"H-hey, this is ridiculous right? No no no, this is definitely beyond ridiculous. Why the hell does my terrible luck seem to be getting far worse ever since I stepped into this damn world?"

"This is… certainly staggering. Is your life always this exciting back home?"

"OF COURSE NOT! Why the hell would a normal high school boy like me find being teleported to the other side of the planet by a bunch of mad fanatics to be even remotely exciting!? SUCH MISFORTUNEEE!"

(Three Hours Ago)

"You-you're…! Wait, what's your name again?"

"Fufufu, it's only polite to give out your name first before asking someone else's, right?" Said the black-haired beauty in her usual whimsical manner.

"U-uh, right...the name's Kamijou Touma. Pleased to make your acquaintance."

"My name's Himejima Akeno. The feeling's mutual, Kamijou-kun." Both of them smiled at each other for a moment, particularly the black-haired female who seemed to observing the reaction of the spiky-haired one..

"So Himejima-san, what are you doing?

"Me? I'm just buying supplies for my school club's necessities." She lifted her left hand to show him a white plastic bag filled with snacks and tea sets.

"Oh is that so? Then I shouldn't delay you any longer. Bye then." Kamijou was about to leave first when suddenly he felt a rather dainty and smooth hand hold his left hand.

"Wait a moment, Kamijou-kun. How about we go to that cafe over there? You know, since it's not often we get a...visitor like you around this town." The sultriness leaking from her almost whispery voice sweetly passed through his ear.

"V-visitor? Are you talking about yesterday? I know it makes you and your friend really mad, but I truly didn't mean it!"

"No, I understand that you meant no harm. Kaichou- I mean Sitri-san already explained everything to us."

"Oh thank goodness! Then… why are you inviting me?"

"Mmh like I said, it's not everyday that we get a visitor like you. Wouldn't it be...nice if we could get to know each other much better, don't you think so, Kamijou-kun?" Truly spoken like an adept seductress, she effortlessly set the pace with such finesse it made him look like a stuttering mess.

"T-that's a really nice offer and it would be definitely lovely to hang out with a beautiful lady like yourself, but I really should be-"

"Please don't worry about it, Kamijou-kun. Surely you have can spare a few minutes to spend with me. And who knows, if things go smoothly, I will owe you some...favours. Like being able to convince Rias not to go off everytime she looks on you and your witch, or even...personal requests from you and only...you, ufufufu. Oh, and speaking of witch, where's your guardian fairy?" To complement her not-so subtle attempts, she winked at the blushing high-school boy.

"I'm looking around for her right now, so that's why I need to go-"

"Oh then I can help you look around for her after we finished. A help from a native should be nice, right? Besides, she seems to be a capable individual despite her size. I assure you that even regular strays won't be able to do much on her."

"S-stray what now?"

"Stray devil. Rogue low-class devils who betrayed their master for their selfish ambitions. Oh how about we add information exchange as part of our deal? Not knowing your way around would be a major inconvenience, don't you think so?" The sickeningly sweet smile of her luscious lips didn't help his already wavering mind. Informations could be useful when one is stranded on an unknown place, but he also needed to be cautious and sharp. For all he knew, there could be a chance that this woman actually wanted to exact revenge on him for his actions yesterday.

But on the other hand, he also wanted to be useful so Othinus doesn't have to do all the intelligence gathering stuff alone. He might not be as cunning and sharp-minded like his closest confidant, but at the very least he should be able to do this much.

Th-this woman... Such misfortune. Lamented Kamijou, as if he was ready to accept whatever calamity that might fall upon him after agreeing to her invitation.

"(It's him, the enemy of the Abyss. Just as foretold by the Great Dweller.)"

"(Yes, it is him. His presence in this world could jeopardize the effort to welcome the Great Dweller's ascension. Should we do it now?)

