Chapter 70 - Leaving Vatican

After Tatsuya was done scolding Gabriel, thought it still didn't had any affect on her, Michael and Gabriel left leaving Tatsuya alone with Asia.

Both of them stood there for a while and Tatsuya looked at Asia and said, "Well, should we get going as well?"

Asia who heard him nodded her head in silence.

Seeing her like that Tatsuya came closer to her and flicked her forehead lightly making her hold her forehead in a bit of pain.

She then looked at Tatsuya who was looking at her with a neutral expression. Tatsuya then took a step forward and said, "You should not be sad that Gabriel will not be able to meet with you for a while, instead you should think about what all you will do once you meet her again soon. She is still your friend and will remain one, unless both of you have some dispute." Tatsuya then smiled and patted her head.

Asia who was sad just a moment before wiped her eyes and smiled and said, "Yes, I will wait to meet her again."

Tatsuya then moved his hand back and then both of then started going back to the church.

After reaching back to the church Tatsuya looked at Asia and said, "Looks like we part our ways here." He then smiled and said, "I will come in the morning to visit you before going back."

Asia who now remembered that Tatsuya would also be going back to Japan was sad once again but didn't got depressed like earlier. She then smiled and said, "Umu, see you tomorrow then. And surely promise me to come here tomorrow."

Tatsuya who saw her smile smiled as well and said, "Yeah, yeah, I promise you that I will surely come." and turned around and started walking away.

Soon Tatsuya came back to his room in the hotel and decided to take a bath to get refreshed. And after taking his bath he lied on the bed inorder to sleep.

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Few hours later Tatsuya suddenly got up and was still a little sleepy. He hurriedly went to the bathroom and splashed water on his face so as to reduce his sleepiness.

Tatsuya then wiped his face and thought, 'Those devils are starting to act a bit suspicious, well let's confront them before they are able to lay a hand on Asia.

He then changed his clothes and then put a mask on his face inorder to hide his identity. He then hid his presence altogether and turned invisible and started to fly towards the devils.

Soon he came across some devils fighting against some church exorcists.

Tatsuya saw the battle between the two parties and it was clear that the devils were on the winning side. Tatsuya then noticed a young man fighting on the devil's side.

The young devil had dark green hair and golden eyes and from his appearance Tatsuya concluded that he was the one who is called Diodora Astaroth.

Tatsuya observed them for a while and was waiting for him to make a move towards Asia but even after waiting for an hour Diodora didn't do anything other than fighting.

After a while when all the exorcists were killed all the devils gave a sighed and then sat down on the ground.

One of them looked towards Diodora and said, "Boss, do you really think that it is really worth it for just one single nun."

When Tatsuya heard this his ears perked up and he started listening to them intently.

Diodora looked towards the devil and said, "Of course it is worth for that nun, she has a healing type sacred gear as well and just because of that she is very famous among the masses. Now just think about it, the look which she would have once she is betrayed by the ones who revered her as a saint. AHH I can't wait to see that look for myself. And once she has gone through all that she I who was 'responsible' for all the suffering she went through by healing me would take her in my peerage and she will not even hesitate because she doesn't have anyone to rely on."

Tatsuya was getting angrier and angrier on hearing his plan. He just wanted to kill him on the spot, but didn't do so because technically he was still 'innocent' and hasn't harmed her yet.

Another devil then looked towards Diodora and said, "Then why did you send one of the devils disguised as yourself to her location instead of going yourself."

Tatsuya who heard this became shocked and then used his clairvoyance to check Asia's location and indeed saw an injured devil lying in front of the church. He then didn't waited for them to talk anymore and immediately used his telepathy to hear their thoughts.

After hearing all their thoughts Tatsuya gritted his teeth in rage and then made a huge energy blast and fired it towards the devils.

He didn't even waited to see the results after the explosion and immediately teleported in an empty location near the church and started running towards Asia's location.

What Tatsuya learned from hearing their thoughts was that instead of actually going near Asia, Diodora disguised a hypnotized devil like him and then sent him their after injuring him and dicided to make a similar scar on himself after he was healed and then dispose that devil. He did this because there was a chance of an exorcist killing him in an injured state even before Asia can heal him.

Tatsuya soon reached her and saw her still healing the devil. Tatsuya frowned and immediately ran towards her, grabbed her hand and separated her from the devil.

Asia who saw someone stopping her from healing the devil was surprised and started to struggle inorder to free herself.

Tatsuya who saw her struggle held her more tightly and said, "Asia stop, this is me, Tatsuya."

When Asia heard his voice she got surprised and stopped struggling. She then looked at Tatsuya and said, "What are you doing here Tatsuya-san."

Tatsuya then let her go as she had calmed down and said, "I can not tell you right now, We will talk about this later."

He then looked at the position where Asia was healing the devil and saw that the devil had already gone. Tatsuya was angry on seeing that and now knew what was going to happen there soon.

And just like his expectations some of the nuns and priests gathered around him and Asia and started calling her witch and heretic because she healed a devil.

Tatsuya who saw how soon they started accusing someone who they were calling Saint not too long ago was very angry with them. He would have even destroyed the church in front of him if Asia was not with her right now.

Asia who was now seeing the others accusing her for healing a devil and calling her witch and heretic was crying on seeing the people that she trusted treating her like that. She then saw some of the people among the crowd throw rocks at her. She shut her eyes and was shaking on fear and expecting to get hurt.

She continued to wait for the rock to hit her but she didn't felt any pain at all. She then opened her eyes and saw someone standing in front of her and shielding her from the rocks. She looked at the person's back and unconsciously muttered, "Tatsuya-san".

Tatsuya who heard her turned around and lifted his mask a bit which revealed a small yet comforting smile to her. He then put his mask back and then used a magic on the people gathered around them and made them all unconscious.

