Chapter: 88
I stumbled momentarily as I felt something shift inside me, like something that had been asleep all this time was suddenly awake! It felt powerful!
"Layla! Are you okay?" Sif asked upon seeing me almost fall over.
"I'm fine," I waved her off. "My Sacred Gear just reached Balance Breaker."
"I don't know what that means, but I'm glad you're okay."
"What the hell!?" Raynare shouted. "You have a Sacred Gear!? Of course, you do! No doubt given to you by Azazel! But also, what the hell!? You knocked out the Gremory Heiress! Her brother is going to murder us!"
"Only if we're still here when he finds out, which we won't be because we're going to hijack Rias's teleportation circle in her little club room to get back to the Underworld. From there, we will be B-lining it to Fallen Angel territory where we'll be safe," I explained my plan. Raynare just glared at me and mumbled about that being a 'stupid plan.' Well, I didn't see her coming up with any genius plans at the moment.
I decided to check out my new Balance Breaker. I summoned my [Twilight Healing] but instead of the familiar rings, I now had two golden bracelets on each of my wrists. I could feel that these were much more powerful than the rings were. I used [Observe] on them to see what they could do.
[Twilight Healing-Purger of Darkness→The Balance Breaker of Layla of the Fallen. Purger of Darkness can do as the name suggests and purge all dark or demonic powers without harming the hosts of them…unless Layla wishes them harm as well. This Balance Breaker also allows for the healing of limbs or missing organs.]
Woah, now that was an upgrade. The [Purger of Darkness] huh? I could work with that. "Change of plans. We're taking Akeno with us," I said as I walked over to my unconscious niece and hefted her over my shoulder.
"Are you insane!?" Raynare shouted. "Knocking out the Gremory girl is one thing, but kidnapping her Queen! That could mean war!"
I just smirked at Raynare as I started to use my Sacred Gear on Akeno, who was in my arms. I could feel my light energy pass through her body. Everywhere it went, the demonic power inside of her was purged away. She was being cleaned without any harm coming to her body! A moment later, a small chess piece ejected from Akeno's chest and fell to the grass…
I turned to Raynare and smirked. "What Queen? As you can see, Akeno is not Rias Gremory's Queen. She's clearly a Half-Fallen Angel."
Raynare and Asia were both staring at me gobsmacked. Asia put her hands together and started praying to the Lord and thanking him for showing her a literal miracle.
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I just want you to know that I hate you and think you're insane, Raynare commented as we marched into the Kuoh Occult Research Club building like we owned the place. Akeno was still passed out over my shoulder as we marched down the hallways. We passed by a bunch of rooms, and I'm sure Gasper was probably hiding in one of them, but there was no way the scaredy-cat would confront us. I hadn't seen Koneko either, but for all I knew, Rias had her chasing down all the stray exorcists that had fled into the town to get away from Sif and me earlier.
"That's no way to speak to your sister who came all this way to save you," Sif scolded Raynare for me. I'm pretty sure if Raynare wasn't my family, Sif might have stabbed her for 'insulting me,' but thankfully she was.
"Whatever…" Raynare muttered. I could see a faint blush on her cheeks though. Technically, I did not come here to save her. I actually came here for Asia, but if Raynare wanted to believe I came for her, then I wouldn't correct her thoughts.
"Thank you for saving me as well, Angel Layla. I always knew the Lord works in mysterious ways," Asia said reverently. I couldn't bring myself to tell this girl the truth about her Lord, so I just nodded.
"Asia, you weren't kicked out of the church by the Lord. You were kicked out by corruption and evil within its ranks. I'll explain more later, but for now, we really need to get out of here. We are in the heart of Devil Territory right now," I reminded everyone. A few halls and stairways later, we found the iconic clubroom. I pushed the doors open and sighed in relief when I noticed it was empty. Koneko probably was out chasing exorcists after all.
Alright, Raynare, start prepping that magic circle so we can get the hell out of here, I said as I momentarily set Akeno down on the couch.
"You're just asking me because you don't actually know how to do it yourself, do you?" She asked smugly.
"Yes, now hurry it up." I said. I was getting the feeling that we really needed to leave soon for some reason.
"Alright, alright…" Raynare said as she walked over to the floor and started examining the magic circle carved into the woodwork. "Alright, I can work with this. Just give me a second. Uh-oh–Oh shit!" Raynare cried out, drawing all of our attention.
It was just our luck that the magic circle on the floor started glowing orange. That indicated that someone was coming through to our side. That wasn't a good…
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