After being released from the nurses' care, Issei had learned he had missed most of his next class and had only one left to go before the tournament began.

The class was being held in a rather large room, stairs leading down to a floor beneath for the teacher to talk.

Asia was with him as they found some empty seats, as other students filed in. It was like a change came over them, their human disguises vanishing to show the truth beneath.

All of these students were clearly of the supernatural world. Of course, they were also seeing several humans that Issei had to guess were in the know or were born into it.

Then the teacher stepped in and Issei felt something brush against his mind, bringing images of old crushes and even more doujins he had read before breaking it off with the Perverted Duo. He shoved those images out of his head as he looked at the teacher, realizing why she was causing such a reaction. One could not see the utterly sinful female demon and not realize she was a succubus, one that was giving her class the stink eye.

"Settle down," She hissed, her teacher's glasses only adding to her alluring 'naughty teacher' look, which in all honesty she probably didn't want to look like, "we also have two new students with us from Kuoh."

Issei felt Asia grab his hand as the teacher looked at them both, "Issei Hyoudou and Asia Argento. I expect that while here, you will listen and learn, I don't accept those into my class that will only skive off to look at me or any of the older students, understood?"

Something in the way she said that gave Issei the mental image of a shadow that looked like the teacher, but wasn't fully there. Like it was some predatory monster that would devour his soul in a heartbeat.

"U-Understood." Issei said.

"Good," She said before looking at the class, "as stated before, I am Isabiel Verosika. The only reason you are here is to learn about the Supernatural World, however, most would only want you to look at the surface and forget about the iceberg that is underneath the surface of the water. They wish for you to only see the great things they've done for Humanity, when in fact Humanity scares them."

Issei blinked in surprise at that information, he would have thought it was the other way around. What had humans done to terrify the Supernatural World?

"From the beginning of time," Isabiel said, magic swirling around her as it created images of humans and other beings that could only be a part of the Supernatural World, "Humans were always at the bottom of the food chain. However, things changed drastically the moment mankind started to innovate."

The magical images shifted, turning from the scared humans and proud beings of the Supernatural to show off Humans creating and innovating while the others watched.

It was a rather odd sensation to watch, as Issei was still human himself. As he watched, the humans moved, hunted and actually brought down Mammoths and then started domesticating herds of animals, including Unicorns.

"Humans were far more resilient and relied on their innovation and creativity that they started to do things that the Supernatural World hadn't thought of in generations. Humans created weapons of war for defense, tamed the creatures of the fields and plains and mountains. They then started to create societies that grew in size and legend, from the City of Enoch to the great walls of Babyolon itself."

As she spoke, the images became bigger and much more detailed. Humans building vast cities, kings being crowned to the cheers of the people.

"Then we had to stick our noses in," Isabiel said with a sigh, "We interfered due to our arrogance and need to be better than Humanity."

The images showed the walls of Babylon burning, monsters rampaging through its streets as people defended their homes. Issei felt his heart clench in pain as he watched, as the magic continued to show the scenes.

"That interference caused Humanity to rise up," the Succubus Teacher said, "People like Enoch and Gilgamesh, humans of great power and might in not only physical stature but also in mind. Enoch was able to command the world to defend his people, mountains crushing the armies sent after the City of Enoch before God brought him and his people, who were all righteous in his view, to Heaven itself."

"Gilgamesh," She waved her arms and the man appeared, with a dark retangular beard that was the Babylonian style of the day, "King of Humanity, faced off against multiple Gods and Goddesses. Defeating their attempts to subjugate to the point where they created Enkdu to stop him, but that failed as well."

Then the magic caused the city to blow away like dust, "Babylon soon fell to the Persians, but the Supernatural World refused to be bested. Humanity had to be stopped, but they had nothing to stop them with, for Humanity had started to do what it did best."

"Humans started to create weapons that could counter the powers of the supernatural. Even though Humans could learn magic, those that did became complacent and like unto us. Humanity didn't stop creating and soon, things were leading to a war that would last through the ages that caused us to go into hiding."

The magic Isabiel used showed the humans creating armor, trebuchets and swords. Learning and becoming even better at the art of war and destruction. Then the first battle happened, Humanity striking and tearing apart the armies of the Supernatural with an unbridled need to survive.

