Life In Dxd - Chapter 108

After both Isami and Tatsuya left Azazel’s place Isami started asking questions about Azazel and Tatsuya started to explain her about the fallen angels and Grigori.

Soon Isami got a call from Rias regarding a stray devil in the town and Isami and Tatsuya parted ways.

Tatsuya who was now alone decided to take a long way home as he wanted to travel a bit after drinking with Azazel and started walking aimlessly around the town.

After half an hour of walking it started to rain but Tatsuya used his psychic powers to make the water droplets bounce of his body. Seeing that it was raining heavily Tatsuya decided to go home as others might get worried.

On his way he heard a voice which he concluded to be clash between swords and decided to check the area using magic.

But just as he used it he confirmed it to be Kiba and ran towards the location.

Just as he reached there he saw Kiba and a stray priest which he thought to be Freed were fighting.

He then came forward and asked, “What’s going on here?”

Both Kiba and Freed got alert by the voice and looked at Tatsuya.

Kiba widened his eyes and said, “Tatsuya what are you doing here?”

“Just taking a stroll, didn’t expect to fight you here. So who is that guy, your friend?”

Kiba shook his head and said, “No this person standing here is Freed Sellzen, a rouge priest.”

Tatsuya looked at Freed and said, “Nice to meet you. Tatsuya Shiba at your service.”

Freed looked at Tatsuya weirdly for a while and then said, “…um hello, I guess.”

Freed was then suudenly hit by realisation and he pointed his sword at Tatsuya and said, “Hey it is not the time to introduce ourselves, what are you doing here. You know what just leave it, I will just slice you apart as well.”

Tatsuya looked at Freed and asked, “What happened man, why so angry? Someone stepped on you d.i.c.k or what?”

Freed gritted his teeth and then said, “You, forget it you will die first.”

Tatsuya then looked at Kiba and asked, “You cut his d.i.c.k or what?”

Kiba shrugged and said, “No he is just like that?”

Tatsuya nodded and then asked, “Want me to deal with him?”

Kiba then gripped his sword tightly and said, “No, I request you to not interfere, there are some debts that I have to clear with that sword.”

Tatsuya then looked at the sword in Freed’s hands and said, “Oh it’s one of those Excalibur pieces huh. Well go ahead, be my guest.”

Kiba nodded and said, “Thanks.”

Freed who heard them laughed maniacally and said, “What happened shit head? Got scared of my Excalibur-chan.”

Tatsuya then looked at Freed and said, “I have an ‘Excalibur’ down there as well and you know, Girl’s love it.”

Freed became a big pissed on seeing that Tatsuya wasn’t the slightest bit scared and then said, “Let’s stop talking and start slashing.”

Kiba became serious and said, “Yeah, lets go. HOLY ERASER.” and black beams started to originate from Kiba’s sword and attack Freed.”

Freed simply blocked the attack with his sword and then the sword started to emit holy aura.

Freed then looked at Kiba and said, “That will not work on my Excalibur-chan, devil-kun.”

Kiba gritted his teeth and then ran towards Freed and started slashing at Freed.

Freed continued to laugh maniacally and then parried all of Kiba’s slashes.

Tatsuya observed their fight and thought, ‘That sword must be Excalibur rapidly. That must be the reason, why Freed is able to fight at Kiba’s speed.’

They kept on fighting for a while with none gaining advantage over the other. Both of them were pretty tired but suddenly Freed found an opening and slashed Kiba on the arm.

Kiba then took a step back and groaned in pain.

Freed then licked his lips and said, “Stings a lot ,right devil-kun. Oh I feel so great.”

Tatsuya looked at Freed and said, “Why, someone penetrated you from ‘behind’ or what?”

Hearing that Freed got out of his own world and glared at Tatsuya and said, “Just you wait shit head, I will deal with you once I kill devil-kun.” and started running towards Kiba.

Kiba who was injured decided to block the attack. But noticed that he won’t be on time, because of his injury.

Just as Freed was about to attack Kiba Tatsuya said, “Oh man, you stepped on dog shit. Yuck!!!”

Freed immediately stopped his hand and looked down and lifted his foot.

Tatsuya saw that and said, “Kiba now.” Kiba nodded and slashed at Freed.

Freed who noticed the attack coming towards him jumped away and then said, “Hey, that’s not fair.”

Tatsuya just looked at him without any expression and said, “Yeah I know.”

Freed then said, “It’s a two against one.”

Tatsuya with the same expressionless face said, “And so is a threesome. But they don’t complain, do they.”

Both Freed’s and Kiba’s lips twitched and Freed said, “This example is irrelevant here.”

