Demon Duke Org
Chapter 1
From Pervert to Org
Issei Hyoudou was, by all rights, the lowest of the low, he thought of nothing but women's breasts, seeing them, touching them, sucking them, poking them, anything you could think about doing with breasts, he thought about doing and that was all he thought about, a true pervert. He's been that way most of his life, along with his two friends, Matsuda and Motohama, they regularly find holes in the walls of the school they go to, Kuoh Academy, so that they can peak on the girls, and the holes, oddly enough, are usually all spying on girls, none for the boys. Not that the 'perverted trio' minded of course, Matsuda was known for having his camera ready and waiting for any girl parts that he sees, Motohama had the uncanny ability to gage a woman's breast size at a single glance, Issei was the self-proclaimed future harem king.
Added on to the fact that Issei was academically sub-par, below sub-par in the looks department, and it's no wonder why he has no girlfriend at the moment, "ugh, being a teenager is the worst, at this rate, jerking off to porn is the closest I'll ever get to doing it before college," he stated. He was currently leaning against the railings of a bridge with his left hand on his cheek and right forearm parallel with the railings, it was sunset now and he was on his way home, the more he thought, the more he felt defeated by life and so he let his head drop to the railing.
That is when he heard a soft voice call out, "excuse me, you're Issei Hyoudou from Kuoh Academy, right, or am I wrong," he looked up and over to see a wonderfully hot chick from a school he didn't recognize going by the uniform, but since she was smoking hot, he only nodded. She seemed nervous after seeing his nod, "hi, I uh… I just wanted to ask you a quick question: are you seeing anyone right now," and he couldn't believe this was happening, a girl was interested if he was dating someone, was this a love confession, so obviously his answer was no. "That's wonderful, uh.. in that case… since you're single… do you think you'd like to go out with me," he was stunned, "I've been watching you pass by here a lot and you seem so… I don't know… gentle… and very handsome and I- see… the thing is- I'd like for you to be my boyfriend"
What was the boy to say, this hot girl actually came up to him to confess, he said the only thing there was to say, "sure, that sounds great," he exclaimed with a little too much enthusiasm, "what about next Sunday, how does that sound for a good first date," he asked the girl.
She looked to have felt so relieved when he said that and put a hand over her chest, "it's a date then… night," she said leaning into his face, the only thing he could do was wave, her uniform looked so tight that it showed him an idea of what her breasts look like, she left with a smile.
When she was gone, he jumped around and pumped his fist in the air, left while calling himself the man and was so excited, he'd been dreaming and planning this day out from the day he discovered girls, this was going to be the best date ever, he would make damn sure of that. Yet, he was so excited that he missed the little white haired girl coming out form around the corner and into full view of anyone who looked her way, she was eating a popsicle while watching the two, she obviously knew something that the pervert did not.
The pervert went home and made sure his date was perfectly planned out, only, he didn't have her contact info, he was ready to scream when he felt something in his pocket, how he didn't catch it was beyond him, so he took it out and read it over, it was that girl's contact info. That tricky little minx must have slipped it in when he wasn't looking, the first thought he had was 'if she was that good with her hands, what else is she good at,' he let out a perverted giggle before saving the contact info to his phone, he couldn't wait to rub it in his friend's nose.
On the other side of town however, the one who asked him out, the one that chose Yuma as her fake name, was walking into an abandoned church in the school uniform she'd stolen to trick the perverted boy, the plan was so simple, gain the simpleton's trust, go on a date with the boy. Then finally, at the end of the date at dusk, hence why she chose Yuma as her fake name, she would kill the poor fool, at least the human would have one good memory before his death, he didn't feel strong or special, he probably didn't have sacred gear, but better safe than sorry.
This girl suddenly grew in height and let her assets grow, her face matured a little bit and then she let her uniform drop down and sink into her skin as she let a black ooze form around her breasts and private area to make a leather bikini type attire with black stockings and long gloves. She unfolded her black wings and let them stretch with a sigh from being confined all day, this was the fallen angel Raynare, ordered to watch one Issei Hyoudou and make sure he's not a threat and will never become one, easiest way to do that is to just kill him right off the bat. Yet, instead of just killing him, Raynare had this little habit of toying with her targets, she enjoys watching them as they have a good time, then crushing them by fully taking away their hope that the date was good and there would be another, or that he'd live to see another day.
