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Right now, Issei tore down the long hallway with all the strength of his stats, which wasn't inconsiderable. As he ran, the boy heard a loud 'bang' sounding like a fist striking metal.
"Shit! What the hell is going on, you shitty piece of crap door!? A man shouted, his voice echoing down the tunnel. "Fucking useless piece of shit!"
As Issei rounded the only corner in the tunnel, he skidded to a halt as he beheld the circular door that presumably led to the way out shut tight, while Rokka Nia, still tied up, now gagged and looking somewhat terrified, sprawled on the ground while a figure with a black cloak and hood covering him stood in front of the door, seemingly glaring at the door as if that would mysteriously cause it to open.
Hearing Issei arrive, the figure swung around and stared at him. The body type encapsulated by the cape was surprisingly slim and made the figure look androgynous in the form concealing garment. Their face was hidden by a plain black full-face mask that was featureless except for a pair of glowing eyes.
"Who the fuck're you?!" the man (?) demanded roughly. Now that Issei thought about it though, without the distortion caused by the tunnel, it sounded less real and more like a voice changer.
Akutsu LV17
[Agent Flamberge]
"I'm the one who killed the Ratmen…Agent Flamberge." Issei said tightly. Although he didn't understand why there was only one name above the man's title, that title in and of itself was reason enough to make him ignore the wrongness of his actual name.
The 'man' jerked slightly at the name. A direct hit, by the looks of things.
"Ha. So you killed those little shitstains. So what?" the cloaked figure scoffed.
"Nothing. I would be more concerned by my reaction to what you did to the personnel of the Ratman Breeder's burrow, as well as this place." The Sekiryūtei answered mildly.
"Removing idiots from the genepool should be rewarded, not punished." Flamberge sneered contemptuously.
"Considering you're a Purifier as well, you're hitting yourself upside the head with that statement as well." Issei pointed out.
This, for some reason, made Flamberge laugh uproariously, as if he/she found what Issei was saying hilarious.
"A Purifier…you mean me?" the figure chortled. "Oh child, perish the thought. I am MORE than human!"
In a flash of light, the cloak vanished, replaced by a tall, statuesque woman wearing a black dress, with long purple hair…and a pair of large black feathered wings sprouting from her back
"I am Fallen." She declared arrogantly.
Armârôs the Lesser LV34
[Cursed One of God/Agent Flamberge/Kokabiel's Faction of the Grigori]
Oh….shit.
Issei was unfortunately quite familiar when it came to being confronted by powerful females. The almost daily beatings he'd received from Katase and Murayama made up the majority of these instances before he'd been awakened to the supernatural. The change in his life had only led to an upturn in those kinds of confrontations, his encounters with an increasingly irked Rias Gremory and Sona Sitri making up the most prominent of those instances, which were thankfully nonviolent.
For some reason, Murayama at least looked somewhat…wistful…about his lack of peeping on them whenever he'd caught sight of her these days. Almost as if she missed him peeping on the Girls' Kendo Club for whatever reason.
Girls are so weird.
Anyway. With all this in mind, the fact that Issei was actually fairly calm when he was confronted with Flamberge's revelation that she was actually a Fallen Angel of not inconsiderable power. [Gamer's Mind] didn't even need to activate immediately after the revelation
Instead, he instinctively activated [Observe] to get a better idea of what he was facing.
Name: Armârôs the Lesser
Class: ?
Title: Cursed One of God/Agent Flamberge/Kokabiel's Faction of the Grigori
Level: 34
HP: ?
MP: ?
STR: ?
STA: ?
DEX: ?
INT: ?
WIS: ?
LUK: ?
CHA: ?
LD: ?
Armârôs the Lesser is a relatively young, low-level Fallen Angel named in 'honour' of one of the Fallen Cadre of the same name, hence her designation as the 'the Lesser.' Resenting her epithet, she has striven to prove herself useful to Kokabiel and earn recognition for her own merits and actions. Vicious, ruthless and utterly contemptuous of beings other than Fallen (and with a particular disregard for humanity who she regards as God's greatest mistake), she has made a name for herself as a powerful (for a two-winged Fallen, anyway) member of the Angel of the Stars' Faction.
It was at this point that Issei had to have his Sacred Gear enforce calm on him.
[Gamer's Mind] Activated!
"Well, well, well…I am impressed that a lowly human has managed to come this far. As pathetic as they were, the Ratmen were still creatures born of the hidden world. One of the Father's greatest mistakes should have easily been overwhelmed by them." The Fallen sneered, staring down at Issei with an expression of utter superiority and contempt. The dress she was wearing resembled a mix between a Chinese Qipao married with the puffy shoulders and large, draping sleeves of a Western ball gown. When combined with the high-heels she was wearing, Issei had to wonder how well she'd fight on the ground…before resisting the urge to slap himself for his stupidity.
She had a pair of giant wings emerging from her back, meaning she could fly. He very much doubted that the being in front of him was ever concerned with having to fight while standing on the earth.
"I do try my best to surpass people's expectations." he replied dryly. "Is there any reason you're absconding with this idiot?"
He jerked his helmet at the bound Rokka Nia.
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