"How unsightly!?" Priscina remarked as she looked at the Remedy Corporation Headquarters. "All of these are supposed to be capable mages? If this is all they can do, then they are a joke compared to Angels and Demons."
"Why are you so haughty without even doing anything?" Grimma said with folded arms and a scoffing expression.
"Do I really need to sully my hands by bothering to destroy such an insignificant place!?" She asked as if she didn't already know the answer. Grimma didn't respond, which made Priscina sigh. "I can't really decide if my past self was boring or interesting. You just keep switching between the two things."
"I couldn't care less how you perceived me." Grimma said.
"Fine, fine! I'll get on it." Priscina said while flailing her arms in random directions, "Such a bothersome thing to do."
Turning towards the headquarters located in a 3-storey building which probably has a large number of underground floors as well, Priscina merely brought up a hand and adjusted it to a guard downstairs as if she was aiming with a gun. Within a moment, the guard in questioned starts burning.
"Well, that was easy!" She remarked with a bored expression.
"Ah-" Grimma tried to say something but could not. She was the one who told Priscina to attack the base after all, people getting badly hurt in the process was something she had prepared herself for. And so, with that one moment of faltering upon seeing a person being burnt alive for the first time, she regained composure and said, "There's no time for you to slack off – on to the next one!"
"Yeah, yeah!" Priscina replied without any motivation at all.
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The distance between Remedy Corporation Headquarters from the house we used to live in was about 20 kilometers. With the help of a Demoness, it didn't take all that long for Grimma to reach there. Trevor, having powers that make him capable of jumping over skyscrapers from one place to another, also wasn't going to take too long to reach it.
And that is why; I couldn't be slacking off either. I borrowed the Raijū from Jessica as well as the Manticore from Grey. I was riding on the Manticore and the Raijū was following us. And with that, we headed towards that place as fast as possible too.
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4-5 minutes had passed since the first attack by the Demoness Priscina. Ever since that happened, it had been a slaughter. Members of Remedy were falling left and right, without even giving them a fight. That almost made it look like they were oppressing the weak. And even though Grimma wanted to believe that was not the case, having a Demoness at her side would prove that belief wrong.
"Hey, come on now! Isn't there anyone who is more fun than these weaklings?" Priscina complained as she set 10 men on fire.
"Stop asking for trouble!" Grimma chided her, which she just ignored as she put another 10 men on fire.
They were really destroying a leading organization in mage-craft. This was a feat that most could not even dream of. However, that wasn't what Grimma wanted to be honest. She didn't want to cause destruction. She just wanted to protect her family. But, when Dues ex machina forced the location of her lair in Grimma's head, she left another piece of information. She left in Grimma's head the memory Dues had of overseeing the start of a mission to kill the Glice family.
That letter that caused her to learn about magic, that 'coincidental' timing so perfectly set to make her lie to her father because of a reflex when he asked about her seeing the letter, not to mention the two 'policemen' coming right when she was becoming stronger and capable in mage-craft. All of those 'coincidences' can be explained by the one fact Grimma learned from Dues' memories. It was the fact that Dues had manipulated people around her and made this situation play out like it had. And because she knew all that, she realized that trying to escape them would be pointless because Dues isn't someone you can escape from. And so, the only choice she had left was to fight.
That had caused all this carnage to happen. How can, after all of this, she not go to hell upon dying? Of course she was bound to go to hell when she died. Of course the path that was left for her was to become a Demoness. The path of becoming an Angel was long gone. Even without figuring anything out, seeing Priscina was proof enough of that. However, after figuring it all out, she couldn't help but feel a terrible ache in her heart as her summoned Demoness annihilated all of her opponents.
But then,
"That's a terrible mess you have made, girl." The voice of an adult man came from behind, causing both of them to turn back in surprise. This man had orange hair, a slim physique and style of clothing as well as hair resembling a street punk.
Looking at him, Grimma moved back and said, "Priscina!"
"On it!" Priscina replied as she did what she had been doing the entire time and put the man on fire. But,
"Huh!?" "What the-"
Both of them found themselves surprised when the flames died out in an instant without hurting the man.
"Who … are you!?" Grimma asked, still stunned by that development.
"I'm Trevor," He said in a calm voice, "a friend of your father."
Hearing that, Grimma relaxed a bit as she said, "I see!"
Priscina too relaxed as she too had gotten tense on seeing that Trevor was not affected by her fire but,
"Let me make something clear for you though." Trevor said while staring at her, "If you want to get out of here, I'll help you."
"A-" Grimma tried to say something but Trevor put up a hand so as to say that he wasn't finished. And so, she lets him continue.
"If, for whatever reason, you wish to continue this destruction, I'll knock both of you out and stop you before taking you back to your family."
"…" Grimma became silent as she heard that.
"HA!" Priscina chuckled and said, "There's no point in trying to dawdle, is there? So, let me tell you straight – we aren't going to stop."
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