Yo everyone, I'm back with a new chapter :D

First thing first, EVE IS IN THE HAREM!

Sorry for not include her within harem list, I kind of forgot about it when I write previous chapter...Te-he *Wink*

...Alright let just pretend you didn't see that and move on with the chapter.

Chapter 8: Mad Lion VS Berserk Wolf

(Sayuki POV)

It's been a minute since that last aura outburst.

I fasten my pace toward the direction, If my guess are right he should be there.

The distance from our house to that aura's location isn't that far, maybe around 4 kilometers in linear measurement.

And Yarai never let anything dangerous stay 5 kilometers diameter from our house.

I know certain fact when I live there, to Yarai, family is everything. Yarai already countless times remove any object with danger near our house, peacefully or forcefully.

THUMP!

I stopped myself on the random roof when a blast of shockwave creating a small quake.

"What's that just now? An earthquake?"

The civilians on the street can also felt it, I looked toward the direction again.

"It's close"

I leap from roof to roof, continuing my search.

'Please be safe...'

(Yarai POV)

CLANG! SLASH! BANG!

How has it been since we continously repeat this exchange?

She attack, I dodge. I attack, she block. This exchange repeat itself.

Transformed Eve not getting weary from each of her attack, or rather it seems she became faster...or I became slower.

Her body released static nanomachine that deflect my bullets, close combat quarter is extremely unfavorable to me with her rapid changing ability.

She relentlessly attacking me without let me take a break, as expected I became fatigued, not to mention the last thing I ate is a simple breads, my hunger cut down some of my stamina, talk about messed up.

More and more her attacks able to wound me while she remain unharmed eve after I managed to shot her, seems like her transformation increase her defense too along with her speed and ferocity.

Her way of fighting also different from before. The previous Eve attacking with gracious yet deadly movement, and she act depending the situation.

On the other hand, this Eve attacking without strategy. Just overwhelm the enemy with sheer force, it was dangerous but predictable. But the true problem is...

BANG!

I shot above, then the ceiling fell above our head.

BOOOM!

I jumped back before it can hit me but Eve just staring at it, without even move nor block.

SLASHSLASHSLASH!

Countless slashing sound can be heard from the dust smoke where Eve at, there she stood perfectly as her body glowing with golden spark like usual.

"Well then, what to do now..."

It was then, when I thought aloud.

A silver blur tackled Eve, it doesn't stop there instead it dragging Eve with it.

Silver and golden light crashed against the wall, leaving a fairly large spider-web like crack as a result of their collision.

Once the smoke cleared, I surprised by the spectacle and irritated that I forgot about her sensor ability.

"This is bad, I forgot this place near our home".

It was a half transformed Sayuki pining Eve to the wall, her wrist pushing into Eve's neck.

A pair cat's ears and a tail appear on her body, also her pupil turned into slits with her fangs grown.

"I kill you"

Sayuki's feralized voice that laced with huge amount of killing intent resounding within this empty factory.

(Sayuki POV/earlier)

I arrived at the source of fierce aura, it was an abandoned factory.

The rancid smell and traces of machine oil make sense here however, along with opressing aura there's also smell of blood.

I ran inside with haste, not because of the aura but by the smell of blood. I just hope that isn't his blood, or else...

A huge, empty space that probably once had machinery in it. All the industrial machines and assembly lines have been extracted, leaving only a hollow sheel.

There's no window, so it would be pitch black even at noon if not because of those holes. Fortunately I'm not a human, at least not entirely so my eyes can still see even in this dim litted room.

A red smell penetrate from inner deep, I carefully watch my step as I ran.

As I advance, the smell become stronger. There's voice inside my head that telling me I shouldn't go, there's something that I shouldn't see.

But I ignored it.

I open the door that lead into inside part.

I instinclt covered my eyes that get used by darkness when the light invade my eyes.

The inside room also big space but with many unnecessary objects littered all over the places. Scrap metals, boxes, etc...

This room had many holes, from walls or ceiling's.

My ears picked up a sounds, sounds of metals clashing against each others.

