Itachi Sitri

by Michael Shadow

After the edo tensei was undone, Itachi gets offered a second chance by a dark being, the next thing he knows he has a twin sister, an older sister and two new parents, and they are all devils. I don't own anything! No Chakra Itachi, Itachi x harem(small), more information in ch1. Rated M because it's DxD.

38. Itachi vs The Hero Faction!

Chapter 38: Itachi vs The Hero Faction

With reinforcements having arrived, people were quick to recover as the fighting had seized for a short moment. Raven's eyes glowed, as she raised her dominant arm, enveloping Bob in a speck of darkness. The darkness washed over Bob like water, and once it cleared off his bare body all injuries were healed. "Thank you…" Bob smirked with a thumbs up at Raven.

"Next time, don't be that careless." Raven advised. Bob had taken a lot of damage from getting slashed by Cao Cao's True Longinus. Luckily Raven with her powers could extracts the holy poison in Bob's body left by the divine spear.

"How is…" Bob was about to ask of the condition of a certain Valkyrie, but he got his answer in the form of a fist slamming upside his head.

"You reckless brave fool! Don't scare me like that again!" Rossweisse scolded Bob who let out a light groan followed by a bright smirk. Her yelling topped with the worried expression on her face. Gave Bob mixed signals, was she angry? Or just worried?

"Yeah, sorry about that…" Bob rubbed his sore head as he looked at Rossweisse. "How are you feeling?"

"… Young Asia healed me earlier, I am fine." Rossweisse averted Bob's kind gaze with her cheeks glowing bright red, feeling flustered just from having Bob's gaze on her.

Rias was tending to her servants, checking on Asia, Issei, Kiba and Xenovia. "Are you guys alright?"

"We're fine, Buchou…" Issei weakly smiled having taken a small beating from Siegfried earlier along with Kiba.

"Hey, Hyoudou look alive…" Saji and the Sitri group looked alarmed as activity was visible on the floating pirate ship. The Queen Anne's Revenge armed itself with its cannons, and its crew fueling each cannon with the powers of their Sacred Gears. Looking to do some real damage to the devil group.

The silver haired bishop of Sona, Momo rushed into the line of fire of the Sacred Gear charged cannons. Raising her arms, a pair of bracelets on Momo's arms glowed. "Applause Wall!" Utilizing her Sacred Gear, Momo generated a barrier to shield everyone as the cannons on the Queen Anne's Revenge peppered them with cannon fire. The barrier lit up in a variety of colors, as the Sacred Gear powered cannon balls clashed against the barrier wall and exploded in a rainbow of colors.

Taking a giant leap over the barrier wall, and towards the floating pirate ship were Tsubasa and Xenovia. The blue haired duo had their weapons raised, Xenovia with the Holy Dragon Slayer blade Ascalon and Tsubasa with glowing energy yo-yo's generating a powerful surge of electricity on one end, and a blazing display of fire of on the other end.

Aiming to deal a heavy hammer strike to the ship's deck, Tsubasa swung her Twinkle Aegis Sacred Gear down at the ship. While Xenovia generated an intense amount of aura from Ascalon and aimed to slash down one of the ships masts. Both attempts were thwarted, as a wall of darkness blocked off their attacks. The darkness was amplified as magic circles formed, and repelled the attacking Xenovia and Tsubasa.

"Not so fast, devil filth." Connla stood at the center of the darkness surrounding the Revenge. The pirate ships crew already reloading the cannons, and preparing another bombardment. "The elite of Captain Teach's crew shall strike you all down." Connla as the first mate of Alex's crew declared, and four other figures came into view alongside him on deck.

One was a dark-haired young man dressed in a suit that made him look like a mobster hitman, underneath the open coat, one could see a male student uniform shirt. Having been the one to amplify Connla's darkness with magic. A member of the Hero Faction and Alex's crew, a descendant of the Italian scholar, catholic priest and philosopher of the early Italian Renaissance, Marsilio Ficino. Sharing his ancestors first name, Marsilio glared down at the devils from where he was standing at the Revenge. Signaling other crew members to fetch something from below deck.

On Connla's left, was a tall young man with neat brown hair. Dressed in some ancient inspired Greek armor similar to Heracles. With a male school uniform underneath, with a sword strapped to the side of his left hip, and a shield on his back. Named after an ancient Greek hero. This young man, carries the spirit of the hero of Greece that slayed the fearsome Medusa, Perseus.

Then there was the one carrying the soul of Momotarou from an old Japanese folklore. Named Momono Kibitsuhiko, a young man dressed in a male fall school uniform with short dark hair. Climbing onto his shoulder was a little monkey in armor armed with a staff, and at his side a dog standing on two feet dressed in human like clothing. An Inugami Youkai, and a Sarugami Youkai. And flying over the ship was a giant raven at the size of a fighter jet. A monkey, a dog and a raven, just like in the old folktale of Momotarou.

And barely reaching her head over the top of the ships railing, was a young girl with cherry blossom colored hair, dressed in a traditional Chinese Taoist robe. The young descendant of general Zhuge Liang of the Three Kingdoms era. The current Zhuge Liang, the girl looked rather hyper and cheerful as she watched down from the railing.

"These guys… they are different from the other goons." Kiba could tell at first glance as he readied himself with his Sword of Betrayer.

"Yeah, they are each almost the same level as those seven main members." Akeno agreed, as each of these five warriors emitted a presence that rivaled some of the main members. Each one of them without a doubt possessing some powerful Sacred Gear.

"Well, we'll just have to fight our way through…" Issei groaned a bit from his sore shoulder, still feeling the phantom pain of Siegfried's blade, despite Asia's best efforts to heal him.

"Mm, for once, I agree with this perverted dragon boy." Harry stepped up as he stroked his mustache. "This ship is also a nuisance with its constant cannon fire." The Queen Anne's Revenge's cannons all directed towards our heroes, as they were being charged up with various Sacred Gears.

"Harry Newgate, Damian, Bob, Hyoudou Issei, Asia Argento, Xenovia Quartet, Kiba Yuuto, Irina Shidou, Saji Genshirou, Momo Hanakai, Reya Kusaka, Tomoe Meguri, Tsubasa Yura. All former humans… and all traitors of the human race. And worst of all, Hyoudou Issei and Saji Genshirou are both Dragons. Prepare to meet your end, villainous scum!" Connla snarled at them all with a look of disdain on his face, truly it seemed like he was firm in his belief that any former human now reincarnated Devil or Angel was a traitor.

Connla's little rant was met with nothing but silence, as all the former humans clenched their knuckles, and grinded their teeth. Being called traitors really pissed them off. "Who gives you the right? To tell us that having our lives saved by either Devils, Angels or Fallen Angels, makes us traitors?!" Issei in particular refused to stay silent at the accusation, and challenged Connla's beliefs.

"You are traitors, as you resign your talents and side with others outside of your own species. And as for you, having partnered up with that dragon, instead of enslaving its power and make it yours, makes you nothing less than a ticking time bomb waiting to go off. Dragons are vile and arrogant creatures, that don't care who they slaughter in their wake as long as they keep their pride."

"Blah, blah, you racist cultist or whatever the fuck you are." Damian joined his fellow pervert in speaking up. "You are just pissed we didn't join your damn team, like some whiny spoiled brat pretending to be a just hero. Your arrogance seeps through every word you speak. You sure don't seem to care who you kill in your conquests. We might be reincarnated, but we've not abandoned our humanity. We're still the same idiots we were back when we were alive. Heck, I was an even bigger idiot back when I was human." Damian yanked his arm backwards, and suddenly all five members of the Hero Faction were pulled off from the Revenge by some near invisible strings attached to their clothing. "Call us what you like, we are still who we were yesterday. And we're still who we are going to be tomorrow. You on the other hand, might not see tomorrow."

"We shall see…" Marsilio snarled at Damian, as he ripped the strings off by tearing his own uniform. Being brought forth onto the deck of the Revenge, was a tied up blond woman with nine golden furred fox tails. It was the missing Yasaka.

"Mother!" Kunou had quickly noticed her mother, and instantly tried to go to her. Issei however, was the one to stand in her way.

"Hang on Kunou-chan! Something isn't right here…" Issei and everyone else picked up on it, Yasaka didn't seem to be struggling in her binds, she appeared completely docile.

"Heh, do it." Marsilio ordered, his eyes glowing and in responds so did Yasaka's. Then, she began to growl like a feral beast, gold fur growing across her body, her teeth turning into sharp fangs, and her body beginning to grow in size. Before she could grow any further, a member of the crew holding her restrained violently booted her off the ship with a kick to her back.

Yasaka crashed to the ground bellow, Marsilio keeping a firm eye on her, his eyes glowing as he stared the Kyuubi down. Yasaka violently trashed around in her restraints, which broke apart after a minor struggle. Perseus, Connla, Zhuge Liang and Momono stepped aside leaving Marsilio to do his thing. "Attack, kyuubi!" Marsilio commanded, with his Sacred Gear he had complete control over Yasaka's mind.

Yasaka howled to the moon as she grew into a colossal monstrous nine tailed golden fox. Yasaka in her rampage brought her claw crashing down on our group of Devils, only for a smaller, yet strong monster like hand to catch her paw midair. Behemoth in his growing beast form, singlehandedly held back Yasaka's strike. Yasaka growled like a feral wild animal, as blue fire burnt brightly from her paw as she pushed further down on Behemoth.

"Ugh!" Behemoth grunted, his hands growing scales of a Dragon to resist the heat. Yasaka with the weight of her Kyuubi form, had Behemoth pinned down. In her rampage, Yasaka's power was no longer restrained by her moral code to keep Kyoto safe, she was out for blood and used the full force of her power.

"Hn!" Harry jumped in with a mighty leap, raising his Flame Sword of Pride over his head as he created a giant burning ball of fire, that he threw at Yasaka with a mighty swing. The blazing ball of fire clashed into Yasaka's head. She violently shook her head from the pain. Snarled at Harry and roared in his face, the air pressure of her roar was enough to keep Harry airborne, and push him backwards. Blue fire burnt from Yasaka's nine tails, like streams of energy the blue fire gathered before her open mouth forming a sphere of fire. Forming a blue massive sphere of fire, that resembled a dwarf star. The sphere shrank, whilst letting out powerful shockwaves that blew away the surrounding clouds.

"Mother! Please stop!" Kunou cried pleading with her mother. Yet her pleas fell on deaf ears, as Yasaka didn't even acknowledge her crying daughter. Her mind clouded and manipulated.

"Marsilio, are you going to have her fire that blast onto Kyoto?!" Perseus asked his companion as if he was insane.

"Of course not, just that troublesome Harry Newgate." Marsilio smirked as Harry being in the air, was out of line of sight from Kyoto and its inhabitants.

Yasaka slammed her jaws shut on the now shrunken sphere of fire. Her chest puffing out a bit, as she suddenly in a violent roar unleashed a powerful blast wave of blue fire aimed up at Harry. The blast unleashed such shockwaves, that the surrounding terrain was torn apart, it was like a hurricane was passing through in a violent storm.

"Haki… Enhanced, Fire Slash!" Harry cloaked his body in a bright aura, fire emerged from his sword and merged with this aura as he slashed his blade at the incoming wave of fire. The force of Harry's downwards slash, split the fire wave of Yasaka in half.

Blue fire suddenly exploded around Yasaka's back fur, causing her to howl in pain, as Kuroka using her Touki aura to boost up her speed ran across Yasaka's golden furred back. Utilizing the same firepower as Yasaka to attack the rampaging kyuubi. Yasaka brought her own tails swinging down onto her back, in an attempt to squash Kuroka. "Dammit, you make it real hard not to hurt you too badly, nya!" Kuroka took a summersault over one of the crashing tails, as she directed her focus to the land beneath Yasaka's feet. Using her nature energy, to manipulate the solid ground into quicksand. Yasaka started slowly but surely sinking, getting herself nice and stuck. Whilst Kuroka jumped around trying to neutralize Yasaka enough to subdue her, with the help of Harry and Behemoth.

"Open fire!" Connla commanded those onboard the Revenge, and simultaneously all cannons on the right side of the ship went off. When suddenly a blind flashing light illuminated the night sky, and spears of light clashed with the cannon fire.

"Hya!" Lin with her angel wings came flying in dealing a spin kick to one of the cannon balls, repelling it back to the ship.

"Seems things have taken a turn for the worse." Azazel descended down onto the battlefield. "But at least we have some reinforcements. Oi! Gasper! Use your Sacred Gear to freeze as many cannon balls as you can! Me and Lin will take the offensive approach." Azazel directed the young half Vampire.

Gasper nervously stuttered, his eyes watery and his face flushed a bit pink. "U-Understood, sensei!" Gasper's nervous stuttering voice, earned him mocking and taunting laughter from the crew of the Revenge.

"That little girl is going to help fight us? Yeah, right!" All the crew bawled out laughing.

"I-I-I am a man!" Gasper shouted and all the laughter died down.

"Huh?! Someone with such a cute face and dressed like that is a man?! I don't believe you!"

"You are a false idol! I spit on you!"

"No way! Give me my fantasies back!" The crew went wild with rage for various different reasons.

"Eek! I'm sorry!" Gasper trembled.

"Don't apologize like that dammit!"

"Fire! You horny morons!" Connla commanded in an irritated tone at the incompetence of his crew.

"R-Right!" The crew stuttered and quickly opened fire.

Gasper's eyes glowed in a dark red color, as suddenly the barrage of cannon balls all froze midair in time. "I-I did it…" Gasper mumbled sounding a bit surprised himself.

"Nicely done! Gasper!" Issei seeing his Kouhai's growth complimented the young vampire.

"Nice job kid!" Lin jumped in the line of fire from the cannon balls, and dealt swift kicks that repelled all the frozen cannon balls bombarding back into the ship.

"Now for some airborne assault." Azazel smirked and flicked his fingers to which he unleashed a raining bombardment of light spears.

However, Connla used his Sacred Gear to cloak the Revenge in a barrier of darkness, which absorbed all of Azazel's raining light spears.

"Ho? Night Reflection, eh?" Azazel smirked whilst rubbing his goatee. Even as all his light spears were reflected back out from the barrier of darkness, and right back at Azazel himself. "You Hero wannabes might be troublesome terrorists. But your abundance of Sacred Gears, makes you all marvelous test subjects." Azazel formed a barrier of magic circles around himself, that easily withstood the bombardment of light spears. "So, how many Longinus wielders do you have? I mean, we only have one official one in the form of Issei on our side. And an unofficial one that reached the level of a Longinus in the form of Harry Newgate. I know that amongst you other than the True Longinus, you also have the wielder of Dimension Lost. The two strongest Sacred Gears the old man ever made. But I sense there might be another one, right?"

"Heh, you are right in your assumption, Governor. We have one more Longinus wielder on our side here today." Connla revealed, as the answer came in the form of an armada of demonic monsters emerging out from the shadows.

"… Annihilation Maker, eh? One of the top 4 strongest Sacred Gears. My, you really are a troublesome bunch with such powerful bugs the old man left in his system." Azazel kept a confident façade, but on the inside, he was a little nervous. True Longinus, Dimension Lost, and Annihilation Maker, all world ending capable Sacred Gears. Azazel could only hope these wannabe Heroes hadn't fully mastered their Sacred Gears, although from Cao Cao's performance against him earlier, Azazel felt a bit worried.

The demonic monsters made from the annihilation maker roared as they all emerged around our Devil friends. One roaring monster was met with a blast wave of destruction to the face, blowing its entire head to bits as it collapsed. Rias stood with some of the Sins like Damian, Raven, Jack, Bob and Eto as they mainly held off the monsters from the Annihilation Maker.

Xenovia and Irina stood back-to-back, as Xenovia with Ascalon held off the extending battle staff of the monkey youkai. While Irina used a katana sword to hold of strikes dealt by the giant inugami youkai.

Momono was riding on his giant fighter jet sized raven. Wielding a sword in hand as he had the giant raven soar down, to get close enough for him to snide in a strike with his blade at Xenovia and Irina. Xenovia with her battle sense saw the attack coming from a mile away, and grabbed ahold of the monkey's battle staff, whilst using her free hand to parry off Momono's strike from above. Xenovia then jabbed Ascalon forward and pierced through the monkey's skull.

The monkey faded like a fleeting shadow, and appeared on Momono's shoulder letting out a furious rant with animal sounds. "She is quite perceptive." Momono acknowledged the complaints of his monkey companion.

Irina pushed against the inugami, and dealt a series of light energy slashes at the giant dog's body. The dog yelped in pain, and faded away like a fleeting shadow. "They just keep respawning. As we thought, we have to take down that guy first." Irina acknowledged as the inugami remerged out from Momono's shadow.

"Indeed, his goal is simply to overwhelm and tire us out. Nothing more." Xenovia also saw through the wannabe hero's plan. "Next time he comes riding in from above, I just have to strike him faster." Xenovia said with a cold stare, as she held her blade firmly in hand. And both the monkey and inugami leapt off from the giant raven, and resumed their clashes with the two former exorcists.

Akeno in the meantime, unleashed a series of lightning bolts aimed at the smallest hero, Zhuge Liang. The young girl merely with a snap of her fingers, created small holes in space itself to catch the incoming lightning bolts. The holes weren't randomized from what Akeno could tell, her lightning moved in different patterns after all, so for each bolt to be caught the holes had to be placed very thoroughly.

"Kukuku, fiendish devil and fallen angel hybrid. Your attacks cannot reach me." The young Zhuge Liang acted like a child playing around, holding a hand fan made from crane feathers with the ying yang symbol in the middle. With another flick of her fingers, more holes opened up and released the same lightning bolts right into Akeno.

"Ugh!" Akeno groaned as she was struck by her own attack, yet the pain was rather minor as her natural abilities offered her some resistance to lightning based attacks. "You are quite the cheeky young lady. Perhaps I should give you a nice spanking to teach you some manners? Ufufufu~" Akeno looked with a menacing smirk that caused Zhuge Liang to flinch a bit.

"Eh… wh-what are you even saying?" Zhuge Liang appeared genuine confused, never having encountered an opponent with such a tone.

"Ara, ara, perhaps I should show you, demonstrate how an evening of pain can bring a lot of pleasure~" Akeno stared with a dangerous look in her eye, as she licked her lips like a hungry predator longing for its prey.

"Eh?!" Zhuge Liang blushed immensely.

For Akeno, this was all an act. As Akeno noticed a few floating masks behind Zhuge Liang observing her. Sona's Bishop, Reya Kusaka's Sacred Gear, Scouting Persona. A Sacred Gear Reya can use to observe and spy on the enemy to gather intel, or simply be used as shields. The moment she saw the mask, Akeno realized Reya was in the process of observing the mechanics of Zhuge Liang's Sacred Gear.

"Ara, ara, such a cute face you are making." Akeno continued on the act, putting on a carefree smile as she raised her hand. "I wonder, what other types of faces you can make~" Akeno unleashed a blast of lighting from her fingertip towards Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang's eyes tuned in, analyzing the movement of the lightning bolt, seeing it moving around in zig zag pattern. Analyzing the distance between each zig zag, calculating roughly where the bolt would strike from. Zhuge Liang looked carefree, even as the bolt shot straight to the far-left side, before turning back aiming for Zhuge Liang's side, only to be sucked into a hole that had formed itself moments prior.

A new hole opened behind Akeno, and the bolt flew out only to clash with a barrier wall. "Applause Wall!" Sona's second Bishop, Momo Hanakai used her Sacred Gear to create a barrier to protect Akeno.

"Let's see how good you are at paying attention, young lady." Akeno licked her own finger tips as she stared with a faint blush on her cheeks at the thought of inflicting torturous pain. Magic circles formed all around them, and unleashed a storm of lightning bolts. Zhuge Liang looked serious, as she created multiple holes in space itself to suck in the lightning bolts.

A mask floated next to Akeno's ear, as Reya whispered to her through it. "Each hole is like a vacuum, there is a slight suction power to it, so even if her calculations are off slightly you still cannot hit her as your attacks will be sucked in. And it seems the more holes she is forced to make, the smaller each of them becomes." Reya informed from wherever she was hidden observing all this.

"Ara, ara, you seem to have quite a weak Sacred Gear~" Akeno resulted to taunting the young girl, whose face instantly twisted into one of anger. Akeno did this in hopes to have more knowledge of Zhuge Liang's Sacred Gear slip up so Reya could notice.

"Eh?" Zhuge Liang looked with veins bulging around her temple. "My skills… Are perfect! You impudent half breed!" Zhuge Liang snapped as gigantic holes the size of entire cars opened.

Kiba's sword clashed with the shield of Perseus, whilst simultaneously parrying with Tomoe's sword. The water danced from Tomoe's sword, adding to the slashing power of her blade, yet despite that factor, Perseus' blade prevailed and pushed Tomoe's katana back. Perseus kneed Kiba in the stomach, and slammed his shield into the prince charming's face, breaking his nose to which blood started pouring out.

The Rook, Tsubasa jumped in swinging around energy yo-yo's that banged violently against Perseus' shield. Moving in such unpredictable patterns that most would have trouble seeing their trajectory. Yet even as the yo-yos of lightning and fire bounced off the shield and circled around to strike Perseus. Perseus with ease deflected them with his blade. "Sorry, but could you lot possibly surrender?" Perseus spoke in a polite timid tone, something unsuited for a person of his strength.

"Surrender? A real warrior will fight to the end!" Tsubasa declared as she continued her assault on Perseus.

"Then I have no choice…" Out from Perseus shield, emerged the head of a woman with hair made from snakes. The woman's face become one twisted in a horrific expression as the woman snarled and her eyes opened glowing.

Tsubasa froze, as suddenly she found herself unable to move. "Wh-What is this?" Tsubasa looked in shock, as her entire body was petrified and turned into stone.

"Tsubasa-chan!" Tomoe cried out in terror at seeing her comrade turn into a statue.

"Tch!" Kiba quickly shielded his eyes and rushed at Perseus, not wanting to get caught in the gaze of Medusa, Kiba had to fight blind. Rushing at Perseus with an aim to strike him down.

Perseus effortlessly dodged Kiba's strikes, and moved behind the knight to slash him across the back. "If you cannot see me, you cannot beat me." Perseus declared as he kicked Kiba on his slashed back.

"Tsubasa! Tsubasa!" Tomoe was occupied trying to break her friend free from this spell. But she was too afraid to even touch Tsubasa, out of fear if the statue broke, she would be dead. "Return her back to normal!" Tomoe demanded of Perseus.

"I cannot… sorry." Perseus lightly mumbled, seeming nonconfrontational about the whole situation.

"From the legend… it is said nothing can help those petrified from Medusa's gaze." Azazel flew in, and quickly helped defend the petrified Tsubasa who was being targeted by goons of the Hero Faction in her vulnerable state. "For humans that is. But there is a way…" Azazel revealed. "A curse brought upon by a God, can only be broken by another God." Azazel said, as Medusa was cursed by the Greek Goddess Athena. And naturally, the curse of one God could only be broken by another.

Perseus was only focused on Kiba, and aimed to cut him down in a swift strike. Kiba's ears twitched as he turned around to block a hammer strike from Perseus' blade. "As a devil… my senses are enhanced beyond that of a normal human! I may not be able to see, but I can still hear!" Kiba pushed on, keeping Perseus on his toes and forcing him to fall back.

Marsilio continued to focus on the rampaging Yasaka, although suddenly sensed a presence approaching from behind. The two Rooks of Rias Gremory, Koneko and Rossweisse both jumped the false hero and dropkicked him. However, instead of crunching flesh and bone, they heard the ground breaking under their strike. Koneko used her nekomata sensing skills to try and locate Marsilio, and quickly discovered he was behind them.

Koneko dealt a swift spinning kick aimed at Marsilio's head, but hit nothing but empty air. "B-But he was there…" Koneko mumbled.

"Concealment magic?" Rossweisse questioned, slamming her hands together as out from her hands emerged a form of dust. Rossweisse blew at this dust as it spread far and wide. The dust latched itself onto the form of a person, invisible to the naked eye. "Got you!" Rossweisse quickly fired a magic bullet at the shape, hitting it square in the chest.

"Argh!" Marsilio growled as he was now visible, rolling across the floor. "Y-You found me?!" Marsilio grunted as Rossweisse stood over him, aiming to finishing things.

