Once he got back to the club room, Rias inquired as to why he was late. Once Izuku explained what happened, she wasn't exactly pleased.

"You cannot go near a church ever again!" Izuku hung his head low, muttering 'sorry' as Rias lectured him. "To devils like us, the church is enemy territory. Simply stepping into one would cause major problems for both angels and devils. It wouldn't be surprising if you were stabbed by a spear of light if you got too close." Izuku notably flinched at that. "And never get near anyone who has any sort of relationship with the church. Especially priests and exorcists."

"I'm sorry…" Izuku muttered for the tenth time.

"You should be. Priests and exorcists are our mortal enemies, and it's likely at least one was near that church. They've been blessed by God, so they have the power to destroy us. A devil hit by a divine holy power like that will be destroyed… with no hope of returning. This is something very important! Do you understand?"

"…I'm sorry, Rias-san."

Rias simply sighed. "I'm just glad you're safe. Just promise you'll be more careful from now on."

"Yes, I promise Rias-san."

The next day after school, Izuku spent most of the day training with Rias, though for some reason Rias seemed slightly… off. Izuku wanted to ask why, but lugging around two tires with her sitting on them made that difficult. After training had finished, Rias asked him to hand out flyers for the day and report back to the club room, not giving Izuku a chance to ask.

As he placed the last few flyers in the mailboxes of an apartment complex, Izuku went over what happened to him over the past week in his head. 'I'm still having a hard time believing it. Just last week, I was a normal Quirkless kid who dreamed of being a hero. Then I meet someone who said they could help me achieve my dream, only for them to reveal they're a fallen angel and kill me.'

'Then I was revived as a devil by Rias-san, which also makes me her servant. And the reason I was killed is because I have a Sacred Gear that I had no idea about. But now that I have a chance, I'm working hard for the devils to become a hero despite having absolutely no power at all. It's almost like nothing's changed.' Once he finished passing out the flyers, Izuku got on his bike and rode toward U.A. High. 'Weirdly, I'm starting to enjoy all this. Rias-san is beautiful, Koneko-chan is kinda cute if a little cold, and Kiba-san is nice. It's nice to have friends again.'

"Speaking of Rias-san, why was she acting so off today?"

It didn't take very long for Izuku to reach the club building at U.A.'s campus. "I'm back!" Izuku called as he entered the clubroom.

"Ah, welcome back, Midoriya-kun." Yuuto greeted, just moments away from stepping into the teleportation pentagram.

"You finished passing out the flyers?" Rias asked, looking over a small stack of papers at her desk.

"Yes, ma'am."

"Good work," she handed Izuku a map. "Sorry for dropping this on you, but can you do this summon tonight? Normally Koneko-chan handles this but she's currently swamped at the moment."

"Sure."

The sun had fully set over the horizon as Izuku rode his bike through the streets. The streets were very empty, as was the case in most suburban areas during the night.

Following the map Rias had given him, Izuku arrived at a relatively simple home. Hopping off his bike, Izuku walked up to the door and rang the bell. "Hello, I'm a devil of the Gremory Clan!" Izuku called the house. "I'm here because of a summon!" There was no answer. He furrowed his eyebrows as he reached for the door.

His heart suddenly clenched.

"Somethings not right…" he whispered, almost fearfully. It was the same feeling he had when he showed Ibara to the church.

Izuku slowly opened the door, the creaking sound echoing in the dark. He didn't even bother to remove his sneakers as he slowly crept inside looking around the room. The house was dark, very dark, the only source of light coming from the living room. But he had a better time looking through it a lot better than when he was human. He was somewhat thankful for that. That didn't keep him from stepping into something wet and sticky.

"What the…?" Izuku gasped. He raised his foot and wiped his fingers on the soles. Already, he could smell the scent of the liquid. His eyes widened as he realized what it was.

It was blood. Fresh blood. And it was all over the room, leading to a male body nailed to the wall… At least, Izuku presumed it was a man.

It's hard to tell things like gender when their skin was peeled off!

Their organs and blood seeped out of the large dissection hole in their torso and their arms and legs were pinned to the wall by large nails, legs together and arms as far apart as possible. A crucifixion.

Izuku nearly vomited at the sight. Written above their heads in red was a message: 'DIVINE PUNISHMENT FOR SHITTY SINNERS WHO HAVE GIVEN UP ON HUMANITY!'

"Holy shit!" Izuku muttered shock.

