Crystal Palace from Infinite Anime

"Yes, my lord." Kiryu Samadou felt as if he had been pardoned, and then quickly left the basement, with the sole intention of catching Ingrid for Lin Zhiyu.

At the same time, his hatred for Ingrid intensified, because he realized that Lin Zhiyu had found him today in order to catch Ingrid through him. In other words, if it weren't for Ingrid, he wouldn't have suffered this sudden disaster!

"Bitch, if I have the chance, I will tear you into pieces with my own hands!" Kiryu Samadou thought viciously.

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A week flies by.

That night, it was held in an old church in the outer ring area of ​​Tokyo, the Magic City.

"Squeak~"

The tall wooden door was pushed open.

"Tick, tick, tick, tick..."

The sound of high heels stepping on the ground echoed in the empty church.

A black suit that can't cover the chest and the buttons are stretched out, a suit skirt that barely covers the hips, and dark red high heels on a pair of slender legs with skin exposed to the air - other than that, there is no other clothing, no underwear, no bra, and most of the big breasts are exposed between the stretched suit jacket, and the half pink blush multiplied by two seems to be ready to be completely revealed from the lapels at any time.

The black-skinned female knight with long pink hair down to her waist walked into the church in such a sexy office lady look.

However, the person waiting for her here was not Kiryu Samato whom she was looking for.

At this moment, in the church, only a long-haired woman wrapped in a black tights was sitting in the front row of seats.

Frowning as she stared at the back of the long-haired woman in the front row, Ingrid sensed a hint of danger.

In recent days, Kiryu has been up to a lot of small things and has become even more surly than before.

Under Black's orders, Ingrid is specifically here to supervise Kiryu Samato.

According to the information reported by Kiryu Samato to the organization, he should be hiding in this old church and conducting some inhumane biological experiments!

"Oh~ It's so late, the distinguished guest has finally arrived."

Suddenly, the woman sitting in the front row of the church spoke, stood up, and turned to face Ingrid.

The woman was wearing glasses and had a signature beauty mole on the lower corner of her lips. She had a charming smile on her face when she spoke. Wasn't she a certain Bayonetta?

"Who are you? Where is Kiryu!?"

Ingrid didn't know what Bayonetta was. At this moment, she stared at Bayonetta with cold eyes, and she almost drew her sword and pointed it at Bayonetta.

"I'm sorry, the person you're looking for is not here, but I did promise someone to wait for you here." Bayonetta replied to Ingrid with a smile, then raised her right hand, stretched it behind her back, and pulled out a katana with a dark purple blade from her long, thick black hair!

"I see. It seems Kiryu is indeed harboring evil intentions. He even dared to hire someone to deal with me..."

"Haha~ You're overthinking it. That guy named Kiryu can't even hire a Shadow Witch. I'm waiting for you here because someone wants to take this opportunity to see my strength, and also yours."

Having said that, without waiting for Ingrid to say anything else, Bayonetta suddenly produced a pistol in her other hand, aimed at Ingrid at the speed of light and pulled the trigger.

"boom!"

The moment the gun went off, a miniature magic circle was generated at the muzzle of the gun, and the special bullets gushed out of the barrel, after being enhanced by the magic circle, shot towards Ingrid, who was still dressed in an OL outfit and was unarmed.

"call out!"

Ingrid seemed to teleport, changing her position in an instant and dodging the bullet.

When Bayonetta looked at the "Demon Knight" again, he had changed from a vacuum OL suit to a combat suit. However, this suit wasn't tight at all, revealing his lower abdomen and thighs. It was the typical "the less you wear, the higher your defense" suit.

"Humph, do you think a surprise attack would work?"

Ingrid, who had changed her clothes and entered combat mode, held a long sword that was golden in color except for the silver-gray hilt, and sneered at Bayonetta.

Bayonetta blew away the smoke from the muzzle of the pistol in her left hand, then put the pistol away and said to Ingrid with a smile:

"That gun was just to urge you to change your clothes and show your weapon. It seems to be very useful~"

Ingrid: (╬￣俣)

"Hmph! Since you're so determined to die, I'll let you see what purgatory is!" Ingrid was really angry because of Bayonetta's sharp tongue, and immediately took the initiative to attack Bayonetta with a sword.

"Whoosh!"

In an instant, with a whistling sound, Ingrid appeared in front of Bayonetta and slashed with her sword.

"clang!"

Bayonetta swung the dark purple katana in her hand, deflecting the incoming sword.

Ingrid's figure flashed and appeared behind Bayonetta in an instant, but before she could draw her sword to stab Bayonetta's back, Bayonetta had already done a backflip on the spot and was about to kick Ingrid's head with both feet.

"Whoosh!"

Ingrid immediately took another quick step and successfully dodged Bayonetta's counterattack.

But Bayonetta was also very fast. She immediately caught up with Ingrid and slashed at her diagonally with her sword.

"clang!"

This time it was Ingrid who raised her sword to block Bayonetta's attack.

The two figures then flashed back and forth in the church, making a series of clanging sounds of metal clashing.

After thirty moves, the two men temporarily distanced themselves and confronted each other.

Ingrid said calmly, without panting or beating her heart:

"Swift and fierce, superb swordsmanship! It's a style I've never seen before."

Bayonetta smiled and said:

"If you can survive this battle, then remember, this is the Busujima-ryu swordsmanship."

Busujima-style swordsmanship?

Ingrid frowned and thought for a moment. She didn't recall any powerful swordsmanship school called Dokushima-ryu, and she couldn't remember any powerful swordsman in the demon world or the human world with the last name Dokushima.

"Anyway, you should be the one worrying about whether you can survive this battle," Ingrid said to Bayonetta unwillingly.