I rushed toward the source.

And there, I saw a small figure girl with menacing aura around her. Even from here I can tell there's something wrong with the girl.

The girl stare at something in front her with unnatural grin, almost like an insane person...or demon.

I looked at the direction the girl looked at...

"!"

There, I saw a wounded person stand tall despite there's numerous cut on his clothes and body.

I won't care that much if it's somebody else but, it's HIM. The most important person to me.

He's wounded, reds coloring his profile.

I cluthed my head, my stomach feel sick from the thick smell of blood.

It's just like that time, when my parent get slaughtered by those devils.

The red color, the scent of blood. He has both of them, the same things that mom and dad had when they die.

"...o..."

I remember those red colors.

"...no..."

I remember these scent.

"...No..."

The image of his unmoving body, drown in red invade my mind.

"NOOO!"

Then everything turned red.

(3rd person POV)

SLASH!

An unforeseeable golden blade, an invisible magic blade sword that can even cut steel in half swung at Sayuki.

That first attack was a flash of claws, like supernatural swords. Sayuki fails to dodge and thrown back, had she not using touki as shield, she would be cut in half.

Eve transformed her arms into two blades, she leaped.

She jumps from the wall to the ceiling, moving as if freed from the laws of gravity.

CLANG!

Bright gold and silver lightnings leaves afterimages each time they cross, like lion's claws clashed against wolf's fangs.

Sayuki backed off for a moment. However...

Eve follows the retreating Sayuki and release her invisible blades. Seven cuts at once, far more than their previous encounter.

CLANG!

Sayuki reacted by slashed the silently approaching blades with her claws.

The berserk humanoid jumps over Sayuki's head to the pieces of rubble behind her, while cut everything horizontally and vertically at once before she lands.

Stones and metals are both cut, severed, and dismantled. Whatever Eve's blades reach, it separated.

Many would frozen at the display of strength, but not Sayuki. She stood tall as she glared at Eve with youki surround her entire body.

Eve sprout a pair of wings from her back, pure white wings like an angel. The feathers pointed sharply toward her opponent and released torrent of white bullets.

Sayuki deploys her youki at full power, acting as a shield. And the defensive gravity field deflect all the bullets.

CLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANG!

Possessed Eve let out a low growl, as if smiling at her prey.

The golden lion leaped suddenly.

CLANG!

Golden claws clashed against silver's fangs.

Even though it's barely noticeable, Sayuki losing against Eve. It's started to became clearer as the time passes.

Eve's blades groan. In a world cut off from sound and light, Sayuki retreat, evading them by hair's breath.

Eve doesn't stop for a moment, she continue to show her superior agility.

Wall to wall, ceiling to ceiling, ground to ground. She easily disappears from Sayuki's vision in a blink of an eye.

Everything she passes through falls apart. Walls, pipes, tubes, boxes, concretes. Each time, the surface of the cut is as smooth as glass.

In middle of crumbling world, Sayuki gives up on pursuing.

She can't possibly outrun Eve, her energy isn't finite. The more she needlessly move the faster her energy depleted.

Sayuki close her eyes, her defensive touki disappear.

Eve saw that as an opportunity, she dashed toward Sayuki. Her shadow leaves a trail like a comet, it was a godlike speed.

A head-on collision, just like what Sayuki wanted.

She jumps. An explosive acceleration destroy the ground she stand.

For this time only, her speed match with Eve.

For a fleeting moment, Eve wavers.

But she can't change the trajectory now. The bright golden bullet rushed in straight line at silver lance.

An instant until they cross paths. A span of time that less than one second.

Golden claws and invisible blades. Those attacks cut through space and time, in theory leave no room for escape.

Sayuki dashed like lightning, she accelerates on par with Eve. The two collide at higher speed than expected.

Thus, Eve loses the track of Sayuki for a moment.

"HAAAAAA!"

Sayuki roared.

A single swing of her full power claws targets Eve.

BOOOOOOOOM!

Eve flies through the air. She was blown away like a toy, and now plummets to the ground.

