The Satoya Gang desperately ran through the empty streets. Some were already exhausted from all the running, however they believe they should be far enough. However they see a group of Juries of the Jurisdiction Court in the distance.
"Why did we have to run into them now? Do we keep running? We ran for like a couple of minutes! I can't catch my breath.." Edward said, breathing deeply while kneeling on the ground.
"The Juries over there seemed to have noticed us, but why aren't they attacking?" Kohayuki pointed at the Juries who seemed to be observing them more than anything.
That's until they heard the sound of buildings beginning to quake as if something shook them. And with a loud 'BOOM!' The Executioner Argoreas breaks through one of the buildings behind them.
The Satoya Gang reluctantly turned, yet, unlike their fears.
Executioner Argoreas was injured? Not critically injured, nor unscathed, he seemed to have either killed the Ueda Clan Retainers or had retreated. His arms had several bruises, and even some scratches on his body. He was also somewhat panting, however not panting too much but his breathing was quicker.
"Those fucking retainers, once I'm done massacring all of you the next target is the Ueda Clan!"
"W-wait! Did you kill them all that easily?!"
Executioner Argoreas scoffed at Edward's question. "Fine.. Perhaps I can give you guys an answer for the last bit of mercy."
"That bastard woman volunteered to fight them for me, as I had no intention of fighting them in the first place."
"What?"
"They were a nuisance, especially one of them kept using his Merit to distract me so that fat bastard could hit me."
"So you are saying you ra–" Kohayuki couldn't finish her sentence as the Executioner charged toward her, landing a devastating punch to her gut that sent her flying through the streets. She coughed up a fatal amount of blood, and the crowbar she held was left clattering on the pavement.
Executioner Argoreas looked up at the girl he punched, and then looked back at his fist.
Miraculously, Kohayuki slowly moved over, before coughing even more blood. This only surprised the Executioner, as he started questioning whether he'd become weaker because of bruises inflicted upon his arm, or perhaps it's because these people he is fighting, became a lot more stronger than he had expected. Or could it possibly be both?
"I guess we have no choice but to fight him!"
He realized Johnathan and Isaac lunged at him at the same time while he was distracted briefly, but he stepped back a couple feet.
The Executioner disappeared, reappearing before Edward only for his fist to clash with the shield. Because of the force of the fist, it broke through, and landed a blow on Edward's chest, but the initial force of the fist was reduced thanks to the steel shield, yet the fist was still powerful enough to knock him through a street fence.
Satoya sprinted towards him, holding his katana on one hand, and numerous equations and symbols whirled around his other hand.
The moment the Executioner tried to land a punch on Satoya, his fist ended up colliding with a mysterious shield that rippled out a strange gold and blue light into the air.
The hell? Since when can he do that? Was he also a Truth Seeker?
Satoya knew he couldn't hold up the barrier for that long, as it took too much influx for him right now, but he did manage to get accustomed to using it unlike his first time using it against Saeonius Roland.
Unfortunately, the longer he kept the shield up, the more exhausted and dizzy he got. It got to a point where he couldn't hold it up any longer, so he had no choice but to release the shield. He saw Rayna charging at Argoreas holding her dagger.
In an instant, he only managed to see the Executioner smash Rayna's arm and side with tremendous force sending her flying, using his 10 metal spiked ball flail. Rayna crashed into an office building, the sounds of glass shattering and furniture breaking was loud.
Despite the shock Satoya had from the blow inflicted upon Rayna by the flail. He saw something odd when he saw Rayna getting hit by the flail, even if it was for less than a second.
Instead of blood coming out of Rayna's wound during the blow, he briefly saw a couple musical notes of different glowing colors come out of her side, or maybe her arm?
That's when a loud, chaotic frequency emitted from the building Rayna crashed into. The frequency was so absurdly chaotic that it made everyone, even the Executioner before him nauseous, and even blood began spilling from everyone's ears. Satoya clutched his ears closed but he was still in pain, which he didn't understand whether it was because of the frequency or something else entirely.
He managed to look up at Executioner Argoreas, to discover him having a concerned expression on his face while his ears were dripping blood. He was looking at the building that Rayna was in, and when Satoya mustered the strength to see what he was looking at, that's when he saw it even though his eyesight blurred from how nauseous he was becoming.
Rayna was bleeding profusely from her side, but the same arm that the Executioner attacked with his flail wasn't normal at all, it wasn't even human at all, nor was it a prosthetic.
The arm was made up of materials one would exactly see in instruments of all sorts of variety, with the most noteworthy thing being a bright gold set of strings that connected what would be her elbow, and wrist like a guitar, violin or any string instrument.
Satoya then realized that Rayna didn't seem to be conscious even as she approached them from the building. But whatever is taking over her right now, had the intention of killing everything that was in front of her.