While Akeno, Asia, Xenovia, and Irina, who remained within his barrier, remained completely comfortable and physically unharmed, the sheer, explosive kinetic impact of his counter-punch sent a massive, terrifying shockwave rippling outward. The ground violently bucked, hitting Kuoh Town with the force of a localized earthquake.
"W-What's happening?!"
"Is it an earthquake?!"
"Take cover! Get under the desks!"
As the human citizens of Kuoh scrambled in a panic to protect themselves, Rias and Sona—who had been deeply immersed in a stressful meeting about how to quietly handle the rogue exorcists and the Excalibur situation without disturbing Finn's vacation—were violently startled.
"What in the world is happening?" Rias gasped, gripping the edge of her desk.
"Was that a natural tremor?" Sona asked, her stern eyes narrowing.
Yet, as the heavy, suffocating shockwave of raw Demonic Power washed over the school, both heiresses instantly realised this was no simple tectonic shift. Tsubaki and Koneko burst into the Student Council room, breathing heavily in a complete panic.
"Rias-buchou!"
"Sona-sama!"
"There was a massive explosion at Finn-sama's estate!" they reported in unison.
"...." Rias and Sona froze.
In the next moment, neither heiress hesitated. They abandoned all protocol and moved as fast as possible, desperately trying to reach Finn's location.
I promised him that everything would be safe here!
Both Sona and Rias fiercely cursed the rogue exorcists and whatever idiot faction had brought this level of trouble to their city. They had sworn to protect him, and now his private estate was a warzone!
"Tsubaki, mobilize the entire peerage!"
"Koneko, we are moving out immediately!"
"Yes, Sona-sama!"
"Yes, Buchou!"
Meanwhile, back at the epicenter of the destruction, Akeno, Asia, Irina, and Xenovia stood completely frozen in a daze inside Finn's protective barrier.
Just seconds ago, as Finn aggressively ordered them to pull close, Irina and Xenovia genuinely believed the terrifying Devil had grown impatient and was about to ravish all of them at once. They had fully braced themselves to be violently claimed, deeply corrupted, and turned into mindless, pleasure-addicted women straight out of a perverted hentai manga.
Instead... he had thrown up an Ultimate-Class barrier and protected their lives from a devastating orbital strike.
"So... we aren't going to have a massive orgy?" Irina asked, covering her heavily flushed face with her hands, sounding strangely disappointed.
Smack!
"...Is this genuinely the time to bring that up?!" Xenovia hissed, slapping the back of her idiotic friend's head.
Yet, Xenovia couldn't entirely blame her. They were trapped in a foreign country, completely cut off from the Vatican's supervision, and entirely at the mercy of a devastatingly handsome, overwhelmingly dominant Devil. The psychological leap toward surrendering to lust was a natural defense mechanism.
But seeing Finn stand fearlessly in front of them, casually protecting them with his broad back before absolutely obliterating the enemy who attacked them... that heroic, terrifying image was permanently etched into their minds.
"Finn-sama! Are you okay?!"
Asia was the first to react. She closed her eyes, activating her Sacred Gear, Twilight Healing. A warm, gentle green light immediately enveloped Finn, soothing his muscles and completely washing away the minor fatigue of his explosive punch.
"Thank you, Asia," Akeno said, her initial panic rapidly cooling into absolute, unadulterated fury. She was grateful for Asia's healing support, but she had her own role to play.
She looked out at the crater. A massive squad of Fallen Angels and rogue exorcists had accompanied Kokabiel, and they were currently being slaughtered. Jin, the shadowy hound of the Canis Lycaon, had seamlessly melted into the darkness. It was ruthlessly tearing out throats and dragging screaming enemies into the shadows like the perfect, untraceable assassin.
But it wasn't enough.
They had destroyed the precious home where she had made her most beautiful memories with her mother and her beloved master.
Akeno didn't hold back a single fraction of her power. Her massive, terrifying Demonic Energy erupted into the atmosphere. The sky above Kuoh Town instantly turned pitch-black. Thick, violently swirling storm clouds blanketed the hill, and the deafening rumble of thunder caused the very air to violently vibrate.
"Ah..."
The surviving enemies looked up at the sky in absolute, helpless terror.
CRACK!
Dozens of blinding lightning bolts rained down from the heavens, bombarding the hill with pinpoint precision.
"NOOOOOO!!!"
"RUN! RUN! RUN!"
"WHAT IS THIS?! HOW CAN A DEVIL WIELD THE POWER OF HOLY THUNDER?!"
