AN: Let's get ready to Rumble folks. Also today's Emilia-tan's birthday, so read this, and then go celebrate! Enjoy the weekend!

ARC Six: The Watergate City War

Chapter Forty Seven: Grievous Greed

The Batwing flew through the skies of the city and turned to use some clouds for better cover. From his camera views he could see several Witch Cultists attacking some knights protecting some fleeing civilians.

The Batwing traveled down and fired it's turrets on some Cultist reinforcements, they scattered enough from the gunfire to be taken care of by some more knights. As they finished off the last one, they all looked up as the Batwing flew over them, it's thunderous roaring jets making them gaze at it in amazement.

As it turned the corner of a tall building...a nearby inn crumbled away as a black dragon came face to face with it. The Batwing barrel rolled away from a fire breath attack, and went through the streets, using the shops as cover from another fire attack. It then shot up through the air...the dragon not far behind. The Batwing did a full loop and unloaded a barrage of bullets at the dragon, forcing it to scream out in pain. The dragon then attempted to speed up and grab the Batwing, Batman pushed a button and fired several flares, confusing the beast long enough for him to do a twirl and fire an anti-tank round at it's stomach. The dragon roared as blood and fire escaped its mouth, the Batwing then used it's titanium claw rope and ensnared the dragon.

The jets fired loudly as it pulled the dragon away...only to quickly turn and release the claw. The dragon was freed...but the momentum forced it to slam into a building.

The Batwing turned through the air and fired several flash-bangs at the dragon, as they exploded the dragon screamed out in pain.

Finally, the Batwing fired it's two last incendiary missiles and one of its last two anti-tank rounds at the dragon. The building was at first on fire with the two first impacts...then it completely collapsed on top of itself with the last one.

The Batwing flew over the rubble and observed the results.

One destroyed building. One defeated dragon.

The Batwing soon turned quickly and continued its way to the church.

Near one of the control towers, sat a simple church, there several finely dressed women were standing around, with blank stares as if they no longer had a will to live.

Coming out to the hall, Emilia was gazing around the interior of the church and its majestic splendor. She had seen a church once before in her childhood where she would sometimes see fellow elves get married. Though the church she was currently in was far more pristine.

She looked around and met eyes with the man who abducted her.

"Now then, I hate to be as unpunctual as this...but we must really hurry with this ceremony."

"Ceremony?"

"Why yes...this is a prestigious ceremony to honor you with the honored role as one of my wives. The 79th one to be exact...a coveted role...with it I will grace you with the love a wife and husband must be given, I do not ask for much of course. But I expect great things from you. Though you are a half-devil, your beauty is more than I can compare even to my most beautiful wives...I believe 102 and 89 to be frank. Now you will accept this role given to you, yes?"

"...NO."

Regulus put a hand to his ear and looked downward at Emilia, making his nearby wives tremble.

"Pardon...I hope my hearing isn't wrong. Though I do believe that my health has been in stable condition for these past several hundred years...I can't always be to sure about this matters. Now...could you please repeat yourself?"

"I said no."

"And why is that?"

"Mother Fortuna told me that marriage is promise to stay by the person you love forever. And right now...I do not understand what love is…but there is something I do know!"

"..."

"There is someone I have promised my heart to, once I understand what love is."

Just then, the door to the church broke open, sending the door straight across the building crashing into Regulus.

Out from the entrance, emerged Subaru, Beatrice and Reinhard.

Regulus stood up from the wreckage of the door...without a scratch or speck of dirt on his body at all. Regulus furrowed his brows at the three as he walked over to them.

"You would dare interrupt my important ceremony of matrimony and instill your vile actions upon me for doing so? To infringe on my freedom...my rights...YOU HAVE INFRINGED UPON MY RIGHTS!"

"Shut up! Talking about marriage like it's some easy thing! What the hell do you think it's about?!"

"Love of course."

"And what is love?"

Regulus raised a palm to them and simply looked down at the three. He rolled his eyes a bit, as if he was asked the dumbest question in the world.

"A pretty face is all you need in love right?"

Subaru and Beatrice's faces soon changed as they stared at the Sin Archbishop from his...heartless comment.

"You should die."

"You should die, I suppose."

Subaru and Beatrice rushed forward and activated E-M-T, just in case. Reinhard also followed close behind. Subaru tossed three explosive throwing stars at Regulus, they all exploded causing the back mosaic mural to shatter into pieces. But from the smoke emerged Regulus, once again unharmed. Reinhard tossed a piece of shrapnel at Regulus which he simply smacked away even causing a light shockwave.

