*CTANG CTANG CTANG CTANG CTANG CTANG*
*!!!*
“W-WHAT IS THAT?”
“DOESN’T MATTER!! KEEP SHOOTING!!!”
“ROGER!!”
*RATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA*
*CTANG CTANG CTANG CTANG CTANG CTANG CTANG*
Kaito has summoned his summoned being to be in front. He and Hana duck behind it to take cover from the bullets. All of the bullets were effortlessly deflected by the sentient knight armor.
*CTAK CTAK CTAK*
*!!*
“IT'S TIME!! HANA-CHAN!!”
“A-ALRIGHT!!”
*Smooch*
Kaito kisses Hana yet again on her cheek. Her face went incredibly red, and she immediately disappeared from her spot.
*BAAM*
*!*
One of the guards has been successfully knocked out by Hana with a punch to the back of the head.
“W-WHO ARE YOU?!”
*!*
The other guard pulls out a pistol from his pocket and aims it at Hana.
*BAAAMM*
But the sentient knight armor was suddenly next to him, and it bashed the guard’s head with its shield and knocked him out.
“Phew! That went well! I was panicking when the guard suddenly shot! Are you okay, Hana-chan?”
*!*
Hana suddenly rushes to Kaito and lunges towards him.
*THUD*
“OUCH!”
Kaito falls to the ground, and Hana is sitting on top of his belly.
“Kaito-senpai. . .”
“H-Huh?”
Kaito sees how red Hana’s face is and how sexy her eyes look.
“You keep kissing me on the cheek, Kaito-senpai! Do you really love me that much?”
Hana is holding her cheeks with her hands, looking at Kaito with a seductive set of eyes.
“H-Hana-chan?”
“Kaito-senpai! Please marry me already!”
“I apologize, Hana-chan! I love you, too, but I don’t even have that much money to begin with! Let’s save up for now, shall we?”
*!*
“REALLY?”
Hana lowers her head, and her nose is now touching against Kaito’s.
“Yes! Really! I do love you after all!”
“YATTTTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”
Suddenly, Hana jumps out of Kaito, and she’s hopping around, jumping with joy, with her hands held upwards.
“YATTA! YATTA! YATTA! YATTA! YATTA! YATTA!! I AM GETTING MARRIED TO KAITO-SENPAI!! YATTA!! YATTA!!”
Kaito gets up and stands up.
“It’s still far away in the future, though! Marriage nowadays costs so much. . .”
“IT DOESN’T MATTER, KAITO-SENPAI!! AS LONG AS YOU’VE ALREADY GIVEN ME YOUR WORDS!! I’M PRACTICALLY ALREADY YOUR WIFE!! YATTA!”
“That’s not how it works, Hana-chan! Also, I think the proper term is fiancé. Phew! At least we finally take care of all the guards outside.”
“Oh, right! Kaito-senpai, before our marriage, what should we do now?”
“UUhh, I keep telling you that it’s still gonna be a lot of years until then. But let’s go inside and ruin everything they’re doing down there!”
“Down? So, it’s a dungeon?”
“Sort of! Let’s go!”
“Alright, my dear husband!”
“Okay okay, my dear, Hana-chan.”
.
.
.
Kaito and Hana went inside the castle. They walk for a bit and realize how dark it is inside. They pulled out their smartphones and used their flashlight feature.
Inside is an open area with so many rooms and doors all over. And there is a long balcony on the second floor that surrounds the first floor except for the entrance. Most of the doors are broken down, and a lot of them are even missing the entire door, leaving only openings everywhere.
*COUGH COUGH*
“Kaito-senpai! It’s so dusty and dirty inside. . .”
“Please, endure it, Hana-chan! We have to stop their wicked rituals!”
“Alright, Kaito-senpai!”
“Hana-chan! Just Kaito or just senpai is okay. . . We’re dating after all. . .”
“B-But. . .”
“Do you have any specific reason?”
“It’s just. . . I love uttering your name over and over again. And with the senpai suffix, it makes you sound honored. I really like it, Kaito-senpai. . .”
Kaito’s face went slightly red hearing Hana’s response.
“I. . . have no idea you thought of it that way. I apologize! Please address me however you like, Hana-chan!”
“Ehehehe! Understood, Kaito-senpai!”
“Hm, still, this castle isn’t too big, but there are so many rooms inside! I have no idea which one leads to the basement.”
