I'll be honest. I never expected this to get this amount of follows. Thank you guys but really, I'm feeling a little complicated that my personal favorite isn't doing so well. Please visit my other stories too, mainly, my 'Thirteen Longinus' since that's really my main story. Apart from that, I present you chapter 2 of Godslayer.

Disclaimer (the last one I'll put in this story since I'm lazy): I do not own DxD or Ikusa Megami series or Madoukoukaku.

Chapter 2: Shifting Powers

-The day after the rating game-

An unrepentant pervert, that is Hyoudou Issei. He is a perverted boy who loves breast and has a dream to become a harem king. His daily activity consists of peeping on changing girls with his two friends, Matsuda and Motohama. He has his standards though and will never touch an unwilling girl. He is also someone who would be very happy to find a girl lying naked by his side, especially if said girl is very beautiful and has huge bust. He would be surprised and might even jump in joy.

In fact, he woke up today to find the familiar nude form of Rias Gremory lying beside him. But instead of feeling happy or anything, the boy sat on his bed silently contemplating. He look at his reflection is a mirror and then to Rias Gremory. He alternates between the two action for three full minutes and then bury his face in his hands.

"It really is different huh, Ddraig."

[…so that's what he meant.]

Issei nodded. Everything is clear to him now. He, Hyoudou Issei, had sacrificed his soul, his identity as Hyoudou Issei, to free Rias. No, this is an inevitability, something that will eventually come to pass. It's just faster than he would like… or is it? He cannot tell any longer.

He is no longer Hyoudou Issei. He is Celica Sylphil. But he doesn't feel like he is Celica. No, he is… he is both Hyoudou Issei and Celica Sylphil and therefore not Hyoudou Issei or Celica Sylphil. They had merged together.

[Partner, you're having an identity crisis.]

Ddraig pointed out as Issei shows a troubled look. Realizing that Ddraig is right, Issei took a deep breath and exhale. After finally coming to term with what happened, Issei realized that he is mainly Hyoudou Issei with memories, feelings, and experience of Celica Sylphil but at his core, he is Hyoudou Issei.

But that doesn't change the fact that he had been changed to the very core. And so it doesn't surprise him as much that he doesn't feel much even when he saw Rias lying naked on his bed. As Celica Sylphil, he had bedded hundreds of women, maybe even more in his long life. Some he could vaguely remember are even more beautiful than Rias as in the case of Shamhat who later became Enkidu's lover.

Hyoudou Issei is an unrepentant virgin pervert, Celica was a millennium old godslayer who had had sex with countless women yet he felt no connection even with the most beautiful woman he bedded. None save for five that he could remember with two being more prominent than the rest.

As such, even seeing the bare, seductive body of Rias Gremory only elicited a sigh from him. He had sold his bond with his master along with his perversity. The new Hyoudou Issei has no bond with Rias Gremory or anyone else, only the bond forged by Celica Sylphil… and the strongest bond Hyoudou Issei possessed that not even his rebirth could wash it away.

'Mom, dad, and Ddraig, it speaks a lot when the only ones I feel connected to are only three people… well, two people and one dragon.'

[It speaks a lot of your character, partner.]

'Shut up Ddraig. Well, guess I should go find Haishella soon. My three Apostles too. I hope they're still alive. I know I don't need to worry about Haishella, she's too strong to be destroyed even by gods.'

Issei fondly remembers his devilish companion who had always stayed by his side for centuries. If there is anyone of his companion who could survive until modern time then it would be Haishella. She was there with him when he died, sealed inside his sword. He remembered their rivalry and their deal. It would be nice to meet her once again.

[That devil friend of yours is probably lazying around waiting for you to return. As for your Apostles, they are still alive. I saw them four hundred years ago. They're still together. I don't know about now though.]

'Good. Hmm?'

[Partner?]

Issei suddenly had a thoughtful look. It seems like he forgot someone. No, it's not Astrea, he could never forget about Astrea even if he gets amnesia. No, this one is not connected to Celica but to Hyoudou Issei. He tried to remember who he's forgetting but he just can't remember. It is someone important though since he could feel a bond with this person.

