"Red Dragon Emperor!" Loki said, punching Mitarai back, but he was able to right himself from it.
"You're going to suffer for taking down my son like that!"
Mitarai responded with flames, though they were blocked. "Your fault for standing there and watching... B-A-K-A."
Loki's temper as he unleashed frosty beams, with Mitarai swerving, ducking, dodging, and ending it with a few backflips.
"BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST!"
Takashi put his guard up as Loki rained down his attacks, bringing his feet to the ground.
Loki briefly stopped his attack, only to summon a truck of frost that Mitarai had to burn through while Ilulu helped, though she got hit by one of the clones still hanging about.
In the mist created, Mitarai sent his fist forward to Loki, but his eyes blinked when it faded into the mist. "Oh fuck!"
"Fuck indeed!" Loki shouted, kicking Mitarai in the face.
He grinned but paused when he felt something wrapped around his leg, the segmented crimson tail from the Scale Mail.
Like a monkey, Mitarai used it to prop himself forward. His first few jabs were dodged, and his right hook was blocked and held; the same fate to his left hand.
Loki grinned, holding tighter on Mitarai's arms, showing his divine durability. "Haha! What will you do, Red Dragon—?!"
His question was interrupted when Takashi head-butted him in the face. "That! I'll do that..." Mitarai remarked, leaning back.
"You wouldn't dare!?"
"We're not playing Truth or Dare!" Mitarai replied, smashing his head against the Norse God multiple times.
At last, Loki learned the lesson and decided to use the same attack. Though magic protected his body, blood dripped from his forehead. "That's the last time you make a fool—!"
BANG!
Mitarai kicked him in the face.
Disgruntled from the attack to the jaw, Loki's stunned frame was beaten with a few more kicks before a final backflip kick was given to him.
Sliding back after Loki managed to get off an ice-enhanced kick, Mitarai charged forward but stopped as Loki dodged back and left an ice clone.
"GET OVER HERE, FUCKFACE!"
Glowing green, the Boosted Gear regurgitated the Ascalon, except it extended and pierced the side of Loki and Takashi managed to drag it down.
Loki grinned as he sent his fingers forward, and the ice clone from before managed to land several blows on him, finishing it by smacking him and sending a large ice shard against Mitarai, cutting open the shoulder.
"Well, fuck!! Guess he is a god, after all."
Loki's body glowed as healing started to take place. "For such a brutish brat, you sure are a durable fucking dragon."
"It's the name, after all!" Mitarai shot back with a grin.
Kuroka side-stepped a minor clone that tried to attack her as she channeled her poison mist into its nostrils, effectively shutting it down. "Nighty, night." Kuroka then gazed towards Mitarai.
'I guess he really is strong!! That's potential,' she thought, a small grin on her face, though she made sure to hide it from her younger sister.
A large bolt of blue and orange made Loki's neck crane a bit. "That stung a bit. I guess light is as close as it gets to divinity."
Once again, Absorption Line latched onto Loki, though it was a bigger pain as it held his leg. Attempting to break free again, both his hands were occupied as Durandal and Sword of Betrayer came at his side. "Too much trash at once!"
"It's coming!" Rossweisse announced.
A runic blue circle opened up, with an object slowly coming into its existence from the celestial pillar of light.
"This is a real shitty excuse for a joke!" Loki shouted, seeing the outline of a hammer as well as tracking its aura.
"OFF ME AT ONCE, HEATHENS!"
"Red Dragon Emperor, Odin has entrusted this to you!" Rossweisse spoke.
"It may be a replica, but it's powered enough that you should have no issue with it!"
Not needing any more instructions, Takashi Mitarai flew towards the hammer.
Getting closer, he noted it was a hammer with a black outer frame with a blue structure throughout its entire design from the head to the handle, a Norse symbol on its middle piece to cement its status.
"Odin, you bastard!" Loki shouted, preparing to charge towards it but falling, stuck as Gasper's Sacred Gear kept frozen.
Shakily, he moved his hand and pointed toward Gasper, who managed to stand his ground with difficulty. "Perish!"
Anxiety ended up overtaking as the time lock broke and Loki was on the move, but sharp lizard claws gripped his skin, and he looked down into the maw, only to be met with a full, jam-packed eruption of flames.
Arriving at Mjolnir, a dark shadow came towards him as Mitarai looked to see Fenrir's flawless collection of golden sabres, all the more to gobble any god or satan in his way.
Within that fraction of a second, Mitarai's form disappeared, and he appeared to be heading headfirst down Fenrir's gullet.
Horror crawled up their bodies as they found reality to be too cruel for what had just happened in front of them. "MITARAI!" A chorus of screams came out.
'I feel like I could escape... but I should stay with Shirone,' Kuroka thought, weighing out the best option at the moment.
Cackling, Loki's mockery of the whole situation turned into a full-blown, chest-cavity chortling as he raised his hands and pointed towards his son.
"To think you would lose your greatest asset to my son. I guess all of you were too weak for Ragnarok's opening! Even the Red Dragon Emperor is too pathetic! And that man is who you all admired! That's a funny joke! Even for me! I couldn't have made up something funnier myself!"
Every jab turned into a spear, twisting deeper into everyone's morale and ripping it from them... Except for one soul.
"S... SEMPAI!!!"
The unusual outburst for Gasper was enough to make the rest of the group perk up.
"Gasper...?" Rias muttered, never imagining that Gasper would be this emotional.
'If only it was for a better occasion,' she thought bitterly, mustering her Power of Destruction, but her resolve was too weak, making it dissipate.
"Saji! Something is wrong!" Vritra shouted to his host, making him look toward his Sacred Gear for an explanation about why a dragon of his caliber would freak out.
"This darkness is something that I haven't felt in centuries! He is a storm that is approaching!"
----------------------------------
Read Early at: [email protected]/Cid_Kun
24 Advanced chapters already published at:[email protected]/Cid_Kun
Use the code promo PINO and get a 20% off now.