And here is chapter 6! I now only have about maybe two or three chapters of this in reserve, all of which need to be heavily edited, so the rate by which I am churning out material is going to drop.

Add in some other complications on my side, and I have lost a lot of time on my hands. I also mentioned this in What's A Little Death Between Friends, but I am going to mostly be updating on the weekends soon.

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Highschool DxD

THE NEXT DAY

I slept until noon today. Irina recovered and was sent off in the afternoon with all of their missing Excaliburs, they were not taking mine. Xenovia also held onto Durandal, hopefully things would work out.

All of us were invited to hang out at the school pool by the two heiresses. I used this time to tell Issei about Asia's crush on him, got his response, and then put the fear of god in him, he was a pervert, there would be no mercy if he took advantage of someone as kind as Asia.

I checked the school for the Fallen Angel wings but I didn't find them which sucked. I was looking forward to figuring out what properties I would have been able to bring forth by linking them to items.

Also, my lecture to Xenovia totally backfired.

She decided she wanted a baby, very much like cannon, which isn't the best idea in my opinion. That decision was followed by deciding that SOMEHOW, I would be a good dad.

WHY! Why did being a decent person backfire on me! I didn't want a relationship right now, and even if I did I wasn't attracted enough to Xenovia to want to be in a relationship with her!

I gave her a new home and family to come home to after getting kicked out of the church, which she had been part of for her entire life, along with being strong enough to face Kokabiel.

Going along with what I remember of her line of thinking in cannon I guess that I kind of hit all of the requirements that Issei had checked off while also being an Angel, something that she devoutly looked up to.

I sighed

I of course decided to have a talk with Xenovia about this. I had to sit her down and explain to her my reasons that I was not looking for a relationship at the moment.

I had to emphasize that no, I was not going to accept her offer and that I definitely wasn't going to get anybody pregnant anytime soon.

Xenovia begrudgingly accepted my reasoning before suggesting that we try a date, as apparently she knew enough about relationships that dates can lead to baby making as she called it.

She had literally just ignored all of my earlier points.

I sighed and explained that I didn't want to get into a relationship with her and that included anything that was packaged with dating. That I wanted her as a friend and for us to stay friends and only friends.

This day really did not go anywhere close to what I expected, of which I included a couple scenarios like being kidnapped or the great war restarting anyway. I quickly made a barrier in the shape of a snorkel and just sat on the bottom of the pool.

Yeah avoiding my problems seems like an amazing idea right now.

The three of us eventually went home and the evening would have passed normally.

Heh, I wish.

Apparently the open house for school was coming up and Rias's brother, the MAOU LUCIFER, WAS NOW SLEEPING NEXT DOOR! WHAT THE FUCK! THIS IS BULLSHIT!

Luckily, nothing happened, I prayed to god and hoped that my concealment method would hold out and my patron and kidnapper wouldn't be an absolute ass and get myself killed.

Regardless, I slept in the basement, in a hidden room that I just dug today, surrounded by all of my holy weapons.

I did not sleep well, at all. the guy who could probably kill me with an eyelash and might kill me in a fit of overprotective brotherliness was next door. I was taking no chances.

THE NEXT DAY

Praise be the Lord, He's gone, he was only staying over for the night and went out to get a hotel.

I had a Gemini pumped full of enough mana for a couple of days to start looking into teleportation circles. I wanted an out if I was going to be anywhere near the Satans.

I sat around and avoided going outside where I could risk running into Sirzechs. Asia went over to Issei's house, and Xenovia was using the backyard to train.

I decided that If I was going to hide in the basement, I was going to make something well worth my time. So I immediately got to work.

Which led me to where I am now, standing in front of this monster that I have created. This was the end result of my research into Kinetic absorption and release for my weapons.

It was a great sword that I had managed to fold several effects into, a new technique that I had been working on. All of those effects were my best kinetic based effects, all of which now had the capability of absorbing about one of the strongest physical strikes. I had brute forced being able to get this capacity by expending more mana and infusing more of my light into the weapon.

