"Just who the fuck are you?!" They heard the Jurougumo struggled to say. "Tell me so I curse your name in hell!"

The swordsman faced his body towards the dying devil and answered back with only seven simple syllables.

"Sanosuke Kiriya."

Sanosuke Kiriya, so that's the swordsman's name. Serena will do well to keep that in mind.

"Serena-san," She heard Keisuke' voice calling for her. She kept watching the swordsman and like the others, wondered what his next move would be.

Keisuke and Xarin wondered what was going on. Why was everyone else so surprised? The young man dressed in black over there gave off a funny sensation. And Keisuke noticed the dying spider like monster.

"Well then Sanosuke Kiriya, when I see you in hell, you'll be wishing you didn't kill me!" Nina, the Jurougumo, roared.

Sanosuke sighed. He walked towards the dying spider-like centaur. When he was at arms length away from her, he drew his sword and sliced off her neck in a swift movement. Her head rolled towards the Peerage, blood poured out the neck like a fountain.

"May you seek peace in the afterlife." He whispered as he sheathed his sword.

They were appalled by the brutality of his actions with no hesitation holding him back. The Peerage tensed, now that he was done with the Stray Devil, would he come after them now?

"When I felt the presence of other devils, I feared for the worst and assumed you were her comrades, but…" Sanosuke turned around, facing the Peerage. "If you were, I'd be dead by now." There was a slight pause before he looked out the window. "The presence of the other two Stray Devils seemed to have disappeared. I suppose you had something to do with that. You have my gratitude." He turned his head back at them and began walking towards them.

The Peerage tensed; ready for any type of attack the suspicious man would pull but to their surprise, Sanosuke walked past them without any sign of malicious intent and went for the door.

As Sanosuke walked through the corridor, he heard. "Wait!" he turned around and saw a beautiful magenta haired girl confronting him. "Who are you? An exorcist? A Fallen Angel?"

She felt like those eyes pierced her soul, like a fateful encounter. Could this be considered as one?

Sanosuke smiled. "I'm sorry, anything else is private." He replied before he bowed. "If you will excuse me." He continued walking away.

-x-x-

Life 2: Cursed Spears

-x-x-

Keisuke sighed; this makes it twice in a week that there was an important meeting within the club. Well, since there was an unknown third party taking joining in and the topic of Stray Devils is quite a serious one, it can't be helped. Currently it was the weekend, Sunday morning to be precise, and everyone gathered in her humble apartment. It has been 34 hours since the fight with the Stray Devils and the Peerage were ordered by Serena to rest the day after to wrap their heads around the circumstances.

"We're down from 15 to 13. We still need to find the other members soon, or else it might blow out of proportions." He heard Kaoru said, the green haired older sister of the group looking deeply into the table.

"Well currently right now, their attack force is doubled that of us." Christie observed before she looked to Serena. "Will we be alright?"

"For now let's review the remaining members." Xarin suggested. They needed to look over the Peerage.

Serena nodded. She pointed to the coffee table with her index finger and a yellow magic circle appeared. A small file was produced from the circle. She picked it up the file and took out a set of 15 pictures from it. She laid them categorically, a row for the eight Pawns followed by a row for the two Rooks, a row for the two Knights and "With the death of the two Pawns, Nina and Jacob…" she took away two pictures from the Pawns row, "…currently we are left with six Pawns, Ivan, Kisara, Diana, Xander, Dean and Krato, the two Rooks, Kilboar and Zhang Yue, the Knights, Kojiro, the man we faced yesterday, and Asara, two Bishops, Souta and Amanda, and the leader of the Stray Peerage, Savalia. Since Densdria Aim rarely takes part in the Rating Games, we can't really rely on the footage for a good estimation of their powers. But two things for sure; all of them are middle class devils and three of their members carry Sacred Gears: the Queen, Savalia, the Knight, Asara, and one their Pawns, Krato. We are not sure of what kind of Sacred Gears they have but its safe to say to take extra care when fighting them."

