High in the air, Raynare was desperately dodging.
Several times she was nearly struck by the Chains of Heaven.
Even so, many black feathers had already fallen, and her wings were visibly damaged.
"A fallen angel who attacks humans cannot be allowed to live."
Qin Xiao walked forward step by step.
The aura emanating from his body shocked both Rias Gremory and Raynare.
Especially Rias.
Previously she had thought Qin Xiao had already shown his full strength.
She never expected that he had still been holding back.
"Who are you?"
Raynare stared at Qin Xiao with an ugly expression.
Facing Rias alone was already troublesome.
Now there was also this powerful human with a Sacred Gear.
"A human."
"A human just like the one lying there — a 'dangerous target' in the eyes of fallen angels."
Raynare's face darkened immediately.
Had her loose tongue just brought her another terrifying enemy?
Rias, standing nearby, looked at Qin Xiao in surprise.
She hadn't expected that this was his reason for attacking the fallen angel.
But thinking about it, it made sense.
Hyoudou Issei had been killed because he possessed a Sacred Gear.
Qin Xiao was also a human who possessed one.
The only difference was that Qin Xiao was much stronger.
Since fallen angels hunted Sacred Gear users, Qin Xiao would naturally also be on their target list.
So attacking the fallen angel was perfectly reasonable.
Of course, Qin Xiao had no idea that one casual sentence had caused Rias to imagine all this.
If he knew, he would probably give her a thumbs up.
A flash of lightning crackled.
Standing on the ground, Qin Xiao looked up at Raynare in the sky.
A streak of electric energy flickered around his body.
This was Azure Thunder, a power he had just obtained.
Although it wasn't true divine lightning, it still gave him another attack method.
After all, the Chains of Heaven were not always suitable for every situation.
"Lightning…?"
"He can control lightning too?!"
Rias' expression darkened slightly.
Just how many abilities had this guy been hiding?
During their first meeting he only showed the Chains of Heaven.
During the fight with Yuuto Kiba, he displayed overwhelming physical ability.
Now he could manipulate lightning as well.
What kind of monster was he?
Even she only possessed Power of Destruction, and she had barely begun to master it.
Electric arcs suddenly flashed through the air.
Raynare was the target.
"Damn it!"
She quickly summoned a Spear of Light and threw it to block the attack.
But before she could relax—
A chain suddenly pierced through her heart from behind.
"How… is this… possible…"
Raynare stared at the chain protruding from her chest in disbelief.
But whether she believed it or not didn't matter.
The fact had already happened.
Her heart destroyed, her life quickly faded.
She fell to the ground.
Coincidentally, her corpse landed right beside Hyoudou Issei's body.
Their lifeless faces looked toward each other like a pair of tragic lovers.
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Qin Xiao clicked his tongue.
Raynare was only a Low-class fallen angel.
He had assumed she was at least mid-class.
After all, the fallen angels in Kuoh Town seemed to follow her orders.
Apparently he had overestimated her.
"Rias-senpai, please."
"Mm."
Upon hearing Qin Xiao's words, Rias instinctively used her Power of Destruction to completely erase the two corpses.
This had already become routine.
Whenever Qin Xiao killed stray devils before she arrived, she handled the cleanup.
Over time, Qin Xiao simply waited for her to deal with the aftermath.
Now the same thing happened again.
Qin Xiao casually asked, and Rias reflexively destroyed the evidence.
"Hey! I'm not your subordinate!"
Rias suddenly realized what she had done and glared at him.
"What's the problem? Haven't we been cooperating pretty well, Rias-senpai?"
"There's no such cooperation!"
Rias looked extremely resentful.
Yes, Qin Xiao made her job of hunting stray devils easier.
But this troublesome junior constantly rejected her invitations and left her with the cleanup.
Naturally she wasn't happy.
Yet she couldn't refuse.
Because cleaning up incidents in Kuoh Town was her responsibility anyway.
"Qin Xiao… how many secrets are you hiding?"
Rias looked at him seriously.
"In a dangerous world like this, if you want to survive, you need a few trump cards."
"Otherwise it's easy to die."
"So you're saying you still have more hidden cards."
"..."
Qin Xiao remained silent.
But to Rias, silence meant confirmation.
At this stage, Qin Xiao actually had no other trump cards.
But that didn't mean he wouldn't have more later.
After all, he had only fused 34.1% of Enkidu's power.
There was still 65.9% remaining.
Looking at the man in front of her, Rias suddenly wanted to know something.
What had he experienced before?
Why was he so cautious?
And why was he so obsessed with power?
She considered herself someone who pursued strength relentlessly.
Yet compared with Qin Xiao, she seemed almost relaxed.
At her age, reaching High-class devil level already made her a genius.
To advance further required time to accumulate magical power.
Devils were long-lived beings, after all.
She was still growing.
Because she couldn't increase her strength quickly, she desperately sought powerful servants to strengthen her peerage.
After all, Rating Games had become the trend in the Underworld.
And Qin Xiao—
This extraordinary potential talent—
Had already rejected her several times.