"Wait! Rossweisse! It's not him!" Koneko warned as Rossweisse gasped seeing Marsilio vanish in a mist, replaced by a spear that stabbed through Rossweisse's chest.

"Dreamlike Curse." More spears emerged out from the ground, and pierced Rossweisse's body. Rossweisse looked baffled, as blood emerged from her lips. "My Sacred Gear, allows me to control time and space. I can create a world, in which I am God." Marsilio's voice echoed as he stood before Rossweisse, running a blade through her chest.

"An illusion?" Rossweisse smirked as she snapped the spears like twigs. "Unlucky for you, I have a nekomata Senjutsu user as my companion!" Koneko using her Senjutsu skills shattered the illusion on Rossweisse, the spears and wounds vanishing from her body, but the pain remained.

"Heh, in the end, it won't matter…" Phantom projections of Marsilio appeared across the battlefield. "I can just manipulate her senses… she will never know which is the real me." Marsilio chuckled as the Rooks were in quite the predicament. They needed to take Marsilio down, to stop the rampaging Yasaka.

Issei ignited his ignition boosters, and soared like a missile towards Connla, blasting like a freight train straight through Connla's shadow wall, Issei punched the hero across the face shattering his sunglasses. Groaning, Connla unleashed his shadows in the form of spears and swords to pierce Issei's back. But these attempts were thwarted, as black flames emerged and burnt away the shadows, Saji jumping in with his Sacred Gear.

"Hyoudou! You are slipping up!" Saji scolded, like Issei hadn't learnt from their battle during the Rating Game. Issei was too lenient on letting his guard down.

"Sorry, but at least I hit the fucker!" Issei and Saji attacked from both sides of Connla, although their fists were caught by Connla. Whose entire body was being covered in shadows.

"You dragon filth… Will die by my hand." Connla utilized his Balance Breaker, "Night Reflection: Death Cross." His body cloaked in armor of darkness that resembled Issei's Scale Mail armor. With a mighty battle cry, Connla unleashed massive waves of darkness clashing into Issei and Saji, pushing them back.

As various battles were taking place all around them at the same time, Rias Gremory took a quick glance over at her beloved Itachi. Itachi was staring down the leader of the Hero Faction, Cao Cao. The overconfident "hero" smirked, as he also had all of his main members surround the Sitri prince. Itachi without even batting an eye at his surrounding adversaries, tightened his grip onto his Leviathan Blade. And swung the Divine Weapon at Cao Cao's neck.

Droplets of blood sprayed between the two combatants, and Rias gasped at what she was seeing. Cao Cao stood there with a smile on his face, his True Longinus with its tip pointed down sideways in a defensive position, and in his left hand, Cao Cao held onto the wrist of Itachi's severed right arm that held the Leviathan Blade.

Cao Cao, a human had at this moment surprised all his spectators. He was too fast for them to even detect the slash. Cao Cao's smirk wavered however, as Itachi did not flinch despite having his entire right arm slashed clean off, and from the True Longinus no less. Itachi stares at Cao Cao with a stoic looking expression, blood squirting out from his bloodied stump. Lightning began flickering around Itachi, who narrowed his gaze at Cao Cao, even with his Sharingan he hadn't been able to fully anticipate Cao Cao's move. "Touki: Speed Mode." A vibrating explosive amount of lightning emerged from Itachi's body, and the Sitri prince swiftly dealt a high kick to Cao Cao's chin, launching the hero a few feet off the ground. 'For a human… he is incredibly fast.' Itachi made a mental note of Cao Cao's speed. Just in order to keep up with Cao Cao's speed, Itachi instantly resulted to using his fastest form.

Cao Cao as he was flung into the air, dropped Itachi's severed arm. Itachi mentally called for the Leviathan Blade, and the blade with the arm latched onto it flew towards Itachi. But before it could reach, Cao Cao stomped his boot down onto the hilt of the blade pinning it down. "Do it." Cao Cao instructed.

Georg raised his arm, and his eyes glowed in an ominous shade of violet. "Dimension Lost: Dimension Create." A strange ominous mist emerged all around Georg, and swallowed up Itachi and all seven of the main Hero Faction members. A strong gust of wind blew around them, and right before Rias' eyes, Itachi and the main Hero Faction members vanished.

"Itachi!" Rias' cry quickly caught the attention of the Sins, and Behemoth who noticed the disappearance of the Sitri prince.

"Young master!" Behemoth roared at seeing his priced student vanish into thin air.

"That was…" Azazel looked baffled, first the True Longinus and now this. "Dimension Lost… Dammit, they got him trapped!"

"Azazel! You know about that Sacred Gear?!" Behemoth quickly looked to the Fallen Angel Governor who was known as a Sacred Gear expert.

"Yeah, Dimension Lost… it is one of the thirteen Longinus, and one of the four mightiest Sacred Gears in existence. It is considered to be one of the biggest "bugs" in the system left by the old man before he expired. It can destroy the entire world if its user reaches a certain level… and it can create its own universe if the wielder fully masters it. But right now… Itachi has been transported to an alternate dimension, where I suspect he and the Hero Faction's top members… are all alone."

And indeed, Azazel was right, in a deep empty void, surrounded by the ominous mist of the Dimension Lost. Itachi was surrounded by all seven top members of the Hero Faction. Cao Cao chuckled as he pointed the True Longinus at Itachi. "You are now trapped, devil."

Itachi looked on with a stoic expression, his body bursting with an explosive amount of lightning. Itachi's sheer aura generating intense winds in this empty vast void that nearly blew some of the Hero Faction members backwards. "Trapped is a good description of our current situation. But make no mistake, I am not trapped in here with you. You lot are trapped in here with me." The flashes of lightning emitting from his body, caused the red glow of his Sharingan to illuminate in an ominous glare, as Itachi fearlessly stood before the top seven members of the Hero Faction.

All the Hero Faction members in returned unleashed their collective auras. All their auras shared a familiar sensation in them, a feeling Itachi was all too familiar with by now. All the Hero Faction members before him were amped up with Ophis' snakes.

Eagerly going for the attack, Heracles jumped at Itachi and threw a heavy punch aimed for Itachi's head. The one-armed Itachi twirled his body slightly, and grabbed onto the wrist of Heracles. Guiding the hulking man's fist aside, and sending Heracles stumbling forward, Itachi leapt and dealt a swift kick to the back of Heracles' head sending him face first into the dirt.

Alex followed next, wielding his blade in his right hand he slashed it down towards Itachi. Generating an intense slash wave of power that cut through the ground itself, Itachi generated a pool of water before his hand using it like a shield to hold off the slash wave from Alex's Nebula Cleaver. Pulling his arm back a bit, Itachi also dragged his water shield back a bit, before thrusting his arm out causing the water shield to explode into a barrage of needles flying at Alex.

Generating a cold breeze from his hand, Itachi crafted a kunai knife of ice and swiftly turned around to block a slash strike from Jeanne's sword. The female knight smirked as she pushed on, yet Itachi's stance remained firm and he dug his heals into the ground itself. Spitting out a bullet of water aimed at Jeanne's head, the knight let up on her assault and tilted her head sideways to avoid the water bullet as it clashed through solid rock and reduced the boulder to rubble.

Jumping over Itachi was Siegfried, who swung his demonic blade Gram down onto Itachi. Attempting to block with the ice kunai knife at first, Itachi had to leap back as the demonic blade slashed through the ice kunai with no effort. Siegfried leapt after Itachi and unleashed a storm of slashes from his blade. Thunder crackled around Itachi, as he sped around Siegfried and kneed him in the back sending Siegfried tumbling to the ground.

Itachi could only gasp, as suddenly demonic monsters emerged from bellow his feet and crawled up to attack him, practically foaming from their ghastly mouths as they lunged at him. Itachi held his arm out, generating a burning orange magic circle. "Fire Magic: Nova!" Unleashing a giant sphere of fire directly aimed at his own feet, Itachi erased the monsters created by Leonardo to ashes.

As Itachi leapt out from the smoldering fire, he quickly found himself back to the blazing fire as Georg appeared behind Itachi and fired off a flame bullet spell hitting Itachi on the right side of his back where he had no arm to defend himself. Cao Cao followed up with a blast attack from his True Longinus spear, thrusted like a cannon at Itachi. Itachi groaned as he tried to hold back the blast, but felt his hand burn from the divine light. Working through the pain, Itachi unleashed a war cry as with one arm he negated the entire blast. Cao Cao looked genuinely shocked, but his look of surprise was brief as he chuckled with a confident smirk. "Impressive, you truly are as dangerous as the rumors would suggest. A Devil, able to hold off a blast from my Sacred Gear. It is unheard of. You my friend, are a bug in God's system, and need to be exterminated to restore the proper balance of things."

"… You are welcome to try." Itachi fearlessly stared down the Hero Faction members.

The moment Itachi and the main Hero Faction members vanished into the Dimension Lost fog. Raven quickly took charge, charging up a dark purple glowing ominous magic circle under her feet. "I will try and find them! I need you guys to cover me!" Raven instructed her fellow Sins, and without any moments of hesitation, Damian, Eto, Bob and Jack each put up a position around Raven. Raven floated up in a lotus sitting position, and began chanting. "I call upon the powers of Azarath… Help me find the man with the red and white fan on his back."

"Attack that witch!" A member of Alex's Queen Anne's Revenge crew shouted, as several of the crew of Sacred Gear wielders let out a loud battle cry. And dozens of them rushed to attack Raven.

"Hold the line…" Damian instructed, as Eto, Bob and Jack all went on guard against the grunts of the Hero Faction. Explosions of fire, and colorful blasts soared towards them, but Damian created a giant web of strings tanking all the blasts. Dozens of various Sacred Gears attacking at once, yet Damian powered through and dissolved them all with his web. Taking a quick breather, Damian threw his arms forward, strings from his fingertips attaching to the armor of the Hero Faction grunts, with a mighty yank Damian pulled them all off their feet and towards him. As the grunts flew towards him, Damian swiftly dealt nerve damaging blows to their bodies, nearly paralyzing them.

Jack brough forth several floating blades, and using telekinetic force she pushed the blades square into the charging grunts, cutting them down like a hot knife through butter.

Eto giggled as she proceeded to transform into her giant owl Kakuja form, in a disturbing display, she began devouring the grunts one by one. Their attacks hardly even getting through the armor of her Kakuja, and their bodies decaying in an instant as Eto used the powers of Shalba Beelzebub.

Bob with a single swing of Mjol jr. erased an entire group of the grunts with the mighty thunder brought forth by the hammer. Bob gazed towards the floating Queen Anne's Revenge, seeing the ship prep its Sacred Gear powered up cannons. "Uh, Raven… just double checking something, but how long do we have to hold them off for again?"

"I. Don't. Know." Raven seemed to be struggling judging by the strain in her voice. Her mind burning as she tried to search through the vast number of dimensions. With what could only be described as an All-Seeing Eye of Azarath, Raven used her empath powers to try and feel out her bond with Itachi in order to find his location. But something starts tugging at her mind, a different bond was pulling her mind elsewhere. "Raven~" The eerie voice of her father Trigon called to her, trying to pull her somewhere. But it wasn't Purgatory. 'Don't tell me… he escaped?' Raven let out a frightened gasp. Raven within her mind saw strange images, a four eyed demon looming over one with ten Fallen Angel black crow feathered wings, standing on a deserted crater filled rocky surface, surrounded by the glinting stars in the darkness. She recognized both figures, one was the looming image of her father, and the other was… 'Kokabiel?' Raven nearly fell out from her meditation in shock.

Raven began breathing heavily, feeling this close presence of her father had her pale skin turn red like fresh blood, and her eyes glowing in an ominous gold. "Raven… Raven!" Damian noticing the change in Raven called out to her, clearly seeing something was wrong. The vibrating power from Raven currently was so intense, that a chilling ice-cold sensation was felt all throughout Kyoto, and soon all over Japan.

"Witch girl! Snap out of it!" Jack shouted as well.

"Raven!" Bob's voice followed next, and Raven quickly gasped. She didn't dare investigating her father and Kokabiel further, pulling her mind away from them, and continuing her focus on Itachi.

"I'm fine… sorry… sorry…" Raven shakingly apologized, her skin returning to her regular pale complexion and her eyes glowing white. 'Mental note to self… tell Itachi about dad and Kokabiel… But first, find Itachi…' Returning to try and connect her bond with Itachi, Raven's mind browsed through the vast number of dimensions, universes. Anywhere Dimension Lost could have taken Itachi and the main Hero Faction members.

Within the Dimension Lost, Itachi's lightning Touki aura burst to life in an explosive amount around him. Itachi's gaze fixated on what laid behind Cao Cao's right leg, Itachi's severed right forearm holding onto the Leviathan Blade. Cao Cao of course, had positioned himself before the arm ready to stomp on it should Itachi try and call for the Leviathan blade. Itachi needed to get his blade back, he wasn't sure if he could save his own arm though. But if he could, would be nice if maybe Raven could reattach it with her magic, or some Pheonix tears could put it back in place.

Looking around, Itachi saw he was surrounded. Trying to get a good read on the main Hero Faction members, Itachi roughly deduced that Cao Cao was going to be the trickiest one to deal with. 'Even with Speed Mode, he is fast enough to react to me. What is worse, he might even be faster than me.' Itachi narrowed his gaze at Cao Cao, who stood still in place waiting for Itachi to make the first move no doubt. They were all human after all, and thus unlike Itachi they were all less durable than him, with maybe the exception of Heracles. Itachi could tell, as Heracles seemed to be the first one to jump into the action like a tank clearing the path for his team. Then Alex would act as a distraction with the destructive power of his Nebula Cleaver. Followed by Siegfried and Jeanne both rushing in dealing swift strikes. Georg would act as magical support, being the wielder of Dimension Lost, without a doubt the others would aim to protect Georg at all cost. It was at this moment Itachi realized, he needed to take down Georg before the others, he needed to bring down Dimension Lost. A good Sharingan genjutsu should do the trick. Leonardo seemed to also act as support, using his monsters. And Cao Cao, was without a doubt the one that would deal the killing blow.

Itachi had seen through their battle formations, and gotten a good understanding of their tactics. And, Itachi with his battle experience could tell something else, these humans were specially trained. The key factor to this theory, was their reaction speed, and speed in general. Itachi wasn't arrogant enough to think someone with a Sacred Gear could never surpass his own level of speed, the proof was standing right before him after all in the form of Cao Cao. But the fact that they knew not to meet his gaze, meant they knew about Sharingan. Not only that, despite not looking at his full body they were able to react to Itachi's movements also, showing they had been trained in how to fight the Sharingan. At first, Itachi had suspected it to be the work of Ophis. But like Vali had once put it, Vali's team were Ophis' favorites. And judging by the Hero Faction and their ideology, Itachi doubted they would accept training from Ophis, a dragon, on how to train them to fight the Sharingan. 'This type of training, has to be from someone who knows the workings of the Sharingan. The only one I have really shared that information with, would be Ajuka Beelzebub. That, and of course the Sins, Rias and Sona have a good understanding on how the Sharingan works by now. But no one of them would ever reveal such information… Well, unless Ajuka-sama would be a...' Suspecting the current Beelzebub to be a traitor, Itachi quickly shook that idea out of his mind. Ajuka had been close friends with Sirzechs since childhood, and had been nothing but trustworthy.

Itachi had three current theories boggling in his mind. One, perhaps Itachi himself had been too arrogant in believing that in a world with Gods, and multiple dimensions and universes, that no one else could know about the Sharingan outside of his previous world, himself and Ophis. Two, someone could have spied on him, or infiltrated Ajuka's lab to gather data. Three, and what he really hoped not to be true, there was a traitor amongst his inner circle of friends and family. Itachi didn't have time to think on this, but would make the effort to at least see if he could pry the information out of the Hero Faction. "Who taught you how to fight against the Sharingan?" Itachi didn't expect any of them to answer, he was looking for a reaction to confirm a theory. And he got it, Leonardo, Georg, Jeanne and Alex all seemed to be slightly spooked that he had asked the question. "… I knew it, who is it?" Itachi gave them all a death glare, but none of them even flinched under pressure.

Cao Cao smirked and gave a light taunting chuckle as he tilted his head slightly to the side. "Who indeed. A traitor perhaps? Ophis? The voice of God? Who knows~" Cao Cao taunted him, having also seemingly figured out a bit of what Itachi was thinking currently.

"It doesn't matter, I can always force the answer out of one of you later anyway." Itachi used his left hand to unbutton his shirt, once opened it showed his washboard abs causing Jeanne to take a slight peek of interest. Shrugging the sleeve off his right shoulder, Itachi quickly bit into a part of the shirt and ripped the fabric around the right armed sleeve. As he ripped the shirt off, a murder of crows flew out and swarmed the Hero Faction.

Cao Cao grunted as he swung his True Longinus spear to swat away the crows. Itachi used this opening and called for his Leviathan Blade, still stuck in his right hand, the blade flew along with his right arm towards Itachi. To Itachi's surprise however, his severed arm fell back into place, and sparks of electricity from the Leviathan Blade reattached his severed arm. Twirling the fingers of his right hand, Itachi felt himself slowly regain feeling in his right arm. 'Alright dwarves…' Itachi lightly smirked, as once again the weapon of the Norse Dwarves surprised him yet again. Even with his arm reattached and healed, Itachi's ears were still ringing along with the sensation of pain from having lost his arm. Even if healed, the pain still remained.

Heracles was the first to jump in, his arms glowing in a burning fiery aura as he leapt before Itachi. Heracles threw a punch that Itachi held off with a wall of water, the moment Heracles' fist made contact an explosion erupted. Itachi grunted as the explosion blew away his water wall, Heracles continued with his relentless barrage before Itachi could put up any defensive measures. Itachi had to result with blocking Heracles' punches with his forearms. But each time Heracles' fist clashed with Itachi's forearm, an explosion followed.

Explosions bloomed at a rapid rate within Dimension Lost, amidst this fog it was lit up in a quick powerful glint of light. "Heh, withstood fifty of Heracles' combos, he is a tough devil." Alex whistled as the smoke cleared, revealing Itachi with his severely burnt and bruised forearms, without a doubt several bones in his arms were broken.

Heracles smirked as he threw another heavy punch into Itachi, launching the Sitri heir backwards with the explosion acting like a rocket booster. Itachi crashed to the ground hard, and rolled around in the dirt as he tried to regain his footing, he skidded backwards gathering up a cloud of dust. The dust cloud parted as Heracles jumped at him again. Itachi clicked his tongue, with his arms broken he couldn't aim a long-ranged attack at Heracles. Itachi had no choice but to get up close whilst avoiding Heracles' fist. Itachi bit into the handle of his Leviathan Blade, letting his broken arms hang down, Itachi then using his speed rushed at Heracles. Dealing a swift knee strike to the hulking man's chin causing Heracles to recoil backwards a bit.

Heracles smirked and moved in to throw a punch at Itachi as he was before him. Itachi twirled his body a bit, placed his foot onto Heracles' bicep he took a leap over Heracles' head, dealing a kick to the back of Heracles' head. Heracles stumbled forward, feeling a bit woozy from the kick to his cranium. "Not bad… Ugh!" Heracles gasped as a gashing slash wound appeared on his neck. Heracles gurgled up red blood as he collapsed onto his knees. 'He cut me with that blade?!' Heracles hadn't been able to notice Itachi in time. Itachi twirled his body around, swinging his broken arms into position to aim at Heracles' back. 'Fire Shot!' Itachi formed a magic circle and fired off a fire bullet into Heracles' back.

Whilst midair, Itachi notices something grabbing ahold of his ankle. Looking down, he saw the monstrous arm of demonic monster crawling out from his own shadow. It was the youngest member of the Hero Faction, Leonardo. "Annihilation Maker."

Itachi glared down at the monsters, and unleashed his Touki aura as it was caught ablaze in flames. "Touki: Assault Mode!" Coated in a fire armor, Itachi burnt off the monster hands grabbed onto his ankle. The monsters hissed and recoiled from the burning sensation, as ten of them crawled out from his shadow. "Atomic Punch!" Generating an intense amount of heat from his fist, Itachi threw a punch to his own shadow with the monsters, rocking the entire dimension with a mighty explosion that erased the monsters.

Before Itachi had a chance to breathe a sigh of relief however, he was slugged across the face by the recovered Heracles. "Round two! Devil prince!" Heracles cackled, his slash wound already closed and healed up.

'How?!' Itachi widened his eyes, as an explosion erupted square in his face. Itachi leapt out from the fiery smoke, seeing Jeanne next to Heracles holding a bottle, a bottle of Pheonix tears. Before Itachi could show any reaction, he was overcome by a bright light from an energy blast that completely engulfed him. Cao Cao stood by the sidelines, with his spear pointed at Itachi as it was emitting smoke.

"Continue to push him." Cao Cao instructed as Siegfried and Alex rushed in to support Heracles and Jeanne, whilst Cao Cao stood by with Georg and Leonardo. "Let's show the Devils, the Angels and the Gods… just what humans are capable of. And kill Itachi Sitri." Cao Cao gave a sinister chuckle.

Meanwhile, unbeknownst of the current situation in Kyoto. In Kuoh town, Sona, Tsubaki and Ruruko arriving home late from the academy. The three remaining members of the Student Council having to work late while most of their members were on the Kyoto trip. "We're home!" Sona announced as they walked in through the door.

"…"

"…"

Sona curiously raised her brow, as she and Tsubaki seemed to be on the same page. "… Where is everyone?" Tsubaki looked around with a curious gaze, she didn't hear anyone, nor sense anyone. Usually there were people on the lower floors to welcome them.

"… Did they all go to bed?" Ruruko mumbled, also considering the fact most of the house's residents were away in Kyoto she kind of expected the silence.

Sona felt an eerie feeling in her chest, the voices of her two peerage members becoming muffled as she was lost in her own thoughts. "… Something's wrong." Sona excelled at logical thinking, she knew her brother's daily schedule, as well as that of Rias. The fact none of them were here, sounded danger alarms in her head. Taking out her cellphone, she quickly dialed Saji's number.

In Kyoto, with the explosion having been contained. No human in Kyoto were aware of the battle taking place. And in a room with some sleeping boys, Saji's phone that laid charging by his bed was vibrating showing a picture of Sona. But of course, Saji was not present to answer and the other boys were sound asleep.

With no responds, Sona put away her cell phone and connected the dots that something must have happened. "I have a bad feeling about this… Tsubaki, prepare a teleportation magic circle to Kyoto."

"But… we don't have permission to enter Kyoto-" Tsubaki was about to protest, as none of them had the passes needed to enter Kyoto.

"I will take full responsibility, and even apologize on my knees to the local Youkai. Just do it." Sona ordered.

"… As you wish, lady Sona." Tsubaki began the preparations, and Ruruko was quick to help her senior.

Within Dimension Lost, Itachi negated Cao Cao's blast attack, and rammed the fiery claw of his Assault Mode armor to the ground as he skidded backwards. As he threw punches, Itachi's face twisted in agony as his broken arms ached with even the tiniest of movement. Regaining his footing, Itachi increased the firepower of his Assault Mode as the flames grew taller around him. Taking shape, the flames transformed into a giant fire avatar of Itachi himself. He was getting pushed, and with this many fighters he needed some way to cover himself from every angle. The giant fire avatar of Itachi created a flaming sword as it swung it smashing down.

The smackdown of the fire sword generated a powerful tremor, yet no explosion followed as it appeared as if the giant fire sword was getting repelled. Itachi widened his eyes, seeing Alex Teach standing underneath the fire sword. Alex had his left arm stretched behind him, and his right arm pointed downwards as he bended his knee down into some form of stance. The stance had generated a vortex bubble of air around Alex, generating some form of barrier.

It was an odd sensation, Itachi couldn't make the fire giant push down the blade as it was being repelled, but he couldn't pull it back either due to its pull. The flames moved in towards the vortex sphere, sucking the flames in and negating them.

The giant fire avatar was getting sucked in, the flames shrinking and fading. Itachi with a light grunt unleashed more firepower as his fire giant avatar burst out in a blazing display of power. Steam began emitting from the flames, as giant spinning water vortexes blast into the fire avatar from every corner. Georg the sub leader of the Hero Faction stood by safely on the sidelines, using his magical skills to unleash the giant water vortexes in an attempt to put out the fire giant.

