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Oh?" replied Rias with raised eyebrows. "Have you found anything?"
The knight frowned as he pushed the open book towards her, "I had a hunch that I wanted to follow up on and I think I found something, Buchou was there anything about Akashi that stood out to you?"
"The bloodlust. I've never felt anything like it before, even from other Demonic weapons," replied the Devil with a frown.
Kiba nodded and gestured to the book in front of his King, "exactly, no normal Demonic weapon would ever emit that much bloodlust. So I looked up famous Demonic spears that had a reputation for their bloodlust and I found something."
"Gae Bolg?" replied Rias with a shake of her head as she put the book down. "Kiba while I applaud your efforts to find answers about Akashi, I think you might be seeing connections that aren't really there."
"Buchou just hear me out," argued the knight. "Gae Bolg is described as a red Demonic spear that practically oozes bloodlust, Akashi matches this description exactly."
"It also is one of the most well-guarded artifacts of the Celtic Pantheon, trust me Kiba if it had been stolen we would have heard about it by now. In fact if Issei did have Gae Bolg don't you think the Celts would have already come here to reclaim it?" replied the red haired Devil.
Kiba frowned and his eyebrows furled in concentration as he considered these points, only to sigh as he couldn't fault the logic behind the arguments. 'Still why do I keep feeling like we're missing something important,' he thought as his frown deepened.
"Buchou did you have any luck finding out about any Sacred Gears that use cards," asked the knight, curiously.
Rias just shook her head, "we found a couple but none of them match what Issei showed us, if anything it seems more like your Sword Birth then any of them."
Kiba just froze before a smile spread across his face, "Buchou that's it! Issei's Sacred Gear must create copies of legendary weapons!"
The red headed Devil frowned, "Kiba putting aside the fact that if a Sacred Gear like that existed then we would have heard of it, this Sacred Gear would have had to of seen the originals in order to copy them."
The knight nodded eagerly, "I know Buchou that must be why he can only use one of the cards. He can only create the copy of Gae Bolg right now."
Rias sighed as she sat down in her seat, "so you think that Issei, an ordinary human, managed to see one of the most well-guarded weapons of the most reclusive of all the Pantheons?"
"Perhaps he did it unknowingly? Maybe he saw it by chance while visiting Ireland? Remember how the Church often takes Holy Swords around the world to find Holy Sword wielders, this situation could be similar," replied Kiba, causing a thoughtful look to cross Rias' face.
Seeing this the knight continued, "it would explain why we never heard of this Sacred Gear before, none of its other wielders ever encountered a legendary weapon so the Sacred Gear never activated."
The red headed Devil was silent for a couple of minutes before she shook her head again with a frown, "Kiba, while your theory makes a scary amount of sense there is one problem with it."
"What's that Buchou?" asked the blonde knight.
Rias' frown deepened as she closed the book in front of her and handed it back to the knight, "you're underestimating just how isolationist the Celts are. There is no way they'd ever take Gae Bolg out of the Otherworld, the God Lugh would never allow it."
"Therefore the only way for Issei to have seen it, was if he somehow entered the Otherworld and befriended one of their deities. Something that I assure you is downright impossible," concluded the Devil.
"But Buchou-" whatever argument that Kiba had died unspoken as both the Devil's flinched and started shivering, feeling an overwhelming amount of power and bloodlust coming from the Gym.
Without saying a word the two Devils rushed towards the building, meeting up with the rest of Rias' peerage along with Sona's on the way. As the group of Devils ran towards the Gym, they felt the power and bloodlust from the building dissipate and began to pick up the pace. Once they arrived at the entrance everyone readied themselves for combat as the doors opened, and low gasps of shock echoed from everyone present.
Scáthach grinned as she saw his shocked expression, "surprised? This is the Gae Bolg that I gave to Cu Chulainn, part of the deal I made with Lugh and Morrigan here, was to get it back in exchange for my help."
The immortal witch then frowned, "honestly when they told me what was happening I thought they were mistaken, it should be impossible for there to be two Gae Bolg's and yet here they are."
Scáthach spear's tip began glowing a bloody red light as she looked at Issei's spear with an almost pleading expression on her face, "now if there are two Gae Bolg's, does that mean that one is stronger than the other? Could yours be able to do…what mine could not?"
Without waiting for a response Scáthach attacked with a slow jab, expecting the human to once again fail to react in time, only to be surprised as she heard the two red spears give a resounding clang as they met. The immortal witch's eyes widened slightly as Issei used his Gae Bolg to block her strike before deflecting it away from him, creating an opening in her guard as he slammed the blunt end of the spear into her stomach.
[BOOST!]
Scáthach was stunned, not from the pain of the blow, which she barely felt, but from the surprise of the unexpected attack itself. 'His skills have increased dramatically,' she noted, analytically eyeing his form as she backed up.
Compared to the start of the spar where he was barely passing as an amateur spearman, these new strikes were precise and masterful, but most of all they were familiar. 'So that card somehow imprints Cu Chulainn's fighting style into him,' she mused as the witch lazily dodged a jab at her chest.
However, it was clear that while the boy may have the knowledge he still didn't have the experience, speed or strength to go with it, causing little mistakes to occur. Overextending in his swing every now and then or stumbling when his attacks were unexpectedly blocked by her Gae Bolg.
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