of buzzing noise is heard and the thing starts to take the shape of a spear.

"Don't worry, little rat, I will make sure you pay for every drop of blood you spilled." She wipes the blood dripping from her wound with one hand and grasps the lightning spear with the other.

`I don't think she noticed my ice magic, maybe-` Luka jumps to the side dodging the lightning spear, his feet barely touching the ground and he sees another lightning spear heading towards him. The pinkhead falls back barely dodging the attack, the lightning spear almost grazes his stomach and face and the proximity causes the electrical energy of the spear to reach him.

"Argh." His back hits the ground and he winces. `Being electrified hurts a lot! And the damn spear barely touched me, if one of those things hits me... I will be fucked.`

"Shit." Luka raises his head a little and sees another lightning spear heading towards him at full speed, from his position on the ground he knows that he won't have time to completely dodge the blow. His only hope is to try to roll away and pray to all the gods for luck.

The pinkhead begins to do just that, he rolls on the ground and to his surprise he doesn't feel any pain.

He still hears the buzzing noise of the spear and turns his head in that direction. He sees a male figure holding the lightning spear in one hand, both he and the fallen angel stare in disbelief at the person who just appeared out of nowhere.

"I think this is yours." The person tells the fallen angel and before she can say anything he throws the lightning spear towards her at such a speed that Luka can only hear the hiss of air and before he can blink the lightning spear is piercing the fallen angel's chest.

Still with her mouth and eyes wide open she falls to the ground and a pool of blood begins to form around her.

"Luka! You're hurt!" The person crouches down next to him and looks at Luka's forearms with concern.

"Dulio?" The pinkhead is still processing everything and gapes at the teenager.

"I am here, Luka, don't worry I will take you to a hospital right away!" Without waiting for an answer Dulio takes the child in his arms and starts running.

Luka is still astonished by what just happened and just looks at the teenager in disbelief as he carries him away from the factory.

`What the hell just happened?`

***

Dulio took him to a hospital and in the emergency room he convinced the nurses that he is his younger brother and soon a doctor came to examine him.

When breaking the locker room window, several pieces of glass stuck into Luka's forearms, because of the adrenaline that was running through his veins at that time, he had not even noticed the pain.

The doctor removed the pieces of glass, sewed up the largest wounds, and bandaged his hands. Meanwhile the nurse was scolding Dulio for allowing his "little brother" to be unsupervised. The story the blonde made up is that Luka was playing alone in the bathroom and somehow broke the mirror and hurt his hands.

How the nurses fell for such an absurd story Luka doesn't know but he is grateful he doesn't have to be the one to justify his injuries.

`A fallen angel attacked me in an abandoned factory` That's not something he can say, and he doesn't have the energy to make up lies. In fact he is exhausted, his eyes feel heavy and he barely keeps sitting on the hospital table.

All he wants to do is sleep but he fights against exhaustion, he still has things to do.

"Why did you save me?" He asks the blonde once the doctor and nurse have left.

"Eh?" Dulio looks at him confused. "Why? You are a child who was attacked by a fallen angel." He responds with all the naturalness in the world. "Saving you is my duty."

"Duty?"

"Yes, I am an exorcist!" Dulio says proudly.

"Exorcist?" Luka can almost hear a click, all the pieces begin to fit into place and he doesn't like the image they are forming, not one bit. `Fallen angels, exorcists, an exorcist named Dulio Gesualdo. No, no, no- Any world but this one! Are you fucking kidding me ROB?! The world with the boobs-obsessed-lame-harem protagonist?!`

"Yes, exorcists protect people from all kinds of dangers like evil spirits, devils, fallen angels, vampires, and all sorts of dark creatures." Dulio continues, oblivious to Luka's internal crisis.

`A world with all the fucking pantheons, all those crazy godly beings who love to fuck humans over- I am fucked!`

Luka doesn't have the energy to continue fighting his exhaustion and falls asleep, his head hits the pillow. His dreams are anything but peaceful.

***

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This is the ending of Arc 1. Now Luka knows the world he is in and he is not pleased, at all.