A strategic retreat!

"Tch, more Devils for me to kill!" Freed laughed, before pausing as a portion of the wall he was standing near suddenly... ceased to exist, courtesy of Rias's magic.

"You won't be forgiven for harming a member of my Peerage," Rias noted coldly. "Didn't your chapter of the Church inform you not to come after Devils?"

"Oh, them? The cowards that agreed to the truce? Yeah, I ditched them long ago!" Freed replied, trying to hide his nervousness from Rias's display of power. And also conveniently forgetting that he was exocommunicated, and thus, leaving was not his choice.

"I see. So you're just scum who didn't want to follow the rules then?" Rias replied. "Even Devils have laws."

"...sheesh, you think you have some sort of moral high ground? You're Devils, you're evil, you need to die, why don't shitty people grasp something so simple?" Freed sighed in exhasperation. "You've even got my underling nun defending one of you..."

The Peerage took battle ready stances to fight, before Akeno paused, and looked out the hole Rias had made. "President! Multiple Fallen Angels are coming this way! If we stay, we'll be at a disadvantage!"

"Right, we need to fall back!" Rias agreed, prepping the symbol to teleport them all back.

"Heh, a whole batallion is coming!" Freed laughed, also looking out the hole, and grabbed Asia's wrist, ignoring his protests as he moved to rendevous with what were apparently his reninforcements.

"Like hell!" Issei suddenly shouted, lunging forward and punching Freed in the face with his Sacred Gear and catching him off guard, sending him toppling through the hole, dazed from the hit. "Come on, who knows what they'll do to you if you stay after getting in his way when he attempted to kill me!" Issei told Asia, extending a hand.

She hesitated momentarily, before taking it, and they moved towards the circle.