Chapter 47: Noelle Aqua, the poisoned spear
"Um madam.. let me get this straight..", the policeman points at Asta. "You kidnapped this academy student on vacation for looking at your boat and then running away?"
"Correct."
" LIKE H- calm down calm down.. This ain't working!!!"
Asta was currently stuck in a station, not a police station but a power station with his body chained to a huge pipeline with thousands of ruins around him.
'this sucks.' he thought as he looked forward at the drama unfolding in front of him, "Get me a refund."
"SHUT UP!" the police man screamed at Asta before trying calm himself with some deep breathing.
There was also the culprit of the current situation, Gracia Aqua, a noble of the pearl kingdom and a extreme show-off obsessive person.
Asta, blank-minded and Stupified could only watch as the policeman tried to argue with Gracia for his freedom with a 'meh' expression.
He wasn't feeling threatened, neither was he feeling hurried but rather felt annoyed as if his vacation was being wasted.
'I guess this counts as a drama.', he looked at his grimoire floating around him which's security seal he broke long ago, 'Just fight already! Show me some damn action!'
Meanwhile the lady and the policeman were in a heated argument. Heated but with no point of sense or logic.
(Gracia) "I told you already. He was trying to hijack my ship for sure."
(Policeman) "Mam *clutches fist* Maybe he just felt blinded by it."
(Gracia) " I don't care! He is going to be shocked to death right here and now!"
(Policeman) "I am afraid that is impossible."
(Gracia) "You dare oppose me!?! Prep-"
Cong smash
The ceiling collapses as the roof fell on Gracia's head.
"How many times have I told you to stop doing this non-sense. Have some dignity for god's sake sis."
A newcomer arrives with a bang as a girl looking similar to Gracia stares at her from above the fallen ceiling with disgust.
The girl was in a uniform, a army uniform with a cap and several medals at her shoulders with which she looked like a soldier.
However to Asta she appeared more than just a soldier.
'Noelle!!', there was no mistaking it for Asta as he could recognise Noelle from crowd just by a glance, it was really Noelle.
But there was a slight misunderstanding.
"Noel-"
"SHUT UP!! POISON DRAGON JAVELIN"
A spear of water formed out of air, only to be then tainted by a green and purplish hue as it transformed into a dragon and flew towards Asta.
' this feels nostalgic.' was all he could think before the spear slammed right into him and blasted far away.
-A lot of time and healing later-
Asta slowly opens his eyes, his mind as empty as a balloon as he drowzly wakes up.
He looks around, "where am i?" He mutters and found himself laying on Goliath as he was buried under a pile of rubble.
He was in a run-down ruined house with broken windows and charred walls, it looked like a place that became a victim of a fiery event.
'I knew breaking the seal was a good idea but god it hurts.. *huff* Where is this plac-"
Snap
Suddenly Asta heard footsteps and quickly hid behind some broken table in fear of someone finding him.
Then he heard voices, not just one or two but over a dozen the footsteps marches forward.
"This kid will make a good sacrifice right?"
"Who knows? It's not like we have any choice since that b*tch took over the city security."
"That damn annoying Aqua. I wish I could kill that wretch."
"You could only wish. she demolished our base alone and sent the boss into hiding. You better stay away from her."
"Argh! Fine."
'Sacrifice? Kid? So these bastards are cultists. Guess that makes it good for me,' Asta shots forward, Goliath in hand as he swung with full force. ' No holding back against scums.'
The great sword cleaved, splitting two cultists in the front into two chopped sushi as the other cultists failed to comprehend the situation.
One of the faster ones tried to scream but at this moment-
'no screaming indoors.' Asta whispered to the cultist as he appeared behind him and stabbed straight through the neck.
The others watched as three of them fell cold in a instant and were struck with terror as she unsheathed their weapons and charged.
"You will pay for it!"
"Die!"
"I will skin you!!"
"Machine magic.. Implode"
The weapons malfunctioned on Asta's command, the runes broke and soon the room was overtaken in explosion of mana as many of the cultists lost their hands or lives i. The explosion.
At this moment Asta moved forward with both grimoires floating behind him as he unleashed a flurry of attacks with the intent to kill.
Metal spikes, ki attacks, blood spears, and so on were bombarded upon the enemies without mercy as they were shredded to mere bits of flesh when Asta was done.
"Now for the ki-"
"Kihh"
Asta looked down, his eyes stuck at the source of wierd sound as he brought down his katana, but he stopped in his tracks as he recognised the creature in front of him.
"A dragon!! A baby dragon!" He repeated to himself and instantly lifted the innocent eyes dragon to his arms.
It was very small, barely 1 feet in length and looked more like a lizard than a dragon but the wings on its back said a different story.
Asta lifted it higher with a joyful expression. "Now who's a good kid? Big bro here will take you ho-"
Asta noticed something peculiar, something that sent shivers down his spines as he felt realisation dawn on him.
' Dragons don't trust non-dragons.. not even the kids are a exception.. *turns to the baby dragon* Then Why is it so trusting?'
It was only now Asta realised it, he referred to himself not by his name but as a big bro.
He was being affected by his increasing transformation. Affected by his dragon side and it's instincts.
Cough
Asta turned with sword in hand, not even showing a bit of hesitation as he pointed it at the sound responsible for the sound.
It was a cultist, barely hanging onto life by a thread while coughing out blood.
"You damn dog. That bi**h Noelle Aqua and her damn title. If only she- *cough* if only she wasn't feared as the poisoned spear then we would have not lost our damn support."
The cultists bit his own tongue, sending a variety of curses at Asta as he dies as a last resort of a counterattack.
However the curses and the magic was simply smacked away by Asta with his demon like wings as no magic could match the anti-magic in a frontal match.
But to Asta, a bigger problem now formed.
"The Poisoned spear? Noelle Aqua? If that girl who kidnapped me was called Gracia Aqua and Noelle called her sis. Then that means... **** "