Playing With Other Supernaturals-Chapter 1401 The Return of the Thieving Group part 3

Airi immediately went to Zen's side and began healing him, "Zen, what happened?" Because she diverted her attention, she wasn't sure what exactly transpired to have the table flipped on Zen.

Zen sat up with Airi's assistance and carefully caressed his nose and felt that blood was coming out of it, "Ow... I'm not really sure too. Before I knew it, his fist appeared in my blind spot. If not for the small barrier I put up in an emergency, I would have lost all my front teeth."

Airi recalled 'Death God's' words and stood up, "Rest for now and let me take care of this one."

"What!? Wait, Airi nee-san! I haven't used my full power!"

Airi ignored him and started walking towards Kisuke while tying her hair up into a ponytail, "I apologize. It would seem that we underestimated you. I'm now officially designating you as a Class-B criminal. As the leader of the Fifth Strike Force Unit of the Draconic Deus United Armies, I, Airi Hyoudou, will personally apprehend you."

As soon as Airi put on her reinforced fingerless gloves, she took a stance, and the Draconic Aura from within her exploded. But unlike Zen's Aura, it's much more refined and gives the impression of stability and calmness.

Kisuke smiled, 'Now then... How should I goad her?' Among the articles that he read and some information he got by hacking various databases, Kisuke predicted that Airi Hyoudou was already around Issei's level of 30 years ago without his ridiculous transformations.

'Direct comparison isn't really useful because the Issei of this world took a completely different path than the one I know.' Kisuke, Benihime, and Tiamat arrived 30 years in the future from their own timeline and actually took some time to research things because of how different their history is from theirs. And the divergence could be traced back to a single event, Cleria Belial's survival.

While some major events remained, all of them had different results with his involvement one way or another, 'Then I wonder what ended up happening to my mother in this world?'

His contemplation was abruptly interrupted when Airi suddenly appeared in front of him, her fist about to connect with his stomach.

Kisuke tried blocking her fist with his left hand, but the moment he caught her, he was shocked to find the enormous strength behind the punch and instantly decided to deflect it and move his body away.

Airi's fist exploded with a shockwave that could blast a hole through most defenses.

That wasn't really a problem by itself, but Kisuke found himself just defending against the rain of punches of the same caliber that directly aimed at the weak points of his defenses, 'What's more, her rate of attack is still increasing.'

Soon, Airi started incorporating kicks and elbow strikes into her attacks, making use of her whole body to send decimating attacks towards Kisuke, destroying their surroundings in the process. Before he knew it, he was already several hundred feet away from their target facility and was pushed to the wilderness, 'This girl intends to push me towards the coastal area.'

'But never mind that. This Airi girl, while having vast destructive power, it's fully within her control. Just in hand-to-hand techniques alone, Issei and even Vali won't be able to match her. Even together, they won't last a hundred exchanges if they have the same specs.' Kisuke was truly impressed and scared, 'If she's already at this level, what about the people I know? So it's really safe to assume that they are all already on the Super Devil rank?'

Meanwhile, Airi was not as calm as she appeared to be, 'Who is this guy!? There are only a few among the United Armies that could keep up with me in pure hand-to-hand combat, yet he can casually defend and deflect against all of my attacks!? Not to mention, I have to be careful of the attacks he could still sneak in that target where it hurts. No wonder Zen lost.'

[Kisuke, we're done here.] All of a sudden, Kisuke heard Benihime's voice.

'Alright. Give me a moment. I want to take this a bit further and pull out the one hiding.'

[What exactly do you want to do?]

'Confuse them a bit so we can lay low after this.'

[Got it. We'll come to you once you're ready.]

Soon enough, Kisuke and Airi arrived at the coastal area where there's no one present. This wasn't just convenient for Airi but also for Kisuke since he could escalate things without worrying about the damage he'd cause.

"You're a naive one, aren't you?" Kisuke initiated a conversation.

"Hmm?" Airi became curious, but her rate of attack didn't let up. But the moment her concentration was slightly disrupted, a dense killing intent suddenly assaulted her consciousness, causing her to lose her tempo and initiative.

Kisuke instantly took advantage of the opening he created and put strength into his right fist, aiming directly at her face.

"Kuh!" Airi almost didn't see his punch coming and had no choice but to defend using both of her hands.

She was able to successfully defend against it, but without her oppressing him, Kisuke became free and was able to send a kick towards her stomach.

Airi hurriedly constructed several barriers against it, but all of them were instantly breached, with his foot reaching her abdomen. She gritted her teeth as she felt like throwing up and was sent flying towards the sandy beach, tumbling multiple times before stopping.

Airi spat out the sand she ended up with in her mouth and glared at Kisuke.

Zen, who ended up following them, had his mouth wide open, "N-no way! Airi nee-san lost in pure hand-to-hand combat!?"

Kisuke's shirt had numerous holes, but he was virtually unharmed and carefully landed on the beach. Unperturbed by her gaze, Kisuke continued, "You increase your effectiveness by concentrating, but doing it beyond a certain threshold will make you susceptible to sudden changes. Did you hope that you'd eventually crack my defenses as long as you kept at it? If that's not naivety, I don't know what is."

Airi slowly stood up and lowered her stance once again, "I misjudged you, but aren't you underestimating me too much?"

Kisuke grinned under his helmet, "Ahh... Is that so? Then I apologize. Your face reminds me of an empty-headed nun and I ended up judging you by the same standard."

Airi's expression froze, and Zen, who was not too far, also questioned what 'Death God' just said, "...Did he just...?"

There was an unbelievable silence that took over, so even the sounds of the waves couldn't wash it away.

Kisuke felt Airi's mood descending as the latter asked in a not-so-warm voice anymore, "...May I ask who exactly you are referring to?"

'I guess those rumors are true.' Kisuke chuckled and answered, "You know who I meant. It's your mother, Asia Argento... Ah... She goes by Asia Hyoudou these days, doesn't she?"

Kisuke wanted to slot in a few more insults for good measure, but he didn't need to do that as a golden aura engulfed Airi, "...Unforgivable..."

Devoid of her previous 'Onee-san' smile, Airi's face twisted as she released a Draconic Aura that couldn't be compared to before, "You dare insult Okaa-san!? Unforgivable!"

'...Is she really Asia-chan's daughter?' Kisuke started to question himself while witnessing a very un-ladylike expression, 'Do we know the same Asia?'

"——Respond to my voice, possessor of the golden scales, thou who is great. For the sake of together striking dead the enemies before us——reveal thyself before me——!!" Airi chanted in anger, and various Magic Circles appeared on her body.

'Dragon Gate and using her own body as a medium?' Kisuke jumped back to take some distance and observe her properly. This is what he wanted to see.