I could only frown seeing the utterly destroyed interior of the large church, it wasn't one of those massive super churches I had seen back in the States. But still, it was the single Christian church for the whole town of Kuoh at one point.
Not to mention the damage from disrepair over time from being abandoned, but the resulting battle taking place now, seemed about ready to bring this church down onto itself.
While I was walking past the remains of several shattered church pews I heard the sounds of battle intensified beneath me in the expansive basement beneath the church. But it seems the battle was all but over, as from the shadows of the tunnel leading into the church basement a small crowd of exorcists limped out of the tunnel with various wounds covering their forms.
And from behind the small crowd of defeated foes, I saw Koneko wielding of all things a large chandelier like a mace as she boredly swung around herself. "Jake I am escorting these morons outside. Rias probably wants you to secure the other fallen we caught." She said boredly
And when one of the exoticists decided once they exited the close confines of the tunnel to make a runner out of the church, he was met with the heavy chandelier Koneko was playing with, smashing into his back, likely breaking something with crunching noise that came from the cast iron chandelier crashing into him.
"I said, single file line, you idiots!" Koneko almost yelled and if it wasn't for how bored she sounded by having to play escort I would think she was mad, but I could tell, like the cat she was, she had no pity or care for these people at all. Frankly never did I, so I walked down into the basement fully knowing the human exorcists would likely be written off as rogue agents by the Grigori so the devils would likely just kill them off or enslave them. Who knows.
"Ah, there you are Jake." I heard Akeno casually call out to me as I was able to see the... The charnel house of violence and of the bodies of the exorcists that either resisted or didn't have time resist when the Gremory Peerage ram ranched them without mercy.
Swords, Elemental attacks, and the Power of Destruction weren't a very non-lethal option when it came to capturing people as was evident by the couple dozen corpses that littered the ground.
Which reminded me that despite how sexy or cute the girls in the Gremory Peerage were, they were killers. They regularly killed Stary Devils that betrayed their peerage members, not to mention other monsters that encroached upon their territory that would need to be dealt with.
"This bitch down here," Akeno said gathering my attention from the surroundings to her voice as I saw her kick a bounded-up form making it grunt as she continued to speak.
"This cunt has made some problems... She got the bright idea to use a sacred gear remover and managed to snatch one of the Vritra lines, Sacred Gears."
Then Akeno began to repeatedly kick the bound-up caterpillar form of what was obviously Raynare with each spat-out word with all the rhythm of a well-practiced Base/Kick Drummer. "Right from under our noses, she kidnapped a boy named Genshiro Saji on his way home and now he can't even be reincarnated with how long he has been dead!" She yelled finally using her supernatural strength to punt the fallen angel through a small wooden support beam making me flinch at the thought of the basement collapsing on top of us.
As I looked at Raynare I saw proof of her words in how I saw how her bound form pulled her hands behind her back and the armored glove she was wearing that was supposed to be Genshiro's Sacred Gear, Absorption Line.
Granted when all the Vritra sacred gears are combined and when the evil dragon Vritra's consciousness is awakened, the resulting sacred gear is equal to a Longinus, but this is just an Absorbtion Line and without a lot of specific training it isn't really all that useful... But I can actually hold multiple sacred gears.
Or I could flesh-craft Raynare into a monster or waifu and allow her new form to keep the Sacred Gear... But eventually combining Sacred Gears into a new Longinus that's perfect for suppressing opponents with being powered by the concept of Vritra's abilities as the Evil Prison Dragon could be more useful than having another mook waifu I could snuggle.
"So, you guys going to do something with her in particular? Or is she mine to make useful?" I asked and Akeno grinned with a sadistic light to her eyes.
"Ufufu. Rias wants you to do whatever you please with her so long as it doesn't bring her any diplomatic issues... Jake do you mind if I watch you break her?" Akeno asked with her large breasts heaving in her excitement, and I couldn't help but realize Akeno's little hatred for Fallen Angels almost certainly went beyond her hate for her father.
"Uhhh." I bought time as I met the eyes of Raynare who rolled over to look at the new arrival and as she met my eyes, I didn't see the pitiful desire to live I saw in Miltlet or even Kalawarner's defiance. No, I saw only pure hatred and the desire to see us pay for her humiliation. "Yeah. Akeno you can watch... I could even wipe her mind and remove her wings so you can have a sister." I joked as I pulled Raynare up by her black hair so I could point out her violet eyes that matched Akeno's making the queen's face scrunch up before rolling her eyes.
"If I see someone with my face, I will burn it off them, Jake." She warned with sparks flying off her hands and I nodded as Akeno sighed and looked behind her towards another room at the end of the tunnel. "Go check with Rias I am taking this filth to be sealed at the clubhouse, she has apparently found the Fallen's paperwork and some other stuff that she needed to look over and collect to give to Sona," Akeno said.
But before she could drag Raynare away I told her where Kalawarner was along with how I had already mind wiped and morphed another fallen into an elfin child with how little biomass I had for her. With that extra info, Akeno promised to have Kalawarner also bound up for me and Klee after a bit of testing to see if my words about her mind being mostly wiped were true, then she wouldn't face any harsh conditions.
"What a mess... I muttered looking around and thinking that we were most certainly going to burn down the church due to the amount of damage we did as well as the mess we will be leaving behind.
Regardless I cleared my mind and kept walking to the end of the room and with a loud squeak of rusty hinges I pushed open the door leading to the side room Rias was in as I came in saw the crimson-haired beauty sitting over and reading some documents on a desk and more pressingly was the large crucifix, like contraption with the notable body of Genshirou Saji lying beside it and covered up with a couple blankets.
"Rias, Akeno has gotten all the prisoners and is moving them to the clubhouse... We should bury him and burn this place down before we get drawn into more stuff." I advised and for a moment Rias's eyes snapped to me before she looked down to whatever she was reading and with a sigh she nodded.
"Yes... Yes, you are right. This church will only attract enemies so it would be for the best it to be removed." She muttered as she stood up and gathered all the documents she had laid out into a bundle and tucked it under her arm before she glanced over to the body in the corner.
"Jake please bury him in the back cemetery with Koneko's help, then you two will meet us back at the Clubhouse," Rias spoke as she was engulfed in a crimson Gremory magic circle, and with that, she teleported back to school leaving me, and a cat to bury a corpse of one of our classmates...