His spirit unwavering, Itachi's fire avatar continued to burn brightly despite the intense wind and water attempting to snuff out his flame. Itachi let out a battle cry, as the fire giant split up into multiple gigantic spheres of fire that fired off in an omnidirectional offense covering every corner of Itachi. However, each of the giant fire spheres began shifting directions, and flew away into the misty fog of Dimension Lost.

Outside in the real world, multiple fire spheres emerged out of nothing and began attacking the Sins trying to protect Raven. As well as Rias and her group, and the peerage members of Sona, as well as Lin and Azazel. "These are… Captain Itachi's Fire Nova spheres?!" Bob recognized the attacks of their captain, and was bewildered why Itachi's attacks was attacking them. Even more, where they came from.

Back in Dimension Lost, Itachi looked with a perplexed look as to where his own attacks vanished into. "Unfortunately for you, Itachi Sitri. Dimension Lost allows me to block any attack I wish, and transport them anywhere I wish. By all means, unleash as many long-ranged spells as you want. I will just send them to bombard your friends and family outside." Georg revealed this to be the works of his Sacred Gear.

Itachi grunted lightly, mentally apologizing to his friends outside if they were caught up in his attack just now. "Very well, then I just won't use long-ranged attacks." Itachi said as if it was just that simple, going into a stance, Itachi held up the Leviathan blade. And both intense waves of fire and lightning emerged from his very being.

"Heh, won't matter anyway if you did~" Alex chuckled as his vortex began pulling Itachi in. The intense pull of the Nebula cleaver dragged Itachi towards it, the Sitri prince with a stoic look on his face dug his feet to the ground. "That face of yours really annoys me. Trying to act cool in your situation?!" Alex hissed, and Itachi's lips lightly twitched up into a smirk. Alex let out a war cry, and unleashed a series of attacks. His vortex unleashing a thousand slashes in the span of a single second. The slashes cut up Itachi's entire body, splitting off his arms and legs and torso.

"You fool! Don't look at him!" Cao Cao snapped at Alex who gasped as Itachi's body before him exploded into a murder of crows.

Alex gasped as a shadow appeared before him, with red Sharingan eyes staring directly into him. "For someone who isn't supposed to look into my eyes… You certainly were aware what kind of face I was making." Itachi's voice echoed pointing out Alex's faults. The pirate gasped as suddenly his torso was cut open, blood spraying out like a fountain as Itachi breached through his Nebula vortex and slashed Alex across the torso with the Leviathan blade. The sharp pain, snapped Alex out of the illusion Itachi initially placed on him.

Alex's vortex imploded, as he collapsed onto his knees spewing out blood. "Shit!" Alex cursed. In the heat of the moment, he had forgotten not to look Itachi in the eyes. And he was harshly reminded as to why.

"One down." Itachi stood behind Alex, and was ready to cut him down for good, not risking the Hero Faction recovering by giving Alex phoenix tears. However, Cao Cao blitzed Itachi and clashed his True Longinus spear against the Levithan Blade. The two unleashed rapid slashes of their weapons, that echoed in harmonic clangs as they clashed hard enough against each other to cause the dimension around them to tremble.

"Alex, you dumbass!" Jeanne scolded and handed Alex a bottle of phoenix tears. Just how many phoenix tears did they have?! Itachi mid fight with Cao Cao, was able to fire off an ice kunai that soared at Jeanne and pierced through her chest plated armor, and flew out right through the other side. "Ugh!" Jeanne coughed up blood as she was gored. "Bastard! Hitting a lady like that…" Jeanne brought forth a second phoenix tear bottle and chugged it down, healing up her wound.

"Who is the dumbass now? Letting her guard down." Alex lightly taunted now that he was healed as well.

"Shut up…" Jeanne groaned, annoyed at Alex's tone.

Itachi couldn't believe it, and quickly moved in for the kill against Cao Cao, however the Hero Faction leader was on a whole other level than the rest. Not getting caught up in any sneak attacks like the rest. Cao Cao's battle sense was in a different league from the other Hero Faction members. All just by looking at Itachi's feet, he was able to predict Itachi's movements, just by feeling the moist damp sensation in the air he could predict if there was a water attack, the sound of crackling lightning Cao Cao was able to react and move away from the raining thunder bolts, the heat sensation Cao Cao was able to predict his fire attacks. And the chilling sensation in the air, Cao Cao could predict the ice attacks. Cao Cao moved at godlike speed, blocking a series of ice made kunai knives flying his way, splitting a fire sphere in half, slash up the waves of water, catch the lightning and somehow redirect it.

Siegfried and Jeanne both charged at Itachi from behind, looking to join in on the intense clashes between Itachi and Cao Cao. Itachi groaned, as with his broken arms it was already difficult to keep up with Cao Cao. Biting down onto the handle of the Leviathan Blade, Itachi blocked and parried strikes from all three combatants, whilst also creating walls of water and fire to ward off any attack he didn't have time to counter. Itachi dealt a spin kick upside Siegfried's head, although the swordsman smirked as four extra dragon like arms emerged from his back holding off Itachi's kick and pushing him back.

Itachi skidded backwards, as all three rushed to continue their assault on him. Jeanne smirked as she thrusted her blade forward, creating a wave of holy swords that rushed at him like a tidal wave. Itachi dragged his foot sideways into the dirt, creating a giant wall of ice to hold off the holy swords. Siegfried moved in at Itachi from behind, wielding six swords in each of his hands.

The demonic sword Gram which Siegfried held in his dominant hand unleashed a destructive wave that had Itachi tumble backwards. And with the demonic sword Dainsleif, Siegfried created multiple ice pillar sized spikes from the ground to push Itachi further back. As Itachi fell back, the sound of rocket boosters reached his ears, as Heracles this time with his body covered in multiple missile-like objects. "Balance Breaker: Detonation – Mighty Comet!" Heracles' hands were covered by a pair of giant missiles acting like boxing gloves, that launched and fired off. The missiles clashed into Itachi's back and erupted in a violent explosion.

Itachi's body was burnt, he grunted as he leapt out from the explosion, only to be meet with a roaring mechanical-like dragon that smacked him down to the earth in a violent strike. Crashing like a meteorite, Itachi dug up a large part of the ground creating a crater. "Balance Breaker: Stake Victim Dragon." Jeanne stood atop the dragon's head, the dragon was made up out of holy swords, and thus the smack attack earlier from its claw, had slashed up Itachi's body really good.

Itachi began breathing heavily, the Levithan Blade still in his mouth, his body covered in burns and small bloodied cuts. More monsters emerged out from the shadows, as Leonardo used his Annihilation Maker to make a whole army of demonic beasts. "Ready to forfeit your life?" Siegfried asked, as he was armed with five Demonic Swords, and one sword of light.

"Nah, not yet, right?" Alex smirked as he tapped the Nebula Cleaver on his shoulder. "Make this a bit more entertaining, right?" Whilst Georg stood at the ready with various types of magic circles to unleash a bombardment onto Itachi.

"I have to agree with Alex here." Cao Cao smirked as he stood at the front of everyone before Itachi. "I haven't even gotten the chance to use my Balance Breaker yet~"

Itachi shakingly lifted his broken hand, and grabbed ahold of the Leviathan Blade. It was painful to move, but Itachi kept on going. "…" Wordlessly and with a sigh, Itachi's body exploded with a chilling cold energy. "Touki: Frost Demon Mode…" Cladded in ice like armor, with an ice crown on his head, Itachi covered the entire surrounding dimension lost in ice.

Georg was visibly shocked, feeling his Dimension Lost was nearly encased entirely in ice. "Ugh!" Putting his full mental focus in maintaining his Dimension Lost, Georg put down his magic circles. 'He nearly broke Dimension Lost just by entering that form!' Georg revealed, shivering and trembling both from this intense cold air and a sensation fear.

"Ice Cavalry…" Using a technique from Esdeath herself, Itachi created an army of giant ice knight warriors surrounding him. The Hero Faction members stumbled back in shock, as the numbers had turned on them, they were now outnumbered, seven to a seven hundred.

All the Hero Faction looked uncertain for a brief moment. Leonardo quickly created more demonic monsters to try and match Itachi's number of ice knights. But the young hero, was only able to make a hundred. Jeanne stood atop her roaring holy sword made dragon. Heracles armed himself with many more missiles. Siegfried went into a battle stance with all six of his swords. Georg armed himself with a wall of various magic circle types. Alex went into a stance, and unleashed his own Balance Breaker intense slashes of wind erupting around him as he formed a giant bubble barrier around himself of those slashes creating a small nebula that was condensing the space around him to a singular point. "Balance Breaker: Dark Nebula!"

Cao Cao himself looked carefree unlike his companions and chuckled. "Now we're talking…" The True Longinus spear glowed in Cao Cao's hand. The light glowing surrounded Cao Cao, forming a giant halo of light behind him, and seven identical black orbs floating around the halo. "Balance Breaker: Polar Night Longinus Chakravartin."

Itachi had a light sweat run down his forehead, feeling the intense pressure from all the collective Sacred Gears before him. Especially Cao Cao, this was really going to be troublesome. Then instantly, Cao Cao vanished from sight and appeared in the center of Itachi's ice warriors, cutting dozens of them down instantly with his spear. Itachi quickly turned as he felt killer intent washing over him, Cao Cao instantly appearing like if he was teleporting around, he moved like the Yellow Flash Minato Namikaze.

Itachi could hardly react as he used the Leviathan Blade to hold off a few strikes, before one finally breached his defenses and pierced Itachi square in the shoulder. 'He is teleporting, just like Lord Fourth used to, no he might actually be faster! Even my Sharingan cannot react to it at all!" Itachi desperately tried to ward off the intense strikes, putting up walls of ice to shield himself, and expand on his armor. Yet a single slash from the spear, cut through the ice armor like nothing.

Cao Cao then began rushing around Itachi, and this time Itachi could tell it wasn't teleporting as he could actually keep up with his Sharingan. Itachi using his maximum speed, soared after Cao Cao, both moving like flashes of light as they soared around at light speed. Itachi can only gap in shock, as Cao Cao seems to move beyond light speed. 'The light element of that spear… is without a doubt the source of his speed.' Itachi narrowed his gaze at the glowing True Longinus spear, which seemed to allow Cao Cao to move at light speed and even a bit beyond. But compared to The Storm Shinto God Susano'o, he was still very slow, Itachi thought as he recalled the God's speed.

Itachi let out a deep sigh, as he froze the entire ground beneath them, causing Cao Cao to slip and lose balance. The entire ice encased ground shattered as Cao Cao stomped his foot down, going at such speed generated intense shockwaves. Itachi rushed at Cao Cao and slashed his Leviathan Blade at him, unleashing a wave of thunder that burnt into Cao Cao's skin. "Shit!" Cao Cao grunted, and brought forth a bottle of Pheonix tears. Itachi threw the Leviathan Blade, aiming to shatter the bottle, but Cao Cao quickly teleported before the blade that moved at light speed could hit.

Itachi turns around, seeing Cao Cao pour the Pheonix tears onto his burnt body, that began to heal. Cao Cao looked a bit astonished. Itachi had brought him into a corner there for a moment, had he been a nanosecond slower he would have been dead by now.

"Assaratana!" One of the black spheres around Cao Cao glowed, as Siegfried was teleported in by Cao Cao.

'He can teleport others as well?!' Itachi widened his eyes in shock. Siegfried was well coordinated with Cao Cao, showing they had clearly practiced this combo several times. Cao Cao teleported behind Itachi and slashed the True Longinus across Itachi's back. Cao Cao was aiming to torture Itachi through this fight. Cao Cao looked at Jeanne and teleported her and her dragon before Itachi, the dragon threatening to squash Itachi underneath its foot. Itachi barely dodged and took a giant leap away, but Cao Cao teleported right in front of him, Itachi blocked the next strike from the True Longinus with his Leviathan Blade. 'He teleports towards anywhere in his line of sight! And others within his line of sight closer to him! I see! He can probably even teleport me to him, should I try and escape!'

Itachi clashed his Levithan Blade against the tip of the True Longinus, staring down Cao Cao who constantly looked at Itachi's feet to avoid eye contact. "Cakkaratana!" Another one of Cao Cao's black spheres glowed, and suddenly a surge of energy rushed through the True Longinus and into the Leviathan Blade it was clashing with.

Itachi lightly gasped, as a cobweb of cracks erupted around his Leviathan Blade, as Cao Cao used his Balance Breaker ability to break Itachi's weapon, even though it was a Divine Weapon it still broke. The cracks unleashed bright flashes of light, and Itachi groaned as the light from his broken blade turned into a massive shockwave of energy that launched Itachi backwards.

Itachi skidded backwards, and crashed through an entire mountain that came crumbling down. Regaining his footing as he watched the collapsing mountain, Itachi looked to his Leviathan blade seeing it covered in cracks. Unable to use it, Itachi sheeted the blade.

Cao Cao teleported himself before Itachi and gave a taunting chuckled. "Disarmed of your weapon, and your arms are already fucked up. You certainly have it rough~" Itachi grunted at Cao Cao, as he summoned forth more giant ice warriors to clash with Cao Cao.

Meanwhile, Jeanne with her dragon unleashed a breath attack of holy energy mowing down several ice knight giants. Whilst Heracles had the time of his life, laughing as he unleashed a bombardment of missiles and punched his way through the giant ice warriors creating a lot of explosions. Leonardo's monsters were on the defensive, trying to hold back the ice warriors and preventing them from reaching him and Georg. Georg was unleashing various types of fire spells to melt the ice giants, as well as thunder blasts and Norse magic to shatter them to pieces. Alex was using his nebula to suck in the ice giants, and tear them to pieces with the intense slashes of wind from his cleaver.

Cao Cao whilst fighting off the ice giants, and Itachi as the Sitri prince jumped in dealing a series of kicks to Cao Cao's torso, whilst the ice giants smacked their blades down upon him. Cao Cao just teleported around, and blasted through various of the ice giants with an energy wave from his spear.

Itachi keeps a close eye on Cao Cao, seeing the Hero was beginning to sweat. Without a doubt, the constant teleporting was putting a strain on his body. Seeing an opening Itachi rushed in with a blade of ice from Cao Cao's blindside. Cao Cao mowed down the last of the ice giants, and turned around just in time to be slashed across his torso by Itachi. Cao Cao grunted, and looked behind him and teleported himself away.

Itachi clicked his tongue and quickly followed after Cao Cao. Cao Cao appeared in the center of the battlefield where his team was. "Georg!" Cao Cao called out to his sub-leader, clutching onto his gashing slash wound. Georg without a moment of hesitation went to his leader, and handed him a bottle of Pheonix tears.

Itachi arrived just in time to see Cao Cao get healed from the Pheonix tears. Looking at Georg who had several in his coat it would seem. 'Such an abundance of Pheonix tears… even for the black market it is ridiculous.' There had been several times Itachi had dealt lethal injuries, and could have killed some of the Hero Faction members multiple times, but then they had healed themselves with Pheonix tears. This abundance of the tears, led Itachi to a single conclusion. "Someone in the Phenex family… is a supporter of the Old Maou Faction and Khaos Brigade and acts as a supplier.' Itachi was certain in his conclusion, there was no other explanation. Itachi knew it had to be someone powerful and influential in the Phenex family to pull off something like this. In his mind, Itachi thought of Lord and Lady Phenex, and their daughter Ravel and their three sons Raiser, Raul and Ruval Phenex. All possible suspects. Even though Itachi thought he could exclude Ravel and possibly Raiser as suspects, as Raiser has appeared to have changed somewhat, and Ravel didn't seem like the type.

Cao Cao gazed up on Itachi, who was flying over them. Cao Cao pointed his spear, expecting an energy blast Itachi was instead met with the spear itself as it extended. Itachi tilted his head to the side, some of his black hair getting cut from the extending spear. It reached far beyond the clouds of this dimension. Cao Cao must be trying to conserve as much energy as possible. "Get down here! Devil!" Cao Cao swung the extended spear around, trying to swat Itachi down like a fly.

'I am running on fumes here myself! I only have one shot at finishing this!' Itachi deduced a quick attack plan, as he flew straight down at light speed to confront all of the Hero Faction collectively. His ice army gone and dealt with. Itachi once again stood alone. Itachi started by kicking Heracles square in the chin as Heracles was the first to try and respond to Itachi's attack.

Itachi eyed the surrounding Hero Faction members, and swiftly ducked from a slash attack from Alex's Nebula Cleaver, Itachi swung his body in closer and elbowed Alex in the gut. Alex's face twisted with pain, as he felt a couple of ribs breaking and stabbing into his lungs.

Jeanne with her dragon moved in, trying to crush Itachi with a mighty swing of its claw. Itachi however backflipped and landed onto the wrist of the dragon, running up towards Jeanne as the Dragon's body turned into spikes of holy sword. Itachi jumped at Jeanne grabbed onto her face he dragged her off the dragon, and body slammed her to the ground.

Siegfried was next, who stood before an armada of Demonic monsters made by the Annihilation maker, protecting Georg and Leonardo. Itachi rushed forward, and jumped onto Siegfried, planting his boot into the Hero's face. Siegfried grunted as his dragon arms with their Demonic swords moved in to slash Itachi. Itachi used Siegfried's face as a springboard to jump forward and into the army of monsters. Itachi rushed at full speed through the army, sending them flying as he clashed with them at super speed.

Monsters were flung into the air out from the barricade, as Leonardo and Georg could only stare in amazement as Itachi singlehandedly rushed through the army like a freight train. "His goal is to bring down Dimension Lost, we have to stop him!" Georg deduced that he was Itachi's end goal here, bring down Dimension Lost so he could bring in the Sins to back him up.

Cao Cao teleports himself to confront Itachi amidst this army of monsters. Cao Cao looks in shock, as all he sees is Itachi armed with an ice kunai in his mouth. Hacking and slashing open the jugulars of the demonic monsters. Moving like no one he had ever seen before. Cao Cao was amazed at how flexible and quick Itachi was moving. Each movement carried a purpose, as Itachi went straight for the kill. Itachi kicked a monster flinging him straight at Cao Cao, and Cao Cao without hesitation cut it down right down the middle.

Cao Cao gasped as he saw Itachi on the other end of the cut down monster, mentally cursing himself for meeting Itachi's gaze. Cao Cao wasn't put under an illusion however, instead Itachi rammed the ice kunai he held in his mouth, straight into Cao Cao's right eye. Cao Cao groaned in pain, as Itachi gouged out Cao Cao's entire eyeball out from his socket. "Argh!" Cao Cao fell onto one knee, holding his hand over his bleeding empty eye socket. Cao Cao's vision was vibrating and unsteady, as he only had one eye left.

Itachi continued to run towards Georg and Leonardo, his goal was clear and his determination and sheer willpower had him ignore the pain his abused body had taken today. Itachi first went for Leonardo, kicking the young short man across his cheek, and sending him falling to the ground. Itachi then moved for the sub-leader, Georg. "N-No! Stay away!" Georg panicked and unleashed a bombardment of various attack spells.

Itachi didn't care, and ran straight through the bombardment, his body getting burnt, cut, frozen, scared, he did not care and rushed to the goal. Georg closed his eyes shut, and was quickly met with a knee strike to his abdomen. Itachi moved around and elbowed Georg at the back of his neck. Forcing Georg's eyes open, Itachi moved in to meet his gaze. But was quickly thwarted as Cao Cao unleashed a blast wave, that launched Itachi away from Georg.

"Nice try…" The one-eyed Cao Cao hissed as he stood with the other Hero Faction members. Even with Pheonix tears, Cao Cao could not recover his lost eye. Cao Cao blasted Itachi again, as he thrusted the True Longinus forward, and fully devoured Itachi within the blast wave.

Itachi looked with a widened gaze, gritting his teeth in pain, as his skin was further burnt and cut. The intense blast wave generated a powerful explosion that covered the area in black smoke.

On the outside world, Raven's eyes snapped open. "I found them!" She announced to her fellow surrounding Sins. Bob, Damian, Eto and Jack looked as Raven opened up a small rift. This was all she could manage without fearing being detected by Georg.

All they saw, was the seven main Hero Faction members standing before a burning black cloud of smoke. "Where is mommy?!" Jack in a panic searched around with her eyes through the rift.

"He is there… I feel his presence." Raven revealed, and with a distraught look on her face as she gazed into the burning cloud of smoke.

Once the cloud cleared, it revealed Itachi, standing at the center looking up into the sky with a tired look on his face. His entire body burnt, cut and bloodied. "Captain!" Damian and Bob collectively gasped in disbelief.

"Mommy…" A teary eyes Jack stared in disbelief.

"Damn…" Eto herself looked with a shocked expression.

Cao Cao smirked and looked at the standing Itachi. "You are a tough one. Take some pride in that, you are the toughest challenge we have ever had. As you die, take my words of respect to whatever awaits you on the other side."

Itachi doesn't come with a retort or a comment, he just smirks and all the Hero Faction members look in disbelief. Itachi bends his knee and swings his arm far back as he generates a blue magic circle. Matching blue magic circles appeared on each of the Hero Faction members. For Cao Cao, it appeared on his right eye socket, Jeanne and Siegfried on the face. Heracles on the chin. Leonardo on the cheek. Alex on the gut. On Georg in his abdomen and also the back of his neck. Everywhere Itachi had hit them earlier lit up with a blue magic circle.

Water began pouring out from the magic circles placed on the Hero Faction members, encasing them in a water bubble. "Water Prison!" All the Hero Faction members were immobilized.

"I can't move!" Heracles looked in shock.

"What is with this water?!" Alex poked his cleaver around, but unable to breach through the water prison.

Itachi's hand then unleashed a chilling cold sensation, as flakes of snow began raining down around him. Raven realized quickly what Itachi was doing. "He's got them… he is going to trap them with his Subzero Ice Prison spell."

"No way, he beat them all just like that?" Bob looked amazed as he, Jack and Damian broke out into a fit of laughter.

"That is our captain for ya!" Damian chuckled.

Itachi took a leap and began spinning his body around, and the chilling sensation reached the trapped Hero Faction members as the water prison began looking frozen. "You bastard! Are we going to lose to some mere Devil noble?!" Siegfried snarled.

"This is bad guys! Somebody, do something!" Jeanne shouted in panic.

"Ugh!" Leonardo couldn't even summon monsters in this situation, they really were trapped.

"Shit! I can't even create magic circles to teleport us out of here!" Georg as well began to panic.

Itachi made one final spin, and directed his broken and busted arm towards the trapped Hero Faction members. "Subzero: Ice Prison!" The Hero Faction all gazed with widened eyes, as suddenly the water around them froze into giant balls of ice.

"Mommy won!" Jack cheered from the outside world.

"No, wait…" Raven looked with a perplexed expression, if he had won, why was Itachi still on guard?

Itachi quickly turned around, and dodged a thrust strike from Cao Cao's True Longinus. "Heh, you knew I would teleport out of that, huh?" Cao Cao smirked.

Itachi had counted on the fact that Cao Cao would teleport himself, and possibly Georg as well out from the Ice Prison trap. Itachi had after all learnt that Cao Cao possessed the ability to transport himself, and others in his line of sight. Itachi had merely performed the Ice Prison to trap at least the other five members, and kill them. Itachi clenched his fist, and the seven frozen ice balls shattered into a thousand pieces crushing whoever was inside of them.

Itachi found himself getting bombarded with a series of spells from Georg. Like Itachi had thought, Cao Cao had saved his sub-leader with the most valuable Sacred Gear. Itachi was then met with the heavy fist of Heracles to the face, and an explosion erupted that sent Itachi rolling onto the ground and falling onto his back.

Itachi gasped as he saw all seven main Hero Faction members, still alive and standing with Cao Cao. "Sadly, I teleported everyone out from those water bubbles before you could encase us in ice." Cao Cao revealed with a smirk on his face. Itachi had counted on Cao Cao and Georg escaping, and it would have thus been easier to place Georg in a genjutsu to break Dimension Lost with only Cao Cao to support Georg. But now, with all seven, Itachi knew he stood no chance of winning.

"Quite the plan you made. You didn't want to waste energy putting me in an illusion. But you needed to incapacitate my field of vision, to prevent me from teleporting as many as possible from that Ice Prison move of yours." Cao Cao brushed his hand against his empty eye socket, and chuckled. "You are quite the cunning bastard. Unfortunately for you, I can also manage to teleport myself and everyone within a certain range around me. It does consume more energy than normal though… but I figured it would be worth the effort this time around."

