The Crisis World XX

Chap. 59: Herlin vs. Astaroth

Elsewhere and at the same time as the beginning of the fight Iraya and Kurobane-senpai took place. Suddenly Herlin, who was focused on flowing his aura toward the factory, was surprised by a man who could realize his existence even though he had hidden it.

Who is that guy?

With an expression that was still in shock and panic, Herlin looked towards the person who suddenly called out to him.

A young man and about 23-25 years old. With blond hair that was conspicuous due to the moonlight. Iris eyes beautiful green colored gem that stared intently at Herlin. Although with a smile that looks friendly, but Herlin can find out that the smile he put out is a smile made up aka fake.

Still draining his aura consistently, Herlin began to face the man and began to stand by. He began to think that if he was less vigilant due to being too focused to drain the aura to the factory, so this man could approach it undetected.

"I asked again …. What are you doing these nights here, miss?"

"…."

He greeted Herlin kindly. His smile slowly dissipated as Herlin did not answer his question and began to feel uneasy and threatened.

"What is my question less clear?"

The man confirmed it by asking once more. But Herlin paid no heed to his question and still continued to be wary of his movements.

Herlin felt an extreme difference in strength in the man before him right now from the aura around him. If he fought with her, then he had no chance of winning. All he could do right now was buy time until his friends managed to destroy the experiments that were in the factory.

"Who are you?" Herlin asked.

"Ah .. sorry, where is my manners."

The man crossed his right hand in front of his chest and lowered his head slightly as a position to introduce himself.

"Greetings, my name is Astaroth."

The astaroth? He had never heard of the name before, but his strength was not playful. Calmly, Herlin then responded to the remark from Astaroth.

"So you asked me what am I doing here now? Shouldn't I ask you the same question, Astaroth-san?"

Herlin did not answer his question, he asked back. He did not want the slightest bit of information about him to leak. So as much as possible for him not to be provoked to answer his question.

"It's also …."

Astaroth hung his words. He thought for a moment to answer Herlin's question.

"I was on a night walk and accidentally saw you here. So I rushed to get to you" said Astaroth.

His words just now were a lie. It is quite impossible for ordinary people to coincidentally realize the existence of Herlin, because he has eliminated his presence and his current place is quite dark and minimal lighting.

"So so. I'm sorry for interrupting your nightly walks. I'm currently running away from home due to a fight with my parents and due to exhaustion, I'm resting here for a while."

Although it seemed useless, but Herlin still spoke lies. Unreasonable lies are better than telling the truth.

"Well, well, that's not good. Do I want to take you somewhere so you can rest?"

Taps…

"…?!"

Astaroth stepped closer to Herlin. But as he moved one leg, he felt a sensation. Sweat drops from his forehead. His instincts say that this woman has something that threatens her life. He then smiled and canceled his intention to approach Herlin and spoke again.

"So bad, I can't seem to get close to you."

"Yes, you better not."

A pause of silence occurred between the dialogue of the two of them. And after that, Astaroth suddenly laughed.

"Amaha …! It's fun playing roles like that, right?"

"Yes, it's really fun."

Astaroth was still laughing. And suddenly Herlin asked Astaroth.

"So .. do you know who I really am?"

"Hn? Ah, about that of course I know. Herlin from Black Rain."

Astaroth made a grin at the end of his sentence. Herlin who was looking at it tried to remain calm and appear expressionless as usual. Although he also felt uneasy because he was already known by the opponent.

"And you are one of the Assassins belonging to the Ayakashi Corp.?"

"Truely, you could say I was the chairman."

Astaroth looked towards the factory which was quite a distance away from here.

"It looks like your friends are having fun there huh?"

"so. Then why don't you join in there and have some fun too?"

"Ah, about that …."

"… I'm sure it's more fun here" he murmured slowly.

Zwuush…

Suddenly Astaroth disappeared from where he had stood before, leaving a gust of wind on his previous footing. Herlin the daritadi did not turn away from Astaroth even to the point of losing track of him.

And Astaroth was quickly in front of Herlin. It moved from a distance of about five meters from its previous place in less than a second.

"…?!"

Herlin who was not ready to get an attack from Astaroth then tried to jump backwards.

But Astaroth also quickly pointed his hand towards Herlin's neck aiming to strangle him. But the reflexes from Herlin's hand that tried to brush Astaroth's hand off very quickly coupled with his Mind Power ability, he managed to pull Astaroth's hand over.

And as he was being rolled back, without pause Herlin tried to lock in Astaroth's movements. And Herlin immediately rushed to get up again.

Astaroth who was aware that his movements were being held back by Herlin then tried to move a little, but the effort he put out was too little and Herlin did not waste the opportunity.