"Enough. Continue this Sword Saint and I will have no choice but to harm my wives over there...or are you sure you could save them?"

Reinhard stopped his charge when Regulus aimed his hand at the wives already there, they trembled at the thought of dying. But suddenly a wall of ice appeared in front of them. Regulus was stumped but soon saw it Emilia's magic that did it.

"Number 79...how dare you get in my way!"

Regulus sliced the air, causing Emilia to leap away while the wall behind her gave way, not to mention the very ground and a building next to them were now sliced in two.

Regulus saw Reinhard charge at him so Regulus charged at as well.

Reinhard chopped at Regulus, only for Regulus to retrieve a piece of wood and block his strike with it.

Regulus then kicked Reinhard away from him and collapsed another wall of the church, he then threw some pebbles at him, the Sword Saint was able to duck under them...but the pebbles went through two shops before collapsing the third shop they collided with.

Subaru and Beatrice shot him from behind with Minya, the spear simply shattered as it hit Regulus in the back. Regulus spun and sliced the air, sending the attack barreling towards them. They then used Murak and floated away. The attack left the back of the church completely destroyed.

The church at this point was now completely ruined.

Subaru and Beatrice got up as they looked around and tried to find Regulus in the cloud of debris.

Regulus stood tall...but soon realized his feet were frozen. Emilia also appeared from the cloud with an Ice Sword aimed at his neck.

Regulus smiled as he quickly moved out of the ice and grabbed Emilia by the neck, the pain forcing her to drop her sword on the floor.

"Emilia!"

"Emilia-sama!"

Regulus put on a crazed expression as he turned his head back to the others.

"Don't move! Move and I shall be forced to kill my lovely wife here. Though it would pain me to do so, I have to take any action to be rid of you lot! Firstly, if you do not want the half-devil to be harmed...do as I say! And so...Sword Saint."

"...What do you want Greed?"

"...I want you to remain unguarded as I attack you once."

"...Very well, I comply."

Reinhard lowered his hands and stood straight as he faced Regulus.

"Reinhard! No don't-"

Regulus sliced the air and Reinhard was cut open, blood spilled out everywhere and he fell to the ground dead.

"Yes! There you have it, the last chance you had for defeating me has now fallen down in death. But rest assured the rest of you...you will surely die with him as well."

However everyone's eyes widened as Reinhard slumped back up as a orange light enveloped him and his injuries were healed.

"What? Whatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhatwhat?! Impossible! I killed you! Sliced you away! You were food for the insects and vermin just a moment ago! HOW?!"

"Sadly for you cultist, I have the Divine Protection of the Phoenix, it can only be used once...but it allows me to escape death and revive."

"Damn you Sword Saint! This time do me a favor and just die already!"

Emilia escaped his grip and kicked her Ice Sword to Reinhard who charged over and sliced him away and into a shack behind the Church.

Subaru got up with Beatrice as they saw they had won. That is, until Regulus exited out of the shack with a terrifying smile plastered on his face.

"Ingrates! Fools! Idiots! As long as I have my Authority, Stillness of an Object's Time!...YOU CANNOT KILL ME."

Just then Regulus was hit from behind by an anti-tank round. The explosion sent dirt and grass flying into the air.

In the distance the Batwing was descending from the sky as it fired it's turrets at where Regulus was...destroying the ground where he stood. The Batwing jetted towards the church to help the others.

"ENOUGH!"

Regulus rose up from the ground and sliced the air...the left wing of the Batwing came off cleanly. The Batwing then spun in the air as it's wing collided into a building and exploded. Every window on the building shattered from the impact. The Batwing sped off and behind the view of another building...crashed.

"BATMAN-SAN!"

Subaru trembled a bit.

Beatrice shook her head in denial.

Reinhard furrowed his eyes at Regulus.

Emilia had a panicked look on her face.

Regulus turned to face them walking slowly as he prepared to continue the battle with the three of them.

Then they heard a crashing sound.

A loud boom.

A strange sound after that.

Subaru could have sworn he recognized it.

The cloud of debris continued toward the church...then Regulus heard several sounds from it. Turning his attention to it.

Right there, shooting out of the cloud of debris was a large metallic hand with a strange blue field around it, it knuckles glowing bright red.