Itachi was about to stand back up, but found himself pinned down as Siegfried stepped onto his chest. "Oi, Cao Cao… Let me be the one to finish him off."

"You? Why?" Cao Cao questioned his loyal subordinate.

"I just want to. Don't worry, when they retell the tale of this legend. I will make sure to let them know, it would have been impossible for me to slay Itachi Sitri, without you." Siegfried declared as he pointed the Demonic Sword Gram over Itachi's heart.

"Domain Expansion!" Raven quickly used Domain Expansion, bringing herself, Jack, Bob, Damian and Eto closer to where in the Dimensional Gap, Dimension Lost was located. Creating a small pocket dimension right next to it, Raven's eyes glow bright yellow as she uses fire to carve open a hole into the Dimension Lost. "That is all… I can manage… without getting discovered."

"Well, I can't fit through there." Bob pointed out, as the hole was rather small, he would be lucky to fit his fist into it.

"Me neither." Damian added, and the same applied for Eto.

"I know, I was thinking of Jack here…" Raven looked to Jack, the young assassin gave a quick nod.

"For mommy, I will do anything." Jack was barely small enough to fit through, but she needed to make some adjustments. Dislocating her own limbs, Jack slithered through the hole and fell into the mist of Dimension Lost.

"Raven, sending Jack in alone is a bit-" Damian was concerned and wanted to desperately follow the assassin.

"I know… but there is nothing else we can do. This way, Itachi will at least have some backup." Raven begrudgingly had to accept this fact. The only way she herself could enter Dimension Lost, requires Raven to use the power of her father, the side of her Trigon has influence over. But by doing that, Raven would only cause more harm than good. It was bitter pill to swallow, but it was the truth. This was all they could do for Itachi in this moment.

Jack within the foggy mist, looked with red eyes as she relocated her dislocated limbs. Cracking her neck, she let out a small sigh of relief from the discomfort of having her limbs dislocated. "Presence Concealment: Murder on a Misty Night."

Jack eyes glowed, as she moved without making a single sound, walking straight past the other Hero Faction members without even being detected by them. "But Jack is the only one that can save Itachi now. Her concealment skills enable her to remain unseen by anyone, until she has made the first strike." Raven commended the little assassin. Jack's concealment skills were beyond amazing.

Jack moved towards Siegfried, standing on her hands, Jack wrapped her legs around Siegfried's torso like a snake, and lifted her upper body up. Jack was still undetectable to the Hero Faction, Siegfried and Itachi himself. Jack summons forth two daggers. "This is the end, Itachi Sitri." Siegfried taunted, although was disrupted from saying anything else as two daggers stabbed into his neck.

The other Hero Faction members gasped as they finally noticed Jack. Siegfried in particular looked in shock as he gazed back at Jack. "Y-You!" Blood pouring out from Siegfried's mouth.

"Shut up." Jack coldly retorted and stabbed Siegfried once again in the shoulders, and his four Dragon arms incapacitating all of Siegfried's blades. Jack jumped down from Siegfried, and kicked the hero in the chest knocking him off of Itachi.

"How did she?!" Georg turned around and noticed the rift. "Dammit! They snuck in!" Georg noticing Raven's interference uses Dimension Lost to toss Raven and her pocket dimension away. This forced Raven, Bob, Eto and Damian back to the outside world.

"He negated my Domain Expansion?" Raven gasped in shock. Dimension Lost was truly a broken bug in God's system. And now, Itachi and Jack were trapped in Dimension Lost with the Hero Faction.

With Raven's interference having been thwarted, Georg let out a frustrated groan that he had allowed that witch to slip into his domain unnoticed and send this little assassin. Expecting to be scolded, Georg was instead shocked as he heard Cao Cao chuckle. "Man, you sure got done in, Siegfried." Cao Cao didn't even pay any attention to the sub-leader. He was busy looking at the injured Siegfried. With blades lodged down into his shoulders.

"T-That sneaky runt!" Siegfried coughed violently, spraying out a puddle of red blood. He had so looked forward for Itachi to taste death at the end of his blade, and Jack had to interfere. Siegfried plucked out the blades in his shoulders, letting out pained groans and gasps as he did. Reaching into his coat, Siegfried pulled out a bottle of phoenix tears. They still had more after all that, as Itachi thought they must have a supplier within the Phenex family.

"Mommy, can you stand?" Jack pulls Itachi by his sleeve, but her tiny body was unable to pull up his full weight. Itachi smiled as he stood up.

"Yeah, thank you Jack…" Itachi lightly flinched. His arms were still heavily busted up from the continuing beatings from Heracles.

"Yosh, mommy just sit back and watch… I will-" Before Jack had a chance to turn around, Cao Cao had already blitzed her and aimed his True Longinus to pierce her skull.

Itachi in quick panic for his servant's safety, pushed little Jack out of the way and as such found the True Longinus spear plunge itself into his stomach. Itachi's face became twisted in agony, as Cao Cao stabbed the True Longinus into Itachi. The same spear that stabbed Jesus Christ himself, was now stained with Itachi's blood.

"I-Itachi…" Jack gasped, her face filled with horror as she watched Cao Cao push the spear further in, as blood emerged out from Itachi's mouth as a result of internal damage and bleeding. "Why did you?" Jack trembled.

Itachi breaths heavily, and shakingly looks to Jack. "I couldn't let you get hurt… You, like all the sins… are my responsibility." Itachi weakly smiled with his bloodied teeth. Besides, if Jack got stabbed by this spear it would be an instant death for her. But, with all the weird things that happened during his battle with Loki, with him being even able to wield Divine Weapons despite being a devil. It was a small chance, but even so compared to Jack, Itachi at least had odds to survive. Deciding to take the gamble, instead of sacrificing his peerage member, Itachi took the hit.

"Heh, as expected." Cao Cao smirked. He had expected that Itachi would take the hit for his servant. Cao Cao with a sadistic grin on his face began twisting the spear within Itachi causing Itachi to groan in pain.

Jack looked with wide eyes tears leaking out from her eyes as she snapped. "Bastard!" Jack jumped at Cao Cao, blades forming out of thin air around her as she was out for blood.

One of Cao Cao's black spheres glowed, as he used the power of his Balance Breaker. "Itthiratana." The sphere glowed, and Jack found her heart rate increasing, her blades vanished as quickly as they appeared and her power was fading. "Too bad, one of the abilities of my Balance Breaker, allows me to cancel out the special ability in women for a short amount of time. You really would have had better luck sending in a man for this." Cao Cao booted Jack in the chest, launching her far back. "Now then… Where were we?" Cao Cao leaned his face in closer to Itachi's with a smirk on his face.

Itachi grunted and headbutted Cao Cao, causing him to recoil back in shock. First Itachi had taken his eye, now he had broken Cao Cao's nose. Itachi's black eyes glared back into Cao Cao's remaining eye. "Ugh!" Itachi groaned as he began pulling the spear out. Cao Cao noticed, and quickly put some force into his grip and twisted the spear some more within Itachi's stomach. The spear began taking some of Itachi's blood.

'It burns! Maybe I am dead after all…!' Itachi couldn't help but consider that his gamble had failed, this was the holiest weapon, and the mightiest Sacred Gear in existence after all. 'I… I have failed!' In this moment, all Itachi could think of were those he had failed, and left at the mercy of the Hero Faction.

Mentally, he was getting images of everyone dying as a result of his defeat. Itachi saw the very spear that was plunged into him, decapitate his friends, pierce Rias through the heart, cut Akeno down in half, Kuroka getting the spear plunged through her skull. 'No!' Itachi internally screamed as the images of his friends and family dying, continued to pop into his head. The only way Itachi could describe this feeling, was as if someone was forcing him to live through the deaths of everyone. Almost like he was seeing another reality.

From the cliff in the outside world, the Unseen One stands with his hand reached out and eyes closed. "Things aren't going according to plan… I didn't expect such a resistance from the Hero Faction. Without a doubt, the Hero Faction's attack must be the work of either Indra or perhaps even Odin. Guess I have to indirectly lend you a hand…" The Unseen One was the one filling Itachi's head with all these images, but for what purpose?

Itachi groaned as he saw the laughing Cao Cao, with Sona's head stabbed onto his True Longinus with a look of pain and sadness on her face. "NO!" Itachi screamed out as with all his strength he pulled out the True Longinus from his stomach, blood leaked out like a fountain.

Cao Cao looks in disbelief, as he saw blood run down Itachi's eyes. Itachi's Sharingan was beginning to bend, twist itself into the shape of a black pinwheel. Itachi let out a war cry, and as he did black flames erupted all around them, representing the burning pain Itachi was feeling in his heart. The Hero Faction looked in panic, as Georg utilized every water spell he knew, and Alex was using his Nebula vortex put to no avail. Everything they were throwing at the black fire, only seemed to increase its power.

"These flames…" Georg looked in disbelief, as it was even burning the mist of his Dimension Lost, it was burning all around the edges of his domain. "I-Impossible… he is burning away Dimension Lost?!"

"Oh no you don't!" Cao Cao jumped back head first to Itachi, and stabbed the spear once again into his gut. Itachi held onto the spear, preventing it from going too far as he glared at Cao Cao with an animalistic look on his face. For a brief moment, Cao Cao experienced the cold sweat of fear running down his back.

"Yes, good Itachi… very good." The Unseen One chuckled as he saw Itachi use the flames of Amaterasu to burn away Dimension Lost entirely. With slight help from the Unseen One, Itachi had burnt away an entire parallel reality to that of his own. As Itachi, Jack and the Hero Faction main members all began coming to view in the outside world, surrounded by black fire. Everyone gasped, and looked with a look of disbelief at what they were seeing. Itachi stabbed by the True Longinus.

As the black flames of Amaterasu burnt away Dimension Lost, the echoing pained screams of Itachi vibrated through the air. Blood pouring out from Itachi's eyes as he grinded his teeth, pushing out the True Longinus spear from his gut. With all his remaining strength, Itachi had pushed out the spear head of the True Longinus, his blood seeping into the metal of the spear, as if it absorbed it. Itachi backed up a few steps, breathing very heavily, his morphed Sharingan appearing to still be changing its shape, but before it can do so, Itachi closes his eyes and is about to collapse from exhaustion.

At the same time, a magic circle appeared and Sona, Tsubaki and Ruruko emerged just in time to see the aftermath. Sona looked to the side, and her eyes widened as she saw her brother collapsing onto his back with a bloodied stab wound in his gut. Sona stared in bewilderment, unable at the moment to fully process what she was seeing. All the way until Itachi landed on his back in an echoing thud.

"Onii-sama!" And "Itachi!" The blood curling screams of Sona, Rias, Akeno, Kuroka and many others screamed in horror at seeing the one they all revered as the mighty Itachi fall. Sona in that moment, just as Itachi had done for her when Loki nearly killed her, Sona saw red. Drawing her rapier sword, Sona let out a blood chilling cry of anger and agony as she jumped at the first enemy to reach her line of sight.

"N-No way… Itachi-senpai, lost?" Issei mumbled in disbelief. This was the same guy who had beaten a God not long ago. Issei and Saji's moment of disbelief, was enough for Connla to escape and abandon their current fight.

Cao Cao looked at her with an overconfident smirk, even as Sona was about to attack him with a water snake dragon. Although, Connla jumped in to protect his master, and formed a barrier of darkness that absorbed Sona's attack. Sona hissed in Connla's face, and slashed her rapier sword through Connla's darkness wall. Connla quickly redirected Sona's attention as several others of Alex's crew joined in on the fight.

"Tch!" Tsubaki quickly joined her master in combat, beginning to cut down various of Alex's crew with her naginata.

Ruruko however, had also noticed a certain companion that was petrified in stone. "Tsubasa! Tomoe!" Ruruko saw their team's Rook Tsubasa petrified into a stone statue, with Tomoe relentlessly defending the petrified Tsubasa against an army of Sacred Gear wielders. Ruruko kicked the back of a Sacred Gear wielder's head, and quickly joined in defending her statue comrade.

Floating in the middle of the air, standing on a cloud, hundreds of miles away from the battle watching everything. Was another entity outside of the Unseen One watching the battle unfold. A short old man who was roughly a meter tall. Covered in golden monkey fur, wearing a monk's cassock, a wrinkled and creased face and black skin. Wearing prayer beads around his neck, and a golden headband around his forehead. This short little monkey of a man, was the great Sun Wukong. The first Monkey King, known as the Great Victorious Fighting Buddha and the Great Sage Equaling Heaven. Considered a Buddha, and thus a God. "Mmm, quite the problematic situation here… Yasaka is on a rampage. And it seems the young Sitri heir has met his end. Now then, how shall things unfold?" Sun Wukong, one of the Top 20 strongest beings in the world, continued to observe the situation.

With Dimension Lost taken down. Cao Cao stood over the unconscious Itachi, noticing the Sitri heir was still breathing. "… Let me end your suffering." A bit puzzled that Itachi was still breathing, despite having been stabbed by the True Longinus. Cao Cao placed his boot onto Itachi's stomach to pin him down, and held the tip of the True Longinus aimed over Itachi's heart. Cao Cao aimed to stab Itachi a second time, but before he could plunge his spear through Itachi's heart, a firm strong hand grabbed onto his wrist stopping him.

The bewildered Cao Cao looked to the one who grabbed his wrist, the frowning angered old face of Behemoth snarled back at him, Behemoth's furious gaze falling onto Cao Cao's muddy boot on Itachi's stomach. "Get your filthy boot off my student." Behemoth let out a beastly grunt as he punched Cao Cao square in his jawline, launching the Hero Faction leader far back.

Cao Cao skidded backwards, as he clashed into the back of Georg. The sub-leader of the Hero Faction supporting up his leader, as they both collectively stared at the raging Behemoth. The old frail man grew into monstrous size, and took on the features of a lion, brown fur like a grizzly bear, wings like a raven, talons of an eagle, eyes of a feline to see in the dark, a tail made off a living cobra snake. "I will tear you all apart!" Behemoth snarled.

"Heh, an old relic against all of us?" Cao Cao snickered as coming to his and Georg's side, were Alex, Jeanne, Heracles, Leonardo and Siegfried.

"No, you bunch of wannabe heroes… against a group of angry sinners!" Harry stepped up next to Behemoth, followed by Bob, Damian, Kuroka, Raven, Eto and Jack. All the Seven Sins shared a look of ferocious anger.

"Heh, the servants of the Devil we killed? Some of you should be thanking us, you know. By killing your master, some of you can return to being humans again." Alex snickered looking at Harry, Bob and Damian exclusively.

"Indeed, with your master dead, you should bow in gratitude!" Heracles and the Hero Faction collectively laughed as they basked in their victory.

"Any Devil will meet their end facing Cao Cao's Sacred Gear!" Jeanne added, as these so-called "heroes" continued to bask in their victory over Itachi.

Kuroka snarled like a feral feline, her fangs showing. Bob looked at the Hero Faction with veins bulging around his face. Damian had gone full on killer mode, and was emitting as a strong sense of killer intent. Raven was lightly quacking, trying to suppress her anger as she felt Itachi was still alive. Yet despite suppressing her anger, Raven's telekinetic powers were acting up tearing up the whole area. Eto looked with a death glare, as tentacles of her Kakuja snared itself around her body. Harry's body was set ablaze by his Sacred Gear, his anger causing his Sacred Gear to burst with blazing fury. "You claim to have killed Itachi? That boy isn't so weak, that he would be killed by that tooth pick you call a Longinus." Harry's sheer pride in himself, and most of all his comrades and Itachi for his resilience in facing all the Hero Faction main members by himself, fueled the old man with great power.

Jack on the other hand, was done silently quacking in anger. Hearing the Hero Faction bask in their victory had pissed her off. The young assassin suddenly unleashed a thick dark black fog around her. The black fog surrounded Jack, and her tiny frail body. The young assassin snarled, as she gazed up with glowing red eyes.

Cao Cao and the Hero Faction flinched, as they sensed the intense sensation of bloodlust and pure pressure emerging from young Jack. A long shadow of what appears to be a man, is cast over them menacingly. Cao Cao with his remaining eye, looks in shock at Jack. The black mist surrounding her as she steps closer to the Hero Faction, and the Sins look just as flabbergasted at seeing Jack like this for the first time ever.

Ghostly echoes of what sounded like thousands upon thousands of children could be heard singing, yet Jack's mouth is unmoving. From the black foggy mist, ghostly apparitions of ten thousand tortured souls of children can be seen surrounding Jack. "London bridge is falling down~ Falling down~ falling down~ falling down~ London bridge is falling down~ My fair lady~" The ghostly child apparitions all sing in perfect harmony, as Jack chillingly walks closer to the Hero Faction members. Jack runs her hands through the thick black mist of ghosts, and drags out blue blades decorated with ghostly face like apparitions.

"Jack…" Damian tried reaching out for the assassin, but Harry put his arm before Damian preventing him from doing so. Harry sensed it, if anyone approached Jack now, friend or foe, she would aim to kill all indiscriminately.

Jack squatted down a bit, preparing to take a leap. Looking with a stoic wide-eyed expression, Jack suddenly twisted her head down to the side a bit until one heard a snap. Jack then in a flash jumped at the Hero Faction, aiming for Cao Cao who was upfront. Jack was face to face with the Hero Faction leader, her blade ready to run into Cao Cao's remaining eye. The demonic sword, Gram however clashed with Jack's blade, as Siegfried jumped between her and Cao Cao.

"Worry not, Cao Cao… I shall deal with this rampaging runt." Siegfried spoke with confidence, as the dragon arms emerged out from his back. Jack stoically began spinning her body around, clashing her blades ferociously against the many swords of Siegfried. Sparks flew from the clashing metal as Jack pushed on, causing Siegfried to fall back a bit.

"Well… time for some devil hunting." Cao Cao smirked as the Sins and the Hero Faction members rushed at each other. Cao Cao clashed his True Longinus with Harry's Flame Sword of Pride. Bob took a giant leap at Alex, slamming the head of the Mjolnir replica down onto his former friend. Alex smirked and generated a barrier between the hammer and himself, causing crackling thunder to explode around them.

Raven took flight and lifted up giant boulders and pieces of the ground with her powers, and fired them off like cannons at Georg. The master magician countering with a barrage fire of flame spells to burn the boulders into smoldering pieces. Eto in her Kakuja form slithered across the ground, and aimed to strike down the shortest Hero Faction member Leonardo. The young hero lifted his arm, generating an army of monsters to clash with Eto. Kuroka jumped at Jeanne, her hands cloaked in blue fire, as she clashed with Jeanne's sword. Heracles laughed as he jumped at Damian, the former bounty hunter easily avoiding the heavy strike of the hero. Damian generated a wave of strings to entrap himself in a barrier with Heracles.

"Ho? Close quarter combat, I like your style old man." Heracles smirked at Damian.

"Bring it you brat… I will beat your cowardly ass into the ground." Damian took a martial arts stance, as he readied to fight off the explosive strength of Heracles.

"Everyone!" Harry roared as he added his full body weight into his push with the Flame Sword of Pride. Causing the ground beneath Cao Cao to sink into a crater as Harry pushed him down. "For Itachi! Let's kick their asses!"

"Yeah!" All the Sins with equal enthusiasm unleashed a battle cry as they clashed with the main members of the Hero Faction.

Behemoth stood there slightly baffled, as he saw the Sins fight for their master. Seeing them guarding their master, when he honestly had half expected some of them to jump at the chance to be free from servitude. Especially the likes of Eto. But even the former terrorist leader, was fighting to protect Itachi. Behemoth looked behind him, seeing the unconscious form his beloved student, and the words of Itachi echoing through his mind from earlier today. "Try and keep an open mind. I greatly value all of them, and consider them members of our family now. Please, sensei, for me just try." The words of Itachi defending his peerage members from the harsh criticism of Behemoth himself. Perhaps, Behemoth had been too judgmental of the Sins? Regardless of their background and character, they all valiantly supported and valued Itachi as their master.

Behemoth smirked, and jumped in to the battle clasping his hands together as he noticed the surrounding town of Kyoto about to fall victim to their battle. "Domain Expansion!" Behemoth unleashed a giant dome of energy around them all, the dome reached to the boarders of Kyoto itself, and generated an identical copy of the town for them to battle in. And the only inhabitants of this domain, were the members of the Hero Faction, Yasaka, the Sins, Rias and Sona and their peerage members, Azazel, Lin, Serafall, Tsukuyomi, Itachi and Behemoth himself. "Yosh! The Seven Deadly Sins! Show me the determination of young master Itachi's priced Peerage!" Behemoth lifted, and flipped the entire ground with the Hero Faction members and the Sins upside down.

"Itachi! Itachi!" Rias, Akeno and Koneko all collectively rushed to the downed unconscious Itachi. Rias looking like she was about to have a panic attack, as she remembered the last time Itachi was like this was after Trigon's attempted invasion. Akeno quickly began using what knowledge she had of healing magic, to stop the bleeding. While Koneko infused her Senjutsu energy into Itachi to try and restore damaged cells in Itachi's body. And all whilst Rias tried shaking Itachi awake.

With the main members occupied, watching from above, Momono on his fighter jet sized raven saw a golden opportunity. 'This is my chance… Take down Itachi Sitri while the Sins are distracted!' Momono grabbed onto his sword and soared down towards the unconscious Itachi. Not taking into consideration that with Koneko there, she could easily pick up on his approaching presence of danger.

"Above!" Koneko warned and both Akeno and Rias quickly looked up to see Momono with his blade, inugami and Sarugami youkai aiming to strike down the unconscious Itachi. Akeno clicked her tongue in frustration, she wanted to unleash a lightning strike on Momono and his stupid bird right then and there, but she was too occupied trying to heal Itachi.

Rias instead, responded the only way she could. She stood up, and flared with a fiery aura of anger. Rias leapt up whilst charging a destruction blast, that she thrusted onto Momono's raven. The raven exclaimed in pain as its entire right wing was blown off. Rias landed onto the falling raven and quickly kicked Momono off the bird and down to the ground.

Rias quickly followed Momono, who was getting help from his inugami youkai companion. Whilst the monkey youkai prepared to attack the incoming Rias, although ended up squashed underneath her foot, its blood and guts spilling everywhere. Momono looked in shock, and looked at Rias who had not taken her eyes off Momono this entire time. Glaring with anger that he and his fellow Hero Faction members had put Itachi in such a state. "You don't go near my man, you bastard!" Rias snarled, her usual sweet voice dripped in venom and hatred.

"… Crazy succubus bitch." Momono snarled back at Rias, as both his raven and monkey youkai emerged out from his shadow. Momono was about to jump onto his raven's back, when suddenly Rias blitzed them and got right up in Momono's face. Staring coldly at him, as she thrusted her open palm forward unleashing a wave of destruction that fully erased the giant just recovered raven. Whilst simultaneously trapping both the inugami youkai and the monkey youkai within spheres of destruction that erased them on the spot.

"W-Wait!" Momono seemed to be panicking, reaching for his sword, but Rias first dealt a devastating high kick to Momono's chin sending him flying. The brute force of Rias kick sent Momono hundreds of feet into the air, and the sudden blow dealt to him had made him let go of his sword in the shock. Rias quickly flew after him, and followed with a karate chop to his kidney, her hand cloaked in destruction as she breached past his skin and made a gaping open flesh wound. "Argh!" Momono cried out in pain, clutching onto his throbbing side, and coughing up blood. Momono cracked his eyes open, and saw Rias with her cold ice blue gaze staring back at him, as she held her palm out directed at his face with a charged-up destruction sphere. "N-No! Don't-" Momono was cut from his plea, as Rias unleashed a raging wave of destruction that fully devoured his entire body. The sky was lit up in a bright color of crimson, distracting everyone for a fleeting brief moment.

As the blast faded, and the smoke cleared up, a smoldering raining heap of what used to be Momono fell down, his body having fully been erased. There was no form of recognition, not one comment of reaction, everyone just continued to battle. This was turning into a war. Wordlessly, Rias returned to tend to Itachi wanting to protect him while Koneko and Akeno tried to heal him.

As chaos ensues outside, Itachi within his comatose state falls deep into his own mindscape. Feeling like he is freefalling, Itachi falls before a mirror reflection of himself. Upon the reflections of Itachi connecting their foreheads together, the glass breaks. Itachi weakly opens his eyes and stares at his own reflection, seeing himself from a previous life in his Akatsuki cloak with his crossed-out headband. 'Birth… death… rebirth… and death again. Is that all that awaits me? What have I done with my reincarnated life? What have I accomplished? I failed… I failed everyone yet again. Is that all I am meant to do? Is that all Itachi is meant to be? A failure?'

