AN : I must apologize again for the last chapter, I know it was bad and I know it has some severe problems and that most things don't really make any fucking sense which has been pointed out in some reviews on and on QQ but I just wanted to put out the chapter as soon as possible so I could finally be done with it, it also explains the very short length of the chapter.

Chapter 6 : First results.

Yesterday did not happen. Nothing happened yesterday, I have somehow learned that I have to fight in a rating game in a month but that's all I know. I now have to prepare for something I clearly had not seen coming and because of my hubris.

And that's how I ended up in front of the student council room about to do something I never expected I would have to do.

Well desperate times call for desperate measures.

Rias POV

I was working on a strategy to beat Riser when the door to the student council room burst open. If I had to guess I would've said that it was Sona or Akeno that had come up with an idea or just had something to tell me, but contrary to what I would have thought it was Tashiro.

-"Tashiro I…" I stutter, surprised at her appearance and embarrassed with that fiasco of a meeting.

-"Rias." Tashiro said solemnly, her face was deceivingly neutral but her fists were tightened and her eyes reddened. The aftermath of that day I presume.

-"Yes Tashiro?" I answer without much thought. She seems to have something she needs to get out of her chest.

-"We must defeat Riser." She announced loudly, her voice filled with anger.

This stunned me for a moment, I didn't really know what to say, different emotions filling my heart at the same time. On one hand I was happy that Tashiro and I could finally put our small differences aside and fight against the common enemy but on the other hand I wasn't really sure if she was genuine, after all I thought she was quite the entitled rich kid.

-"Of course, are you willing to fight for me?" I ask with hesitation.

-"I will do what I must." She swiftly answers with utmost confidence.

-"Very well then, we hold training sessions after school and on Saturday until the date of the Rating Game." I informed her.

-"That is fine with me, I will attend those training sessions but I have a request, if you could make it so I don't have to attend school making it so that I can train on my own in the meantime under your supervision in school. I hope you understand I have quite a bit of catching up to do." She told me trying to hide her shame, her eyes drifting around the room looking everywhere but at my face.

It isn't a difficult request to fulfill since I literally control the school but the main thing is that I am doing her a favor which makes her indebted to me, granted it's not a big debt but it's the first step. It also makes her stronger and since she is part of my peerage it makes me stronger in the end and that is something I need really really bad with the upcoming rating game, although I am afraid it may not be enough…

-"I can arrange that, I'll have someone help you with your training, it will probably be a rotation between Akeno, Kiba and I helping you and guiding you through your training or answering the questions you may have." I waved her worries off.

-"Thank you Rias." Tashiro managed to say, after a good fifteen seconds of a seemingly heated internal debate. "I will take my leave now." She announced and indeed she left immediately.

Tashiro POV

I hated doing what I just did. I strongly dislike Rias, I can't hate her because I think she's weak, completely under me, in anything, all of her advantages are consequences of her birth. She has moments of brilliance but I don't think she's either a great person or anything else.

I hate that she's been given power for no fucking reason, I hate that she can just use it like that to completely dictate how other people live, she's amassed real people all around her like toys, she treats them not like family but like that stuffed toy you always used to like as a kid. She doesn't think of them as people, she doesn't even realize it. It's not something she has ever thought of, never questioned her upbringing. After all, why would she think about it? She's stronger and will grow stronger naturally because she was born to a strong family.

Now I have to fight for my freedom and make a deal with the devil because she doesn't like for once in her fucking life being forced to do something she may not like. I understand she doesn't want to marry that fucking prick, I wouldn't like it either but she has to drag us in that fucking bullshit. Not strong enough to fight her own battles. I don't want to fight her battles.

My plans, my very rough plans will have to change, they'll have to change radically. In terms of magic I'm just an average joe that got reincarnated into a devil for fuck sake.

My swordsmanship is half decent but nothing compared to a devil that trained centuries or even just decades and my magical abilities are quite good because devil magic is fucking stupid but on the other hand I don't have insane reserves and I can't go on forever.

I was given a bow and "regular" arrows that will work against anything under high class devil which means it's going to do no damage to that Riser if I try my luck and shoot at him but even if it did hurt him it just wouldn't fucking matter because he's a phenex and they can just shrug off any damage because they're that much of a cheat.

I also have my magic which I use to manifest giant arrows well for now they're more like spears of fire that I can throw around. Just imagine fire ballista bolts getting thrown and sent at you. They're made of fire because that's the element I am most comfortable with and that does the most damage for bullshit magic reasons I don't know.

Sadly we're going against a phenex so I could also go up to him to do a cool little dance and that would do approximately more damage than my magical attacks.