"(Of course. For the Abyss and its Great Dweller. )"

"Mmmh! The cake here never fails to amaze me!" While a certain black-haired beauty was delightfully savoring the chocolate pastry in her mouth, Kamijou was trying to compose his scrambling thoughts. Sorry Othinus, but please wait for a little bit longer.

"So, another world huh? To be honest when I first heard it from Sitri-san, I was wondering what kind of method you use to lie your way out of her. Though now after hearing all of that directly from you, I feel like...I need to readjust my worldview again."

"I hope that's not an insult, Himejima-san."

"Oh no no, consider it as a compliment because you know, a non-human like me questioning a fantastical backstory such as yours is rather intriguing, right?"

"*sigh* I guess, although all I want is just a peaceful life as a normal high-school boy."

"Based from what you've just told me, it seems fate itself has some kind of grudge against you."

"Tell me about it. Such misfortune indeed."

"But I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing." Kamijou lifted his head up in interest on her words.

"Because along the way, I think you made plenty of people have a much better life. It's rather admirable, really. If your power wasn't harmful for a devil like me, I probably would've tried to convince Rias to have you join our peerage by now." Akeno continued.

"And speaking of my power, why are you able to ignore my right hand? From what I've understood, doesn't my Imagine Breaker suppose to cause a rather uncomfortable feeling for devils like you just by in the close proximity?"

"Ah yes you're correct. In fact I'm still feeling it right now. But you know, the...sensation…the dread of being harmed by it just with a mere touch, aahh… I never feel this excited before~!" The seductress in front of the spiky haired boy started to lick her lips with a rather...enticing manner.

"R-right… I don't even know how I should respond to that... should I worry for my safety right now?"

After hearing the tales from the boy directly, she agreed with Sona in that lying wasn't just something he could possibly do very well. The boy was too honest for his own good, and perhaps that was why he was quite interesting in her eyes. Issei himself was rather similar to him, except Kamijou seemed to be a person who already acquainted himself well enough with the darkness and tragedies in life, and yet despite that he still had faith in salvation and brighter outcomes.

Although she also knew that there are plenty of things he didn't tell her. Well she would give him that much, at the very least.

"But Academy City huh, that's quite the fascinating place. It seems the humanity from your world are more advanced than-" Suddenly her nerves flared in rage and she could feel a mana buildup around the air. She frantically looked around only to see no spellcaster in sight.

This feeling, what's happen-

"THE FIFTH CALL : OUTER GATE"

"!" The couple heard an ominous screeching sound before the two of them engulfed by a mysterious force field. Imagine Breaker quickly reacted to the power before it vanished, only to have a gargantuan black hole absorbed both the boy and the girl. The hole subsided quickly and leaving two empty chairs, with uncaring lives doing what they did as if nothing had happened.

====LINE BREAK====

In the cold skies of Siberia, a vast land of wilderness located within the country of Russia, a mysterious hole opened up and spit out its content in the form of a pair of young teenagers. The girl revealed her unnatural black bat-like wings before she dived down and catched the left hand of the falling boy.

"W-what just happened?! Himejima-san, you didn't have any part on this right?"

"O-of course not. Besides, this isn't the work of any devil from Rias or Sona's peerage. The energy used by it is not even demonic."

She slowly descended down and carefully set Kamijou down before landing herself. She looked around only to see no signs of life other than trees.

"This is… a forest? Why? And what just-" As if to answer her queries, another hole torn the sky and revealed its content, two unknown individuals with night-coloured robes covered their whole body. They floated in the air for a while before they performed a mad descent into the ground near them.

"Hmm, an expected margin of error. Controlling our spell to adapt with Imagine Breaker is already exceedingly difficult. Since I didn't spot any wreckage of cafe building or torn limbs, I think this can be considered a successful extraction." The taller of the two eyed the confused human and reincarnated devil. The mention Imagine Breaker didn't escape the spiky-haired boy's notice.

"Who are you!? What did you want from me?" He got his answer from the shorter one.