Then she raised her left hand and stroked the golden blade of the sword in her hand. The golden sword suddenly became dim and covered with a layer of black and purple flames.

Bayonetta couldn't help but blink at the sight, the smile on her face growing even wider for a moment.

"Ahh~ Look what this is? Flame?"

"Haha, I never thought that my opponent today would also be someone who likes to play with fire~"

"And it's an unusual flame color, really interesting~"

The black and purple flame displayed by Ingrid is an "evil flame" that devours all life. Once it attaches to a living organism, it is like a maggot on the tarsal bone and will not dissipate until it devours all life.

This is Ingrid's symbolic ability as a "Demon Knight," a flame that terrifies countless demon villains.

As the evil flames appeared, the temperature in the church not only did not rise, but even became much colder.

But Bayonetta was not afraid of this at all, and even made comments while talking and laughing.

Feeling looked down upon, Ingrid burst into full speed instantly. Black and purple sparks were stirred up when she stepped on the ground. She crossed a distance of more than ten meters in just one step as if she had shrunk the distance into an inch and arrived in front of Bayonetta.

"Shh!"

Ingrid drew her sword and stabbed Bayonetta, who twisted her body to easily avoid it. However, the evil flame covering the sword in Ingrid's hand emitted a chilling chill, which made Bayonetta's body stiffen and her subsequent movements were half a beat slower.

The sword missed, and at close range, Ingrid raised her free left hand and struck Bayonetta again.

Realizing that she couldn't underestimate her enemy, Bayonetta immediately burst out with all her strength and kicked off into the air.

Ingrid's palm strike also missed, and a black and purple energy ball flew out slowly from her palm, and its size expanded to more than one and a half meters in diameter in an instant.

It can be imagined that if her palm had hit Bayonetta just now, even if it was blocked by Bayonetta's sword, the "Black Flame" that was released from her palm would definitely devour Bayonetta!

But because Bayonetta dodged the attack by jumping into the air, the "Black Flame" which could not be controlled again after being released became meaningless - unless Bayonetta herself collided with the slow-flying black energy ball wrapped in evil flames.

"It's more difficult than I thought!" Ingrid was a little impatient after dodging the continuous attacks.

At this moment, she looked up and was surprised to find that Bayonetta, who had jumped up, had completely stopped in the air, contrary to common sense.

And in a strange posture.

A man is bending in the air, raising his right arm high, holding a sword around his neck in a strange posture as if he is ready to strike at any time!

Logically, with Bayonetta hovering motionless in the air, Ingrid should have seized the opportunity to kill her with one strike. However, Ingrid, experienced in combat and possessing keen intuition, felt an inexplicable chill, a palpitation of impending death.

The next second, Ingrid's intuition was proven to be correct.

Bayonetta suddenly swooped down from the air towards Ingrid, the katana in her hand dancing at a speed completely invisible to the naked eye.

Swish, swish, swish!

In an instant, sword lights flashed by.

"Whoosh!"

Ingrid's eyes widened, and she appeared about ten feet away from Bayonetta with lingering fear. The dark red cloak on her back fell to the ground, and there were several obvious cuts on the cloak.

As the cloak fell to the ground, a lock of her pink hair also fell to the ground.

"This is the dance of water birds!"

Bayonetta smiled at Ingrid, then rushed towards her again.

"It's not over yet, but you can't take this move head-on!" Ingrid made the right judgment and immediately retreated at full speed.

Swish, swish, swish!

Another flash of sword light appeared, and the rows of seats in the church were cut into pieces by the sword energy.

Ingrid retreated to the open gate. Any further would mean escaping, but this seemed contrary to the honor she sought as a knight.

next second.

When the third stage of Water Bird Dance arrived, Bayonetta burst out with a sprint speed that was at least 30% faster than the previous two stages of Water Bird Dance, and her figure appeared behind Ingrid in a flash!

Immediately afterwards——

Swish, swish, swish, swish!

Another flash of sword light appeared.

As the sword flashed,

Clang, clang, clang!

The sound of weapons clashing could be heard.

At last,

"Bayonetta" and "Demon Knight" are back to back.

The former lowered his body and held the knife in an upward position, his chest rising and falling slightly, and he was panting.

The latter held the sword with both hands, his arms trembling slightly. There were seven or eight not very deep wounds on his body. His already cool combat uniform was torn, one breast was completely exposed, and his underwear was cut off and fell to the ground.

"Oh~ I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to expose your clothes, but who told you to wear so little? If you had worn something thicker, you wouldn't be so exposed now."

Bayonetta turned around and found that Ingrid was naked, so she smiled and teased Ingrid.

Ingrid really wanted to tear Bayonetta's mouth off. She hated this woman who always spoke frivolously and had a mocking smile on her face!

"Hoo~!"

Evil flames burned on the sword.

Ingrid, covered in wounds, turned to face Bayonetta, pointed her sword at her, and said solemnly:

"If this is all you can do, then be prepared to die!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Ingrid was ready to use her "secret technique" to let Bayonetta experience the perfect combination of swordsmanship and evil flames on the verge of death.

Bayonetta also felt the danger at this time, and the smile on her face disappeared.

This "Demon Knight" Ingrid was able to survive the "Water Bird Dance" and was far from being seriously injured and losing the ability to move. This alone shows how powerful Ingrid is!

And now, Ingrid is obviously going to use her killer move!

However, just as this thought came to her mind and before she could put it into practice, Ingrid suddenly found that her body was rapidly becoming weak!

"Clang!"

The long sword wrapped in evil flames fell to the ground.

Ingrid's limbs went limp, and she fell to her knees with a thud, barely able to support herself with her hands.

Then she was shocked to find that from every wound on her body, traces of blood were flowing out and being sucked away by some force!