"Guess we'll have to rely on our skills and luck to take them on, a preplanned strategy would be hard." Xarin deduced. Certainly that would be the main way of fighting them but the risk would be too large.

"That's right." Serena nodded again.

"But our problems doesn't end there, doesn't it?" Keisuke questioned. They still need to consider the third party.

Serena nodded, as if reading his mind. "The unknown third party who is also hunting down the Stray Devils, Sanosuke Kiriya. I've sent my familiar to search the town for him. But so far she hasn't seen him."

"We will also send our familiars out to search him." Kaoru added.

Serena nodded again, "Please do." She agreed.

Xarin grinned, "And when we have found him, we have to capture him for an interrogation, don't we?"

"That should be the best option to gain any information about him. But, my worry with that is his fighting ability; he was able to kill the Pawn with ease and I doubt that that was he full extent of his abilities. One thing is for sure, since he can use light energy, he must be connected to the Angels or Fallen Angels. Since that is the case, why would any of the two Factions bother with the Stray Devil Extermination?" Serena questioned.

"It might be because the Stray Devils are killing humans and plus either way, they are still killing one of their more despised enemies," Kaoru suggested. It seemed logical at this with the peace being thin as it is.

"Or that they don't trust us." Xarin added.

Serena considered both of these suggestions as possibilities. "At any rate, both of these factors are to be considered dangerous. And given the delicate situation, it will be best to not take any of these people on our own. So if you ever see any of them, the first thing you do is to contact one of us and wait for us to arrive. I don't want any of you to be in danger."

"If things get out of hand, I'll be calling for reinforcements." Xarin added.

-x-x-

He continued walking down the neighborhood. He was surprised by the peace that the neighborhood had as he looked around. Everyone here seemed harmless from his perspective, as normal as he could never be.

Sanosuke sighed. Right now he doesn't have his sword with him, because it will very weird for someone to carry a sword at this day and age. So he spirited the sword away, back into another dimension where it is stored.

After the first battle with the Stray Devils, he had spent the whole day yesterday searching for information and as luck would have it, nothing. He would have to wait until his benefactor would give him information or when one of them would make a move. Either the Stray Peerage of Densdria Aim or the Peerage assigned to this area.

The other Peerage.

In honesty, he ignored the possibility of another Peerage in the area. For now, they seemed to be confused about his appearance if the reaction of the magenta haired girl brought to any attention. This would complicate things further if not handled carefully, as confident he is with his abilities, he knows he won't be able to take on even half the Peerage on his own. For now, he needs to find a way to not deal with them while

He arrived in front of what seemed to be a Japanese style dojo. 'So this is my new home?' he thought before he took out the piece of paper in his inner pocket. He checked the address. It looked right. Valshion-obasan said to him that his stuff would have arrived the morning before. Though in truth there wasn't much in terms of his belongings, it probably wasn't all that hard. He walked in through the gate, as soon as he stepped in he immediately realized the barrier that surrounded the place. Must be Valshion-obasan's handy work. He looked around, up along the pathway was the main building of the dojo, just before that, the path split into two, the second path lead left to another building which he assumed to be house which was connected to the dojo by a small foyer. He could see that there was a small pond encircled by stones.

"I'm back!" he said before he began taking off his boots while sitting down, his voice rose so he could be heard. No answer came. "Valshion-obasan?" he placed the boots into the shoe cupboard. He took off his coat before walking in, revealing him to be wearing long-sleeved black t-shirt.

He continued walking along the corridor before making a left and sliding the door, into the living room. He noticed a woman sleeping on the green tatami mat in the living room. The woman in question looked no older that he was. Her smooth cyan blue hair was messed up from the sleep. She wore a simple grey top and wore black skirt. She wore black leggings.

