Rias looked around not because she was afraid or surprised to find herself cut off from the world she had just moments ago been standing in.
No meeting between opposing powers was usually held in pocket realities separate from the human world, it was a mess sure used to both keep the humans from getting unnecessarily involved or having someone that wanted to do anyone inside the barrier harm.
Yet the world around her didn't seem to have any of the irregularities pocket realities tended to have, meaning that this room was as real as any of the worlds she knew about.
An empty world that had nothing in it, just the color white as far as the eye could see.
"Explain," Max said to the four devils that stood in front of him.
"I want to know what you and your organization are doing in my territory?" Rias said\ demanded
Max and Mark looked at one another and weighed their options, on one side they could say the truth.
If they did this it would honestly leave them exposed to an attack as it would make them look weak, but if they lied not only would it make them seem like more of a threat but could even discourage the devils from attacking them.
So they decided to lie.
"We have always been here princess, this world belongs to the humans, not the devils and as far as what we plan, to be perfectly honest nothing at all" Mark answered Rias, he had said the truth however mark knew that when people refused to listen, the truth would sound like a complete lie to them.
"I see, then I wish to discuss the fates of the two Humans that you have taken under your care"
"If they keep their memories, they will eventually become targets for one of the three factions and if not then one of the other groups," Rias said to max and mark but her eyes remained locked on Aika and Motohama.
As Rias looked at Motohama and Aika her attention was quickly taken by Aika's ring and Motohamas sword.
There was a sensation of power coming from both the humans and the objects themselves, Rias had seen several Sacred Gears in her life and several different kinds of mystical weapons.
Some were used by devils, others by the servants of the fallen and she had even seen a couple used by the servants of the church, but the objects in front of her were completely different.
The sword seemed to look back at her whenever she tried to find something that might hint at its origin, a design on the sheath or the hilt of the sword, yet the harder she looked the more she felt as if something was looking back at her with.
For a brief moment Rias swore she found herself staring at a beast's massive jaw, she imagined using all of her demic power to kill the beast, yet she only managed to slow the creature down.
Immediately after recovering from her attack, the creature resumed its attempt to consume her, however, this time Rias was completely exposed and the beast would devour her.
Rias managed to separate her eyes from the sword and looked at Aika's ring, there was nothing there, no that wasn't right.
Rias could see the ring, but the wings that had decorated its sides were gone, Rias blinked and she found a triangle-like shield made of light floating between her and Aika.
She blinked again and there was a dome, she blinked one more time and she found herself screaming as something was cutting her from the inside out.
"That's not a decision for either of us to make" Mark answered Rias.
Rias blinked and she realized that she was still having the meeting with the two men, the fact that they had just answered her statement meant that everything she had just experienced had happened in a brief instance.
"So what do you two want, will you take the blue pill, forget about everything and go back to your normal lives," Mark said to Motohama and Aika as he tried to use a quote from the Matrix
"Or will you take the red pill, stay in wonderland and see how far the rabbit hole goes" Max finished Mark's reference.
Rias looked at the two teens in front of her, they were no older than she was, however unlike her, they were mere humans, humans that had been changed due to their exposure to the supernatural.
Whatever power they had gained Rias was certain that the two men standing in front of the pair were responsible for it.
What Rias didn't understand was why change two humans that had nothing special about them, there was no benefit to having either one of them.
Neither had any particular skills worthy of noticing, neither were particularly good at defending themselves and as far as intelligence or instinct was concerned, they were both below average.
And yet both men stood between her and the two teens protectable, like guard dogs ready to strike should their masters be put in any harm.
Rias watched as the young man and woman looked at one another and immediately turn to look at her.
'No" both of them answered her
"Aika and I nearly dd because of that monster, then we find out there are more monsters running around and you want us to forget about it," Motohama said to Rias but his words carried more anger in them than he had expected
"We saw you do something to Issei."
