A blood relative of the current Satan Beelzebub, a nun fanatic who specialized in toying with nuns and holy maidens. After setting his sights on Asia, he pretended to be gravely injured, let her save him, and then had her exiled by the Church to seize his chance.
Glancing at the empty surroundings, Raize also released a holy power barrier, immediately causing Diodora—who sensed the chilling holy power—to widen his eyes.
"So this is my first time seeing a pure-blooded devil. You're really weak…" Compared to Vali, you're simply not worth mentioning. Pure-blooded or not, it doesn't seem all that impressive.
After making this remark, Raize didn't waste any more words. Since he had ill intentions, kill him.
[Hadoken]
Bang!
Raize flashed in front of Diodora. His fist, imbued with wave energy, slammed violently into Diodora's abdomen. Absolute domain power drove only a trace of insignificant punch force, yet combined with Hadoken, it unleashed terrifying power.
"Puhah!"
Diodora's eyes bulged out as his mouth flew open. His body bent backward like a shrimp. The massive punch force and wave energy from Raize's brutal, simple punch blasted a tens-of-meters-long air shock out from Diodora's back. Along with the explosion of force, a bloody, magic-laced aura spread outward.
All the magic power within Diodora's pure-blooded devil body was blasted straight through and expelled!
Before the tremendous kinetic energy could send him flying away, Raize immediately entered acceleration movement. In an instant, a second Shoryuken smashed down like lightning.
Crack!
The savage punch landed squarely on Diodora's jaw. The sound of fist and jaw shattering into fragments rang out almost simultaneously.
Diodora's jaw turned into minced flesh, his face completely ruined—no, even his entire head was twisted and deformed.
With Shoryuken, Diodora instantly turned into a projectile carrying immense kinetic energy, shooting straight into the sky.
Buzz—!
Whoosh!
Raize, still expressionless on the ground, raised his hand and casually pointed at the still-flying Diodora. High-density, violently raging energy instantly formed a sphere at his fingertip. A golden Cero turned into a beam of golden light that shot straight into the sky.
"Pu! Pu! Pu! Wapuya sia!!! (No—no—no! I don't want to die!!!)"
His speech completely unclear, Diodora's black pupils shrank violently. In the blink of an eye, he had been beaten into this crippled state. Regaining awareness in midair, he looked in terror at the golden Cero sweeping toward him.
The trembling of both soul and body made him feel death grinning viciously as it approached, yet he was completely unable to resist.
With his internal organs turned to mush and his head and face flattened and distorted, devil vitality kept him from dying immediately. Engulfed by the Cero, Diodora's extreme terror and unwillingness came to an end.
Every trace of flesh turned to ashes. Every fragment of soul was dismantled into residue. Diodora truly died without leaving even a speck behind.
After Raize erased Diodora, the nun fanatic, turmoil immediately erupted in the Underworld where devils resided.
More precisely, turmoil erupted within the Astaroth family. The number of pure-blooded devils had already reached an endangered level. Losing even one talented pure-blooded devil was enough to stir the hearts of conservative factions.
Moreover, Diodora was a blood relative of the current Satan Beelzebub, Ajuka Astaroth. This family held great fame and influence among devils, after all, they had produced a transcendent-level Satan (Super Satan).
They had also created Evil pieces, a marvelous invention that allowed the devil race to continue in an alternative way. Who wouldn't show the Astaroth family some respect?
Although Ajuka Beelzebub, one of the Four Great Satans, as a leader of the entire devil race, could not openly favor his own family like Sirzechs, giving a bit of care as long as it wasn't excessive was still acceptable.
Diodora had been slaughtered by Raize so thoroughly that not even his soul remained. Within the family, the life pearl used to monitor the status of direct descendants suddenly shattered into dust, indicating that Diodora was completely finished.
A perfectly good pure-blooded devil direct descendant was gone just like that. How could the current Astaroth family head not be furious?
The matter quickly reached Ajuka, who was discussing Underworld affairs with Sirzechs.
Under the serious gaze of Sirzechs and the oddly dressed magical girl Serafall, Ajuka, who had been handling official matters with his friends, nodded apologetically toward them.
Being interrupted during work was indeed his fault. Ajuka raised his hand and wove a detection spell, following his bloodline connection toward Diodora.
"Hm!?"
However, before the search spell could last even a few seconds, it suddenly collapsed amid Ajuka's astonished expression. After checking that his bloodline search formula was correct, the problem clearly lay with Diodora's side.
This simple spell was supposed to allow him to sense danger to a blood relative and lock onto their location.
Originally, he wanted to see who had killed Diodora, but it failed. If his consciousness could not probe over, that meant no medium remained at all. Diodora had been wiped out entirely, body and soul alike. What kind of being had he provoked?
After repeating the attempt and failing again, Ajuka turned to the devil servant who had delivered the message and asked, "Where did Diodora go at the end? Is there any accurate information?"
The devil servant wearing a patterned mask appeared to be a young man, his voice calm and steady as he replied, "Yes. The Astaroth family head reported that over the past few weeks, Diodora had been active in the human world. It seems he had once again set his sights on nuns there."
Ajuka's mouth twitched slightly. He glanced at the faintly smiling Sirzechs and Serafall. Saying this out loud was truly a bit embarrassing for devils.
Diodora was merely a somewhat talented pure-blooded devil with certain special hobbies. That was nothing unusual. After all, devils—if you don't do some evil deeds, are you really worthy of the name devil? There were plenty of such individuals within the Underworld.
Some image-conscious devils would try to cover it up, while others who thought it's normal natural saw no problem at all.
I'm a devil, what's wrong with doing things loyal to my desires? Even angels fall when they can't resist temptation—why the hell should devils restrain themselves?
As for this, the Four Great Satans usually turned a blind eye, because even within their own families, there were certain things that could not be spoken of openly.