"Must have stayed up waiting for me," Sanosuke thought. This woman, whom he knew was Valshion, was a very caring person during his childhood and she still hasn't aged a day. When he left home, he never expected her to come back to his life at all. But she did, and she took him in. Maybe he should do something in return?

He went over to the kitchen, which was passed through another sliding door in the living room He set his coat over a chair's back as he went to get ingredients. Once he got everything he needed, he started cooking.

"Awwh!" he heard the yawn and knew who it was.

"Good morning, Valshion-obasan." He said as he started cooking.

"Good morning…" Valshion replied before her yellow eyes snapped opened. "Sano-chan! You're back!" She grabbed his head under her arm and pulled him down, his head leaning onto the side of her breast. "Just where have you been, young man?! You didn't come back at all last night. You didn't even call! Oh wait, you don't have a cell phone. But still a little info would still be nice!" she tightened her hold around him.

"I get it, let go of me Valshion-obasan! Ow!" She flicked his forehead.

"Please don't call obasan! I look no older than you!" She nudged his head.

"But you were my mother's friend! To not call you oba-san makes me feel awkward." He tried to defend himself. He finally managed to free himself from her and continued his cooking.

Valshion took in a deep breath. "Ah…you're cooking me breakfast?" Valshion asked, looking over his shoulder.

"It's the least I can do..." Sanosuke answered back. "Despite your persistence, you took me in."

"That's why I was your mother's best friend!" Valshion grinned. "Plus leaving you out there in the world, even if you had Wolf-san's protection, it was my fault, I should've stayed here at that time."

Sanosuke paused. He didn't turn to her but had said, "No one knew what would have happened back then. Please leave it alone," He continued cutting the vegetables.

"So what was the request this time?" Valshion asked, changing the subject. She went to open the cupboards and pulled out a couple of plates.

Sanosuke knew she was asking about. She knew about the fact that he had gone to the Underworld to talk to his latest client recently. "It's a more troublesome request…a Stray Devil Extermination."

"Who is the target?"

"This time it's a rare type Stray incident. A whole Peerage rebelled and killed their Master." He could say it was the most unnatural and the most extreme of cases. With reasons unclear, to have 15 devils to rebel and kill their own master, just what did that master do?

"By the way, Syl-chan left this morning for a competition. She seemed to be really happy to see you again so soon." Valshion added.

"Oh…" Sanosuke said. He had forgotten about her, much to his own dismay. Before that happened, she used to always come to his old home. Her father used to be good friends with his father and Valshion.

What was she doing now?

-x-x-

Serena stood there in the crowd as she watched the match going on. It was the semi-final in the National Girls under 18 Fencing competition. She came to support a friend who was participating this year. She herself has been wondering if she could make this girl into a member of her Peerage, she would definitely fit into the position of Knight but even though she is a good friend with her, she couldn't help but feel that she radiated a different aura from the rest of the students in her school. Somehow similar to that swordsman, but was a coincidence right? Something like that was a one in a million. That swordsman, though, is an unknown variable in this situation. She had sent her familiar out to look for him but he still hasn't shown up in her radar.

"Hey, Serena-san!"

She didn't reply but reacted when she saw a hand held close to her face, waving. "You ok?" she looked towards the owner of the hand. A blond girl with her hair loose down to the lower back of her body. She was sweaty from the heat under the fencing and from her match. Serena didn't realize that the match was over. "What's wrong? You been like this since Friday." The blond girl said commented as she sat down beside her.

"Sorry Sylvia-san, just have something on my mind…" Serena said, still thinking about it.

"Ooh…something that has cause Serena-san, the school's number one beauty, to be worried. Come on tell me, is it a boyfriend?" Sylvia joked.

"No…no, its impossible!" Serena denied, waving her hands to emphasize her point. 'But it has to do with a man though', she thought. "So you won it in a heartbeat?" she asked, talking about the match.

"Come on. You know that is impossible in a fencing match. But I managed to beat her without giving her landing a point this time. I was quite lucky today." Sylvia chuckled while she scratched the back of her head. She pulled off the collar and unzipped the fencing top zipper down to let some air into her body. "Whoo, such a hot day!"

