Chapter Three: The Fallen Holy Maiden Part I
A couple days have passed since Issei became a devil, and he started doing contracts on his own.
Since then Rias Gremory gave Kisara an opportunity for a free contract, as a bribe to keep the fact that they were all devils a secret.
In turn Kisara requested to come to the club in the evenings with Issei in order to observe club activities so she can best utilize the contract.
Rias agreed so she's been following Issei and Kiba to the club room and observes the group as the contracts are distributed and explained. After that she returns to the kendo club which she is the captain of.
Issei knew she was concerned about him and rightfully so from her perspective after she witnessed he and the club members take down a stray devil last night through the observation portal back and the club room. It was through that battle that Issei was able to learn from Rias that his sacred gear is called a Twice Critical, it doubles his power for a short span during combat.
Except for that one time the contracts have been rather mild, but difficult in their own ways. Most people turn to devils for either one of three reasons
1) Minor annoying task such as Manual labor, hanging out, or cooking and cleaning.
2) A Monster or another supernatural threat needs eliminated or neutralized.
3) Supernatural or magical request that would be called impossible for normal people.
One such client whose request falls under the category of impossible is a regular of Issei's named Mil-tan. He is a giant of a man with muscles on top of muscles, but wants Issei to turn him into a magic girl. Unfortunately due to his skills that is something Issei is not capable of so in the end he just hangs out with him and talking.
This morning Issei was on his way to school and a tad bit late because being up late entertaining Mil-tan and on top of that had extra work added to his morning training by Rias for not completing the contract. Since Kisara and the rest should already be there by now he was taking his time because well late is late.
Suddenly he heard a shriek a ways to his right. He glanced over and saw the whitest pair of panties being displayed for the all the world to see. His head immediately started spinning with lewdness but soon slapped himself out of it when he noticed that they belong to a nun.
He decided to go over and help her to her feet asked "Are you OK" after the girl set up so he could see her face, She was a beautiful foreign blonde girl. She took his hand with both of hers and replied "thank you very much" then they both paused in slight confusion.
The reason being was she did not speak and Japanese and neither did Issei speak Itilian and yet they was able to understand each other perfectly. She was likely confused because the chances of somebody speaking Italian in Japan is practically null and here Issei was speaking it fluently and Issei was confused he was able to speak it.
Issei was confused because he had never took in a foreign language but yet he was able to understand and speak to her.
He pushed the thought to the back his mind as it just being an inherent ability of the devils and continue their conversation. He handed her, her headdress and she thanked him again as she put it back on and made eye contact with him and he couldn't help but admire her beauty, in turn she blushed and and looked away before asking "Is something the matter?"
Issei snapped out of it and replied to her "No, nothing, let me help you with your luggage" As Issei turned to start picking up her belongings on the ground he found himself frozen and stunned at the panties scattered on the ground.
After she noticed his reaction, startled she jumped and squealed "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" suddenly she was blushing even worse than before.
She then knelt, folded her hands together, and prayed "Forgive me my father for I have sinned, I have taken your hollowed name in vain and shall not do so again, amen"
As she done this the sharpest pain Issei had ever felt rushed through his skull. After the pain passed Issei tried to hide it in helping pick up her belongings.
It was a minor task and it didn't take them long. Once they were finished, she offered Issei a handkerchief to wipe his brow and he took it with thanks.
Issei broke the ice and asked "Are you on a trip to Japan?" She replied "No, I'm starting to work in this town's church today, but I got lost on my way there." she then developed a depressed expression and continued "I have also been having trouble because nobody seems to understand me"
Issei gave it a moment of thought and told her "If you are looking for the church I think I know where it is would you like me to take you there?"
With excitement she folded her hands and replied "Do you really mean it, this too is surely guidance from the lord" with that line he got another sharp pain through his head.
This time she noticed and asked him if some was wrong, Issei brushed it off and said "No, I'm fine just a minor headache, so let's get going" they started moving and as they got about halfway there they saw a little boy trip in the park they were passing and scrape his knee.