Zii…

Herlin immediately lifted dozens of objects such as stones and trees that weighed each of them was over a hundred kilograms. He immediately threw all the objects at once and attacked Astaroth repeatedly.

Braaakkk…

Herlin then stopped his attack. I don't know if it will work or not. But at least this has taken a lot of time for others.

"Damn it, I stopped my aura flow from now on."

Herlin only realized that he had stopped flowing his aura since the beginning of his battle with Astaroth. He then looked towards the factory and wished that they were both okay.

Degh's…

Suddenly Herlin felt his spine goosebumps. He reflexively turned his body back. And he was already greeted by a hand that pointed right towards Herlin's neck.

"Ukhh …!"

"Your attacks are okay too, though still a little careless. I'm sure you rarely fight people who are equal to you. Your attack is still raw."

The one who was strangling him right now was Astaroth. He managed to escape from Herlin's attacks, even though Herlin was sure that his attack was successful on this enemy.

Astaroth lifted Herlin's body high until his feet did not touch the ground. Herlin tries to let go of Astaroth's strangulation, but it's free. Astaroth had already let out more aura so it would not be that easy to escape from his giggling.

"It's just free to fight like that. In the end you will die" said Astaroth.

Astaroth's eyes were directly fixed with Herlin's. He had enjoyed the beauty of Herlin's eyes before destroying them. But then he said something.

"You have beautiful eyes. It would be a pity if eyes were that beautiful to be smashed together with you."

Astaroth pointed his other hand towards Herlin's eyes. He aims to retrieve his eyeballs before he kills Herlin. But suddenly something that shocked the two of them happened.

Duuuuaarrr…

A large explosion occurred from the direction of the factory which made the two of them suddenly look at the factory. The magnitude of the explosion and the high puff of black smoke made Herlin involuntarily mutter something.

"Irava ... Senpai …."

Kriiing…

Suddenly the cell phone in the pocket of Astaroth's pants rang. The hand he had wanted to use to take Herlin's eyes had to pick up the phone.

"Hello? …. What's?! His experiment has been resurrected?! What do the researchers really do?! …."

Astaroth picked up the phone. He slightly weakened his guard to Herlin who he was giggling from earlier. Without wasting it. Herlin moved his mouth twice without making a sound.

Astaroth had finished picking up his phone and put his phone back in his pocket again. And when he looked at Herlin, he was a little surprised by her.

"…?! What the fuck is that look?"

Herlin looked at him with a murderous look. It was as if he had deep hatred for Astaroth and wanted to kill him immediately.

"This eye .. is the result of my parents' affection."

"What's a— Uh …?!"

Degh's…

Suddenly the feathers of Astaroth stood. His keen instincts said he should look to the right. When he looked, he felt a powerful aura darting towards him. Astaroth immediately let go of his strangulation and jumped backwards which made Herlin fall.

Craassh…

A considerable amount of blood shot out from Astaroth's neck which made him have to cover it with his hands. He focused back on Herlin. But Herlin was already standing with an enormous stone on it.

"This is for your giggling."

Braakkh…

Herlin threw a stone that was many times the size of his body. Astaroth gathered the aura in his palm then then struck the huge rock into smithereens.

But just as he wanted to look back at Herlin, his figure had already disappeared from his sight.

Without lingering, Astaroth then stood up. He did not regret his failure to kill Herlin for now. He chose to return to the factory and face the enemy that was currently messing up at the factory.

"If it doesn't get big, at least I'll catch the main hunt" he murmured.

**

While Herlin retreated for a while, he rested for a while to recover his body condition.

"Ahaaakh …!"

Herlin spewed blood from his mouth as a result of the strangulation performed by Astaroth. The chuck was so strong that it made Herlin have trouble breathing and become limp.

"My body is so weak!" said annoyed.

He then thought about the opponent he had just fought. Her appearance was a little familiar to Herlin. Especially those beautiful green irises.

"Impossible, right?"

Herlin shook his head to expel the unreasonable thoughts inside his head.

Baaaarrr…

As Herlin was thinking, he suddenly saw a flash of lightning light appearing near the factory.

"The light …. No, I can't rest now. The others are struggling, I can't laze around here!"

Herlin then stood up. Although his body condition was already weak, but he still forced himself to go to the place of battle.

"I have to go!"

"True, you have to go."

"…?!"

Suddenly there was someone answering Herlin's mutter. His current condition was not good, but instead met with other enemies. There was no other choice, Herlin would be fighting alongside the Banshee now.

Herlin then looked up and what he saw was someone he did not expect.

"Oita-san!"

Seriate