Chapter 10: First Stray

Nagumo walks into the ORC after he finishes with another client, well actually five clients. Yeah, it turns out one of his clients told his friends about Nagumo's illusions and now they want to see.

Well actually they wanted to see if their friend was just bull-shiting cause really who tells their friends they made a contract with a devil to play pretend wizards with.

When Nagumo first arrived, he was surprised with his client with four more people, but his client's friends were more surprised that the deal with the devil wasn't bullshit.

Nagumo had to warn his client about telling anyone he made a deal with the devil, besides the first being everyone will think you're crazy and walk away from you at best.

Worst they sent an exorcist to check it out, and since Devils are real then exorcists from the church are real and do a real job to kill off devils and those that contract with them.

Thank whatever shit his client's friends know to shut up about this, Nagumo now has four more clients he has to deal with.

A good thing to increase his standing and power, but annoying because now he has more work to do. Nagumo needs to finish that app soon and make it automatic with his personal input while still getting the payment.

While the app is developed, he now has to connect it with his magic somehow, which is hard cause science and magic don't really mix well.

But Nagumo is nothing but determined to get that app up and running.

Clients basically want to do a whole Matrix thing; everyone picks a character and acts the role with Nagumo making the illusion based on their imagination.

They want to do a gamer night with Nagumo's illusion there, wanting to see if they can play a video game while Nagumo works his magic.

That might help out with Nagumo working on his app; if he can make it work on a video game then an app should be no problem.

But that was for later as Nagumo finally finished that shotgun he was making, after talking to Aika Kiryuu, he made not one but two shotguns, one pump action and one automatic.

The pump action is a model of Benelli Supernova, a criminally underrated shotgun. It's one of the best pump shotguns on the market and deserves a lot of respect for its innovation. Nagumo made it more comfortable with him while also making it load different types of shotguns ammo, using magic to increase the clip, the rail-gun treatment, increase the fire-rate and even creating a special type of ammo for his shotguns.

He calls it the Schrotflinte, which is German for shotgun, not original he knows.

But the automatic is model after an auto drum mag shotgun, basic the design on fortnite drum shotgun, it was first model after Fostech origin 12 semi auto shotgun but Aika said design wise the fortnite was small and more streamlines, it can carry 30 rounds with the rail gun treatment as well, increase fire rate and damage per shot.

This one is called Garbe, Nagumo will use the Schrotflinte casually when not using his pistols, but the Garbe is for any big guys he faces or to clean the room of many enemies at once.

The shotgun ammo he made will have different effects, normal bucks, solid buck, electric buck, exploding bucks, and phosphorus bucks, and other ammo. The best part of it, Nagumo can Transmute the ammo into the different types.

"Don't ever get close to the Church again." Rias reprimanded Issei in the club room. Her expression looked more serious than usual, Nagumo looked to see Issei looking confused.

It been a week since Issei join the peerage, so far he prove he had a sacred gear but no one knows what it does and Issei hasn't done much but give flyers, then he started doing clients, but his magic is so low he has to use his bicycle all the way there.

Issei sacred gear is a red gauntlet, giving off energy different from holy or demonic, once Nagumo knows what it is he can identify the energy.

No he went to church despising being a devil, come on you don't go to church when you turn into a devil.

"To us Devils, the church is an enemy's territory. Just stepping into it can cause a rift between the Devils and God. Since it was an act of kindness, by taking the nun to the church, they didn't harm you. But the Angels are always on the lookout, and you were in a situation where it wouldn't be strange for them to hit you with a Spear of Light." Rias continues, didn't she tell him about the weakness and downside of being a devil.

Issei looks unsure about what is happening.

"Don't get involved with people from the Church, especially the Exorcists. They are our biggest enemy. They could easily eliminate us because their powers are supported by the prayer of God. More so if it is an Exorcist with a Sacred Gear. That would be the same as standing on the boundary of death, Issei." Rias said looking very seriously into Issei's eyes, making that brown haired teen know it wasn't a joke.

"Ri-Right" Issei nodded.

"You could avoid death as a human by being resurrected as a Devil. But Devils who are exorcised become completely terminated. They return to nothing. Nothing. There is nothing left, and you feel nothing. Do you know how serious that is?" Rias spoke, Issei looking shocked and confused back at her.

Another thing she forgot to mention about their main enemies, besides Fallen and Stray, Exorcist are members of the Church that are tasked with killing Devils, Fallen Angels, Vampires and demonic creatures that can potentially harm Humans.