"Your death." Wasting no more time, the shorter one dashed toward him while his left hand formed an unknown magic circle and launched a building-size black stake from it.

"THE FOURTH CALL : SEPHIRA SPEAR"

Kamijou stood on his ground and extended his right arm toward the hurling stake. The sound of his signature glass-shattering noise from his right hand rang through the cold air and dispersed the stake. However it seemed their knowledge of his had made them prepared suitable countermeasures as the dispersing stake formed numerous amount of smaller ones before his instinct kicked in. He performed a mad strafe to his right side before they launched on the spot where he previously stood.

A second giant black stake already made its way to him before a mysterious transparent barrier blocked its path. Kamijou used this chance to create as much distance as he could before the black stake cleanly penetrated through the barrier. He looked at his female companion and saw her extended her left hand and a magic circle that formed by her fingers.

"Hmm, I forgot that you're a devil. Begone from this place, we only have business with the boy."

"Ara, ara, I'm afraid I can't let you two do that. He's already occupied with me." Akeno let out some of her lightning spells on the shorter one, who already ceased his attacks on the boy and erected a barrier of their own. The lightning crashed into it, only to no avail.

"Tch."

"Himejima-san, Can you distract the other one?" She heard Kamijou called her. She glanced at the boy with a knowing look and nodded her head before they heard the taller one spoke again.

"You, continue with the boy. I'll kill her myself."

"That confident, huh? You're magicians shouldn't let yourselves get a bit too cocky simply because you know some spells." The magician responded with a giant black scythe that oozed dark mist around the blade.

"THE SECOND CALL : REAPER OF THE ABYSS" He swung the scythe toward the empty air.

"Then be quiet and die, woman. For the Great Dweller."

Beneath the chilling skies of Siberia, the throwing sounds of solid big spears and lightning strikes signaled the battle between unknown magicians and a pair of unlikely duo of human and devil.

"T-this is going to get ugly real quickly…*pant*" Sweats formed on the spiky-haired boy as he relentlessly dodged the seemingly infinite black stakes with all of his might. Unlike most magicians he had faced before, the one in front of him seemed to be awfully prepared to counter his Imagine Breaker, even without any modern weapons such as guns.

"Who the hell are you two? I know I have asked this to many people that were after my life but I will ask you anyway. Why do you want to kill me?"

"Why... do you ask? It's because of that accursed hand of yours."

"Imagine... Breaker?" Don't tell me that Fiamma have come to kill me again? But...why? The last time someone had specifically after his life because of Imagine Breaker would be Acqua of the Back, and that was because of Fiamma's trickery.

"Your right hand...your sudden arrival in this realm...is a terrible threat that would halt the ascension of the Great Dweller in this realm. Therefore, I'll have your life forfeit in this cold forest." The shorter man launched another stakes on the poor boy, who had been forced to negate it. Just like before, the dispersing stake split itself again into several smaller stakes, hovering above the boy's head.

"And such, we are blessed by the Great Dweller himself and bestowed us with a portion of his unfathomable power to eradicate you. Once, and for all. So, Imagine Breaker, I beseech you..." The shorter man lifted his right hand straight.

"Drown in the depths of Abyss itself." Like an executioner's blade, the moment he dropped his arm, the floating stakes launched themselves in a mad dash toward Kamijou.

Fortunately, Kamijou Touma was not a normal high school boy like he always proclaimed. He had faced countless battles against countless opponents leagues above his own. He had stared down the blade of death itself that had been rearing its tip on his neck countless of times, and successfully escaped with his life. As the result, his instinct had developed into one of his greatest weapon in his extremely limited arsenal.

Precognition.

He quickly moved himself to the closest space with the least amount of stakes heading on it, and with agility that would put him in the level of olympic athletes, he twisted his body and narrowly avoided them. Another two stakes reared their razor sharp tip on the spiky-haired boy, and so he instinctively grabbed one of them, and before it was fully dispersed he swiftly crashed it with the other one, diverted its trajectory and strucked into an empty spot near him.