This was also one of the reasons why she wanted her to be apart of her Peerage. She had seen her fenced before; she couldn't believe how supernaturally fast Sylvia was with her sword. She would certainly fit the position of a Knight.

Sylvia made an 'ah' sound signaling that she just remembered something. "I forgot to tell you, my old childhood friend is coming to study from overseas. I haven't seen him in such a long time," she told Serena, enthusiastically.

"Really when?" Serena asked.

"He joining us tomorrow. He came back to Japan just before the weekend started. I didn't get to see him though due to the competition today and he's been going about seeing the town the whole day yesterday but our guardian said he's going to be attending Manade Academy tomorrow so after he gets use to things."

"Oh, really?"

Sylvia leaned back on to her hands. "I just can't wait to see him. His guardian told me to surprise him at school tomorrow. I can't wait to introduce you to him! I wonder how he is now?"

-x-x-

"Mou…Kei-kun! You promised me that you will take me out for a little shopping today!" Saya said.

Keisuke sighed. It was Sunday and it was the last day of the sale in mall today. So he promised to take Saya there. He had completely forgotten about that arrangement because of what has been happening. As soon as Saya called, he came out rushing. "Sorry, I lost track of time." he lied. He noticed she was dressed to impressed. She wore a white and red strapless dress with a white jacket over the dress. She wore a straw hat with a light blue ribbon around the top, which was holding a sunflower placed into it. He could think one thing though she looked amazing. He himself wore white coat over a blue t-shirt and wore black denim jeans.

She wrapped her arm around Keisuke's arm. "So you ready to go?" Saya asked.

-x-x-

Keisuke sat down and let out a deep breathe. His body was tired from today's shopping. All they had done was going shopping for clothes, went to an arcade and now they were in a cafe. Saya was sitting across him and on the table between them was two cups of coffee.

"I don't know what you're complaining about? If this was a real date, then any girl would be pissed at you by now." Saya said simply.

A real date? He wouldn't consider something like this a date, just an outing between two friends. Plus why would bring that up now anyway?

"Hey, Kei-kun…How come you don't try and get a girlfriend?" Saya asked, her tone sounded nervous. What's with the sudden change of tone?

Keisuke thought hard. Why didn't he? "I don't know. I've been doing a lot of things recently, so I just can't think about things like that."

"You are quite good-looking and you carry this cool air around you, even though you are quite clumsy at times. I'm pretty sure that there are a few girls in our class who likes you." Saya said, looking down. She was being awfully nervous about something.

What was she trying to say? Why was she- He noticed something at the corner of his vision. He shifted his eyes to look at what it was and surprised.

"Kei-kun, I-"

Keisuke suddenly standing up and walking straight to the corner of the shop cut her off. She turned to see Keisuke walking up to a man with black hair and wore a black coat.

Keisuke stood in front of the man and his suspicion was confirmed.

It was him, the swordsman.

"You…" Keisuke said. Just what is this? What is he doing here?

"Hi…" Sanosuke greeted back, he remembered him as one of the Peerage members. "What a coincidence."

Keisuke looked confused, "Yeah…" This is an awkward situation for Keisuke. No-one expected something like this out in the open.

Saya came up to him. "Who is this, Kei-kun? A friend of yours?" she asked innocently.

'Damn it, Saya! Not now!' Keisuke thought as he looked at her. He definitely does not want her to get involved in things like this. "Well not exactly, but we've met on our recent expedition." Keisuke tried to lie.

"Hello there, nice to meet you," he held out his hand and she shook it. "Now if you will excuse me, I'm on a tight schedule."

"He looks like a nice guy." Saya said but she noticed that Keisuke was keeping his eyes on him the whole time. "Kei-kun?"