Tatsuya nodded his head and said, “I know.”

Freed gritted his teeth and again took his stance to fight but suddenly a magic circle appeared near his ear and Freed’s eyes widened. He then looked at Tatsuya and Kiba and said, “Looks like you live a bit longer, devil-kun, shithead. Someone is calling me.” and then threw something on the ground and the whole area illuminated in a blinding light.

Freed put his sword on his waist and ran away, but what he failed to notice was that Tatsuya already taking his sword and storing it in his storage.”

Tatsuya then came back to his position before the light died down.

He then looked at Kiba and said, “Well there he goes, so waana tell me your story?”

Kiba sighed and then said, “Let’s find a shelter first. It is raining quite heavily.”

Tatsuya nodded and both of them then entered an apartment which seemed to be Kiba’s house.

Tatsuya has already informed the others that he would be staying at Kiba’s place for the night as he had something to discuss with him.

Kiba and Tatsuya then dried themselves up and then sat down facing each other.

Tatsuya looked at Kiba and Kiba was looking down on the floor.

Tatsuya waited for him to speak but noticing him he sighed and said, “Listen I am not forcing you to speak up, of you don’t want to then I won’t force you but if you tell me there might be a way that I can help you.”

Kiba then looked at Tatsuya with a determined expression and then said, “I will tell you.” and then started telling about the holy sword project and his life.

After he was done Tatsuya looked at him and said, “You have gone through a lot.”

Kiba sighed and said, “Yeah”

Tatsuya then patted on his shoulder and said, “Don’t worry everything is fine now.”

Tatsuya then became serious and said, “But do you think that your way of taking revenge is right?”

Kiba became surprised by his question and then asked, “What do you mean by that?”

Tatsuya then said, “What I mean to say is that, do you think that everything will be solved if you destroy all those “great name, works lame” swords.”

Kiba was a bit confused by what Tatsuya said and seeing that Tatsuya sighed and then said, “Just think about it, like you someone destroyed the original Excalibur and then it’s pieces were used to make new Excaliburs. So, of you were to destroy the sword again, their is a chance that they can recreate them or worse, they can even make more swords with the new fragments and to choose weilders for those fragments a new holy sword project will start and many children will suffer again. Do you really want that?”

After hearing Tatsuya’s explaination Kiba started to hesitate about his revenge.

Seeing the conflicted expression on Kiba’s face Tatsuya said, “I am not asking you to forget about your revenge, what I am asking you is to change the method of your revenge.”

Kiba immediately looked at Tatsuya intently, waiting for answer.

Tatsuya then said, “How about killing the one who started the holy sword project, Valper Galilei. Afterall he was the one who made you and your friends suffer, right? Killing him will lessen the chances of another holy sword project as well.”

Kiba remained silent for a while and then said, “I will think about it. Right now my head is in a mess.”

Tatsuya nodded and then said, “Take your time, there is no rush, you have the whole night to think about it.” Tatsuya said with a smile on his face.

Kiba twitched his lips and said, “Isn’t that much time too less?”

. Tatsuya nodded and said, “I know that it is less, but as you have seen, that maniac Freed had an Excalibur in his hands. How do you think a stray priest will be allowed to posses a one of the Excaliburs.”

Kiba who heard that got surprised and started thinking about what Tatsuya said. He then said, “Yeah, now that I think about it, it is definitely weird for that priest to have that sword, it’s as if”

Tatsuya then said, “Someone from the inside is helping him and from what I know only people with certain authority will be allowed near Excaliburs like”

Kiba then seemed to realise something and said, “People from the holy sword project. They were allowed to take Excaliburs to test on us to know if anyone was worthy.”

Tatsuya then said, “That’s right, I believe something big is about to happen and seeing that the maniac with Excalibur was here, I can feel that this town is going to be the centre of the events.”

He then sighed and said, “Why are they aiming this town, can’t they be happy on letting me relax.”

Kiba showed a wry smile and then said, “Don’t worry we will go through everything together like bros along with the others.” and moved his fist forward.

Tatsuya looked at him and bumped his fist and said, “Yeah, like bros.”

Tatsuya and Kiba’s stomachs then growled earning a wry smile from both of them.

Tatsuya then stood up and said, “I will fix something up.”

Kiba then sat back more comfortably and said, “Yeah, and make sure to make plenty.”

Tatsuya looked at Kiba and said, “Isn’t this the time where you say ‘let me help as well’ or ‘No no, I will cook’ or something.”

Kiba shrugged his shoulders and said, “I know how delicious your food is why would I want to deny such a humble offer.”

Tatsuya sighed and said, “Bastard” and then went to the kitchen to cook.