"Tch." The shorter man clicked his tongue and prepared himself to summon yet another one before his body shook violently.

"A-argh!" He dropped on his knees and coughed up a quite amount of crimson-colored liquid.

"Don't use another one! Your body already reached its limit, you useless sack of shit." Apparently his partner saw his current predicament, and he seemed to be extremely displeased that he still hadn't managed to kill the bearer of Imagine Breaker.

"Tch, shut up!" I won't stop until I have his lifeless body laid in front of me.

"Ara-ara, it's only proper not to ignore your dance partner magician-san~" The long-haired beauty who was also the Queen of Gremory's peerage launched another one of her signature lightning strikes toward the taller man. Without the help of his accomplice, he was forced to block it with a strange black mist that came from the weapon he wielded.

That mist...It's neither holy or demonic, but for some reason it feels so...wrong. Akeno analyzed every single inch of her opponent and tried to find any semblance of an opening that she could exploit. The barrier she used in the beginning and numerous amount of lightning strikes she had thrown at the cloaked bastard already depleted half of her energy reserve.

"Be silence, woman. You call yourself and your kind a Devil, but in reality all of you are nothing more than feeble creatures trying to imitate humanity. Truly, it sickens me."

"Hmm, you have the nerve to insult my King and my friends, human? Then I won't hold back anymore." She gathered every last drop of her remaining demonic energy to utterly annihilate the arrogant human stood in front of her. All of a sudden, the skies of the Siberian forest was engulfed by a humongous dark cloud with lightning currents dancing around it.

"Impressive, woman. Let's see how strong your petty fireworks compared to the mist drawn from the Abyss itself!" A grotesque black mist, thicker than any mist she had seen so far from the taller man enveloped his cloaked figure, with his scythe's head defiantly pointed heavenward.

"You'll pay for your insolence, magician. DIE." With all the power she could muster, she brought down a massive lightning bolt that probably would make even Zeus himself smirk with pride. The thunderous bolt struck the black mist in the ground, using all of its energy to break through the strange force field that seemed to hold back the bolt like a huge net.

"H-he could stop it?" Who are these magicians? Thought Akeno as she could barely believe her eyes, because a seemingly average magician could produce such a sturdy defensive spell and it withstood her strongest offensive spell.

."N-not bad, woman. If my mist had been any weaker I would have been dead by now." Shit, this is bad. Both of us may have received such a great boon from the Great Dweller himself, but our body still hasn't fully accept it. Have we been a bit too rash ? Pondered the taller man as he gathered all of his strength to maintain the mist.

However in time, he felt himself being pushed back by the lightning bolt which was also starting to dissipate. He had no choice but to use his last resort.

"Damn you woman, take this!" His left hand shot out a black stake similar to the spell his partner, only it was a bit shorter and thinner.

D-damn it, I don't have much left to form a barr-

Her thoughts are interrupted when she saw the back of a spiky-haired boy stand in front of her. He lifted his right arm straight forward and let his fist collided with the incoming stake. She also noticed that the taller man's partner had rejoined her opponent.

"...Looks like we have no choice. We need to fall back! Summon your gate! NOW!"

"N-no, not just yet. Wait just a little-"

"DO IT RIGHT FUCKEN NOW!"

The shorter man reluctantly used his remaining energy to summon the same spell he used to draw both the human and the devil into this deserted forest.

"We'll… come back for your life, Imagine Breaker! And you woman, next time I'll take pleasure in destroying you and everything you hold dear. That is promise, I swear in the name of -ksssshhhsshh-" The black-haired beauty couldn't understand the last part of his sentences as the robed figures were swallowed by the same void gate that had absorbed her and Kamijou Touma.

"W-wait-" The spiky-haired boy frantically called the cloaked duo before they vanished along with the gate.