"Sorry Saya…But something came up. Could you make it home by yourself?" He told her, still keeping his eyes onto where the swordsman went. He returned his gaze towards her. "I'll make it up to you with another shopping day over next week, okay?" He smiled sadly before he walked in the same direction as to where Sanosuke went.

What those two didn't notice was that there was someone watching them and Sanosuke only picked it up while he was talking with them. Have they been following him the whole day? How could he have been so slow? He needed to be careful about this.

He was walking out in the open. Would they follow him out here? They should be. He felt that familiar aura. He was definitely being targeted but this time there was a second aura, that same aura that white haired devil had. What was his name? Kei-kun? It didn't matter for now. He doesn't hold that same malicious aura that the other had. He turned left into an alleyway.

His follower squinted. He couldn't lose his target so easily, so he picked up the pace. He turned to the alleyway and continued following him down the alleyway. He made a final turn only to realize that his target was standing there facing him.

"So how about a talk, if you're planning on following me the whole day?" Sanosuke said, his tone serious, he pointed with thumb to the park behind him. The sun was beginning to set above it.

-x-x-

Keisuke hid behind a tree, trying to listen in onto the conversation. Keisuke wondered what was going on? Who was this man? A possible comrade? Whatever it is, he needs to be careful that he was not to be seen. Right now, the two were in the park, and since it was already nighttime, not many people were at the park.

"So you are Sanosuke Kiriya?" the man questioned.

Sanosuke's face turned serious. "So what if I am?"

"Then I'll kill you!" the man roared before he transformed. He grew taller as each of his legs split into two. The back two legs grew backwards with a tail at the back. Brown fur covered his lower body and what replaced his now torn shirt was silver armour that covered his upper body, shoulders, arms and a helmet that left his face opened. In his hands were two lances. The man now looked liked a centaur. He raised one of his lances and threw a heavy slash down the young swordsman who dodged the blade in time. Sanosuke rolled on the floor before looking up at the centaur. He remembered who that man was; he was part of the Stray Peerage.

"Kokusen!" Sanosuke called before a light blue and white magic circle appeared beside him. The magic circle moved upwards to produced a sword, the same katana that he used to fight Nina.

Sanosuke drew his sword after he placed the scabbard by his left hip. "Asara the Knight, I should presume?"

"You presumed right! I am going to kill you and avenge my comrades. I going to do what coward Kojiro failed to do." Asara roared before he aimed a thrust at Sanosuke head but the young man ducked under the jab. Sanosuke slashed the lance away before came in again. He twisted left to dodge a heavy downward slash. Sanosuke began his wave of attacks with Asara countering each attack.

Keisuke cursed, he can't help but feel like he should help him. But he must at least call the rest, so he summoned his familiar. A little white snake appeared from his hands before he set it to the floor and said. "Find Serena-sama and tell her what's going on." The snake made a little nod before it slithered away. Keisuke stood up and looked to the battle again.

Whatever happens happens.

"Sacred Gear!" Keisuke called. In a flash of black light, his short spear appeared in his right hand.

Sanosuke took the full weight of the swing from Asara. In the corner of his eye, he saw the other lance making its way towards him.

CLASH!

Sparks flew as Sanosuke saw the young man with white hair tied into a ponytail, deflecting the lance with his short white spear.

"You…" Sanosuke muttered. "What are you doing?"

"What does it look like? Helping you!" Keisuke snapped back. "And my name is Keisuke Ryuudou, Serena Asmoday's Pawn!" He shouted his introduction at both of them before he pushed the lance away. "Nice to meet you!" he roared as he threw an upward slash at the lance, pushing the lance up. He jumped away from the centaur.

Sanosuke couldn't help but smile at this. He threw the lance off him before he sliced the lance away from him and jumped back to where Keisuke to is.

They looked to one another and nodded, acknowledging each other's assistance.

"It doesn't matter how many of you I have to fight, I will kill all of you!" Asara roared before he threw flame empowered slashes.

