A/N: New season, readers! And heck, will this one be long. Why? It's the combined arcs of Holy Sword Project, Raynare and the Fallen Angels, and the Gremory Peerage's Backstory! How will I manage such a disaster? Haha!

I don't know. Issei will manage, somehow.

=_["The Devil's Words" Mega Arc]_=

=[Chapter X: The New Targets]=

Issei slowly opens his eyes. He can feel a lithe arm over his body, tightly hugging his toned abdomen as if he was a hugging pillow. He casts his eyes to his left, seeing the bright brush of yellow hair above his right arm.

"Nngh…" Leisurely, her beautiful eyes open, gazing lovingly at Issei's eyes. "Onii-chan… good morning."

Ravel Phenex cutely yawns on the bed, the sheet hiding her naked body sliding down bit by bit. She sits up, showing her growing breasts to the world. "My body's so sore…" She whispers as she spreads her legs, watching the slow trickle of white liquid coming out from her sex. "Onii-chan, why did we have to do it for four hours straight again…?"

"Excuse me, you were the one begging last night." Issei rolls his eyes.

"O-Oh." Ravel blushes as she looks away. "Is that so?..."

Right after Issei's promotional ceremony, he and the girl immediately asked to be left alone to the boy's room. Grayfia glared at him furiously last night, but couldn't do anything. Issei just mockingly smirked at her at that time. Rias was too busy to notice anything, along with Akeno and Kiba.

Koneko would have been a problem, but Issei anticipated that and readied a trap. A room full of sweets. Enough to say, that the problem was averted.

Ravel lies back to the bed, and leans in closer to his ear. "Onii-chan, what will happen if I get pregnant?"

"You won't, don't worry." Issei yawned lazily. "I'll make that sure later."

"Mhm." Ravel closes her eyes, and drifts back to sleep once again. "Onii-chan…"

Issei glances at her sleeping face. Ravel is a strange girl, he thought. Of all the girls he had bed(or raped), she's the first kind of girl that still acts sane around others, yet is completely broken when they're both alone. Not to mention her craving on sex. She could make Raynare a run for her money.

Well, Ravel is still a bit young. He chalked it up to the teenager's curiosity and libido. Not like he can talk though, with him being just still 17 years old.

Well, Issei isn't really complaining. Things are more interesting with unusual and unprecedented stuffs like these.

"I'm free all day…" He sighs and sits up, stretching. "Might as well explore the demon world while I'm here."

Some might think that being a Maou is strenuous or even depressing, but to one certain twintailed Maou, it's exactly the opposite case. Serafall Sitri, or more known as Serafall Leviathan or Levi-tan, mainly spends her time idling and fooling around in the capital. Not to say that she doesn't do any work though, but over half of her 'effort' is spent on useless things. For example…

"Arggh!" She angrily gritted her teeth over the glass window of a crane machine, eyes blazing angrily at the cute figurine she's trying to catch. "Magical Space Girl Momo-tan's figurine…"

Here at the local mall in the devil's capital is Serafall, the Maou of Leviathan, strongest woman in the whole underworld, wasting her time and money on a useless crane machine. Honestly, it's a wonder how the devil's government is still functioning with people like this at the top.

"This is my last penny…" She sniffles quietly to herself while looking at her mostly empty wallet. "Well, they do say that the 300th time is the charm…"

She inserts the coin inside coin slot, and then…

=-…-=

"That crane machine's a scam. I'm sure of it." She lifelessly walks at the side of the road, her left hand grasping an open wallet. "Kuuh… Ajuka's going to scold me again for wasting money…"

She was surprised when she felt herself bumping against somebody, making her lose her footing and fall flat on the ground. "O-Ow…" She closed her eyes while wincing. 'Did I bump into a lamppost or something?'

She looked up to see a normal looking boy, gazing down on her as if checking her for something.

'Wha… it's actually a… devil? His energy's so weak that I barely noticed him.' Serafall thought in bewilderment. The girl blinked for some time and got back on her feet. She showed him her usual smile.

"Look where you're going next time, little girl." The boy emotionlessly said to her, his eyes bored.

