Raynare was kneeling right next to her mother, carefully wiping away some of the grime that was on her face.
She looked pretty banged up, but from what she could tell...nothing debilitating was done to her body.
She supposed she should be thankful for small miracles.
"Hey...Raynare-san right?"
The fallen woman looked up to regard the human who has foiled her mother's plans, she expected a harsh gaze from him...
But unexpectedly he seemed to be looking at her with a quizzical expression rather than a harsh and demanding one.
"...What do you want?" Raynare asked warily, he was dangerous and she didn't feel comfortable in his presence. Naruto just nodded at her tone and continued.
"Well...do you mind if I ask you something?" Naruto asked with a curious tone.
The female fallen's confusion began to grow, what was he doing right now? Especially when considering the circumstances.
"...Sure?" Raynare responded, her confusion causing her to phrase her response as a question. But the blond seemingly ignored it and continued.
"Why did you give up? I mean not that I'm complaining that you've given up but...I saw that you were about to keep fighting on before. Then you just randomely changed your mind at the last second. So I'm a little curious." Naruto said while sheepishly rubbing the back of his head.
Raynare gave him a dull stare.
Just because she was beaten didn't mean that she was just gonna give out her personal information. This guy was just...
"Sorry...that's personal information. I don't feel like sharing it to the guy that just beat up my mother." the young woman spoke somewhat bitterly.
The shinobi simply nodded at her reasoning. "That's fine, you didn't have to answer. Like I said, I was just curious." Naruto said easily, before casually moving past her towards Issei.
Issei was busy holding on to the nun like his life depended on it. She was obviously still unconscious...but it looked like she was going to be fine at least.
Naruto just walked up beside him and crouched to check on the petite girl for injuries. As far as he could tell there was nothing but you never know...
"Thank you."
Naruto blinked for a moment before looking towards the trembling form of Issei.
"Thank you for saving Asia...thank you so much..." Issei spoke while holding back tears of relief. Naruto just patted him on the back in response, he himself knew about the feeling of pain when you lost someone close.
He definitely wanted to make sure that other people wouldn't have to feel such pain.
But before the shinobi could try and lighten the mood with something silly, he twisted his head to look at the at the stairway and narrowed his eyes.
Someone was coming.
He stood up and walked away from Issei and ignored the small group of fallen angels that were congregated around Raynare and Vretiel in order to face whoever was coming.
Though admittedly, he knew who was coming. He just wanted to make sure that the man treated the captured fallen without mistreating them too much.
He opened his mouth to greet the man that descended from the stairs...
Then slammed his mouth shut in absolute shock at what he was seeing.
All of the conscious fallen angels were gaping like fish.
While Issei just looked on in confusion, hell shouldn't Naruto be happy that his friend was so effective?
Naruto finally spoke after staying silent for a few moments.
"...Azazel-san?"
A few moments earlier...
Azazel was staring at the very much weakened barrier surrounding the abandoned church, he truthfully had no idea what was going on in there exactly.
But he could speculate.
Considering how battered and cracked the purple barrier was, it was a safe bet to believe that there was quite the battle inside. He was also willing to bet that his new 'friend' had been involved in that battle.
But he didn't want to bet. He wanted to find out what happened.
But at the same time, he didn't want to go inside the barrier when there were fallen angels still conscious in there.
So after waiting a suitable amount of time since the barrier cracked, he decided that since the barrier has not received anymore damage recently, he could enter without fear of discovery.
So he casually flicked his arm at the weakened barrier and shattered it utterly to allow the contents from within to be revealed.
What he saw honestly shocked him.
The entire forest which once stood inside the barrier was completely flattened, it looked more like someone thoroughly carpet-bombed the area than the arena of a fight!
He also couldn't help but nervously look around for the conspicuously absent fallen bodies that should have been littered across the battlefield...
Ah!
There they were.
He saw all of the fallen angels that were probably standing in the mysterious blond man's way stacked on top of one another. Really, they were just haphazardly thrown on top of each other like some weird game of jenga.
He supposed that he could hazard a guess on where everyone else were. There was only one thing standing in the entire area.
So he spread his wings and flew towards the abandoned church at a casual pace until he touched down in front of the battered structure.
He made sure to put away his wings before he spooked anyone.
Although he didn't really expect anyone to be waiting for him.
He especially didn't expect for a hero to be waiting for him, the cape was sort of a big give-away. He hasn't seen one of those in a long time...wondered how that old bastard hero was doing?
"Another fallen angel...? You are here to help your allies I presume?" the young woman asked rhetorically while holding her blade up in a defensive position.
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