Keisuke created a huge barrier to block the attacks. Once he disbanded the barrier, both himself and Sanosuke charged at Asara who ready his guard.

Sanosuke jumped first, his slash pushing one of his two lances away with Keisuke coming in to do the same for the second lance. Sanosuke slashed straight after. His blade making light cuts on Asara's exposed body parts with Keisuke blocking each counter attack.

Asara grunted, 'These two are deadly. I have no choice but to use that!' he thought before he aimed for a stab with both of his lances. He saw that both Keisuke and Sanosuke blocked a lance each. Sanosuke pushed his lance away whilst Keisuke used his lance as a lift and threw a kick into the armoured chest before back flipping away.

Sanosuke roared, filling his blade with his light energy. With a quick slash, he cut off the tip of the lance. Then he moved away, letting Keisuke come in with a second barrage of attacks. He saw Keisuke doing the same thing as he did. The blade of the spear, drenched in a black light seemed to have radiated in demonic energy. Keisuke sliced the through the lance into two.

Both fighters jumped, their own respective light power filling up their blades before they came down for their own slash. But to their surprise, Asara shouted:

"Sacred Gear!"

An invisible force stopped the spear and sword.

"What?!" Keisuke thought out loud. Both Sanosuke and himself pulled themselves away

"I was originally a human/centaur hybrid before I got reincarnated into a devil. This Sacred Gear of mine, 'Invisible Force', creates a powerful magical barrier around me at the cost of my own magical stamina." Asara explained. A purple magic circle appeared in his hands before he aimed it and fired balls of flame at Keisuke and Sanosuke.

The two dodged the fire and began running around him. Both threw waves of light at Asara's seemingly exposed back, only for it to be disintegrated.

"A full body barrier, and it looks like it has no signs of opening." Sanosuke said before he saw Keisuke charging in before jumping. He aimed his short spear straight towards Asara's helmet. But the spear itself was stopped, like a magnet repelled by another magnet of the same pole.

Asara turned to him.

"Hey, hey…that tickles you know." He said, mocking him. Asara deactivated the barrier, leading Keisuke closer before he threw a punch at Keisuke. Keisuke was sent flying in the air with Sanosuke catching him before he hit a tree.

Sanosuke set Keisuke down. "Thanks," Keisuke said.

"If this goes on, neither of us will never be able to land a strike on him." Sanosuke stated, standing up.

Keisuke stood, albeit slightly groggily. "Yeah but he's got to run out of magic sooner or later." Keisuke thought out loud.

"It's a matter of who stops first, him or us." Sanosuke argued passively.

He was right. But how were they going to defeat him? Wait.

'This Sacred Gear of mine, 'Invisible Force', creates a powerful magical barrier around at the cost of my own magical stamina.'

He said magical barrier, right? An idea formed in Keisuke's head. He looked to his left hand. That is the only other to way to defeat him.

"Since he is a knight, his power comes from his legs. We will have to immobilize him but the main problem is the magic barrier that he has around him. The first thing we should do is to break through that." Sanosuke said.

Keisuke smirked as he stood up. "You read my mind, and I know just what to do." He replied before a second short spear appeared in his left hand, one of similar design to his other spear. He charged at reckless speed. He jumped high, aiming his left spear straight at the centaur.

Asara laughed, "Haha you still think that frail thing break through my barrier?"

To his surprise, the spear penetrated the magical barrier, to the point of it collapsing.

"What?!" Asara gasped. How did this happened?!

"An opening!" Keisuke came in with his right spear, aiming at the vulnerable point between the armour, more specifically at the shoulder. He heard the unnatural sound of the pierced skin and knew he had hit his mark.

"Sanosuke, switch!" Keisuke roared. With a kick to the chest, Keisuke back flipped away from the centaur.