That was when someone else in the room said, "Punish the wicked. Words to live by. Yes, wise words to heed from a holy man!" Turning around, Izuku saw someone sitting on the couch. He had short white hair, red eyes, and was dressed in the coat and outfit of a priest. However, Izuku could tell there was nothing about this man that was holy at all due to the wicked smile on his face and the bloody knife he was holding in his left hand. "Freed Sellzen, monster hunter, executioner, and exorcist, at your service," he introduced himself as he stood up and bowed, before dancing like a nutcase. "And you are the scared little devil pussy this priest is going to exorcise next!"

"A priest?!" Izuku gasped.

"Yep. I'm from a certain exorcism organization you may have heard of."

"Then you… did all this? What did he do to have this happen to him?!"

"He was asking for it," justified Freed, "Making a contract with a devil like you is proof that he's done being human. End of the line, sinner!" he laughed. "So I had to give him an extreme makeover! Which I'm gonna do to you!"

Freed suddenly jumped into Izuku's face with a lear. He didn't realize that the mad priest was so up close until just another second later, and quickly jumped back. "W-what?"

"Hm, from the looks of things you're fresh meat," Freed licked his lips, creeping Izuku out. "Well, there's no need to tell me your name! You're just going to die soon anyway!"

"You killed him just because he was talking to devils?!" Izuku demanded.

"Well, duh. Do I haveta spell it out for you? Making contracts with devils is a sin after all. Devils use the dark desires of humanity to gain power. Humans who make pacts with devils are scum, lower than dirt. You get it? No? Well, I guess that makes you scum too," Freed lectured, still grinning.

"If you're a servant of God, why would you kill another human so easily!" Izuku shouted, angry.

"Hoooo?" Freed wondered out loud like a child, "The fuck is this? Is this puny devil trying to lecture me? I already told you why. What? Do you need a crash course for this shit?" He walked over to the head of the victim and kicked it. "Fine, I'll say it again. Devils feed on human desire. The humans who give you substance can't be considered human anymore. To that end, I kill them in order to save them from becoming tainted even further." He kicked the head into the wall, causing it to splatter and cause more gore. "That's kindness. Amen~."

"Kindness? That's not kindness, that's pure evil!" Izuku growled, clenching his fist, summoning his Sacred Gear subconsciously.

"Huh?" Freed wondered, looking at Izuku. "Ha…HAHAHAHA! Oh, that's rich! A devil telling me, a priest, what's evil? HAHA! Are you mad? You mad, bro? You mad?" He licked the blood from his knife. "Ah whatever," Freed sighed, pulling out a silver pistol, "It won't matter once I turn you into swiss cheese! Totally awesome, isn't it!" Freed laughed maniacally as he fired his gun. Izuku raced to the side to avoid the light bullets before he stopped at the wall.

Freed then threw his knife, the blade embedding itself into Izuku's leg. Izuku screamed at the pain, which caused Freed to laugh even more. The nutty priest then aimed his gun.

*BANG! BANG! BANG!*

The bullets fired from the gun hit Izuku in his stomach. Izuku gasped in pain as the shock from the blast echoed through his body.

"AHAHAHA! You like that?" Freed laughed, walking over to Izuku and kicking him down. Freed then sloppily removed the knife from Izuku's leg. Then in an increasingly dickish maneuver, Freed smashed his foot onto the gunshot wounds. Izuku yelled painfully from the impact, feeling the pain rip through his body. Freed only laughed even more as he grinned his heel. "Tell me, do you bleed? YOU WILL!" Freed grinned, pointing the gun at Izuku.

A blur of motion suddenly pushed Freed off of Izuku.

"Gah, damnit!" Freed groaned, rubbing his head as he stood up. "Shit, Ibara! Why'd you go and do that?"

Izuku recognized the name. "Ibara?" he groaned, setting up and holding his injuries. Looking over, he saw a familiar head of thorns standing in front of him with her arms out like a shield. "Shiozaki-san?"

"Please, stop this!" Ibara pleaded, "Why are you doing this to Midoriya-san?"

"Eh? You know this guy?" Freed blinked, picking his ear. "Isn't it obvious? He's a devil after all."

"Huh…?" Ibara muttered, slowly looking back at Izuku, "Midoriya-san is… a devil?"

Izuku, still clutching his wound, simply lower his head in shame, "I didn't mean to deceive you…"

Freed only laughed crazily, "HAHAHA! Oh man, how fucking hysterical! Is this forbidden love between a devil and a sister? Seriously? Are you serious?" His face turned deadly serious in an instant, "That's right. This guy is the shittiest of shitty devils. Really, you didn't know? Well, that's fine. He's about to end up like that shit stain there."

Ibara looked at where Freed was pointing. Her eyes widened as tears welled up, looking on at the skinned body nailed to the wall. "What…? This isn't…" she stammered in horrified shock, collapsing to the floor, her hands covering her mouth.