Eve struggles to pick herself up. Her body leaking blitz of spark, making dull creaking noisies like screams.

"Damage more than 90%, combat impossible, combat impossible".

Even with her upgraded defense, Eve can't withstand that kind of attack that aided by extreme acceleration.

She accelerated for a head-on charge, her entire body took massive damage. It's unclear if she can stand up again.

Sayuki limply approaches Eve who still staying on the ground.

Eve swinging her blade, but almost all of her previous strength gone. It's not invisible anymore.

CLANG!

It was blocked, but not by Sayuki.

(Yarai POV)

I blocked Eve's attack with [Hades], and immediately inject her arm with golden colored liquid.

While Sayuki and Yarai fighting each others, I search Torneo's body. Hoping he carry something useful.

And I found an injector that already filled with medicine, if my memory is correct it's should be medicine that can relieve Eve's berserk state.

Once the liquid fully injected, Eve's feature return to normal. I catch her before she fall to ground, and lay her gently.

I stand up and turned at Sayuki who looked down in shame. She must be feeling ashamed by turning into that state despite how much she says she will be careful not to drown in anger.

"Why did you turned into that state?" I can roughly understand her reason, but I want to hear it from her mouth.

"...She hurt you". She says, still look down. Her ears and tail down depressedly.

I don't want she enter that state because she will act reckless but, I happy she go that far for me.

"Because of you I saved, Thanks! Sayuki"

I rub her head gently, her ears twitched cutely. She pouted but not try to stop me.

When I stop, she give me the 'look'.

"As much as I want to continue but..." I felt devils's presence nearby.

"We need to get out from here". I picked up Eve with bridal style.

"You bring 'her' with us?" She looked at unconscious Eve with hostility.

"Don't blame her, she just got used by that scum". I gestured at Torneo.

"Fine! But I still keep her on my eye" She resigned.

(3rd person POV)

Rias and her peerage finally arrived at the scene, on the way they meets Sona along with her peerage.

They decided to go together without argument. But by the time they arrived, the aura already gone.

The group walked in cautiosly, the aura might be gone but they can't let their guard down.

The group gasped in amazement once they saw the state of inner room, it was a mess, a very huge mess. It almost like this place just hit by twister, none of the objects unharmed. They're sliced, smashed, cracked.

"Just what happen in this place?" Rias thought aloud.

"It's like some sort of battle happen here, a high level one". Sona says as she touch a sliced off pole.

"...Smell of blood". Koneko says, gaining everyone attention. Then she pointed at certain direction.

"...The strongest smell comes from there"

The group walked toward the direction she pointed warily. They silently peeked over the rubble only to wide eyed by what they found.

"A corpse?" Issei said what o everyone's thought.

The ones who not used to seeing human's corpse immediately feel sick on stomach.

Kiba signaled everyone to wait while she walked at the body with caution.

Once he assume its safe, he wave his hand toward the group.

"Is he human?" Rias asked Koneko who briefly glanced at the body.

"...hai. ...there's nothing special from him".

"Buchou, he's dead by a shot on forehead" Kiba said as he pointed at the head where has lots of almost dry blood.

Anyone who not used by gore scene, including Issei blanched.

"Sona, did you know this person?"

"Yes, and you would too if you often read underworld newspaper". Sona said as she mildly initiate something.

Rias rolled her eyes in annoyance, it's not her fault she didn't like to read newspaper. That thing as boring as Grayfia's lecture.

Not that she dare to say it loud.

"So, who is him?"

Sona raised her glasses a little as she looked down the corpse with neutral expression.

"Torneo Rudman, an infamous underworld crime boss. He involved in many crimes including drugs, arms smuggling, murders, and...rape".

Sona said the last part with venom, her feeling shared by every devils especially females.

"In a short, he's a trash" Rias says with unconcealed disgust.

"...Scum" Even Koneko added her two cents.

"For time being, let's report this".

If I can say for myself, this fight scene might be the best fight scene I wrote until now.

I feel like I saw it somewhere before but forgot, it just came out in my mind. It would be nice if it came out again soon XD!

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