The noise of howling icy wind was all that remained.

"So...what now?"

"Well, I still have enough reserve to open a portal to Kuoh. But you…"

"Such misfortune."

After their short clash against an unknown enemy, they walked through the silent forest in search for traces of any nearby civilization for a few hours. From a rusted waymarker they had found, Akeno deduced that they were somewhere within a territory of Russia, much to the dismay of the spiky-haired boy who had been mumbling on how many times he dropped himself in a cold country. Luckily, it seemed the time zone of the place they were trapped right now was around 2 hours behind Japan's time zone, so it was still a few more hours before nightfall dropped in.

"Kamijou-kun, those people...they seem to know you."

"I know I can't prove myself to you, but believe me that I'm just as clueless as you. It seems they also know about my power. At the very least, I think they also come from my world."

"Do you think that they are the ones who summoned you and Othinus-san into this world?"

"I…don't know. It's possible, but highly unlikely. Why would they even bother to do all this when they could just simply infiltrate Academy City and be done with it? They wouldn't be the first magicians to do it anyway." Kamijou tried to recall every single experience in his fights against magicians, trying to figure out the identity of his assassins.

"So... you really get chased off like this all the time? I think your constant cries of misfortune hold some credit afterall. Ufufufu~"

"Of course it is! Many people never believed it when I say I have gotten into plenty of accidents ever since I could walk with my two feets. Especially that Fukiyose..." Kamijou suddenly remembered all the people he had left behind. Are they okay? I left them in the middle of that extreme heat wave…

Seeing that her companion had gone silent, she was about to ask him something when her extrasensory nerves detected something nearby their spot.

"Wait, Kamijou-kun."

"Huh?"

The devil walked toward a particularly tall tree. On its bark laid a strange faint runic symbol of hexagram, with a five-leaf clover in the middle of it. Strange, I've never seen a hexagram pattern like this before.

"What's wrong, Himejima-san?"

"Look, this symbol… do you recognize it?" Kamijou took a look at the bark she was pointing at.

"Nope, doesn't ring any bell. Do you think it's from those two?"

"Well, only one way to find out then."

Kamijou nodded and proceeded to touch the strange rune with his right hand. His signature cancelling sound rang out through the cold air and as he expected, the symbol was starting to fade.

But he and Akeno didn't expect what follows after it.

The same void gate that had swallowed their enemies once again reared its hole in front of them.

"I see, now I understand."

"Understand what?"

"The gate spell they used. It looks like they could also create a rune that could produce the same spell. Before we got swallowed up by the gate, I sensed a mana buildup near our table. While I couldn't see any magician around us, I briefly checked the spot where the mana had gathered and spotted a strange symbol. Unfortunately, it was too late and I couldn't see it more clearly. So apparently this is the symbol I saw earlier." Akeno approached the gate warily, inspecting it.

"But why would they do something like this when they could conveniently summon a gate directly?"

"I'm not sure. Emergency measure, maybe? This void gate seems to be self-sustainable afterall."

Akeno continued to analyze the floating black void before she noticed something else.

"This gate… I think it's kinda smaller. And looks like it won't hold any longer. Kamijou-kun, use this one. I still have enough power to summon my own portal once more." The former fallen angel began to summon a magical pentagram on the ground. A red magic circle appeared shortly afterward. She stepped on it before she looked back at Kamijou.

"To be honest, I'm not sure the destination of that portal. I truly wish we could use mine instead but it seems that strange gate is the only one that is able to resist your power for a while before it was completely negated. At the very least, try to picture Kuoh Town clearly in your head. It might be able to alter something along the way." Akeno could only look at him solemnly.

"Don't worry about me, Himejima-san. You can go first. Your friends must be worried about you." Kamijou wryly smiled at the worried devil.

Even at times like this, he still put others before himself. He's….I wonder if... The beauty smiled at herself.

