"Since I'm not a fan of Devils, I might as well take care of you first!"
Koneko gasps quietly at his declaration. She tried everything she could to move her body and move out of the way, but the light she felt from the explosion was still preventing her from recovering.
The white-haired first year sets her eyes back on Dohnaseek, who aimed his spear at her stomach. There was nothing left she could do now. All she could do now was watch and wait as her inevitable doom begins. Not wanting to watch, she closes her eyes tightly, disappointment rushing through her at how weak the light from his explosive spear made her.
'Buchou… Forgive me… I was too weak…'
STAB!
Koneko winces as she felt someone lift her off of the ground. The sound of blood splatting on the ground could be heard right after this person picked her up. She stayed like this for five more seconds before she slowly opened her eyes.
Once they were fully opened, Koneko was in horror at what she saw. Instead of Koneko getting hit, she found Ginjo carrying her in his arms with a deep cut in his right side caused by Dohnaseek's spear.
Ginjo then places her on the ground gently and falls on his hands and knees, coughing up blood after some more spurted from his wounded right side.
Koneko then slowly turned her head and saw a bloodstained spear of light penetrated on the ground. Ginjo has taken the hit for her instead of her meeting her demise.
"GINJO-KUN!"
"LITTLE BRO!"
Koneko and Issei call out to Ginjo when they saw him take a fatal blow from the spear. As for Raynare…
'Oooooh shit… Reyna-nee-san's gonna be pissed…'
Raynare watched on with the same aghast expressions as Koneko and Issei, with Issei being the most horrified of them all. He then tightens his fists, feeling the anger that came up next after witnessing a psychopathic man with black feathered wings hurt his little brother. And if there's anything that Issei hates the most, it's people bullying, threatening, and hurting his little brother.
Koneko ran towards Ginjo and immediately presses her hands on his wound so no more blood can leak from it. To make this work, she used part of his shirt as a cloth to prevent more blood from spilling.
"Heh heh… Well shit…" Ginjo coughed out. "I guess I wasn't fast enough to save both of our skins…"
"Why Ginjo-kun?! Why did you do that?!" Koneko questions him with anger and sadness in both her face and her voice, something that Ginjo never saw when the two hung out together.
"Because you're my friend, Koneko-san," Ginjo explains, earning a slight gasp from Koneko. "You weren't able to move because of that explosion." Ginjo coughs up more blood before continuing. "Besides… it's not fair to just sit there and watch you die like that… That's just too cruel of me to do that…"
Koneko's eyes widen and start to tear up when she heard those words. She then saw that a pool of blood was forming next to Ginjo from the wound.
"No… NO! I won't allow you to die here!"
Dohnaseek watches on with a raised eyebrow as he watched Koneko continue to press her hand onto Ginjo's wound while holding one of his hands with her other hand.
"Huh… I was hoping to kill that Devil so she wouldn't get in my way… Oh well, as long as one of my targets is down, it'll do for now."
"YOU MOTHERFUCKER!"
Raynare gasps when she saw Issei charge at Dohnaseek with all of his rage aiming for him.
"no, don't!"
Dohnaseek saw Issei charge at him and rolled his eyes as he aimed his next spear at him. He threw his spear at him and has successfully stabbed him in the stomach with it.
Issei fell over as the spear disappeared. Blood spurted from both his stomach and his mouth as he collapsed on the ground. As he did, a flier with a red crest on it has flew out of his pocket and fluttered onto the ground next to him.
"ISSEI-KUN!"
Ginjo watched with heavy eyes, able to hear Raynare scream out his name and see her run to his side.
As for Ginjo himself, he felt livid for Dohnaseek stabbing his brother but wasn't able to show it due to him losing a lot of blood, no matter how tight Koneko pressed onto his wound to stop the blood leaking out.
Raynare and Koneko then heard Dohnaseek laugh at their misfortune, making the two shoot their heads up at him and glare at him with all of their hate.
"You know, for Kokabiel-sama's sake, I should kill you too for trying to protect these guys," Dohnaseek says to Raynare. "But seeing the pain in your face caused by his death, I think making you suffer will be a better punishment for you."