Nighttime was perfect for traveling around Tokyo, as Allyona, Mason, and Calvin wandered around in their clothes. Allyona as usual, not abandoning her military attire, while Mason and Calvin wore simple military jeans, boots, and some green shirts and jackets long enough for conceal carry of their firearms.
"So, Allyona, what do you say, we will go for a round of bowling." – Mason decided to break the ice between the team which recently happened because of some jobs they took… At the same time.
"Sure, why not. I could use some break from this supernatural shit for once and live a regular life. What you say, Calvin? You going?" – Allyona's tone was a bit softer thanks to the icebreaking, mason delivered.
"Yea, whatever, I have no plans for tonight, so I am okay with it." – Said as the trio found easily nearby bowling center and Mason paid for the three. "I owe you a beer." – Allyona said to Mason as she asked the bar owner if he does not mean if they will put their guns on the view, showing the gun carry license she has.
"Oh, guns? How many? And what type? I must list it." – Bowling barkeeper said that, to ensure they aren't going to cause trouble.
"Mine is… Ak-47U. A submachinegun in the size of an MP5… My friends carry regular handguns.. Glock 19 and Colt 1911." – Allyona did not mind if that will allow them to keep the guns.
"How many magazines?" – Shopkeeper continued to write down, what they had in the inventory in terms of firepower. "Two mags, excluding the one loaded in the gun."
Shopkeeper sighed. "Fine, you can, but you have to give me your extra mags for safekeeping. It is to prevent unnecessary violence with these. Last month I allowed extra mags, ended up in a killing spree."
Allyona was puzzled "Why would that happen? Can I ask? If not appropriate, let me know."
Shopkeeper asked her to lend an ear, as he said it silently. "Mafia. Yakuza's gang's dealings. You do not hear about the gang wars because, in exchange for money, politicians allow them to help the police keeping streets safe, doing some dirty work for them, using the law to throw out the criminal competition."
Allyona whispered back. "So. These guys bother you?"
"No. They know I also own a firearm store and a shooting range so they know they can't touch me if they want to legally target practice at my place."
Allyona nodded. "I see. Any news, mister?"
"No.. Aside from the fact that there is a surprising rise in some weird cases of death. People say it's because of a yokai."
Allyona looked at him like a weird guy as the guys took their bawling turns, reserving the third set for her, waiting for her move. "Allyona! Stop chit-chatting and come over here. You have two rounds."
"Sure give me a moment!" – Allyona yelled at them back, as she quickly went back to the talk, putting the curved mags on the table. "So.. What do you know about it?"
"People say weird things and I do not believe in supernatural. Maybe some animal recently evolved and feasts on humans? Shit is weird tho. They say, looking at it can make you go insane."
"Ho-ho? Insane you say?" Allyona moved her head closer to the shopkeeper, giving him some form of a hug, patting his back. "Deserts of Afganistan are more insane, believe me. I will investigate it with friends. What do I get for this work?"
The shopkeeper looked at her. "1 000 000 yen, these cases lower my income. If you will manage to kill what is killing the tourists and locals alike.. You also will have free unlimited access and food on my wallet."
Allyona smiled with a grin, as she heard that.
"Deal, mister…" - Allyona gave him a hand for agreement to be made. "Shinobu. Satou Shinobu."
"Deal then, Mister Shinobu." – Allyona agreed for the deal, and went to her bowling line and grabbed her bowl, threw it gently, taking a strike, picking up another one, and made her move.
"Guys, can we talk for a moment? We have an assignment. 1 Million yen." – When she said the cash amount for a job, she noticed how mason accidentally missed all the pieces on the end of the bowling line and walked closer to her. "Million? Each or split?"
"Split for three. We talk about 334 thousand yen for each one of us. There is a stray demon, killing of people.. Minus is, it is not the type from abandoned area… It's sane… Or I should say.."
"Creative?" – Calvin looked at her as she nodded. "Yes. Give him back extra mags for safekeeping. Rules." – Guys sighed and quickly gave the shopkeeper the mags for their pistols. "They will be back in our hands after the match?"
"Yes" – Shopkeeper nodded as there was Calvin's round.
Match lasted for a bit, with Allyona being on the top when Calvin losing the match. The trio went to the shopkeeper and retrieved their mags, and put them back in the pockets, putting on their jackets and trenchcoats.
Going around the district they were in, the trio was scouting the area, using collectively a spell magic sense that detected anything unusual. For a moment the three thought that the rumors are simply a way of telling that people make suicide a thing.. Or the death of overworking which is a problem.
Allyona stopped as she wandered around for a bit longer, stopping herself and looking around.
"Sesnes cigam ecnahcne."
Allyona's head started to be slowly overflown with the information she wanted to see. The homes in the city are largely lifeless husks, but what to expect from the concrete jungle of Tokyo. If this was a wooden house, this would look different. Suddenly, she received something, as it shook her body with fear, running from the place where she was, searching for Calvin and Mason.
"Mason, Calvin!" – Yelled at the two when she found them, making them turn around and having a look at Allyona, only to be a witness to a wall breaking in an abandoned set of apartments, in the shady part of the district.
Pulling out their guns, the trio aimed at what is coming, surprised that the dust has only shown a human figure. Allyona was scared, as she still had her senses enhanced by magic.
'Shit, thank god, that Allyona had it enhanced. Without it we would be dead.' – Calvin thought in his mind, as they waited for the one who gets out. Surprisingly a shadow of a human, covered in a dark, purple aura appeared, with the demonic wings. As the dust and smoke settled, the monster roared, delivering fear to the trio, who immediately started firing at it.
