Naruto was walking towards the Occult Research Club's clubroom while he was deep in thought, his mind was still reeling about his conversation with Gabriel. He was sure that something big is going to happen soon within this town, he could just feel it.
Naruto thought about the Holy Sword Project, and still couldn't believe what had happened to Kiba and his friends, his comrades. Gabriel had told him that it was just a self-acted from a priest and his small group, in hopes of finding the wielders of the legendary sword. Heaven knew nothing about this until the church reported them about the incident years ago, they had sent a group of priest and Angel to the designated location where they found nothing but dead bodies of Kiba's friends. The one that supervised the project had promptly disappeared and still wasn't found.
After he spoke with Gabriel and said his goodbye's to her, he returned to the kitchen only to find that Rias had disappeared to Hyoudou Residence because Issei had contacted her about two exorcists from the church that came to their house, and apparently one of them was Issei's childhood friend. Rias didn't came back until they had finished dinner and told him everything she knew about that two from the description that Issei told her. Asia also stated that they were carrying something really long with them and both were being wrapped inside of white cloths, and it brought an unpleasant feeling to her, Issei didn't see that sword so he couldn't feel anything from them so he just dismissed it as their personal things.
But Naruto knew better, it wasn't just any ordinary holy items, it was a Holy Sword, not only that, it was definitely one of the top three Holy Swords. Because he knew that only those three swords can bring such an unpleasant feelings towards Devils, But Excalibur had been destroyed in the Great War, so the sword they carried must be Durandal the Ame no Murakomo no Tsuguri.
Something's wrong was going around here, despite the fact that he couldn't feel Gabriel's emotions, Naruto knew that she was worried about something, the way she spoke and the nervousness in her voice and her eyes. Naruto knew that she was hiding something. It made Naruto wondered what could happen that made Gabriel that worried, and considering her being the most carefree Angel it was a bit alarming.
This morning, Rias had received a request from the two exorcists from last night, they wanted to meet with the devil who owns this territory, so Rias would be the one to meet them, along with everyone on the Occult Research Club, her peerage also including Naruto. The meeting is going to start any minute from now.
Naruto who was currently standing in front of the clubroom, suddenly heard two familiar voice inside, he was sure that it definitely belonged to the two exorcist. Naruto concentrated and felt their magical signatures and sighed he was very familiar with those two after all.
What was those two doing here anyway?' Naruto wondered to himself, he knew that both of them were strong in their own right, especially that emotionless girl, but wasn't it a bit too soon to send them on the mission like… whatever the church had assigned them too? He had met them once before when Dulio led the two of them to Heaven for a visit so that he could see the candidates with the most potential to join Micheal's Brave Saint, the Ace. Their loyalty towards God was very strong to the point that you could mistake it as obsession, especially the girl with chestnut colored hair. She would call for him every five minutes, which brought him massive after massive headaches. Naruto guessed it was just a payback made by Dulio for making him training non-stop.
But still, if those two were here then trouble will be too, since he knew that wherever those two goes, they always attracts troubles.
Sighing Naruto knocked on the door a few time before opening it, just like he thought, Rias's peerage was standing behind her, she was currently sitting on a couch while Akeno was making tea's and cookies for the guests. Opposite from them was the two exorcists, the last time he met them, they were still a tad bit younger and less developed, but it looked like they had come a long way since then, in more ways than one.
The first one was a young woman with chin-length blue hair with a green fringe on the right side and she had brown eyes, she was wearing a Church battle suit, which consists of a black, skin-tight, short sleeved unitard with pauldrons, matching fingerless gloves that extend to her biceps, and thigh-high boots, all of which are adorned with straps. This is the attire was usually worn under a white hooded cloak with gold and blue accents. She also wears a crucifix around her neck. The second guest was also a young woman with long, light brown hair with violet eyes. Her hair was tied into twin side ponytails, each held with a blue scrunchy. She also worn the standard Church battle attire, same as the blue hair girl but with some difference here and there.
They were none other than Xenovia and Irina Shidou. Both of them had grown up so much over two years that he almost didn't recognize them, if it weren't for their signatures, he couldn't help but admire them both seeing that they had grown more beautiful than the last time he seen them.
The devils inside the room took notice of him before turning back to the guests, while Rias gave him a slight nod. While both of the girls turned their head around to see the one who just entered the room and their eyes turned wide and mouth dropped to the ground in shock.
"W-W-Wha…" Irina pointed her shaking finger at Naruto, she was in so much shock that she almost jumped out of the couch.
"Why hello there, Xenovia-chan, Irina-chan… missed me already?" he chuckled, making the members of the Occult Research Club's eyes turned wide in surprise, they didn't know that Naruto knew these exorcist.
But before anyone could react, Xenovia had pulled her Excalibur out of her clothes while Irina brought out some kind of cloth and changed it to a long katana and attacked Naruto. He sighed lazily, after all, the last time they met, he left them both lying flat on the ground when he revealed to them that he was a devil. Both girls tried to attack him, but he retaliates seeing that those dangerous holy-artifacts can hurt him pretty bad, while Duilo was only laughing at him, he bastard even busted a guy when Naruto screamed to the lazy angel for help, he didn't want to hurt these girls much, and he knows that only duly was the only one that could calm them down, and all he did was laugh at him which annoyed him to no end.
Naruto looked at the sword they was holding and realized it wasn't Durandal nor Ame no Tsuguri no Murakumo, but it still hold the purifying attributes of a holy sword. So far he only knew one sword that could release this much light-power… and it was Excalibur, the Archangels must created these swords by using the fragments of Excalibur, that's must be why Gabriel was so nervous when he asked her about the Excalibur. With their current skill and power, he could block them easily, but would get a nasty wound if he used his hand.
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