The fist collided with Regulus, and from the impact revealed the assailant, The Justice Buster.

Regulus was sent flying with the powerful punch, through buildings, houses and all the way to one of the giant walls that protect the city...creating a huge hole in the middle of it.

The Justice Buster soon started walking towards the church as Subaru got up. His eyes on the verge of tears, he wiped them away as he walked with Beatrice. Reinhard and Emilia were cautious of the strange armored giant that attacked Regulus.

"Batman-san!"

"Hey, sorry about the wait. That crash landing was a bit much."

"And the Batwing?"

"...It's totaled. I can no longer use it anymore."

"..."

The others relaxed and walked over as they realized it was indeed Batman.

"Batman-san...I didn't know you had something like this."

"Yeah, luckily I was able to eject this one and the other two suits before I crashed landed."

"You have more wow!"

The Justice Buster then noticed something had arrived on top of the roof of the church. They all looked as well...seeing a black clothed woman with milky white hair staring down at wore an immaculate pure black kimono with the right side over the left, giving the impression of burial clothes, but with the skirt shortened to the mid-thigh and freely exposing her long slender legs. Her blue eyes had a violent glimmer to them as she continued looking.

"Move…"

"...?"

"Move away from him…"

Batman realized that she was staring at Subaru. He moved in front of him, clearly enraging the girl.

"Why...why are you standing in the way…"

"Tell me why you are looking at Subaru!"

"His smell….same...as the others...so strong...this city…"

"Smell?...Wait."

Both Batman and Subaru realized that she was referring to the smell of the Witch on his being. She was clearly mistaking him for a Witch Cultist.

"No! He's not dangerous! He's on our side! Listen to-"

"- I don't care...move...or die with him."

"No, I understand you're after the Witch's Cult but-"

She then jumped off the roof and sliced down with large black wave of wind. Batman powered up the suit and released a shield around him and Subaru, protecting them from the attack.

The girl landed in front of them and tried to kick at them, but was met with a wall of ice. She destroyed it but her blue indigo eyes soon noticed that Reinhard was moving in to attack her. He chopped at the girl but summoned a wind shield, but it broke and she kicked away Reinhard from her, though this did no damage to him.

She then used another black wind attack this one in the form of a serpent like entity...she struck through the Justice Buster and sliced Subaru in half.

The two of them fell down as she nodded.

"That makes fourteen...but I have to kill them all….kill...kill...kill them all...KILL-"

Suddenly the sides of her entire body were crushed.

"...UGH?!"

Her eyes focused again as she saw that the illusion wore off from one of the suits functions created to stop Wonder Woman, a magical rope known as the Bind of Veils, to trick the opponent that they killed their enemy. She saw that the Justice Buster had slammed its two fists against her. She whimpered from the pain...then her face started to crack like a mask. The Justice Buster then moved his fists away and produced its shield around its right fist and activated the red suns in its knuckles for the most powerful punch that it used earlier on Regulus.

It even used its jet propulsion to swing the fist faster. The impact was massive, nearly collapsing the church and creating a crater underneath the suit.

The punch sent the girl flying away and into another building.

The Justice Buster lowered its fist and looked towards the building.

"Subaru."

"Yeah?"

"According to my sensors, that girl is moving around still."

"Damn, even after that?!"

"Stay here, I'll take care of her."

"But we can help!"

The Justice Buster turned its head slightly.

"No, my readings are also saying that Regulus is also on his way here. You and the others need to find away to stop him."

"Shit, alright. Don't go losing!"

"...I don't intend to. And neither should you!"

The Justice Buster charged through the church as he met face to face with the girl. They clashed causing a huge shockwave that destroyed the very ground under them and made every window within a few blocks shatter away.

When the Justice Buster looked up, he saw her true face.

She had dark brown hair, tired looking pale face and eyes that were dark pink.

As well...as two horns coming out of her forehead.

"...You're...You're an Oni?"

"Hrrr…"

"Stop this! We're not your enemy!"

"Protect...him...then you are my enemy…!"

"Subaru is not a Witch Cultist! Stop! Before I put an end to this fight!"

"...DIE!"

She leapt into the air and kicked down a powerful wind strike, it missed and Batman tossed a boulder at her...she dive kicked and smashed it away, as well as the ground.

She then released a violent maelstrom around her as she tried to slice away at the suit. But the suit simply created the shield around it and fired up its jet propulsion. It fired a quick citrine neutralizer at her neck, it pierced making the girl slightly dizzy. This weapon was made specifically to stop the Green Lantern from focusing on using his ring...but in this case it just helped in the fight.

