The Rising of the Hero King

It had been two weeks since Haruto confronted Samael.

And quite a lot had happened within those two weeks. First, he got the official papers regarding the ownership of Kuoh town, although he had to share it with Rias he was going somewhere. Then Gaara confirmed that the Shinto Gods agreed to the idea and Lady Yasaka had already started to prepare for the next part of the plan. Now he was just waiting for Alucard to wrap up his side of the job.

But right now, he was sitting in ORC with Rias, her peerage along with Sona and her queen. Asia was there also. They were informed in the morning that some exorcists wanted to meet them, they weren't told the reason though.

There was a light knock on the door. Akeno opened it and led the people inside. There were three of them and all of them were girls, well one of them was a woman, because calling her a girl would be disrespectful.

Haruto didn't miss the slight tense in her body when she saw him. He knew who she was, Griselda Quarta and by the looks of it, she had a hunch of who he was.

He didn't care about the rest, honestly, he didn't care what they wanted to talk about. But when the twintail girl introduced herself, time seemed to stop for Haruto. From the corner of his eyes, Haruto saw Griselda tensing up as well.

Irina Shidou,

Haruto took a few deep breaths and then looked at Asia. Seeing her looking back at him with innocent clueless expression helped him to calm down, somewhat. It started to become harder for him to be in the same room but he would be damned if he would show his back to the exorcists. So he just sat there and kept his eyes closed. He blocked out everything as well. He just wanted this to be over. Because he knew very well that if he opened his mouth, there would be chaos. So he just let Rias and Sona handle the situation.

And at last when he thought it was over, one of the exorcists screwed up.

When the blue haired girl, the one called Xenovia, started to talk roughly at Asia, Haruto knew he reached his limit. Even Griselda understood that the situation was going out of their hands, and that was why she told Xenovia to stand down.

"Well, Sensei, don't you think it is better for her to repent than to try to pray?" Xenovia replied back calmly. But the next moment, what Asia did surprised everyone, everyone except Haruto.

"I can still pray to God," Asia said meekly while she took out her hidden necklace-cross. And seeing that she wasn't being harmed even though she was touching a genuine cross, stunned the exorcists. And Xenovia took it badly, to her it was a sign of an abomination. Because in her mind she just couldn't comprehend how the sinner could speak Lord's name freely and touch a sacred object. She automatically started to raise her sword.

That's all that he needed to see.

Xenovia suddenly felt that a few ribs from her right side were broken but she wasn't even given the luxury to scream as a jaw-shattering punch landed on her face, completely knocking her out cold. And it happened in a split second. Griselda saw Haruto approaching but she didn't think that he would go for the finisher. She cursed her luck and immediately sprung into action, along with Irina. The teacher was fast but not like Haruto who already dispelled his special gauntlet "Stone-Fist" and took out another weapon.

Nuibari,

He planted the sword on the ground the moment he took it out. The sword followed his wordless command and released a lot of wires, so thin that they could hardly be seen through naked eyes, and restricted Irina who just took out her sword. And on the other hand, Haruto had his "Silver Horn", a handgun, aimed at the veteran exorcist whose sword was halfway to Haruto's neck.

"Don't test my patience."

Griselda held Haruto's gaze for a few seconds, before releasing a defeated sigh. She could see that Haruto was serious. That was his first and only warning. She slowly lowered her sword but didn't break the eye contact, "Boy, what you did was just an act of war."

Haruto lowered his "Silver Horn" but Griselda knew better. Before the gun was pointing at her head and now it pointed at her heart. But to the less experienced, it would seem as Haruto dropped his guard. And being a newbie, Irina took this chance and changed her sword's shape to that of a scissor. Griselda made a pained expression but didn't move. And she still held her gaze, even though when Irina screamed her lungs out as the wires of Nuibari tightened its hold so much to the point it drew blood. Irina dropped her sword and fell down due to the pain and loss of her strength. She just looked at Haruto one last time before losing her consciousness.

Haruto really tried but wasn't strong enough. His lips turned upwards hearing the cry of that person's daughter. But like Griselda, he didn't break his eye contact, "What are you?"

"Excuse me?" She didn't know what Haruto wanted to hear. Every other devil in the room didn't know what to do except just to watch. To them, everything was nothing but a blur. By the time they were just able to comprehend that a fight broke out, it was over.

"Are you the God himself? The law itself? The mother-nature herself?" Haruto made a mock confusing face, "First, you came barging into our town without prior notice. Then you started talking some shitass stories about Excalibur."

"You think we are lying," Griselda spoke softly.

"If you are not, then why the fuck you are not doing this mission through right method?!" Haruto shouted but he lowered his voice immediately when he saw Asia flinching, "Why didn't you contact our higher-ups first? Because if an accident were to happen to any of us, I sure can bet my house that the church will not take responsibility. Hell if anything were to happen, you would be gone even before the first blood dries out."

Haruto then took a few deep breaths to calm down. He finally broke the eye contact and looked at the unconscious Xenovia, "And after all those boastful talking about control and discipline, your exorcist raised her sword against a defenseless devil, against my surrogate sister."

Just for a moment … for a tiny moment, Griselda felt as if she was pierced by hundreds and thousands of swords and weapons. And that sensation was so strong and so real that it brought her to her knees. She looked up to meet Haruto's cold and void crimson eyes, "So what do you got to say about this?"

Griselda knew that her team fucked up. If she knew that the third young king was Haruto, he wouldn't have brought Xenovia or Irina. But there was no point in crying over spilled milk. She had to resolve this no matter what. So she tried again, "I will take my apprentices back to the hotel. They will be reprimanded properly but right now we don't have any more exorcists who can wield Excalibur shards. So please, I beg of you, overlook this grave mistake of ours. There are bigger matters at hand. And I promise you, once this is all over, I will take full responsibility for my student's error."

Haruto knew what Griselda was pointing at but he wasn't going to let it go her way, "I don't care about your so called bigger matter, we will also sortie some of our peerage members as well to solve this problem. The faster you are done with your crap, the sooner you will leave. And that is all I want."

Griselda sighed,

"Acceptable."