"So," a voice said from behind a column on the right to the stage, out came a dark blue haired fallen angel in a maroon trench coat-like top with a wide collar, matching miniskirt, and black heeled shoes, "did you kill him or do we have to wait to give Kokabiel our report on his status."
"You know that I like to play with my food before I eat," Raynare said with a smirk while she continued to walk and moved the stone podium out of the way with ease to reveal a hidden passage, "I'll kill him Sunday at dusk, that is why I chose Yuma after all, such a poetic death."
"Yes, ever the poet," the woman, Kalawarner, said dryly as she followed after her comrade down the steps, it really irked her how she toyed with the targets so much, if she was a betting woman, she'd bet that Raynare's habit of toying with them will come back to bite all of them in the ass.
Sunday
Issei was waiting outside of a mall at the corner beside of a map for Yuma, "she should have gotten here by now, shouldn't she," he commented once he realized the time, he was in a dark blue collar shirt with a dark grey over shirt over that, blue jeans, and finally brown shoes.
"Here, take a flyer," some woman just shoved a piece of paper in his hands, looking over he saw a girl in a short yet puffy dress, black choker with red lace, and brown hair that resembled a bat's wings, she held a red handbag with white straps, she just smiled before walking off.
"Oh goody, wonder what this is about," Issei commented before looking at the paper, "'your wish will be granted', eh, yeah right… if only that were true," he said sarcastically, he put the paper in his pocket as he looked to the left and saw Yuma, "oh cool, you made it, I'm glad that you came."
He perved out a little at what he said, only he was able to do it in his head while he remained smiling pleasantly on the outside, Raynare on the other hand had to hide her disgust at what she knew he was thinking in that perverted head of his, but held it in and looked like the innocent Yuma. The began walking around the outside mall area and began their date, it was mainly walking around the various stores and window-shopping, going inside stores that held something interesting, stopping at a stand that looked interesting, and just enjoying the company of each other. Issei even got Yuma a nice little pink, puffy bracelet, it went nice with her white shirt with black trim and black skirt, they began walking again when they then went to a small restaurant and got something to eat, he perved out a little because he could see her cleavage, but went well.
After that they began walking again and that is when Yuma saw it, it looked like an ordinary wolf mask, that is, if you ignored the fancy design that made it look so much more valuable, the red jewels just where the eyebrows knitted together, and the purple jewel on the forehead. To anyone else that looked like an ordinary wolf mask, but to Raynare, she felt the power the mask held, she could tell that it was a cursed mask, a really powerful cursed mask, one that would kill any human that would dare put on the mask, so she had a wonderful idea. Kokabiel was getting mad that she was taking so long, wanting her to kill the boy and be done with it and mad at her for not just killing him, so why not take the mask, let it kill the boy to test out her theory, then bring the mask back to Azazel screwing over that jerk Kokabiel. Not only that, but she didn't have to waste her own power in forming a light spear, she could easily just let the mask kill the boy and take all the credit for a brilliant plan, she just has to trick the idiot boy into buying it for her, buying his own instrument of death, what wonderful ideas she has.
"Issei," Yuma said in the shyest voice that she could muster, Issei looked at her to see what's wrong, "you see that mask in the shop window," she pointed to it and Issei followed her finger to the most badass looking mask he'd ever seen, "I'm a collector, but, my family doesn't support it. So if I hand you some money, can you please go buy it for me," she looked down to reach into her purse, when she looked up, the mask was right in front of her, the boy just went inside and bought it for her, "you didn't have to do that, I would have given you the money," acting innocent.
"No way, how bad would that look if I didn't buy my girlfriend something that she wanted, if your family doesn't support you, then I'll support you no matter what," Issei said while trying to act cool, it was a very sweet and kind gesture, of course a naïve boy like him would do that.
"Thank you so much," she said sweetly, they continued to walk after that, right until it reached sunset, they took a shortcut through the park, "I sure had fun today," Yuma said as they were walking, she was almost giddy with excitement, this mask was sure to be powerful.
"Yeah, this was the best date ever," he said back, their hands grazed each other as they were walking, he thought that this might be his best chance, so he held her hand as they walked towards the water fountain, they were a few meters away when Yuma let go for a moment.
