Two worlds, one shield

Chapter 23: Cardinal Heroes vs Three Heroes Church: Part 3

Garfiel felt a pain in his chest as he was preparing to land a hit to break the Priest's shield, though before he had reached the shield, he had been hit by an attack.

This was something he should've sensed and yet he made the fatal mistake of being hyper focused on taking on the priest.

As he was falling towards the ground, he had lost all of his strength while his mind was beginning to blank out.

'What th'fuck...happened?'

Garfiel tried to use his remaining strength to turn to see who it was that had landed the attack on him though in the attempt, his mind nearly blanked out.

'I...I...ain't dyin'...here...'

Right as he attempted to land on his feet, he felt himself being caught by someone. He wasn't sure who it was at first though by the sound of his name from this person, he was able to tell immediately that it was Filo.

"Garf!"

Garfiel had trouble feeling anything as he could only feel coldness, though he was able to slightly move his head towards his right side to see a figure that resembled Filo in her filolial form.

'Filo.'

Although things were foggy, he was able to tell that she was in distress from his injury.

'I'm sorry...'

Despite still believing that his life won't end here, he still feels completely guilty knowing that Filo and the others aren't happy with him being injured.

Right before his mind had seemingly completely blank out, he looked up at the sky and was shocked when he saw her.

"Garfiel Tinsel. Do you plan to die here?"

"..."

"Because that would be shameful, dying to such an attack. Though, seeing you here like this, makes me love you, Garfiel Tinsel."

"S-Sh...Sh-Shut up...!" Although he shouted this, the only one who seemed to have heard him was her. All she did was giggled at Garfiel's anger before saying,

"Sweet dreams."

The second she said this, Garfiel had lost consciousness. Right as that happened, Naofumi was having an internal conflict as he suddenly felt this fire preparing to burst out of him.

Seeing any of his party members get hurt, especially from that bitch, it leaves him with nothing more than the desire to kill her even more than it was before.

This was amplified when she had done this to Raphtalia during the previous wave, and now she dares to do this again with Garfiel now all the while they are dealing with the priest and his nutjob cultists.

Before he could act upon what bitch had done or do something to the priest, he felt himself in what seemed like another dimension.

"Huh?"

He was confused at first though that feeling of confusion swiftly faded away as his body felt immense pain, as if he was burning alive. While this feeling was completely overwhelming him, he heard a strong voice speak to him.

"You made the right choice, breaking me free once again."

"..."

"The anger from before, when you first unlocked this power, was amazing to see. Watching you burn everything down."

"..."

"And now, you've set me free once again to once again create the fire that was sparked out before by that boy."