"Humanity struck first, hitting the Elves and Fae first. In doing so, they ripped open the floodgates and let out the rest of the world upon themselves. However, this didn't stop them at all. Creation gave way to new weapons and new weapons to push back the tide of death that surrounded them. Humanity soon started spreading all over the planet, taking the land from those that had inhabited it before them in greater numbers. It became apparent that Humanity had become a true threat to even the Gods."

The armies fought against beings that stood taller then them, powers blasting massive holes in their ranks but they continued to push onwards. These beings fell underfoot and were slaughtered, their powers fading into nothing.

"Pantheons went to fight them, only to be slaughtered and massacred. Nothing could stop humanity, not even the mighty Dragons could even stop them. In fact, Humanity tamed the Beasts of Power. They rode them into battle, tearing swaths of death across the world."

The magic showed the images of humans riding dragons into battle, men and women alike as they fought against the much larger and more dangerous world.

"Soon," Isabiel said, "It came to a head. Humanity created the first guns and the Supernatural world was soon facing its own problems. Humanity had forgone using magic and created newer weapons that could do damage by punching through armor and even magic itself if it was fired hard enough. The hand cannon gave way to the musket and then the modern day weapons of war, Humanity had surpassed the Supernatural in waging war by sheer innovation and need to survive."

She then chuckled, "Then God had to interfere, himself. He gave the Humans Sacred Gears in the past to help them defend themselves from the Supernatural world. He only enabled them to go even further into their creativity, certain myths that made man or woman a demi-human were actually simply humans with Sacred Gears."

She then slashed her hand through the magics, causing them to vanish into nothing.

"So, the Supernatural World did the only thing it could think of. They wiped Humanity's knowledge of the entire supernatural world, or at least tried. Humanity broke the mind wipe, but the Supernatural went into hiding, leaving only the myths and stories of themselves behind. In fact, most of regular human history is told after this point in time as Humanity turned on itself and nearly wiped itself out. But they came back, rebuilt and told the stories until we have what is now."

Isabiel shook her head, "But even then, the Supernatural World couldn't leave Humanity alone for long."

Using her magic, Isabiel caused a figure to appear, "This is what today's lesson is on, one of the only two species known to us. The first is the Orc, the other is the War Ork."

"War Orks are the more dangerous of the two species due to actually having a nasty habit of being like humans, they are social. But they also are able to use magic and in some cases, warp reality to a minor degree. Thankfully, they haven't learned or created a gun or everyone would be in trouble. Fortunately, it is also due to the War Orks finding no pleasure in long range combat so that may be why they don't even consider using guns."

"War Orks were first discovered by the Supernatural when Gilgamesh was fighting the Gods themselves," Isabiel said as her magic showed a rather huge figure that was covered in cruel looking armor that looked to be made out of multiple various other armors, "when one of the generals were caught off guard by a entire caravan of them while trying to flank Gilgamesh."

"They killed every soldier and pillaged the armor and weapons before vanishing into the world, only to show up later during the rule of the Pendragons after the hiding of the Supernatural world. War Orks armies attacked the armies of Uther Pendragon by the millions, led by their King War Master, Granzskull Slasherz."

The magic changed to show a very pale War Ork that was covered in jet balck armor that looked to be fused with his skin, like they put the pieces on his body while they were still burning hot. In his hand was a gigantic sword that was stained in blood, as his other arm had something similar to a cannon but it was crackling with magical energy. It's eyes were both blood red and rather intelligent, looking at everyone like he knew their secrets.

"Slasherz is the first and only King War Master known in the War Ork species," Isabiel lectured, "He was the most intelligent and most human-like of his kind, gathering all the clans of War Orks under one banner and growing them into a real fighting force."

"I iz Granzskull Slasherz! King War Master of the War Orkz! I have slaughtered Elves, Fae, Angels and Devils on my way here, King Human Utherz! You will fall to my blade and your pathetic human world will fall!"

This caused the class to jump at that bellowing and deep voice of Granzskull, the magical representation of him moving in a rather intimidating fashion as he spoke.

"Uther Pendragon and his armies went toe to toe with the War Orks," Isabiel said, as though the magical representation didn't even speak, "for eight years, the two sides fought. In the end, Uther defeated Granzskull with his Fae blade. The King War Master was supposedly disintegrated under its might, but War Orks have the uncanny ability to survive even the most dangerous of attacks. However, this broke the War Orks and they fled back into their realms."

