Dead men should tell no tales

27/3/20XX, Monday

[Kuoh Town, Kuoh Academy]

As Akira entered Kuoh Academy grounds, he got faced by another impossibility in front of him. Walking a little ahead of him was a certain very dead brown haired pervert, Hyoudou Issei. It was impossible. He knew that there was no way for the dead to come back to life, he knew that from his experience as a Phantom Thief, their one fallen member.

"Someone here looks deep in thought." A familiar voice said as its owner walked into his field of vision. Rias Gremory, one of the great ladies of this school, also happening to be a girl with devil wings and the capability to use Almighty type of attacks. "Good morning to you too, Gremory-san." Akira deadpanned as he continued to walk towards the main school building.

"Hey! Don't just talk to me like that Kurusu-kun. Why do you have to be so mean?" Gremory moaned as she followed Akira into the school building.


27/3/20XX, Monday

[Kuoh Town, Kuoh Academy]

Both school and track practice had ended for the day. The sun was beginning to set and dyed the entire school in a glorious red colour. Looking around, Akira found himself to be completely alone in the first floor corridor. He had taken his time to wash up and waited for most of the student body to vacate the premises. Unzipping his school bag, a certain black and white cat leaped out of it. "Urgh, it was so suffocating in there Akira. Couldn't you have let me out earlier? You had no problem in doing so back when we were in Shujin you know." Morgana questioned as he began to scratch his ear.

"This school is a lot more dangerous than Shujin, Morgana. The Student Council President here gives me the creeps. Besides, we have to be careful. We do not know if Gremory has any other associates in this school." Akira whispered.

"Yeah, I get it. Either ways, let us begin the operation now. Since I am unsure if I can use my Persona, I will go and stake out that pervert's house and see if anything weird is going on. Based on what you told me yesterday, there is no way that he can still be alive and kicking. As for you, you will attempt to sneak into that Old School Building that Gremory did not want you to enter. Hopefully it can shed some light on what's going on." Morgana said as he began to walk towards the exit.

Turning to look at the Old School Building from the windows of the corridor, Akira narrowed his eyes as blue flames rose to cover his body once again.


27/3/20XX, Monday

[Kuoh Town, Kuoh Academy, Old School Building]

"Hmm? Akeno-san, has Buchou left the school already? I thought we were going on jobs tonight." A blond haired blue eye male said.

A beautiful female student with long black hair tied into a ponytail and violet eyes replied, "Ara ara. Looks like Buchou really is worried about her new servant, as expected. However, Buchou told me that we shall still be going along with our plans for today. So you need not worry Yuuto."

Lying on the sofa with her eyes closed was another female student. She was rather petite and had white hair that was cut into a bob. All of a sudden, she opened her hazel coloured eyes and began to look around the room. "What's wrong Koneko-chan? Does something have you on edge?" Kiba Yuuto asked.

"There's someone else here." Koneko Toujo replied simply. Almost immediately, both Kiba's and Akeno's posture changed from that of a relaxed one to a more battle ready one. Tilting his head towards the side, Kiba summoned a sword into his hand as he surveyed the room. Electricity began to crackle around Akeno's fingertips as she looked around the room with a smile on her face. "Why not you come down here and face us, Magician-san!" Akeno said in a sing song voice.

A deathly silence filled the room as the three servants of Gremory waited for a reply. However, none came. Her smile spreading even wider, Akeno turned and fired a streak of thunder towards a seemingly random corner. Arcing through the air, the thunder collided with the wall, leaving a black mark on it. A figure dropped from the ceiling and began to walk out of the corner Akeno had struck. "I'm surprised that you managed to sense and locate me. I'm impressed. Thankfully I jumped out of the way in the knick of time." The figure said.

"You must be the magician our master spoke off. A pleasure to meet you. I am Akeno Himejima, the Queen of Rias Gremory's peerage. Beside me are my fellow servants, Yuuto and Koneko. Now then, how about you introduce yourself too."

"I am Joker." The masked figure said. Another round of silence seemed to fill the air but this time, it seemed more like the calm before the store. As Joker reached into his pocket and pulled out a handgun, all hell broke loose. Kiba rushed forward, attempting to catch Joker with the fabled speed of the Knight. However, his slice with the sword only cut through the air, causing his eyes to widen in shock. Above him, Joker smirked and opened fire on Kiba. As Kiba dodged the bullets, more bolts of thunder began streaking towards Joker out of Akeno's hands. Joker danced his way through the attacks, causing a large dust cloud to appear where he last was.