Sanosuke nodded and charged. He filled his blade with light energy, using the window of opportunity; he sliced one of the two front legs. Asara, quick to lose his balance, fell over. Keisuke came back flying with a slash from both his spears, the blades covered in a layer of black light cutting deep into the furry skin of the centaur. He dislodged the spears from the centaur and landed behind the centaur. Sanosuke thought he saw a familiar visage in that stance. He heard the centaur's piercing scream of pain.

"Impossible, how was it that you were able to break through my barrier?" he growled.

Keisuke smirked before he took a look at one of his spears as if inspecting it. "My Sacred Gear is the 'Soul Breaker Spears', this Sacred Gear allows me to nullify magic and cut the flow of magic of my victims for certain amount of time. It came in quite handy against you since you blabbed about your Sacred Gear." He pointed the same spear at Asara.

"Now…" Sanosuke interrupted as he walked up, pointing his sword the centaur's neck. "Tell me, where is the rest of your Peerage?"

"Like you can threaten me with that child's sword. I'm already as good as dead ever since I killed my own master, you're just hastening the inevitable."

"If you knew your fate then why would you…?" Keisuke asked.

"Because I was fed up. The lack of power that my own master possessed. Him, despite being a high-level devil, was as forceful as snail. With us on our own, we can stand at even greater heights without him. We are warriors!" Asara roared.

"Don't fuck around with us!" Keisuke went up and punched Asara across the face. "You strayed because of a stupid reason like that!? Because of you, many unnecessary deaths were caused. If you were like that then-" He felt a hand on his left shoulder. He looked back to see Sanosuke shaking his head, as if telling him not to bother.

"Back to business…" Sanosuke said before he focused his light energy to the tip of the blade and pressed it against Asara's chest. "I don't care about your reason for betraying your master. But what I care about is to find every one of you and finish you off before things can get ugly." He ignored Asara's screams. "Now tell me, where are the rest of your Peerage?"

"Hey, stop." Keisuke said. He was feeling a bit uncomfortable with that kind of torture. He couldn't help it since he was a Devil too.

"Fine! I will ta-" The top half of Asara's head was sliced off by a blade of wind.

Sanosuke cursed before he looked up from where the wind blade came from. He saw a young man wearing an old light purple Japanese style kimono with a hat and holding a feathered fan. Judging from what he wore, he seemed like he was an onmyouji. The man laughed.

"To be foolish enough to start blabbering. You all talk Asara," he said bluntly, no sense of remorse from killing someone. "The black and white combination over there, I'm sure you don't need an introduction from me right?"

"You are one of the Bishop: Souta." Sanosuke said after a small thought.

Souta mainly chuckled. "Oh right you are…" He turned towards Keisuke. "The little albino over there. This is the first time I have seen it but my guesses are that you are of the House of Ose, I presumed? Only that house has the ability to create demonic light." He continued chuckling.

Keisuke ignored the statement. "Hey you, do you know what you just did?!" Keisuke shouted, referring back to Asara. "I don't see how this is funny." 'Is everyone in this Peerage absolutely crazy?' he thought, first that Knight Kojiro and now this weirdo.

"Its because the idiot said he will do anything to kill everyone in our way and yet he couldn't stop two kids. The idiot was just a huge comedy act." Souta continued laughing.

"Why you…" Keisuke growled before he clenched his fist. He felt like he was about to throw a wave of demonic light, but he tried hard not to.

Sanosuke took a couple of steps forward and pointed his blade at Souta."Well without any trouble, how about you come down?" Sanosuke threatened.

Souta only chuckled again. "I'm afraid that I must deny such a request, if Asara was defeated by the both of you, then I, myself, wouldn't have the ability to defeat you myself." He held out his fan. "Au revoir. I shall be taking extra care when dealing with you guys in the future." He threw a whirlwind around himself. When the wind dispersed, he was nowhere to be scene.

What an absolute dick head! Keisuke thought before he noticed Sanosuke sheathing his sword and walking up towards him. What was he doing?

"Keisuke Ryuudou, am I right?"