The bell rang, breaking the spell Isabiel had over them. Issei felt his heart racing as he looked at Asia. Her face was pale, shaking a bit.

"I expect the class to be ready to continue the lesson on War Orks tomorrow," Isabiel said as the students got up from their desks, "we will learn more about their society, tactics and hierarchy then."

Lunch was a rather noisy affair, as it would lead into the first of the Aiichi-Kuoh Tournament games.

Issei was surrounded by his friends which happened to be all girls. Akeno, Asia, Aika, Katase and Murayama were all around him as they were pulling out their lunches. They were all talking about their lessons and classes, as well as the new moves Naima showed them that morning.

"...As she was finishing the move," Katase said, explaining it to Asia, "Naima twisted around and caught the accidentally thrown Bouken in her hand. It was so awesome!"

Murayama nodded, smiling as she ate her food in silence. Unlike Katase, Murayama preferred to be the silent watcher and not speak unless it was necessary to do so. It was due to a birth defect, Issei had learned from Katase, that had caused her vocal cords to not properly grow. She could speak, but it was hard and it hurt her voice box to speak more than a few simple words.

Asia could have healed it, but Murayama didn't ask.

"Well," Akeno said, after swallowing her mouthful of food, "Aiichi has a very interesting class for those that have an Occult background."

Aika raised an eyebrow, "Really?"

Akeno nodded, "Indeed, it was very useful. Rias and I enjoyed the lesson given, it was a pretty large class too."

Katase snorted, "I don't believe that, but ok. So, on to the tournament."

Issei raised his eyebrow at that, "we are betting on who would win?"

Katase snorted, "I wish, I don't have enough yen for that."

"Why are we betting in the first place?" Asia asked, concerned in her voice.

"Because it's become a tradition in these tournaments to do so," Issei explained, looking at Aika, "Started by Aika, and got her a rather nice amount of cash out of it too."

Aika looked unrepentantly at him, "Not going to go back on it either."

Katase snorted, "Because then you'd miss the yearly income allowance you get for correctly predicting the future of the events."

Aika looked smug, "Not my fault that they took my twenty to one odds that Kuoh would get first, second and third places in the upcoming swimming tournament. I'll be several million yen richer than before."

Akeno chuckled, "Rich girls that can show off their money."

The ground shook, metal shrieked, brilliant light exploded as it tore into the hordes of unrelenting demonic-eldritch horrors. Creatures spawned due to the mispronunciation or purposefully done so, it didn't matter now. When the rip in the realm appeared, the Norse were first to answer it with a mighty army of tens of thousands. Then Odin had asked for some assistance from other deities in his realm, getting the likes of the Hunter Ullr, the Norse Goddess of the Sun Sol and even Loki's daughter, the Goddess of Helhiem, Hel.

The Norse armies fought for ages until Thor was forced to do something he never thought he would have had to do: call in assistance from another pantheon.

He had a few favors to pick from, but he eventually decided to go with Heaven, the only ones that were the closest and most reliable, aside from the Hindu, but the Hindu had shut themselves off from internal-pantheon politics as of six hundred years ago, so that was off the table.

When Heaven answered, Thor expected the old armies to charge through with shields, swords and spear. What he got was a Heaven that carried guns that fired light spears as projectiles, artillery that launched rounds of Minor Universal Truths at the enemy and Angels that wore armor that looked like it came out of the human Warhammer 40,000 universe. Though, in all honesty, Heaven had the armor before the humans ever thought of that universe at all, so the humans stole it from Heaven itself.

Of course, Heaven's armies were mostly around the same height so no eight foot tall 'space marines' here. Thor had wanted to see one, but given that he was trying to keep this minor realm that was torn apart from becoming a realm the size of the Nine main ones, he was sort of busy on this one.

The one leading them had been Gabriel, not someone like Michael or even Jesus. But, no, what he got was a rather interesting introduction to Heaven's Strongest and Most Beautiful Archangel since Lucifer.

Thor Odinson and the warriors three were battling the eldritch entities when a gigantic gate of holy light erupted into existence, causing the demons to start screaming in anguish agony before retreating into the shadows. The red-headed God of Thunder turned towards the light and couldn't actually believe his eyes for a second as fully armored Angels came rushing through the gateways light, weapons blazing as they fired into the retreating hordes.