“Even though it’s still in the morning, let’s not take all day just for dealing with these guys, Kaito-senpai! They are not our primary objectives, right?”
“Yeah! The people consumed by the Sloth sin come first! Shall we split up to search faster?”
“E-EH? YOU WANNA SPLIT UP WITH ME?” said Hana, shocked with teary eyes.
“I MEANT SPLITTING UP TO FIND THE BASEMENT!! WHY WOULD I RANDOMLY SAY WE SHOULD SPLIT UP?? I LOVE YOU, YOU IDIOT!!”
*!*
“ALRIGHT, KAITO-SENPAI!! YOUR WORDS FILLED ME WITH ENERGY!! I CAN USE MY FAITH POWER!! I’M SEARCHING THE LEFT SIDE!!”
*BWWOOOOOSSSHHHH*
“. . .*Sigh* Sometimes it’s tiring to deal with her. But, she’s cute and pretty, so it’s all worth it!”
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Kaito summons his summoned being. He searched on the right side, while his summoned being searched on the middle side. He didn’t even give any instructions, and his summoned being already understood its master’s will, as per the rules of Faith power for Summoner type.
.
.
.
After five minutes of searching around the abandoned castle, Kaito finally found a hatch big enough to fit two adults at once.
“HANA-CHAN!! I FOUND IT!!”
“OKAY, KAITO-SENPAI!! I’M COMING!!”
“I’M HEADING DOWN FIRST!! JUST FOLLOW AFTER ME WITH MY SUMMONED BEING!!”
“OKAY, SENPAI!! BE CAREFUL!!”
*KACHLACK*
Kaito opens the hatch on the floor and jumps inside.
*THUD*
*FWOOOM*
*!!!*
The moment he landed below, he saw a fireball flying towards him.
*TCH!”
Kaito's left arm transforms into the same arm armor that his summoned being is wearing, complete with the shield as well.
*FWWUUUSSHHH*
The fireball touches his shield, and it immediately disintegrates into nothing.
*!*
“M-My fireball disappeared?”
Behind the fireball, there was a man wearing a dark red hooded cape that covered half of his entire body over casual clothing and a half black, half-red mask.
Kaito immediately rushes towards the man with his left hand ready to bash the man in the head.
“S-STAY AWAAAAAYYY!!!”
*FWOOOOMMMM*
The masked man fires another fireball from his right palm at Kaito.
*FWUUUSSHH*
The fireball was once again disintegrated as soon as it touched Kaito’s shield.
*BAAAMMM*
“AARRGGHH!!”
Kaito hits the masked man with the flat part of his shield on his tummy, and he immediately falls to the ground, holding his stomach.
“A hallway?”
After the masked man fell, Kaito realized that there was a long hallway underneath the castle that seemed to stretch out far into the distance, as he couldn’t even see the end of it. The entire hallway was also quite dark as it was lit up by torches hung on the walls. The long hallway has many doors on the right wall, and another masked man comes out of the closest door to him.
Kaito reacts quickly and takes the fallen masked man hostage. He untransforms his left hand and transforms his right, wielding the same long sword. He locks the masked man’s neck and points the sharp tip of his long sword at his neck.
“Don’t scream! Or I’ll slit his throat!”
*!*
The other masked man realizes what the situation is. He had no choice but to obey, or his friend would be killed.
“Lift your hand up!”
“Y-Yes!”
The other masked men did as he was told.
“Turn around and lead me to where the ritual is currently being held!”
“I-I understand!”
*Gulp*
The other masked men turn around and start walking slowly ahead of Kaito into the hallway. Kaito forces the masked man in his hold to walk, following the other masked man.
After a few seconds, they reached the end of the hallway. There is a small staircase leading further down with a wooden door at the bottom. The masked man in front turns around to Kaito.
“T-They’re down there! Please let us go! I’ve been forced to do a lot of things while I’m trapped here. They don’t let anyone escape after tricking everyone into joining!”
“I don’t know. You might be lying just to save yourself! I have no way to confirm anything!”
“P-PLEASE BELIEVE ME!! I AM SO SICK OF THESE DEMONIC RITUALS!! I WAS JUST AN OFFICE WORKER WHO WAS SICK OF MY DAILY ROUTINES!! BUT THEN SOMEONE PROMISED ME A NEW AND HOPEFUL LIFE WHERE I NO LONGER HAVE TO GO TO WORK ANYMORE!! THEY DO PAY ME BIG, BUT THESE RITUALS RUINED MY MIND!! I DON’T WANT TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THEM ANYMORE!!”