The nun stopped and ran it over and knelled and asked him "Are you all right?" He looked at her in confusion as she said hold still.
She placed her hands over the boy's knee and her rings on her hand glowed a light green collar. I watched as the wound healed.
The boy stood up and she said with a smile "Their, your boo-boo is all better now you should be just fine" it was then the boy's mother ran over and as he tried to explain to her what the girl had just done.
The nun smiled and tried to explain that she had just given him first aid the mother scowled at the girl and said you shouldn't talk to strangers and pulled the boy away. The girl looked shocked and then very sad, Issei felt his irritation starting to boil from the scene.
As he went to step forth to say something the girl grabbed his arm and said "No it is fine."
Issei ask "Did you understood what the woman said?"
She replied "No, but I understood her eyes." as she bowed her head in sadness..
She heard a boy call for her and she looked up to see him waving at her Issei translated to her that he said Thanks, which brightened her mood significantly.
As They started back toward the church Issei Asked "What was that power?"
She hesitantly replied "Well it's a healing power that I got from god, it is a most wonderful gift, but not all see it that way."
As she said that Issei couldn't help but look at his left hand and with it he waved her to follow along as they started back on the road to the church.
About 10 minutes later they arrived within sight of the church. It was then Issei got an awful chill and was shaking all over, Not noticing this the nun offered him a chance to go inside for some tea but he politely declined and rushed to be on his way to school.
Issei paused for a moment and turned back and yelled "My name is issei Hyoudou to you can call me Ise, what is your name?!"
She perked up and said "I'm Asia Argento please call me Asia!"
As Issei headed down the street to school he looked back and could see she was still waving at him from where he left.
That evening when the siblings arrived to club Issei reported that he had met a sister of the church that morning to his master Rias.
She immediately jumped to her feet and scolded him worse than even Kisara ever had. She went on to explain the workings of the church and the three fractions again to the two of them. She stopped by giving him a warning that he should never go near the church again let alone the sister for it could be dangerous to all of them.
After things had calmed down they started the distribution of the contracts. Kisara was off from kendo club today so she decided to just stick around and observe the club activities. Issei got a new contract that day and decided to leave via bike like he always does.
Meanwhile Kisara drank tea with Akeno and watched the others perform contracts through the observation portal. At the time Koneko was cosplaying for an Otaku in the southern part of town and Kiba was washing the dishes of the widowed corporate manager in a high-rise building in a city a few kilometers away.
Everything appeared to be going fine when suddenly the portal to Issei's contract start a flickering glowing red. Immediately Rias and Akeno jumps to their feet. Rias yelled to have a message sent to tell the others to come back immediately prepare the magic circle to Issei's location as soon as possible.
At this point Kisara was so scared not knowing what was going on she just kept watching the portal to see things unfold as the others scrambled about around her.
Issei had just entered a house of his new client, when a stench he wish he'd never smell entered his nose. There on the floor was the body of the client and sitting on a couch in the living room was what can only be called a priest with a mad dogs face.
The priest got up with an evil grin and said "Well, Well, why if it isn't a little devil" and fallowed up with a Hum " I am a priest, a priest, Oh Boy, Oh Boy, isn't it my lucky day "
As the bells and whistles was alarming in his mind Issei couldn't help but think what the hell is this guy saying.
To add to his is crazy impression he started to spin and dance and tell Issei how he's going to cut him up and shoot him full of holes at that point his nerves were already on edge so Issei started to ease backwards into a retreat.
That's when the priest jolted right up to his face and said "I'm Freed Sellzen the priest"
Issei broke eye contact for a moment to look at his client and asked "I'm guessing you did that"
He straightened up grinned and replied "and what if I did"
After that Issei was completely pissed off and catching that Freed started to mock him "What is that?" "You mad, shitty little devil?" "Did my killing of a piece of shit human rile up some form of sympathy in you"
As his anger boiled over Issei could do nothing but stare at him in the eyes with raging anger, which clearly made him happy for he had hopped back with a smile and said "OK I'll will cut you up and kill you good"
Inside his coat he pulled out something I could only described as a light saber, and activated it. Being well accustomed to swords (Shinai) Issei activated his Twice Critical and took a half step back.