"Oh, that's right. This is the first time you've seen a corpse, huh?" Freed grinned. "In that case, take a good look! This is the fate of any human seduced by a devil!"

"You son of a…" Izuku snarled, trying to force himself to his feet.

"That's the way it is! Devils and humans can never coexist! And the church- hoho! Don't even get me started! Not to mention we're all heretics that God himself abandoned, like the fallen angels! And this fucker here is part of the job description!" Freed snapped his fingers impatiently. "Come on, hurry up with the trap!"

Ibara only stood up and stood between Freed and Izuku.

"Hey. Hey, hey, hey, hey. What the fuck?" Freed asked, looking unamused.

"Father, please let him go," Ibara begged. "To aimlessly kill people who have been led astray by devils… that's just wrong!"

"What the fuck?! You too, you shitty maiden?!" Freed demanded, grabbing her by the collar of her dress, "Did you already forget? All devils are full of shit! He's not buddy-buddy with you!"

"There may be good devils as well!" Ibara cried, "I used to think all devils were evil, but after meeting Midoriya-san, I've learned that there are good devils too!"

"Shut up!"

The next thing that happened caused Izuku's blood to boil.

The asshole backhanded Ibara in the face!

"BASTARD!" Izuku shouted, his vision turning red. He didn't get far as his wounds forced him back down, "Ah! Damn it!" Unbeknown to Izuku, the green jewel on his Sacred Gear began to glow green.

Freed pinned Ibara down by the throat as he reached down and tore open her dress, leaving only her bra left. "Even if the boss told me not to kill you, there could still be something you can do to calm me down," Freed smirked, squeezing Ibara's breasts. The poor girl flinched and gasped from the squeezing, "What do you think? You're still a virgin, so how about I turn you from a maiden to a broken woman?"

"Dragon Shot!"

"Eh?" Freed looked back just in time to see Izuku building a green ball of energy from his hand. The shot fired and hit Freed in the chest, knocking him through the wall and away from Ibara.

Izuku panted heavily as the gem in his Sacred Gear stopped glowing, "I'm finally started to figure this thing out," he said, tiredly.

Ibara quickly got up and ran over to Izuku. "You're hurt…" she said softly, looking at his wounds.

"Pain's… an old friend," Izuku joked, wincing in pain, "Ow…"

Ibara slowly crawled up to him, "Hold still." She held her hands carefully over his wounds, not even touching them. Her hands suddenly glowed as a bright green aura surrounded them and washed over the wound. Relief came over his face as he could feel his injuries and the blood fade away.

"Holly whoa… I'm feeling better now," Izuku blinked, slapping where he was hit just to be sure. "Thanks."

"You're welcome," Ibara nodded slowly, smiling shyly. "It's the least I can do for helping me yesterday."

Izuku then noticed the large bruise on Ibara's cheek, where Freed had struck her. "You're hurt."

"It's fine," she said. "And you were worst."

The two had a quick laugh.

The moment was suddenly ruined by a noise coming from the wall. Izuku and Ibara turned, watching Freed crawl out of the hole made from Izuku's Dragon Shot. "Oh, right. I still gotta kill you," he huffed.

Ibara stood up and got in front of Izuku. "I won't let you hurt him," she said.

"Oh yeah? And what are you gonna do about i-" Ibara clasped her hands together over her chest. Without warning, her vines shot out and rushed toward Freed, ensnaring him. "The fuck?!"

"Father Freed Sellzen. Your sins are unforgivable. God will make you pay for the evils you've done," she said.

Shiozaki Ibara, Quirk: Vines. She can control and stretch out her hair vines, as well as detach them at will.

Izuku had a look of shock and amazement on his face. He'd figured Ibara's Quirk had something to do with her vine hair, but he didn't know she could make them grow or control them so easily.

Freed only laughed. "Don't count your chickens before they hatch, kid!" A shimmering sword of light suddenly emerged from the vines. Freed then cut himself free. Ibara and Izuku's eyes widened in shock as Freed aimed the blade at them. "Surprise~! Bet you didn't know I had a real-life lightsaber, huh?"

Ibara was about to trap Freed with her vines again but stopped when Izuku stood up and got in front of her. "Midoriya-san…!?"

"Oh! You wanna go first, do ya? Fine by me!" Freed hunched to the ground, his tongue hanging out of his sadistic smile. "I was planning to use you to beat the world record for hole-iest corpse~! But it looks like I'll be going for the record for finest mincemeat instead~!"

"Mind if we crash the party then?"