Itachi thinks back on his early days of his reincarnated life. 'It felt as if I had woken up from a nightmare. Having finally escaped the shackles that were my life as Itachi Uchiha. I wanted to leave that part of my life behind, and never going back to it if it was the last thing I would ever do. Itachi Uchiha had fulfilled his role in life… he was a failure, and now he was dead. Nothing more than a memory, a memory with a bunch of other ghosts that were left behind in his wake of death and destruction. A memory that I, cannot break, nor shake… the ghosts I had left behind continue to this day to hang over my shoulder. Clinging onto me, puling me down and away from the potential life I can have as Itachi Sitri. This new life I steadily, and worked hard to build for myself.'

"As Itachi Uchiha, I have no regrets…" His reflection talked back to him. Mimicking his final conversation with Sasuke. "Despite it all, I am still Itachi Uchiha of the Hidden Leaf… of the Uchiha clan."

Itachi's eyes seem to soften as he gazes upon his past reflection. 'And even so… even if I have no regrets. Once my past devious deeds become known. My life as Itachi Sitri will end with it… That is, what I am afraid of.' The cracks in his reflection finally gives in, and shatters, and Itachi sinks further into the void of his mindscape.

The darkness of the void, turns white as Itachi softly lands onto a grass field. "Where am I?" The landscape looked beyond beautiful. It looked like paradise. Endless fields and running rivers, trees, mountains. It was all, so peaceful.

Itachi hears light humming, to which Itachi sits up and sees a strange cloaked figure of an old man before him. At least, from what Itachi could tell judging by the wrinkles on his lower face and the grey bangs of hair. The man's face was fully hidden underneath a rice hat that was tipped downwards.

"Tea?" The old man offers Itachi a wooden cup of green tea.

"Who... are you?" Itachi doesn't feel the need to be on guard, this was his own mindscape after all. The figure seemed all too familiar to him, but Itachi couldn't quite place from where he knew this man from.

"Never mind that. Let us talk about you, and your inner turmoil instead." The old man handed Itachi the cup of tea, and took one himself.

Meanwhile, in the outside world. As Rias, Akeno and Koneko were desperately trying to tend to Itachi's wounds, while a literal war raged on around them. The unseen one observed from a distance, with an unpleasant frown on his face. "This can't be the extent of your duties in this world? I resurrected you for a reason… Was the prophecy perhaps false? No, it couldn't be, the sisters wouldn't get such things wrong." The unseen one mumbled to himself, and continued to observe unaware of what was transpiring within Itachi's mindscape at the moment.

While Itachi was talking to this mysterious old man in his own mindscape at the moment. The Sins were currently in the process of avenging their captain. Harry huffed as he slashed down his Flame Sword of Pride rapidly down onto Cao Cao, generating intense storms of fire. "Quick little bugger!" Harry huffed at the arrogant human, who was dancing between each of Harry's strikes. Effortlessly avoiding each and every slash, even the wild dancing fire emitting from Harry and his blade could not even touch Cao Cao.

"All this power… you are a scary old geezer." Cao Cao thrusted his True Longinus forward, and Harry with his bulky frame could not dodge. But Harry did not need to. Cao Cao was unable to advance his spear further, as the sheer force of Harry's Haki aura repelled the spear and prevented it from reaching Harry's skin.

"How impudent." Harry booted Cao Cao straight in the chest, as the human was stun locked from seeing such a strong aura. As Harry's boot slammed hard into his chest, Cao Cao was sent flying backwards.

"Ugh!" Cao Cao groaned, his ribs crushed and his lungs punctured. "Damn, strong old man… He certainly hits harder than Itachi. But he is nowhere near as fast or skilled." Cao Cao popped open a bottle of Pheonix tears and chugged it down, healing his broken ribs and punctured lungs instantly. "Didn't think I had to use Balance Breaker twice today, but…" The True Longinus spear glowed, and a light ring halo formed itself around Cao Cao's back along with seven identical black orbs floating around it. "Polar Night Longinus Chakravartin." Cao Cao's muscle tensed, his body overflowing with great power. "Traitors like you, should know their place, worm." Cao Cao snarled at Harry.

Harry's entire body got caught ablaze as he entered his Balance Breaker, the fire samurai like armor coating his body. The air itself vibrated around the giant old man, as his body glowed in a strange aura. "Haki… Busoshouku." Harry's skin turned black like steel, but it was not over. "Haoshoku Haki!" With a mighty war cry, his willpower fully focused on Cao Cao.

Cao Cao suddenly grunted, feeling the overwhelming pressure of Harry's sheer willpower. Several nearby members of Alex's crew just straight up collapsed to the ground from this intense pressure. "The hell are you?" Cao Cao groaned as he struggled to remain standing. "Hatthiratana!" One of the black spheres floating around Cao Cao, shined whilst Cao Cao slashed the spear in the air, and then stabbed the tip to the ground. Suddenly, everyone gasped a bit in shock as they began to levitate.

Harry widened his eyes, as his feet were lifted off the ground by some unknown force. No, the whole plot of land beneath them was being lifted. Cao Cao leapt, and flipped the land he and Harry were standing on and forced the plot of land crashing down onto Harry to the ground. Cao Cao floated above the crumbled pile of dirt, as out emerged the fiery hand of Harry reaching out to grab Cao Cao. But even midair, Cao Cao was still insanely fast and dodged and even slashed his True Longinus to Harry's wrist.

'He reached me…' Harry thought as he emerged out from the dirt pile. Looking to his wrist, he saw his armament Haki had been slashed through and cut into his wrist. Harry's eyes were twitching, the burning sensation filled his entire being from just that tiny cut. "Hmm, tingly…" Harry with a straight face looked to Cao Cao who floated over him.

"Such bravado. Even a tiny cut like that, is deadly for many Devils." Cao Cao snorted as he noticed Harry's arm lightly twitching and sweat dripping down the old man's forehead. "For you however, I suppose it is just like the burning fever of an infection. You feel yourself going numb, drowsy even. So, how does it feel? Knowing by betraying your race, you will die by my spear as penance?"

"… Hn!" Harry slammed his fist down, as suddenly an intense force of gravity forced Cao Cao back to the ground. The human looked astonished, as despite the ability of his Balance Breaker, he could not remain afloat. "Human? Devil? Neither interest me… I am a Newgate. I never betrayed you, for I was never a mere human in the first place. My only allegiance, is to my family." Harry spoke in a boastful tone, as his thoughts dwelled on his fellow Sins, Itachi, Rias and Sona and their group.

"Heh, you are an interesting guy…" Cao Cao despite the intense gravitational pressure of Harry's aura, lifted up his True Longinus and as a result Harry was hoisted high into the air. "The thing is… Hatthiratana, is an ability that allows me levitate anything my spear touches… Even a small cut is enough." Cao Cao then swung his spear down, and sent Harry crashing to the ground.

Out from the debris, Harry hurdled out a miniature burning sun straight for Cao Cao. However, then another one of the black spheres around Cao Cao began to glow. "Maniratana." The miniature sun then suddenly made a sharp turn as it was deflected in another direction. Spinning around a bit, the sun eventually made its way back to Harry and blasted into his face. "I'm too fast for you to hit, and any attack you throw at me, I will throw back. Surely you must realize, you cannot beat me." Cao Cao taunted.

"Perhaps, I can." The ground suddenly exploded as a massive spike of earth launched itself upwards right underneath Cao Cao. The Hero Faction leader barely had time to jump away, as he was also surrounded by earth made dragons that charged at him. Cao Cao thrusted his spear forward, unleashing blast attacks that incinerated the head of the dragons. Behemoth the Earth King, in his monstrous form came to Harry's side.

Wind gathered beneath Behemoth's feet, the fur on his legs gaining a leopard like spotted pattern and turning more feline like. Behemoth suddenly vanished from sight and rushed at Cao Cao. The one-eyed Hero Faction leader gasped as he suddenly noticed the old Earth King standing over him, wielding his giant battle axe. Cao Cao clashed his True Longinus against the battle axe, sparks flying between their strikes. Cao Cao used his superior speed to try and move around Behemoth, but Behemoth's whiskers twitched as with cat like reflexes he countered Cao Cao's attempted backstab with his battle axe.

Harry followed up close, rushing at Cao Cao from behind while Behemoth attacked from the front. Cao Cao's True Longinus emitted a divine aura, as it formed a bubble shield of light around Cao Cao, both strikes of Harry's Flame Sword of Pride, and Behemoth's battle axe were repelled in the face of Cao Cao's barrier. "Kahabateiratana!" White knights coated in light emerged out from one of Cao Cao's seven black spheres and slammed their shields into Harry and Behemoth, pushing the hulking monsters of a man and Devil back.

"Careful! The light emitting from these knight warriors are the same as an Arch Angel!" Behemoth shouted a warning to Harry, who gave a mere nod and grunt in responds. The strongest Sacred Gear in all of existence, wields the power of the son of God himself, and his angelic children.

Cao Cao moved in a flash of light, and blitzed both Behemoth and Harry as he slashed his spear tip at their shoulders. Both the giant warriors grunted as the holy energy acted like poison for their bodies. 'It is like young master Itachi predicted… The light element of the spear, allows Cao Cao to move beyond the speed of light. Just like Itachi himself in his Speed Mode. What a frightening weapon that is!' Behemoth had reached the same conclusion as his student had done moments prior, and come to realize why a mere human could be so powerful. What is more dangerous, is that Cao Cao was trained as a master spearman. "Rampage of the Earth King!" Swinging his battle axe around at a rapid rate, Behemoth cut straight through the knights' shields like a hot knife through butter, and their armor didn't fare too well either. Harry followed up, and raised his flame sword of pride. "Rapid Fire Slash!" Slashing waves of fire, Harry burnt through the knights and continued to attack the defense bubble of light Cao Cao had shielded himself in.

Finally, the light bubble broke under the pressure, but Cao Cao was nowhere to be found. "Assaratana!" Cao Cao teleported in over their heads and unleashed a massive blast attack of light, and once it clashed it caused a near nuclear level explosion. "Georg! Prepare to relaunch Dimension Lost! We'll toss them all into the Dimensional Gap!" Cao Cao was growing visibly frustrated. It seemed a lasting battle wasn't in his list of plans. The spear must have its own drawbacks for Cao Cao as well, if it grants him such power.

"Right away!" Cao Cao generated multi layered magic circles of various origins. Raven couldn't believe what she was looking at, from what she could decipher of the magical texts of each circle. There were basic elemental magic circles of all five elements, defensive magic circles that were mostly focused around Georg himself, teleportation magic circles at the ready beneath his feet and planted around various locations for him to travel to. Norse magic, Demonic magic, Fallen Angel spells, Black Magic, White Magic and Fairy magic. All the while, Georg was focusing on gathering power for his Dimension Lost.

"Everyone! Focus on the teleporting circles! If Georg appears nearby, attack him! We cannot let them rebuild Dimension Lost!" Raven quickly caught onto their plan of attack, and was quick to instruct everyone in what to do.

Raven stretched her arms out, pulling very mountains out from the ground effortlessly. Raven was thankful to Behemoth for using Domain Expansion, she could risk causing some collateral damage this way. With her telekinetic powers, Raven smashed entire mountains into Georg. The mountains clashed into the defense magic circles, smoldering rock exploded around the defense magic circles as they put intense pressure onto them.

Georg clicked his tongue and unleashed spraying waves of fire to burn through the debris and prevent too much from reaching his barrier. "I can feel it… you are concerned for your defense. Afraid I will reach through." Raven's chilling voice echoed around Georg whose field of vision was blinded by the endless barrage of debris clashing around him. "You have every right to be afraid… because I will!" Raven teleported herself within Georg's barrier, startled Georg gasped as he quickly teleported himself away to a new location.

Georg exhaled in relief, although was short lived as the heat turned up with Kuroka unleashing a barrage of blue fire blasts to his barrier. "Jeanne! Do your job!" Georg ordered.

"I'm working on it!" Jeanne came riding in on a giant metallic dragon made up from hundreds of holy swords. The dragon breathed holy light as it aimed straight at Kuroka.

"Bring it bitch!" Kuroka hissed at Jeanne as she used her Senjutsu skills to manipulate the very earth beneath them. Creating walls of earth, and mud beneath Jeanne's dragon that caused it to sink in. Kuroka took a long leap towards Jeanne, taking a flip midair Kuroka unleashed a massive blue fire blast.

The blue fire dispersed as Jeanne slashed through the fire with a holy sword. "You throw quite the hissy fit, Neko-chan~" Jeanne taunted as the dragon once again unleashed a beam breath attack of holy energy. Before the beam reached Kuroka however, it clashed with a wall of darkness as Raven came flying in after Georg.

Within Damian's string barrier, Heracles was unleashing a series of missiles flying out from his Balance Breaker Detonation – Mighty Comet. Damian was able to generate entire shields made out of his strings, holding off the explosion as he pushed on. "Do you even have a Balance Breaker, old man?!" Heracles punched through the string shield, causing a fiery explosion to blow up in Damian's face.

"I don't need it, against an uncoordinated brat like you!" Damian grabbed Heracles by his forearm, and tossed the hulking man over his shoulders with no effort. Heracles quickly recovered, finding the throw to be rather weak.

"Heh, you will never beat me like this!" Heracles had the missiles on his body fire off, carrying him with them as he soared towards Damian. Damian remained level headed, as with a snap of his fingers, the strings around them began moving. Heracles widened his eyes, hearing the subtle snaps of the strings as more moved in around him. Heracles suddenly found all his limbs restrained and bound, as was his neck.

"A childish brute like yourself… you always make the mistake of not watching one's surroundings." Damian forms a long lance made from the strings, and readied to pierce it through Heracles' heart.

"Heh, you think this can hold me?" Heracles smirked as his arms gained large missile like gauntlets. The missile gauntlets fired and went straight for Damian. Damian quickly leapt, and twirled his body so that he ended up right between the missiles as they flew around him. The missiles clashed with the string barrier wall behind him, and blew up in a fiery display. Heracles snickered at how nimble Damian was, but found himself bewildered as the wall of strings did not come down with the explosion. In fact, it looked like it absorbed the power of it.

"Yep, I do." Damian smirked as the strings formed into a brass knuckle on his fist, and he punched Heracles square in his chin, and suddenly an explosion erupted in Heracles' face. The power of Heracles' own explosion, traveled through the strings, and all the way to Damian's own fist, and thus straight back into Heracles' face.

Bob in the meantime, was trying to break down a barrier of his own. The vortex barrier around Alexander resisted every single hit from the Mjolnir replica. Not only that, the vortex itself reflected the intense strikes right back into Bob. Bob groaned as he was electrocuted multiple times, with the dark blue lightning from Mjol jr. The hammer pulsed. "Yes, I know that it isn't working!" Bob dug his heels into the ground, trying to remain in place as Alex's vortex was pulling him in with intense gravitational force. "But what am I supposed to do?! I can't outrun this!" Bob screamed in frustration.

"You should give up, Bob… You will never again be able to touch me." Alex smirked as he slashed his Nebula Cleaver unleashing air slashes that cut into Bob's skin. Bob grunted in pain, as blood erupted from his cut open chest.

"And what?! Join you?!" Bob hissed at Alex who only chuckled back at him.

"Nah, you missed your chance when you defied me the first time all those years ago. Grovel in the dirt like the loser you are, and accept your death!" Alex grew a crazed smirk on his face as the vortex pulled Bob in, and once Bob clashed into the vortex, he was launched crashing into a mountain that was reduced to rubble.

Bob groaned, unable to even gather his bearings before he found himself pulled in towards the vortex once more. "I am an immovable object big guy. You cannot break this barrier. With this cleaver the air around me clumps together, and can become so dense, I can form a fricking star one day! You cannot touch me, let alone hurt me! I win, Bob! I am finally! Stronger than you! Any attack you throw at me, only fuels my Nebula's power!"

"…Urgh!" Bob grunted as he was launched flying back once more, his body bruised up and covered in slashes and cuts. "Dammit!"

On the other end of the battlefield, a group of monsters were ganging up on an actual monster. An army of monsters made by Leonardo who seemed to be straining himself making an army of at least a hundred. All hundred surrounding the giant colossal cackling owl monster that loomed towering over them as if they were mice. Eto gave a crazed laugh as she slammed down the hand of her giant Kakuja, the hand unleashing a pulse of toxic green like energy. Anything her hand touched, ended up decaying away, withering away. Flesh turning dead and crumbling away like sand.

"So many exciting new flavors~" Eto snickered within her Kakuja, as the jaw of the owl head seemed to dislocate itself and fall wide open. In the center of the owl's mouth, a sphere of fire was charging up. "Logi!" Using Loki's power, Eto unleashed a fire breath attack that went like a flamethrower. Every monster that tried to gang up on her were incinerated in the face of the blast.

Leonardo clicked his tongue as he slammed his palms to the ground. The ground began rumbling, quaking, Eto could hardly react as a colossal monster hand reached out from the ground and grabbed ahold of her Kakuja body. The giant monster looked like a mix of dragon and lion, with its mighty mane and mighty roar it threatened to nearly devour Eto.

Eto latched her claws into the hand of the giant monster, unleashing the full power of the Beelzebub bloodline causing rapid decay. But the monster was so large, it hardly seemed to have any effect on him. "Ugh! Let, go of me!" Eto sounded like she was struggling, speaking in a commanding tone. Her tone of voice carried vibrating magical sounds. And suddenly Eto found the grip of the monster to loosen. Not wasting this opening, Eto used the strength of her Kakuja to pry the hand of the monster open. "What was that?" Eto asked herself, taking a brief moment to think to herself, and eventually she reached a conclusion that caused her to giggle. "Mother of all monsters~" Eto used another fire spell from Loki, to blast off the entire giant monster's head. Eto had nearly forgotten, that she had devoured Angrboda, and thus gained the ability she held over monsters.

"N-No way!" Leonardo spoke in disbelief, his eyes glowing as he powered up his remaining army, to all jump Eto.

"Stop…" Eto commanded and all the charging monsters froze for a brief moment. Leonardo let out a frustrated grunt and his eyes glowed yellow as he made the monsters continue the attack. Eto giggled as she learnt, she had the ability to control Leonardo's monsters to some degree. All thanks to having devoured the flesh of Angrboda.

Rapid sounds of metal striking, and clanking against each other with violent slashes echoed through the battlefield. Siegfried chuckled as he held of the enraged Jack the Ripper. Little Jack was cloaked by her black mist, and her speed was something to behold. Siegfried couldn't fight with Gram alone. "Nothung." Summoning forth a second demonic sword, Siegfried began dual wielding against Jack. "Those blades, look rather sharp." Siegfried complimented as he eyed the blue ghostly faced ornament blades in Jack's hands.

"Wails of Whitechapel… Cries of a thousand mothers." Jack's blades unleashed more of the black mist. The mist let out ghostly sounding wails of bloodcurdling screams. Screams of terror echoed as Jack slashes were increased, cutting or rather carving large slash marks into mountains and the surrounding area. Cutting down temples and buildings without any care.

"Guess dual wielding isn't enough… I haven't forgotten the wound you inflicted on me earlier, assassin." Siegfried rotated his sore shoulders, even with the phoenix tears having healed him up, he still felt the phantom of the pain. Four silver dragon arms grew out from Siegfried's back as he unleashed his Balance Breaker right off the bat. "Chaos Edge Asura Ravage." Each of his new four limbs grabbed a hold of a new sword. "Balmung… Tyrfing… Dainsleif…" Three more demonic swords, one with a drill-like aura, a black double-edged sword with an ominous green aura, and a saber with a darkish-purple aura. And then, an ordinary sword of light completing as the sixth blade. "Your master Itachi Sitri so far has been the only one to see through my six-sword style thanks to his Sharingan. I wonder, how will such a frail creature as you fare against it? All alone…" Siegfried chuckled as he sped towards Jack.

Jack began flipping backwards, holding off the relentless slashes of the six blades. It was hard for Jack to remain balanced, especially as Balmung unleashed massive powerful whirlwinds with each slash. Nothung's sharpness left scratches and cuts in Jack's own blades. Tyrfing unleashed powerful destructive blasts that rivaled Durandal. And Dainsleif created colossal pillars of ice everywhere it touched.

Jack began regaining her bearings, she was able to at least see straight and realize who was friend and foe. Salty tears leaked from her eyes as all she could think, was how she failed to save Itachi, and ended up getting saved instead. Seeing the smirking face of Siegfried, fueled her with hatred and had her stay on her toes through this fight. "I will kill you…" Jack uttered in a cold menacing tone. Her eyes sharpened like a blade as she stared with killing intent. "I will tear your heart out, and eat it!" Jack launched herself at Siegfried and slashed her dual blades into two of the four dragon arms.

"Useless…" Siegfried chuckled as any damage she deals to the dragon arms was healed straight away. "And false… you will be the one to die today!" Siegfried used two of his right-side arms to break through Jack's guard, smashing past her blades. And then moved in one of his left arms to pierce her skull.

Jack stared at the tip of Tyrfing, as it neared her eye. When suddenly leaping in from the side, Kiba clashed his Sword of Betrayer against Tyrfing. "You are also wrong… Jack-chan is not alone here!" Kiba declared, as flying down behind Siegfried was Xenovia with Ascalon in hand. The dragon slaying blade unleashing a bright amount of energy as she slashed down at Siegfried.

"Two more knights? What difference does it make?" Siegfried taunted with a chuckle, as he used Tyrfing to hold off Kiba, and Gram to hold off Xenovia. Before he could move any of his other blades to strike Jack, the figure of Tsubaki jumped in and thrusted her naginata down forward unleashing such a mighty shockwave that clashed into Siegfried's head. Siegfried was swiftly knocked down to the ground in a violent crash.

"What about a Queen?" Tsubaki coldly stared down at Siegfried.

"What is Perseus doing exactly?" Siegfried snarled, as he looked towards Perseus who was currently holding off Tomoe, Ruruko and Irina. Now that Momono had been killed by Rias, and with three new additions added to the devils' group, the Hero Faction was finding themselves overwhelmed. Siegfried slashed Balmung, creating a massive whirlwind that blew the devils around him away, giving him time to pick himself up again.

Looking around, Siegfried was surrounded by Jack, Kiba, Xenovia and Tsubaki. "A Queen and Three Knights… Heh, you think that matters to me? Your lowly attacks won't be able to touch me!" Siegfried's smirk was filled with overconfidence and a hint of sadism, as he was about to enjoy torturing the lot. The sudden smirk on Siegfried's face, had Kiba widen his eyes as a sense of nostalgia washed itself over him.

"You… look like Freed Sellzen." Kiba mumbled out, he couldn't help but notice Siegfried looked like a less crazed version of the sadistic former priest.

"Freed, eh? That is a name I haven't heard in a long time. Well, I suppose we do look alike with our eyes and hair color matching. We were trained in the same institution under the Orthodox Church after all. The various experiments and training were actually what made our hair turn white. However, unlike Freed, I am a success where he was a failure. My talent with the sword, earned me the nickname "Chaos Edge Sieg." I was the most talented swordsman in the whole institution. Freed was nothing but a radical freak who never really believed in God. And the proof of me being a success, comes from this." Siegfried smirked as he showed off the Demonic Sword Gram.

"Institution? Experiments? Like the Holy Sword project?" Kiba asked wondering if all along Freed was a victim of experimentation like he was. Not that it made Kiba ever regretting killing Freed.

"Not really. It was an institution to create artificial humans with the DNA of the legendary Siegfried. The Sigurd Institution, who's only purpose was to create humans capable of wielding a sword like Gram, and be the true successor of the once famed mighty Dragon Slayer Siegfried. So, they used his DNA, to create quite a few artificial humans such as myself and Freed. Although now, well only a handful are left." Siegfried raised all six of his swords, the blades each releasing an ominous aura. "And the perfect specimen of that project, stands before you!"

Kiba could tell at first glance, Gram was much sharper than his Sword of Betrayer, in direct combat the results wouldn't be in his favor. Same applied for Xenovia and Ascalon, they wouldn't fare well against that sword either. Jack however, her newly crafted blue blades, were sharp enough, and vibrated with power.