The Priest Charged Forward and the Scared Gear Chimed [BOOST]
Seeing that the priest was right handed Issei retreated back and to my right just like he'd do with Kisara, Murayama, and the Girls attacks, but what makes this case different is Issei could counter attack.
Exactly like with the Kendo Club Freed's blade missed him to his complete surprise and with issei being on his left and out of the range of his blade, Issei slammed his fist right into Freeds Solar Plexus below his chest forcing him back 10 feet into the living room from the hall Issei retreated to.
Freed managed to stay on his feet and scowled at issei. However before anything could progress from there both of them heard a scream from the living room behind Freed. Thwy both directed there attention to a girl Issei was already familiar with.
"Asia!" Issei yelled and she turned and said "I-I-I-Issei-San?"
Freed then said "huh? You two know each other?"
Asia asked "Issei-san what are you doing here" and with a terrified voice asked "and who did this?" pointing at the corpse.
Freed perked up " Oh, Oh that was me, that was me! " And grinned and fallowed up with "As for this guy he's the rotten devil that was trying to make that man sin." As he pointed his blade at Issei.
Asia appeared devastated not knowing what hit her harder the fact that her partner she just met was a cold-blooded killer or the first friend she made when she entered town was a devil someone that is supposed to be her sworn enemy.
At that point something clicked in her mind and she calmed down she took off running towards Issei and then stopped between them and spread her arms as if shielding Issei from Freed. Freed then said "huh what do you think you're doing?"
Issei grabbed Asia's shoulder and asked her to get behind him, she struggled with refusal but before he could move her Freed drew a handgun from his hip with his left arm and shot issei in both of his kneecaps. Issei collapsed to the floor with a yell.
Issei had no way of supporting his body weight on injured legs so Asia took up her position to be a shield again. As Issei tried to tell her that she needs to leave and she screamed in refusal. Freed grabbed picked her up by the throat, and pined to the wall by her wrists, using his sword.
He then grabbed her habit and tore it from her body. Issei tried to pull himself to his feet pissed off even more. All the while screaming "Let go of her you filthy animal!"
Freed showed an evil smile and said "I'll come back to you when I'm done with her" he turned back to her and said "The leaders said I cannot kill you but maybe a little rape won't hurt."
Issei was furious but relief came soon after. A magic circle appeared behind them and shadow flashed by, one Issei recognized as belonging to his comrades. Freed quickly let go of Asia and drew his sword. The moment he did he blocked an attack from Kiba who rushed through the portal first.
Koneko was next and was soon tossing furniture at Freed to keep him at bay, meanwhile Issei crawled to where Asia was laying unconscious. While yelling at Rias "Quick, we need a take her with us"
Rias looked at him saddly and said "I'm sorry only members of my group can use this portal." As the other club members held Freed at bay they carried Issei through the portal back to the club room.
Kisara watched how the whole event unfolded from the portal in the club room, her brother's fight with the priest all the way to him begging Rias to allow them the bring the nun back with him.
As it stands right now they are arguing about the nun and her fate. Issei wants to go save her right at this moment, while Rias is saying that Asia herself is a part of the enemy. While it's not often Kisara would like to take her brothers side in this situation she wished she could, but since she was not a member of the club nor had any means to contribute even if she was, she simply had no right to intervene.
After Issei got some minor first aid and healing from Rias and Akeno the siblings decided to head home. On our way Kisara fessed up and said "I think you're doing the right thing trying to save her"
After a Pause she continued "And I will support you until you do but until we find a way let's listen to Rias. OK?" Issei did not reply, so we continued our trip home in silence.