The weapon in total held three effects, which meant that it could hold three charges roughly equivalent to me striking the blade as hard as I could. This was by far my biggest achievement when it came to a purely offensive creation.

I wondered why more people didn't make stuff like this, before realizing that what I had was basically a watered down version of how to create sacred gears, and that the series never showed anybody actually making holy swords outside of sacred gears that make holy swords.

I'm guessing that not a lot of people have so much as a fraction of the knowledge I hold, maybe.

I can't get too arrogant. That would get me killed.

Anyway, this sword was large, like a 6 foot blade large and was about as wide as my hips, so about a foot wide which narrowed along the length of the blade. I had spent 12 hours on this beast, but now that I know how to make it, copies would take much less time.

I was conflicted because it looked like a shounen protagonist sword. So very conflicted.

THE NEXT DAY

Today I asked Xenovia if she wanted to join us at school, once she said yes, I told her that I was going to get started on getting us her to join. By that, I meant that I would be making a bribe.

Said bribe was more baked goods and another favor with conditions.

Sona quickly agreed to facilitate Xenovia's acceptance into the school after that. Xenovia had her uniform by the end of the day, she was also placed into my class according to Sona.

Every single damn time. Everytime! Why was everyone ending up in my class!

The open house is two days from now, and it was not going to be a fun day.

Besides the reminder of how my family did not exist in this reality and all the fun emotions that came with that reminder, Sirzechs Lucifer was going to be here along with Serafall Leviathan.

I decided to try and make a dagger that could make a basic Gemini in order to bribe Sirzechs into letting me live if everything went downhill. I was hoping that the key to defeating paperwork would save my ass.

Anyway, Xenovia would be starting tomorrow while Open house was the day after that.

Despite all of this one question remained in my mind.

How did Sirzechs even get this many days off?

TIMESKIP: Two Days Later

I underestimated how much today would affect me. I underestimated it by a lot.

It hurt seeing everyone have their parents around while I didn't. It helped that Asia was there and providing support. I think she understood that I loved hugs a lot, and decided to give me one when she noticed how sullen I was acting.

During one of our classes the teacher gave us a block of clay and told us to go wild. I cheated and used some small scale barriers to help mold the clay and have it retain that shape.

I turned the clay into two small sculptures with their backs facing each other. One was Asia in her full nun garb, with a pair of wings sprouting off her back. The other was me, in some armor and wielding both my Excalibur Nightmare and Ascalon.

The teacher went off explaining how he discovered two true artists in his class as Issei, Issei of all people, displayed amazing sculpting skill when he was creating a naked sculpture of Rias.

He didn't even use magic to cheat! Did the power of her boobs transcend reality that much?

Regardless of the horrible day I was having, we all had a nice dinner together.

I wished Asia a good night along with Xenovia before heading off to bed without creating any Gemini, despite everything, I needed a small break from the constant memories of staying up for the night.

If I remember correctly the peace talks should be coming up, followed by either Loki or Didoria, I don't remember at this point. After that, I got nothing except something vague about Kyoto.

I stared at my ceiling before eventually my eyes grew heavy and I fell asleep.

THE NEXT DAY

Apparently, Michael wanted to meet with me. Not gonna get out of this, guess I would finally be joining the faction... probably.

He didn't request a location, so I just decided to invite him to my house. I found out a couple of hours later that Michael would be coming over around 7pm.

I immediately started to clean up the house, and got everything together by the time that Michael arrived.

I ended up telling Michael that I just woke up as an angel about two-ish months ago, followed by the fact that somebody had shoved a ton of knowledge into my head, including how to make Holy weapons, which eventually bled over to just creating normal magical items.

I talked about my panic at the beginning, and of how I eventually adopted Asia as my sister, fought Kokabiel, and somehow ended up getting the affections of Xenovia.

Michael chuckled at that, I did not feel like that was a good hearted chuckle, but more of a 'this person is so fucked' chuckle, why did I get that feeling?