Jack noticed the same thing as Kiba, and thus rushed in at Siegfried, aiming low she hacked and slashed at Siegfried's feet. Siegfried jumped back moving Nothung and the light sword to intercept and clash with Jack. Xenovia also jumped in without hesitation, and clashed Ascalon against Gram, and somehow was holding her own.

Kiba on the other hand, just froze. 'How can they rush in like that? Siegfried has so many powerful Demonic Swords he can wield at once.' Kiba was slightly sweating, which did not go unnoticed by Tsubaki Shinra, who slapped Kiba across the face. Kiba looked astonished, and looked to Tsubaki.

"You dare best me in battle, only to freeze in a moment like this?" Tsubaki grabbed onto Kiba's collar and glared at him with a chilling gaze, that had Kiba swallow a nervous lump in his throat. "You dare insult me saying that artificial human was a far more skilled warrior than me?"

"N-No I would never…" Kiba was like a frightened mouse before Tsubaki, her anger was seeping through from every fiber of her being. Kiba didn't wish to insult her, he thought she was a very skilled and splendid warrior. What Kiba didn't know, is that isn't the main reason she was angry.

'The man I fell for freezes like this! Pathetic! How could I fall for his cute face!' Tsubaki's inner girly voice was throwing a temper tantrum, while on the outside she appeared as this strict drill sergeant. Pulling him closer Tsubaki's furious glare buries itself into Kiba's very soul. "Then snap out of it." While on the inside she is thinking. 'Kya! His lips are so close to mine! Just a little further… No, I shouldn't, but just a taste is fine, right? Just a taste…'

Kiba felt a bit ashamed, he knew Tsubaki was right and gave a mere nod and smile. "Hn, I'm fine now, Shinra-senpai. Thank you." With that he expected Tsubaki to let go of his collar, instead she still held onto him. For reasons unbeknownst to Kiba, Tsubaki was going through her own inner struggle at the moment. "Uhh, senpai…" Kiba mumbled, to which Tsubaki flinched and let go of him.

"As long as you understand…" Tsubaki shoved him, and ran towards the battle. With her back turned to Kiba, as she didn't want him to see her red face. 'What am I doing?!' She thought in a panic. Kiba, innocent Kiba decided to himself to follow his brave Senpai's example and rushed into the battle as well.

Siegfried collectively holds off Jack, Kiba, Xenovia and Tsubaki all at once. The strength of his four dragon arms enough to push back against their collective attacks. It wasn't long before Siegfried was the one who went on the offensive, and slashed Tyrfing generating an intense wave of destruction that blew the ground open forming a large crater.

Kiba rushes in at Siegfried, and rapidly slashes his Sword of Betrayer at the artificial human. But each move was thwarted in the face of Siegfried's six-sword style of combat. In the end, Kiba got too careless as Siegfried with an upper swing from one of his right dragon arms, used the blade Nothung that specializes in sharpness to cut off Kiba's entire right arm.

Kiba widened his eyes for a mere moment in shock, and then grabbed ahold of his bleeding shoulder and cried out in pain. Siegfried moved to slash Kiba again, but this time a mirror appeared between them. Tsubaki jumped in with an enraged look on her face, as Tyrfing a sword of destruction slashes the Mirror Alice in half, the destructive force of the demonic blade was reflected back into Siegfried with double the impact.

"You. Are. Dead." Tsubaki glared at Siegfried and moved in circles around him, thrusting her naginata violently like a storm at him. Siegfried clicked his tongue and swung Balmung, generating an intense whirlwind that blew Tsubaki away.

"She's a fast one…" Siegfried noted, although was suddenly in immense pain as Jack snuck up on him and slashes him across the back. Jack jumped in a summersault over Siegfried and slashed one of her blades over his left eye. Siegfried groaned as he could feel his eye was damaged. "Hah!" With a mighty slash of Gram, Siegfried unleashed such destructive force that Jack was repelled crashing through a series of trees, clearing a large area of the bamboo forest. "I need to heal…" Siegfried mumbles and reaches for his pouch with the Pheonix tears. Although the pouch is removed from his side, as Xenovia slides in and slashes Ascalon against the belt holding the pouch. Xenovia grabbed the pouch with the Pheonix tears and glared at Siegfried.

"No more healing for you." Xenovia declared, buttoning open her shirt, she put the pouch with the phoenix tears in-between her breasts. Xenovia at super speed rushed with Ascalon, and slashes at one of the dragon arms.

Siegfried grunts in pain, and the wound on the dragon arm isn't healed instantly like others. "My Chaos Edge…" Siegfried gasps in shock at seeing the sliced open wrist not healing. "Of course, it's that sword!" Siegfried hisses as he sees Ascalon in Xenovia's hand.

"Ho? You noticed it?" Xenovia smirked. That's right, the Dragon Slayer Sword, Ascalon, it was the worst type of sword for someone with a dragon based Sacred Gear like Siegfried to go up against.

Kiba in the meantime, lets out light groans, as he uses his belt to tighten around what remained of his right arm to stop the bleeding. "Kiba Yuuto…" Tsubaki flew to his side, helping him stand.

"Thanks, senpai, I am fine… just need to catch my breath." Kiba sweated from the intense pain he was feeling. It was a good thing it was a demonic sword and not a holy sword at least.

Kiba with one arm, held his Sword of Betrayer firm in his grasp, as he rushed back in at godlike speed to the battle. As Siegfried was dueling against Xenovia's Ascalon, Kiba noticed the dragon hand holding the Demonic sword gram was injured, and had been sliced. 'Of course! Ascalon's dragon slaying powers! Nice, Xenovia!' Kiba mentally applauded Xenovia, as he had a goal in mind.

Tsubaki seeing Kiba's plan, made sure to rush in as a distraction. As both Tsubaki and Xenovia clashed with Siegfried's six blades. Tsubaki's relentless thrusts of attacks and speed, was enough to draw the attention of four arms from Siegfried. Whilst he used the remaining two to fend off Xenovia.

Kiba jumped, and aimed for the injured arm holding Gram, Kiba slashed his Sword of Betrayer right into the gashing slash wound. "What?!" Siegfried looked enraged as Kiba let out a war cry, pushing on, in the end he was unsuccessful in cutting off the hand, but successful in disarming it, as Tsubaki aided him by smacking her naginata in from the other side. Kiba taking a page from Tsubaki's book, bit his teeth into the handle of Gram as it was freefalling.

Kiba leapt back, Gram was heavy so he had to switch it up, placing his Sword of Betrayer which was a shorter and lighter sword in his mouth instead, whilst holding Gram with his left hand. "You bastard! Give my birthright back!" Siegfried had veins bulging around his temple.

Kiba with a single swing with Gram, unleashed such a wave of destruction the entire ground was slashed open in a large crescent moon shape. Kiba widened his eyes, feeling the strain the sword had on his demonic power and stamina. Yet, Kiba could also tell that the sharpness, and destructive power he had Gram unleash was far better than what Siegfried had ever managed throughout this entire fight. Kiba speculated this to be due to Siegfried's Sacred Gear being dragon based, and thus its nature clashes with the dragon slaying demonic sword Gram. Preventing Siegfried from utilizing the blade's full potential.

Siegfried in anger rushed at Kiba, having suffered some severe burns from the destructive power of Gram. Perhaps Siegfried was angered at how well Kiba was able to use the sword compared to himself. Siegfried moved in to slash Kiba with Dainsleif creating entire pillar sized ice spikes that pushed Kiba back.

That was when Kiba felt the strain of Gram, he could hardly gather strength in his legs to run. That single swing of the sword, had nearly drained his stamina core. Siegfried's empty dragon hand, punches Kiba in the face, and grabs ahold of Gram reclaiming it. "You dare touch my Gram?! You lowly devil!" Siegfried appeared to be foaming from the mouth. And was about to strike Kiba down using Gram, but suddenly the dragon arm holding Gram stopped.

"Huh?" Kiba was just as perplexed as Siegfried.

"Wh-What's wrong?" Siegfried asked the sword, as it began vibrating and suddenly unleashed a destructive wave of power directed at Siegfried himself. Siegfried groaned as the force of Gram sent him crashing into the dirt. "Gram?!" Siegfried looked betrayed, as his own sword fell before Kiba's feet, waiting for him to pick it up. "You prefer him?! But he is a devil! You stinking lousy sword! I am the one with Siegfried's blood! Your original master's blood! You dare disobey me?!"

Kiba reached down and picked up Gram, suddenly feeling holding it was lighter than before. "My strength… is returning?" Kiba mumbled as he felt the sword fuel his body with power. This only further infuriated Siegfried. Did Gram hate the hold of his dragon arm that much?!

Siegfried's fury over his own sword's betrayal of him, is short lived as Xenovia jumps at him from behind, and slashes down Ascalon onto the two dragon arms on his left side. Siegfried cries out in pain, these arms were an extension of himself, and Xenovia just removed two of them. Both the sword Nothung and Dainsleif fell in a thud to the ground. Siegfried swung around, and swung Balmung from his right side at Xenovia generating a powerful whirlwind that sent her flying.

Siegfried then turned to Kiba, who had the Sword of Betrayer in his mouth, and Gram in his left hand getting in a battle stance to take on Siegfried. Siegfried was blinded by rage that Kiba stole his sword, wanting to reclaim it Siegfried focused on claiming Kiba's head. Swinging down Tyrfing and Balmung to strike Kiba down, the destructive force of the blades instead clashed with a mirror that formed before Kiba.

"Mirror Alice!" The mirror shattered, and the destructive power was thrown back at Siegfried with double the impact. Siegfried screamed in terror as the power exploded in his face.

Siegfried groaned as Tsubaki's reflected explosion knocked Tyrfing and Balmung out from his hand. Leaving him only with the light sword left, before he could pick Tyrfing up Jack pounced on this opportunity and rushed in for the attack. Siegfried swung his sword of light, taking advantage over Jack's natural weakness to it. The light burnt her skin just by being close. The two remaining dragon arms of Siegfried grabbed onto Jack, holding her up by the throat and taking her weapon from her. "Let's trade weapons then!" Siegfried chuckled and disarmed Jack of her blue blades. Siegfried now armed with Jack's two blue blades as well as his light sword, tossed her aside.

Jack grunted as she rolled around in the dirt, her eyes filled with killing intent. Jack reached into her pouch and pulled out a scalpel. "You must really be desperate!" Siegfried taunted with a chuckle as he went in for the kill of the Sin of Wrath.

"Rebellion Field!" Jack's eyes glowed red, as she unleashed a pulse of dark energy surrounding her and Siegfried. And suddenly, both of Siegfried's right remaining dragon arms were sliced off, with their hands exploding from the blue blades blowing up in their grip. Jack still had total command over her own creation, and forced her stolen blades Siegfried wielded to explode. Siegfried gasped as Jack's average scalpel slashed through his sword of light like it was nothing, and even more so slashing his throat open. Siegfried gurgled up blood, and held his slashed open throat as he backed away in shock. Jack's Rebellion Field had changed the rules, making a mere scalpel stronger than a sword of light, such is the nature of Rebellion's Balance Breaker.

"Jack!" Kiba quickly tosses the Demonic Sword Gram to the assassin. Jack wraps both her tiny hands around the large handle of the sword, and effortlessly lifts it up before bringing it down in a swift motion, slashing Siegfried's chest open.

Siegfried wanted to call for assistance from Cao Cao, or anyone with Pheonix tears for that matter, cursing Xenovia for having taken his batch from him. Jack takes her scalpel and dissects Siegfried, cutting his chest wide open. Siegfried grabs his arms around Jack's tiny throat, strangling her with all his might. Whilst Jack relentlessly rammed her hands into Siegfried's open chest. Both glaring intensely with killing intent at each other.

Jack's hands grab firmly ahold of something in Siegfried's chest, that has the artificial human widen his eyes in shock. Jack gasps a bit for air, her face turning a little blue from the lack of air entering her lungs. Jack with a mighty yank, pulls out Siegfried's still beating heart. And then Siegfried gasps in shock as his hands releases their hold on Jack's throat who tumbles backwards with Siegfried's beating heart in hand.

Jack coughs and gasps for air, she looks up at Siegfried who is laying on his back, supporting himself with the use of his elbows. Siegfried with a frightful look, glances at Jack who holds his beating heart. Jack coldly eyes Siegfried, as she bites into his heart like a feral animal. Siegfried's face twitches in pain, letting out light grunts, unable to speak as his vocal cords had been cut. Siegfried falls onto his back, and dies.

Jack spits out a good chunk of Siegfried's heart, before crushing the rest in her grip. "That was for mommy, you bastard." Jack snarls and tosses the mushed heart aside.

Kiba gathers all of Siegfried's demonic swords, and finally Gram as he glances at the dead artificial human. He would have to admit, he was a bit disturbed from Jack's way of killing him. But at least, it was finally over. Kiba had Tsubaki reattach his severed arm using the Pheonix tears Xenovia took from Siegfried. Even though their individual battle against Siegfried was over, the fighting around them raged on.

Raven unleashed a wave of energy that took the shape of a giant raven, soaring towards Georg and shattering his defense magic circles. "His defenses are down!" Raven shouted, and Georg was quick to teleport himself away. He was desperate, he just needed to get away from Raven. Georg arrived out from a magic circle, feeling tired from having to have teleported so many times away from Raven.

"Georg!" Cao Cao called out in shock, Georg gasped as he looked to the side seeing Cao Cao standing before him with both Behemoth and Harry coming charging like a couple of monsters.

"Shit! Now or never!" He had charged just about enough energy, and raised his arms. "Dimension Create!" Georg's battle cry was like a sound of defeat for the Sins, as Dimension Lost began forming with the fog growing around Georg.

"Harry! Behemoth! You have to stop him!" Raven saw the slight glimmer of hope in the form of Behemoth and Harry. Two of the strongest warriors on the battlefield, and the one closest to Georg had to be the ones. Georg had already tired out his magic reserves, and could hardly teleport away quick enough.

"Right!" Harry and Behemoth raised their weapons, and aimed to strike at the fog forming around Georg. Cao Cao however, stepped in their way and clashed with his spear, holding off both Harry and Behemoth at once. The blazing fire of the Flame Sword of Pride, the rumbling destructive earth from Behemoth's battle axe, the intense glowing light from the True Longinus, and the dark ominous fog from Dimension Lost filled the area.

"Wait, your advice is to what?" Back in Itachi's own mindscape, Itachi looked at this mysterious old man with a raised brow.

The old man took a long sip of his tea before continuing his lesson. "Let go. You need to let go of the chains keeping you tied down to your past as Itachi Uchiha. Let go of the pain. The fear. The anger. The hate. Let go, of all of it."

"… I'm not quite sure what you mean. What fear? What anger? What hate? That part of my history is done… I don't-" Before Itachi could finish the old man sighed.

"Perhaps listening to others would be more beneficial to you." Clapping his hands, the old man summoned forth something from within Itachi. Walking out from Itachi's own shadow, were other clones of him. No, not clones, they all were different colored clothing. "Now, I'm keeping… this emotion restrained for obvious reasons." The old man said referring to the Itachi dressed in all blood red, that looked to be foaming from his mouth like a rabid dog trying to charge at Itachi. This red Itachi was tied up in chains.

"Hahaha! He sure is a feisty one!" The Itachi dressed in all yellow bawled out laughing, with a big happy smile on his face.

"Eeek! He's frightening!" A trembling Itachi dressed in all grey bawled himself up in a corner of this void.

"Ugh, so noisy." An Itachi dressed in dark green spoke with disdain and rolled his eyes.

"*Burp!" An Itachi dressed in all brown just burped out of nowhere, adding nothing of significance to the conversation.

"Why do we have to be here? Talking to everyone here is just going to be depressing, tiering, and frustrating. People are going to end up yelling and screaming at each other, and all I can do is sit in a corner with Fear and cry…" An Itachi dressed in all blue looked mopey as he let out a deep depressing sigh.

"Hahaha! You are always such a riot, Sad!" The yellow Itachi like he couldn't read the mood, comradely slapped the depressed blue Itachi on the back.

"Ha! There is no need to fear! We'll pull through this predicament! And vanquish those villains calling themselves for heroes!" An Itachi dressed in lime green, puffed his chest our courageously and seemed eager to return to the fight against the Hero Faction.

"And then maybe some sexy time with the ladies~" An Itachi dressed in black leather spoke with a devious seductive tone, that had Itachi raise his brow in bewilderment.

"Aww, I love that idea~" A fruity Itachi dressed in all pink appeared.

Itachi looked a bit put off facing the personification of his inner emotions and looked with an uncomfortable glance between them. "… What are they going to show me exactly?" Itachi looked to the mysterious old man who was quietly sipping tea.

"What you deny. What you are. What you feel. They are you, as you are them. You need to accept your choices, and the emotions that come with those choices." The old man lectures.

"… What is there to accept?" Itachi looks to each of the emotions, starting with the pink dressed emotion that was Love. "I love my friends and family." Then looking over to the emotion in leather black that was Lust. "I enjoy the female physique on occasion." Looking over at the emotion in lime green known as Courage. "I am willing to fight anything that threatens what I love." Looking to the blue emotion known as Sad. "I feel sadness watching my loved ones in pain, and for my own past actions." Looking to the brown emotion known as Lazy. "Sometimes I feel like relaxing and slouching around." Looking at the dark green emotion known as Disgust. "Sometimes I find certain actions repulsive." Looking to the grey emotion known as Fear. "… I fear losing those I love, as I have in the past. I fear…" Itachi halted his tongue, and with a frown looked at the yellow emotion known as Joy. "I feel happy seeing my friends and family energetic and healthy." And finally, he looked at the red emotion known as Hatred. "…" Silently not acknowledging this feral emotion of pure rage and anger.

"You lack conviction!" Hatred hissed from where he was chained.

"… Well, seems you have issues with your anger, and fear. However, you may acknowledge the other emotions for what they represent. You don't embrace them. Do you express lust when you feel lustful? Do you express happiness when you feel joy? Do you express sadness, when you feel sad?" The old man continued on with his rambling.

"What are you getting at?" Itachi looked with a cold stoic expression.

"… Heh." The old man smirked and shook his head. "Do you know, what the greatest weakness the Shinobi world brought upon the Uchiha clan was?"

"… Well, the Uchiha clan at its core, was beyond arrogant and prideful. Blinded by their own needs over the needs of everyone else." Itachi didn't spoke in a judgmental tone, nor did his body show any hints of hatred towards his previous clan. He simply spoke his own mind on the flaws of the Uchiha.

"Well, it is true they were arrogant due to their exceptional visual prowess. But that answer is incorrect. The answer, is emotions. Due to the Shinobi code of conduct looking down on Shinobi showing their personal feelings, or any feeling in combat. A lot of emotions and feelings the Uchiha were carrying, were pent up until they would reach a boiling point, and act out aggressively. Just like Madara. Just like Fugaku. And just like Sasuke. The Uchiha clan, and their source of power came from their emotions. And yet, the rules of society prohibited those feelings. Leading to a lot of confused, fearful, angered and vengeful Shinobi coming out from the Uchiha clan. The society they lived in, their livelihood as Shinobi, had become a double-edged sword. And make no mistake, that weakness very much applies to you as well. You have a great deal of love in your heart, you are a very kind and caring person at heart. But the society and laws of the Shinobi world, had you damper those feelings… had you put on a mask, to hide who you were. To make you the ideal Shinobi. Be it Itachi Uchiha, or Itachi Sitri, these shackles still bind you. Damming you to the fate all Shinobi carry, that of self-sacrifice… loneliness… forever bound by fear and hatred. Moments have presented itself, for your true self to come to light through the shackles of your prison. Both in this life, and your previous one. But just before you can break free, you unwillingly bind yourself."

Itachi sat in silence and took in this old man's lecture. He could only look down with no rebuttal to throw back at the old man and his claims. "The Shinobi world viewed showing emotions to the enemy, as a sign of weakness… that is true."

"Yes, but you, even in your most private moments, you still hold onto that rule. When your father praised you for awakening the Sharingan. All you could think of was…" The old man pointed to sad.

"How could he only praise me? My friend died… I watched him get cut open, unable to do anything." Sad cried as he clutched his hands to his head.

"And Sasuke… he would go through this pain as well… It worries me." Fear trembled.

"Fuck off old man, my friend just died you prick!" Disgust snarled.

"I hate you!" Hatred snarled, whether it was directed at Itachi himself or his late father Fugaku was uncertain.

The old man looked at Itachi, as he was letting his own emotions words sink in. The old man sighed. "And it is not just back then. But even now. When your own girlfriends, and the other girls you cherish show affection to you. You rarely respond, when you are backed into a corner you give in a little, but not fully."

"Man, I want to have sex with Rias, Akeno, Kuroka, Raven, Koneko, Eto, and that Gabriel… She looked so beautiful and sexy, just radiated pure womanhood. And Ravel, I want to grab her by the twin tails and just ram myself into her!" Lust thrusted his hips forward with a grunt, and Itachi visibly cringed and twitched his brow at his emotion's choice of words and behavior. "I want to bury my face between Akeno's fat ass cheeks and eat her out, while Rias rides me like a horse, preferably with Rias wearing short shorts, and Akeno wearing Yoga pants. So that I can rip the pants open with my teeth and take in the full flavor of her sweat and juices-"

"Okay enough!" Itachi raised his voice, and for once looked a bit flustered as he rubbed his temple feeling a headache coming along.

"No, accept your feelings." The old man scolded and allowed Lust to ramble on with various different sex positions he wanted to try on some of the girls. And in quite excruciating detail, much to Itachi's embarrassment.

"I want to shower them all with my unconditional love, and let them know how much I cherish them! Oh, and I want to become a father one day!" Love added once Lust was done rambling.

"I want to see them all smile and live a good long life with them!" Joy added.

"*Burp! I want to lay back in bed with them and relax." Lazy added.

"I am worried though, will they leave once they find out the truth?" Fear added, and the mood quickly changed.

"Without a doubt, they will be repulsed by my actions." Disgust added.

"I don't want to see them cry…" Sad sniffled.

"I should reveal my feelings to them! It cannot wait any longer!" Courage added.

"I… don't deserve it!" Hatred added with a reluctant snarl. "Not after having slayed so many… become a father? What right do I have to become a father? When I have robbed fathers of sons and daughters… when I have robbed children of fathers and mothers. I am a murderer! And should repent for my crimes!" Hatred's chains began to creak, like they were about to break. "Those that I have loved! I have killed! I have tortured! I have no right to happiness!"

"…" Itachi silently took in the words of his emotions, and stoically he just stared at Hatred, which only seemed to fuel the emotions power even further.

The old man whilst finishing his cup of tea, looks to Itachi. "You must let go of your past, let go of Itachi Uchiha. The child raised by warfare, raised to be a solider, the child who was given the impossible choice to save many against the lives of a few, a child who knew not how to express love for his younger brother other than grant him a purpose and the tools to make a path for him." Before Itachi can even attempt to protest the child comments. "Although you were quite mature for your age, intellect wise, a child is still a child. A teenager is still a teenager. As a child, you made the choices you thought were for the best at the time. And as you grew, you even realized the flaws and faults of your own life choices."

"… Are you saying I should forget about Sasuke? Shisui? Izumi? Fugaku? Mikoto? Should I just forget everything I was?" At hearing this the old man only laughs out loud, causing Itachi to jump a bit from being startled.

"No, of course now. What I am telling you, is to let go. Let go of the guilt. Stop trying to escape from the choices that have brought you here. Embrace, all that you have done, all your guilt, and accept that history is done. Embrace what your choices have made you, and what you are today. Otherwise, you are bound to make the same mistakes again." The old man said as each of the emotions glanced at the baffled looking Itachi. "You don't have to like what you have done to get to this point. But you must realize you cannot change what you have done. You cannot change the past, but the future is always in motion. Stop running from your past, turn around, and embrace them. That way, the future can finally bloom."

Itachi flinches, clearly still not fully convinced as Fear and Sad also winch showing his feelings. As his mind fall to his loved ones. "But, Rias, Sona, Akeno… everyone they would-"

The old man chuckles once more. "Hate you? My dear boy, I think we have established long ago, that is impossible. I think you know. That they will never hate you." The old man revealed, as Love and Joy seemed to nod in agreement and smile brightly. And Courage puffed his chest out and gave a strong firm nod of acknowledgment as well. "True, they might get confused. Hearing you are reincarnated from a different life, sure, who wouldn't be? Would they feel pity on you? Perhaps. Would they be disappointed in some of the choices you have made? Be repulsed by them? Maybe. But that still doesn't change the fact, you are still the same boy they have all grown up with and come to know and love."

