Chapter 3: The Journey

Issei arrives at his house he found his sister crossed armed waiting for him at the entrance with not a happy look on her face. He knew what was it about but this time he wasn't sure he'll be able to get away with it. "Dad told me you know…" – Mihoki said with an unpleasant look on her face.

"Going on another adventure without me, how many times do I have to say it?! If you're going on an adventure take me with you! I'm going to die without anything exiting to do these days! Or is it because you think I can't handle myself…?" – Issei needed to be very careful now, his sister is a very powerful fighter, fit to be called a "dragon princess" but her angry fits was one of those things he didn't look forward to.

Most of the time whenever he went on a different planet or fought on a war, he was already gone by the time the news reached her. But now he faced another challenge: to try to convince his sister to stay or to take her along with him. "Well?" – said Mihoki impatient while Issei was trying to gather his thoughts "what do you have to say for yourself mister?" – Issei took a deep breath (there's no helping it, is there?) he thought.

"Fine, you got me I'll take you with me. Just promise me you will behave, all right?" – Issei said giving up any hope of actually going alone.

A smile appears on Mihoki's face "Yay! Now I can discover new clothing styles!" Mihoki started dashing towards her room. "I swear, is clothes the only thing you think about?" – said Issei still shocked from his sister's lifestyle, but then he remember his old self, his perverted ambition to form a polygamy and fondle breasts. "Heh, I guess obsession runs in the family, no matter which one" – he said with a melancholy look on his face.

The next day both brother and sister headed towards the spaceship docks, it was going to be expensive to pay a ship to travel such long distances. "Excuse me" – he said walking towards one of the directory clerks who is a robot. "I'm looking for a planet called "The Earth", how much will it cost for a ship to travel there?" – The clerk closed his eyes searching for the information requested then he open them and said in a monotone but polite voice "The planet Earth located in the Milky Way galaxy is located two Time and Space barriers from our current location, it will cost 20 Grand Kernars for a ship to take you there"

"20 Grand?!" – Issei said in disbelief, not because he couldn't pay the price but because the price was 200 times the cost of a normal travel between planets. "Even if the ship has to pass two barriers I think it's a bit too much" – said Mihoki analyzing the travel expenses inside her head.

"The reason why the fee was set to that amount it's because the ship has to pass thought two special barriers known as Time Jump barriers, simply put the time progression here and those places is different" – the clerk responded, calm as ever.

"So what your saying is that one year may pass here but there is completely different?" – Issei said surprised. Mihoki after thinking a while got worried "But if that is true, then if we leave what would happened to our current live?" –Issei looked at her a bit serious "that's a risk I'm willing to take"

Mihoki looks at her brother in disbelieve but then softens her expression "I see, these are the choices you usually make, to win or to lose it all, ok then I'll go with you until the end. My very first adventure and I'm not going to back down!"

Issei smiles at her sister's resolve, it reminded him of someone, but who? (The answer will be found on this trip) – He thought "We will take the trip then, we are ready"

"Very well then, please wait at dock eight" – the clerk said and then returned to his usual duties.

Issei paid the fee and as he walked together with his sister towards the docks he began to ponder, he got the planet and from the word he used before he found that it was Japanese so he had to go to the country of Japan, but after that what? Search all of Japan's schools? This could be more complicated than he thought.

"Brother?" – Mihoki looked at him with a complicated expression. Snapping back to reality he just said "nothing" as they walked on.

The dock was empty probably because they were the only ones that requested such a strange destination. A medium sized ship anchored and open its doors.

"This is it" said Issei as he got on, for now he had to abandon everything in his quest to discover his true self: his new friends, his riches, and his glory. To Issei he felt that all of these things just waited for him at the end of his journey so to him, it didn't really felt like a permanent farewell.

Issei got on and checked the navigation board, the ship had to make several stops for possible repairs, energy refuel and safety checks. "This is going to take a while, but it's understandable for a ship this size" he said closing the board and laying down using a few seats like a bed.

"I'm still kind of nervous about this" Mihoki said looking outside the window. (Understandable) Issei thought, it was her first time outside her own planet and not only that, she got to travel to a whole new galaxy.

"If it makes you feel any better" said Issei closing his eyes for a nap "Just think of the clothes you will get to wear when we get there" his sister looked at him with an unpleasant face "You really think I have such a straight forward mind, don't you?"

"Whatever" said Issei as he drifted off to sleep again.

[Issei found himself on a church, next to the altar he saw an angel with black wings staring down on a boy that looked like him, he was crying over the body of a girl with blond hair. "What?!" Issei said on shock, he knew he was on a dream but everything felt so real to him, especially the feeling he got from looking at the angel with black wings but his trance was cut off at the scream of the boy.

"Hey, God!? You are there right, God!? Devils and Angels exist, so you do exist as well, right, God!? You were watching, right!? You were watching all of this, right!?"

The boy just keep screaming at the ceiling as if God himself was listening to him "Please don't take this girl away! Please! I beg you! She hasn't done anything! She just wanted a friend! I will be her friend forever! So please! I want this girl to smile forever! Hey please! God!"

Issei felt the anger and sadness coming from the words from the boy, he felt his heart beating furiously with anger as the boy just kept screaming.

"Did this happen because I turned into a Devil!? Did you abandon her because I'm a Devil and her friend!?" The boy just kept screaming at the unfairness of the world. Issei just stood there: confused, angry and saddened. If this was really a dream, why did it felt so real?

Then it hit him, this isn't a dream, it was a memory a very painful one. Then the strangest thing happened, the boy got up and summoned a red metal glove from his left arm, it begins to shine and change its shape. "Give her back!" the boy shouted at the black angel as he charged at her, power filling his body.]

"Brother!" A voice snaps him awake, he looks around and finds himself on the ship, he sighs relieved that he wasn't in that place anymore as he sat straight.

Mihoki just looked at him with a worried faced. "Did you have a nightmare?" she asked clearly concerned for his health.

"Yeah, but I'm ok now" Issei said, it was better to tell her it was a nightmare than to try to explain to her everything he was going through.

Issei just turned his head and looked out his window to see the countless stars around him, staring off into the space itself he thought (Another painful memory, I wonder? Just what kind of life awaits for me on that planet?)

(End of Chapter 3)