Snow Fall
"So that's what happened." Ethan explained in exact detail what happened in the client's house as his shoulder was slowly healing but at a slow rate.
"I see." John's nonchalant and playful attitude was nowhere to be seen as he now had a serious expression. This came like a shock to Ethan since he had never seen Leo like this.
A rare sight to see, indeed
Kaguya and Rose were also present in the room. Kaguya had her usual tired expression while Rose had a serious expression.
Needless to say, the atmosphere was tense.
"Rogue Hunters, huh? And they are from the Silver Cross Order as well. This is problematic." John said as he folded his arms.
"Who are they anyways? and that priest used some kind of wield energy that's slowed down my healing." Ethan asked John
"Order of the Silver Cross is an organization made by the Vatican Church; they train humans to hunt down supernatural beings and wield the power of the light to cause permanent damage to both vampires and demons."
Ethan remembered the priest talking about the power of light and wondered what that wield power was.
Church, huh? Ethan couldn't help but think out of curiosity, the church has been active for millennia, so this organization that works for the church must have a lot of influence in the world.
"What is this power of light? And how can it be wield by them? From how you're putting it, it must be extremely powerful." Ethan asked with a hint of curiosity.
"Indeed, just like how the demons are the creatures of darkness, their magic power takes the form of demonic energy. The rulers, popularly known as the angels, are beings created from the light, their magic power takes the form of holy energy." John explained.
"So the angel's holy energy can cause permanent damage to demons?" Ethan asked for confirmation and John nodded.
"Yes, it can completely terminate a demon's existence. They returned to nothing. There is nothing left and you feel nothing. And this energy affects the vampires as well." This time, it was Rose who explained.
Gulp!
Ethan nervously swallowed his dry saliva.
That's bad, that's seriously bad. The situation was more serious that he thought, one small mistake and he would have died.
"But I don't understand something, how could humans have the power of angels? It doesn't make any sense." Ethan asked, a little confused.
"Well apparently, there is a ceremony where one who receives the blessing from God to perform exorcism in the name of justice and those who take part in it receive the power of light. Thus, augmented with the power of light, Silver Cross hunters can be able to fight toe to toe with vampires or devils head on." John explained as he began to tap his desk with his fingers.
"In that case, why don't other hunters possess the power of light? Won't that be advantageous for the hunters?"
"Yes, but the Vatican Church didn't share the method on how to do the ceremony so their hunters are the only ones who possess the power of light." John said with a slight annoyed expression.
What a group of selfish bastards
"Taking that power to themselves, huh? What is their objective? They must have a goal if they are doing that."
"In the past, their initial goal was the extermination of all demons and vampires including hybrids. They saw them as abominations and hunt them down under the name of God. But the peace treaty between the hunters and the vampires, they calmed down in their goal and only hunted down demons and rogue vampires. Despite that, there's still those that cause trouble from time to time." Ethan listened to John's explanation and Immediately asked.
"Do you think that priest was part of a group of rogue priest?"
"That's likely, if not, then that priest won't have been able to behave however like he please." Rose answered.
"But it's going to take a while before we find their hideout. Those rogues aren't like proper priests, but they are still dangerous like the proper ones. No, since they have no restrictions on them, they are much harder to deal with than the actual Exorcists. Damn, what to do, what to do?" John said as he rubbed his chin with his right hand.
Of course, Ethan knew how much of a threat they are.
He realised how dangerous they were when he fought that shitty priest. Despite being stronger than priest, the priest still had the advantage because of his inexperience and ignorance.
Even if it had been someone stronger, he wouldn't have been here having this conversation. That is without a doubt.
If he only was prepared before hand, things would have ended differently.
This didn't sit well with Ethan, since that psycho is freely walking around on the streets. But they couldn't do anything right now since they had no leads of their current whereabouts.
What a problematic situation this was.
***
Noon
"Haa...."
Ethan skipped school today and he's currently sitting on a bench in a children's park while making a sigh.
The wounds he received from the priest yesterday haven't completely healed.
So according to Leo, "That priest must must have a dense power of light", so it seems it will be trouble for him since light is poisonous to him.
He had already reported to the school so it should be fine.
GUU~
It was the restless rumbling of his stomach, telling him to "Get the fuck up and give me some food, you son of a *****."
"Now that I think about it, I haven't eaten since morning." That was because he was thinking about what happened yesterday the whole time.
What is their goal? What are they here? And why now?
Despite thinking about that for the whole day, he didn't seem to have any answers for those questions.
He needed to find that bastard priest. But did he need to find him though? The answer was obvious. After all, he had a score to settle with that son of a bitch.
The bastard tried to kill him after all
You must pay people in kind for what they give to you. Returning an act of Kindness with kindness and returning violence with violence. A tooth for tooth.
He wasn't going to let someone slap him on the cheek and turn the other cheek. Hell no!!
Hmm
But he isn't going to do anything right now. If he did things on his own, it will cause a lot of trouble for the others.
However, there was something that continued to echo in his mind.
"I need to get stronger, stronger than I am right now."
It doesn't matter if you're a devil, angel, vampire or human. One thing didn't change.
Strength ruled everything and without strength, you can cannot protect anything.
That's the only thing he was sure of. He now had power but he did not know how to fully use it. Wasn't that be a waste?
He would have to ask Leo to help him with his powers. But the fact that Leo didn't help him despite knowing that he had just awakened, must
He stopped thinking about complex and decided to have lunch somewhere before going home. When he got up from the bench, the colour of blue suddenly appeared to his eyes.
When he look carefully, there is a dark-blue haired girl that he was familiar with. The girl also noticed him too and both of them we were shocked without a doubt.
Who would have thought they will meet so soon.
"....Wendy?"
".....Ethan?"