When the dust cloud finally cleared, Gremory's servants found themselves looking at a smoking Joker and the surrounding furniture around him to be completely destroyed. Apart from the smoke rising off of him, Joker appeared to be completely unscathed. Raising his hand, Joker beckoned them to come closer towards him with a smirk on his face. This resulted in Koneko rushing towards Joker, unfortunately for her failing to pin him to the ground as he had simply moved out of the way. Joker was then greeted by an ice beam going straight for him. Rolling to the side, Joker managed to dodge the ice attack from Akeno as well. Leaping to his feet, he found a blade being swung directly towards him. Cling! The sound of clashing metal rang out through the air. Joker had managed to block Kiba's blade with a knife. This caused the Gremory servants to stare in shock as they could not believe that a mere knife would be able to stop a sword. Taking advantage of the situation, Joker's mask burst into flame, continuing to obscure his facial features from Gremory's servants. "Black Frost, Mabufudyne!"

The blue flames behind Joker rose, causing a figure to manifest behind him. The figure was a black and purple demon. It was wearing a hat and its face looked cartoonishly evil. The figure did a little twirl and pointed towards the Gremory group. A sudden chill began to spread through the air as ice crackled into being all around the Gremory group in spirals. The ice then shattered, causing both Koneko and Kiba to be frozen solid, leaving only Akeno unharmed. Glancing at her frozen comrades, Akeno ignited a flame in her hand, attempting to melt the other two. However, Joker was not going to let her do so.

Gripping her wrist, Joker twisted her arm away from the Kiba Akeno was attempting to melt. "Ara ara, do you want to have your way with this onee-sama?" Akeno questioned while giving Joker a wink.

Raising his handgun, Joker pointed it between Akeno's eyes. "Unfortunately, I'm not in the mood for playing. Now tell me, what are you?"

Just then, a sudden crackle of flame filled the air. Joker turned his head in the direction of the sound only to find Kiba's sword all of a sudden bursting into flames. The ice surrounding Kiba began to quickly melt. "Looks like my comrade managed to free himself magician-san. Shall we continue our little fight?"

Reigniting the flame, Akeno thrusted her free hand towards Joker. Strangely, a mirror like object appeared in front of him, causing the flames to rebound at Akeno and burn her left arm. Screaming in pain, she conjured water out of thin air attempted to cool the burnt skin.

"It seems like you've hurt my comrade, I will not forgive this magician. Taste my [Flame Sword]!" Kiba roared as he swung his blade at Joker. Rolling out of the way of the sword, Joker jumped into the air, firing off multiple shots at Kiba and forcing him to create a wall of flame with his sword to block the bullets. As Kiba hurriedly attempted to stop those bullets, Joker rolled into a crouch behind Kiba before taking a final shot at him. This shot found its target, causing Kiba to collapse from a bullet wound near his hip. Kiba gasped, "What… what kind of… of attack was… was that?"

"Down shot." Joker replied. Before Joker could make another move, the doors to the room were slammed open, revealing Rias Gremory. Rias surveyed the room, only to find her beloved servants all defeated. Kiba was kneeling on the ground, gasping from his bullet wound. Koneko was still frozen solid in a casing of ice and Akeno was lying on the ground clutching a burnt arm. As for the room, the furniture was completely destroyed, the carpet was ruined and there were black markings on the walls. As she and Joker made eye contact, a magical aura began to swell up around Rias, causing her hair to begin to fly all over the place as the [Power of Destruction] began to manifest in an orb in front of her.

"You, what have you done? You dare attack my beloved servants?" Rias growled as the orb began to swell. Cocking his head to the side and smirking at Rias, Joker simply snapped his fingers, causing a bright light to burst from where he stood. Rias could only advert her eyes from him as she heard the sound of glass smashing. When she looked back at where he last stood, all she saw was a shattered window.


27/3/20XX, Monday

[Kuoh Town, Hyoudou Residence]

Meanwhile, Morgana was having arguably one of his most boring assignments yet. He had assigned himself to keep watch on the one known as Hyoudou Issei but he had no idea he would be having such a boring time.

Morgana was sitting on the terrace outside of Hyoudou's window. Even though he was in such a compromising position, that idiot still did not spot him. In fact, that idiot did not even look at Morgana's direction once! Apart from the fact that he was a dead man walking, there was nothing special about Hyoudou Issei. Like an ordinary highschool student, he had simply done his homework before sitting at his desk and using his computer.