The masked man shouted in frustration, and everyone downstairs was alerted because of it.
“Your voice was way too loud!!”
*BAAAM*
Kaito smacks the masked man in his hold against the wall to his left, and he passes out immediately.
*THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP*
The door below opens, and several other masked men run upstairs.
“WHAT’S WITH THE COMMOTIONS?”
*!!*
“HIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!”
The masked man who shouted had run to Kaito’s side. Kaito doesn’t sense any harm coming from him, only fears.
“(At least, he’s genuinely terrified! I guess he wasn’t lying!)”
“HEY!! WHO ARE YOU? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?”
One of the masked men has a mask that looks different from the rest, but is still half red and half black.
*STABS*
Kaito stands up and stabs his long sword into the ground.
“Seven Layers of Judgment! The Third Judge, the Judge of Sloth! My name is Tsubasa Kaito! In the name of God, I have come to vanquish all of these ridiculous rituals that involve random innocent people!”
*!!!*
“G-GOD? HE SENT YOU? GRRRRRRR!!! EVERYONE!! COMMENCE COMBAT!! ATTACK AND KILL THAT MAN ASAP!!!”
“WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”
All of the masked men behind him shout their battle cry, and they all charge towards Kaito.
“Hey! You go hide in one of the rooms!! I’ll come get you once I’m done! QUICK!”
“Y-YES!”
The masked man behind Kaito did as he was told.
“HHRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
There are about 12 masked men charging at Kaito, preparing to attack. They all prepared their fist and they used their Faith power.
Some of their fists are engulfed in fire, some are in ice, some in lightning, and others in whirling wind. There are two unique ones whose fists were engulfed in a black mist and a purple mist.
They all stopped running about 1 meter in front of Kaito and punched the air towards him. They all launched their Faith power attacks, and it all merged into one giant white energy blast.
Kaito readies his long sword with his two hands and swings it right towards the incoming giant energy blast.
*SLASH*
*!!!*
His long sword clashed with the giant energy blast, and the giant energy blast suddenly dispersed and disintegrated.
. . . . .
“W-What?”
“Huh?”
“EH? What happened?”
“Where did our combined attack go?”
“My turn now!” said Kaito.
*!*
*BWOOOSSSHHHHH*
Kaito’s legs suddenly transformed and are now clad in the same armor as his summoned being. He runs forward towards the 12 masked men, who are still processing what just happened. He dismissed his sword and right arm armor, and transformed his left arm and wield the shield again.
“EVERYONE!! ACTIVATE YOUR DEMON FORM!!”
“ROGEEEERRRR!!!” All the masked men respond in harmony.
“(Demon form?)”
Slowly and surely, all 12 masked men change shape into demonic creatures of different kinds. There are four who are werewolf-like, four who are bat-like, three who are snake-like, and one who’s ox-like. All of them have human-like proportions.
“(Now what on earth is this? Never seen this before! They all can transform?! But they all just did elemental attacks at the same time! So, this is not Faith power, then?)”
Kaito reaches the first werewolf. The werewolf swings its right claws at his head.
*BAAM*
Kaito, backhandedly, bashes out the werewolf’s hand.
*BAAAAMM*
And then he hit the werewolf in the head and knocked him out with the thin side of his shield.
He runs into the next two werewolves. One swings its claws, and the other swings its leg to sweep Kaito’s legs.
*BAANGG*
Kaito jumps and dodges the leg sweep and blocks the other’s claws with his shield. Kaito easily overpowers the werewolf's strength and bashes away its claws from him.
*BAAAAMM BAAAAMM*
He proceeded to bash the two werewolves in the head consecutively and knocked them out.
Next, he faces one werewolf and two snake-like demons. The werewolf engulfs his claws with fire and lunges forward at Kaito, while the other two simply open their mouths and send a flamethrower at the same time.
Kaito simply lifts his shield, and it clashes with the flamethrower and the flaming claws.
*!!!*
But the flamethrower and the fire in the werewolf’s claws suddenly disperses and disappears.
“HUUUUHHHH??” said the werewolf.
“W-WHERE IS MY FIRE?” said the snake-like demons.
*BAAM BAAM BAAM*
Kaito bashes their head, and they all get knocked out instantly as well.
*!!!*
But then the rest of the demons charge at Kaito at the same time. Kaito is ready, and he lifts his shield yet again.
