Chapter 73 : Hekishoku-kun."

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While the punch itself didn't seem to create much of a damage, the fact that the mask the man was wearing cracked at the impact was more than enough to create some distractions.

"Oh c'mon, this mask took me ages to build from scratch," The stranger groaned annoyingly, removing it from his face and… revealing someone similar to Baraqiel.

And it was with that very last clue that I finally understood who I was looking at. With my eyes widening in surprise and minor confusion, I addressed someone that was possibly going to be my boss for the next four days.

"You are Armaros."

My words were met with a snort. "And you owe me a new mask, brat."

…

"You rushed at me with a battle-axe!"

"To test your abilities," He explained quickly and with a sigh. "And while those aren't as exciting as Sougyoku-kun, I can say you can hit pretty well considering your background, Hekishoku-kun."

I blinked at the praise, still unsure how to pick this situation up without exploding with irritation.

But just as I was ready to continue the conversation even more, I felt a presence move behind me.

I merely glanced behind and I saw a blue-masked moron standing there, his arms crossed close to his chest as he stared at me intensively before looking at the annoyed Cadre.

"Armaros, are you done whining over your childish manner?" Vali inquired sarcastically, surprising me that the young Lucifer was capable of this much sassiness. "I thought Azazel had been clear to make this mission a serious one instead of some of your plays."

Azazel was the one that personally saw for the creation of this mission? I suppose his paranoia over this being another connection to Kokabiel might have driven him to take a more direct approach to the predicament.

I suppose that's why he saw for me and Vali to be sent to investigate the happenings here instead of another group, mostly because I was aware of the dirty workings of the warring hawk that was the treacherous Fallen Angel.

"Good to see you again, Sougyoku-san," I muttered politely, drawing a tense but brief look from the young man as he merely nodded at my comment, preferring to not press for some more about it.

Once Armaros was done with mourning the loss of his mask, the Researcher of Anti-Magic to Grigori decided to finally explain a little more about the situation.

The Grauzauberer had been one of the few groups that had sent relief to Kyoto when the situation had exploded there.

A couple of days ago, the Council had called for some inquiries to begin their studies over the situation that had seen quite the large defection of men and women ever registered, surprise mostly driven by the sudden leave of so many members at once.

While the Magicians were generally neutral and rarely nowadays loaned helpers to Grigori, the group wouldn't refuse any important request from the General-Governor himself and Mephisto Pheles was a pro-Grigori supporter already so any mission here wasn't going to receive any backlash from the Grauzauberer.

Our mission here was to search around the city of Dresden, the capital of the Saxon region, to find any clues that could connect to some proper recruitment campaign happening within the Magician's Council's territory.

Vali and I were to make a thorough patrol of some areas within the city that had the highest level of magical use within the region.

We were provided with maps, a spell that allowed to let us talk temporarily in German, and some radios that were meant to be used to keep in contact with each other and with Armaros in case we needed some permissions or even required his presence over certain cases.

The Researcher was incredibly annoyed by the fact he had been relegated to a pseudo-'desk job' and that he would have preferred to be in the 'frontlines' with us.

Something that both me and Vali were quick to shot down because of two major reasons, with the first being that the man was literally wearing quite the awkward cosplay to be wandering around with… and because he was known to magicians as part of Grigori.

One of the first few things that students were introduced to were the major leaders of the various Pantheons with a presence in Europe, with Grigori being the first to be introduced considering the close contacts between the two group.

So it was just the two of us dealing with the main tasks for this mission and… I was slightly unnerved by the fact I was forced to closely endure Vali for four long days.

I didn't show any reaction to that predicament, but I was fairly sure that the young man was having similar thoughts about the 'annoyance' that I was going to be to him.

After giving a first proper look at the map of the city, we were soon sent out to go for our first patrol around, the main objective of this first stroll to actually get accustomed at the general life of this city.

We were given some different disguises to best fit with the current situation, the masks still present, but instead of the cloaks we were given some hoodies.

We looked pretty dumb and incredibly harmless, but the excuse for wandering around like this was that we were just some street artist wandering around and making some social experiments when the occasion happened. Which would be 'never' considering who Vali was.

Yet, as we made our first steps outside, I quickly realized that the individual beside me wasn't someone that enjoyed my company and soon I was forced to speed up my pace to match up with the sudden rush the silver-haired moron had decided to go with.

Probably to show off, or even to annoy me, I was left to babysit this idiot until we were done with this patrol, hopefully not as infernal as it was shaping up to become so early on.

Dresden had a completely different degree of beauty compared to old and new Japanese cities. The heart of Saxony was one of the influential places in the nation, having experience no few major events in modern times.

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