A bright light of crimson enveloped Akeno's entire body before she dissipated along with the magic circle. Only the spiky-haired boy remained in the dark forest along with the shrinking void gate.

The lone human inhaled a deep breath before he stepped into the unknown.

"Alright, here goes nothing. I hope my misfortune would spare me just this once."

The spiky-haired boy put his right hand inside his shirt to avoid touching the edge of the magical gate. And shortly afterward, the dark forest of Siberia was given back its silence once again.

Rias was reprimanding her newest addition's recent action in the ORC along with her peerage and surprisingly, the tiny arrogant witch as well. She said that she had small affairs to deal with Sona so she had tagged along with her group. Speaking of my peerage, where's Akeno anyway? She said that she needed to buy some supplies at the shopping district. But right now it's almost midnight… pondered Rias.

As if to answer her lingering thought, a bright crimson light suddenly appeared in front of her desk, and revealed a portal magic circle. From it, the Queen of Rias's peerage rose above.

"Akeno!" Rias sighed in relief before she noticed something odd on her uniform.

Parts of it were torn and smeared in dirt and...snow?

"A-Akeno, what just happened-"

"I'm sorry Rias, but I need to-" The black-haired beauty spotted a tiny witch who was floating near Rias.

"O-Othinus-san...why are you-"

"As a token of good faith, I've let out some information about my circumstance with Kamijou Touma directly to her. But apparently her mind is just too simple to process the whole thing."

"Information my ass! You're just trying to goad me into your petty provocations the whole tim-"

"Alright please stop, you two." Rias looked back to her queen. This time, gone was her cheery and whimsical attitude, replaced by a rigid and serious expression.

"I have a bad news."

"Magicians from another world you say?"

"Yes. At least that's what Kamijou-kun thinks. We're still not sure about their identity. Apparently they are hunting him, or more specifically his right hand. Doesn't matter actually since they want him dead all the same." Akeno calmly retold the events that transpired between her and the spiky-haired boy that afternoon. However, her fading strength made her almost want to faint on the spot.

"From what I could gathered from the tidbits of their words on Kamijou-kun, it looks like they've been in this world for quite some time and the sudden appearance of Kamijou Touma in this world appears to be a threat for whatever they're working on."

"I see. Do you think they will come to this town?"

"I….I'm not sure. But we should prepare for the worst just in case. Whatever they're planning, I don't think it will be a good thing."

Akeno secretly took a glance at the silent floating witch, only to shake in fear. While her outer appearance seemed to display a perfect calm behaviour, she could feel the cold fury emanated from her.

"You didn't even wait to see him depart, huh? Of course not. We're no ally of yours. I get it."

"I'm sorry Othinus-san, it's just that I was just too worried that those two might be heading to Kuoh so I hurriedly came-"

"Quiet."

Deathly silence filled the room, suffocating its inhabitants inside. Even Rias, who was being irritated by her constant attempt to provoke her just a few minutes ago, was also unnerved by the sudden tension.

"I'm leaving."

"Othinus-san…?"

"I'm going to find out who those lowlifes are. And should they have the slightest relation with any myth, religion or faction in this world…"

She only showed her back to the rest of the peerage before flying out from the room, but they could practically imagine the utter contempt and hatred flashing in her lone eye.

"I'll destroy them. Every last one of them."

And so, once again she treaded the old warpath she had abandoned long time ago.

Kamijou Touma, be safe...

"Midnight fishing, why are you being this dumb Azazel-san?"

"H-hey, dumb you say but just you wait until I catch a legendary fish that is said to be dwelling in this river for the past few thousands years!"

" *sigh* Just what did you eat this morn-"

The ramblings between two old men was interrupted by a sudden spherical void formed above the riverflow, spitting out what appeared to be an unconscious young boy into the river.

====END CHAPTER====

Can't have an Index story without things escalated from 0 to 100 just in a few seconds.

Special thanks to my beta Epidemic Bear.

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