Exorcists are equipped with many tools to help them battle supernatural beings. Among the tools that Exorcists have are Light Swords, crosses, the Bible and Holy Water, as well as guns loaded with light bullets, which are harmful to devils.

It's lovely she forgot to mention death by holy smite, it oblivion, no heaven or hell.

Just the void of nothingness.

Nagumo really wants to get a hold of their weapons.

Did Rias mention any of this to Nagumo, no he had to find that out from the Fallen. With him threatening Nagumo about the effects of the holy smite or something. Issei was lucky so far, he nearly got killed by Kalawarna but Rias showed up to scare her off, then he talked to a nun despite knowing he was a devil.

Must be a cute nun or something for Issei to drop his guard.

"I'm sorry, I got too heated. Anyway, be careful from now on." Rias sighed

"Alright," Issei replied with an understanding nod, jumping from the voice behind him.

"You're telling him this now, after he went to church?" Nagumo said, walking to Rias, as she looked bashful.

"I thought he would know" Rias tries to excuse Nagumo raised brow.

"You should, remember Issei, anything to do with the big man is a no no" Nagumo explains, Issei didn't get it.

"The big man?" Issei asked,

"The big G upstairs" Nagumo said, not saying the g word.

"You mean god OHHH" Issei said the forbidden word.

"Yeah him, anything to do with him is death and pain for you" Nagumo said,

"Oh my, did you finish lecturing him?" Akeno asked with a smile, Issei calming himself down as Rias asked

"Akeno, did something happen?" The black haired girl's expression changing as she nodded and answered

"We received an order for a hunt from the ArchDuke."

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The group went to the unused building which was located at the outer part of the town. They had come to deal with an Exiled Devil who was luring in humans so it could feed on them.

Nagumo followed the others through the tall grass towards the empty building; useful to know the Devils had night vision.

"Smell of blood..." Koneko spoke up, Nagumo taking a tentative sniff as well, not smelling anything but used Sense Presence; his eyes narrow at the feeling of an enemy presence within the building.

No wait, Nagumo uses Precision Sensing to narrow the search, one, two no five presences in the building.

"Are you sure there is only one?" Nagumo asked the group.

"Don't worry Nagumo-kun, the reports told us only one stray is in that building, it shouldn't be too hard, find the beast and kill it" Akeno said, Nagumo raised his eyes.

"Shouldn't we scout or something? Check the area at least" Nagumo said, they should be more careful here.

"We can take down a simple stray Nagumo," Kiba said, Nagumo getting annoyed.

"We are just walking through the front door, no plan or anything" Nagumo said, come on, they're on a mission and they don't have a plan. Rias stood at the front of the group, looking confident with her hands on her hips.

"I have faith in my peerage Nagumo-kun" Rias said, walking forward though the building with the others following behind, Nagumo just looks at them.

"So walk into a building known to have a monster that traps people that walks in, fucken hell" Nagumo said, looking around as he follows the group behind.

"Baby," Koneko said to him.

"Seriously, it's an obvious trap," Nagumo said but no one's listen.

"Shouldn't we do something" Issei the only one with common sense here.

"Don't worry Issei, this is a good opportunity to experience what it's like to fight."

"Really!? I'm not sure" Issei said, still not sure with himself, so much for choosing God's sacred gear.

"But you can watch what a Devils' battle is like. Today, just concentrate and look at how we fight. Oh, yes. I will also explain the traits the Servants have." Rias said, using this time to explain devil powers while in the middle of a life and death situation.

"Traits..?" Issei asked, Rias smiling as she nodded

"Devils who become a master give traits to those who will become their Servants. Yes, it's probably about time I explain about it and the history of Devils as well..."

Seriously doing the backstory thing now, not in the club room or anywhere where there's not a monster nearby to kill them.

Nagumo rolls his eyes, walking away but not before pulling an illusion around him as he went to take out the other strays.

Nagumo wonders if he could pull an Aizen on them, but Nagumo is not at that power level yet. If they look at the illusion, they can easily break out of it. It is not that hard to break compared to Aizen unbreakable illusions.

Nagumo walks through the area, checking the place as he slowly checks each room with his Schrotflinte

Nagumo walks up the stairs, hearing Rias explain the full evil piece and the gladiator fighting that came with it, pure blood devils using their pieces like chess on a board, not caring how much pain or suffering they go through.

Sure, they make sure you're healthy and all, but that's no different than keeping your dog healthy, you care about it and teach it tricks and all. But it is still a lower animal not someone you treat like an equal.

