Highschool DxD: Crawling x Chaos

~Yuta Yukimura~

I was now inside a wreck of a room, blood was splattered everywhere and I could see a mutilated corpse on the floor. This obviously was not a normal summon.

Did someone kill my summoner? They were killing contractors-

There was only a few seconds difference between me getting the summoned and arriving. They couldn't be that brutalized. Then...

-Who summoned me?

Bang!

I tried to duck the moment I heard the gunshot, but the bullet was way faster than the sound, I felt a searing sensation rip through my back and out of my stomach, it felt like a red hot metal rod was plunged into me. I quickly turned my hand into a claw and turned around just to get kicked hard, crashing into the opposite wall.

Just as I was about to try and get up-

"Urgh!" Something stabbed into my shoulder, the pain was searing, and continuous, like someone shoved a lightsaber into my shoulder.

Correction.

I could see that an actual lightsaber had indeed been stabbed into my shoulder. It was a pale blue blade of light wielded by a man standing over me with a sadistic grin, he had glittering pale red eyes, he wore a priest's clothing and held a pure white sci-fi-looking gun in the other hand. The man above me started cackling like a hyena as I grimaced from the pain.

"Hahaehea! If I knew it was this easy to catch some scummy rat devils like you I would have done it long ago! As a holy man once said 'The wicked must be punished!' isn't that right little devil-kun!" The man twisted the blade in my shoulder as he laughed while I struggled to not scream in pain.

Shit! Shit! Shit!

Of all things, I immediately stumble into the fucking psycho killer in town!? SHIT!

Think, think, distract him, learn what he wants, leave alive.

"S-so you were the one killing our contractors? Who the hell even are you?" I struggled to say as the blade still burnt my shoulder, this pain was one of the worst I have ever felt. I had to keep him talking while I figured out a plan.

The man put a hand on his chin while I planned. Lunge at him with Natural Weapons? No, he still has his gun and he was probably physically stronger than me with how hard his kick was. Sand Veil? He knows where I am with the blade he has me kebab'ed on, won't work. Ghost Form? I would probably die instantly with my devil weakness, elemental weakness, and ghost weakness against his holy blade considering his priest outfit.

Fuck!

"Who am I you ask? I am Freed Selzen. Of course that doesn't mean I want to hear your name, I don't care about the names of scum devils like you, please save your last breaths for something else! When I was doing my daily thing, just punishing filthy sinners as always when I got bored and decided, why not summon Devils to slaughter myself? Aren't I a genius!?" The man rambled like a deranged rabid animal.

I switched out Pearl Jam for Sand Veil, I would try summoning Cloud Elemental and use her to distract him before blasting Sand Veil and replacing Natural Weapons with Ghost to phase out into the Sewers-

Bang!

"Grah!"

The fucking lunatic shot my fucking leg, right through the thigh, my vision was blanking out, there were three holes in my body and they were all burning. Freed pulled the blade out of my shoulder with a frown. But before I could even think about the relief I felt the muzzle of his gun pressed up against my forehead.

"This is getting really boring, you aren't even screaming out in pain for me, you just lay there, do you at least like the taste of exorcist-blessed purge rounds? You are really a let-down, it's disgusting, just lying there and squirming like a worm." I did not reply, just looking behind him at the cloud elemental forming with the winds gathering, Freed looked behind him, noticing the winds to see the familiar forming, getting a grin on his face.

"Oh! Now you have little familiar huh!?" Fast, faster than I had expected Freed slashed apart my cloud elemental before she had fully formed, drawing out a howling shriek as her form dispersed, sapping my mana along with it. "Huh, that was disappointing." Knowing my elemental wasn't dead I decided to go ahead anyway and used Sand Veil, and was just about to switch over to Ghost Form when I froze up with the barrel of the gun shoved toward me again. The sand veil stopped, he was too fast, he moved too fast for me to get an edge over him.

"Ack! My eyes! Damn sand, you really are a pest, aren't you? Fighting and killing you isn't even fun, just think of me killing you as a favor, it will hurt for a bit but it will feel really good alright? So just lay down like the dog you are." The barrel of the gun was pressed up against my neck.

"I would ask for your last words but-"

"Freed-san, I heard noises what happene- Yuta-san!? W-what happened here!?" My eyes widened to the size of saucers as Asia stepped out of the adjacent room and screamed in horror and shrieked at the sight of the carnage.

Why the hell was she with this psychopath?

Freed turned away from me and faced her, not even acknowledging me as a threat.

...Like this, I may as well not be.

"Oh, Asia, are you done setting up the barrier already? Don't scream so loud, you are hurting my ears." Freed scratched his head with his gun, completely unconcerned.

"W-why are are there corpses? Why are you hurting Yuta-kun, Freed-sama! please stop!" Asia got in between me and Freed while Freed put on an annoyed whiny voice.

"Why? Whaddaya mean why? I hate working with amateurs. This is our job, I executed a filthy devil lover and now I am simply purging a filthy shit that sold its soul, I am getting rid of another devil as god commands. Why are crying like a bitch, seriously. Get out of my way."

Freed raised his sword while Asia remained steadfast, shielding me with her arms raised.

Her shielding... me? A girl as frail as her? I have to be protected now?

I gritted my teeth. An emotion that had become unfamiliar to me re-emerging.