"We know you turned him into a devil, one of your slave," Aika said to Rias and Rias had to admit she was slightly angered by the Aikas statement
It was true she had turned the brown-haired teen, but he was dying and whatever power he held would soon pass down to its next user.
Yet she wasn't there by choice, no Issei had summoned her and she had granted his wish, unfortunately for Issei, he had no way of paying for the wish, so Rias took her payment in the only way she could.
She made him into her servant.
'I don't see why I should discuss the fate of one of my peerage with you but if you want an answer to your accusation."
"Issei made a wish and I granted it to him," Rias said to Aika and Motohama.
"I see, is there a way for you to let him go free," Max said to Rias
Rias couldn't help but smirk, nothing could undo the effects of an evil pice, it changed the soul of whatever it is implated into to a devil's soul, so the effects were permanent.
"I could, but then he would turn into a stray devil and become just another one of those monsters you mentioned" Rias answered Max
'The" Motohama was about to say something when he felt Mark's hand on his shoulder.
Aika watched as Mark silence Motohama and she felt Max's hand on her shoulder.
"I guess that's it, please go on your way," Max said to Rias and her peerage as the world returned to what it had been before.
The two groups found themselves standing between two other groups that were ready to tear each other apart.
"Kenpachi, Alexander" max said to two of the men under his control
"Nothing much you know, it just so happened that while you two were having tea with those snakes, this bunch tried to sneak in and cause trouble" Alexander Anderson answered Max, he used his bayonets to point to the devils standing in front of him.
"Okay, that settles that, you and Kenpatcgi should have been more than enough to handle this bunch so why ae, one- two three- four five six of you out here?' Marked asked the rest of the group.
Mark watched as the group immediately relaxed and casually put away their weapons.
"Hey there was a fight and we wanted in" Grimmjow answered Mark, before the entire group turned around and walked into the church their presence immediately vanished from reality.
"Your presence vanished and we thought you might be in trouble," Sona said to Rias who just smiled at her friend
Max and Mark watched as the group of devils walked away, it was odd considering that they could just teleport away, but neither Max nor Mark questioned the devil's actions.
"Kenpachi Anderson, good job, go back inside," Max said to the two men who did as he told them.
"This tells us a lot, they don't know we can make their salves human again," Max said to Mark
"Not only that but they want to keep people ignorant of their existence, but that's nothing new. So why were they here, it's not as they considered us a threat until now?" Mark said to himself as he tried to understand what had just happened
"Forget about it, guess what I learned," Max said to Mark as he smiled.
The black-haired girl, the one with the huge breasts, she was half fallen, and half devil" Max said to Mark as he created a duplicate of the girl.
"The one with short grey or white hair is some sort of half-cat girl, half-devil" he added as an exact copy of the white-haired girl appeared in front o Markk.
The blond guy, he's the same as the other we have encountered, just another enslaved human, as for the redhead she seems to have some sort of power similar to but weaker to yours" Ma said to Mark
"What do you mean?" Mark asked Max
"She controls the power of destruction, and I mean she can completely erase something from existence" Max explained to Mark
Max watched as Mark walked up to Riasses copy and placed his hand on her head, the copy instantly smiled at him.
Let's start your training" Mark said to Motohama and Aika before nodding to Max, who created a copy of the student council.
"Honestly they come to our territory and don't expect us to try and learn everything we can about them," Max said to himself as the copies walked into the church and vanished from the world
At the edge of the territory, the entire group of devils stopped waking as they listened to Mark and Max talk.
They weren't able to see what was happening because of all of the barriers around the church, but they could hear what was being said thanks to their familiars.
Nothing they heard was out of the ordinary, but when their familiars finally left the church lands and reached their masters, all of the devils were forced to restrain themselves from going back and attacking the church.
The two men hadn't done anything wrong, after all, they had simply created illusions of the people they had encountered, it was something everyone did.
Yet from what their familiars said to them, these illusions weren't illusions, they were clones.
