Welcome back to another chapter. I'm confirming one harem member, Kuroka. Other than that, let's proceed.

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

"Powerful being speech"

'Powerful being thoughts'

I don't own highschool dxd or anything that appears in this fic

An alarm clock was the first thing I heard as I woke up slowly. I rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and went about my morning business. After brushing my teeth I looked in the mirror and still couldn't get over the fact that I'm in a whole new world. After making myself some cereal in my empty home, I start to think about my actions going forward.

'I definitely need a stronger body, and I need to test out my Sacred gear'

'Training your body only helps a little. You should be focusing on your mind and will power, besides, there's not much exercise you can do without stunting your growth' Anthem said in my mind.

'I'm guessing that the more I use it the easier it will get?' I mused to myself.

'Indeed, by putting yourself in a dangerous situation, you awakened my power, and it will keep growing'

'What about Balance Breaker?'

'That will come much later, regardless, be wary of my power, it can and will go out of control if you let it'

'Out of control? That doesn't sound good.'

'Indeed, you will turn to ash if you don't control it properly'

A pit forms in my stomach at that statement.

'For now, try training in the forest outside of town'

'Right, hopefully I don't burn it down'

I finish my cereal and leave the house.

As I'm walking to the outskirts of town, I pass by the park I went to yesterday, and notice two children my age playing around the sandpit

'Looks like Issei and Irina are here'

'The Boosted Gear holder?'

'Yep, that's him' I think as I walk by them.

'He looks weak' Anthem says with a scoff.

'He didn't get strong until he started training seriously as a devil'

'Regardless, I need to train'

~30 minutes later~

I make my way to a large clearing deep in the forest. Looking down at myself I try and 'will' my power to come to my fists. Lo and behold it obeys my command, and purple flames cover them both.

'Now then, let's try a fireball' I point my hands at a large tree in front of me. A couple of minutes passed when I realized that I just have to focus on the end result of my "spell" for it to work. I focus on the thought of the fire expanding and blowing through the tree in front of me.

Woosh

I laugh at the result of a simple command. And kept laughing as I just now realise my potential I now hold within me.

The tree it was aimed at had a hole right through it, with flames still licking at the edges of the hole. And beyond the hole, was another hole in the tree behind it, and there was a dent in the following tree. After a moment the fire kept growing out of the dent and was soon consuming the last tree that it hit.

'Shit, shit, shit! The forest will really be burnt down' Before I could even think the fire spread to the next tree.

'Hurry and will it gone' Anthem spoke up.

I close my eyes and focus on the flames being dispersed. It's like I had to fight myself to finally put it out. I open my eyes and all the flames are gone.

'It's alot easier to make attacks then it is to stop them, I'll have to be careful with it for sure'

'It's a good start' Anthem said with some pride.

I have a bunch of ideas for my power. One of them I think I might try next is something I'm going to call Higan.

I look at my hands and form them into 'finger guns' and I think of tiny flame bullets exploding out of my hands like it's an actual gun.

The first bullet comes out like a rocket and I quickly will it away. I try focusing on compressing the flame bullet, and sure enough the bullets came out small and as fast as lightning and scorched the landscape around me as I kept pointing it at anything and everything. This time willing it away was much more tiring, as the clearing around me was like an inferno. Thankfully noone was around as the smoke was sure to cause attention.

'Note to self, try not to go crazy'

I sweat drop as I look around at the now scorched clearing with debris all around me. I then realized how tired I was.

'You would think that making the fire was hard, not to stop them'

~6 hours later~

A lot of time has passed and now Higan has been somewhat mastered, I still need to work on the piercing potential but other than that, it is a good spell for taking out weaklings.

'How did I do for my first attempt at using your power, Anthem'

'Very creative use of it, as long as you take into account the effort it takes to stop them, remember, the more powerful the spell the harder it is to control them, they're also quite slow, so anyone that's faster than it will be able to dodge' Anthem said with a warning.

'Right, it's night time I should head home' I think as I navigate the dark forest.

~5 seconds later~

"Where the fuck am I!?" I yell, only for Anthem to laugh as they gave me directions out of the forest.

'You're awful with directions' Anthem said after I made it out.

'Yeah, well how do you always know where to go?'

'Because, idiot, I pay attention' They said smugly.

I huff and continue on my way through town when I notice something strange.

'What's that smell?' I think, it smelt almost like-

'Blood' Anthem said seriously. They continued

'I won't help you out here, you need to grow'

'What the fuck do you mean by here!?'

