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Now alone the Devils all turned to Kiba with various expressions of anger, relief and disappointment. "So Kiba do you have anything to say for yourself," frowned Rias.
"No Buchou," he replied in anger, before walking out.
In his wake, no one noticed a certain blonde haired girl watching them from a distance with a smile spreading across her face. No one except a certain white haired Nekoshou, whom glanced at her direction with a frown before following her new prey at a distance.
"So how was your club meeting? Anything interesting happen?" asked a familiar female voice as Kiba opened the door to his home.
"You already know the answer to that Morgan, and how did you get in here?" growled the Devil as he summoned Holy Eraser and pointed it at the blonde girl happily eating potato chips on his couch while watching TV.
"Your Boundary Field around this place was laughably weak, it was easy to bypass them," replied Morgan with a wave of her hand, making Kiba grit his teeth in frustration.
"And so you decided to just let yourself in?" growled the Knight.
"Yep, enough about that though, tell me why didn't you attack that exorcist? She had Mimic after all," questioned the girl with an innocent expression on her face.
"Issei wouldn't let me," he replied as the Knight clenched his fist in frustration.
"Truly? Now why on earth would he do that? It doesn't seem fair to you, I mean he must know about the Holy Sword project and yet still sides with them," asked Morgan with a frown.
"She is his childhood friend," grunted out the Devil as he dematerialized his sword.
"I guess, but that seems like a pretty poor excuse to me. After all, weren't they not meant to have spoken to each other since she left? And not only that but did you notice his appearance?" she continued, turning back to the TV.
The Devil said nothing at this as he thought back to Issei's strange changes since they last met the day earlier, 'he didn't seem to be the type to dye his hair and that was definitely not a coloured contact lens. So what was going on?'
"Hey you wanna hear something interesting? Arthur Pendragon had blonde hair and green eyes, does that sound familiar?" smirked the girl as she turned to face him.
"It could be a coincidence," pointed out Kiba, even as he tried to ignore the girl's scoff and walked into the kitchen for food.
"Oh a coincidence? Let me ask you Kiba Yuuto, do you truly believe that? Deep down you know I'm right, or do your dead friends really mean so little to you?" questioned Morgan, only to dive to the side as a sword pierced the spot she had just vacated.
"Now, now, don't have a temper tantrum," she scolded, childishly. "But you do have to wonder why the Church chose to ask him for help in reclaiming the Excaliburs. Speaking from experience, they usually ask the Pendragon family for help in incidents like these. So why pick him?"
"So what would you have me do? He is under the Godslayer's protection, not only that but Buchou would be in trouble as well," growled the Devil.
"Didn't he say that Scathach was occupied for the next couple of days and besides I have an easy way for you to protect your King. Become a Stray, she can't be held responsible for things her former Servants do, can she?" informed the grinning Morgan.
Seeing the teen now having a thoughtful expression on his face Morgan nodded before she threw a two pieces of torn paper at him. "Here's a little present I got straight from the Pendragon family archives themselves, one of the few pictures of Excalibur when it was whole and the armour of the King of Knights himself," she said and walked out, leaving a frowning Kiba to examine the pictures before roaring in rage as he tore them to shreds.
Shortly after this, the Knight stormed out of his house, his body trembling in rage as he disappeared into the night. Le Fay just grinned as she saw this, after all he didn't need to know she had actually given him pictures of Clarent and the Knight of Treachery. Now it was only a matter of time.
She was so engulfed in thought that Le Fay didn't even notice she herself was being followed until it was too late, faster than the witch could react a white blur shot out of the nearby bushes and knocked her to the ground. The witch's eyes widened as she saw Koneko staring down at her with a frown before the Rook raised her fist and everything turned black.
"I wish negotiations had gone better but I suppose that it could have been a lot worse, by the way what was it that caused Kiba to go and act like that? Irina?" questioned the teen as he glanced at his friend before sighing, as she seemed too distracted to notice him.