'Gack!' Something hit Serafall hard inside her mind. 'T-This brat…'

Her smile twitches, but with her professional expertise and tolerance, she manages to keep it. "A-Ahaha. Excuse me, but don't you know who I am…?"

His answer was straight and fast. "No."

"Erggh…" A twitch mark appears on her forehead.

He notices the empty wallet on her hand, and smirks. "You were looking down a little while, weren't you? I get it. Your mom sent you on an errand, but you wasted her money on some kind of crap. A crane machine on a mall, maybe. Then you're lamenting on how to get it back." He shrugs while keeping his smile cockily. "Don't waste money kid."

A metaphorical arrow hits Serafall on the head with a paper attached on it. The word 'KID' is written on it, flapping against the wind proudly.

"K-KID?!" Serafall cried out loudly. "W-Who're you calling a kid?! For your information, I'm much older than you!"

He just looks at her as if she's a miserable piece of trash. "Uh huh."

"Grrrr!" Serafall grits her teeth hard, wanting to bite this boy's head off. "You little…!" The temperature begins to drop around them as the twintailed girl's anger rose.

'Hehe.' Issei mentally laughs. 'Another ice-user… Why do I always piss these people off?'

Before a brawl could break out, somebody steps in between the two, stopping Serafall from teaching him how it feels to be skewered with ice spikes. (He already knows though.)

"Onee-chan… what are you doing now?" A bespectacled girl glares at Serafall, making the small girl blink in realization.

"G-Gah. I almost tried to kill him." Serafall sweatdropped. 'His aura's weak, but he knows how to push people's buttons…'

"You need to teach your little sister a lesson. She needs to respect those that are older than her." Issei smugly looks at Serafall, then walks away.

"Grrrr… That guy…" If glares could kill, Issei would have died a hundred times already. Serafall kept gnashing her teeth like a wild dog, until his silhouette from afar vanished. "Can you believe that guy, Sona-chan?! He was so rude to me! Though I get the feeling that I know him somewhere…"

"Serafall-nee, that was sir Issei. The one who beat Raiser, remember?" Sona pushed up her glasses, staring into the direction Issei went off to. "But, the rumors were true. His aura is abysmally weak."

"… Oh!" She widened her eyes in realization. "The new high-class! Well isn't he fitting just fine with the 'high-class' trope."

"I heard from Rias that he is an extremely shrewd individual. He's a dangerous person." The short-haired girl concluded.

"Hmp. I hate him." Serafall whips her head to the side.

Sona glances at her older sister. "… I also heard that when he talks to a female, they end up entangled on a bed one way or another." Sona remembers the baseless rants Akeno said to her when they were still at the school.

A shiver runs down the Maou's spine. "B-But he was mocking me that I look like a child."

"Where was he looking at you when you were talking to each other?" Sona's eyes were hidden by the reflection of light on her glasses.

"Huh? Of course he was…" She recalls his cold eyes roaming around his body. At the back of her mind, she thought that her dress would have come off if he stared harder at her. "H-He was…"

"Well, I'm not that worried about you." Sona walks along the side path of the road, prompting Serafall to follow beside her. "You are a Maou. You can take care of yourself."

"But of course!" For a second, Serafall almost forgot that she is the current Maou of Leviathan. There was just something about being stared by his strange gaze. "If he tries anything funny, I'll freeze him and throw him under a lake."

Sona doesn't answer, but nods.

'Honestly…' Sona thinks to herself. 'I wish he'll do something to you so you'll be gone.'

"Hmm…" Issei leans on the crane machine behind him, its content now empty made by him. "Serafall Sitri… She actually looks like a kid, but damn, her breasts…"

Those weren't breasts of a kid's at all. He tried teasing her and she answered back like a provoked child. That means that she's somewhat child-minded, or at the very least likes to act like one. These type of girls can be tricky for him, but fun to play with.