The reason she let go was so that she could run up a little ways so Raynare could enact her plan, "can you do something for me, in honor of our first date there's something I'd like to do… to commemorate this special moment," she stepped closer and closer as she talked. This was it for Issei, of course, that meant two different things to the two, for Raynare, it meant the boy's death, for Issei, it meant that he'd finally get to kiss a girl instead of imagining it, you can imagine his disappointment then when Yuma pulled out a camera from seemingly nowhere. "Let's take a picture," she hooked with his right arm enough to show the bracelet he'd gotten, "why don't you wear the mask, it'd be a shame if we didn't get it in the picture," she pulled the mask out of her bag and with a smile he took it, but if you looked close enough, the smile was forced.
Issei really wanted that kiss instead, but if what she wanted was a picture with the gifts, who was he to deny her, "sure Yuma, I'd be happy to," she posed before he was ready and he hurriedly put the mask on and immediately felt the effects, his eyes widened in the immediate effects he felt. He pushed Yuma away in case it harmed her as well, his skin felt like it was on fire, blood boiling, he could feel his body growing and his fingernails extending, growing into claws that dug into his head as he grabbed the sides of his head, the never ending drum pounding against his temples.
Raynare on the other hand, felt something different, her hope of killing him with the mask blew up into smoke as she realized the type of cursed mask it was, a soul was trapped inside of it, turning whoever wore it into a powerful warrior, erasing his old personality with the warrior's. That was nowhere near preferable, if it was just a power amplification mask of some sort, then she'd use him and turn him into a weapon for her faction, Issei was already too weak for her to work with, and it would take too much time to train him to grow stronger, but not now. Before, she could have used just power amplification and than turned him, but with the cursed mask turning him into a new person, she couldn't risk this new warrior getting in her factions way, so there was no other choice but to kill this unknown factor.
She thought all this in the moments of his transformation, so she transformed into her fallen form and made the protective field that would proved cover from the devils, in a flash she made a spear of light and ran the final transformation through where she thought the gut might be. Sometime during her thoughts the boy grew in height and turned dark and covered in shadow, Issei's voice turned deeper and sounded like he was screaming with a howling growl, but when he was stabbed, the voice stopped and the shadows receded to reveal the form of the warrior.
He was one of the most fearsome beasts she had seen once she saw his full form, his feet was covered in black boots that could be mistaken for wolf paws, black leather pants was covered by black shin and knee guards, that was covered by a open in the front skirt reaching lower shin. His belt was leather with a silver pentagon pointed down with a yellow circle in the middle, his upper body was covered in a black shirt, arms had black gauntlets, shoulder pads, a breastplate that, now that she looked closer, only covered his breasts and left his abs showing. His mask had changed to stretch past his face and cover his ears, hair changed to a dark silver that flowed behind him, his eyes were the only visible facial feature he had, a deep amber that felt primal, the last feature present was the oddest, he had a horn sticking form his forehead.
Something was wrong though, the beast wasn't dying yet, "well, I have to admit, I didn't expect you to survive being stabbed in the gut with a spear of light," she said as the beast's eyes narrowed at her and sent a shiver down her spine, she quickly summoned another spear. This one she implanted into his back just above the first one, he growled a bit as he powered through the pain, Raynare growled in frustration, "WHY WON'T YOU DIE," she yelled as she made yet another spear and stabbed it again above the one in the back, this time in the gut.
This time he let a howl of pain out, his knees went weak and he fell on them, the fallen angel had to crouch with him, the spears dissipated and the blood flowed freely, she rose and made to step away before her throat was caught in a flash by the wolf beast, but the grip wasn't a strong one.
"Is that it," she sneered reaching over to take the wolf hand from around her throat, she pulled on his arm hard and sent him slamming into the ground, "for a minute you scared me with how long it took to kill you, but in the end you died just like everyone else, on the ground bleeding." She spread her wings out and got ready to leave, she stayed there watching him, he was trying hard to get off his stomach, getting to his hands and knees before falling back down, "I'd laugh at your attempt to live if it wasn't so sad and pathetic, bye little boy," she took off into the skies.
The wolf beast was on the ground in agony as the sky turned back into the fading sunset, he was fading in and out of consciousness from the blood loss, the only thing keeping his alive right now was his pure will power, but even that was starting to fade at this point, yet he kept trying. "I will not," he growled out as he started to move his right hand to where his right pants pocket would be, "go back to being a mask," the hand touched where he remembered he put that flyer, "this might not work with that weakling, but for me, HEAR MY WISH AND HEAL ME."