"Because they love, they cannot hate me? Didn't stop Sasuke." Itachi pointed out, with a regretful look on his face. And yet again, the old man sighs.

"Sasuke was forged and molded by you and your own guilt into hating you. You told him to hate you. An impressionable, young fragile boy. But, Rias, Sona, Serafall, Akeno, Kuroka, Koneko, Jack, Raven, Damian, Bob, Harry, even Issei… They are not an eight-year-old, easily impressionable Sasuke. You need to realize. They are not as fragile as you think they are."

Itachi stands there in silence, doing some self-reflecting. Thinking back on his time as Itachi Uchiha, the Shinobi, the killer, the warrior, the pragmatic mission minded ANBU, the spy, the liar, the self-sacrificing selfish dotting older brother. And then thought on his time as Itachi Sitri, the Devil prince, loving carefree brother, boyfriend to Rias and Akeno, friend and brother to Sairaorg, one who fights to protect his loved ones, one who strives for peace and tries to be more optimistic, the one who fears to lose all those around him. The snapping of shackles, chains breaking vibrated through the space and echoed in Itachi's mind.

Hatred broke free from his binds, and jumped at Itachi with killing intent. "…" Itachi gazed at Hatred, as the emotion turned into Itachi dressed in his ANBU gear, with his mask covering his face, and a blood-stained sword in hand. Then transitioning over to Itachi in his Akatsuki cloak. Itachi smiled at the charging Hatred, and opened his arms welcoming the attack. A wave of emotions washed over Itachi, reliving all the memories of his past life and from his current one. It was enough to make Itachi shed tears. He brought his arms around the charging Hatred in an embrace, causing the vengeful emotion to halt and look in awe. "I'm sorry…" Itachi spoke in a broken-down voice. "For everything, I was wrong."

At this, Love smiled and looked at Itachi. "I forgive you." Love spoke directly to Itachi, signifying that Itachi loved himself and the new life he has built. And Hatred seems to simmer down, and look drowsy as Itachi's own self-hatred faded away as well.

The old man nodded his head in approval, as he also noticed Itachi's Sharingan beginning to morph and change its shape. "You best be on your way." The old man tilts his rice hat down a bit.

Itachi could feel it, he was waking up. However, looking to this old man he needed to know one last thing. "Wait, who are you?" Itachi asks and the old man, yet again chuckles.

"Just some silly old man, who loves himself a good cup of tea and good company. But I think you already know who I am." At this Itachi only look confused, he did not recognize the man at all.

"I do?" The old man sighs and shakes his head, as he tips up his rice hat letting his face come to view, revealing a Sharingan eye.

"Why, I am you of course. Who else would I be?" The old man version of Itachi smiles. And the young Itachi looked stunned as he faded away from his subconscious and was waking up in the real world.

The intense clash of Cao Cao, Behemoth and Harry echoed and vibrated through the earth and the air. Behemoth groaned as he found himself pushed back from the intense aura of the True Longinus. That is when Behemoth noticed, that Harry on the other hand was pushing forward. Harry had Cao Cao pinned down, veins bulging around the old man's arms, and flames burning as bright as the sun itself.

One of Cao Cao's black spheres glowed, and added power to his spear. "Cakkaratana!" The True Longinus unleashed a pulse of energy, that clashed with the Flame Sword of Pride. Harry gasped as his blade cracked, as the head of his Sacred Gear snapped in two. Harry with his spirit could rebuild it later of course, but not right now when he needed it the most.

"Dammit!" Harry began throwing punches into the light barrier. Using the power of his Devil Fruit to create ripples and cracks in the air around it. Cao Cao grunted, and continued to unleash the divine power of his spear that burnt Harry's fists. "I won't let the boy's efforts go to waste! I will protect everyone! The Sins! And Itachi! Itachi's courage and resilience! Fuels my power!" Harry unleashed a battle cry as he continued the bombardment of punches that caused cracks to erupt in Cao Cao's barrier.

"Courage?! Resilience?! Itachi Sitri was a devil and just that! A mere cowardly entity of darkness with the only purpose of poisoning humanity like a cancer! I will eradicate that cancer! By eliminating all of you Seven Deadly Sins!" Cao Cao retorted, as the power of his True Longinus continued to fight back against Harry's relentless attacks that shook the entire domain.

Behemoth snarled at the disrespect Cao Cao spoke of in regards to the young master. Behemoth looked to Harry, and the other Sins that continued to fight on bravely for their master. Putting their life on the line. Seeing the lengths, the Sins go through to protect Itachi, ignited a newfound respect for the Sins in Behemoth. "Harry Newgate…" Behemoth spoke, and the Sin of Pride gave him a side glance. "You are a fine warrior." Behemoth acknowledged Harry, who was caught off guard at hearing praise from Behemoth. "Bob, you are a valiant fighter and strong… Raven, you are wise and powerful… Jack, you are loyal and a skilled fighter… Kuroka, you are as goodhearted as the young master and quite cleaver… Damian, you are very skilled and loyal… Eto, you are every bit as cunning as the young master, and very powerful… The Seven Deadly Sins, you all are fine members of Itachi Sitri's honored peerage. I trust that you will look after the young master, and help him gain a prosperous future." All the Sins look stunned at hearing such praise from Behemoth, who previously only looked at them as an unworthy bunch.

In another surprising display, and without a word, Behemoth tossed his battle axe to Harry without as much giving the old man a glance. Harry wordlessly grabbed ahold of the battle axe, catching the massive battle axe ablaze in flames. The blade of the axe vibrated with the power of Harry's Devil Fruit. Harry with all his power, swung the battle axe at Cao Cao, clashing it with the True Longinus. "Haoshoku Haki!" With a mighty battle cry, Harry used conqueror's Haki to weaken Cao Cao's spirit just enough for him to buckle under the pressure of Harry's strike.

Cao Cao dropped his guard from the intense pressure, and Harry slashed the giant battle axe down. Cao Cao quickly jumps aside, as the scorching hot fire slashes through Dimension Lost, dispersing the fog and preventing Georg from restoring it, whilst also cutting down an armada of Leonardo's monsters and finally clashing into the Queen Anne's Revenge. Georg gasps and quickly teleports as his efforts of using Dimension Lost failed. Cao Cao grinds his teeth at this failure, and quickly thrusts his True Longinus spear forward, expanding the spear as it soared towards its target.

Itachi cracked his eyes open, his mind open and a feeling of acceptance having buried itself in his soul from this strange encounter with his older self. Itachi felt a blazing heat tickle against his skin, his blurry vision regaining its focus as he saw a field of fire. Harry wielding Behemoth's battle axe and having slashed through an armada of demonic beasts, having slashed Queen Anne's Revenge right down the middle splitting the ancient pirate ship in half, as well as burn through Dimension Lost itself. Itachi looked to who was standing next to Harry, and could only gasp in confusion and disbelief. Before Itachi's very eyes, Cao Cao ran the True Longinus spear right through Behemoth's chest.

Itachi's eyes widened, everything seemed to move so slowly as he could only lay there and watch as his master, mentor, and grandfather figure get pierced by the mightiest Sacred Gear. Behemoth from the looks of it, had accepted his fate and had tossed his axe to Harry to prevent Dimension Lost from getting restored. Behemoth reverted out from his monster form, and shrunk into the old frail grandpa like man he was. And also, Behemoth's Domain Expansion collapsed around them, taking them back to the real world. Behemoth's skin was starting to turn black like ash, Behemoth's gaze fell upon Itachi one last time. Seeing his young master awake, Behemoth smiled with relief that Itachi was alive. Behemoth let out a tiering gasp as his body crumbled away into ash. The True Longinus, and its holy divine powers not only erasing Behemoth's body, but also his very soul.

Itachi's facial expression is frozen in one of disbelief. A single drop of tear falling from his eyes. As he is brought back to his earliest memories of Behemoth. Serafall had brought a young 4-year-old Itachi before the old magical master Behemoth. "It-tan, this is my servant Behemoth. He is going to train you in using magic and perfect your demonic power." Serafall introduced the two.

At the time, still having the mind of an adult, Itachi had politely bowed to the old master. "I will be in your care then, Behemoth-sensei." Itachi had also smiled at the old master, and Behemoth returned it with a light chuckle.

"Don't you worry Serafall-ojousama, I will make sure your little brother gets the best treatment, we shall see what kind of potential this young boy has. Come now young master." And that is how it started. It didn't take long for Behemoth to get impressed with Itachi's talent. And they grew their bond as teacher and student.

Behemoth had always been a mentor to Itachi, in more ways than one. After having helped young Shirone open up, and having rescued Kuroka. Itachi had discovered the feelings the girls around him had grown for him. The young Itachi, despite having the mind of an adult was mostly inexperienced in these types of situations, and sought guidance from Behemoth who had been alive for centuries.

"Behemoth-sensei… may I ask you a question?" The young Itachi suddenly asked during their break from training, sounding rather shy and embarrassed which was rare.

Behemoth having caught onto these strange feelings of distress from his young master, responded with a calm. "What's wrong, young master?"

"Well… uh, th-this friend I have… a friend." Itachi felt a bit silly saying this, but he didn't want to rush to conclusions and decided to keep names out of this conversation.

"A friend, huh?" Behemoth raised his brow, and smirked underneath his bushy beard. Without a doubt having a good idea of what was happening.

"Yes, a friend." Itachi affirmed, sounding firm as he said it. "Well, he recently discovered… that some close… friends of his… girls… and these girls appear to be interested in him. And he is unsure of how to respond… he doesn't wish to turn them down, not wanting to hurt them. But if he… accepts he is worried they might end up hurt in the future… I am unsure of what to do. I-In saying to help my friend, I was hoping you could offer some wisdom."

Behemoth let out light chuckles, it wasn't everyday one saw young Itachi act his age. "Well, sounds like he is quite the popular young man, this friend of yours. My advice would be… to tell your friend to ask himself what it is he wants deep down. And once he knows this, to give his answer to these young maidens. Make sure your friend, understands he needs to consider his own needs as well. If his desires don't align with these young maidens, well then there is nothing to be done but be honest. But if they happen to do, tell your friend to cherish the love these young maidens have for him. Cherish the times they spend together, every moment, and most of all make sure to not let opportunity for love slip by. To be beloved, is a wonderful thing. And it makes us stronger."

Itachi took in Behemoth's words of advice, and tried to reflect on what it was he wanted. In that moment, Itachi realized he deeply cared for these new people in his life. But at the same time, he felt he needed to explore these feelings more to fully understand his wants. "I got it. Thank you for the advice, Behemoth-sensei. I promised to play with Sona and a few other friends earlier, so I must be going now."

Behemoth nodded and waved Itachi off. "Give my regards to Rias-chan~" Behemoth teasingly called out causing the young Itachi to freeze up a bit. Itachi's cheeks a bit red, as it seemed Behemoth had seen right through him. Not saying another word, the young Itachi left.

Itachi's mind went to his final exam as Behemoth's student. Having flawlessly perfected Behemoth's teachings and beyond. Behemoth walked up to his beloved student, who at first had come before him as a mere boy, and now stood before him as a young man. Behemoth put his hand on Itachi's shoulder, and looked at the stunned Itachi with teary misty eyes. "Itachi… you are my pride and joy." Behemoth declares as Itachi had officially finished his training.

Brought back to reality, Itachi stared at the empty space of air where Behemoth had stood. Seeing nothing but a cloud of black ash being blown away. Meanwhile, Harry angrily grunted at Cao Cao and with a war cry over Behemoth's death, Harry held onto Behemoth's battle axe and swung it down rapidly onto Cao Cao. The nimble Cao Cao however, easily dodged and avoided the flaming slashes of the battle axe. Cao Cao moved like a dancer, and chuckled as he thrusted his True Longinus forward slashing a gash wound at Harry's arm.

"I must say I am surprised you can even stand. You who were once an impressive human… is now nothing more than a pathetic devil." Cao Cao snarled at the sweating and huffing Harry. Harry was in pain, but he toughened it through and continued to fight on.

Itachi sits up, to which he startled Rias, Akeno and Koneko who were tending to him while the Sins and the others fought off the Hero Faction and the rampaging Yasaka. And a rampaging Sona helped her peerage fight off Connla and Alex's crew from the Queen Anne's Revenge. They gasp with relief at seeing him awake, although their expressions of relief turn into a mournful one as they saw the pained look on Itachi's face. Although his face itself remained unchanging, the tears and his gaze of sadness was all they needed to tell that Itachi was in pain from Behemoth's death. "Itachi… I am so sorry." Rias shed a tear over Behemoth's death as well, as did Akeno and Koneko it was as if they felt the inner turmoil and pain in Itachi's heart.

Although their expressions change into one of awe, as they notice a certain change in the air currents around them. This sudden shift in the air, alerted everyone as all stopped fighting as they saw Itachi stand up. "Itachi… your eyes…" Rias gasps.

"He's awake?" Cao Cao looks in shock, how could a devil survive from being stabbed by his True Longinus?

'Itachi… don't tell me. Does the Shinto God energies in him really make him fully immune to the effects of Holy divine weapons?' Azazel asked himself in awe.

Itachi wordlessly walked towards the battlefield, the Hero Faction all frozen in a look of awe, as were the Sins, the Gremory and Sitri groups. "What is this sudden chill in the air?" Georg pondered at this sudden change.

Meanwhile, Tsukuyomi stood still and unharmed before an exhausted panting Serafall. She had thrown countless attacks and spells at the Moon God, but to no avail. Then suddenly both flinched as they felt this sudden change in the air. "This feeling… yes, he has done it." Tsukuyomi smiled with a feeling of success.

"It-tan…" Serafall's face was stricken with horror, it was as if she could feel the pain in her younger brother's heart.

Itachi's black hair blew around wildly in the wind, clearing his jet-black hair away from his eyes. His eyes burning with a red fury, as the black tomoe of his Sharingan began morphing. The Sharingan morphed into a black rotating pinwheel, then suddenly it morphed itself into the red flower of Sasuke's Mangekyou Sharingan. Before rotating once more, this time into a black flower version of Sasuke's Mangekyou, with the peddles on the flowers twisting and turning into a curve like Itachi's Mangekyou.

The acceptance of his past actions, and reliving his intense emotions both from his past and current life. Topped off with the death of his mentor pushing him over the edge, Itachi had awakened the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan. Standing on the cliffside watching over the battle, the unseen one smirked. "Everything is going according to plan… With the power of Gods at his hands, the boy shall become either a bringer of peace, or destruction." Having witnessed what he wanted, the unseen one vanished from sight in the blink of an eye.

The rampaging nine tailed fox that was Yasaka turned away from her battle against Saji, Lin and Sun Wukong. And in her blinded rampage and furry, Yasaka raised her giant claw at Itachi and swung to strike him down. Itachi offered but a quick glance at the rampaging Nine tailed fox, who suddenly froze on the spot. Its blue fox eyes turning into red with a visible Sharingan pattern. With a single glance, Itachi had tamed the rampaging Yasaka with his eyes.

Without even wording a command, Itachi had the rampaging Kyuubi attack the Hero Faction instead. "What the hell?!" Alex jumped out of the way as the claw of Yasaka slammed down onto where he stood. With a mighty roar, Yasaka blew away all the Hero Faction members but Cao Cao who remained standing. "Interesting…" Cao Cao smirked, feeling his body shivering from this sensation of danger.

Watching from the distance, Sun Wukong looks in awe, feeling his help wasn't needed, the Monkey King stroked his beard. "That boy… with a single glance, he tamed Yasaka. That is some impressive hypnosis."

While Sun Wukong was left amazed, Azazel was left trembling. 'This sensation… physically other than his eyes changing, Itachi's power hasn't changed. And yet, the air around Itachi had shifted. And somehow, his pool of demonic power seems to have grown as well… And his eyes emit a strange power, those black flames he used earlier to burn away the Dimension Lost. There is no mistaking it, those are Lady Amaterasu's powers.' Azazel falls to his knees as he looks upon Itachi in confusion. 'What is this feeling?'

Itachi gives Cao Cao a death glare, his anger fully directed at his teacher's murderer. Cao Cao despite feeling this sheer killing intent, snorts and readies his spear. "Heh, I have no idea how you are still alive… but it doesn't matter!" Cao Cao jumps at Itachi, with the True Longinus appearing to be charging up a powerful aura.

Itachi doesn't even look at the incoming Cao Cao, instead Itachi's body burns with a fiery aura. To this Cao Cao merely smirks. "Assault Mode, eh?" Cao Cao was prepared to deal with Itachi's most destructive Touki transformation, but he couldn't have been more wrong about the nature of this aura.

'No… that isn't Senjutsu… that fire… it's different than his Assault Mode…' Kuroka on the other hand had noticed the difference. And was in awe at what she was sensing.

"I will make sure to get the kill this time!" Cao Cao had a wicked smirk plastered on his face as he swung the spear down. The moment Cao Cao was in reach, the flames around Itachi explode and expand into a giant skeletal figure wielding a sword in hand. Cao Cao is fully caught off guard and in awe, as the spectral skeletal figure slashes its blade at Cao Cao cutting him across his torso.

The Hero Faction, the Sins, the Gremory group, the Sitri group, the deities watching over this land, everyone witnessing this gasp in awe. Cao Cao is flung backwards, as blood pours out from his slashed open torso. Cao Cao stabs his spear to the ground, as he attempts to stop himself whilst skidding backwards. Once he reaches a halt, Cao Cao falls onto one knee and coughs up blood. "Bastard…!" Cao Cao grunts as blood continues to erupt from his torso, and Cao Cao then passed out from blood loss.

"Cao Cao-sama!" Connla shouts from the remains of the Queen Anne's Revenge. Georg, Jeanne, Heracles, Alex and Leonardo, the remaining members of the main group of the Hero Faction rushed to grab their leader and retreat.

Itachi frowns upon the Hero Faction, as tears of blood drip down from his eye. "Burn to death…" Itachi snarled.

"Balance Breaker: Night Reflection Death Cross!" Connla's body was enveloped in the darkness of his shadow. Black shadowy armor covers his body, resembling Issei's Scale Mail armor. "I won't let you shatter our aspirations, villain!" Connla declared as he unleashed a tsunami wave of darkness towards Itachi.

The air around Itachi shifted once more, this time directed towards his right eye that cried blood. "Amaterasu!" Itachi's right eye widened as everything within his line of sight, which was Connla's wave of darkness was suddenly caught ablaze in the black fire of Amaterasu. The black flames of the Sun Goddess made quick work of the darkness and burnt through it all. Leaving Connla awestruck, his shadows were capable absorb and redirect any attack thrown at him. But the heat of the black flames was far too powerful, the flames that had burnt through Dimension Lost itself made quick work of Connla's shadows and burnt through them without any issue.

Marsilio with his concealment stealth skills appeared out from Itachi's shadows, a barrier forms itself around Marsilio and expands itself around himself and Itachi. "Dreamlike Curse: Paraselene Utopia!" Itachi with an annoyed look takes quick looks and glances around him. Seeing himself trapped in a warped reality. Time was speed up, and the sun was rising and setting in the matter of seconds.

"My Sacred Gear, allows me to control your perception of time and space itself. In this world, I am God. I will break your spirit apart, devil!" Marsilio's voice went around like an echo. As Itachi's body began to physically age, and the painful sensation of disease, famine, thirst and battle wounds vibrated through his very being. The pain felt all too real, as Itachi's body was aging, he was experiencing the pain he would have experienced in life tenfold at a rapid rate. Itachi with a stoic carefree look, glanced at his hand seeing it withering away into dust.

"… I have defeated a God greater than you." Itachi closed his right eye, and his left eye widened open with his Eternal Mangekyou spinning. "Tsukuyomi: Nightmare Realm!" The very space around them became warped, and time began reversing itself backwards. Itachi's body was restoring itself and he regained his youth. The sky turned red with black clouds, and the very space around them turned black and white.

Time, space and physical matter itself was slipping out from Marsilio's control, as Itachi was bending it all through his sheer will. Marsilio let out panicked gasps, as suddenly his body manifested itself before Itachi. "How… What did you…? This is my world, my domain… you can't do this! It's impossible! Here I am God!" Marsilio exclaimed before Itachi, clearly distressed that Itachi had reversed the illusion onto Marsilio himself. "How are you doing this?! How are you using my own power against me?" Marsilio found himself wheezing, feeling a sudden thirst overcoming his dry throat. Falling to his knees, Marsilio was wheezing and his stomach growling from hunger.

Itachi coldly looked down onto Marsilio, whose body was getting wrinkled and his lips cracked and dry. His eyes looked sunken in, as his body was starting to resemble a walking skeleton. His black hair was falling out and so were his teeth. Marsilio looked on with fear, as he gazed into the void that was Itachi's Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan. "Do I look like I need your power?" Itachi looked with a haunting stoic gaze that sent shivers of fear down Marsilio's spine. "Your weak domain, was simply overtaken by mine. This, is my own power."

Back to reality, the energy bubble around Marsilio and Itachi collapsed. Marsilio fell to his knees, drool falling from his gaping mouth, his black hair having turned pure white from fear and stress, his eyes rolled into the back of his head. His mind broken to the point, where his own brain thought Marsilio had suffered from famine and thirst and advanced aging, and thus Marsilio's brain had shut itself down, effectively killing the Hero Faction member. Marsilio's mind having been led to believe, the effects of his own Sacred Gear had aged Marsilio to the point of death. Itachi having merely used an illusion reversal with his Tsukuyomi, to flip Marsilio's world upside down and against him. In what had taken less than 0,00000001th of a second Marsilio had his whole illusion world overtaken by Itachi, and been killed as a result.

Connla gasped and cried out in pain, as the flames of Amaterasu had burnt through his shadows and clashed into his own body. "Well done, Connla, Marsilio. Your service will not be forgotten." Georg as the second in command of the Hero Faction congratulated the sacrifice of Connla and Marsilio. As Georg while holding onto the still breathing Cao Cao, vanished through Dimension Lost along with the rest of the main members plus Perseus and Zhuge Liang.

Connla despite the intense pain, began laughing maniacally. "My death! Shall grant the heroes another day to slay you villains! Your end is near! Villains!" Connla cried out, but was quickly silenced as in his anger Itachi made the black flames burn brighter. In the end, the remaining lower body of Connla fell to the ground in a thud, his lower body still burning to ash as with the rest of his body.

Itachi looks on in silence, as the rampaging Yasaka was also put to sleep behind him. The spectral skeletal warrior around Itachi began to fade away, and the black flames burning Connla all vanished leaving nothing behind of the shadow Sacred Gear wielder.

"Amazing…" Rias was the first to break the silence, as she and everyone else looked at Itachi in awe. All but Azazel who looked downright terrified.

'Those black flames… overtaking the illusion of the Dreamlike Curse sacred gear… that spectral warrior. Abilities of Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi and Susano'o… Itachi is more of a Shinto God than he is a Devil at this point. The fact that he has grown an immunity towards divine weapons, and even to the True Longinus the strongest Sacred Gear there is… All of this is proof enough, for Itachi to claim himself a Shinto God.' Azazel quakes in his boots, and sweats in fright. 'This is bad… Itachi's mere existence defies all the natural laws of the Supernatural world. A devil, born with the power of Gods. And now that those powers have been awakened. This event could shake the very foundation of the Supernatural world. Whoever gave Itachi these powers… are planning something big. But who? Me and Sirzechs have already made a long list of suspects long ago. But we are still not any closer to figuring it out. At this point, I almost have to agree with Michael and Gabriel… maybe the old man had a hand in this before his death. As a part of his plan. He always was fucking cryptic when it came to sharing his plan with us Angels.' Azazel looks rather bitter, as he thinks back upon the old man, the God of the Bible. Thinking back to a very distant memory, before his fall and one of his last times coming face-to-face with his creator.