"No! I can't let you do that Freed-sama, even if he is a devil Yuta-san is innocent! God would find it unjust, please, Freed-sama! Let him go!" I balled my hand into a fist, she was begging, begging.

"What a shame." Freed swung his sword down, making the blood in veins go cold for a second before I noticed that Asia wasn't hurt, he cut her clothes in half. Freed roughly grabbed Asia's wrist with one hand and her chin in the other.

"You stupid bitch! Just because the fallen angels said I couldn't harm you doesn't mean I won't punish you!" I saw him reaching his hand out for her and it boiled over.

Anger.

I felt angry.

I rarely ever felt properly angry, over time my anger was replaced by the feeling of helplessness. I just couldn't burn rage inside me knowing I could never fight back against it.

But I had abilities now, I had a tool to fight back with.

So what the fuck was I doing right now? Letting a scared girl half my size have to protect and beg for my life?

I felt the fire burn in me as my teeth clenched and my eyes narrowed. My lips twisted into a snarl.

I'm gonna kill him if it's the last thing I do.

Through instinct natural to an esper, I felt a new avenue I could exploit, none of my four limbs would be of help. Then I had to use the other two.

I channelled Natural Weapons as my black wings erupted.

Schwing!

"Guahk! What the fuck!? My arm!!! You fucking Devil bitch!"

Freed screamed as his arm was nearly taken off his shoulder by my wings, the wall behind him was ripped in half, and my other wing lunged at him, like a spear, forcing Freed to jump back in a hurry.

My form now supported two 10 meter long metallic looking razor sharp wings ending with spear tips. I withdrew my wings and they hovered menacingly like venomous tails ready to strike, and they did, lunging at Freed as he jumped away again, my wings dug into the floor like it was made of butter.

"Fuck! Fuck! What is with you insane bastard!?"

Freed raised his gun again but my wings sheared through the floor and rose, swinging straight for him, cutting through the gun in his hand and the wall of the house, collapsing a portion of the roof.

Freed glared at me but I could see the twinge of fear in his eyes, I glared harder, staring into his soul, what a rat, the moment his prey fought back he shits himself.

"...There are no threats." My eyes bore into him as Freed took a step back while I pushed myself up, so much rage made me blind to the pain, my wings grew and raised like guillotines.

"I am simply going to make sure you regret ever having lived." As I brought my wing blades down, Freed did something I didn't expect, he jumped through the window and started running.

"Fuck this! I will get you another day you filthy fucking devil!" My wings tore through what remained of the house, I watched Freed vault over the wall and snarled.

"Oh no you don't!" 

Just as I was about to jump after Freed and chase him down to the sulfur pits I felt hands grab me, looking down I saw Asia looking at me with a tearful expression.

"Yuta-san! Please don't!" I narrowed my eyes down at her, she was seriously stopping me from chasing that fucker?

"Asia are you really trying to stop me-" She clenched my pants harder.

"You're hurt! You won't last like that much longer! P-please don't leave!" I felt my rage simmer as I realized that Asia was telling the truth, she was simply more worried about me than him. I withdrew my wings and collapsed on one knee. Asia quickly raised her hands and I felt healing energy envelop me, lessening the burning pains.

I released a deep breath.

"I'm sorry for snapping at you Asia, and for hiding the fact I was a devil. Thank you for healing me." Asia tried to smile as she healed me.

"Don't be, Yuta-san! Even if you are a devil you are still my friend, you are a great person!" She hung her head. "...I didn't know Freed-sama was so evil." She said, glancing toward the corpse of my would-be contractor and recoiling from the sight.

Freed. I would be murdering him as brutally as possible even if it was the last thing I was doing. He would still be in this town, I would find him and I would make him regret every moment he has breathed.

I patted Asia's head and smiled comfortingly.

"Don't worry about him Asia-chan." It's a fool's endeavour to mind a dead man. "Now, let's go home alright?"

"Home? But I can't go back..." Asia got teary-eyed again while I chuckled, I switched from Natural Weapons to Regeneration to speed things along.

"Hell no am I letting you go back to that fucker Asia-chan, I meant you are coming along with me. And don't even try to object alright?" Asia closed her mouth but I could see a small smile worm its way to her lips.

"Yes, thank you for having me Yuta-san." I smiled, trying to keep my gaze above her neckline and failing.

"And we should also get you spare clothes." Hearing my words Asia looked down to see her clothes torn in half, exposing her fairly large breasts and panties to me, those clothes hid a lot. She quickly covered herself while blushing.

"I-I'm sorry for showing you such a sight!" I shook my head while smiling wryly.

"Don't be, I would never complain about seeing a cute girl's naked body. Thank you for the reward." Asia looked conflicted while blushing like an apple.

"S-should I show you more then?"

...Huh...

A/N: Yuta finally locks in, he has never faced true danger so far and now that he has, the esper trait shows its true value. Also, for anyone confused about why Freed was so dangerous, if you pay attention, Freed is consistently somewhat evenly matched with Kiba and could stall him, he is an opponent that should be above Yuta's paygrade but that goes out the window with creativity.

Freed has signed a warrant for a very painful death along with everyone in the abandoned church, fear a calm man's anger. Yuta is not a person to rely on for mercy. In other news, Asia is finally claimed, do guys like her character? I would love to hear your thoughts about the fight and Asia.

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