20 Cadre - 8
The force of his strike bodily lifted Satanael up and slammed him into the wall, hard enough to dent the concrete wall.
Black feathers rained down lightly through the air and Kaito scowled. He couldn't see Satanael even though the man was right in front of him?
Why?
Because he was cocooned beneath ten large ebony black feathered wings that erupted from his back just before Kaito's fist struck him.
"That….that is not a Vritra gear." a ragged growl echoed from within the shield of wings and Kaito noted then-
One of them was bent oddly.
As if snapped.
Kaito didn't bother giving him the chance to speak or say anything else and lashed out with a thrust kick, smashing his heel against the wings with all his strength.
He heard an audible snap from one of them and a roar of pain from beneath them.
"Little fool!" the wings snapped open and revealed Satanael glaring bloody murder at him, stretching out around them.
The feathers on them went rigid, at the same time Kaito pushed forward launched out with a touki and double boosted punch straight for the mans jaw.
He was going to smash his face in and end it right here and-
Before he could follow through, he felt something wrap around his waist before he was tugged up and back through the air.
Just in time for a series of feathers to shoot out from Satanael's wings and pierce into the ground where he was standing previously.
Kaito landed downstairs a moment later beside Irina, and noted she had a gleaming white, whip like weapon in her hand.
"Thanks." he grinned at her.
That was a close one.
He didn't know angels could shoot out their feathers as weapons.
"No problem!" she beamed, even as the whip in her hand glowed and shifted, forming into a gleaming white katana.
"You've truly angered me now," Satanael growled, standing up, wings fanning out behind him, though two of them were bent at odd angles from Kaito's strikes, "Do not think you accomplished something dealing me such minor injuries, were I at full strength a pair of blows like that wouldn't have even made me blink!"
"…So what?" Irina tilted her head to the side, confused at his words, "That doesn't change that you got really hurt from those hits right there."
Kaito snorted as Satanael visibly ground his teeth together. And the best of it was, she wasn't even trying to insult him or anything like that. She was really just asking what his full strength, that he couldn't use at the moment, had to do with this second here and now.
"This is humiliation I've not felt in a long time," the fallen angel growled, "Injured by a lowly exorcist and some fool who thinks he's strong because he's attained Balance Breaker with a mere Twice Critical."
'Wait…he thinks I've got Balance Breaker?' Kaito blinked.
Well, he supposed that did make more sense than him having two Twice Critical's.
"Let's go Kaito-kun!" Irina apparently wasn't interested in hearing the fallen angel talk anymore and thrust her sword out.
Bright light emanated from her hand and suffused around the sword, cloaking it in an aura of powerful light, before the sword itself extended rapidly towards Satanael like a bullet.
The fallen leaped into the air to avoid it, allowing the sword to stab into the wall, but as it did, the tip shifted into a hook and embedded itself, before the other end began retracted and yanked Irina high into the air.
She was pulled through the air towards him rapidly, while at the same time the sword in her hand shimmered and returned to the form of a katana which she brought up in an overhead swing.
"Not this time!" Satanael roared, swinging his hand out.
As he did, darkness seemed to swirl into existence within that hand and a sword took shape.
An ominous dark coloured blade.
It clashed against Excalibur Mimic and the air rippled as waves of white and dark light exploded outwards from the clash.
Irina yelped as she was launched backwards, overpowered in the contest of strength easily.
But, she had taken Satanael's attention off of Kaito.
The teen appeared a moment later, moving in the shadow of Irina to get behind the Cadre and launched himself into the air with a powerful jump, gauntlet clad hands linked tightly together and held overhead-
Before being brought down in a powerful hammer blow aimed at the back of Satanael's head.
Before his attack landed, Satanael's wings moved to intercept and block him. His double fisted hit smashed into the fallen's wings and like Irina before him, sent him rocketing towards the ground.
Unlike before though, despite the blow being stronger than the other two he landed, there was no distinct snapping sound or feeling of bone breaking.
He and Irina hit the ground at roughly the same time, both landing on their feet and rushing each other.
It took a moment for Kaito himself to land and by time he did, the pair of them were already duelling in a rapid flash of sword strikes that sent sparks into the air.
Right away though, it was Irina on the back foot.
"Fools, I may be weakened, but Arondight's power makes up for that." Satanael snarled, catching Excalibur Mimic's blade on the hilt of his own blade and locking it there for a split moment, keeping Irina rooted in place and lashing out with a punch.