"… That girl who came in later though… I believe she's a relative. They do look alike. Maybe her daughter, or sister." Issei is aware that Serafall is actually really old now, but that wouldn't stop him from enjoying her child-like body. "She's a cutey too. A threesome would be nice…"

As he pull the trolley full of stuff toys and figurines behind him, he continued on daydreaming. "Agh, I just remembered Rias and her peerage… Man I wanna fuck them so hard… except Kiba, of course. But damn iiiittt…"

It's so early in the morning and he's already complaining about such a thing. Not to mention he just had rough and long sex with a certain blonde Phenex. It's as if his Lust Incarnate…

"I wonder if there are some lost little girls around here, or naïve girls who talks to strangers… Kehehe. Oh, perfect. All this stuff toys can attract some, I bet." He rushes all around the city, his smile getting bigger and bigger by the second. "Hey, you there…"

Teary onyx eyes stare back at him, with the girl sniffling a little. "U-Uhu… Mama… Where's Mama?"

"I know where your Mama is!" Issei smiles kindly at the smaller girl, and points to an alleyway. "She said that she'll meet you over there…"

"R-Really?"

The Gremory Peerage's vacation lasted longer than expected, but alas, they still have to go back to school. Rias and Akeno are waiting outside the Gremory mansion, with Kiba and shortly Koneko showing up next. They all have their packed things, and are now just waiting for the carriage to take them to the Demon World Train Station.

"Where's…" Just when Koneko was about to ask where Issei is, the man in question emerges from inside the mansion, pulling his own wheeled-bag.

"Yo." Issei greets them, a pair of sunglasses hiding his eyes.

"Good morning, senpai." The nekomimi replies. "And… Ravel."

After Ravel announced her being Issei's first servant, she also declared her idea to live with her King. Somehow, it looks like her parents accepted, so they couldn't really say anything about it.

Of course, Issei helped her 'persuade' the girl's parents.

Ravel Phenex humbly followed her new King from behind. Upon hearing her name, she smugly smiles back at Koneko. "Koneko. You still look like the candy-stealer that you are."

"How many times do I have to…" She sighs in resignation. "Senpai, me and everyone will go to president's carriage. You have yours now, right?"

"Yes. We'll be following you behind." Issei ruffles her hair and smiles. "Don't worry. I won't go anywhere."

"T-That's not what I was trying to say…" Koneko bashfully looks away. She grabs his intruding hand with both of hers and stops him from messing her hair even more. "Senpaaaii." She lightly glares at him.

"Don't touch Onii-chan!" Ravel pulls Issei away from the nekomimi. "Onii-chan is mine!"

"But he was the one who…"

Off to Rias', Akeno's and Kiba's side, the three is talking about a certain trending topic around the demon realm these past few days.

"I heard that the victims wouldn't even talk anymore after they're found." Akeno said in sadness.

"Maniacs aren't anything new here, but a serial rapist?" Rias says in incomprehension. "It's certainly a first."

Kiba sighs. "One of my companions here said that one of the victims was just a lost twelve years old little girl… It's horrible."

Issei suddenly sneezes. "Achoo!... Ack. Is somebody talking about me?..." He looks around in confusion. "Ah, the life of a popular guy like me."

Both Ravel and Koneko heard that, and just giggled.

"Wha… hey! I'm really popular!"

=-…-=

"How many time have I told you, Raynare!" Mittelt yells in the fallen's face, annoyed. "I'm. Not. Interested!"

"Oh come on. It'll be just a quick meet-up." Raynare tried persuading the blonde fallen. "Or could it be that the rumor Freed has been spreading is really true…?"

"What rumor?!" Mittelt's eyes widen. When it comes to the crazy priest, nothing can ever be good.

"He said that you're a lesbian."

"I'M NOT! THAT STUPID FREAK!" Mittelt yells in anger. "I just,… just no, okay Raynare? I'm not in the mood to fool around right now."

"Like you've ever fooled around…" Raynare whispers.

"S-Shut up."

"Oh well. You'll meet him one way or another, anyway." Raynare walks away, frowning. "Don't say I didn't give you a better choice."

Mittelt just rolls her eyes. She knows that whoever Raynare wanted to meet her, it's that guy. The man taking those pictures. Maybe he got tired on Raynare and the fallen suggested her next. No way in hell will she do that though.

"… But Raynare's beautiful… Just be satisfied with a single girl, bastard." She whispers to herself.