Keisuke nodded at the question. His body tensed

"Nice to meet you too." Sanosuke said, holding out his hand for a handshake.

Keisuke was surprised at the friendly gesture. He made his spears disappear and took the hand, albeit with hesitation. "I have questions." Keisuke said.

He heard the mysterious swordsman lightly chuckled. "I'm sure you do, but right now I'm busy." He let go of his hand and walked away. Keisuke saw Sanosuke spread his left black wing. Black feathers gliding down the ai-Wait…Black wing? Wait a seccond! He's a Fallen Angel?!

"Thanks for the help. I'll see you around." He heard Sanosuke said before he saw him flying off.

"Hey wait!" Keisuke shouted but Sanosuke was too far to hear anything.

"Keisuke-kun!" he heard the call and saw that everyone else had arrived. Shit! He remembered he just disobeyed a direct order. "We came as soon as we could."

Kaoru looked around and saw the damaged the area took and the dead centaur lying on the ground in its own pool of blood. "What happened here? Could that be…"

"The Former Knight of Densdria Aim, Asara." Keisuke interrupted. "Sanosuke Kiriya and I defeated him."

The Peerage gasped, not only he took on a Stray Devil on his own, he received help from the swordsman. Serena walked to him.

SLAP!

Keisuke felt the stinging slap across his now red cheek. Keisuke said nothing as he looked down.

"You idiot. I have told everyone to contact each other once they are in sight of any of the people. And yet you only told everyone after you came in contact with both groups?!" she scolded.

"Serena-sama should have felt it too, he's not the enemy!" Keisuke argued.

"I am in no position to based my judgment on gut feelings! If I make a mistake, it will be everyone's head."

"But please trust me, in the two time any of us has met him, he didn't even make an attempt to attack, no sense of hostility from him!" "I think it would better for us to make an alliance with him to hunt down the Stray Devils."

"At any rate, I forbid you from making contact with any of them without any of us around."

Keisuke hung his head low, "Yes." Keisuke can't help but understand her. She needs to approach this very carefully, anything wrong and the whole thing could fall apart and it would be heavy. He saw her walking away. "He is a Fallen Angel, just so you know," he reported. He noticed her stopping and looked over her shoulder. "I saw him grew a single left black wing." Without saying a word, she continued walking away.

Kaoru wrapped her arm around Keisuke's shoulders.

"Hey, don't look so sad. Serena-san is just doing what is best for everyone," She said trying to cheer him up.

Keisuke let out an airy 'I know,' before he walked away.

-x-x-

Serena sat down. Thinking, she hasn't spoken to Keisuke since the aftermath of his fight with Asara yesterday. She knew she shouldn't have acted like that, but she needs to be strict with her servants. But they were also more than that with her. They were her friends. She couldn't bear the thought of losing them. She should maybe apologies to Keisuke soon.

But yesterday, Keisuke said that he saw Sanosuke grew a single left wing before he flew off and identified him to be a Fallen Angel. Normally Fallen Angels have two wings or more in accordance with their power but Sanosuke only grew a single wing. Could that mean he is a really low-level Fallen Angel? But that doesn't seem likely, he was able to take on Stray Devils without breaking a sweat. Could he be…

The door slid open.

"We have a new student in our class. It's a boy!"

Serena heard one of the boys shouted. Come to think of it, Sylvia said something about her childhood friend coming. Maybe a new student could take her mind of the whole thing. She heard the door slid opened, and looked to see what kind of person this new student would be like.

Serena gasped as soon as she saw the new student, who was following behind the homeroom teacher. There was no way she had forgotten that messy long black hair and golden brown eyes. He wore the Manade Academy uniform; wearing the white blazer with the buttons undone, white shirt, black tie and trousers. In his left hand was a school bag.

"Starting today, we have a new transfer student. So please try and make him feel welcomed." The teacher said before he turned to the new student.

"I am Sanosuke Kiriya. I am in your care." He bowed.

-x-End-x-