Sighing, Morgana stood up and prepared to leave the residence. It was no use to continue this observation. Leaping off the terrace with ease, Morgana returned towards Akira's house. Unbeknownst to him, a certain girl with crimson hair had been watching him all this time. As she watched Morgana leave the residence, a magic circle appeared beneath her feet and she teleported away.


27/3/20XX, Monday

[Kuoh Town, Kuoh Academy, Old School Building]

"That magician is very strong. I still do not understand how he managed to take out Akeno-san, Koneko and me all at once."

"Ara ara. Is Yuuto-kun jealous of magician-san's strength? Then again, on my pride as a Queen, I cannot believe he defeated me so easily. I have never heard of a spell that reflects elemental magic before. Oh yes, Buchou, the magician said that his name was Joker."

"Hmm? Yes, Yuuto did tell me about that. However, I have never heard of a magician going by that name. More research needs to be put into this."

"Yes Buchou!" The three servants of Gremory shouted in unison.


27/3/20XX, Monday

[Kuoh Town, Akira's House]

"So nothing on your end either, Morgana?" Akira asked as he got ready for bed.

"Yes! That entire stake out was a complete waste of time. At least you managed to fight three of them. All I did was watch an idiot do his homework and play computer games." Morgana moaned.

"Anyway, it appears that we cannot get help from the rest of our group. I tried to send the photo again earlier but failed. It is rather difficult to explain the current situation to them since we are unable to send that photo. I think the next time best time we can inform them of the situation is when they come over for break."

"Looks like we should lay low until then Akira. Well then, you should go to bed! You still have school tomorrow! We will discuss more about this tomorrow after school!" Morgana said. Shaking his head at that familiar reminder, Akira slipped under the blankets and went to bed.


XX/X/XXXX, Xxxday

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Akira woke up in that strange lake again. Once again, the blonde lady stood at the centre of the bright red Shinto gate. "Hello again, my dear Satanael. Ah. I called you that again. My mistake Akira Kurusu, old habits die hard." the lady said.

Looking at her back, Akira pushed himself up to his feet and asked, "Why have you brought me here again lady? Also, you still have not answered what you are?"

Giggling, the lady replied, "Is it not rude to ask a lady what she is? As for why I brought you here, I wish to warn you again my dear child. The consequences of your actions in Tokyo, you shall soon be facing them. Steel yourself my dear child for what is about to come."

"Consequences? What are you talking about? All I did was headshot a false god."

"Ah, you never do change do you? Why is it always the young that has to suffer. Just remember my dear, everything has a consequence and we shall all have to face it. I know that best after all. Now then, I think I should give you a little more information on what you are going through. This world that you live in contains many myths and legends. All I can tell you is that all these myths and legends must have some form of truth in. Now, I am afraid our time is up. Do say hello to the Welsh Dragon for me the next time you see him."

There it was again. The same ringing of bells. That was the last sound that Akira heard before he blacked out.


27/3/20XX, Tuesday

[Kuoh Town, Kuoh Academy, Class 3A]

"Good morning students. Today, I will like to introduce all of you to a new teacher who shall be joining us from today onwards. Her name is Aigis Palladion and she will be your new homeroom and mathematics teacher for the year. Can you give her a warm welcome?"

Akira was currently in shock. He did not think that the Kirijo corporations would send their own blonde terminator to teach in Kuoh Academy. That Mitsuru Kirijo must be very serious about this investigation.

"Good morning everyone. I am Palladion-sensei and I shall be teaching you for the rest of this school year. I hope that all of you will be able to gain something about of my lessons." Palladion-sensei said with a bow. The blonde android was dressed in a black suit and skirt and had white gloves on.

Despite being an android, Palladion-sensei seemed to be rather proficient in teaching. Glancing towards his side, Akira found Gremory to be rather distracted, completely unlike her. "Someone here looks deep in thought." Akira muttered.

His voice seemed to snap her out of her daydream. Looking at Akira, Gremory simply smiled at him. "Kurusu and Gremory, do you mind focusing here instead?" Palladion-sensei said from the front, "Oh and Kurusu, I wish to see you after school."

Upon hearing Palladion-sensei, Gremory's face turned a bright red. Both Akira and Gremory returned their gaze to the front of the class.