One of the most important things that he wanted more information about was how loose my restrictions were compared to normal Angels and he asked me to come to heaven with him after the upcoming peace talks so that they could analyze it.

I wasn't going to refuse my leader, so I agreed.

In the end, he decided to let me join the faction, I asked if Asia and Xenovia could join, just not as part of the church which had excommunicated them.

Thankfully Michael agreed, but told me that their readmittance should wait until after the peace talks.

Both Asia and Xenovia were ecstatic and I ended up on the floor from a tackle hug from Asia.

He asked me to tag along to the meeting as I was one of the people there fighting Kokabiel, and apparently with me not falling while doing that actually helped the whole peace talks a lot more than I anticipated, I guess that can happen when you save the 2 younger sisters of 2 devil kings.

This was going to be fun.

Yay.

THE NEXT DAY

Today was the day of the peace conference. It was only happening in the evening, but I ended up just breezing through the day and not particularly paying attention to anything.

By the time the peace conferences came around, I was dressed in a church robe, I ended up running into Irina, who was also going to attend the meeting with Michael, she seemed just as surprised as I, so I guess Michael hadn't told her about me just yet.

Once everyone arrived, the meeting began, Sirzechs introduced his sister and her peerage before mentioning that they fought Kokabiel a bit ago, Michael commented that I was there as well, before thanking each of them for their hard work.

Azazel acted like a dick. Rias and Sona verified their report. Azazel told everyone that Kokabiel was acting on his own without permission, and that he had grown fond of this quaint little place.

He continued with saying that he had sent Vali in to resolve the situation and that Kokabiel was now frozen on the lowest level of hell.

He did make a snide comment that his faction wasn't the only one causing problems. Azazel then cut through the pleasantries and asked to move on to the main issue which would be finally making peace and ending this three way stalemate that has been going ever since the great war.

Both of the other leaders moved towards making peace as well. Azazel also brought up that he wanted to know the opinions of Issei and Vali. Vali just wanted to fight, but eventually agreed to peace because Azazel had told him that he didn't need war to fight strong opponents.

Issei, Issei on the other hand had to get it explained to him in terms of boobs by Azazel.

Suddenly, everything froze. Not in the way where we were encased in a block of ice, but in a way where everything felt like it had gone to a standstill.

I was fine because I had Ascalon and Excalibur Nightmare with me. I could feel both of them empowering me to fight off the stillness that had come.

Irina was fine as well because of her sword, Rias and Issei were fine because of his sacred gear. The faction leaders were fine because they were just that strong.

I could only hope that nothing happened to Asia. Xenovia would be fine because of Durandal, but Asia had nothing on her that would make her exempt to this effect.

There was a quick chat about how we were cornered which a quick peak outside the window at the enemy forces proved. This was followed with the ideas that we were betrayed and that our reinforcements were shut off.

Rias was going to go and get Gasper, who was apparently the one causing the problem, with Issei. I really hope they solve the problem soon.

Vali was sent off to upset their ranks. I hesitated a moment, before I asked Michael if I could head out as well. I was told no, because I would be overwhelmed as I was not on Vali's level by the sheer number of enemies.

I then proceeded to show off my Gemini, before starting to pull out a bunch of holy weapons that contain mana batteries so the Gemini could exist a long time if they weren't idiots.

I got permission to send out my Gemini but I was too valuable to risk because of my unique connection to heaven's system.

I ended up creating 20 Gemini, not all of them with weapons, out to fight as I had to sit on the sidelines as what were basically my imperfect clones went out to fight.

With Vali already drawing the majority of the enemy's attention, my Gemini were able to take out a good number of enemies before they started to notice and attack in kind.

They weren't able to hit any of them due to the sheer mobility that mana burst gave them, and those that were hit survived because of the items they were linked to.

The fight was going fine, and the others that were mobile were allowed to join in, this was followed by everyone else in Rias's peerage once time resumed. I continued to be sidelined.