'…nothing, I just felt like I forgot something. It should come back to me soon.'

Ddraig grunted in response. As Issei was about to exit his room, he turn back and lightly touch Rias' body. When he confirmed it, his expression saddens.

'There is no warmth, only cold indifference.'

Issei exited his room and prepare to go to school even though it's much too early.

[So what will you do now?]

Ddraig questioned his partner as he walks alone to Kuoh academy. Usually he would walk together with Rias and Asia but today he went early so he can fully come to term with all the changes that happened. It feels… odd. It's hard to keep being a pervert when your past life had slept with far too many females of many races and also suffered emotionally at the lost of his true love.

'…I guess first thing first is to get myself up to speed.'

[A good idea. Yesterday was only possible since your body was pushed past its limit together with extreme enhancement magic. Some of your muscles were torn after that.]

'Ahh yeah, I remember passing out immediately and my whole body was in excruciating pain. Hey, my reserve is nowhere near where it once was.'

[It seems that you have to retrain your body to reach your old level.]

'I guess so. Damn, I'm so weak now it's not even funny. Humans these days are not as strong as back then.'

[True.]

Ddraig agree with Issei. The humans of the past are much more powerful than the humans of this age, especially in the Age of Gods where supernatural thrives. Perhaps it is due to the need to survive in such an age that made people of the past stronger. Now in the Age of Men when sacred gears thrive, such great personal strength is not needed and so humans weakened.

'Evolution at its best.'

[Or at its worst depending on how you look at it.]

Issei couldn't help but agree with Ddraig. He arrived at school wondering what should he tell to his friends in the ORC. Probably he'll tell them that he sacrificed his heart and some emotions. Yeah, that's for the best. The name Celica Sylphil should never be mentioned anymore.

'Oh, I almost forgot, what about Hestia?'

[The Greek goddess of hearth and family? What of her?]

'If there is anyone I can trust then it is her. Plus she's the one who kept Librascale.'

[Ahh, the divine sword of judgement gifted to Astrea by Dike. Do you need it?]

'Well, not really. Librascale is not my weapon. I used it very few times. It just has some… sentimental values.'

[I see. So what of Hestia herself?]

'If any of my Apostle are still around, she would know where they are. I did ask her to keep a tab on them.'

[What of Haishella?]

'Her? I do not control her you know. She's not my servant. She is my only friend.'

[And Hestia?]

'Hestia is like a sister.'

-Ekria's home, England, two days later-

Ekria Femirins, one of Celica Sylphil's Apostle and a half-devil, has the appearance of a young woman with long blonde hair tied in a ponytail and the air of a tsundere. She heard the doorbell of her small apartment rang and wondered who could be visiting her. It couldn't be her co-worker in her daytime job as a language teacher or any of her student. There's no reason for them to come visiting. It can only be the other Apostles of Celica.

"What is it Roka, Lac…"

Ekria paused in her track when she didn't see the face of her fellow Apostles but instead a small loli twintail goddess that she had not seen in a long time who fortunately is not wearing what she wore seven hundred years ago and instead a proper modern day dress.

"Lady Hestia?"

"Ekria, is everyone here?"

The diminuitive goddess asked. She can only be referring to the other Apostles when she asked that. Unlike Ekria who settled down in Britain at the beginning of the 17th century, the other two went their separate ways and are always on the move with one being a supernatural world mercenary and the other being a wandering priestess although what they're doing in essence are basically the same. It's just their mannerism that differentiates their title.

"N-no. Why do you want to see everyone?"

Ekria asked. It's not everyday she gets a visit from Hestia who is looking out for them. She came visiting every two decades or half a century at least and her last visit was four years ago. If she came visiting so suddenly and asking for everyone, that means something important had happened and she needs them.

Hestia had taken care of them after Celica died in the Great War. The least they could do for her in return is to help her when she needs it. Hestia had been kind to them.

"Ekria, gather everyone here. There's an emergency situation. Librascale has become active once again."

Ekria took three seconds to process what the goddess said and her eyes widened. Librascale is active. That means…

"Lady Astrea or Lord Celica has returned?"

"Either or both. We need to find them."