Nagumo slowly opens one of the doors, making sure to keep an illusion around him so no one can see him. Peeking in the doorway Nagumo sees two humanoid figures feasting on a human corpse.

"Why can't we fight?" One stray said, eating the corpse's leg, complaining about not fighting the next meal, Nagumo walks in quietly, aiming his shotgun at them.

"Let Vizer do it, it's her turn anyway" The other stayed, eating the corpse's neck.

"Well she is taking her time then, don't know why she lets them talk so much" the one stayed, holding his leg as he listened to Rias explaining the purpose of the evil pieces.

"She likes to gossip, hear their final words or something" The other stray said, shrugging his shoulders.

"Besides, once they kill her, we ambush them when they think they're safe" The other Stray said as they both grin.

"Oh I can't wait to see the look on their faces when we jump them" the stray said, both cracking at what comes next.

"Like the look on your faces" Nagumo said, breaking the illusion, both Strays gasp in shock seeing a person with a gun in their faces.

"What theBLAAAAASSSTTTTTTTT, Nagumo shoots one Stay in the face, his head exploding in gory fashion.

"Oh god, fuckk" The other Stray cursed, holding his head in pain from saying the g word, Nagumo turning the gun.

"Waiit" BLLAAASSSTTTTT another one shoot in the head, blood splatter all over the wall as the two stray devil fall to the ground.

Nagumo looks to see no other stray in the room.

"Clear" Nagumo said, holding his hand out, putting it onto the stray devil's bodies, using his magic to pull out their Evil Pawn piece.

Spirit Magic: Evil Piece Extraction

Nagumo uses spirit magic, One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of God", which allows the user to manipulate the soul of a living being directly. While he can't do much compared to his other selves who can revive a living being back from the dead or transfer the soul of a living being from one body to another, or even into a non-physical body as well, practically granting any living being immortality.

He's no way that close to power but he can use it to grab the evil piece from Stray's bodies, the fact it is still there even when the bodies are killed off, you have to destroy the whole body to destroy the evil piece.

Nagumo walks into the other room, two down, three to go, Nagumo sees Vizer walking around the Peerage, not attacking but listening in as she gets closer.

Nagumo goes to the next door, sensing another stray devil in there, he slowly opens the door, looking into it as he aims his gun, doing an L formation of the room to get a clear view of the room.

Looking around Nagumo fails to find the stray.

"Where is it" Nagumo said, looking around, aiming his gun.

But something knocks his gun aside along with Nagumo.

"Shit" Nagumo curses the stray and knocks him aside, a female stray grabs him by the throat and lifts him up.

"Nice try slave, but not good enough" The female stray said, holding Nagumo's neck as he grunted, she turned to look at the gun.

"A gun, you're modernising with human weapons?" the Female stray said, finding it weird for a devil to use human weapons.

"Yeah, including this one," Nagumo said, using his Overture, electrocuting the stray.

"AHhhhhhhhh" She cries in pain, letting Nagumo go, Nagumo takes a breath as he holds his Overtune out, channels electricity to it, the Schrotflinte flying to his hand.

"Transmute" Changing the buck ammo in the shotgun to phosphorus bucks.

BLASSSTTTTTT

BLASSSSTTTTTTT

Shotgun shells scatter across the female stray, lighting up the spot he shoots.

"You gotta be shitting me!" The female Stray screeches out her body burns as she tries to put them out.

The burns explode, setting the female stray on fire.

"Ahhhhhhhh AHHHH" the Female Stray cries in pain, she screams in pain as she moves around in agony.

Nagumo puts the Schrotflinte away, then takes out his pistol.

BLAAAAAAAA

Nagumo shot the stray in the head, ending her suffering, as the fires burned her body, Nagumo quickly used Evil Piece Extraction to get the pawn piece out of her.

"Three down, two to go," Nagumo said, walking out of the room, looking down to see Rias and the others fighting a large female stray that shoots acid from her boobs?

"That's weird, her master must be into freaky shit or something" Nagumo said, not seeing her as a problem because everyone there is fighting her.

However, Nagumo sees the last stray devil hiding in the corner, waiting for the right time to strike.

"They don't see the other stray," Nagumo said, seeing his peerage focus on the giant monster and the luckless one beside them.

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"Buchou, what Piece am I? And what are my roles and traits?" Issei asked,

"Issei, you are..." Rias started but Koneko stopped them.

