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"I am seriously beginning to question your mental state." Rex deadpanned, as he pushed against Esdeath, until he managed to overpower her and break through her guard.
He kicked the undefended Esdeath in the stomach, sending her sliding backwards, dashed towards her and uppercutted her, sending her into the air.
Before jumping up into the air and slashing at her with Excalibur Galatine, but barriers, constructed entirely of ice by Esdeath, got in the way before the Holy Sword could meet Devil/Human flesh.
Esdeath landed on the ground and pointed at Rex, before snapping her fingers, which created a large spike of ice to shoot out of the ground and travel towards where he was.
Seeing this coming just in time, Rex slashed through the spike and landed on the even surface it created, and then jumped off it and landed on the slope of another spike that Esdeath created where he would have landed.
He slid down the slope of the spike on his feet and ran towards his opponent, with very clear intent to end the fight.
Esdeath grinned sadistically, and created a second sword in her other hand, made out of ice, and dashed towards Rex.
Excalibur Galatine clashed with the ice-sword while Esdeath tried to stab Rex with her rapier, but Rex jumped out of the way while still clashing with her, took one hand off Excalibur Galatine and used that hand to bend, and eventually break, Esdeath's rapier.
Dropping the part of Esdeath's rapier he held in his hand, Rex conjured a sword out of the Power of Twilight, and after jumping away from Esdeath trying to stab Rex with her now-broken rapier and taking a second to internally chuckle at the look on her face at realising that her weapon was broken.
Rex dashed towards Esdeath and slashed at her with his Twilight-sword.
Esdeath held up both her rapier and her ice-sword in an attempt to block Rex, but the power of Rex' Twilight-sword was such that it cut through her rapier and her ice-sword like they weren't even there, and cut the lower-left part of her abdomen as well.
The pain that shot through Esdeath's body as a result of Rex cutting her in such a place with his Twilight-sword was such that she couldn't hold back a shriek of pain. She dropped her broken weapons and dropped to the ground, clutching her side as it bled.
"Looks like you won, Rex." Esdeath panted, as she looked down at her wound. "You're stronger than me."
"Hey. You're pretty strong yourself." Rex replied, as he bent down to Esdeath's level, before turning around. "Is anyone here good with healing magic?"
"I am~!" Serafall jumped forward immediately. Rex nodded.
"Thanks," he replied. "Can you heal that wound of Esdeath's?" As Serafall got straight to it, Esdeath looked up at Rex. Before she could open her mouth to ask a question, Rex answered it for her.
"I wanted to beat you, Esdeath. Not kill you." he explained, simply. "I'm not those fucks from the Old Satan Faction that just kill anyone who crosses their path and happens to disagree with their way of doing things."
"Oh..." Esdeath replied, looking down at the ground, and then standing up as Serafall finished healing her.
"Well." she then walked over to Rex, who looked suspiciously at her for a moment, before... she knelt down on one knee before the silver-haired Nephalem.
"Uh... what are you doing?" Rex blinked.
"I'm at your command now, Rex." Esdeath explained, looking up. "You beat me, now I serve you."
"I-" Rex made to speak, but Serafall spoke.
"It's a tradition of the Partas Clan to declare themselves as the subordinate of anyone who bested them in battle." The black-haired Leviathan explained.
"I remember Fianna beating Ludovic Partas, Esdeath's father, during a battle in the Devil's Civil War, and he submitted to her command until the day he died."
"Oh." Rex replied, looking down at Esdeath and getting an idea.
Opening a magic-circle on his hand, he summoned his box of Evil Pieces, and opened it.
He regarded his remaining Pieces one Rook, one Bishop, two Knights and four Pawns for a moment, before he pulled out one of the Pieces: the Rook.
"If you want to serve under my command, Esdeath," Rex spoke, as he knelt down to Esdeath's position.
"Then how about you do it as a member of my peerage? You'd certainly be a kick-ass addition."
"Really?" Esdeath looked down at the piece in Rex' hand, and then up at Rex. "Okay."
Esdeath took the piece, and after looking at Rex one more time, held the piece to her chest and let it slide inside her.
Eight Nephalem wings popped out of her back as she stood up, and Rex grinned.
"And... that's that. You're a member of my peerage now, Esdeath."
The bird that had been watching the fight and the subsequent addition to Rex' peerage that came with it gave a loud cry, and took off into the air.
Rex' head twisted around as the bird changed course and flew downwards, past Rex and behind a tree that Rias and her peerage had been standing close to.
Rex gave a chuckle as out from behind the tree, instead of the bird that had flown in behind it, came Raven Branwen, and she smirked at Rex while folding her arms.
"Well." she remarked. "That was certainly an entertaining fight."
Rex gave a chuckle as he stepped towards Raven.
"You were watching, Raven?" he asked. The Branwen Clan's Head and Rex' former sword-master shrugged her shoulders.
"Naturally." she replied.
"I felt you were in danger a few minutes ago, and I arrived to try and help, but when I did, Esdeath seemed to have it covered."
Her red eyes looked past Rex', and took in the sight of Kokabiel, whose remains had thawed out. Blood was oozing all over the courtyard.
Paying it no mind, Raven looked back at Rex.
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