*BWOOOOSSSHHHH*
But all of a sudden, someone lunges forward from behind towards the charging demons.
“DO NOT GET IN THE WAY OF MY KAITO-SENPAAAIIIIIII!!!!”
*BAAAAAAMMMMM*
*BWOOOOOSSSHHHH*
*GROOOOOOOOOOO*
Hana has come down, and she punches one demon the closest to her, and her punch causes a huge shockwave of air, and she sends all of those demons flying away, backward towards the one masked man with a different mask.
“AAARRRRRGGGHHH!!!”
“RRAAAAAAAA!!!”
“UUUAAARRGGGHHH!!!”
“OOOOOORRGGHHHH!!!”
*GRAAAHK GRAAHHK GRAAHHKK*
All of the demons crash into the one different masked man, and they all fall onto each other near the staircases, piling up on top of each other.
“Hana-chan?”
“Don’t worry, Kaito-senpai! I will always have your back!”
“Errrr, I wasn’t exactly cornered, but thanks for the help!”
The two of them proceed to run towards the staircase heading down and enter the wooden door below.
*!!!!*
Inside, there was a large rectangular room in 5x9 meters in size. There was a table made of stones in the center, and there was a woman's corpse with all of her limbs bound by chains, who was mutilated with all of her torso mostly cut open while she was still alive. There was blood everywhere on the table, and the condition of the corpse looked very disgusting and disturbing.
“K-Kaito-senpai. . .”
Kaito’s eye glare changes into anger. They both approach the table to inspect further.
“. . .”
Kaito touched the woman’s wrist, and it felt warm.
“She was still alive just seconds ago. . .”
“I-I AM SORRY, KAITO-SENPAI!! IF I HADN’T LUNGED AT YOU BACK THEN, WE COULD’VE SAVED HER IN TIME!!”
“No. . . This was my fault! This was because one of the masked men I forced to show me the way suddenly screamed and alerted the others. You have nothing to do with her death. . .”
“. . .Kaito-senpai.”
They both mourned for the woman who passed away minutes ago. But then someone crawled down the staircase into the rectangular room.
*!*
“CURSE. . . YOU. . . FOLLOWERS OF. . . GOD!!!”
It was the one different masked man. He seems to be their leader of some sort.
“What were you doing to this woman?”
“Experiment. . . to make her. . . able to turn into. . . a demon as well. . .”
“She died. . .”
“WHAT? NOOOOOO!!!! SHE SHOWED PROMISING COMPATIBILITY!! CURSE YOU, FOLLOWERS OF GOD!! WE ALMOST HAD ANOTHER DEMONIC HUMAN AT MY LEVEL!!”
*?*
“What did you say?”
Suddenly, the masked man glows in black and yellow.
“YOU’LL FIND OUT!!”
*!!!*
“HANA-CHAN!!”
“KAITO-SENPAI?!”
Kaito senses immediate danger coming from the masked man, and he immediately hugs, crouches down, and holds Hana in his arms.
*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM*
*BWOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSHHHHHH*
*GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO*
*GRAAAHHHKKKK GRAAAHHHKK GRAAAHHHKKKK*
Neither of them saw what happened, but it felt like a giant explosion had occurred and destroyed the entire room. The ceilings and the ground above collapsed on them.
And then everything went quiet after a few seconds.
*BAAAAAAMMMMM*
At the very last second, Kaito summoned his summoned being to protect them both. It raised its shield and bashed all the collapsed rubble, and both Kaito and Hana were freed. The ruins around them were bashed open, and there was an opened long and giant hole towards the outside above them.
*THUD THUD*
Both of them hop on Kaito’s summoned being’s back, and it flies upwards, outside the giant hole.
*!!!!*
What they see outside completely takes their breath away. They saw a giant monster standing 30 meters tall above the ground. It is almost as tall as most of the small mountains in the area.
The monster has a giant pair of glowing red eyes. Its head looks like a dinosaur, a T-Rex to be exact, yet its body onwards all the way down to the feet, was humanoid. It has a tail that is 10 meters long. Its hands have claws growing from its fingers as well as from its toes.
“GRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”
It roars loudly, and it sends a shockwave of air everywhere with its mighty roar. There is a 3-meter-tall set of sharp teeth inside its mouth. Its entire body is covered in tough, crocodile-like scales, acting as armor to fend off any incoming harm towards it. Sharp spikes are coming out of his head, acting as a horn, out of its elbows, its back, its knees, and its shoulders.
