Chapter 13 - Prologue

It's the middle of a night in early May…

*Roooaaarr!*

Somewhere in a secluded alleyway, an immense bestial demon, resembling a wolf with two heads and his kin pounces at a certain pair of people.

"Tch!" The young man nimbly dodges to the side as the monster jaws breaks through the electrical pole behind him like it was paper.

"Karasu!" The man shouted as he signaled at the bird circling in the air.

"Got you Partner!" The raven flies at his direction and glows brightly as he starts to change shape. Transforming into a pair of Tonfas, the man grabs the and spins his weapon like a tornado and uses the acceleration to slam against the demon's face, forcing to instantly crash against the wall more than fifty feet away.

He proceeds to dominate a large amount of his pups in amazing speeds. Like the incarnation of a live cyclone, blowing all of his opponents everywhere.

"Everything ok in your end Bea?" He asks while back to back the knight in a heavy suit of armor and wielding a strange large shield with 'S' shaped metal frame in the middle.

"No problem. Their fangs are too weak and frail to pierce through these!" She kicks away the monster trying to gnaw her arm and gauntlet. Following that, she then flings her shield at the group of the demon's spawn where the other one had landed.

"Flint!" The moment she says this word, the edges of said shield ignites with flames, gaining incredible propulsion as it spins uncontrollably. Almost like a rocket taking flight.

*Crash!*

*Roooaarrrr!*

It was way too fast for the demons to even see the attack coming, let alone dodge. Little remained of the them after her move connected, only leaving behind the shield stuck in the ground, the concrete floor completely shattered.

*Gaoo!!* A large group of Sabretooth tigers on fire hiding in the cover of the night suddenly pounces behind the warrior, who was now unarmed.

"If you think that I'm defenseless just because I don't have my shield anymore, then think again! Yale! Armonite!" She quickly turns their direction as the jewels on her gauntlets starts glow an incandescent red as it gathers and release enormous amounts of heat and steam pressure.

"Molten Comet! ORA!!!!" Making use of the steam pressure to propel her arms back and forth. she lets out a lighting fast barrage of punches against the beasts, the surrounding temperature spikes significantly with each blow. Her fists started to create so much heat that her surroundings twisted and her enemies reduced to nothing but ashes.

The shockwave of her furious strikes utterly demolished the building more than a hundred feet away and melted two thirds of a car next to her.

*Garrr!!* Angered by the death of his altered offspring, the giant sized wolf gets up, kicks away the debris, howls louder than before as his head show magic circles floating in front of his two mouths. One of the heads then breathes a very cold breath, freezing objects solid while the other releases a stream of electricity, scorching everything, including the few corpses of his kin that had remained.

"Futile…" Crow drops his stance and his Tonfas disappears out of thin air. He then gives one large step back to get into the range of the light given by the lamppost nearby. He performs multiple hand signs at incredible speeds and then reaches one hand at the incoming attack and…

"Grant me your power! Devour my enemies in thy dark luster! Black Viper!"

His shadow suddenly extends, jumps out of the floor and starts to quickly slither like a snake. It devours the bolts and cold alike as it reaches for the demonic beast.

*Roar!!!*

The monster only could whimper helplessly as the he sinks into the bottomless shadow and swallows him whole, leaving nothing of its meal behind. A few seconds later, only solemn silence covered the turbulent night. The shadow then crawls onto the floor once again and return to below his owner's feet.

The knight then proceeds to removes her helmet, revealing a familiar tomboyish looking girl as she brushes the sweat off her forehead. Her short, amber colored hair was now long, tied in a ponytail, its shade and color a vivid red.

"Phew! All done here! It has been a long time since we last did a mission together! Good thing Karasu set that barrier or else police would already be here by now!"

"Bink's info has been on incredibly useful and on point so far. We haven't exterminated this many in a single month since Master's last mission as the former Valkyrie…"

"Yeah. Although, Bink still hasn't said anything on the hosts of the Seven Deadly Sins or 'him' yet…"

"We can't complain much since this is only happening because it was Sensei's idea. We managed to save a lot of people, destroy a bunch of nests and subdue a lot of demons so far. I'll say we take what we can get. Not to mention the recovery of a lot of artifacts too. Guess we'll just have to wait for him to come up and say something about it…"

"The two clowns gave a me rundown on how they would like to proceed in case we freed him. Got to admit, I'm starting to that those two might make a good pair after all…" Agnicia seems to ponder about something until…

*Pipipi!*

The cellphone on Crow's pocket started to ring.

"Hm? Unknown number?"

While suspicious, Crow decides to accept the call and put over his ear.

"Hello?"

"Good evening! Is that you Crow boy?"

"Bink-San? Where in the world did you managed to get a-"

"Don't worry about that! I'm still behind bars if that's you are going to ask! It's too cozy in here for me to even consider leaving…But never mind about that! Put Bea-Chan on the call too! I've got great news!"

(Forget the phone. When and how did he even got your number in the first place?) Both Agnicia and Karasu thought to themselves at the same time as Crow puts the call on speaker…

(Actually, never mind. There is one person who comes to mind…)

Somewhere far away from there…

"Achoo! Heh! Someone must be talking about how awesome I am! Either that or I owe someone money again! Bwahaha!" Ero-Sensei sneezes in the teacher's office and speaks to himself. His grandstanding laughter echoes down the halls of Merry High…