That scream seemed to be the last of his strength, for he blacked out and missed the glow coming from his pocket and the flyer ripping from the pocket of the boy he was possessing, it glowed a powerful red before an intricate magic circle appeared and lowered to the ground. As it lowered it revealed the humanoid form of a teenage girl with red hair wearing the Kuoh academy student outfit of a long-sleeved button-down shirt with vertical striped accents, a button-down corset with a black collar ribbon and a magenta skirt with stockings and brown dress shoes.
This was Rias Gremory and she was not happy about the summons, she was supposed to wait and see if Issei Hyoudou was negatively targeted by the fallen or if they were planning to recruit him to their ranks thanks to his sacred gear, and if targeted, possibly summon her to help. This little summons put a damper on that likelihood in case Issei needed immediate help, but she stopped that mini tirade at what she saw, it was a creature the likes of which she had never seen before, it looked like a humanoid wolf with a horn coming out of its forehead wearing black armor. It was bleeding out fast, she was already at its side and decided to do a quick analysis on it, what she found was the most shocking thing so far, this thing was Issei Hyoudou, or was at one point, his power was off the charts and his sacred gear was still inside of him.
"Unbelievable, to think that someone took three stab wounds to kill, was it from the monster or the person underneath," Rias stated out in the open, as she laid her hand on him and he stirred from her touch, "what, he isn't even dead yet, this is incredible," she knew what she had to do. She took out all her pieces to see what exactly she needed to use to reincarnate him, knight was a no, rook was a rejected, bishop didn't work, and a single pawn was too weak, but when she used all eight of her pawns, two of them turned into mutation pieces.
This was unheard of to her, for someone to be worth not one but two mutation pieces, plus six more pawns, the most versatile and potentially most dangerous piece, just what was this creature to be able to accomplish such a feat, and why had it taken over the form of Issei Hyoudou. She chose not to think about it as she used a illusion spell that lasted twenty-four hours to turn him back into Issei before teleporting him and her to his house, he landed on his bed, she left a note in case he desired to eat the parents of the boy he was taking over before leaving.
The next morning
The beast woke up to the sound of, "wake up or I shall kill you dead, wake up bitch, or I'll chop off your balls," he barely registered what that was before he summoned his dagger flute and put an end to it with a quick stab, it was just above his head at the moment and ended the alarm. He opened his eyes to the world and raised from a lying on the back position, he scowled at what he was seeing, he saw posters littered with all kinds of perverted scenes and lewd women lining the walls of the room he was in, it was clearly the perverts room, his current host. He quickly realized that he didn't look like he normally did, but instead looked like Issei while in his Kuoh academy uniform, but he could still feel his dark wolf armor on, he could feel his horn, so he quickly came to the conclusion that this was an illusion cast over him to keep up appearances.
He rose from the bed and spotted a note on his dresser addressed to 'wolf beast' in neat hand writing, he walked over and picked it up, opened it, and began reading what was written, it was just something to tell him that the family he lived with shouldn't be killed if he was that kind of monster. It also just said that if he wants answers, to just go to school like he was and wait until after his classes, she'd be sending someone to lead him to her so she could explain everything, and it also warned him not to make a mess or start any trouble, he didn't know what powers there are. He ripped the note apart, he'd play this little game for now, but if he didn't like what she has to say, he'd just leave and roam around, he's always been a lone wolf anyway and if this was part of a ploy to get him to join in a team, he'd rather stay out of it and not get involved with them.
Since he retained the memories from this host for some reason, he knew where everything was, knew how to interact with the people to possibly keep his cover, but he'd never do that, not with the way the boy was, no he'd still remain himself until this woman could explain things to him. With that in mind, he got his brown leather case and headed out of his room, passing by the boy's parents as he went, they tried to talk to him, something about breakfast, then yelling for him to pay attention, 'GET BACK HERE' he thought he heard one yell, but he ignored and left the house.
He calmly walked to school and didn't look anywhere except straight ahead, never moved his eyes and changed positions with his bag, he stayed like that until he got to school, didn't greet anybody or even look at them, his host's friends came up to him to ask why he's acting so weird. He only walked past them before stopping and looking back over his shoulder with a glare, he grounded out, "never talk to me again," before turning to look forward again, he began walking as he said, "pathetic perverts," and didn't give their tear filled eyes another look as he walked to class.