Nothing more needs to be said. Ekria went to the phone to call her fellow Apostles. It is time for them to reunite once more. Whether it is under Celica once again or under Astrea does not matter… although she would prefer if it is under Celica but they had been sworn by the blood of Astrea. This time, they will not fail.

-Afterschool, a week after the rating game-

"Uhh, what?"

"We've decided that we'll do club activities in your house, Ise."

Issei is definitely surprised and caught off guard by the sudden declaration by Rias. It was a week after the rating game and everyone is obviously worried about him since even after two days, he never hung out with Matsuda and Motohama to peek on girls. He made an excuse that he sacrificed his perverseness to Ddraig which turns out that it was great enough to power a pseudo balance breaker for half an hour at his very limit.

To his relief and utter despair, the members of the ORC accepted it just like that, commenting that with Issei's level of perverseness, it is more than probable. He even internally cried manly tear. But he got over it quickly. The rest of the group is trying to do their best to console him (not that he needed it) because he seem to become more silent after that.

They thought he's a little depressed about sacrificing his perverseness, the meaning to his whole being (Issei cried here) and release the Red Dragon Emperor to ensure their victory. Kiba began to respect him very much and Koneko stopped her verbal jab since he's no longer a pervert. At least he can began fixing his image at school. But it still hit him hard to think that everyone thought of him as an unrepentant pervert who needs to be exterminated (which he will admit he was).

'I wonder what my Apostles will say if they knew about my image as Hyoudou Issei.'

[I do not know much about them but Hestia would scold you to no end.]

Issei groaned knowing Ddraig is right. His surrogate older sister when he took Astrea's place is like a true mother hen. Not surprising considering she's the goddess of hearth and family. He'll never hear the end of it from Hestia. She could barely contain herself when he slept around during his depression stage in the past. While his mind wander to the memories of the past, Issei voiced out a question to Rias.

"I don't mind but why?"

"It's about time to clean the whole old school building. Since it's the perfect time, we decided to also do club activity in your place."

"I see. Well, I have no problem with it. You guys can come to my place at any time."

He doesn't really mind and to be honest, Rias and Asia are living with him anyway so they don't need to ask. Then he realize that she's just being polite. It was times like these that he forgot that he's actually a teenage boy who's not even two decades old, not a millennium old godslayer and pseudo god.

At everyone's excited whispering, Issei smiled.

Truly they are just children compared to devils in his old life. Devils of that age are truly like how the stories portray them to be. Swindlers, liars, manipulators, destroyer, murderer, everything. Compared to those times, the things devil do these days are tame in comparison, even Rias' manipulation of events to reincarnate him.

Of course the current Issei knew about that. Rias is not exactly subtle or as smart as she would like to be. Fallen angels intruding her territory? That's a clear violation of ceasefire and she let them be for multiple days. She has the right to eliminate intruders immediately but she didn't. She used them to get to him, the Sekiryuutei. In all honesty, neither Ddraig nor he would let that go unpunished. But still he let it slide. He's tired of conflict and it's not like Rias treated him badly. He wouldn't cause problem when there's no need to cause one.

Pride be damned, as long as she doesn't start killing innocent people or manipulate those not involved in the supernatural outside of hiding the existence of the supernatural world then he'd just spend his days in peace… at least until he knew why he return at this age.

The current Issei is no fool. There should be a reason why he's reincarnated at least two millennia later and not in a few decades or centuries. A higher power is at work and it is very likely God of the Bible. After all, whatever deal Astrea made with Him seems to also involve him. At least he knew it would be something he could agree with. He trusts the Biblical God much more than the whole Olympus sans Hestia.

"And this is a picture of Ise when he was in primary."

"Ara ara. So he went into the beach naked."

"Hey Akeno-san! Mom!? What are you showing her!?"

Club activity, huh. He should've expected this to happen. In hindsight, he's still thinking of himself mostly as a godslayer who lived in the long before the first camera was invented, he couldn't have thought about this. He really need to sort out his identity soon or things like this will continue happening.

His mom is currently showing his friends his childhood photos. And as childhood photos tend to be, they are mostly embarrassing. Only his great control over his emotion prevented him from digging a hole to hide in.