The suit grabbed her by the face and dragged her on the ground, causing the ground to crumble away as she was being dragged. The suit continued for some time, using its jets to drag her away before, it saw its chance, it spun around and threw her at building. She was sent flying through it and into a waterway. The Justice Buster ran through the street and made it to the waterway, then a humongous water sprout emerged from the river.

"Perfect."

Batman then shot out a pink substance from its fist, trapping the girl in it. She struggled...but it seemed as though as she fell into the water spout, the pink substance was getting tighter and tighter and grew more and more.

And it was, the substance adsorbed water and was a foam capable of sucking the moisture out of Aquaman each time he tried to break free. And in this case, she was covered in the stuff. The Justice Buster shot off the ledge and tackled the trapped Oni into the street across and proceeded to punch relentlessly at the Oni, intending to knock her out.

"GET OFF!"

A huge wind blade hit the Justice Buster and sent it into the river, it was able to use its jets to keep it afloat and grabbed onto a wall as it saw the foam break off. The girl leered down at him and jumped into the air.

Just then, a water dragon came out and roared at the two. The Oni was already in a bad mood so she cut the dragon's clean off, Batman saw his chance. He leapt into the air with his jets, grabbed the head and tossed it at her.

She roared as she sliced the head in two but the Justice Buster anticipated this and shot through the air and used its shield to protect itself...as well as to tackle the Oni through the building he did before.

From the debris the two stood up, staring at each other.

The suit had a bit of damage to it, but the Oni was bleeding profusely and snarled at him...then muttered.

"Why?"

"...?"

"WHY?! WHY ARE YOU GETTING IN THE WAY?! THEY KILLED EVERYONE! TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME! WHY! WHYYYYYYYY?!"

"...!"

"Why….?"

She looked up at him and had tears of blood running out of her eyes.

"Why can't you let me get my revenge?"

"...If it was the Sin Archbishop...we could have helped...maybe...but-"

"...!"

"You are trying to kill my friend...so I can't."

She glared at him, as an insane feeling of bloodlust coursed through her body.

Images of her village being burned down, her friends and colleagues being killed by them. Capella torturing her again and again.

Her journey to find the Light Sphere from Zarestia...and steal.

The stench was all over this city...it was perfect...so many to kill…

Her path of revenge...to avenge her fellow villagers….

It was falling apart thanks to the man in front of him.

"RAGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

She ran in a mad craze as a vicious wind followed her. Batman fired his mid chest plate and it released a frictionless coating on the floor, the very thing he made to defeat the Flash.

As her feet touched it, she realized her feet and entire being were slipping around...and soon enough she flew past the suit and crashed through another building.

She got up in the lobby of the inn she crashed through and tried to look up...only to see the Justice Buster racing through the wall and aiming a punch at her, she fired another air attack at him, but he put up his barrier with one hand...and with the other readied a punch.

She tried to dodge, but her horns cracked causing her to stumble...then the Justice Buster hit her straight in the face...causing her two horns to break apart.

Her eyes went white as she looked around in a confusion...blood shot out of her entire face and the inn began to collapse around them. The Justice Buster then tossed her behind himself and into a nearby shop. He then ran out as the Inn finally collapsed, sending out a cloud of debris everywhere.

Batman relaxed as he began walking back to the church. But turned around as he saw the Oni charge at him with blood leaking out of her mouth, eyes, nose and where her horns used to be.

She used the wind to help strengthen her tackle as the were clearly heading back to the church.

Subaru threw a earth throwing star at him to impale him...it didn't work.

Beatrice sunk the ground underneath him and fired a Minya spear at him...it didn't work.

Reinhard sliced him with his own sword, cutting into the wall behind him...it didn't work.

Emilia summoned water around his head to drown him...it didn't work.

Sending his own air slice against him, firing an ice spear from underneath him, hitting him in the head with Invisible Providence, Reinhard kicking him in the head….

Nothing.

Not a single thing could hurt him…

Regulus laughed a bit as he glared down at the four of them.

Subaru and Emilia quickly deduced that time was altered around his body, letting him escape damage and move at high speed. But he further deduced that his heart had to have stopped at some point. So there was a trick to it.

He was sharing his heart...most likely with his wives.