"By the beard of Ymir," Silf said under her breath, looking at the armored warriors as they passed, "what did Heaven do in the time that their Father passed?"

"Clearly increased their armaments," Thor said, before looking at the three, "I'd suggest going to the wounded and getting them healed up. We need all the warriors we can get and a dead one isn't a good one to help keep this threat from spreading."

As the three rushed off, he felt something behind him that made him feel like he was standing way too close to Sol. Turning, Thor found himself nearly blinded by the woman that stepped out of the pillar and up to him.

"Gabriel?" Thor asked in astonishment, not actually believing his own senses.

Gabriel had been the shy, innocent girl when Yahweh had been alive. This was anything but shy, Gabriel stood before Thor like some War Goddess or even Lucifer himself.

Her once soft blue eyes had become blazing glorious stars within her skull, her blonde hair was softly pulsing with a holy power that was much more implied than shown. Her wings-oh those wings, Thor nearly wanted to touch one due to the beauty of them all.

"Thor Odinson," Gabriel said, her voice was ethereal and even musical, but had a dark undertone to it that said she was in charge, "Mother Eden sends her regards, but is busy dealing with Midgard, as you call it."

"Indeed," He smiled and greeted Gabriel the way a warrior should, grabbing her wrist and squeezing, "well met, Gabriel. The war goes steadily, but not well. Those creatures are learning fast. They're using weaponry with a wider range than before, breaking our numbers down greatly before we can even destroy one. You came at the right time to turn the tides against them.``

Gabriel smiled softly before squeezing her armored hand in return. Her armor was made of the purest white, stylized with golden runes and letters of the Hebrew language. On her thigh plates were twin guns that looked like bolter pistols, while in her free hand was a massive bolter-like gun with a stock. Her entire being felt like he was standing next to Yahweh again, she was that powerful. What had happened to her to cause this change in her being. From a harmless innocent girl to a near Elohim-class entity?

"Then we don't have time to waste," The archangel said, releasing Thor's hand before looking at the battlefield with those eyes made of stars, "Who else is here?"

Thor lifted Mjölnir in the direction of the front lines, "Sol has taken the left flank, while Ullr has positioned himself on the right. Hel has been working on supplying them the troops needed while also healing them. Even though they are from Helheim, my Niece has brought her gigantic canine guardian, Garm, with her."

Gabriel nodded, "Then let those who are waiting for their work to be done on Earth reinforce the front lines. They'll build trenches and set up the artillery to destroy those that try to reinforce the ones that get too close."

"Indeed," Thor nodded before starting to spin Mjölnir, "I shall go to help Ullr as he has need of me soon, sooner than it seems."

"Go then, Thunderer," She says before spreading her half dozen pairs of wings wide, "I will help Sol as my Generals will reinforce the front."

Thor then flew off into the sky, using Mjölnir to take him to Ullr as Gabriel vanished behind him.

Gabriel had changed, she knew that. Over the course of time, she had grown in power and even wisdom. But, not even time or knowledge could heal old wounds. Within her heart, she still felt the stab wounds of the deaths of her favorite sibling, her Father and those that fell. Be they those that followed Lucifer or those that followed Azazel to escape from the war between family members.

Then, after her Father's death, she had a realization. She was one of the only older children left, out of four. Jesus, Lucifer, Michael and herself. Jesus and Michael had taken too much time with changing Heaven, new rules being created and implemented to keep others from making the same mistakes as in the past. The need for 'perfection' her Father always wanted was rewritten and reimagined, fit for a better Heaven and better people.

But, she, Gabriel, was alone.

Gabriel had no other sibling to talk to, the only one that would ever listen or talk with her was Lucifer. The Morningstar always made time for her and explained everything to her when she didn't understand.

But he was dead now, along with his four Eldest sons upon that ancient battlefield.

So, Gabriel had changed.

She became the strongest of the Archangels, out-shining even Jesus Christ, who was going to take their Father's throne upon taking the trails that had been given him. Michael and Jesus looked at her with worry typical for siblings, but they didn't understand her after Lucifer and Father were killed. Her Mother did, yes, but after that final goodbye the day they died…Gabriel made her choice.

She became something else.

As her knowledge and power increased, she started to gain understanding and further Truth had come to her. Like her Father and Mother, she started understanding the Universal Truths that bond and shaped the universe itself.