Eventually some Leviathan descendant appeared, Azazel went off to fight her. I still was sidelined. Damnit, I want to help my friends!

Azazel also pulled an artificial sacred gear out of his shirt that had no pockets. I was immediately in awe of his skill. That awe quickly turned sour upon learning what the man had called this achievement.

The motherfucker had created a dragon armor and gave it a stupid name, I mean seriously who puts Another Armor as part of the name it should have just been Downfall Dragon Scailed Mail. Or something along those lines, not Downfall Dragon Another Armor.

Regardless Azazel lost his arm by being an idiot and cutting it off instead of killing an enemy before they could self-destruct.

Everyone soon wrapped up the stragglers. I dispelled my Gemini

Suddenly, Azazel was knocked out of the air, by Vali of all people.

Azazel started to monologue and Vali listened along with everyone else.

Apparently he thought he could face more strong people if he was on the other side of the oncoming war with the Chaos brigade… wait, was it with a C or a K? If it was the K , why would they even use a K, did they want it to be cool or something?

Wait shit he mentioned Ophis was in charge, I didn't remember this , shit fuck.

"Fuck".

A couple of people looked at me in a bit of surprise, apparently an Angel cursing is still a novelty.

"This is bad".

"That's a bit of an understatement"

The next bombshell was luckily something I did remember, that Vali was a descendant of Lucifer.

Which shocked a couple people, mostly the devils as there were more of them in total.

Vali then began a rant about how pathetic Issei was and how he would never reach Vali's level and…

Did he just threaten Issei's parents?

...I was going to kill him, if Issei didn't kill him first.

Issei's parents were good people, odd, but ultimately good people. That and my friend would be devastated if they were killed.

I didn't know his parents all that well, but Issei would have reacted in righteous anger if somebody threatened the parents of his friend or anything that could hurt his friends. I would gladly return the favor in kind.

I was also personally insulted by his accusation that they would be thankful if he killed them.

I looked over to Issei and saw that he was shaking, not in fear, no definitely not in fear. I could tell from how he was clenching his fists and the look in his eyes.

He was shaking in anger, in rage.

For once he did not speak, he did not declare his anger to the world for it was palpable as a boiling red aura around his body.

{Welsh Dragon: OVERBOOSTER}

His Balance Breaker seemed to explode onto him with the red aura continuing to coat his body.

"I am going to kill you for threatening my parents!"

He charged at Vali and they clashed at speed barely slower than me running full speed using mana burst to its fullest extent.

I was in awe of how strong balance breakers were. I was going to have to seriously up my training if I want to be able to match that.

I was much too weak to step in, not that I could interfere in the first place, more than just my life rests upon my shoulders.

...I don't think he boosted either, there was usually a declaration from his gear that he had in fact boosted.

This was stupid, stupid to degrees usually beyond Issai. I really hope that he was boosting and that it was just non-verbal.

The only reason they were even somewhat fighting on even grounds was because of Vali humoring Issei, who WAS STILL BEING AN IDIOT!

I need to rectify this.

"YOU NEED TO BOOST MORE"

I shouted at Issei, who like the idiot he was paused for a second before he started to boost himself faster than he was previously. the green gems in his armor flashing slightly.

Huh, I guess the boost part doesn't actually need to be vocalized in balance breaker.

"Thank you Adrien!"

He shouted back, not letting his eyes leave Vali.

I sighed, at least he was doing it now or at least doing more of it. Vali was likely to stop holding him back, but his gear had limitations to the amount of power he can hold at once, much like Issei's limit to how much he can boost.

In my opinion, I though Issei's only real chance of victory was to pull some grade A protagonist bullshit out of his ass. Issei lacked the pure combat experience that Vali has.

I discreetly sent a Gemini to check up on his parents in the off chance they were planning something serious. I was hoping that they might be able to puncture a small hole in the barrier before shapeshifting through it before the barrier regenerated.

A sword popped out of Issei's gauntlet and smashed into Vali.