27/3/20XX, Tuesday

[Kuoh Town, Kuoh Academy]

"Good afternoon teachers. I am Akira Kurusu from class 3A and I'm looking for Palladion-sensei." Akira said after opening the door to the staffroom.

Rising from her desk, Palladion-sensei made her way towards Akira. Walking past him and into the corridors, she simply beckoned for Akira to follow. Both of them made their way into an empty classroom. "You know, if you do this, people will start thinking there's something between us Palladion-sensei." Akira said upon entering the classroom.

"I did not call you here to listen to your nonsense Kurusu-kun. I would like to ask though, how did you manage to manifest your Persona without an evoker in the real world?" Palladion-sensei questioned.

"I don't know what you are talking about Palladion-sensei. Why not you tell me what is going on in this town first? Growing up, I never faced any of these problems before."

"So, you really do not know. Fine, I shall report this to Kirijo-sama. She also told me to inform you of the truth behind the happenings in the school. From what we have been able to gather so far, devils and angels do exist in this world. You should know, you have encountered the two of them that Sunday in the park." After taking a deep breath, Palladion-sensei continued, "As for why you never experienced this while growing up, we do not have a solid explanation for that."

"Fine. If that's all you have to say to me, may I take my leave now Palladion-sensei?" Akira asked.

"You may Kurusu-kun. However, as a word of warning. I suggest you do not hastily rush into the affairs of these devils. Beware both the Occult Research Club as well as the Student's Council. Now, I wish you a good day Kurusu-kun." With that, Palladion-sensei turned and left the classroom.


27/3/20XX, Tuesday

[Kuoh Town, Akira's House]

"I'm home." Akira droned out upon entering the house. To his surprise, he did get a response from someone other than Morgana.

"Oh, you're back," Akira's mother said, "great timing. I'm not sure if you remember them but the Hyoudou family will be coming over for dinner tomorrow night. Do cook a larger portion of your delicious curry got it Akira?"

"Yeah." Akira replied as he made his way towards his room. Upon entering it, he found Morgana reading one of his old manga. "Hey, aren't we gonna discuss our next move Morgana?"

Looking up at him, Morgana replied, "Sure thing Akira. Also, I did some experimentation earlier to attempt to summon my Persona and look what I managed to do!"

Blue flames rose up around Morgana, causing him to revert to his Phantom Thief form of that monster cat shape. With a smug grin on his face, Morgana returned to his usual cat form and declared, "Looks like I can help you out in battle now Akira! Alright, let us begin to discuss our plans for the future. Oh right, what did your mum tell you earlier when she entered the house?"


27/3/20XX, Tuesday

[Kuoh Town, Kuoh Academy, Student Council Room]

"Sona, it appears that we have a problem on our hands." Rias Gremory announced as she entered the Student Council room.

"Oh? And what kind of problem is so big that you and your peerage cannot handle by yourself?" Sona Sitri said before she took a sip of tea.

"It appears that we have a magician in town, a powerful one as well. He's a summoner type magician that somehow managed to make pacts with multiple creatures, he even manage to take on three members from my peerage! Yuuto even said that it felt like he was playing around. Furthermore, I have suspicions that he has a familiar in the form of a black and white cat"

"That is a problem. A magician that can take on three devils easily is a big problem, even if they are low class ones. Have you managed to get any intel on him?"

"That's the next problem Sona. No one has ever seen or heard anything about him! It's almost as if he just sprouted out of nowhere. The only thing that we managed to find out is that he goes by the alias of Joker."

"Fine. I shall perform my own investigation into this matter but first, when was the first time you saw this Joker?"


27/3/20XX, Tuesday

[Kuoh Town, Main Street]

The sun was setting as a tired Akira made his way out of the gym. The classes in Kuoh Academy were relatively easy as compared to those at Shujin. This caused him to have an abundance of free time since he need not study nor prepare for palaces. Deciding to drop by the supermarket for more food before returning home, Akira veered off course and headed towards there instead. However, he was completely oblivious to a figure overhead as a black feather slowly drifted down towards the ground.

By the time Akira left the supermarket, the sun had already set, causing the sky to be dyed in the black of night. Akira could not help but curse his luck that the Hyoudou family was invited for dinner. Akira's mother and Mrs Hyoudou were good friends. Although they normally do not call their family for their meetups, Akira was unlucky enough that he had to be present for one this time. Well, at least he could keep track of Hyoudou Issei. Turning into an alleyway, Akira decided to take a shortcut home.

