Eternal Fate: All Guns Blazing

Chapter 8: Duel with Aurora and Meeting Belmont

I got a letter today. Cynthia was told to give it to me without opening it. I opened the letter. Inside the letter was an invitation to...a duel? Who would invite me to a duel, and why? After finishing reading the letter, I saw the signature. "Forever yours, 233-2, Aurora". Aurora from the hospital? Why would she want to fight me? I thought that the letter was some kind of joke, but, I still decided to come to the duel. I put on my templar's armor, took my cleaver, and went to the location of the duel. At the location of the duel, I saw Aurora. She wasn't prepared for seeing me in armor and said: "Are you...an impostor...? Take off your helmet to prove that it's you." I removed my helmet, and this is when she struck me in the head, knocking me down. She then said: "Haha, tricked you! Stalkers, to battle!" A legion of Stalkers ran towards me. I got up, removed my heavy armor, and transformed into my Archaic Diamond form. I began fighting off the Stalkers with my powers. They were really easy to defeat, however, there were more and more of them coming! It felt like when I defeated one, five more would come! I understood that this was a trick. Aurora was probably making more and more of them! I ran towards her to attack her, but, she restrained me with scarlet chains that I couldn't break and took away my catalyst formation. She said: "What will you do now? Your transformation gem is gone, so is your strength." This is when the most unexpected person appeared. Satie broke my chains and sealed away Aurora's power! She tore apart the entire army of Stalkers with her magic, and saved me! She then returned the catalyst formation to me and disappeared. Avilon police arrived and arrested Aurora. I left the battlefield and went back to the Church. Cynthia said: "So, how did the duel go? Judging by the fact that you are unscathed, you defeated her." I said that I did. I decided to skip the long story about Satie and the Stalkers, and just said that I defeated Aurora without any trouble. She said: "That is great! One question: I need you to deal with some Church affairs. Are you up for it?" I said that I was. I needed to help Vergil and Sigmund register some citizens into the donation database. We at the Church have a database for the names of all the people who donated money to the Church or utilized any of its paid services, as well as the total amount of money they donated or spent on our services. We sometimes give awards to those who transfer a lot of money into our budget. As we were looking through the database, which contained quite a lot of people, we found two interesting names. Belmont Ladenstroff and Cecilia Mack. They donated a very small amount of money, probably because they were curious about what would happen if they would donate. I decided to pay a visit to these two after I finished sorting the database. Judging by the fact that one of them was a Ladenstroff, Wira must know who they are. Coincidentally, when I exited the Church, I saw Wira. She said: "Oh, hello, Crystalia. Nice to see you here." I asked her about Belmont. She said: "Belmont is a cousin of mine. I know him well." I asked her about Cecilia Mack, because she probably knew something about her. She said: "Cecilia is a very distant relative of mine. Our family tree is really confusing. Cecilia's father is the nephew once removed of my great-grandmother's cousin's son. I think that's how it goes. It's so confusing. I'm not sure if that's even how it goes. Overall, she is still a Ladenstroff, which is obvious by her pink hair, however, she doesn't want to associate herself with our lineage. This is why she goes by the last name Mack, her mother's maiden name. Most of us still call her Cecilia Ladenstroff, however, outsiders usually call her Cecilia Mack. She looks way younger than she is. She is my age, however, she still looks and acts like a nine-year-old. She calls herself 'Avilon's Cutest Economist' and usually spends her time researching investments, values of different monetary units, and other things like these. She also enjoys annoying Belmont." All of a sudden, I saw an extremely attractive man together with a little girl approaching us. The little girl was starry-eyed. She was looking at something and acting as if she saw a god or something. My eyes were glued to the man's absolutely celestial beauty. The little girl said: "Hey! Why are you looking at Strawberry Shortcake like that? He is my Strawberry Shortcake, and only mine! Humph!" Belmont said, in a really charming and seductive voice: "Don't worry, Cecilia. I'll never stop being your best friend. I always get attention from ladies, so, this isn't a problem." I was trying to keep myself together. I turned red and looked away. He said: "Oh, don't worry, Church of Montreal officer. No need to be embarrassed. It's completely fine to look at me for as long as you want, hehe~" So, I just enjoyed looking at him. I admired his figure, and imagined what he would look like without his gorgeous suit...Soon, he said goodbye to me and left. Cecilia followed him. I went back inside the Church. I thought to myself: who's better, Vergil or Belmont? Or, maybe, I could have both~