After the small yet hectic meeting with the two new figures, Rias decided to take her peerage to the abandoned church that was in the upper part of town. She had some suspicion on Bryce's statement on the remaining fallen within the area. She didn't call him out at the club but she knew that he was hiding something from them.

The way he said that he dealt with them, and that one had escape… it didn't sit right with her. Feeling from his power earlier, he should've been able to deal with all three of them, so what was it?

"Buchou."

"Hmm?" Rias was brought out of her thoughts when she heard her queen called out to her. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, Akeno. Just thinking to myself." She said as she and co gazed up at the abandoned church. "Strange… I don't feel any power coming from here."

"Indeed, my instincts aren't screaming at me to run away. In fact, I don't feel any sense of danger at all." Kiba said with confusion written upon his face.

"Koneko." Rias called out to her Rook who was staring at the church with a frown on her face.

"I… I smell blood." She said as she walked forward and up the steps with the others following her. Once they got to the door, Koneko barely opened it and the stench hit their noses like a freight train, forcing them to cover their nostrils.

"Oh God, what is this-!?" Rias paused in horror as Koneko opened the door fully this time so they could enter but once they saw what was inside they remained stiff.

Numerous bodies of fallen angels were mutilated in various ways, broken windows were stained with blood or glass embedded in the fallen angles, hell there was one impaled in the middle of the ceiling with a huge piece of wood stabbed through their gut.

Soon, underneath there the secret room of where a ceremony should have taken place.

"Oh… my… god. Eh!" Akeno said before feeling the slight pain in her head of the forbidden word to devil, but she couldn't help it as she saw the onslaught of the fallen angels around her. she couldn't help but feel a little guilty about it. Sure she may have a hate for her status as a hybrid and has no problem punishing fallen angels but not to this degree. Not to this… manslaughter. It was inhumane.

"I guess Bryce wasn't kidding when he said he took care of them." Kiba said as he stepped over a dead body with their eyes missing. "Good thing, he wasn't descriptive about it."

Rias could nod her head at his statement. She was still baffled by how much blood was spilled and how cruel this scene looked. If she had to guess these were just followers of the fallen that were in command as she didn't find Dohnaseek or Kalawarner anywhere, so they had to be somewhere else.

As the redhead was thinking to herself, Koneko left the group as soon as they stopped and gazed at the bodies. When she walked over to the middle of the room, she noticed a small opening that looked like a secret room. Not bothering to tell the others, she opened and found herself a flight of stairs leading downwards.

Walking she smelled blood once again but not as bad as the first floor, but she had this feeling in her gut that what she was about to see would be worse than it was upstairs.

She hoped she was wrong.

As soon as she made it to the center of the cave she immediately stopped and her eyes widened in horror at what she saw.

"Koneko." Rias called out to her as the rest of them came up to her. "Don't run off like that. It's not like to even…" The redhead stopped as she noticed Koneko wasn't even moving.

Moving in to her side, Rias saw the little neko's eyes full of fear and horror as she followed her gaze and let out a gasp that got everyone's attention.

"Buchou… this… this is…" Kiba stuttered as he became stiff at the sight of what they saw as Akeno held a hand to her mouth.

In front of them, on the pedestal was Kalawarner and Dohnaseek. Or what's left of them.

Kalawarner had her eyes ripped out of her sockets, her wings ripped out of her body and stabbed inside her sockets with her mouth wide open. Her head was also decapitated and stuffed inside her chest with blood still dripping and her legs were cut into pieces.

Dohnaseek was even worse. He had his eyes ripped out of his mouth and had an entire wing shoved down his throat with his head on a pike and his body was tangled in front of them all mushed together like he was thrown into a junkyard incinerator.

"This is…a manslaughter." Kiba said as he fought the urge to throw up at the sight of the two fallen. "This is what he meant, when he said that he took care of them?"

"It's cruel. This is not even a merciless killing it's…"

"A complete manslaughter. That's what it is." Rias said as a frown marred her expression. 'Those two are more dangerous than I thought, I can't let them roam free murdering innocents as well.'

"If this is what they came here to do, I can't let them roam free." Rias said as she commanded them to follow them out as she would deal with the dead bodies later.

Koneko was still shivering in terror at what she saw, the way they were killed was inhumane and horrible. Instead of feeling fear and disgust towards the boy, she only felt concern for his mental state.