I slow my walk down to a crawl as I eye everything around me. The smell only got stronger the more I walked towards the alleyway.

'I need to prepare to use Higan.' I think as I carefully walk up to the alley corner. The smell made me want to vomit as I look at the situation in front of me. A girl was laying towards the back of the alley in a pool of blood. Her head was facing me as I realize what this might be. A trap. The thought of walking away was there, right in the front of my mind, but the thought of leaving her here to some monster made me rethink my actions.

I gulp and slowly make my way towards her, when she turned to look at me with dull blue eyes. She looked to be my age with long blonde hair. She tried to say something but all she managed was a blood filled cough. She slowly put her hands up towards me when it hit me. She wasn't pointing towards me, she was pointing behind-

'MOVE' I think to myself as I lunged forward into a roll.

Woosh

I felt the wind on the back of my neck and I quickly turned around and see someone in a tall, black suit. He held a long black katana with a red guard. He also looked annoyed without a doubt.

'You've got some balls kid, you should've let me slice you and I would've ended you right then and there"

"Who are you and why is she dying" I say losing some of my fear. This was someone I promised to massacre.

"Are you a stray devil?" He seemed shocked that I knew about them and the supernatural. And then he laughed.

"I'm not a stray devil you stupid human child" He said with a cruel smile. He stepped closer

"I'm Matthew Batham, heir to the devil noble house Batham, at your service" He looked like he wanted blood.

"I'm going to kill you then reincarnate that girl behind you" He said smugly

Thoughts raced through my mind and the only thing I could say was

"Why is she worth a piece of your set?"

He seemed shocked again

"You have some knowledge that you shouldn't know, but if you want to know, I'll tell you, she has a rare Sacred Gear called Holy Restore, which lets her cure any illness and wound at the cost of the users life force."

'That sounds like a bad version of Twilight Healing, either way I need this guy dead, if I unleash my power I don't know if I can control it, think Isaac.'

"Shell die from that power right?" I asked in a calm tone, hiding the fear within me.

"Indeed, seeing how weak she is, she'd only be able to 'restore' two or three people before dying"

"Then what use is she to you?!" I yell.

"I'll simply sell her to the highest bidder, child" A pit formed in my stomach at the thought of that happening to an innocent, human girl. A plan started to form in my head.

'Anthem won't help here no matter how much I wish they would' I turn my hands up in the formation that I practiced.

"Oh, know some magic do you, color me impressed" He still looked calm.

"Show me your best" He said as he held the katana with two hands and assumed a fighting position

'Here goes nothing' I whisper Higan and the fire on my finger ignited and it almost looked like it would hit him before he simply vanished

I quickly willed the fire away before it hit the building behind him. And I looked around in confusion and suddenly felt a finger tap my back.

I went to turn around, when I felt the painful sensation of being pierced in the chest from behind.

"Tch, what a weakling"

I immediately coughed up blood as I looked down at the katana poking out of my chest.

'He was too strong' My vision blurred as I made one final decision. I used all the force in my hand to grab onto his arm, backwards. And then I felt it in my chest. A terrible feeling festered and grew. I willed all the pain and hatred in my body before I released it into his body. Cremation. The spell I couldn't practice on trees.

I had the first thought of ever using it when I saw how Anthem turned the stray devil into ash from within. I smelt the burnt flesh and felt the katana get pulled out. I layed right on my back by the girl and saw the man hack and cough before the muted screams got to him. I closed my eyes as I saw the grisly sight of someone dying in agony. I opened them a few moments later when I felt the girls hand touch my arms. I looked and saw in her eyes she was grateful. And before her eyes completely lost color a golden energy went from her chest, to mine. And my wounds cleared like they were never there.

I stared at her and saw that she saved me in her final moments. Tears came to my eyes at the thought. With a shaking hand she pulled a necklace in the shape of a star off her body and put it into my hands. She couldn't talk but her eyes conveyed all she had to say. She was avenged. She died right in front of my eyes.

'Boy, you need to move, I sense people coming in this direction'

The world came back in full motion

I quickly picked myself up off the ground and grabbed the katana,then made my way out of the alleyway and before I knew it I had made it to the park again. I hide the katana in my pants as I walked to my house. before I made it there, the same ashen blonde haired man from yesterday came running passed me, our eyes made contact for a moment before he kept running.

'Guess he didn't see my clothes in the hurry, good thing too, there's a hole in them' I mutter to myself. I stoically made my way into the empty home, took my clothes off and put them in the trash. I quietly ignored my grumbling stomach and made my way to my room before throwing myself on the bed and closed my eyes and went to sleep.