Izuku's eyes widened at the voice. Looking around, he turned and found Koneko, Yuuto, and Rias just stepping out of a magic circle. Koneko looked at the bloody sight with distance, while Yuuto seemed to cast a hateful glare at Freed. Rias, however, looked worried, especially after seeing Ibara right behind him.

"Izu-kun?" Rias asked, walking up to him, "What happened?"

"I came here for the summon, but I found the customer dead. All thanks to that fruitcake over there," Izuku explained, pointing at Freed.

"I see…" Rias nodded, her expression saddened. She rested her head against his, wrapping her arms around his neck. "Thank goodness you're okay."

"Senpai…?" Izuku blushed.

"Oh, oh! It's a family of devils, huh?" Freed laughed, hunching down with his tongue hanging. "Cool! This is super cooool! I'm gonna totally score with this! And aren't you a pretty one! Can I fuck you up, too?"

Yuuto sweat-dropped. "For a priest, that's quite a mouth you have. Doesn't matter, though…" he said in an uncharacteristically cold tone.

"Sorry for being so vulgar. How about I make it up to you by chopping that pretty boy head off!" Freed blazed across the room with his sword swinging. Eyes narrowed, Yuuto bent his legs before he suddenly blurred out of sight.

"He disappeared!?" Ibara gasped.

Yuuto reappeared before Freed, this time armed with a sword cloaked in darkness. The two blades clashed against each other as both young men tried to overpower the other. "Attacking just like that out of the blue," Yuuto mocked, "You have no class."

"Hah? I'm supposed to give shits about that? Especially from some shitty devils?" Freed laughed. Freed quickly caught on to his blade flicker, losing power, so he took the smart route and jumped back from Yuuto's oncoming slash. "The double fuck?!"

"Sorry, but this sword is special," Yuuto told him, gripping the hilt with two hands. "It can devour the light."

Kiba Yuuto, Sacred Gear: Sword Birth. He can create any demonic sword he can imagine and imbue them with special properties.

"Heh, a Sacred Gear user. Should've guessed," Freed sighed.

"Kiba-san has a Sacred Gear, too?" Izuku gasped. A swift pain suddenly hit him in his leg.

"Try not to move too much, Midoriya-san," said Ibara. "You're leg's still hurt."

"Hurt?" Rias repeated.

"Yeah. Freed stabbed me with his knife and then shot me, but Shiozaki-san healed me."

Slowly, Rias turned toward the vulgar priest. "Is that right?"

"Yep!" Freed giggled. "Truth is, I was planning to carve up every inch of his body after I filled him with holes, but then that shitty maiden decided to get in the way~!"

BOOM!

"Huh?" Freed looked to the side, finding a gigantic hole in the wall just centimeters from his head, a trail of destructing leading all the way to the street. The source of the blast was Rias' hand, her whole body glowed a dark red.

"I will not forgive anyone who harms my servants, especially not some vulgar stray priest such as you," Rias growled, her voice both calm yet dripping with rage at the same time.

Both Izuku and Ibara trembled at the display. 'Rias-san is scary!'

Freed, however, seemed unfazed. "Whoo-eee! That was really somethin'! Good thing I know when to fold 'em!" Freed said, pulling something out of his robes. "I'm getting the fuck out of Dodge before they arrive to reinforce the ambush."

"'They'?" Rias questioned.

"Oh yeah. There are totally two other fallen angels at least and lots of priests coming this way," Freed said. "Have fuuuuuuuuuuuun~"

Freed smashed something against the ground, blinding the youths with an intense light that erupted in front of him.

"Agh!" Izuku rubbed his eyes, trying to get rid of the spots coloring his vision before it returned to normal. Freed was gone. "A flash-bang?"

"…Buchou… the fallen angels are coming," Koneko suddenly spoke, sensing a foreboding presence.

"Tch!" Rias frowned, turning around to prepare another portal. "We need to leave."

"Rias-san, wait!" Izuku alerted, gesturing toward Ibara, "We should take her with us!"

"I'm sorry, Izu-kun," Rias apologized, looking over her shoulder, "My portals can only transport whoever I have in my Peerage. She won't survive the magic."

"But… isn't there another way?"

"I'm sorry, but there isn't."

"Not if I take her on my bike!"

"But she's aligned with the church," Yuuto said, "By default, she's our enemy."

"It didn't stop her from healing me. I'm not going to abandon her for petty reasons like that," Izuku frowned. Izuku then took Ibara's hand and ran toward the front entrance. "I'll meet you guys at the club room!"

"I hope you know what you're doing," Rias prayed as she, Koneko, and Yuuto vanished into the portal.