"OPEN FIRE, DAMNIT!" – Allyona yelled at them as they started spreading led in his direction, hitting 90% of the time, but there was something wrong about the apparition. He was not alone.
This did not work… Or sort of worked as the apparition's aura began to fade, with the people noticing one distinguish detail. His face. His eyes are bigger than average human's and his ears are more deformed. Face? Shows a grin of a monster. Always smiling, in a creepy fashion. He wore black trousers and the breastplate, made from four straps that hold two titanium plates in the middle of the chest and back, looking like he-man's armor.
"All right what the fuck? Picture me scared and surprised." – Calvin for the first time in his life, experienced real fear as he reloaded his pistol, with the monster roaring. Two guys quickly dodged as Allyona stayed in the place, focusing on something, as her aura grew.
"Invasion." – Saying this, she unleashed a barrage of plasma bolts on the beast, as she activated her divine armament. What appeared after a cloud of dust has settled, was armor, resembling that of a corset on her chest but something was off about it. It was made out of platinum-covered bones, and the support was made from gold-covered skull fragments, put into a bra. The cape was made out of red silk, with the wolf fur being at the necklace side, as Allyona corrected it. The boots had heels and were entirely made out of leather, connected with the corset part with the use of leather stripes. The skirt was worn, which was connected to the stripes themselves, as to not be affected by the weather in naughty means.
Gloves were made out of bear paws, and the hood… Was just made out of the head of the bear.
She hit the end of the Corvus glaive against the concrete floor, making the monster fly and the smoke sent away, making it all clear.
"So… Divine Armament?" – Calvin looks at him when Mason nods. Aiming at the monster, Calvin stops Mason from firing. "You crazy? You will shoot her." – Mason sighed as he lowered the gun, as he decided to watch her fight with the monster.
Allyona jumped back as the monster got up, landing nearby them both. "Guys, cover my back, I do not want anything suspicious to interrupt my fight. Got that?"
Nodding she rushed at the monster, pushing the glaive, thrusting it in his direction, making him avoid the thrusts. Humanoid deployed his wings and rushed at Allyona, who was forced to deploy her wings, which moved the fight into the air, and a three-dimensional environment. Rushing at the monster, Allyona was thrusting the spear in his direction again, which forced him to use his long nails to block the blade of the glaive. Allyona kept thrusting it for some time, as she charged some mana into her free hand.
"Egarrab tloberif" – A set of red portals opened and the barrage of bolts made out of the pure fire, hitting the demon hard. "I hate when my kin goes stray, from the guideline my Queen, Lucifer gave to you."
Allyona rushed at him, pushing the glaive's blade into his arm, cutting it off, when she pulled it out.
"You are dead." – She used the glaive's blade to push it against his head, and throw the monster on the ground, creating a huge crater and confusion among the people from the explosion as this night, Tokyo was crowded with people. They ran away as they noticed smoke pillars and fire pillars high, above the concrete skyscrapers.
"Shit, civilians are so troublesome. Tropelet ssam. She created the green glove among the civilians who were nearby the area and teleported them away to a nearby Shinto temple, creating even more confusion and questions. This was brought to the temple's attention.
"Shit, I bring too much attention at that job." Allyona landed on the floor, as the apparition was getting up. She trusted glaive's blade, covered in the anti-demonic symbols against his throat.
"One last pathetic attempt at self-defense, before I will crush you?" – Allyona asked the beast as the guys who were watching her back still observed the duel, from time to time looking at the surrounding area.
The apparition tried to rush at her, but the second hand was severed, with the glaive. As she was about to kill the demon, she was attacked by a barrage of lightning bolts, but successfully deflected them, for her only to be grabbed by the face and pushed against the nearby bloc.
"Killing my toys? Not a good idea."
An unknown man has appeared. Leather shirt, trench coat, cowboy hat, leather boots, and a divine armament.
"Revolution." Said as he summoned a blade, with which, he trusted it into her direction, stopping at her chest.
"Huh. You stopped?" – Allyona asked him, with a smirk on her face. "This is the only time, jerks like you could be this deep, inside of a woman. Phi."
'And I meant it' She said it. Unknown stray threw her around and made her land on the floor nearby the boys who watched.
"Fuck, I told you to watch."
"You told us to watch your back."
"IT WAS NOT MENT TO BE LITERAL!"
Smoke settled as the cowboy appeared, making a slash, that flew against them a curved wave of red flame, which made Allyona block this with the glaive, which switched its runes from anti-demonic to protective, summoning a spiritual figure of a white bear, who made a boxing block pose, pushing the wave away. Runes changed again, back to anti demonic as she rushed against the cowboy, who rushed in her direction. His wings were the regular bat ones, unlike Allyona's which resembled that of her master, Lelouch. A treat every nobleman's resurrected Familia represents.
Swinging again the blade, to clear off the smoke, the cowboy rushed at the trio, with the apparition rushing at Mason and Calvin.
"Oh shit, we are so screwed."
"No, we are not. Open fire!"
They pulled out their guns and fired at the mutated demon for the lead only to be absorbed.
"YES, WE ARE SCREWED!"
Mason and Calvin focused on the apparition when Allyona focused on the swordsman, who she successfully kept at bay. Mason finally remembered that he is a demon, and used some magic, speaking it reverse inside his mind, throwing firebolts and water bolts at him, by snapping his fingers.
"Calvin, barrier"
"Right. Noitcetorp lacigam" – The words Calvin spoke, created a barrier, made out of green energy. The monster kept rushing at it, trying to break the barrier, when they had a break for a while.
"Shit... Any ideas?"
"Nah. Aside from one, but... I do not have Divine Armament. You Neither." – Mason nodded, as he focused on finding a magical solution to the problem.