I guess I still have to train more and more until that fateful day, I could do a lot of things in a month.

a week later

-"So you're telling me Issei found an italian kid that doesn't speak japanese running around in a grocery store, talked for like 15 minutes and now thinks she is his friend but turns out she is in fact an exiled agent of the church with a sacred gear that is under the supervision of the Fallen angels one which are one of our mortal enemies and also our living counters. Therefore in his great decision making skills he decided to jump into a church no less to fight against a group of fallen angels when he has the fighting capabilities of that same fucking child?"

-"Yes and now we have to come save him. Will you come help us?" Akeno asked over the phone.

-"Fuck off, I know I have to come but next time you better keep that idiot on a leash." I exclaim in a voice filled with anger and exasperation after leaving the call.

What a fucking dumbass. Time to go save Mister Dumbass or find his burned corpse somewhere in the debris. I wouldn't miss him.

at the church

When I arrived the fight was already going on, I didn't have the luxury to teleport right into the place because I forgot to ask and they never taught me how to. As I approach the church I can see the different members of the peerage fighting and quickly I find an exorcist running towards me. In a straight line. Giving me the perfect opportunity of delivering an arrow straight into his cranium, free of charge too.

Not thinking about getting my first ever kill I scan the room to get an idea of how many are left, I can see five on the ground either dead or severely injured, there are still 10 or so alive. I see Koneko fighting off three of them but they keep moving and I'm not that good of a shot yet so I get the bow back on my back and pull out my sword rushing towards them.

By the time I got there Koneko had already dealt with one currently writhing in pain on the floor and probably hours away from a very painful death caused by internal bleeding. They didn't hear me coming but Koneko did. I'm behind them so I don't have to think twice before pushing my sword into one of their backs, I hit the heart and he fell without making a sound.

The other one didn't even get to register his companions death and got hit with a heavy punch to the face, being a regular human against a rook's strength, it probably broke his skull but that didn't matter because Koneko took his head and snapped his neck right after.

While Koneko immediately ran off to find another victim to brutally maul I scanned the room in search of an easy shot, at this point there were only about 4 able bodied exorcists left but I heard heavy fighting in another area, to be more precise under us. I also noticed that Kiba, Rias, and Issei were missing. I imagine they left Akeno and Koneko to deal with this trash here and went for something else, I imagine the fallen angels.

I get brutally sent back to the present as I hear the crazed yell of an exorcist charging towards me his weird light sword menacingly pointed at me. I didn't have time to pull out my bow so I just charged against him with my sword.

He clearly didn't have any training with the blade or just the vary basics on how to not kill yourself while using it. He made a huge telegraphed vertical slash even a toddler could have seen coming, I easily stepped out of it and slashed his throat with my sword. He saw my sword coming but couldn't bring him fast enough to block mine as he had just done one big stupid ass move that cost him his life. The only thing he managed to do was get my hands. Along with dying.

At this point we had cleared up all the trash in here.

-"The others are fighting the fallen angels right under the church, there's a passage behind the altar, come they are still fighting" Akeno quickly told me before making a run for the passageway.

All of this because one stupid fuck couldn't think five seconds before doing something incredibly dumb for a fucking shit reason. Fuck Issei.

I followed her into a creepy cave under the church and we found an injured crying Issei holding the dead corpse of I assume that so called true friend he had found. I would find it funny that the person Issei referred to as his true friend died in no less than a day after becoming friends with him but that would be quite mean to the little dead girl. Anyways he's in no fighting shape with a bloodied shoulder and a seemingly useless arm hanging on his shoulder as he is holding the corpse with only his left non dominant hand I think.

So that means Kiba is fighting the male fallen angel and Rias is getting tag teamed by a loli fallen angel and the dominatrix that killed me. Well I was angry and I've just found the perfect stress ball.

Usually I need a bit of time to concentrate and get my emotions going on for me to start using my fire. Now though? That has never been less of an issue.

In a second a giant ballista bolt of fire manifested itself on my left ready to be sent off.

-"HEY DOMINATRIX WHORE!" I yelled angrily, my fists clenched shaking with fury.

I momentarily stunned everyone in the room with my angered voice and that whore looked at me and her eyes widened in recognition and surprise.

-"Oh hey, collateral damage! So the devil scums reincarnated you as well! That's great, after I'm done with this cow I'll deal with you." She spat in a high pitched mocking tone.

-"YOU ARE GOING TO SUFFER FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!" I roared like an enraged lioness. With a quick mental release I sent off my bolt in the hopes of it impaling her like the bitch she is. Sadly I missed but that's because she dodged, she looked at me this time not with the mocking eyes she gave me but with anger. She was fired up.

-"You little bitch I'll skin you alive and you're going to beg me for your own end." She spat running towards me, one light spear in each hand.

-"You took the words right out of my mouth." I retorted as I took an arrow from my quiver and aimed at her face.

Seeing me pull out my bow she pulled out her wings and got in the air, also throwing one of her light spears at me. I haphazardly shot an arrow and right after narrowingly dodged the light spear and it also seemed I missed my shot. Luckily she wasn't close to me yet so I got another arrow and shot it at her.