"No good, Natsuki Subaru! As long as my wives are here and my second Authority, Lion's Heart, is activated, none can kill me! None! No one! Nothing! I am invincible!"

Emilia snuck away from the fight after learning what she did from Subaru and asked the wives to help her...when they threatened to kill themselves to get revenge on Regulus for all the years of torment they were put under.

Emilia couldn't let them do this and instead froze them...hoping that that would help in the fight.

Regulus realized what had happened to his wives and began tossing rocks at Subaru and Reinhard...they dodged, but the rocks ripped holes through other buildings. Regulus charged at Reinhard with a stick and they did a small duel, the stick empowered by his Authority.

Subaru and Beatrice ran back inside and met with Emilia.

"He can still use his Authority!"

"But I froze his wives! How can….wait...unless.."

"Emilia?"

She grasped her chest and gave Subaru a shocked look as she had realized what this meant.

"I have his heart too."

"No…!"

"He must have done it while I was knocked out. Maybe if I freeze myself-"

"-No! I think I can do something."

Subaru stood face to face with Emilia.

"I need you to trust me...okay?"

"...Yes. I trust you."

Subaru concentrated and had Invisible Providence activate, using the Unseen Hand he moved through Emilia carefully and examined inside her...there the Hand found the two hearts.

"Take this Regulus."

The Unseen Hand crushed the second heart, destroying it and severing the connection.

Regulus gasped as he clutched his chest.

"No. NO! That's not right! That's impossible….IMPOSSIBLE!"

"Sorry, but it seems my friend Subaru has a knack for finding a way to defeat you Sin Archbishops."

"Grr!"

Suddenly, the Justice Buster bursted through the walls with the Oni encircled in a violent wind. She was crazed at this point and screaming as her now white eyes stared down at Batman.

"I...I hate being interrupted...that violates my rights!"

Regulus focused hard and swung his arm with all his might, crating a huge air slice.

Subaru saw this and shoved Emilia and Beatrice away.

The Justice Buster also saw this and punched the Oni right in the face, crushing the entire left side of her face.

Batman activated the jet propulsion to get away from the slice.

Reinhard was able to jump out of the way.

Subaru slipped and The Justice Buster wasn't able to fully get out of the way.

Subaru's left hand was simply erased from his arm.

The Justice Buster lost its right arm a part of its right foot.

The Oni...the girl whose name was unknown to everyone...had half of her body sliced away.

The slice traveled far...all the way to the wall where Regulus went through, completely collapsing it, and destroying any structures that were in the way.

The Oni's eyes began to waver as the large Light Gem fell out of her, her eyes teared up as she glared at Regulus.

"I...I just-"

Her eyes lost their light and her dead body fell back to the ground in a puddle of blood.

The Justice Buster then charged at Regulus with its jets and punched him into the ground. Regulus got up and gasped for air, with his heart connections gone, he couldn't use his Authority without stopping his own heart. But he was then met with a hit by Subaru's whip, which cut up his face. Reinhard then kicked him up into the air. As Regulus flew high into the sky, he saw Reinhard jump up after him and kicked him back down into the ground.

Regulus's body continued for sometime going through the earth, his Authority was now deactivated and his body was being broken apart. Organs pulverized, his legs broken and he even defecated blood all over himself. He reactivated it, stopping his body from going any further.

His seething rage kept him going as he took ragged breaths.

"Damn you! DAMN YOU! MY RIGHTS! ALL OF THEM! MY WIVES! MY WEDDING! MY EQUAL CHANCE AT BATTLE! VIOLATED!"

Regulus reactivated his Authority as he began digging his way back up to the top of the hole he found himself in.

"Kill you all! KILL! Sword Saint! Pride! Batman! Half Devil Bitch! Little Whore! I'll kill every last one of you! I swear on my title as GREED!"

Then his empowered hand broke a piece of earth...opening up a connection to the waterway, sending water and mud against him. It pushed him back down the hole. He tried to force his away against it, but his Authority was stopping his heart...so he had to deactivate.

"HAKKK! HAUGH! HAUGGHH!"

Water. Mud. Blood.

All these things were filling Regulus's mouth as he gasped for air and anything he could. His vision became darkened as mud entered his eyes. He tried to scream for one of his wives to save him...that's when he realized it.