Flashback

God, was known by many names Yahweh, Elohim, Allah, but to all Angels he was merely known as father. Seated on a white throne within the kingdom of Heaven, sat an entity with human like features, but he was so engulfed by the light his full form could not come to view. This was the mightiest of all the mortal Gods, the one who singlehandedly could carry an entire Pantheon on his own. Only surpassed by the entities of Infinity known as Ophis and Great Red. He was a God of many mysteries. God had the incredible power of foresight and omnipresence. He could be everywhere and nowhere all at once. And like Ophis and Great Red, Yahweh was the only other God that was omnipotent in power. Able to create entire universes on a mere whim, breathe life into anything he touched. He was a benevolent God that loved his creation unconditionally. Yet his ways, was far too confusing for Azazel in his younger days, even to this day to comprehend.

"What do you mean you are planning for the end of times?! Are you going to destroy your own creation at some point?!" A young Azazel voiced out his questions in confusion, while several other Angels surrounded them such as Michael and Gabriel.

"Not planning. More like predicting. All things reach their end at some point. Such is the natural order of things. All I do, is a wave here and there. And the rest flow as they shall." The Biblical God spoke in a calm and patient demeanor towards his outraged and confused son. "I foresee a great change in the far distant future. One that will either lead to peace… or a great calamity. A future, in which I am no longer on this plane of existence."

At hearing their father speak such words, Michael, Gabriel, Azazel and all the Angels look in shock. "Are you saying you will die, daddy?" Gabriel asks with worry, her eyes nearly watery at the thought of losing her beloved father.

God only smiled at his children. "All things die. But nothing ever truly disappears." Azazel groaned at the cryptic answer. As always Azazel could never fully wrap his head around the meaning of the old man's words. It frustrated Azazel to no end.

Even upon the day of his own fall, Azazel was not met with contempt from his father, but with love. "You and your damn rules is what has driven us to this point! You wish to separate us Angels into two categories, then you best prepare for war, father!" Azazel in his rougher irrational younger days, stood with Kokabiel, Shemhazai, Baraqiel by his side as they were being judged by their own brethren, their own kin and their own father.

"My word is my word. Just as your choices Azazel, are your own. My children, your paths are chosen by yourselves. As your father, I wish you nothing but luck on your journey." God smiled with love, as he expelled Azazel and the other Fallen ones from his divine realm. "All that I do, I do because I love you." The final words Azazel heard from his own creator, as he was cast down to the Underworld with his fellow rebellious Angels.

Finally, Azazel remembered the end days of the war. Kokabiel came to him and Shemhazai acting all cheerful. "Have you heard? The Four Maou and the old man are dead! We Fallen Angels have the numbers, and the power needed to win this war!" Kokabiel declared with an obnoxious laughter.

Azazel however, tuned out Kokabiel's laughter. For the first time in his life, Azazel was absolutely flabbergasted. He showed no emotion or feeling, he merely narrowed his eyes and declared. "The war is over… I have offered a seize fire to both the other factions." Azazel declared, to which Kokabiel seized his laughter.

"Huh?" Kokabiel lowered his arms, and trembled in intense fury. "Azazel…! What did you just say?!" Not being met with a respond, Kokabiel swung his arm back in outrage creating a spear of light. "What do you mean the war is over?! We were about to win! What the hell did we even fall for, if you just give up!"

"That's enough!" Baraqiel came up behind Kokabiel and restrained him, dragging him out of the room.

"Let me go! Baraqiel! Do you not realize what this fool has just done?! He made our entire rebellion! Our entire reason for falling meaningless! You coward!" Kokabiel in his outrage shouted as he was dragged out of the room, his curses towards Azazel deafening as he was dragged further away, and in the end, Azazel was left with nothing but silence.

Azazel, leaning over his desk is overcome with a wave of emotion. Grinding his teeth, as tears leak out from his eyes at the thought of his father. A clearer image of his creator, an elegant looking tall man with gentle multi colored eyes. And divine glowing locks of hair made of pure light. Dressed in a well-kept white suite. Of course, this was but one of the many forms his father would take. But this form, or rather "suit" was the one his father most frequently wore.

God stood towering over Azazel in the memory, and petted the blushing Azazel's head. Azazel back then, felt embarrassed at receiving affection from their divine father. "We all are free to make our own choices." Are the echoing words that stuck with Azazel, making him crumble and weep in his seat.

"Why did you have to die? You shitty old man…!" Azazel's voice trembled, he sounded broken. From that day on, Azazel devoted his life to researching his father's works. And found the Sacred Gears to be quite intriguing. Especially the ones containing the Legendary Dragons, said to be the last Sacred Gears the old man created. As he singlehandedly defeated both Albion and Ddraig and made them into Sacred Gears, before moving on to confronting all the Four Maou and killing them as well before his own death. Azazel had also heard rumors that his father, had also fought against the Lord of Purgatory Trigon as well as the Apocalypse Beast known as 666 mere moments prior to confronting Albion and Ddraig. Trigon and this Apocalyptic beast, were two beings said to nearly rival the Biblical God's own power. God defeated the Lord of Purgatory and sealed him and the Apocalyptic beast within a thousand layered seal. Trapping them within Purgatory. Azazel had deduced that these rumors were true, and that all these great battles had left his father so weakened to the point where his physical body was destroyed.

Flashback end

Back in present day, Azazel looks upon Itachi with wonder. 'What destiny awaits you, Itachi? For now, I am certain, that the great change father spoke of, is you.'

Itachi wordlessly approached Sona, who was looking concerned for her Rook that was still petrified in stone from Perseus' Sacred Gear. "Onii-sama… Tsubasa, she is…" Wordlessly Itachi stepped past Sona and to the petrified Tsubasa. His Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan meeting the petrified gaze of Tsubasa. Suddenly, the process was beginning to reverse, starting from Tsubasa's eyes as the stone began retracting.

Sona, Tsubaki and Azazel who saw this gasped in awe. As suddenly the stone covering Tsubasa's body broke and she fell out letting out a loud exhale, and began breathing heavily, whilst looking around for any sign of the enemy.

"Tsubasa! It's okay… it's okay…" Sona grabbed ahold of her Rook, who looked beyond confused.

"Sona… Kaichou? What are you doing here?" Tsubasa questioned in bewilderment. "What happened?"

"It's quite the story… Just rest for now." Sona advised her Rook, who collapsed into Tsubaki's arms, all tuckered out.

Azazel's gaze was in disbelief as he looked at Itachi, remembering his own words on how one could save Tsubasa. "… A curse brought upon by a God, can only be broken by another God." Azazel mumbled to himself.

Itachi turned his focus to Yasaka. The giant sleeping nine tailed fox, Yasaka. Started to shrink as it gained more humanoid like features, Yasaka reverted back to her base form. Still, the blond older Kitsune beauty was fast asleep. Her clothes remaining intact despite the monstrous transformation, and her nine golden furred tails wrapped around her sleeping body like a blanket.

"Mother! Mother" Kunou ran out from the crowd, and rushed to her sleeping mother. Young Kunou wept uncontrollably as she began shaking her sleeping mother. "Mother, please wake up! Mother!" Kunou with a runny nose and teary eyes looked up to Itachi, who approached her from behind. Looking up on the stoic looking devil prince, Kunou was filled with uncertainty. Itachi wasn't anything like she remembered from last year, his kind smile gone and replaced with a robotic face lacking any feeling. No, his eyes held a great sadness in them.

Wordlessly, Itachi knelt down before Yasaka and placed his hand onto her sleeping head. Whilst holding his free hand up in a hand seal. 'Release!' Itachi's Eternal Mangekyou Glowed, as Yasaka's body began to pulse, her heartbeat echoing all around them like a drum.

As Itachi removed his hand from Yasaka's head, the older Kitsune began groggily opening her eyes. Revealing their natural golden like iris color. "Mother!" Kunou seeing this hugged her mother, burying her weeping face into her mother's bosom.

"Kunou?" Yasaka's mother instincts seemed to kick in, as she didn't even bother to ask what had happened and immediately tended to her crying daughter. "Hey, what's wrong? Did something happen? You are always so easily to cry… Hush now, mother is right here…" Yasaka gently embraced her daughter, nuzzling her cheek upon Kunou's head.

"Mother…" Kunou hiccupped and continued to cry uncontrollably.

Despite his mournful state, Itachi's lips lightly cracked up into a smile upon seeing the mother daughter duo embrace in a tight hug. His smile was short lived however, as Itachi turned to walk towards the remains of his mentor. Itachi stood before a pile of black ashes that was what remained of Behemoth. His mentor's life not only having been taken, but his very soul having been shattered into nothingness. There was no afterlife for Behemoth, there was only nothingness now as his very being had been erased from existence by the divine power of the True Longinus.

"… I'm sorry." The hulking Harry Newgate said, as he stood there with his shoulders slumped whilst holding onto Behemoth's battle axe. "If I had only been…" Harry clenched his fists, expressing great regret that he could not save Behemoth in the end.

"… I don't blame you, Harry." Itachi spoke in a monotone voice.

"I… Still, I am sorry." Harry presented the battle axe to Itachi. The burning flames from Harry's Sacred Gear, having left the axe a bit smoldered with ashes. Itachi looked at his mentor's weapon, grabbing onto its handle, Itachi effortlessly lifted the huge heavy battle axe.

Thinking Itachi would accept his master's former weapon, Harry was instead left stunned as the battle axe suddenly began to crack. Looking in awe, Harry saw the blue aura emitting from Itachi as he poured it into the battle axe. The cracks on the axe spread like a cobweb, with blue tendrils of light escaping between the cracks. The giant battle axe then shattered like glass. Blue glints rained down around them. "W-Why would you destroy it?!" Harry asked in bewilderment.

"… I didn't." Itachi replied as the blue glints from the battle axe all fused into the broken Leviathan Blade. "I will carry on my master's will… but a battle axe isn't really my style of weapon." The pieces of the battle axe, filled in the cracks and damaged areas caused by Cao Cao, restoring the blade. Fusing the powers of the battle axe that was capable of manipulating the earth itself, into the Levithan Blade that could control the seas and thunder storms. The Leviathan Blade glowed bright blue, as its shape slightly altered with the blade itself appearing more curved than before. And pieces of the metal from the battle axe, imbedded into the blade along with the spare parts of Mjolnir.

The blade itself vibrated, causing debris of rock to rise up, stormy winds and thunderbolts rained down around Itachi. The nearby ocean began looking unruly, similar to how it had done when Susano'o appeared to help them against Loki.

"As I figured… compared to the rest of those Sharingan wielding mortals from that other world. Itachi's Sharingan seems to have been tampered with, and exceptionally buffed with my own, my siblings and parents' energies." Sensing this, Tsukuyomi smiled as he felt the presence of himself, his brother, sister, mother and father all emitting from Itachi currently like a raging storm. And also proving that Tsukuyomi and likely the Shinto Pantheon, and likely many other Gods were aware of the Shinobi world and the Uchiha clan. "I don't really care how Itachi came about having the Sharingan, what matters to me, is him having the potential of all the five strongest Shinto Gods put together. Itachi shall make a perfect addition to our ranks. As my own son." Tsukuyomi chuckled as he gazed upon the starry moon filled sky. "… A new Shinto God has been born." Tsukuyomi smirked feeling victorious.

"Argh!" Serafall wept tears, as she felt the sadness of her younger brother, she jumped to attack Tsukuyomi. The Moon God however blitzed Serafall, and restrained her by grabbing a hold of her right forearm with her magical girl staff. "Bastard!" Serafall's voice was filled with venom as she spat into Tsukuyomi's face.

"Whether you hate me, I couldn't care less. But for now… I need you to remember today's events differently. I cannot have Itachi be antagonistic towards me, that will put a wrench in my goal. Itachi shall become a Shinto God… And take Amaterasu's place one day." Tsukuyomi placed his thumb onto Serafall's forehead, meeting the Leviathan's furious gaze, Serafall found herself in a trance like state unable to move as she met the illuminating gaze of Tsukuyomi. "When you awake, you shall remember it as such. We were ambushed by a large force of Khaos Brigade's soldiers, trying to keep us at bay away from the battle. Sacred Gear wielders, Old Maou Faction supporters, Dragons, all attacked us. I used my Domain Expansion, and together you and I dispatched of the enemy within my realm. But we arrived too late to be of any aid against the Hero Faction." Serafall's eyes rolled backwards, as she collapsed into Tsukuyomi's arms. "All is for our ultimate victory over Khaos Brigade."

Serafall groggily opened her eyes, and looked in bewilderment as she found herself resting in Tsukuyomi's arms. "You are awake…" Tsukuyomi greeted the Leviathan with a monotone-like voice.

"Tsukuyomi-dono…" Serafall mumbled, her mouth and throat feeling dry. "Where is the enemy?" Serafall looked around, the memory altering technique of Tsukuyomi seeming to be in full effect.

"We successfully dispatched of them. You showed brilliant fighting prowess, Serafall-dono. But I am afraid we were a bit too late…" Tsukuyomi gazed in the direction where Itachi and the others were.

Serafall instantly caught on, and jumped out from Tsukuyomi's arms as she rushed down the staircase and to the aftermath of the battle. Tsukuyomi wordlessly followed after Serafall.

Itachi sheeted his Leviathan Blade, and looked upon the ashes remains of Behemoth. The black smoldering ash blew away a bit in the wind, revealing two shiny pieces. Reaching down into the pile of ashes, Itachi picked up two Rook chess pieces, colored in a see-through ice like color. Itachi grunts as he clenches his grip onto the pieces, letting the feeling of grief wash over him.

No one said a word, most looked mournful on Itachi's behalf. And all respectfully decided to give Itachi his time to grieve. "It-tan!" The crying voice of Serafall called out, and Itachi looked like he jumped a bit. As he turned around to the source, he was suddenly jumped as Serafall embraced him. "Are you okay? I'm sorry Onee-chan couldn't be here… we were ambushed by the enemy. A group of Sacred Gear wielders, Old Maou Faction supporters, Dragons, members of Khaos Brigade. Tsukuyomi-dono and I tried to blast them away as quickly as we could… Onee-chan is sorry she couldn't be here to help, I'm so sorry…"

"Nee-san… I am the one who should be sorry…" Itachi mumbled, as Serafall pulled her face out from Itachi's chest and looked baffled, seeing not only the grief-stricken expression on Itachi's face. But also, from seeing his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.

"Itachi… Your eyes, they've changed again…" Serafall brushed her hand across Itachi's cheek, looking frantic as she examined Itachi's eyes. "Wait… what's wrong… Why do you have that look on your face?"

"… I'm sorry." Itachi couldn't manage to muster out any other words, and simply held out the Rook pieces.

"Huh?" Serafall looked down at the Rook pieces in Itachi's hand, and a look of disbelief grew on Serafall's face. Serafall instantly recognized the pieces as hers, the ones she had given to Behemoth centuries ago. "Wait… why do you?" Serafall picked up the Rook pieces from Itachi's hand, and tears began rolling down from her eyes as it dawned on her. "No… It can't be… oh no!" Serafall breaks down crying at the death of her first servant, old friend and advisor. "Khaos Brigade… Hero Faction! Damn them, I will crush them all! I swear it!" Serafall cursed as she continued to cry in her younger brother's arms. Whilst the youngest Sitri sibling, watched mournfully from the sidelines. Anger bubbling within her for the pain the Hero Faction had caused her older brother and sister.

Tsukuyomi watching this, feels completely carefree at seeing the grief of Serafall and Itachi. Looking with a stoic expression, all Tsukuyomi could think of was. 'Behemoth sacrificing his life and soul, has finally brought Itachi to the next level. And with this sacrifice, we are one step closer to ending Khaos Brigade.'

Observing the situation from a distance, Sun Wukong looks on with a grim expression. "Hmm, the Shinto seem to be playing it dirty… That Tsukuyomi, he without a doubt erected this barrier to prevent my interference." Sun Wukong reached his hand out, revealing why he hadn't helped in the battle as an invisible wall stood before him. "That boy, seems to be of great interest to them. For Tsukuyomi go as far to prevent my interference."

Even if several hundred miles apart, Tsukuyomi cast a glance in Sun Wukong's direction. Both deities glared at each other from where they stood. Tsukuyomi's glare was enough for Sun Wukong to know his thoughts. "Interfere, and die." A threat in the case of Tsukuyomi, was not an empty one. Both were some of the strongest Gods there was, both ranging in the Top 20 of the World's strongest beings. If they fight, Sun Wukong predicted it could go either way, but the result for the world itself would be unfavorable. As such, Sun Wukong left without saying a word, or greet the group of Devils.

Whilst people looked with grief, Azazel cast a suspicious glare over the whole situation. Having noticed a huge flaw with what Serafall had said as she arrived. For her and Tsukuyomi to be held back by a group of enemies, be it from the Hero Faction or Khaos Brigade. 'It's not that I think Serafall is lying when she says she was held back from coming to help us. But, for a God like Tsukuyomi dealing with an army of foot soldiers. Sacred Gear wielders, Dragons, Devils or otherwise… It should have been an easy matter for him to finish them all off by himself. And even if Tsukuyomi had been late to arrive to help Serafall, Serafall should have managed by herself no problem. Something clearly doesn't add up…' Azazel narrowed his gaze onto the Moon God with great suspicion.

Itachi in the moment, couldn't bother to think of the same as Azazel. And was far more focused on holding his crying older sister. Itachi was also occupied with thinking of what to do next. The talk he had with that vision of his older self, or whatever that was. Had led to Itachi to reach a conclusion. '… I have to tell them all the truth.' Itachi thought, as he had fully braced himself for the possible consequences of revealing the truth. Itachi knew, he could hide the truth no longer, and he was ready to reveal the ugly truth which was Itachi Uchiha, the clan killer.

That's the end for now!

After all this waiting, the moment so many of you have been waiting for has finally come. Personally, I was pretty satisfied with how it turned out, what did you guys think? This moment was something I had planned since the very beginning, and done various version of in my head before I came up with this final product. At first, I planned for the True Longinus to take away Itachi's memories, and as the battle went on, he would regain them and the intense wave of emotions plus a certain death would awaken his EMS. But I decided this method was better, as it will also tie in with him revealing his past to everyone in the next chapter. That's right, two of the big things many of you have been waiting for. One here, and the other one is next.

Some of you are also probably wondering how strong Cao Cao is after this chapter. Yes, next to Susano'o, Cao Cao is so far the fastest character in this series. Being able to teleport like, or even better than the Yellow Flash Minato himself. But the fastest character introduced is still Susano'o judging by feats alone right now. But power wise, Cao Cao rivals Vali or even slightly surpasses him due to the True Longinus being the strongest Sacred Gear in existence. Remember, even though Cao Cao played a major part in Itachi's struggle during this battle, the reason Itachi struggled as much as he did was to the collective work of the seven main Hero Faction members. In a one-on-one, Itachi would absolutely win against Cao Cao, just wanted to make that clear.

The Sins thoughts on Jack!

Kuroka: She is loyal to Itachi, but she clings onto him way too much like a newborn.

Bob: She is cute, but dangerous. Although I know she has a soft spot for us by now.

Harry: Not one for many words. But is strong and loyal which I respect. Other than Itachi, she seems to get exceptional well along with Damian.

Damian: Cute! Must protect! She also has a cute little bubble butt. And, I can't believe these words are coming out of my mouth. I wish she would wear some pants, a skirt or something over that thong. She claims however she feels restricted wearing them in battle.

Eto: Curious little viper that one, I wonder how she came to be. I like her murderous killing intent~

Raven: She is quiet which I like. But I can't help but wonder of what her origin is.

Itachi: She is very attention and affection hungry. I do value her loyalty and her role in my peerage and family. Although I do wish she would stop calling me "mommy" in public.

But anyway, let me know your thoughts on the chapter. What did you think of the EMS awakening? Any thoughts on who trained the Hero Faction in how to fight the Sharingan? Or any thoughts on who the Unseen One might be?

Leave a review!

-Later!

(Responds to reviews):

Guest: Thanks!

KingInTheNorth27: Yeah, sorry for leaving you guys on that cliff hanger, and sorry to say it probably won't be the last. Hope you enjoyed the chapter.

Zerufuke: On the other hand, he also has a near eternal life to try and achieve it. Also really depends on how Itachi views peace. Before in the canon light novel, it was to force everyone to stop fighting by becoming the strongest. Now, he is trying to learn more from Naruto and be slightly more of an optimist than a pessimist. I just felt that would be the kind of character growth Itachi would have, try and be more optimistic. Something which he at times still struggles with in this story. I think Itachi himself realizes it is a near impossible goal, but one that will help him grow both in strength and as a person in the long run.

Dasgun: oo

dragon slayer of death 98: Hmm, I wasn't really planning on pairing Yasaka with anyone. Like you, I didn't like her with Issei either. And I kind of have set a limit to Itachi's harem already. Eh, you aren't the first to ask me this, and probably not the last either. I will give it some thought. And no, Yasaka will not be raped.

AlterInk: If you want to look at it that way, sure. But personally, I haven't seen that movie, so I have no idea how I could have referenced it XD.

Kakarotssj: That is an interesting idea. But personally, at this point I don't see Itachi joining Khaos Brigade. I have certain things planned though, and there are those of the elite in the current Maou faction that really dislike Itachi. Like Lord Bael.

Guest2001: It is not Shisui, I can say it is not a Naruto/Boruto character. I have dropped some breadcrumb hints as to who the Unseen One is, so far only really one has guessed it right and privately messaged me about it.

zakan: Yeah, that poor virgin Valkyrie's mind is about to explode with a lot of… suggestive ideas as to what to do to our man Bob.

andresskorkiruiz: Hope the battle was to your satisfaction, I admit I could have been a bit more brutal at some points. But Itachi certainly didn't pull any punches.

Guest: Thanks, and don't worry. This story will maybe have the appearance of other Naruto characters, like Itachi experienced visions of his father, mother, Izumi, Shisui and Danzo. But other than that, no inclusion of other Naruto cast members to the actual storyline. I do plan on Naruto and Sasuke appearing in the sequel, should I decide to make that.

TheHiddenLettuce: When the moment came for the EMS, oh he flexed on them alright. Direct one shot right there. More of the Unseen One will be explored in the next chapter, as well as Itachi's past reveal to everyone.

fallendemon248: That is a very good idea, I will definitely use that.

merendinoemiliano: Thanks!

codywhite162: Thanks! Hope you enjoyed it!

NaruCrazy: Hope the difference was to your satisfaction, not all of the Hero Faction may have died cause frankly they still serve some use to the plot. Just going to say, I don't plan on them redeeming themselves so… yeah.

GuEsT: You certainly speculated a lot of interesting points there. Some which is not totally out of reach from what I have actually planned. Not going to say what of course. And as it was revealed by Tsukuyomi, he and the other Shinto Gods are well aware of the existence of the Naruto verse. And as Itachi speculated himself here, maybe he was too arrogant to assume that some of these all-seeing Gods, didn't already know about the Sharingan. One thing I will reveal though, is that Shibai, is nothing in comparison to Ophis here. All those in the Top 10 here would destroy Shibai. If I were to rank Shibai he would be equal to some of those in the Top 20 strongest beings in this story. So, Shibai has nothing to do with why Ophis wants Itachi on her side. More like as it was mentioned by Tsukuyomi, how Itachi's Sharingan seems to have been tampered with from birth.

General Aladeen: That is true, had it been a basic EMS it wouldn't have been that much of a power boost in the grand scheme of things. But as Tsukuyomi suggested in this chapter, that Itachi's Sharingan seems to have been tampered with since birth. By the Unseen One, who btw is not Shibai Otsutsuki but not a bad guess. But no, the Unseen One isn't a Naruto/Boruto character. Also, I can't find what you tried to link, so sorry. Your theory although not correct, wasn't a bad guess. But I will say, Amaterasu and Susano'o would destroy Shibai Otsutsuki without a doubt. And as could Tsukuyomi, Izanami and Izanagi. Unlike Shibai, they are actual Gods. But again, not a bad theory.

Marcii Winters: Yeah, many people thought or hoped the same as you did. But at last, now, Itachi has awakened his EMS. It took a while, but we are here at last.

JohnDune21: Well, Itachi definitely had his work cut out form. But I am certain he has established how much of a threat he is to the Hero Faction.

Guest: Thanks, glad you enjoy it!

Sento Uzumaki: Not really the biggest fan of Bleach, so no can't say that I have.

Guest: Sorry for taking so long.

VzLucifer: Thanks! I appreciate your patience. As for Itachi becoming Trihexa's jinchuriki. Although it would be a major power boost, I think we should explore what limits Itachi can reach on his own. With his buffed up Sharingan as Tsukuyomi confirmed.

Guest: Sorry for taking so long.