"Asia, Xenovia, you guys find anything?" asked Issei as he brought his phone up to his head.
"No, we're going to do one more round before we call it for the night," came Xenovia's voice from the phone.
"Understood, cya guys back at the house," replied the teen as he hung up.
"Xenovia and Asia are a bust, let's do another patrol and then follow their example okay Irina? Irina? Hello? Anyone home?" questioned Issei as he waved a hand in front of his distracted friend, startling her out of her thoughts.
"Huh? What?" muttered the exorcist, shaking her head.
Issei frowned at how distracted his friend seemed ever since they had gotten back from the Land of Shadows, "Irina, are you okay?"
"Of course I am Issei! Everything is AOK! Come on let's get back to searching!" she said with fake cheer.
The teen frowned before he saw lights in the distance and laughed as he grabbed her hand, much to her red-faced shock, and dragged his friend towards them. Irina just stared at their hands and another sad frown appeared as Scathach's words again echoed across her head.
"We're here!" announced Issei, snapping the exorcist out of her thoughts as she spun around and her eyes widened as she saw the numerous stalls surrounding them. 'That's right, it was about now when I had to leave Kuoh. Has it really been that long?' sighed Irina.
"Hey Irina, do you remember this place?" asked Issei, making an amused smile cross his childhood friend's face.
"Oh course, I do. It was the last place we visited before I was sent over to the Church for training," answered Irina with a smile.
Issei just laughed as the pair continued walking down the festival stalls, "that's right, still things sure have changed huh? I've become strong to protect my friends and family, now I don't need you to bail me out anymore. In fact, this time I'm the one bailing you out, oh the irony."
The teen had expected Irina to give a sarcastic comment in return but instead there was only silence from his childhood friend. Frowning Issei turned and saw his friend's happy smile had changed to one of deep sadness as she stared at the ground.
"I wish you'd refused," she muttered, quietly.
The teen gained a confused expression as he turned to face her, "come on Irina, this is no time for you to be prideful. You need help to recover the blades after all, it's too dangerous for anything else."
"That's exactly it! It is dangerous and you agreed to help without a second thought! You could die! And all because of me!" shouted the exorcist, angrily and drawing curious looks from their fellow celebrators.
The exorcist then stormed off with Issei blinking in confusion as he hurried after her, only for them both to be interrupted by a male voice calling out to them. "You two over there, tell me would you like free tickets to the best ride in the festival?" cried a familiar voice, making Irina curiously approach the old man while Issei just went pale as he recognized the man calling them over.
"Welcome to Carnival Phantasm! A ride that I can assure you even the most seasoned festival goers have never experienced before," greeted Zelretch with a smile as he gestured towards what looked like a type of rollercoaster leading into the small tent.
"You can fit a ride in that tiny tent? Don't be ridiculous, come on Irina this is obviously a waste of time," scoffed Issei as he tried to drag his friend away from the troll.
Zelretch just had a knowing smile form on his face, "believe me it's a whole new world in that tent, boy."
"That's what I'm afraid of," muttered the teen, quietly.
"Issei, don't be rude. Besides I'm sure it's actually quite fun," scolded Irina as she slapped his head and walked over to the rollercoaster car.
Seeing her bout of sadness had been forgotten in the wake of this new distraction Issei sighed before he looked at the rollercoaster car with no small amount of fear before giving a tired groan as he followed his friend into the ride. 'I just know I'm going to regret this,' he sighed internally, only to push the negative thought to the side as he saw the excited expression on Irina's face.
"Irina, when was the last time you've been on a ride?" asked Issei in amusement, bringing an embarrassed flush to his friend's face.
"A while," she admitted, shyly.
Zelretch chose this moment to strap them into the car, "now remember to keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times. Failure to do so can result in but are not limited to; insanity, injury and death."
"What?!" screamed Issei as he desperately tried to escape the car but found himself unable to.
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