'Bryce… did all of this…?"

No one just goes around killing others for their own amusement, no the way they were killed, and how brutal it was… this was something else.

Koneko didn't know why but she needed to know, what drove him to do something like this? More importantly…

How do we help him?

Bryce was walking home in silence. After the conversation with the ORC, he decided to head home while she went to do her own things.

The only sounds ranging through his ears were the sound of the traffic lights changing and cars passing by every now and then. He was stopped in his tracks when he heard a small sound beside him, looking down he saw a black cat running through his legs as his eyes followed the small animal.

'A black cat?' he thought as his eyes followed the feline as it was crossing the street and then stopped on the other side of the sidewalk to look at him.

He stared back at the feline wondering what it wanted until a car slowly drove by in between them and the cat was gone. His gaze remained in place for a few more seconds before he continued walking home.

'What does she want?' He asked himself. He thought about the cat but put it away as he remembered that he had another guest at home, one that he needed to take care of.

Arriving at his home, Bryce opened the door and dropped his bag and shoes beside the door, leaning them against the wall before making his way to the living room. When he entered the room, his eyes gaze towards the couch where his guest was.

His guest was a petite teenage girl wearing a gothic Lolita outfit and her headband was placed on the table. Walking over he softly tapped her on the shoulder, earning a groan in response. The girl slowly sat up as she rubbed her eyes with her forearm. Trying to regain her vision, she looked and saw Bryce staring at her with hollow eyes with a hint of concern.

"Hi Mittelt." He greeted her as the latter had her eyes widened in recognition of who she was seeing as she immediately sat up.

"You're….you're from last night.?" She spoek as he nodded his head. The now named Mittelt was about to form a spear when Bryce raised his hands.

"Relax, I'm not going to hurt you."

"Then why didn't kill me?" She growled at him showing off her teeth.

"Because you were abused."

"…What?"

"Your wounds, i saw some that were recent and others that looked like they've been there for far longer." He told her.

Mittelt looked at him in shock as she quickly lifted her shirt and saw some gauge on the right side of her torso, one of the wounds that she had for a month.

"I'm sorry I for touching you, but I needed to see how deep your wounds were so i…"

"Why…?" Bryce looked up and saw the blonde fallen stared at him with a frown on her face.

"Why are you helping me?" she asked him as she gazed down to her lap. "Why would you help a fallen when I could just betray you and kill you later?"

She didn't receive an answer as she heard a shuffle and knew that he was moving. Mittelt closed her eyes and prepared for the worse as she waited for pain to hit her, but nothing came. Instead she felt a hand on her head caressing it softly.

Looking up she saw was met with hollow eyes but she could see a hint of sympathy within them.

"Because no one should be alone in this world, nor should they have to deal with abuse and be treated like they are a nuisance." He explained as he sat down next to her, his hand never leaving her head. "Every life in this world is precious, whether you are a human or a fallen, devil, angel, or simply something else, no life should ever deal with pain and hatred all their life." He turns his head to her. "Everyone deserves kindness in their life."

Mittelt could only stare at him in shock as she felt her body slowly starting to tremble. For as long as she could remember, she was never really treated as an equal back home in Grigori by anyone other than Azazel and Pemenue. Everyone else treated her like a child or a nuisance and was never taken seriously, her peers even tortured her whenever something went wrong on a mission, so seeing that this boy in front of her, this human, treating with her kindness even though she's an enemy was so foreign and shocking to her.

"Sorry if I made you uncomfortable." Bryce apologized before he noticed small tears going down the young fallen's face. He was about to get some tissue when suddenly she wrapped her arms around his waist and buried her head in his chest, confusing him.

"Are… you okay?" He asked only to hear small giggles come from the girl.

"I'm sorry… it's just been so long, since someone treated me like a person." She spoke with sadness in her voice. 'To think that a human would be the one to give me that kindness.' She thought as she unconsciously tightened her hold on him. He felt warm to her, that small ray of light that filled her chest with happiness, she never wanted to let go.

"Mittelt, you're squeezing me." He spoke in a blank tone, as the blonde opened her eyes and looked up and him suddenly noticed what she was doing before letting out a small yelp and let go.

"S-stupid baka."

"Hmm?" he called out in a confused tone.