After checking all of them were unconscious Tatsuya looked at Asia and removed his mask and said, "I know that you have many questions and that you must be feeling very bad but let's get out of here first."

Asia who was still shivering with fear nodded her head and tried to stand up but was unable to.

Seeing that Tatsuya crouched down and then lifted her in a princess carry and started flying away after turning himself and Asia invisible.

Asia hugged him tightly and was still crying because of what happened to her just now and seeing that Tatsuya started to console her.

Tatsuya was fuming with rage and was blaming himself for not checking on her before instead of waiting for Diodora. He was then brought out of his inner turmoil when he heard Asia's hand on he cheek.

Asia who have been crying for a while looked at Tatsuya and felt that he was very sad and angry and placed her hand on his cheeks inorder to gain his attention.

Tatsuya looked at her and then increased his speed and soon he reached an empty park. He then landed there and both of them then sat on the bench.

Asia then looked at Tatsuya who looked at her as well and both of them asked at the same time, "Are you alright?"

Tatsuya then nodded his head and said, "Forget about me, tell me are you alright, you are not hurt anywhere, are you?"

Asia shook her head and said, "No I am not hurt thanks to you."

Tatsuya who heard her smiled but soon his smile disappeared and he bowed his head in front of her making her surprised and said, "I am sorry Asia."

Asia who heard him waved her hands and said, "You don't have to apologize Tatsuya-san, it was not you who did all that to me." Tatsuya then shook his head and said, "No, if I had come earlier than I could have saved you from all this from happening, if only I noticed it sooner."

Asia was now confused after Tatsuya said all that.

Tatsuya who saw her confused expression started to tell her what he was talking about except for his previous life knowledge part.

Asia who now understood what all happened hugged Tatsuya and said, "It was not your fault Tatsuya-san, you tried to save me even though you didn't knew about their plan from the beginning. Don't blame yourself for something that you have not done." and started crying.

Tatsuya hugged her back and started to pat her back so as to console her.

Soon he heard a snore and then looked at Asia who was sleeping in his embrace.

Tatsuya tried to remove her from his embrace inorder to lie her down, buy Asia was hugging him tightly and was not letting him go.

Tatsuya sighed and then continued to hold her. He then used his clairvoyance to check on the devil's conditions and saw that all the devils except Diodora and the one which Asia healed were dead. But Diodora still recieved many injuries and hav lost his left hand permanently.

Diodora was wincing in pain and soon left by teleporting away by his magic circle after killing the devil whom he hypnotized before.

Tatsuya gritted his teeth in anger on not being able to kill him because Asia was with her but soon sighed in annoyance and decided to deal with him later and then fell asleep.

The next morning Asia woke up when the sun's rays fell on her eyes.

She then rubbed her eyes and tried to stand up but was unable to. She then looked at her surroundings and saw that it was not her room in the church and soon all the memories about yesterday flashed in front of her eyes making her feel sad.

Her gaze then finally fell on Tatsuya in whose embrace she was sleeping earlier.

On seeing Tatsuya's sleeping face she blushed but then soon she began to smile and then again hugged him back and said, "Thank you".

Tatsuya suddenly woke up and said, "What happened? Who is there?" making Asia surprised.

Tatsuya then looked at his surroundings and saw a panicking and blushing Asia making her understand what happened, he looked at her and said, "Good morning." to which Asia replied as well. He then stopped hugging her and then stood up and stretched his body.

He then looked at Asia and asked, "What will you be doing from now on?"

Hearing him Asia put her head down and said, "I will go back to the church to see if they are still willing to accept me or not."

Tatsuya who saw her sad expression put his hands on her shoulder and said, "I will go with you as well." to which she showed a grateful smile.

Both of them then went to the church and just like in the anime she was banished from the church because of healing a devil.

Both of them then left the church in silence. Tatsuya didn't said anything to her and let her clear her mind. Soon she stopped walking and looked down.

Tatsuya who saw her moved towards her and hugged her and said, "You can cry all you want, I won't leave you till you are fine, So just let it all out."

Asia who heard him started crying loudly while hugging Tatsuya. Tatsuya just stood there and carresed her back.

After a while Asia stopped crying and looked at Asia with red and puffy eyes. Tatsuya took out a wet towel and wiped her face making her feel embarrassed.

Asia then bowed her head and said, "Thank you Tatsuya-san."

Tatsuya shook his head and said, "It's alright but what are you planning to do with your life now?"

Asia who heard him got depressed and said, "I don't know Tatsuya-san, I have never thought of a life that I would live outside the church."

Tatsuya patted her head and said, "Then, do you want to join my team?"

Asia looked up and asked, "What team?"

Tatsuya looked at her and said, "You see I have a team of sorts because faring in the supernatural world alone is very difficult and lonely. We too have similar conditions like yours and we live together and depend on eachother. You can also make a lot of friends there as well."

Asia when heard that she could make friends was happy but then her smile faded and she asked, "But won't I be a bother, afterall I am not strong."

Tatsuya who heard her smiled and said, "Who said you would be a bother and if you were do you think I would have asked you? You have your healing powers which are greatly needed in our group who only have attacking prowess aside from me and regarding your lack of strength, you don't have to fear about that I will make a Tsunade out of you."

Asia who heard him was wondering what Tsunade is but didn't thought too much about it.

She then asked, "And what about school?"

Tatsuya looked at her and said, "Well you can go to school but like all of us you will be directly joining High school but don't worry I will teach you all the basics before that."

Asia smiled and said, "Thank you and please take care of me from now on."

Tatsuya smiled as well and then both of them went back to the hotel in which Tatsuya was staying packed their things up and later that day both of them went back to Japan.