Just a couple minutes after Rikka and Arashi went their parted way, Rikka found herself inside a large chemical room.
Inside that room she only founds a cabinet full of medicine and rare chemical tidily arranged in the cabinets
Not even a single dust is seen on top of the medicines
That is when Rikka realizes that it is weird for a room inside an abandoned hospital to be this clean
But it was too late for Rikka when realizes that as out of sudden the door behind her just shuts off with a loud bang
Shocked, Rikka quickly draws her bow and aim toward the door but there was nobody to be seen
Feeling cautious, Rikka slowly back away from the door while drawing her bows
She thoughts of blowing the door open with her bow but before she could do that a distant voice called out to her
"I will prefer if you don't do that…"
The voice which caught Rikka off guards making her to dash back towards the door to face the person behind it
Rikka then looks directly toward the man sitting on the table inside the room
He appears to be wearing a dark black suit with a fedora on his head
The person also seems to be in his 30's but that's not the point right now
"Who are you?" Ask Rikka
She then draws her bow aiming toward the guy in case if he tries to pull any tricks
"Relax, I'm not trying to kill you or something…"
"At least not yet…" said the guy while showing of an innocent smile
Hearing the guy words, Rikka slowly put her bow down
"Talk."
The guy just smiles playfully toward Rikka as he is looking down on her
"My name Leo…"
"Leo Smith…" The guy spoken his name
"I'm what your so called "master" tried to fight over the centuries…"
"A Demon…" said Leo with a smirky smile
Rikka is shocked to hear that she is facing one of the big demons that Shinka been tried to fence off all this time
It has been quite a few decades since the last appearance of a big demon in the real world
Shinka has speculated that they might have gone into hiding due to a big loss they suffer in the first underworld war
He didn't thoughts that some of the demons have been hiding on earth and is the reason behind the devils incursion
"Have the demon risen back to take revenge on Gate?" Ask Rikka curious
Leo just grin at Rikka question that he almost let out a chuckle
Seeing the smiles on Leo faces pissed Rikka a bit
"What's so funny?" Rikka asked aggressively
"Nothing, just thinking how foolish a person could be…"
For a reason those words said by Leo made Rikka blood boils in rage, but she tried to calm herself for the moment as she didn't know what is Leo capable of
Just one wrong move could cost in her life. What's more she still thinking about Arashi safety
If she's defeated here then Arashi might not survive to see the next day
"That's right…"
"After years of enduring the shame being defeated by fools like you guys."
"Finally…"
"The day of judgement is getting closer…" said Leo proudly
The looks on Rikka face is absolute fear as she heard Leo rumbling about their plans for another war
"So you're planning for another war toward us?" Ask Rikka curious
Hearing Rikka question, Leo turned his face slightly toward her
Just by a slight look had almost give Rikka a chills
"A war?" Leo spoke in a disbelief
Just out of nowhere he suddenly let out a laugh that he's been holding
"Ha-ha-ha HAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAH!!!!!"
The laugh that he let out sounds annoyingly that it starts to make Rikka to get pissed
"Seriously! What an interesting creature you gatekeeper are!!!" Said Leo while still laughing
"That's right!"
Out of sudden Leo appeared in front of Rikka before she could even react
Shocks, Rikka tried to guards herself with her bow but to her surprised her hands were empty
"This is an interesting weapon…" said Leo as he observes Rikka bow on his hands
"That's…" As Rikka turned around to see Leo
He suddenly disappeared and appeared once again on top of the medicine shelves leaving Rikka bow on the floor
"Stop playing with me!" Shouts Rikka
She then took her bow from the ground and start aiming it toward Leo
"I see that you seem to be a bit impatience." Said Leo looking down on Rikka
"I can show you more than impatience if you keep playing with me…"
Said Rikka still pulling the strings on her bow
"Hmmm, You're no fun at all…"
"Maybe your other friends could entertain me more…" said Leo smiling
"Arashi…" the thought of Arashi in danger suddenly came to Rikka mind
"What did you do to him?!" Shouts Rikka
Leo just smiled while he suddenly disappeared and reappear back sitting on the chair behind the table
"Well you can say that we are letting him played a little bit with one of our new devil that we created…"
"From what I heard. it could possibly be ranked as an A devil."
Hearing that Rikka imagined Arashi fighting off the devil alone and just from that Rikka reached her limit
She immediately draws three arrows on her bow and aim it toward Leo
But none of it hits the target which Rikka had predicted. So she turned towards the door behind her and begin to blow it up a few many time which definitely did a damage toward it
"Hey, Didn't I told you not to make a mess of this room?" Said Leo while glaring at Rikka from her side
Rikka then pulled the strings of her bow and tried to aim toward Leo again
But before she could do that, Leo out of nowhere grab Rikka by the face and slams her down the ground shattering it
"Garhhh!!!" Screams Rikka in pain
"That's no good, Rikka-chan…"
"Aren't you supposed to be Mikaela disciple?" Said Leo with a displeasing voice while looking down on Rikka
Rikka is shocked to hear that Leo knew about her relationship with her mentor that she stared at him with a disbelief look
"How did you?" Said Rikka in disbelief
A smile appeared back on Leo face after seeing the expression on Rikka face
"How can I not know her?"
"After all, she's the one and only person I could call…"
"Rival…" says Leo proudly
He then turned toward Rikka who are still on the ground as she can't move a muscle
"But you…"
"You're just a disgrace to able to call yourself her disciple if this is what you're capable of…" Said Leo in dissatisfaction
Hearing that shocked Rikka a lot but she looks like she didn't deny it either
Leo then out of nowhere takes out a shotgun and aim it on Rikka face
"I guess…This is goodbye then?" Said Leo feeling a bit displeasure
"Yeah…"
Rikka out of sudden spoke out which surprise Leo a bit
"For you…"
Hearing that Leo felt a bit of discomfort that he instantly turned toward his back to see another Rikka aiming the bow toward him
"??!!"
Out of nowhere the Rikka that Leo caught disappear showing that it was an illusion made by Rikka,
Leo was surprised over that, he tried to look around to find Rikka presence but he found nothing
"See you…"
Letting go of her bow strings Rikka hit Leo directly making the whole room to be filled with smokes and blood
After the smokes clear, Rikka falls a bit on her knees as she almost loses half of her energy drawing the bow blowing Leo off
But she tried to force herself up as she needs to helps Arashi as soon as possible, for a moment she had imagined that Arashi is being attack by the devil and that makes her worried
But just as she thought she had defeated Leo, She suddenly felt an unpleasant aura that she's familiar with
The Demon Aura
Just before she could guard herself out of nowhere the sounds of gun being shot across the room could be heard which hit Rikka around her ribs
The shot was so strong that it pushes Rikka off the ground crashing to the ground floor
Rikka coughed up blood as she falls of one of the rubbles she crashed into
"Eh????"
"Is this the only thing you can do?"
"This is sort of a turndown for me…" Said Leo standing on top of the big rubble
"Well, I need to admit the attack caught me off guard…"
"But I do think you could do better…" Said Leo glaring down at Rikka
Rikka just helplessly looking at Leo right now, As she can't move a muscle for real right now
(Shit) thoughts Rikka
"So…"
"What are you going to do now?"
"At this rate you might die you know…"
"Rikka-chan…" Said Leo grinning at helpless Rikka