"N-n-nothing." Mittelt quickly waved off before letting out a fake cough. "So, what happens now?" She asked him.

Bryce started to think as he looked towards the kitchen with a pondering look. It was his turn to cook tonight, for some reason though he felt like he would have to cook for four people so he would have to get started on prepping dinner before Izumi came home.

He turned back to Mittelt and asked her a simple question.

"What would you like for dinner, little rabbit?"

Izumi and Asia were both on the bench in the middle of the park as the water splashing in the fountain behind them and the chirps of birds around them were the only sounds ranging through the air.

"So Asia," Izumi started earning the blonde's attention. "You are from America?"

"Italy, actually." Asia corrected her. "I spent the last year alone in America, but I was born in Italy." She explained. "As you can see, I am also a nun…well former nun."

"Wow, that's actually pretty cool." Izumi smiled at her before realizing something. "Wait what do you mean by former nun?"

Asia then frowned as she turned her gaze towards the ground.

"Izumi, do you… do you believe in god?" The blonde started earning a confused look from the brunette. "Do you believe in the supernatural, you know devils, angels, fallen angels, ghosts and all?"

"Yes."

"Well let me just say that, it is because of my actions that I was exiled from the church."

"Exiled!? What did you do?"

"I healed a devil." Asia replied. "At the time I didn't know that they were a devil but it's because of them that I am not affiliated with the church anymore."

"Wait," Izumi interrupted her. "I don't understand, why would you heal a devil?"

"Well, I didn't know what happened but, I thought I was just helping someone." Asia stated as Izumi started to listen closely. "I was an orphan when I was born, I didn't have any family but the nuns there raised me as one of their own. Years later, when I was maybe eight or nine, I discovered my Sacred Gear when I saw one of the nuns bring in a hurt child. I was praying so hard to God to save her and because of that I had these appear on my fingers." Asia explained as she lifted her fingers to Izumi and the latter saw the Sacred Gear she had in her possession.

"Twilight Healing."

"You know what they are?"

"Only that it has the power to heal, nothing more." Izumi answered her. She didn't really know much about it as she never really asked her mother.

"After my Sacred Gear appeared, I was immediately taken in by a large church where I was trained into using gear by helping sick from all over the country, I even traveled to different parts of the world as well, all in order to help people." Asia smiled for a moment at the remembrance of her actions of helping others until it morphed back into a frown. "But that didn't last forever."

"What happened?"

"A year ago, I encountered a man that was bleeding and looked like he was going to die. I was able to heal him but… he wasn't human. He was a devil."

"A devil?"

"When people found out, they started to turn on me and saw me as a heretic. Even the church I grew up in turned their backs on me, and because of that I was exiled." Asia explained as she turned her head and slightly flinched at Izumi's expression. It showed anger but not at her, it was at everyone else. She couldn't believe it, humans turned on one of their own all because she healed someone, who she didn't even know that was a devil?

"THAT'S NOT FAIR!" Izumi suddenly shouted scaring the blonde. "You didn't know that he was a devil, you were just trying to help and what, just because she healed a devil, she's suddenly a heretic? Throwing you out for something so stupid! IT's ridiculous." The brunette vented as Asia gave her a sad smile.

"It's okay, Izumi. I made peace with being called a heretic a long time ago. Though deep down, I feel like this is a test for me?"

"A test?"

"To show where my loyalties or faith lies, but to be honest there's only one thing I want in this world?"

"And what is that?" Izumi asked as she sat back down.

"To make lifelong friends, to be able to have fun together and do so many things as a group, take care of each other as if we were family." Asia said in a soft tone. "But… I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon, now that you know who I am Izumi you probably hate for being a heretic or maybe you're just doing it out of pity-!" Asia was stopped midway as Izumi suddenly hugged the girl and brought her head close to her chest.

Izumi felt sad as she heard Asia's story. She couldn't someone as kind as her had to suffer so much for something she did wrong, and it wasn't even wrong. She was helping someone who she didn't know was a devil and she ended up being outcasted by her fellow peers and was now alone.

She was not going to let her.

"I don't care…" She started as she tightened her hold on Asia. "I don't give a damn what anyone says, you are friend, outcast or not."

"But… wouldn't I cause you trouble just by being around you?" Asia asked as Izumi moved her head back to gaze into Asia's green eyes with her own.