When everyone else got to class they began whispering at how he was acting, he just stayed in his seat in the back with crossed arms and bowed head, didn't look up the entire time and didn't even blink when the teacher yelled at him to pay attention until finally the teacher ignored him. After the school day ended came the final bell, and he just set there waiting until he heard a commotion coming from the door, he looked over and saw the resident pretty boy of the school, Kiba Yuuto walking over to his seat and making all the girls cry out in warning for the prince.
"Hello, I'm Kiba Yuuto, I'm here on an errand from Rias Gremory, would you mind coming with me," Kiba said politely and with a smile, the wolf beast in disguise calmly stood up and didn't even cast a second glance as he followed Kiba out, ignoring the cries of outrage from the girls.
They both kept quiet as they walked, nor did either of them even acknowledge the other's presence, a few times they were stopped by Kiba's numerous fangirls, much to the wolf's annoyance, so it took a little while to reach their destination of the old school building. When they were inside they headed for the room where the meeting was to held, it was a nice little room, it looked to be a high class meeting room with a big desk, two couches facing each other, a table between the two, and apparently a shower in the corner going by the running water. On one of the couches was a girl with white hair wearing the standard Kuoh attire with a cat hair pin, on the other side of the room standing with clothes in hands for who was in the shower was a black haired teenager in another Kuoh academy uniform, this was apparently a club.
He decided not to say anything and just waited until the woman was done with her shower, and judging by the female outfit that the black haired teenager just laid down, she was almost done and so they could get started soon, "your clothes are laid out when you're ready miss president."
"Thank you Akeno," the woman thanked her servant of some sort, or friend doing a favor, regardless, she was through with the shower now so she cut the water off and began to put her clothes on, but the other woman thought that she'd get to know him until she was done.
"Who is that, I didn't see you there," Akeno said as she came over and watched as he eyed her with narrowed eyes, "It's okay, I won't bite, you're the new guy huh, it's nice to meet you," she said with a bow, "I'm Akeno Himejima, the vice president of the Occult Research Club."
He didn't say anything and chose to ignore her and bow his head a close his eyes, waiting for the woman to get finished with putting on her clothes, which she was, "sorry to keep you waiting, I like to shower a bit to get the smell of the normal school off of me," she said as she came out.
"I don't care, what are you, what is this place, and why did you do this," he said motioning to the illusionary form of Issei Hyoudou, he hated this form, he much preferred it when he looked like he always does, helps to drive away people and makes it easier for him to be alone, "to me."
"Well, since you asked so nicely," she said oh so sarcastically since he was being snarky and rude, she stood in front of her desk, leaning on it in an almost mirror notion to him, "I'll be quite frank with you, my name is Rias Gremory, and I'm a devil," to emphasize this, she spread her wings. But to her shock, he didn't really seem all that surprised, but maybe this would, "and now you're one as well," and on cue his wings spread out form him, the most she got out of him was a glance back to them, "I'm surprised, most are more shocked when I tell them something like that."
"I'm not most," was his reply to that as he dispelled the wings, 'guess I'm the first devil org hybrid, interesting,' he thought to himself, "I'm guessing this is your base of operations and this Occult Research business is a front for your devil activities then, not a bad plan, just don't care."
"Well, it seems that the only thing you do care about is knowing why you're like that," Rias guessed, he just inclined his head to tell her to proceed, "normal humans know nothing of the supernatural, to them we are just fictional characters, so imagine what'll happen if a werewolf runs loose."
He stared blankly at her for a moment before his org energy burst forth and dispelled the illusion, they felt a crushing weight, his calm voice held fury in it, "my name is Zen-Aku, the duke org, the most powerful org in all existence, I am not some savage mutt looking for his next meal."
Rias and her club could only stare in shock as his true form was unleashed, he stood there staring at them with narrowed eyes, eyes that tore into their souls, the others couldn't move, but she had to get down to business, no matter how much she wanted to flee, "what do you mean 'duke org'?"
Zen-Aku let up on the pressure and sighed, "orgs are, in a way, the first creatures that walked the earth, several millennia ago we were born from the pollution humans had already brought about, we usually thrive on such things as pollution and destruction, only a few of us have moved past it. I'm one of those few, a select few who have become so powerful that we've evolved into orgs that have only one horn, where as other orgs have two or more to signify their place amongst the species, duke orgs are the same as nobility to other orgs, and I'm one of those few to be a duke."