How the hell did Issei get a sword with Dragon slaying properties?

The only way he got Ascalon was because of the situation with-

Ah, Michael probably got him the sword, but without Ascalon he gave Issei something else. I wonder what sword that he received.

It was then Issei pulled something I hadn't even considered. He latched onto Vali's wings and started to boost the output of Vali's wings while transferring power to them, causing them to go into overload.

I couldn't hear what he was saying but I saw him raise his fist that was now coated in a layer of orange and punched Vali in the chest.

To my surprise and the surprise of others, he had obliterated the armor that Vali was wearing and quite literally punched Vali out of Balance Breaker.

There were remnants of the armor and a couple of blue orbs and shards on the ground.

I wanted them, who knows what I could create using the metal from a Loginus class sacred gear.

After a couple of seconds Vali was standing up again in his Balance Breaker.

Shit.

Issei… why are you picking up one of those orbs?

He crushed the orb and light poured off of Issei alternating between green and blue.

That looks dangerous, and with Issei screaming like that probably horribly painful.

The idiot better survive this, I didn't want to lose my friend.

Suddenly the glow dies down and I see that the gauntlet on one of Issei's arms is white with a blue gem.

HOLY SHIT!

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

I was equal parts relieved that my friend was alive and crazed because there were two other intact orbs and pieces of a shattered larger one from the chest still on the ground with the fragments of the armor.

If the situation wasn't like this I would have already grabbed everything and gotten to work making myself a masterpiece. My brain was working on overdrive. I created another Gemini to start making the ideas while I paid attention to my friend.

I cared far too much about my friend to maintain that trail of thought personally.

Vali then decided for some fucking reason to start warping the dimensions by dividing them. Why would he want to do something like that? It doesn't give him any advantages.

When Azazel began to speak I was hit with an epiphany.

Boobs.

Vali might end up shrinking boobs by doing this. It was definitely not his intention… probably, but it would probably push Issei into overdrive.

I started to cackle and everyone paused, I continued to laugh a bit before I managed to stop myself.

"Well, what is so hilarious?"

Azazel asked, I smirked at him, he probably came to the same conclusion.

"Boobs"

Everyone paused. Issei whipped his head over his shoulder to look at me. Azazel smirked confirming my suspicions.

"Issei, he's going to shirk everyone's boobs in half and perhaps even smaller given time"

I chuckled before continuing

"Imagine it Issei, boobs halved in size. No Bust would be safe from his villainous way and all that is glorious desecrated"

Issei paused. I scrambled for my phone to record this, I got a couple of glances and Michael shook his head disappointedly.

"DON'T FUCK WITH MEEEEEEEEEEE!"

The area around us shook.

Forgive me Michael, but this is hilarious.

"YOU MONSTER!"

Issei Screamed at Vali

"Wait, What?"

Vali was understandably confused.

I on the other hand was shaking vigorously in an attempt to keep myself from laughing. The video quality was going to be shit, but I mostly wanted the audio.

If I did get some good video then I would have something to show me where I can get to and work as a benchmark on my path to power.

"YOU'RE PURE EVIL"

I wasn't sure how much longer I would be able to keep myself together. This situation was just so absurd to me.

"I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR THIS!"

Michael and the others put up a barrier to shield us from the effect of Issei's rampant boosting. I managed to calm down a bit and was holding my phone mostly still.

"Today has been full of surprises but at least it's not boring"

Heh, you're telling me.

"I'LL DESTROY YOU SO COMPLETELY THAT YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO BE REBORN AGAIN! YOU HEAR ME!"

Issei threw himself as Vali as he ruthlessly chased him down, Vali unable to escape my friend.

He grabbed Vali's shoulder and raised a fist.

"THIS IS FOR RIAS AND HER MAMMOTH BLOB MELLONS!"

Issei crashed his armored fist into Vali's chest. Grabbing onto his other shoulder Issei threw back his head.

"AND THIS IS FOR AKENO'S HUGE HONKERS!"