She became the first to be able to summon Truth as an energy, fashioning it into attacks that could easily tear apart planets if she put her all into it. But, her Mother told her no. It was one of the things she told her not to focus on at all, for Truth always hits home and will reveal the lies that so desperately wish to stay in the darkness and be lost forever.

So Gabriel did something else, she changed herself to be more like her parents and became more deific. Her power skyrocketed and with it, she lost her innocence and became a new woman. She then started training with the greatest warriors of all times, learning as much as she could with what she had available to her. Not even Michael, who had been able to beat Lucifer in sword to sword combat, could defeat Gabriel. Jesus refused to battle her, wanting no part in her need to be more.

"I will not stop you, Gabriel," Jesus said before warning filled his voice, "but, if you become the very thing that caused Lucifer, our brother, to turn on the family. I will stop you and use Excalibur on you. As Father's words were, my words are now, they are law and irrevocable in both Heaven and Earth."

Gabriel knew that too, Jesus was the Heir to everything Elohim had and she was simply one of those that would be under his command when he took the throne.

As of now, Eden reigned in Father's stead and made sure everything was run better then what Father had done. Gabriel knew she had to change so she didn't become like Lucifer in the end, for it wasn't power that drove him to madness.

Lucifer fell because Father had made something that would cause the Humans to become a race of danger unto everything.

Gabriel didn't realize until it was too late that Father creating the Sacred Gears would be, the Humans becoming a super race within the first dozen years of obtaining and awakening them.

Lucifer had been right, declaring Humanity to be a threat that didn't need help from Gods in the first place. He had also declared that if Humanity had to be led, it was by example and through some rather rough teachings.

In the end, Jesus had realized these words of wisdom and had used them to teach what would become the Children of Israel.

While Gabriel learned that his last words had been for Mother to protect Gabriel from the war that would happen between himself and Father.

She then had watched as Humanity grew then fell, forgetting everything about the supernatural before the day the Great War came. Eden kept her away as Lucifer asked, but both didn't see them fall. So, she became greater in everything that she hadn't been before. Gabriel even forged her own armor in the heart of the star that kept Heaven's skies lit.

Within the heart of Kolob, she created her armor into perfection. She even absorbed some of the star's own essence while forging. In the end, she had grown up. Escaping the shadows created by the lights of her elder siblings, becoming her own star.

Gabriel became more than just the innocent little girl that would cause Heaven to fall if her wardrobe vanished, she was now its strongest and most dangerous warrior under Eden's reign.

Even now, she still feels alone in Heaven.

All around her, angels are having families. Children are running around in Heaven once more and their parents are smiling. Gabriel smiles, but can't help but feel that emptiness inside her grow as she watches, unable to fully have the joy they were having. She was left alone as she knew no one to marry or fall in love with, leaving her even more empty inside.

So Gabriel took up Thors' need for help, needing to leave Heaven to forget these things that haunted her. She needed to do something that wasn't just staring and hoping for a miracle to happen. That got no one anywhere, Gabriel knew that one by experience.

It was time for her to wage war.

Sol was many things, but depressed wasn't one of them. She was a rather cheerful, childlike Goddess that was seen as a nuisance by the other Norse Pantheon. Why, she had no idea. Even though she did enjoy Thors' company as he was one of the only ones to actually try and understand her. It was how she got him into ice cream from Earth!

"Oh, fun! You take some of this and you have some of that!"

Sol was also a terrifying combatant on the battlefield, given that she was The Sun given a rather sexy female body. As she threw plasma around like baseballs, causing beams of solar power to torch anything and calling upon the solar winds to tear into her victims.

Sol laughed through it all and only left ashes behind, so nothing stood against her. She had been rather bored when Odin asked for her help, so she eagerly took up with the fight, actually finding some fun in it due to relieving some pent up energy.

"Sol," The voice of Gabriel said over the burning solar flames that swirled under her in a circle about a meter across, "I see you're still a child at heart."

"Hey Gabriel!" Sol waved before spinning around like the air was water, hurling a rather massive ball of plasma energy at a group of charging foes, "I'm always having fun! No one but Thor seems to understand that though."

As she pouted, Sol's plasma slammed into the ground and engulfed the group of enemies below them in flames before collapsing in on itself. This incinerated them all as Sol turned, looking at the Archangel.