As he continued to walk forward, Akira accidentally bumped into a man dressed in a hat and a large grey coat. Blinking at the man, Akira mumbled an apology before continuing to walk away. "It's a nice night today, right magician? How unfortunate that you might die on this night."

The man's words caused Akira to halt in his tracks. Calmly placing his grocery bags and his gym bag on the ground, Akira turned to face the man. The man had shrugged off his coat revealing dirty black wings to Akira. As the man begin to rise into the air, he said, "I've already let one of my prey go tonight, I definitely won't let a second one!"

A light spear flared to life in his hand, briefly lighting up the night before he flung it at Akira. Blue flames wrapped around Akira before flickering out of existence to reveal Joker. Sidestepping the attack, Joker reached into his coat pocket, drew out a handgun and opened fire on the man.

Light spears blazed to life causing the bullets to be incinerated before they could even get close to the man. "Perhaps I shall grant you the name of your killer magician. I am Dohnaseek, your murderer!" The man roared.

Light spears of every shape and size were flung at Joker. Unfortunately for Dohnaseek, none of them managed to even make contact. "Well then, I guess I shall grant you this, come Yamata no Orochi!" Joker said as his face became covered in blue flames.

Dohnaseek's jaw dropped at the sight that lay before him. The magician had somehow managed to summon it, an evil dragon. Dohnaseek could not believe that he would ever lay eyes on Yamata no Orochi, a being he had only read out in one of the books in heaven…

Then, Dohnaseek felt it. A sense of dread that seemed to be growing by the second. The eight headed eight tailed dragon seemed to ooze malice and destruction. Worst of all for Dohnaseek was that it was all directed towards him. He could feel the eight pairs of predatory eyes all locked onto his being causing him to freeze in space. "Let's go, Deathbound!" Joker shouted.

All eight heads roared as a wave of purple energy rippled out from the Persona. If one were to take a closer look at the energy, one would have noticed multiple purple hands stretching out from it, as though it was trying to grasp its enemy. The energy collided straight into a still paralyzed Dohnaseek and the arms grabbed hold of him, attempting to pull him apart.

Screaming in fear, Dohnaseek attempted to fly away but the hands continued to hold onto him. He had made a terrible mistake. In front of him stood the menacing figure of the magician, blue flames still covered his face but Dohnaseek could still see a devilish grin on his face as well as a gleaming yellow eye. Joker spread his arms open as if to welcome Dohnaseek and Yamata no Orochi began to fixate upon Dohnaseek once again.

Just then, a voice shouted, "Hey, what's going on down there? Is someone hurt?"

Upon the hearing the voice, the blue flames faded away along with Yamata no Orochi. Grabbing his items, Joker somehow managed to leap up the walls of the building on one end of the alleyway. Turning back to Dohnaseek, Joker cheekily gave him a salute and simply said, "See ya."

The last thing Dohnaseek saw of that magician was the fluttering of three coattails before the Joker disappeared into the night.


27/3/20XX, Tuesday

[Kuoh Town, Abandoned Church]

"Raynare! Raynare! Screw this shit! I'm leaving this town right now!" Dohnaseek shrieked as he entered the church.

"Hmm? Why are you screaming like a little girl Dohnaseek? What, did you run into a big bad dragon on the way back! Haha!" Raynare laughed upon seeing the terrified expression on the normally stoic Dohnaseek's face.

"Yes! I did see a big bad dragon! One of the worst ones as well, th-that magician… h-he somehow man-managed to summon Yamata no Orochi!" Dohnaseek stuttered out.

Upon hearing those words, the other fallen angels that were lounging around the church turned to give Dohnaseek their full undivided attention. If some human, no if some monster managed to bring back that hellish dragon, then it was not safe to remain in this town.

"Are you certain Dohnaseek? Yamata no Orochi is said to be sealed in that Kusanagi sword ain't it. If that thing was stolen, that family would have kicked up a big fuss by now. Since none of them had said anything, I think it is safe to assume that you were hallucinating!" Raynare mocked. The other fallen angels nodded their head in agreement with Raynare.

Another one of the fallen angels spoke out, "Besides, if Raynare-sama gets hold of that sacred gear from that little girl, we won't have to worry at all Dohnaseek. I'm sure we can stay here a little while longer since she gets here two days from now. The ritual doesn't take long anyway."