But like my fire bolt and the arrow before that one she dodged it with relative ease. Like I expected her to because now she could not dodge the flaming bolt headed towards her. Now I wasn't exactly right in thinking that because she saw it and tried to dodge but it hit her. It just didn't hit her.

It hit her leg, completely ripping it off and leaving burns up to her chest as part of the flames expanded on impact. Her scream was music to my ears, her screams of pain and insults she was now shouting left and right were just icing on the cake.

But the look of fear as I came up to her with my sword pulled out ready to gut her like a pig sent me to heaven.

-"Not so proud now are you bitch?" I taunted, laughing.

-"TASHIRO DONT KILL HER WE NEED HER ALIVE!" Rias shouted as she landed right beside me.

-"So we need her just alive? You didn't specify unarmed." I wondered aloud, right before I decided to cut off her right hand.

She again yells out in pain and then spews even more insults but I don't care, I suddenly feel a weight in my chest leave and I feel really really good at the moment.

-"I'm done with her, you guys can do whatever I don't really care." I tell Rias as I start to walk towards the still crying Issei.

-"You okay Issei?" I ask awkwardly as he is still balling his eyes out.

He doesn't answer, it appears I really was mean and he was really close to that girl it seems.

-"She's dead Issei. If it makes you any happier it appears the people that led to her death are all dead except one that is now missing a leg and a hand." I reassure him by patting him on the back.

-"It's no use Tashiro, she's dead and it's my fault, just like with you, if it wasn't for me you would still live happily as a human. I'm so sorry… I'm sorry, please forgive me." He mumbled through pained cries.

-"You know it's not your fault Issei, you're a dumbass but of all things I can't blame you for my death and you shouldn't blame yourself for hers either. I don't know how it happened but I am sure it is not your fault." I reminded him with a soft reassuring voice or at least one I thought was appropriate.

-"Tashiro I.." He started but I cut him off

-"I'm not your friend Issei. If you're about to vent you can do it with someone else." I informed him.

That might be a little mean but it's better not to give him any ideas as to what I feel for him. I only said what I said because I don't trust anyone else in this peerage to do what I've just done. They're all little pampered princes and princesses not realizing their own situations. Now that this is done I'm gonna go back to Rias to see what we should do after this little massacre.

-"Well I could reincarnate her as a bishop, she could be very useful especially with her sacred gear…" Rias told Akeno as I was coming in earshot.

-"Have you learned nothing Rias? Do you not understand the power you have and the consequences of your actions?" I angrily blurted out.

-"What do you mean Tashiro? I am about to save her life and Issei will be happy that his only friend comes back to life!" She loudly declared with a puzzled face.

-"From what I know she was a devout catholic even after getting excommunicated, if God exists in this world then the only place she is going after this is Heaven where she will rest forever in happiness and bliss. Now what do you think will happen if she becomes a devil? You will force her to join a faction she is fundamentally against. I understand you want to bring her back to life for Issei or just because she's still a kid with a long life ahead of her." I explained and I got more and more angry when I saw on her face she wasn't understanding a word I was saying.

-"But she was friends with Issei, a devil! She got excommunicated because she healed a devil, she won't mind becoming a devil. I'm sure she will be very happy about coming back to life after being killed by those scum fallen angels." She retorted, gesturing at Issei weeping.

-"Fine I can't convince you otherwise, at least I did what I could. Reincarnate her, she's a kid anyway I'm sure she'll change her mind and how she views the world around her." I told Rias with full honesty.

After saying that I left. It made me sick, first I had just killed real people and maimed a fallen angel really really badly and enjoyed it. Along with that, Rias is going to reincarnate the poor kid and that's not right. A little devout christian becoming a devil will forever banish her from following her beliefs. The church will even hunt her down for something that she didn't even explicitly ask for.

But on the other hand she should have the right to continue living, she was just a little kid that got played and killed because she was in the wrong place at the wrong moment. Nothing in that was her fault. That's why I didn't really fight strongly against Rias reincarnating her. I might regret that later but apparently she has a sacred gear so she may be useful in the upcoming rating game.

PS : This chapter took a bit of time to come out and that's because I got hit with a deep case of writer's block and then I had my exams coming up so I completely dropped that story for a little bit. But now that my exams are done I will try and start posting again even though I'll be going on vacation out of the country. This chapter contains my first ever action scene and some of the results of Tashiro's training that was teased right before the Riser meeting fiasco. We're going to start getting really really far away from the original plot of highschool dxd (because it is ass and I don't care about it nor am I an expert at dxd lore). Hope you enjoyed the chapter please review this is my first story and I'll be very happy to answer any and all criticism. If you want to contact me I'm a member of Shiro's discord server or you can just add me on discord : dvut