"Wait, I've never heard of such a thing as an org before, and I've never heard of anything close to what you're saying," Rias interjected with narrowed eyes, it could be possible he was lying, but if he wasn't, that would put him at her father's level in terms of rank, in his group at least.
"The last thing I remember before the boy put on my mask was flashes of light and then I woke up just a half of a millisecond before I was stabbed by 'Yuma', therefore I'm assuming, since the flashes never happened before, I'm in an alternate reality," he calmly countered back.
Rias put a hand to her chin in a thinking pose, "yes, that does make sense," she muttered before blinking, "oh, forgot to tell you, Yuma was actually what is known as a fallen angel," she revealed in hoping that would get some kind of reaction from him but the man was like an iron brick.
"That makes things a little more difficult, but killing her shouldn't really be a problem with me," Zen-Aku walked over to the window and stared out into the night sky, devils, fallen angels, more than likely angels too, none of this bodes well for him if he didn't grow in power.
"I never gave you permission to go killing members of the other faction," Rias commented with narrowed eyes, she was still the king and needed to assert her dominance over this duke org, "I told you that so you knew that there was no chance of killing her without starting another war."
He shot her a glare from over his shoulder that made her skin crawl, he turned and slowly walked over to where she was before standing directly in front of her, still glaring, "it seems you're under the impression that I'll willingly be joining in your club or become a subjugated devil servant."
"That's exactly what you'll be doing," she was currently failing to maintain her composure, this guy was so intimidating, "that was the price for me healing you in that summoning request, and the only way to heal you fast enough to save your life, turn you into a devil servant to myself."
"I just requested a healing, never said I'd sell my soul to the devil, or a devil, nor will I willingly be a subjugated servant to someone ever again," Zen-Aku growled before turning on his heal and began to leave, he was almost to the door when Kiba was in front of him with a sword in hand.
"If you do leave you will be labeled as a stray and forever be hunted down," Rias said with a false show of bravery, she wasn't sure any of them could take him, together or separate, "and it could be that you'll only be my servant for a short amount of time," now that peaked his interest. He turned his head slightly to glance over his shoulder at her, "we devils can grow in power and prestige the more contracts we fulfill, the more we fulfill the permanent pacts we make, and the more wealth those pact bring on, the more you grow in status as a devil."
"The more you grow in status as a devil, the more you move up in rankings, and the more you move up the quicker you get promoted to king of your own peerage and can then do whatever you want so long as it doesn't violate the laws set forth by the devil king," Akeno offered quickly.
"As of now in the devil community, you are regarded as low class and will remain that way until you grow in pacts, in the org community you were a duke, here you are low class," Rias's statement earned her a growl, "but maybe I can appeal to the devil king to transfer the status."
"Rias's brother is the devil king, Sirzechs Lucifer, so there is more of a chance that since he's her brother, your request to remain a duke can transfer over to the devil side, not just remain on the org side," Akeno helpfully put in, this could be a good chance to get him to remain and help them.
"There is also the chance that she'll be denied because of your own devil class system, right," Zen-Aku guessed and earned grimaces from everyone, so he was right, the devil class system had its own flaws, noticeable flaws that they don't like to talk about, what weak creatures they seem. "So there are a couple of ways to advance: work your butt off the slow way and gain enough pacts and power to advance up, or I could make an appeal to this devil king and see if my duke status would transfer over to the devils where I can get my own band of servants or travel alone."
"Those aren't the only ways, just two," Rias said and made sure he listened to this part, "there is also the rating games, two peerages do battle against each other and the winner gets a reward, if that one winning peerage continues to win, the members continue to grow as well. Eventually you become so renowned in the rating game that they have no choice but to promote you based on your deeds in them alone," then she turned a little down at that, "unfortunately the only options available to us is the first two, at the moment I'm not qualified to participate in them."
Zen-Aku thought on what she was saying for a moment, if the devil community was strong enough, they could eventually ware him down or send something like a super devil after him, he didn't need that, so becoming a stray was out of the question, at least for now anyways. The other two methods could take that much longer to, these devils sound like a race that relies heavily on red tape and bureaucracy, with that in mind, "I'll be a part of your peerage," they all cheered, "but as long as this duke transfer is in, if it gets thrown out, I'm gone too."
They all turned a little downcast at that, "fine, will you at least also go make some pacts as well," Rias asked and got an incline of his head to look at him, "oh, I guess I could cast another illusion on you," he growled at that, "what, how else are you going to go to school to keep your cover."
