"Here I come, boy!!"
Baraqiel, his entire body enveloped in lightning, closed in on Kazuki. Fast! He was already fast to begin with, but when wreathed in lightning, he moved at speeds rivaling lightning itself. Even Azazel could barely track him with his own eyes.
"Tch!?"
But Kazuki was impressive as expected. He narrowly evaded Baraqiel's attack. However,
"What's wrong? Is this your full power!?"
Baraqiel's speed increased even further.
Even Kazuki couldn't fully react to the speed that was nearly indistinguishable from teleportation, and finally took a direct hit.
"Gah!?"
He was in a floating stance, so the physical damage seemed minimal, but Baraqiel was coiled in lightning. It was a deadly poison to Kazuki, a devil. Even though he'd blocked that last blow with both arms, they were scorched and blistered from the lightning damage.
'Kazuki, why isn't he using his armor?' Baraqiel wasn't an opponent you could beat without becoming Guyver.
"So this is all you've got. As I thought, I can't entrust Akeno to you!!"
In an instant, Baraqiel appeared behind Kazuki and brought down his lightning-wreathed fist!
"Kazuki!!"
As Akeno screamed, Azazel clearly saw Kazuki's mouth curl upward. And then—
"GUYVERRRRRRRRRRRR——!!"
"—Guoh, aaahh!?"
The barrier generated when he donned the Guyver armor blew Baraqiel away. 'The bastard! Was he aiming for that!?'
"Guu... You impudent brat..."
Baraqiel's suit was instantly shredded, and blood flowed from various places on his body. Baraqiel had let his guard down. The damage was about even.
Now, this was the real match. What would happen now?
'Both my arms throb with pain from the lightning punches!! Damn it, he really did whatever he wanted.'
However, Baraqiel also seemed to have taken a fair amount of damage from being blown away by the barrier generated during the Guyver's transformation.
"Alright, I'm done playing nice. From now on, I'll be going all out, Baraqiel! I have a mountain of things I want to say to you!!"
"...Hmph, an upstart who just happened to have some success! If you want to talk, try defeating me first!!"
A golden aura wreathed in lightning rose from Baraqiel's body. Impressive, as expected of the Fallen Angels' foremost combatant. But!
"Oh, not bad for an upstart. Then I won't hold back! Let's go, Guyver!!"
"Come, Baraqiel!!"
Surging with a crimson aura equal to Baraqiel's, Kazuki clashed with him…
A fist wrapped in fierce lightning and a fist cloaked in searing battle aura collided in mid-air. Punches that would annihilate an ordinary devil or fallen angel in one blow were exchanged between the two, accompanied by a deafening roar.
"Incredible..."
Akeno watched the battle, stunned. It couldn't be helped. Akeno was certainly strong, but at best, she was at the upper level of high-class devil. Baraqiel and Kazuki were above that, at the ultimate-class level. Literally a different dimension.
This footage was being broadcast live to the VIP room. Old man Odin would likely provide commentary. What would the others think watching this?
Would they give up, thinking it was beyond them, or would they be spurred on, hoping to reach that level someday?
As Azazel, responsible for their guidance, he wanted to believe it was the latter.
In any case, it was about time they experienced a fight on a higher level than their own. To survive the battles ahead. As he was thinking that, the situation changed.
"Guh!? Damn you!"
'Nice!' Reading Baraqiel's movements, which were at the speed of lightning, Kazuki's fist landed a solid body blow after evading.
That did some damage. Whether Baraqiel realized close combat was disadvantageous or not, he created distance and fired a lightning bolt. But Baraqiel, that was a bad move.
As expected, the dark vortex generated by Guyver's outstretched palms absorbed the lightning bolt, erasing it without a trace.
Guyver had a Black Hole generated by his gravity control ability. It could absorb even Azazel's light, so Baraqiel's lightning would likely be meaningless. Baraqiel was uncharacteristically stunned.
On the defensive in close combat and with his trademark lightning sealed at range, Baraqiel was at a disadvantage.
'Now, what are you going to do here, Kazuki?'
"Gnuu... I never imagined it would be this bad..."
Baraqiel had been eager to knock down the womanizer who had seduced his daughter Akeno, but that womanizer—Kazuki Fuwa—was stronger than expected.
He was a pawn of Rias Gremory, Akeno's master, yet due to his strength, he was exceptionally promoted to a high-class devil and had even risen to become her fiancé.
Moreover, he had laid his hands on the girls in his peerage, and his clutches had even reached Akeno—when Azazel told him that, Baraqiel had believed his daughter would never fall for such a man's advances.
That was why the scene he witnessed today was so shocking.
A couple with their arms linked, talking with Odin. Behind them was a love hotel modeled after a Western-style castle, and between them lingered that sweet atmosphere particular to the aftermath of intimacy.
It could be considered a common sight, but it was a different story when the woman was his own daughter. Baraqiel would never forgive this man who had toyed with his own Flesh and Blood.
"I acknowledge your strength... but as Akeno's father, I cannot approve of you and her being in a relationship!!"
He once again surged with his golden aura, taking a fighting stance. But the man stared at Baraqiel intently, unmoving.
'What is going on?' From the quiet, motionless man emanated an unusual presence.
"Akeno's father? Did you just call yourself Akeno's father?"
'What the fuck is this?' Baraqiel was being overwhelmed!? Just then, the man vanished from his field of vision.
"Guhahh!?"
"You call yourself her father!? As 'Akeno's father', what exactly have you done for her?"
Kazuki Fuwa's fist slammed into Baraqiel's body…
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