Issei headbutted Vali, shattering both Vali's and his helmet.

"AND THIS IS TO MAKE SURE ASIA GETS TO KEEP ON GROWING!"

His legs slammed into Vali. One kick to the groin and the other to the hip.

I was not as happy about that, but so be it.

"AND THIS IS FOR XENOVIA'S KILLER GAZONGAS!"

Putting his whole body into an uppercut.

"AND THIS IS FOR KONEKO'S ITTY BITTY TITTIES!"

His voice wavered slightly.

Was… was he crying?

"YOU CAN'T DIVIDE THEM!"

Yeah, he was definitely tearing up.

"IF YOU DID THE ONLY THINGS LEFT WOULD BE LONLY NIPPLES!"

Issei backhanded Vali to the ground.

Vali stood up in short order while Issei had to go down on a knee from exhaustion and was breathing heavily.

"Interesting! This is fascinating!"

Well someone seems excited, he really is a battle junkie.

"Alright, do you think you can handle something stronger?"

Shit, he was going into Juggernaut Drive

"It's the Juggernaut"

Dammit I was right.

Albion tried to dissuade Vali to no effect.

"I, Who awakens to the supremacy of reason"

Suddenly the barrier shattered and a monkey man dropped down in front of Vali.

Bikou, as he was apparently called, was there to collect Vali because they were about to fight some northern earth gods. They teleported away shortly after that.

Issei on the other hand, tried to stop them, but collapsed and fell out of Balance Breaker.

I stopped recording and sent a Gemini to gather the materials from Vali's shattered Balance Breaker so that I could make something with them later.

I went over to check how my friend was doing.

He was doing fine and was probably having the time of his life considering that his face was buried in Rias's breasts.

I made my way over to Michael and began to talk to him about when would be a good time to visit Heaven for the testing. I was going to be visiting Heaven on the next couple of weekends for the testing. I was free to visit anytime, but I was only required to be there for the next couple of weekends.

I asked if he wouldn't mind assigning me a trainer for my inner light while I was there and he said he didn't mind as it was a small thing for something that could change the future of our race.

Azazel left first, and was followed by Michael, who gave his goodbyes shortly after.

The Satans stuck around after to talk with their siblings, I myself went home.

As soon as I got home I hugged Asia. There had been no moves on the house when we had been attacked.

I told them about everything that happened and that I had run into Irina, but she couldn't stay sadly. Xenovia was a bit angry that she wasn't there to help.

LATER THAT NIGHT

I couldn't sleep.

The battle replaying through my head as I reviewed it.

I couldn't have participated in it without probably getting myself killed. They were moving faster than I could giving everything I got. They outbid me in power and toughness as well.

My friend who at base was weaker than me had overcome and surpassed everything that I had accomplished by virtue of his sacred gear.

I stared at the ceiling for a couple minutes before I rolled out of bed and got dressed.

I had work to do. Mana burst is not propelling me fast enough. My strikes aren't strong enough. My body is not tough enough.

I was going to fix that. I raised my resistance spell to 200% from the measly 75% that I had it at constantly. I would now have to put thrice as much effort as possible to do everything.

I then summoned as many Gemini as I could with my mana, and had them recharge themselves using the mana batteries as needed.

One group is going to do research and work on creating a spell that would allow me to push my body beyond everything I could do naturally through magic.

Another group was going to start unifying all of my knowledge on smithing and creating magical items.

A third group would be working on creating serious offensive spells.

The fourth was working on improving my flexible barriers so that I wouldn't have to rely upon having a weapon to link too.

The fifth group was working on improving the conceptual link that I had stumbled into making so that more of the concepts and abilities associated with an object could be transferred over. They would also work on finding a way to copy those concepts and abilities over to whatever was being linked permanently as well.

The final group was going to be the ideas group and would be theorizing and creating basic ideas for ways I could improve and hopefully close the gap between myself and people like Vali.

I went outside and started to train with my weapons. It was going to be a long night.