"I'm several millennia old, I'm older than you and possibly even your devil king, and I know more than that little pervert ever knew, and judging from how much I saw when that so called teacher was teaching, I know more than him as well, so I will not be going back to school," Zen-Aku stated.
"What exactly are we going to tell everyone happened to Issei, they saw you coming here while looking like him didn't they, so we can't just let everyone see that and make the assumption that we did something with him, plus how are you going to make pacts while like that," she countered.
"Easy," he stated before his form was briefly distorted and in it's place was Issei, only this time he was in all black clothing, black shoes, jeans, and muscle shirt, but he also looked older, like he was in his twenties, only he had amber eyes instead of his usual brown, but then the org was back. "I can't use that form for but a few hours at the most, enough time to pull off as many contracts as I can and then I revert back," he explained and they were shocked, he smirked a bit at their looks, "however I'm only able to do this because when you revived me, you didn't revive the boy."
"That's right, I never told you about how you were revived," Rias summoned her chess set and it materialized in front of them, "this is the evil pieces, chess pieces that, when implanted, can revive someone into a devil, it saved your life but also turned you into a devil at the same time."
"Yet, why wasn't Issei Hyoudou revived as well," Akeno questioned and looked to the org after, "shouldn't the evil pieces revived him as well since I assume you're life force is connected with his," she guessed the nature of the mask, and what she said was close, but not close enough.
"Somewhat, under normal circumstances, when someone puts on my mask, I take over their body and their life force I hold separately since I already have my own life force, but when Yuma stabbed me, I had to also use the boy's life force first to ensure that I survived past the boy. In short, the boy died after I was stabbed by the third spear, when Yuma left and you came," he motioned to Rias, "I was close to death myself, and so I believe that I'm now the permanent host to the vessel that was once known as Issei Hyoudou, so I can change to fit that form."
"That might be the case, but that would also mean that the sacred gear, the reason why Yuma was targeting him in the first place, is also now yours and that also means we have to figure out what it is," Rias stated to him and was about to tell him something else when he put up his right hand.
This action silenced her and then he focused himself, he looked deep within and pulled out the first form of the sacred gear, on his left hand appeared a red gauntlet, the first layer was a standard gauntlet, the second layer added on to the first one with a smaller design of the first. Where the wrist would be was a green gem that glowed a bit, where the back of his hand was another green gem, not as big as the other one, on the sides of the gear was two dark yellow sparks that stretched the length of the gauntlet, "I assume this is it, not really my type of thing."
He sent it back to within him as Rias spoke up, "after we do some research on it, we can then find out what it actually can do," she stepped away from her desk and turned even more serious, "now to serious matters, one that I'm afraid of the answer to, where do you plan on staying now."
"When I was back in my world, I usually just found abandoned shacks, caves, a few abandoned buildings, and one time just in the forest, so I guess I'll do the same here," Zen-Aku said absentmindedly, and that was the answer that Rias was afraid he'll answer with.
"I will not have my servant stay in the street, and since nobody can actually know of your existence, does anybody want to put him up for the night," she sounded almost pleading at that, nobody raised their hands, "then you will stay with me for the time being, and during the day?"
"I'll figure something out, I'm sure a few contracts could need for me to tail a target in the shadows, a few others could need a few different things as well, I'm good with getting my hands dirty, so it's fine to give me contracts that fit that description," he mentioned to her seriously.
"That might be able to work, we've had to throw out some requests for such things in the past, we never had anyone that wanted to do that kind of work, but with you here we might be pulling in a bigger haul than ever before," Akeno mentioned from her memory of the contracts.
"Very well, Akeno, please notify my brother of the change of personnel and that we're now active for that kind of work thanks to Zen-Aku, Kiba, pull up all contracts and have them ready for tomorrow, Koneko, notify Sona that Issei will no longer be in school or home ever again." Rias turned to the duke org, "I guess we'll be going back to my house so I can show you where you'll be staying for the next few days, and I don't want to have to tell you about picking up after yourself if you shed while in my house," she added with a glare towards him.
He was unaffected by such a thing so he just stood near the middle of the room and waited, the others moved to get to their homes or do their assigned jobs that couldn't be put in for tomorrow, Rias moved to stand beside him before summoning a magic circle and teleporting them home.