"No, because as of this moment I am your friend and you're my friend too." Izumi stated with a soft and gentle tone.

Asia felt tears pricking up in her eyes before she smiled at the brunette in front of her.

"Thank you, thank you so much Izumi." Asia replied as she hugged her back.

Izumi thought to herself about Asia. She was kind of like her and Bryce, no friends and they were outcasts in society but unlike them she was a sweet and kind girl that was willing to help anybody. Izumi knew it was a long shot but she was willing to be this girl's friend no matter what.

As they released each other from the hug, Izumi spoke once more.

"Asia, you said that you had a church to go to?"

"Well, I did. I wanted to go to the one here since its abandoned only going because I have no home to go to." Asia explained.

"Come on." Izumi then grabbed the younger girl's hand as they started walking in the opposite direction of the church.

"Where are we going?"

Izumi just turned her head towards Asia and gave her a kind smile. "I'm taking you home."

Rias was sitting in SCC with Akeno across from two other girls, they're friends/rivals Sona Sitri and Tsubaki Shinra.

"I'm sure you already know about the new students?" Rias asked Sona as the latter nodded her head.

"Yes, I have met one of them already earlier this week, Izumi Hyoudou." Sona started as she fiddled with glasses. "She seems like a nice girl and a hard worker, but looks can be deceiving."

"What do you have on them?" Akeno asked her.

"Nothing." Tsubaki answered as Rias And Akeno were confused at her words.

"What do you mean nothing?"

"What she means is that there is no data of them, other than their names there's history of where they came from or family relation." Sona answered.

"So either they lied creating false records coming in here or someone doesn't want them to look back on their history."

"That could be the case."

"Doesn't matter." Rias interrupted them as she had a serious expression on her face. "I will not allow these two to come here and hurt innocent people."

"From what it looks like, they haven't really done anything to cuase trouble, if anything one of them only receive good comments about them." Tsubaki interrupted, earning looks of confusion. "Two days ago, I was approached by two kendo girls, Murayama and Katase. They were talking about the progress of the kendo club and how they didn't have to worry about the Perverted Duo. When they were trying to spy on the girls, Bryce not only threatened them to take away what makes them a man but he also covered all the spots of where they were hiding."

"So, he stopped the Perverted Duo?"

"I doubt for long but still Bryce did just because, he didn't give them a reason to why he was doing it. He had one of the kendo girls watching him the entire time of where he was covering all the hiding spots the Duo had."

"And why is that?"

"He said if it made them feel better that one or a few of them were watching him to make sure he didn't do anything perverted."

"Sounds like Bryce is the noble one. Mysterious but is helping others at his own accord with no objective." Sona commented.

"Still one good deed doesn't mean they aren't dangerous. For all we know he could be doing it for something else and is just hiding his motives."

"Rias…" Sona called. She knew her friend was a bit on edge after the last encounter they had with the two new students but they weren't exactly doing anything that was considered dangerous or troubling.

"Sona, I'm going to take care of them tomorrow. As soon as they arrive, I will deal with them permanently."

Sona eyes glared at the redhead coldly. "Rias, you can't just attack them without a valid reason. I get that they threaten your peerage but you can't fight them. Even if I allowed it, we don't know anything about these people nor where they came from or any evidence."

"Allowed it?" Rias repeated as she glared at her friend. "What do you mean if you allow?"

"It's what exactly what I mean Rias." Sona replied in a cold tone. "They are students here and as long as they are, you will not harm them in any way. Am I clear?"

For a moment both Kings glared at each other in silence, the air between them becoming filled with tension. Rias glared at Sona for a moment before scoffing slightly and stood up.

"As you wish, Sona." Rias said as she turned her head around. "We shall take our leave." She announced as she left and Akeno bowed at them before following her King out the door.

Sona let out a sigh as she pressed a hand against her forehead. She could already predict that Rias will engage them one way or another and it won't be pretty. They both can agree on some things but she wasn't going to let her attack two new students just out of petty revenge and judgement.

"She's going to go through with it, isn't she?" Tsubaki spoke but already knew the answer.

"I'm afraid so." Sona breathed as she turned to her queen. "While a good king she is, pride is the one thing that she always let get the best of her."

'Not like I have room to talk about pride.' Sona thought.

