Both sides charged at each other
Menville's henchmen against Agnes's Musketeer squadron
The two leaders decided to charge at each other lastly.
The two charged at each other started exchanging blows.
Menville took swipes at Agnes with his magic rod
And Agnes countered with her sword
Scene change
Louise stood in front of the campus building underneath the blue moon in the night sky.
"Those explosions....." Louise said witnessing the many explosions that were actually Menville blowing the windows apart
" We have to hurry and get there. Though I don't know what I'll do if they have hostages." Shera
"Don't stress so much I'll figure something out." Louise
"Like what ? Blowing everyone up, including the hostages. I don't even know why I gave you your wand back." Shera
Louise was hurt....but nowhere near as hurt as she was angry
"Hey !-" Louise started but was interrupteed
" She's right you know, I doubt theirs actually anything you could do without causing more chaos." A familiar female voice said
Louise and Shera turned around and seen Kirche and Tabitha walking up
(A/N Holy $hit, where have these two been all this volume. Its like they were in every other chapter last volume, but this volume its like they didn't even exist. I almost forgot about Kirche just because I don't intend to bring her into the harem.)
" Hello, so the bad guys weren't able to get you two huh ? great ! Shera exclaimed throwing her arms in the air and having one leg lifted up behind her back in a cheerleader stance
" Ha. No we actually didn't come in contact with them, hey Tabitha can you sense their power ?" Kirche
"Mhm;" Tabitha nodded" There isn't that a lot f them, but they are skilled. Someone is coming by the way." Tabitha said
Coming from around the corner was Colbert,who seen then quickly approached them
"Girls ? Louise, what are you all doing here ?! You all should be hiding for safety." Colbert
" What about the hostages ?" Shera
" I sent a letter to her majesty, she will send reinforcements ." Colbert
" We don't have time to wait on reinforcements, the students are in danger." Louise said as if she was any help whatsoever
"Understand your concern but-" Colbert was nearly pleading until Kirche interrupted him
"No, I don't care. We are going to save the rest of the students you could hide if you want to, we aren't cowards like you." Kirche said with her arms folded
(A/N Just imagine the most smuggest ass-hole you can fore her expression.)
Scene change
" So let me get this straight. This red blood colored liquid is supposed to heal me ? How does it work, water magic ?" Cattleya said studying the bottle in Diablo's hands
Cattleya was very skeptical of the healing potion, she was crouched over very close to Diablo trying to study the contents up close
Diablo was slightly embarrassed by having an beautiful and busty woman so close to him.
" Let me give you a demonstration. " Diablo
the two went outside the house and Diablo gave himself some space so he could demonstrate
Diablo drew Derflinger from his side on his belt
Diablo then reached out his left hand
And cut it off
(Gasp) was the sound that Cattleya made while throwing her hands to her face in a terrified manner, she also instinctively took a step back
Scene change
Agnes and Menville were still clashing at each other
Too the outside eye they both looked like crazed artist taking wild strokes at each other as if they were painting with paint brushes
But really the swipes they took at each other was well timed and of accurate placing
However one warrior was a little bit more accurate than the other
Menville swung his magic rod at Agnes
Agnes parried and took a slight step back, it seemed as if she was momentarily overpowered
Menville who noticed this instantly charged in to keep her from recovering her balance, but Agnes was faking that slight movement in anticipation that Menvlle would react this way
When Menville was close enough he had started to form an attack, Agnes used her quick speed to swiftly step pass Menville and side swipe him on the way
Giving him a cut on the face
Menville lunged forward to get out of reach from Agnes
Now the two were on opposites sides
"I admit it, you fight better than me with a sword." Menville
"But your still just a plebeian." Menville said and blasted a fireball.
Agnes blocked with her sword but was still damaged because the sword couldn't fully protect her body from the excess flames like a shield
"So your a noble huh ? No big deal, I've been fighting pigs like you all of my life. Guh !" Agnes said and closed the distance and then swung her sword
Menville parried her away and then talked himself
"But how many nobles have you faced like me ? I once burned down a village." Menville said for no particular reason other than to brag I guess.
"Wait, huh when did this happen ?" Agnes said her eyes lighting up in shock of this sudden revelation and confession
"It was around twenty years ago haha. We burnt a village filled with commoners, it was magnificent." Menville
"ugh!" Agnes gasped
"You...You were the captain. WHO BURNED MY VILLAGE !" Agnes shouted and gripped her sword harder.
