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"Handle business?"
Ingvild tilted her head.
What business?
"You should be here for me, right?"
Anos smiled and asked.
He knew who the two people before him were.
Lavinia Reni and Tobio Ikuse.
They were basically Vali's older sister and older brother figures.
Considering what Anos had done to Vali earlier, the reason they had come to find him was simple.
Whether or not they wanted to help Vali retrieve his Sacred Gear, at the very least, they had definitely come to stand up for him.
"That's right, Red Dragon Emperor. After all, you educated Vali quite thoroughly."
Lavinia's voice was calm, but there was a faint trace of dissatisfaction within it.
Just as she said, Vali had been harshly taught a lesson. Even now, no one knew where he had run off to.
Since they could not find Vali, they had no choice but to come find Anos.
At the very least, if they could retrieve his Sacred Gear from Anos, then they could use it as bait to fish Vali back.
"So, you came to recover Vali's dignity?"
Anos asked with a smile.
Both of them could be considered part of the fallen angel side, and both were also Longinus users.
Tobio could basically be confirmed as someone from the fallen angel side. As for Lavinia, because of Vali and Tobio, she was very close to the fallen angel faction as well.
Azazel truly did have great foresight. These three alone represented three Longinus users, which meant at least three Satan-class, or even higher than Satan-class, combat forces.
Lavinia was a beautiful blond-haired, blue-eyed mage and the wielder of the Longinus [Absolute Demise].
She had awakened her Sacred Gear as a child and had been troubled by a frozen monster that manifested beside her, one no one else could see. Because of that, the people around her treated her as strange.
After her parents died in an accident, she was adopted by Glinda, the Witch of the South from the Land of Oz.
From Glinda, she learned magic and knowledge about Sacred Gears, and finally understood that the frozen monster was the manifestation of her own Longinus, [Absolute Demise].
Several years later, Glinda sent her to study under Mephisto Pheles, chairman of the Gray Magicians, where she interacted with other magicians.
Later, after hearing that Glinda had been attacked by witches from the Land of Oz, Lavinia returned to Glinda's residence, only to find the place empty.
To search for her teacher, Glinda, she had been hunting the witches of Oz ever since.
However, her personality was somewhat airheaded. In a certain sense, she was very similar to Ais. Both were blond, beautiful, and naturally dazed.
Lavinia doted deeply on Vali, who was several years younger than her, treating him like a little brother.
That was the reason she had come to find Anos.
"The ability to steal Sacred Gears, or the ability to steal dragon-type Sacred Gears. Which is it?"
Tobio looked at Anos and asked.
In truth, he probably already had an answer in his heart.
That answer was this.
Since Anos had shown no intention of collecting Sacred Gears everywhere and had stopped after taking Vali's [Divine Dividing], there were only two possibilities.
First, he could only collect dragon-type Sacred Gears. With the [Boosted Gear] and [Divine Dividing] already in his possession, other Sacred Gears were not very useful to him.
Second, he was lazy and intended to wait for Longinus users to come to him. The idea that he could only collect dragon-type Sacred Gears might merely be a smokescreen he had released.
It had to be said, Tobio's thinking was quite reasonable.
Unfortunately, he had not considered a third possibility.
Longinus did not rank that highly in Anos's eyes.
So-called Longinus users were merely children swinging around great swords.
If the one who had brought the Holy Spear to Anos that day had not been Cao Cao but a god, then perhaps Forbidden Heaven would already have gained another portion of nourishment.
After Tobio said those words, Anos saw a purple light appear above his head.
Not only that, a treasure chest glow appeared above Lavinia's head immediately afterward.
[Ding.]
[Congratulations, host. A treasure chest has been triggered.]
[Treasure Chest Level: Purple.]
[Treasure Chest Unlock Condition: Something Colder Than Eternal Ice.]
[Defeat the wielder of Absolute Demise using ice magic.]
[Ding.]
[Congratulations, host. A treasure chest has been triggered.]
[Treasure Chest Level: Purple.]
[Treasure Chest Unlock Condition: The Slash Dog of Fallen Blades.]
[Make the Slash Dog submit.]
"..."
Anos narrowed his eyes.
Things seemed to have become interesting.
At least with treasure chests involved, he would not feel like he was merely handling trouble.
"But it is the Slash Dog, not Tobio Ikuse..."
Anos knew that the Slash Dog and Tobio were still different.
The Slash Dog could be considered the manifestation of Tobio's Sacred Gear.
Tobio Ikuse was originally a second-year student at Ryoukuu High School and had inherited the blood of his grandmother, Suzuha Ikuse, whose original surname was Himejima.
Within him resided the bloodline power of the Himejima family, as well as the Longinus [Canis Lykaon], formed from two different legends: King Lycaon of Greek mythology, who was turned into a wolf by Zeus, and the Japanese sword Ame-no-Ohabari, also known as the Totsuka-no-Tsurugi, which slew the fire god Kagutsuchi.
He had awakened his Balance Breaker, [Night Celestial Slash Dogs of Shining Blade], from birth, but Suzuha Himejima had sealed it with a spell.
When he was young, the fallen angel Governor-General Azazel recognized the Longinus within him.
Tobio had also awakened a black dog familiar that could produce blades from its body and shadows. He named it Jin, and it was called the [Slash Dog].
In his youth, he met Lavinia Reni, Natsume Minagawa, Samejima Tsunahiko, and Vali Lucifer.
Under Azazel's guidance, he fought against the Utsusemi Agency.
In the end, he successfully released the Balance Breaker ability of the Longinus within him, killed the villain, and saved his classmates.
A happy ending.
Cough!
Later, Tobio transferred to the fallen angel school known as The Fallen and studied knowledge of the supernatural world in Baraqiel's classroom, truly marking himself as part of the fallen angel faction.
Since Baraqiel had come this time, it made a certain amount of sense that they had come as well.
"The answer will probably disappoint you. I do not possess a Sacred Gear that steals other people's Sacred Gears, nor do I possess one that steals dragon-type Sacred Gears."
Anos answered Tobio's question.
"As for what kind of power it is... perhaps you will understand if you try it yourselves."
Anos smiled as he spoke.
"Although Vali said he would take back what belongs to him using his own power, I do not think it would be a problem for me to act on his behalf."
"After all, when the time comes, I think it would be more convenient for him to take it back from me using his own strength."
Tobio spoke calmly.
They had come to find Anos precisely because they had already prepared themselves for this.
This world was still a world where strength spoke.
"It would be my honor."
As Anos spoke, he waved his hand.
It seemed it was time to beat up children again.
With the movement of Anos's hand, the weather changed.
No.
To be precise, it was not the weather that had changed.
Everyone had been directly transferred into a new space.
A typical teleportation magic circle treated the living being as a unit and transported that person to another space.
But Anos's formation treated space itself as the unit and replaced it with another space.
Because of that, there was basically no time to resist before one was transferred away.
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