The Archangel was followed by several thousand troops that looked like they belonged in the trenches of some grim dark space campaign. Except, they had halos over their heads and Sol could see the faint outlines of wings coming out of their backs.

"Who are these?" She asked, 'swimming' through the air to look at them closely, "They look like wingless angels…"

"They're those awaiting their work to be done on Earth," Gabriel explained as she motioned to the armies, "Until they're work is done, they aren't full angels. So, instead, they fight and work to keep Heaven clean and alive."

As Sol watched, one of the soldier's wings became real and the others cheered and congratulated the newly created angel. She smiled and waved to the new Angel before looking at Gabriel more closely.

"You haven't been sleeping well, Gabby," Sol chidded, wagging her finger at Gabriel, "You shouldn't be staying up all the time. I can't be up all the time you know! I do sleep, even though I'm THE Sun itself! Still don't know why most think of me as a guy though…"

Gabriel laughed, making Sol smile before tilting her head, "Who else is here? I didn't see Ruth or Sarah with you."

Gabriel rolled her eyes, "Ruth is with her husband, Sarah is also with Lehi. Both are dealing with the wounded warriors of Valhalla, while David is also doing his healing as well."

Sol clapped, smiling, "Good! I hope they are well! What about Helaman? Is he here today?"

"Helaman and his stripling warriors?" Gabriel nodded, smiling, "they are helping with Hel. She needed more assistance with her front, as Garm nearly got his leg torn off by some hell knight creature."

Sol gasped, hands on her cheeks, "No! Not Garmy! He's too cute to get hurt!"

"You say that, but Garm is gigantic," Gabriel started to point out then stopped, "but then, you are also the sun itself. You would see Garm as cute."

"Yes!" Sol pouted, "Garm is a cutie and deserves all the hugs and treats!"

Gabriel held up her hands, "You win, Sol."

Sol nodded her head in triumph, giving Gabriel the upturned nose look of superiority. That also made Gabriel smile more, which actually looked more natural then forced now.

Good, Sol didn't like her near Sun-light friend to be sad. Sol had been sad before, it caused her to actually turn all sorts of purple and black and made her feel sick to her core. She never wanted to be that way again, all dark and miserable.

Not only that, Sol almost caused Ragnorak to happen because she had become depressed.

That was a big oopsie on her part.

She then looked over her shoulder and laughed, "Oh! They're back for more!"

The soldiers looked up and saw the oncoming hordes of eldritch demons rushing towards them. Sol simply lifted her hands and her power came down as multiple beams of solar energy slammed into the ground. It was like a wall of the sun had blocked the hordes' advance and killed a vast swath of them in the process, too. Sol looked smug at this and looked back at the armies.

"Well? I don't think you need to thank me," She shrugged before making a shooing motion with her hands, "Go on, stop staring at how awesome I am and please get to work! I don't want to leave the wall up for a long stretch of time or I might burn my way to the core of this realm. Then it would go boom and everyone would be gone."

That snapped everyone out of their stupor, as a few laughed and started to work. That made Sol feel great about herself, bringing joy to others actually made her feel good.

Megatronius Primaris was sitting upon his throne in his fortress, eyes closed as he rested his body. Being a near soulless being that looked like a cybertronian was more tiresome than grand, in all honesty. However, it was a mental tiredness as his body didn't need rest or nutrition. He simply closed his eyes and relaxed. It was one of the few times he ever 'rested', but then he saw the past come to him.

He had finished beheading something that was similar to a Minotaur, though he was sure it was a human with shaggy hair and some horns. His metal body was covered in blood as he looked up at the Caesar of Rome, his thumb was down as he had obeyed. Megatronius Primaris grimaced before Caesar stood up and the crowds went silent.

"Megatronius Primaris," He said, giving him a look of indifference, "You have fought in this arena for nearly fifty years. You have only one more fight before you, then you are a free man."

Megatronius sneered, but kept silent as Caesar motioned his hands to the far end gates, which began to open. Stepping out of the shadows came a young man, chiseled and built like a fighter. He was in a rather expensive loincloth as he grinned at Megatronius, his hair blonde and eyes an electric blue.

"This is my final fight?" He looked back at Caesar, "A blonde child from some rich family that I do not know?"

Caesar smirked, "It would seem that he is the son of Jupiter, Megatronius. His mother was visited by the King of the Gods, or so it is said."