"So, what are we going to do?" Tsubaki asked with concern laced in her voice.

"Let this thing play out. You and I are going to watch the interaction between them, if things escalate too high then we'll intervene."

"Understood." Tsubaki nodded her head.

"Thanks, you may take your leave." Sona says as her Queen headed to the door and left the room leaving the young Sitri alone in her thoughts.

'I need to call Sera-nii later on." Sona says as she pulled out a drawer and pick up an old ribbon, it looked worn out and faded but it was still intact. 'If my predictions are correct, then I think I may have found him.'

Serafall Leviathan was in currently in the underworld in the middle of a forest but she was not alone. She was walking on her own reminiscing about the past when a sudden chill went down her spine as if someone was watching her.

Soon she came face to face with a woman that stared at her with dead lifeless eyes, she was in a Lolita outfit that looked a little childish but Sera had no right to complain seeing as how she was in her own Magical Girl outfit.

"Who are you?"

"Serafall Leviathan, you are one of the four Maou of this world are you not?" The woman asked her as she nodded her head.

"Yes I am." Sera answered as she narrowed her eyes. "Who are you and what are you doing here?" She asked although she could not shake off the fear she was feeling at the moment and the tremendous power this woman was holding, it was overwhelming.

"Fear not." Ophis replied. "I've not come here to harm you, I'm actually here to help you."

"Help me?" Sera raised an eyebrow at this.

"You met one of my children from long ago."

"Your children?" Serafall had a confused look at the woman in front of her, not knowing that she was Ophis. "I'm sorry miss but I'm afraid I don't know who you are talking about. If your children are lost then I can help you find them."

"No, my children are doing well. I mean that you have met one of them in the past, goes by the name Bryce Hayate." She explained.

Serafall eyes then widened at the name mention before her. That name brought flashbacks to her mind, she remembers seeing a lonely boy that was by himself while other kids stayed away and she offered to be his friend.

As she could remember, he was just a shy kid and couldn't interact with others very well. She remembers that he told her that his best friend had went away and that she was not coming back, so Sera decided to cheer the boy up by spending time with him, it was only one day but she had fun with him. Underneath that shy exterior he was an honest and kind boy. Unfortunately, she had to leave when it was time to go, but she decided to surprise him by visiting him again in one week finishing all her tasks in the underworld so she could see him again. She went to visit him again a week later, only to find out that he had disappeared and that his name was nowhere in sight as if he was a ghost.

She could still remember the ribbons he gave her as way to make their friendship official. Sera felt so sad that the boy she grew fond of disappeared. She searched for him for so long and was still doing so to this day but always came up empty handed, but this woman in front of her was telling her that he was alive.

It left so many unanswered questions in her mind, if Bryce was alive then where was he all this time? Why did he not tried to find her or why did he disappeared? Better yet why did no one keep records of him?

"Is it true… is he really…?" Sera's voice was filled with worry as Ophis answered her.

"Yes. He is alive but is far from okay."

"Can I see him?" Sera asked her too quickly. Ophis raised an eyebrow in curiosity as Sera gazed at the ground with a frown. "If… if what you say is true… and he is alive… then… please take me to him… I need to see this for myself."

Ophis slowly walked over to Serafall and gazed into the woman's eyes with her own soulless ones. She could see the determination and concern in the devil's eyes. Ophis has met many humans and devils that had a hidden motive within their words but she could see no deception coming from Sera, she could see that she wanted to see her child for comfort, reassurance, and closure.

"Do you speak the truth? Do you truly want to see my child and nothing else?"

"More than anything." Sera said with a determined expression.

Ophis let out a rare smirk as she turned around. "Very well, I shall take you to him." Ophis said as she opened a portal and was about to walk into it until Sera stopped her.

"Wait, you still haven't told me your name?"

"I believe I shall tell you as soon as we rendezvous with my children. Come." Ophis ordered her as she went through the portal, Sera stared at portal for a few more seconds before regaining her determination and ran through the portal as it closed behind her.

Sorry, uploaded the chapter without note the first time. Anyway, I would like to say that next chapter is a fight scene between Bryce and Izumi against the ORC and then possibly expect a certain flaming phoenix to come into the picture as well, although the latter may come in chapter six. Still I think you all for reading this story and I hope you are enjoying it.

Read, Review, and See you next time.

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