"…Ise-senpai's naked past."

"Please don't look at that Koneko-chan. It's embarrassing."

"…Small Ise."

Issei could only sigh as Rias look through his photo album with a red face. This is another reason why he didn't say anything about her manipulation. The girl is just a child despite being a devil. She really possess no ill intent.

"...Ise when he was a child...Ise when he was a child...Ise when he was a child...Ise when he was a child..."

Rias is muttering something. When Issei use his enhanced hearing to listen to her, he began to sweatdrop and decided to ignore the nearly chant-like words she's uttering and erase what he had heard from his memory. Is this a sign of Rias being a shotacon? It would actually be funny if the one she's looking at is not him when he was younger.

"I think I know how Buchou-san feels!"

Asia grabbed Rias' hand. Her eyes were sparkling.

"So you also know how I feel. I'm so happy."

Issei decided to leave the two of them when they enter a world of their own and went to the other male member of the club and when he saw that his expression is rather serious, Issei wonder what picture he's looking at. He got close to him and looked at the page he was staring at. There was a picture of Issei when he was in kindergarten.

There was a picture of Issei and another boy of his age with someone who seems to be his father. Issei remember this boy. He's the boy who used to live close by when he was in kindergarten. They played 'Hero-play' a lot together. Suddenly, an image overlaps with that of the boy.

'He went to another country before moving up to first grade because of his parents' work. I haven't seen him since then. But what's that image?'

There's an image that overlaps with the boy but he didn't see it clearly. All he recall is a sword but even then he didn't see what kind of sword it was clearly.

But why did Kiba take an interest in the photo? It can't be him since the hair color is all different and he would've said something to him when they first met. Kiba then pointed at the boy's father on the photo. To be more accurate he was pointing at the thing the boy's father was carrying.

A sword.

Issei didn't visibly show any reaction but he knew the sword alright. It is a holy sword. But he's not supposed to know about supernatural back then.

"Do you remember this?"

Kiba asked Issei seriously, the tone of his voice is different.

"Ummmmmmm, no. Since I was really small back then..."

"Things like this happen, huh. To find it in an unexpected place. This is a holy sword.

Issei has a suspicion that Kiba somehow has a connection with this particular sword… or maybe holy sword in general when the tone of his voice changed from his usual polite and gentle self. But apart from that, he is also interested in that photo. If Kiba is interested in the sword, then he is interested in the boy.

'...That sounds very wrong.'

And that's it. Chapter 2 is kinda like an interlude. Now, time to begin the cannon divergence which will truly began at the end of this arc. People will call this Kokabiel arc but I personally call it the Astrea Awakening arc. So this chapter shows the result of Issei merging with Celica. Although the main soul is Issei and not Celica, he's very different now due to the experience of his past life. I hope I do him right. I also want him to stay with the ORC this once. But no matter what happen, Rias can now never ever be his number 1 girl. She can only be a harem member. Mwahahaha! Take that Rias! It always grates me how Rias got it the easiest out of all heroines in DxD and still get to be Issei's favorite. Well, it is a harem LN with so much perversity so somehow I can roll with it but if it's pulled in a more serious LN? I will drop it after the third volume. Actually, why is the annoying one almost always the main heroine? At least the likes of Stella Vermillion, Yurie Sigtuna, and Shiba Miyuki are worthy main heroines.

Well let's forget about that. So soon Celica... or Issei's Apostles will join him in the story along with Hestia. For Hestia, imagine Danmachi's Hestia, yes, the loli Hestia who loves her Bell-kun, that Hestia. Issei's Apostles are characters from Ikusa Megami Verita, Ikusa Megami Memoria, and Madoukoukaku. You can find them in VNDB. As for what an Apostle is... I'll leave that for the story to explain.

Now for the revs.

Ryuujin96: His harem will consists of cannon harem mixed with 3 of Celica's own harem from the game (technical harem member) and 1 from another Eushully game. Some of his cannon harem will be taken out though.

Dragon Rider 66: Excatly, that one. Somehow what's supposed to be a Class Card Issei story turns into an Ally of Justice Xenovia story.