Agnes scrunched her face and gritted her teeth
"Grrrr..... You have no idea how long I've searched for you. " Agnes growled
"Oh, you're a survivor of that village huh ?" Menville said in surprise
Agnes only stared at him
"Well in any case I should tell you I am not the captain you search for." Menville
"Your not the captain ?" Agnes said looking slightly disappointed
"No, at the time I was the vice captain. The captain was much crueler and twice as vicious as I !" menville shouted with a smile
"Just like you I have been searching for him for the past 20 years !" Menville continued
"Why are you looking for him ?" Agnes asked
"Because he is the one who gave me this scar !"Menville said and pulled a patch from over his right eye and revealing a large scar
(A/N This is nothing compared to Zuko's scar)
Agnes was taken aback
Flashback
Menville was cackling hysterically at the joy of the burning village
He wore mage robes similar to Colbert's but ash gray
He had a bowl cut with no eye patch
And the captain walked past
(The captain sure is strong, I wonder....)
Menville fought his urges but lost, he just couldn't control himself
He charged at the captain and thrusted his wand out at his back
He released a fire spell
But the captain turned down as quick as the snap of a whip. His long ponytail swung as he aimed his wand at the incoming fire spell
The captain cast a fire spell of his own.
A wave of blue flames not only consumed Menville's flames but continued and also attacked him
Menville dropped and rolled and screamed
"AAAAAHHHHH!!!" He clutched his face tightly, holding his right eye
Flashback ends
Menville charged Agnes again because he wanted to continue fighting
Meanwhile.....
Diablo had just chopped off his own hand, blood spurted but Diablo's face didn't change.
Cattleya was somewhere in-between shocked and terrified
If she wasn't so surprised by the revelation of what was going on she might of screamed.
Diablo played it off as if he wasn't hurt at all, but he knew if this kept on it was possible
that he may go in to shock or even worse; the demoblnic crown on his hand may activate and the entire purpose of cutting his own hand off will be for nothing.
With his other hand, Diablo poured about a cup of the healing potion on his wrist.
And right before his eyes, he saw cells form from other cells and stitch themselves together.
The bleeding stopped and within half a minute his hand was back, good as new.
Now Cattleya was somewhere between amazed, surprised, and not to mention running out of breath
All of these surprises were too much for an ill person to handle
She breathed in and out very audibly and held her heart. Cattleya's face had beads of sweat running from her forehead.
"Wh-wha-what was tha-at ?" Cattleya struggled
out
Diablo felt terrible, sure he didn't cut her. or anyone else's hand off besides his own;
But he nearly caused someone a heart attack.
"I'm sorry. That was a demonstration of how powerful the potion is." Diablo said
"So I...I...I see. Okay, please wa-...(Inhales) please warn me next time. I don't handle sudden escalation very well." Catyleya said. as she was starting to recover
"Yes ahem, again sorry." Diablo said now embarrassed of his cool demonstration backfiring completely
"It's okay." Cattleya said assuring him she wasn't mad or angry with him
"But um, if you don't mind me asking; You seemed very concerned." Diablo
Diablo had caught Cattleya off guard again, this time she didn't have a panic attack, but her eyes did nearly pop out of her head for a moment
She then looked down and held her hands together at the front of her waist.
"Umm well, you did promise to protect my sister." Cattleya said still looking down slightly still rosey from the earlier shock
"So you don't like me at all, not even a little ?" Diablo asked
This time Cattleya's face betrayed her words as it turned a deeper shade of pink
"Why would I care about you at all when I barely even know you ?" Cattleya said while looking down and rubbing some of her long pink hair
( Oh maybe I read her body language wrong. She's right it wouldn't make sense for her to care about me when she had no clue who I was until just .....Hey wait a minute her answer wasn't a yes or no !) Diablo thought, realizing that Cattleya neither confirmed or denied his suspicions
Diablo's facial expressions didn't show his thought process, but the long pause said it all for Cattleya
"Hey you, you; never answered my question." Diablo
Cattlya only smiled at him gently gazed into his eyes
Before this sort of confrontation could put Diablo in a teenage fever, he moved on and started explaining the point of cutting off his own hand.
He could already feel the blood rushing to his face
"Ahem.....Well anyways, the point of me doing that was to show the effectiveness of this potion. This should cure you of your illness." Diablo
" How was it made again ? Was it water magic, if so then why is it red ? Does it has to do with te magic from the other world ?" Cattleya
" It was made of the "blessing" of another worlder I summoned not very long ago. Just as your late sister summoned me to this world, I summoned a companion who was also in the world I came from." Diablo
"A familiar summoning a familiar that's...." Cattleya noticed the dark aura around Diablo when she called him a familiar
"Whoops, sorry." Cattleya
"Whatever, just drink the potion." Diablo said and held out the bottle
Cattleya took the bottle and asked
"How much do I drink ?"
(Well there wont be any side effects from overusing the potion so.....) Diablo thought
"All of it." he said
"Okay !" Cattleya said and threw her head back and began to chugg