"It's here" Koneko said,

"I can smell something disgusting. But I can also smell something delicious. Is it sweet? Or is it bitter?" A low voice that sounds like it's coming from below the ground,

"Vaizor. We are here to eliminate you." Rias declared before the voice came out again, echoing around the room

"Kwakwakwakwakwakwakwa..."

From the shadows, a figure showed up being revealed as a topless woman but with heavy footsteps as her lower body came into view, showing a body of a gigantic beast. In each hand she had a large spear and her lower body had four fat legs with sharp claws as well as a snake tail which moved on its own.

"Big boobies" Issei cheered, the only thing he was focusing on.

"Leaving your master's side and rampaging as you please, you definitely deserve death. In the name of Duke Gremory, I will gladly eliminate you!" Rias declared seriously before the Stray barked back

"You are cunning for a little girl! I will rip your body and colour it in red just like your hair!" Vaizor starts foddering her breasts, to Issei enjoyment.

"This is your final warning" Rias spoke, Issei just smiles at her.

"She got a great breast, what a waste" Issei said, but Issei noticed her nipples start to have a magic crest on it.

"What the" Issei said, Vaizor moans as her nipples shoot acid around, everyone scatters as Rias jumps to grab Issei to avoid the acid.

"What kind of porno was her master into?" Issei comments,

"Be careful, Kiba" Rias commanded, Kiba vanished in a burst of speed.

"He disappears" Issei said,

"Kiba's position is "Knight". Its trait is speed. Those who become a knight have their speed increased." Rias explains as Issei watched on as Kiba easily disappeared with the speed he was travelling, Vaizor trying to hit him with her spears but continuously missing.

"And Kiba's ultimate weapon is swords." Kiba stopped his movements and suddenly he was holding a European sword. He took it out of the scabbard and the naked sword was reflecting the light of the moon before he suddenly disappeared again. The next moment Issei heard the scream from Vaizor.

"Gyaaaaaaaaaah!" Viazor yelled, Issei looked surprised at seeing both of the Exiled Devil's arms had been cut off, blood gushing out of the wounds.

"This is Kiba power, speed that you can't follow with your eyes, and sword skills of that of a professional. By combining these two, he became the fastest Knight." Rias continued

Issei's eyes fell as they picked up a shadow by the stray's legs, widening as he realised that it was Koneko.

"Koneko watch out" Issei warns her but she isn't deterred.

"Next is Koneko. She is a "Rook". The trait of a Rook is its -" Rias continued speaking as The enormous monster tried to stamp on Koneko but it didn't hit the ground.

"The trait of a Rook is simple, absolute strength and also very high defence. It's impossible for a Devil with that calibre to stamp on Koneko. It can't crush her." Rias spoke, Issei watched Koneko easily lift up the Vaizor

"Fly…." Koneko uttered before jumping high and punched into the monster's stomach very sharply, throwing its body backwards, Issei gulping as he reminded himself not to get on the little Loli's bad side.

"Do not piss her off," Issei reminded himself.

"Lastly Akeno" Rias spoke,

"How exciting!" Akeno giggles as she walks towards the monster. Issei notices one of the stray's arms moving on its own, moving to Rias.

"Look out, Sacred Gear" Issei shouted, moving out of the way as Issei summoned his red gauntlet to knock the hand away.

"Thanks Issei" Rias said, on her back as she got up.

"No problem, my body just moves on its own," Issei said, as Rias looked forward.

"Akeno, finish her off" Rias orders, turning to Issei.

"Akeno is a "Queen". It's the person who is the strongest after me. She is the unbeatable Queen who has all the traits of Pawn, Knight, Bishop, and Rook." Rias explains the strongest piece.

"Guguuuuuuu...!" Vaizor moaned as she stared at Akeno, who had a fearless laugh after seeing her opponent's gaze.

"Oh my, it seems like you still have some energy left in you. Then how about this?" Akeno said, putting her hands up towards the sky, sparks in the air before a lightning bolt struck down onto the monster.

"Gagagaggaaaaaa!" Vaizor screamed, its body was burnt and smoking as Akeno spoke.

"Oh my, it seems like you are still energetic. Looks like you can take more." Akeno giggles, launching another lightning bolt that hits the monster.

"Gwaaaaaaah!" Vaizor screeched Akeno's face while striking down the lightning bolt and had a scary and cold expression even though she was smiling. Issei shuddering as she laughed.

"Akeno excels at using attacks made from magical powers. She could use natural elements like lightning, ice, and fire and such. And most of all, she is the ultimate sadist.

Rias confessed like it was nothing, Issei looked concerned.

"She gets off on this," Issei said, looking at her laughing gleefully.

