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I couldn’t believe my luck, the one in front of me had to be him!?
In front of me was a Celestino, his 4 pairs of pure white wings stood out against his slightly brown skin and in the dark of space, his golden hair radiated an irritating light while his beautiful blue eyes seemed to reflect the sky of a spring day.
He appears to be only around 30 years old, but I know his real age was over 200 years old, he was one of the last Warriors acclaimed to have touched the Divine becoming Demigod, the Ancient Inquisitor and Priest called the Twin Swords of Light.
He doesn’t wear armor, his light pure white clothes bring elegance to him, in his hands two thin, straight swords with a blade on only one side, just like me.
Around us it was possible to see the troops trying to face Nicole’s Golems, I could also feel the explosions of power from my companions fighting, but I didn’t dare to look away or lower my guard.
He looked at me with disgust and in his eyes I could see a repulsion so great that it wouldn’t be surprising if my appearance reflected in his eyes was something disgusting like rotting bodies or one of Lilith’s victims.
"Just looking at you turns my stomach." (Salen)
"Happy to see me for the first time, grandfather?" (I)
"..." (Salen)
His gaze became even uglier as only cruelty was seen reflected in his eyes, it was easy to see that he was imagining thousands of ways to torment me.
His aura was exploding full of murderous intent trying to crush my body just by his presence.
I never met this man personally, but he was my grandfather on my mother’s side, my sister and I grew up hearing his name spoken with great pride by my parents, my mother said prayers to him almost as much as she did to Baldr.
The reason I learned how to use two swords focused on speed since I was little was because of the respect and admiration I felt for him after hearing his great feats.
My sister also chose to join the Inquisitors because of her stories rather than join the Templars like our Father.
But this supposed grandfather never cared about the family, he never came back to see my mother, as far as I know, my grandmother died and she never saw him again, even at her funeral ceremony he didn’t show up and this happened before I was born.
He never even sent a message back and everyone still adored him, that unfortunately included me until Loki made me open my eyes to the disgusting truth about the Church of Light.
At that time I only thought more about my sister and how to escape, for a long time I just reflected on the Church of Light and all its teachings as well as its history that I studied my whole life, it was only after becoming a Hero of Zenos that I started thinking about this disgusting grandfather and going over everything I heard about him with a completely different vision without being blinded by childish idolatry.
"You are exactly what I expected, an idiot full of arrogance and a sense of superiority." (I)
"Shut up, waste!" (Salen)
"< Flow of Solar Blades >" (Salen)
"< Sacred Eclipse Slash >" (I)
He was easily provoked, going on the attack at the first sign of disgust, he knew who I was and I’m sure that all this disgust, repulsion and anger comes from knowing that I was born as his descendant, this just made a big mocking smile open in front of my eyes.
He attacked me with his swords, his speed was great to the point that I could only follow his afterimages and not his real body, but that didn’t matter, I know his fighting style and its variations, I studied it in detail almost my entire life and my mother talked about how proud he was of having created this style of combat.
Their two swords flashed and the white light condensed into white flames, each swing of their swords towards me recreated blades of extremely luminous white fire that interlocked in a very specific rhythm like a constant stream of targeted attacks.
This attack was much stronger than anything I studied, but the fundamentals of the movements were the same as the directions he was taking, this made it possible to predict his next movements making it unnecessary to follow his speed.
I waited for the exact moment and when the flow of attacks reached me, I let the first attack hit me knowing it was the weakest, it caused a light cut on my body and destroyed my armor, but I ignored it as I dodged the second attack and attacked on the left flank, ignoring subsequent attacks.
The place I attacked was where my ’kind’ grandfather had the kindness to appear to carry out an attack that would have killed me if I hadn’t known, but before he took the exact position, my swords fill with Holy Power, a sword shines in a purple light while the other shines in a silver light, the two swords perform an X attack.
My attack hit his unprotected chest cutting off one of his wings which he still managed to move in time, he was pushed back with slightly golden blood coming out while marble white bones were visible.
As he was pushed back, I took advantage of this opening by getting out of the way of the subsequent attacks that were still coming my way, his hateful gaze showed no pain, only anger at having received such a heavy attack, Starfire burning in his eyes due.
"You contaminated my techniques!?" (Salen)
"I just improved them to suit me." (I)
"How dare that girl bring such a disgusting creature to life!?" (Salen)
"In the same way that someone as ridiculous and shallow as you became a Demigod, things just happen." (I)
"You damn Heretic! I thank Baldr for allowing me to cleanse this stain from my lineage..." (Salen)
"..." (I)
Suddenly his speech was interrupted, a power I know very well hits me with Alice’s supporting presence, the stars around us glow red as the Blessing of Zenos within me explodes in Power.
All my senses and my body become stronger as the Holy Power within me gains traces of Blood Transmutation Essence, I have sometimes felt something similar on a smaller scale and I knew that Alice was present making my smile deepen as I looked at this my idiot relative.
"(I’m going to really like this.)" (I)
With this increase in momentum and power, my wings flap as I advance towards my grandfather, my speed now much greater than before while my light chest pain from before quickly healed without leaving any marks behind.
Of course he wouldn’t be stunned seeing me advance, I felt his Aura increase as some type of Essence emerged from within him, among the things I studied I never saw references to Essences or the type of power he acquired after becoming a Demigod, so I didn’t know what to expect and the same went for him as he doesn’t know the power I possess.
My swords and his collide hundreds of times in mere seconds, our speeds are almost completely equal with him just a little faster, which put me at a disadvantage as he also had more combat experience than him, but the wound in his chest weakened due to the still burning Starfire opening the wound wider and deeper.
"< Holy Sword Blood Wave >" (I)
"< Day-Splitting Saint Blade >" (Selen)
My two swords make a horizontal movement in different directions meeting in the middle leaving a red cut behind that advances forward rising like a wave that soon becomes a tsunami in less than a second as if a creature suddenly opened a large red mouth.
But he would not receive this attack, as I expected, he fearlessly advanced using a sword to cut my attack with one of his swords going through already moving the second sword for an attack aimed at me.
"< Holy Vampiric Blade >" (I)
"< Sword of the Saint of Light >" (Salen)
He didn’t expect me to have moved along with the wave of blood and when he crossed the middle, I was already swinging one of my swords towards him, but he used his second sword much faster than I expected, managing to block my sword with his own and using that strength to move away before I could use my other sword to make an attack.
His speed really was surprising, but I smiled when a sword went through his back to his front releasing a very strong cursed energy, without wasting time I threw my sword at his head which began to burn with Starfire.
The cursed sword cuts to the side and appears to tear his Soul from within his body with Ghost hands pulling into the sword while the body’s stomach was taken over by Starfire.
"Thank you for your help." (I) no𝚟𝚙u𝚋.c𝚘m
"No problem, I was waiting for an opportunity, he was very aware of his surroundings." (Lilith)
"Yes, but now I don’t have to worry about him anymore." (I)
"(Goodbye, shitty grandfather.)" (I)
