Chapter 7

“It seems from the Astaroth House, we will have Cassius Astaroth as the first participant, I have a reliable source that has confirmed that he is single, ladies!”

Sitri was warming up the crowd.

“And from the Seir Household we have Shirohime Shirayuki, those of you familiar with your eastern demonology will know what she is, however for those of you that aren’t, she is a Yuki Onna, a Japanese Demon. I can also confirm that she has the rank of a Princess and is not currently in a relationship! We at DTV have received a number of requests to do an interview with her, it seems she has won over the hearts of the masses of hell with her noble icy charm!”

“Actually Sitri-san, I already have…”

“Heh heh heh, ahhhhh, how I have waited for this moment...I was beginning to think that you’d never notice me, my beloved Shirohime, let’s no longer beat around the bush, become my woman and I will make it my life’s mission to give you everything that your heart desires.”

“...”

“Why so serious? It is I, CA, Cassius Astaroth, your secret admirer, I can no longer admire from afar, all you have to do is forfeit this match and come over to our side willingly and we can be together forever.”

“...”

Shiro was completely ignoring this guy, even Sitri was lost for words and that's saying something.

“Sitri-san please signal the beginning of the match...”

“R-right, let’s go!”

Sitri left the battlefield and Cassius was making a pretty hideous face.

“...Heh heh heh, I love making BITCHES like you submit, I’ll make sure that I keep that face of yours intact, how dare you ignore me!”

Cassius showed a completely different side of himself and began releasing bloodlust at an alarming rate. He made some distance between himself and Shiro and evoked what I could only imagine was his familiar. I had never fully evoked Bahamut but it was possible to completely utilise one’s familiar at will if needed.

Cassius was now shrouded by a black winged goat monster. Wait, this thing had the lower body of a man, why the hell is it commando! Although it wasn’t fully materialised, you could tell that he was using his familiar, only those with a certain level of demonic energy can actually see the shadow that a familiar casts on it’s master though.

The second that he began firing bloodlust directly at Shiro, she materialised some icicles and fired them at him at full speed, before they reached him, he used his familiar’s power and summoned a wall of fire and the icicles evaporated into steam. Shiro varied the speed and trajectory of one of them though, so one managed to make it through before he used the wall of fire and it grazed his face leaving a small cut.

“Y-you cut my face...WHORE! I WILL MAKE MY BAPHOMET FUCK YOU BLOODY!”

Cassius sent a wave of fire toward Shiro, Shiro faced the on coming assault by making a thick wall of ice that spread across the width of the battlefield, although she was able to keep the wild fire mostly at bay, part of it got through the wall and burned some of her Kimono off.

“Heh heh heh! How do you like that! I will strip you naked here! Your ice is nothing to my fire, maybe if you got on your hands and knees and beg me for forgiveness, I might at least be gentle, at first…”

Shiro never acknowledged his outburst at all, instead she fired some cold air that looked like it contained little sparkling particles in his directions. Cassius didn’t even bother dodging, instead he laughed like a madman.

“HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH! Pathetic! I suppose I am getting a little heated, that was a nice breeze.”

Cassius began firing burst of fireballs toward Shiro, Shiro responded by elegantly dodging them, it was like she was floating, she returned his assault with the same cold breeze that contained the sparkling particles. It seems that Cassius found this extremely humorous because he would laugh each time the breeze made its way toward him and then run his hand through his flaxen locks each time it passed him.

Every time Cassius used the wave of fire, more and more of Shiro’s Kimono would burn off. Shiro would always return any attack he sent her way with that same breeze. It got to a point where one more wave of fire would reveal the parts of Shiro’s body that even I hadn’t seen.

“Heh heh heh, this is it! Baphomet is getting pretty restless, I think I’d better allow him to have a look before he climaxes.”

Shiro turned around and began walking away.

“H-hey! W-where are you going bitch! Don’t think you can just walk away after all that!”

“It’s over…”

“W-what? You stupid bit…”

Just when Cassius was about to fire another wave of flame, he fell to one knee and looked to be in serious pain.

“Kkkkkughhh, w-what i-is this…”

Shiro came to a halt and began speaking.

“I have frozen some of your internal organs...If you kept that revolting mouth of yours shut each time I sent my ice particles towards you, than you might have stood more of a chance.”

Cassius showed a look of disbelief and than began laughing maniacally.

“Heh heh heh heh! Nice try bitch, but I will just have my Baphomet heat my insides and purge myself of your filthy ice particles.”

Shiro continued to walk away which made Cassius make the most horrid expression, just after he evoked Baphomet’s power on himself, his body convulsed as if an explosion had taken place within him and he puked up a pool of blood.

Shiro stopped one more time, she turned her body slightly around, for the first time all day, she actually looked at Cassius directly.

“My flammable ice particles…”

Cassius attempted to look up at Shiro but couldn’t manage to do so with the amount of pain he was in.

“Don’t ever look at me with those disgusting eyes again…”

Shiro gave him a terrifying look after saying this and made her way back to us.

The whole arena was dead silent, everyone was engrossed in the ice cold regal presence of the woman known as Shirohime Shirayuki. Finally Sitri regained some composure and the crowd burst into thunderous applause.

“...Ladies and gentlemen, It’s over! I think I speak for all womankind when I say good riddance! Shirohime Shirayuki has taken the first round for the Seir Household!”

Shiro finally reached us, I took off my jacket and wrapped it around her. She smiled at me warmly and went to stand next to Alice. There was nothing that we needed to say to each other, this was exactly how it should be. I looked across the battlefield and watched as the medics were taking a now unconscious Cassius away. The baldy was making a scary face and was firing bloodlust at us at full force. I made eye contact with him and got ready to step on to the battlefield.