"I think all of you are crazy! As long as that magician is in this town, I'm not staying here! That human managed to hurt Raynare and summon Yamata no Orochi. I would rather go back and die by Azazel's hand then get hellfire rained down on us by that magician! I'm leaving now! If any of you had any sense you would follow me to!" Dohnaseek announced.

After seeing that none of the other fallen angels showed any indication of wanting to follow him, Dohnaseek turned and left the church. Now if only those fallen angels knew that Dohnaseek's words weren't far off from the truth.


27/3/20XX, Wednesday

[Kuoh Town, Kuoh Academy]

"I'm so sorry Ryotaro-san. I'm not feeling well today and won't be able to go for practice later." Akira told Yui. Akira could not believe the amount of fatigue he was feeling. Why did it seem to be so much more tiring to use certain Personas now?

"Ah, it's okay Kurusu. Just get well soon okay? Do you want to eat lunch together?" Yui replied with a grin.

Nodding his head in affirmation, the two began to head towards the canteen. "Hey Kurusu, can I ask you something?" Yui asked.

"I think you already did Ryotaro-san. However, I'm sure I can entertain a second one." Akira jokes.

"Well I'm not sure if you've heard the rumours but apparently, Hyoudou came to school with one of the Great Ladies of the school, Rias Gremory, this morning. I mean it is just a rumour but if it were true, I will believe the apocalypse is tomorrow!" Yui said. Chuckling at Yui's reply, both of them entered the cafeteria only to be stopped immediately by the other two members of the perverted trio.

"Hey! Mr Transfer Student! Is it true that you somehow helped Hyoudou get hold of Gremory?" the bald one demanded. Attempting to ignore them, Akira tried to continue walking forward only to find more male students surrounding him and forming a ring.

"He's remaining silent! Is this his way of affirming what you just said, Matsuda!" the bespectacled one shouted. With that, shouts began to erupt from all the other males surrounding him. Akira attempted to plough his way through the crowd but was pushed back into the centre of the ring by Matsuda.

"Come on you lot, let the guy through," Yui spoke up lazily, "don't mind them Kurusu. They just enjoy tormenting any boy hotter than them."

"We do not!" The two members of the perverted trio screamed in unison. Grabbing hold of Akira's hand, and pulled him through the ring of males that surround him. "I don't understand why you choose not to retaliate. The three of those perverts do not deserve to be in this school. Argh why hasn't the school board expelled them for peeping or something?" Yui muttered to Akira.

Leaving the crowd of male students behind them, Akira and Yui proceeded to purchase their meals for lunch.


27/3/20XX, Wednesday

[Kuoh Town, Akira's House]

The delicious aroma of curry wafted through Akira's house as he finally completed his cooking. Breathing in the smell, Akira could not help but feel homesick. Homesick for his true home in Leblanc. "This smell sure reminds me of Leblanc. Hey Akira, don't forget to remain as inconspicuous as possible during dinner got it?" Morgana said as he padded up to Akira.

"Are you going to be wearing that? We are having guests over you know?" Akira's mother shouted upon seeing Akira in his school uniform. Shrugging, Akira replied, "I didn't have a chance to change after school."

"Well, can you go and put on something more presentable? They are going to be here any second." Akira's mother demanded.

Ding-dong!

The doorbell rang announcing the arrival of their guests. "Never mind the change of clothes. At least remove this glasses Akira, I don't see why you still choose to wear them." Akira's mother said as she went to welcome the Hyoudou family.

Removing his glasses with a sigh, Akira shot a glare at the sniggering Morgana sitting on the kitchen floor.

"Pardon the intrusion!" A chorus of four voices shouted. Frowning, Akira wondered why there were four voices when the Hyoudou family was a family of three as he moved into the living room. His answer came when he entered the living room. There, along with Hyoudou Issei, Mr and Mrs Hyoudou and his mother was Rias Gremory herself. Turning to face him, she grinned and said, "Someone here looks deep in thought."

[A/N] Hey everyone, hope that all of you have enjoyed this update. For those of you who are wondering why Yamata no Orochi seems so overpowered as compared to Black Frost, well, let's just say that is the way the High School DxD verse affects the Personas. Now then maybe I shall give a hint for the who the lady in the dream sequence is: She is not a shinto deity and that this 'she' might not actually be a she. Hope you all might guess it before my reveal! (Which is planned to be many chapters from now) Thanks for reading!