"Usually, she's very kind. But once the battle starts, she won't stop until she calms down." Rias said.

"Fufufufufufu. How much of my lightning can you take, Monster-san? You still can't die yet. The one who finishes you off will be my master. Ohohohoh!" Akeno moans, she attacks with more lighting magic, she continues until she calms down.

Rias confirmed it and nodded her head before approaching the stray that had already lost its will to fight, putting her hand towards the monster.

"Any last words?" Rias asked,

"Kill me." The Stray said.

"Is that so? Then disappear." Rias replied heartlessly before a gigantic black magic ball shot out from her palm. The magic attack was big enough to cover all of the stray;s body which it soon did before disappearing to reveal nothing, not even a trace of the stray Devil's body remained.

"It's over. Good work everyone. Let's go home" Rias said, with Everyone relaxing to how they usually acted at that moment, aside from Issei who was still surprised at what he'd witnessed before remembering Rias hadn't mentioned about his piece yet

"Buchou, wait, wait a second." Issei asked, Rias smiling as she looked at him.

"What is it?" Rias asked.

"What is my piece? Am I a knight or something cool like that" Issei asked, curiously as the crimson-haired beauty smiled at him and

"Issei, you're a Pawn." Rias said clearly, Issei slumped slightly upon hearing that.

"What, but I don't want to be a Pawn" Issei complains, Rias smiles.

"That's what you are," Rias smiles at Issei.

"Wait then what Nagumo?" Issei turns, but not seeing him.

"Where is he anyway?" Issei asked, everyone else looking for him.

"Nagumo" Rias calls out, everyone looks, but another Stray jumps her.

"RAAAAAAA" The Stray jumps Rias, scaring everyone as Rias falls down in fear.

Ria's eyes widen as the stray teeth grow to bite down on her.

BLAAAAAAAAASSSTTTTT

A shot buck blast vaporises the Stray, Rias calms down as everyone looks to see the dead stray on the ground.

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The infamous sound of a shotgun got everyone to look to see Nagumo pumping a shotgun.

"You need to check your sources, Akeno" Nagumo said, going to the dead body, hitting it with the shotgun to check if it's dead.

"Fucken A that awesome" Issei said, looking at Nagumo killing it in one shot, none of them noticed a red glow in Nagumo's hand.

"Yeah thanks" Nagumo said,

"Very good Nagumo" Rias said, standing up, Nagumo narrows his eyes at her.

"You need to scout the area before, those strays were about to jump you all" Nagumo said, pointing up, as everyone looked to see three dead stray on the balcony.

"But the information said" Akeno said,

"You need to get your own information, things change fast" Nagumo said to her, Rias look a little put off.

"And next time just kill the thing off straight away, stop messing around" Nagumo said, seeing they were playing with the stray, not killing it.

"I'll…take your suggestion to consideration" Rias said, blushing at her rookie mistake.

"You better, otherwise were all fucked" Nagumo said, Issei looks mad as Rias looking down.

"Hey don't talk to her like that" Issei said, Nagumo gets annoyed.

"Issei, she nearly got us killed, if I didn't notice something she would lose her head" Nagumo said, moving around him to leave.

"What piece are you then?!" Issei asked him.

"A pawn," Nagumo said simply to Issei's shock.

"What seriously, how do you have guns?" Issei asked, seeing his fellow pawn so much stronger than him.

"I made them, needed something to defend myself, everyone else has their thing" Nagumo explains,

"Can I have one?" Issei asked, wanting to have a gun.

"No," Nagumo said, to Issei's shock.

"Why not!?" Issei said, but Nagumo raised his brows.

"You have a weapon from the big man upstairs, why would you need a gun?" Nagumo asked him; seriously he has a tool from god, why does he need a gun.

"It would help out Nagumo," Kiba said, Nagumo rolling his eyes.

"Issei doesn't need my guns any more than he needs your swords, you have your strengths, I have mine" Nagumo said.

"Well I'm going home, bye" Nagumo said, moving away from the group as everyone looked sad at Nagumo leaving.

"Why's he like this?" Issei asked, Rias flinched at that.

"Another stray was loose in the city, we didn't make it, it killed Nagumo but not before Nagumo killed it, that's why Rias recruited him, he thinks we let it kill him to recruit him" Akeno explains to him, with Issei frown at that information's.

"But you didn't, right Buchou?" Issei asked Rias who signs.

"I was too late to save him, so I gave him a second chance, but that not it from his point of view" Rias said, as Issei looks at Nagumo leaving the group.