"Oh...when I'm gone...no one will miss me. I killed my family, my wives don't actually love me...do they? Damn...No one will miss me. No one will look for me...This is my grave. Was this because of my Greed? No. I wasn't greedy...but...why doesn't someone-"

With that, The Sin Archbishop of Greed, Regulus Corneas, died…

Subaru and the others saw the rising levels of water from the hole and realized Regulus was defeated...that's when Emilia and Beatrice ran over and hugged Subaru.

"We did it Subaru! We beat him!"

"With Betty by your side, we can do anything, I suppose!"

Subaru was quiet, making them all concerned...that's when Beatrice noticed his left arm.

"Subaru…"

His left hand was gone...in its place was a bloody stump. Beatrice shook her head and began to cry.

"Subaru...SUBARU! BETTY IS SORRY!"

She clutched onto his tracksuit and wept openly.

"BETTY IS AT FAULT! BETTY IS SUPPOSED TO PROTECT YOU, I SUPPOSE! I'M SORRY…"

"Beako…"

"...Su-"

"-It's not your fault. And right now we can't worry about it...right Emilia-tan?"

Emilia was at this point crying as well, she was then caressed on her cheek by his right hand.

"If I save you two...then I don't care what I lose."

Emilia and Beatrice got to work healing Subaru as Reinhard bowed to Subaru.

"As a fellow knight, I apologize for the outcome of this fight. If I fought harder...your hand...it wouldn't be-"

"-Reinhard."

"It's okay."

Reinhard looked up and saw a polite smiled on Subaru's face.

"You helped us save Emilia, how it ended up is not your fault."

"But-"

"-Besides, I would never try and get angry at a friend who came to help...well maybe Otto."

He chuckled a bit as Reinhard got up and nodded.

Batman called out to them.

"Don't worry if anything I might have something I can give you to help with that Subaru."

"You do?"

"Yes...but right now we don't have the time. Understand?"

"Yeah."

Subaru wrapped some wrapping bandages around his stump...though he did feel odd about not having a left hand...he had to move forward, there was still work to do.

The Justice Buster tried getting up, but its damage was extensive.

Batman called out to Reinhard.

"Reinhard!"

"Batman?!"

"That gem grab it and head over to the building where I crashed earlier there you will see a cube that is open! Toss it inside there! NOW!"

Reinhard turned his attention to the gem as it had a violent wind encircling it...Reinhard realized the danger, so he did as Batman ordered...he took it and placed it inside the cube where the Justice Buster was kept.

Returning, he saw Batman exit the Justice Buster….as he stared at it...pieces of the armor began falling off and its right arm came off.

Its bright blue eyes, began to dim...then sparks went off inside it...causing it to shut down.

"Thank you for everything."

Batman closed his eyes as he said goodbye to the now destroyed armor.

Emilia eventually freed the captive women, they were overjoyed to be freed from Regulus. Subaru then heard another familiar sound as Batman returned in his Justice Armor, landing down from the sky.

"Subaru. I'm going off to help fight Sirius!"

"You sure?"

"Yes, I have a plan in defeating her!"

"Hell yeah, I'm heading off to go face Capella with Emilia and Beatrice. We'll take these girls to an evacuation center"

Reinhard nodded as he sheathed his sword.

"I will go help my grandfather and Deathstroke."

"Sounds good."

"Take care!"

Reinhard jumped to the air and jumped from building to building, disappearing from view.

The others split up from there and made their way to their own destinations, leaving behind the destroyed church.

Julius and Garfiel finished off the last of the Witch Cultists who were guarding the entrance to the water refinery building.

"These weaklin's are a pain in th' ass."

"Indeed, they have only wasted our valuable time to get at our enemy."

"Well, tha's th' last of em' let's go!"

"Right!"

The two marched through the halls as they made it into the area where water magic users would work on diverting waterways from filth to drinkable and then purifying both for their intended purpose.

There...standing at the top of the stairs leading to an office area…

"Well, I didn't think we'd have guests so soon. I guess, Capella's warning wasn't enough for you gentleman to stay away, was it?"

The two men got in battle positions.

Julius readied his sword as his spirits hovered around him and Garfeil sharpened his claws.

Scarecrow walked down the steps, now wearing a fully dark purple trench coat with the Witch Cult insignia on its back...thus proving his allegiance.

His orange hued eye glared at them as his spirit Amygdala hovered around him. Pointing his clawed finger at them, while letting out a raspy breath.

"Now what type of trauma can I work with here….huhhhhhh?"

The Spirit Knight and the Strongest Shield would now face the Demon of Fear in a battle to the death.