Taking her mind off the current subject, she remembers her new friend (blackmailer), Himejima Akeno. This time, the devil was threatening her of spreading the picture of the fallen wearing lewd and bizarre outfits, like the bunny suit, angel cosplay or the devil costume.

But somehow, Mittelt couldn't resist going back to her, as if she's being drawn to the older girl. When she's near the mentioned devil, everything feels calm and safe, like she'd protect her from any kind of harm. She doubts that Akeno will really do that though, but it still feels like that way to her.

"Their vacation should be finished today…" She remembers the date Akeno gave to her. "I guess I'll be visiting her again tonight." Mittelt sighs, but a small smile found its way to her lips.

The trip towards the human realm was short and quiet. Nothing in particular really happened while they were riding, except for the quick and witty banter of Ravel and Koneko, or Issei secretly ogling the cute workers of the train. Before they know it, they're already back. Each of them bid farewell to each other, and started walking towards their home.

"Onii-chan, Koneko said that your house is bigger than Rias?" Ravel says to the boy.

"Yeah. To me though, it isn't that big anymore. Maybe I got used to it." Issei shrugs. Ravel hugs his left hand closer to her all of a sudden. "Hm?"

"She also said that all of your maids… are girls." Her voice lost all the sweetness she have before.

"Well, they're all the girls I rap— ehem, bed before you. Now they're living with me as my maids." He points out. "Don't worry, they'll serve you too like they're serving me. Just don't make them do something ridiculous like killing themselves."

"Okay…"

After some minutes of small talk, Issei could finally see his big-ass gate off in the horizon. Squinting his eyes a little harder, he could see two unknown figures waiting outside, for some reason.

"Ack, is it those stupid solicitors again?" He whispers in disgust.

As they got closer, Issei's heart started aching, for unknown reasons. He had to stop a single step just to clutch his heart. "What the heck…?"

"Onii-chan?" Ravel asks him in worry.

"N-Naah, it's nothing." He shakes his head and continues to trudge forward. 'What is this pain…?'

When they finally got close enough, Issei's eyes widened. Everything was still the same. Her caramel hair, her scent, her body. Though she looked much older and beautiful now, Issei wouldn't forget that face. He wonders how he even forgot about her in the first place. This bitch was the reason why he strived to be a trillionaire, for god's sake.

"Irina…" Issei quietly says.

"I-Issei." Irina shakily smiles at him. "Long time no see." She glances at Ravel beside Issei awkwardly.

Issei closes his eyes, breathing out to calm his mind. When he looked up, his false kind smile was back. "Yes, it's been a long time indeed."

"We're here for a mission from the church…" She states their objective, not looking at him in the eye. "Though this girl suggested that we visit you first for taking care of Asia here…"

Issei looks at the other girl beside him. Since they were wearing black cloaks, he couldn't really tell, but judging from her face, Issei could say that this girl's hiding a bombshell-of-a-body.

"It's nice to meet you again, Ise." The girl greets him with a smile.

'Ise?' He wonders why she addressed him with such familiarity. "'Again'? I'm sorry, but I don't think I—"

"I-It's me, Yuichiro." She slowly laughs like it's a bad joke. "My real name's Xenovia, by the way…"

"Ahaha. Yuichiro?" Issei laughs back, his face frozen. "Wait, WHAT?!"

"I-It's a long story." Xenovia scratches her cheek.

"… Alright. Let's get inside." Issei lost his composure for a second. He needs to collect his mind for a while first, and the trek towards his mansion should be long enough.

"Uh, Ise?" Xenovia says to the boy, drawing his attention. "Who's that girl beside you?"

"Oh, her? She's Ravel, my little s—"

"Sex slave." Ravel finishes for him.

"Yeah." Issei, his mind still disoriented, just agreed to the girl.

Irina and Xenovia stops their walking in shock.

"Wait, NO!"

=[Chapter End]=

A/N: Slow start, I know. Well, if you've learned a lesson from my previous chapters, then you must know that some wicked shit is just waiting around the corner when you least expect it… Kehehe.

Did you notice…
#3

what Issei's preferred girl is?

Just remember. Everything I write is an illusion.
Blazeo-kun