Rias's house
They appeared in a lavish room with a mostly colorful atmosphere, the couches were mainly a dark base design but had a bright cushion for sitting, same with the chairs, the path to the kitchen wasn't lit up, but his eyes could see it was also meant to be bright in there as well. Same with the place of the stares, in fact, the entire house seemed to be made for a bright colors loving person, quite the contrast to what the clubroom looked like, for a moment he didn't like that, but decided not to comment about what he didn't like with her, it didn't matter to her.
"There are some blankets in that closet," Rias brought him out of his observations of the house, pointing him to a closet in the living room, possibly so guests could have easy access to blankets and such, "help yourself, I'm going to shower," he just inclined his head, "and no peaking."
He paused in his movement and you could actually see the vein in the back of his neck, "I'll tell you this one time, I'm no longer that pervert that would peak the first chance he got, don't confuse that again," she stared at him wide eyes before he continued to move for the blankets.
She ran upstairs to begin her shower before bed, it seems that he was a bit too sensitive about Issei's past label as a pervert, but he still didn't have to be so mean about it, Rias wondered what had happened in his past to make him like that, so mean and rude to everyone. She had gotten in the shower and turned it on as she continued to think, 'it could be that he was betrayed by those close to him, that seems like something that might have happened to him,' she felt the warm water cascade down her form when a thought came to her. 'Maybe he wasn't betrayed, but rejected, perhaps by a woman, or maybe a previous host, if he was rejected by a woman, was it a human woman or an org woman, I wouldn't even know what one might look like or what he is in to, for him she could be beautiful but to us a hideous monster. Being rejected by a previous host though, I can understand why he was rejected from a looks standpoint, who'd want to be a wolf monster forever, despite the power advantage, but to be so close to someone that you share a body, I'd never understand how that rejection feels to him.'
She was done with the shower at the end of her mini monologue so she turned off the water and stepped out of it, grabbing a towel to dry off with and then headed for her room, she didn't bother taking clothes with her since she slept in the nude anyway, just travel there with a towel on. By now the duke org must be asleep so she was sure to be as quiet as possible when she grabbed her body pillow out from under her bed, how she got the habit of having to sleep in the nude and cuddling something she'll never understand, but oh well, at least she's coping with it. She started to drift off to sleep as she continued to think, 'to be honest though, his duke org form might just be cuddly with all that fur, it's got to be warm in the winter, nice and safe feeling in the summer, maybe it wouldn't be so bad to be liked by someone you could cuddle with.'
Zen-Aku had a very different experience though, after Rias ran upstairs, he went to the closet and got out some blankets while in deep thought, 'why do I have to stay here with another person,' the blankets were just plane white sheets since he didn't need heavy fabric since he had fur. 'I know what she said but I can't help but feel like it's a bit of a useless sentiment, I was fine being on my own in the other world, so why am I humoring these people,' he spread the blanket out before moving to remove his dark wolf armor before he realized something. 'I guess I can use them to gain some influence, a reputation unlike any I'd had before, then go back into hiding and become secluded again, that's the only thing that I can live like, a secluded soul that's bound into loneliness, that's all someone like me deserves.'
He got fully undressed except for in his pants and got under the covers of the couch, 'I guess it is possible that in that loneliness I could have some comfort for a change, nobody ever said that I must always be uncomfortable in my seclusion from the rest of the world, just tried to kill me. Though, to be fair, I do understand where they're coming from when asked to share a body with a duke org that was powerful enough to kill the master of the race, yet it still hurts to think about how Merrick callously threw away my soul, maybe when I'm back in seclusion it won't hurt as bad. Though that still depends on what will happen in the future, if I'm able to retain my duke status than I'll be set up with pieces automatically, which I can choose to use or not, that would also mean they'll give me a small fortune, which I'll use to remain secluded for as long as possible. If I have to work at it however, I'm afraid what might happen if I'm forced to interact with these devils too much, they might grow on me and make me desire companionship, or they might grow to hate me and reject me,' he yawned as his eyes became heavy, 'in either case, I need rest for tomorrow.'
A/N: As always with my stories, this will not be a harem story with Zen-Aku, this will however be a story that I may or may not have a love interest at all with him, I've yet to decide so you are welcome to give your opinions in the review as you wish, I'll take them all into consideration, I only ask that you give reason(s) as to why you chose who you choose. Not M/M, not M/multiple, and I don't know why I feel the need to include this, not a M/Milf (except Venelana Gremory, I'll allow that).