Megatronius snorted before facing his opponent fully, his magical cannon building itself onto his right arm as his sword slid out from between barrel and arm. The boy rolled his shoulders before a sword handle appeared in his hand, then the sky started to darken and rumble. The handle started to change and shift, becoming a spear whose heads were in the shape of lightning. Electrical energies danced across his body as he started floating into the air, his eyes turning bright gold as he started laughing.

"Lord Primaris," A voice cut through the memory like a sword through flesh, "Lady Alice has returned from her travels."

Megatronius opened his eyes, as he looked at the speaker. A man that had been fused with his broken sacred gear that had the ability to phase him in and out of reality, which also made him harder to touch. Something the man missed as he couldn't touch his wife or children anymore after awakening his gear.

"Let her in, Adalos," He said, standing up as the man vanished out of reality to do what he said, "Lets see what my spy master has learned."

Alice came in, her seductive female form rippling like her skin was made of water. Then it changed, little pieces folding in on themselves to show the bio-organic body underneath. Then the body was covered by Alice's real body, a tanned Californian girl that looked between her early and late twenties.

"Report, Alice," Megatronius said in greeting, "what news have you for me?"

Alice blinked before smiling, "Good news, it seems that the 'leaders' of the Khaos Brigade are easily considering your entry into the organization."

He grinned, his sharp metal teeth showing.

"Good," Megatronius said, hands going behind his back as he tilted his head in a motion for Alice to continue, "What else?"

Alice hummed before answering, "Several of my clone minions have infiltrated Aiichi and have begun integrating themselves into the structure of the academy. They have also discovered a rather dark secret with the academy. They will continue looking for more information as they go."

"If anything happens on that front," He said, motioning to himself, "let me be the first to know."

"Always, my Lord," Alice smiled before she said, "I have also discovered several intriguing items within the Underworld. I have several of my minions procuring them for analysis and study, however, extraction will be messy due to who they belong to."

"And that is?"

"The third son of Lord Phenex," Alice answered instantly, "Riser Phenex. All of the items appear to be something like devices that look for individual parts that belong to a greater whole."

"Hmmm," Megatronius hummed, the hum sounding more like a growl of a metal predator, "keep me posted on any further events. What about Project Shock?"

Alice grimaced, "The only information pertaining to that is from the Grigori minion, given that Vali Lucifer has been hounding the minion due to it causing a rather big issue with the White Dragon Emperor. Nothing has been exactly gleaned from that except that Azazel is working on something that could be used as a sacred gear."

"I see," He nodded, "very well, Alice. You've done quite well, something I prefer everyone under my purview did."

Alice snorted, "Given that I'm the closest thing to a wife or lover you have, I'd prefer my head stay on my shoulders."

Megatronius snorted and looked at her, "Yes…I believe we both do."

"You have got to be kidding me!" One of the rich girls that Aika made her bet with shouted, looking incredulously as Kuoh won the swimming tournament in all three places, "How did she win?!"

Aika held out her hand, "The yen, if you please?"

The girl growled before slapping the check into Aika's hand, "Here!"

Aika then walked away, finding the next better that had tried to threaten her into a bet she knew she would win. Aika then would return to her friends with nearly sixty-nine million yen, in checks, which she showed off with a smug grin.

"I told you they were loose with their money here, Issei," She said smugly, giving Issei a look that said 'I told you so', "they were all rich girls with no actual brains."

"So you just got sixty-nine million yen out of that and then what?" Issei asked, "Are you going to put it into your bank account now?"

Aika nodded, "Have too, or someone may steal these."

Akeno giggled, "So, now you're one of the richest girls in the second year now, Aika."

Aika looked thoughtful at that, "I am, aren't I?"

Issei sighed before going to lay down on the grass, when Akeno sat down and put his head on her lap. He looked up questioningly at her, but Akeno put a finger to her lips.

"No talking," She instructed, "you need a nap after that intense swimming match our school put in. You also have a still active medical case on you so you will rest, Asia will be back with some dinner and we'll wake you up."

"Alright, alright, you win, Akeno," Issei sighed, "This time."

Akeno only smiled sirenly at Issei, like this was her plan all along. Issei closed his eyes as the darkness calmed him, only to be woken up by Akeno again.

"Issei," She said in a rigid voice, "we have a problem."

"What's wrong?"

"Asia is missing," Akeno said, "someone snatched her while she was grabbing our dinner."