The Fallen Angels who followed Kokabiel were intimately familiar with the element of lightning, but facing the sheer, overwhelming density of Akeno's wrath left them completely helpless. As the lightning struck, there was absolutely no escape. Enemies were instantly incinerated into ash or violently electrocuted to death. A few high-ranking mages desperately threw up magical barriers, but beneath the catastrophic rampage of Akeno's holy lightning, their shields shattered like cheap glass.
Unlike Finn—who actively held back his physical strikes to avoid accidentally shifting the local tectonic plates and sinking the city—Akeno had absolutely no need to suppress her magic. Her control was flawless, and her rage was absolute.
"Do not ever think you are leaving this place alive."
Her voice was soft and eerily low, but her violet eyes burned with a cruel, freezing sadism that sent absolute terror through the surviving grunts.
"Is she a Fallen Angel... or a Devil?!" one of the rogues screamed.
Akeno slowly levitated into the stormy sky, her body violently crackling with golden, white lightning.
From her back, ten massive wings proudly unfurled. Yet the wings were a terrifying, hybrid anomaly. Two of them were the leathery, bat-like wings of a pure Devil, while the other eight were the pitch-black, feathered wings of a high-ranking Fallen Angel Cadre.
This unholy combination marked her as a supreme, terrifying anomaly. Her eyes blazed with electricity as the entire city of Kuoh was swallowed by her torrential storm.
A few miles away, rushing toward the mountain, the Gremory and Sitri peerages stared up at the sky in absolute horror.
"W-What the hell is that, Buchou?!" Issei stammered, pointing at the apocalyptic storm clouds.
"The Priestess of Thunder..." Rias and Sona both gulped, quietly muttering the fearsome title as they witnessed the true, unrestrained power of Finn's Queen. Akeno Himejima was single-handedly bringing a natural calamity down upon their territory.
"Wrath of the Ruinous Thunder Beast!"
The deafening roar of the lightning echoed like the wrath of an ancient demon. The heavy clouds showered the earth with dozens of massive, pillar-like lightning strikes, setting the forest ablaze and instantly executing anyone who didn't know their place.
"I am so glad I didn't provoke her earlier," Irina muttered, trembling as she hugged her katana tightly.
"You are absolutely right," Xenovia nodded nervously, wiping sweat from her brow.
Down in the massive crater, Kokabiel was broken, heavily bleeding, and completely pinned beneath Finn's boot. He looked up at the sky in sheer terror.
"BARAQIEL'S DAUGHTER! HELP ME!" Kokabiel screamed desperately. "HE IS GOING TO KILL ME! LET'S WORK TOGETHER TO FIGHT HIM! HE IS A DEVIL! WE CAN KILL HIM TOGETHER—!"
BLITZ!
A massive pillar of holy lightning struck Kokabiel directly in the chest. His entire body violently convulsed, the flesh charring instantly as he let out a blood-curdling shriek of agony.
"ARRRGGGGGGHHHHH! IT BURNS! IT HURTS! STOP! STOOOOOP!"
"Fufufufu..." Akeno giggled darkly, looking down at the legendary Cadre with a deeply sadistic smile. "Scream louder, Kokabiel. I want you to feel this agonizing pain for all eternity while you violently regret every word you just said."
"Akeno," Finn called out evenly.
"Yes, Finn-sama~?"
The terrifying, sadistic tyrant instantly vanished. Akeno turned her head toward him, her expression shifting back to that of a sweet, deeply docile, loving housewife.
"Be a little more careful with your aim," Finn sighed, lightly dusting off his suit. "I'm the one currently standing on his chest. You almost electrocuted me."
"Ah! I am so sorry, Finn-sama~!" Akeno giggled apologetically.
"........" Xenovia, Irina, and Asia stared at them in complete, baffled silence.
Yet, just as they assumed the chaotic battle was officially over, a mechanical, echoing voice violently shattered the sky above them.
DIVIDE!
The massive, apocalyptic lightning cloud covering the city instantly shrank to exactly half its size.
DIVIDE! DIVIDE! DIVIDE! DIVIDE! DIVIDE!
As the mechanical voice rapidly echoed, the terrifying thunder and the heavy, black storm clouds completely vanished from the sky, erased as if they had never existed.
"Akeno, come down here," Finn ordered calmly, his golden eyes narrowing.
"Yes." Akeno quickly descended, landing gracefully by Finn's side, her violet eyes glaring up at the entity who had casually erased her masterpiece.
Floating high in the now-clear night sky was a man completely clad in sleek, blindingly bright silver dragon armor. Heavy, glowing blue wings of light sprouted from his back. He stared down at the ruined estate with a piercing, cold, absolute gaze.
"You have done enough," Vali Lucifer's voice echoed through the White Dragon Emperor's armor. "Hand that guy to me."
"......" The entire battlefield fell dead silent.