Zeoticus Gremory felt his stomach sink after watching the slaughter of the youngest of Riser's Peerage at the hands of Issei Hyoudou. The head of the Gremory family was unsettled by the actions he had seen, so had many of the guests. Many of them were pale and looked sickly, even though most of those had lived either through the Devil Civil War or the Great War. To be honest, their deaths at mister Hyoudou's hands were brutal and feral. Most of those killed in the Great War and the Devil Civil War were done cleanly, not torn apart in a bloody display of cruelty.
Was Issei always this unhinged?
"My son isn't insane or a psychopath, Lord Gremory," Gorou huffed softly, causing Zeoticus to look over at the man, "He's carrying a monster that has made his life a living hell beyond all reason."
The elder being frowned at him before Gorou continued, "the thing in his soul is something that wants to devour everything completely. It tortured my son every night and then it tried to possess him on the night of the blood moon. We were very lucky that Asia was there to hug the demon back into place."
The mortal man chuckled at this before turning somber again, "he's currently fighting off possession, just barely but he is also facing something I wish I could protect him from after the events with Miyuki."
"Miyuki?"
"My sister, his aunt," Gorou said flatly, as though he was keeping himself from dredging up the memory, "one of the many victims of the N.T.R. 3336-0BB Drug."
Zeoticus blinked, having learned of the "Hentai scare" from a half a decade ago. The population of Earth was in an uproar before things became almost close to nuclear before calming down. However, looking into it showed that an entire section of the porn industry had been removed. That had been startling but also was the news that a blatant miracle had been produced in a hospital for some group of people. Zeoticus blinked as the dots connected and his mouth opened a bit in shock.
"Your sister was the one the miracle was given to."
"Yes," Gorou nodded, "my son found her getting violated by some masked…."
It was clear the man was trying not to curse as he shuddered before saying "the man was using her for his own pleasure. It was because of my ten year old son discovering this that his trauma over anything related to NTR or netorare started, his hatred for anyone degrading the fairer sex like what he saw his aunt become is a reasonable fear. It took my sister holding him for several days after that miracle to have him come back from the edge."
Zeoticus sighed, "so he's putting down the peerage of Riser because miracles won't work on them due to how holy they are in nature…"
"There will be no survivors tonight," Gorou said sadly, "for those that were injected with the drug, they will be put to rest. They won't stop until their master they have degraded themselves for says they're done. They will be put down like rabid animals, before Issei faces off against Riser. I pray that he can stave off possession long enough so that he wins so we can Asia to him."
The screen shook as the tower wall collapsed as Issei stood before the crowds saw the bodies of Ni and Li being held in his blood covered hands. Heads crushed, nothing more then gore that was attached to the neck as he drops the cadavers as the maid Pawns of Riser look at him in horror.
"Who wants to see a dead body?" The way his son said this, it sounded rather insulting and angry.
"Because I'm here to make more for the butcher!"
Both of the maids of Riser looked at him with horror painted across their faces as he dropped the bodies of Ni and Li, their blood and brain matter dripping off his clawed fingers as he gritted his teeth. Power flowed into his palms as he lept at Marion, the young woman's scream of horror getting caught in her throat as fear froze her in place. Issei thrusted his arm forward as three golden lights surged away from his palm, rushing at the maid with serpentine movements. The energy connected with Marion before ripping apart her body in an explosion of gore, as the young woman screamed finally escaped her dying body.
Her arm was blown straight off, crashing into Burent as red painted the ground and wall. Marions corpse collapsed, her chest blown open with two circles showing where the energy blasts struck. Her upper left body was ripped open to show her blown apart shoulder, collarbone and rib cage, her lung torn apart as blood gushed from the wound. Her belly was likewise blasted open, her insides burnt and ripped apart as blood pooled under her body.
He sneered before turning his head towards Burent, growling as he shifted himself to face the woman. Behind her, a door opened to reveal the other two pawns. Shuriya and Mira looked at the corpse of Marion before their pale faces turned into visages of anger, as Issei rushed the trio. His speed left them unable to react in time as his claws slashed the metal bikini wearing Pawn of Riser, her belly spilling out her intestines as he brought his leg up and around into Mira's arm. A loud snapping could be heard as the young Pawn's upper arm bent in the middle at the wrong angle, making Mira scream as her body was sent into the wall.
He turned to find Burent trying to get away from him as lightning moved across his body before curling around his fingers before he jumped towards her. His fist lands in her gut, the electricity coursing out of his body and into hers as the pressure builds up between the pair. WIth explosive force, Burent was sent flying away from Issei and through the wall of the tower. A storm had built up outside, churning violently as Issei focused on Burent before the sky answered his thoughts. A bolt of lightning roared out of the dark sky before striking the Pawn of Riser, striking her with the intensity of all of nature.
The brilliance of the light made it so Issei had to cover his eyes before lowering his arm, looking at the smoking body of the former maid. With a nod of his head, he turned towards the doorway to find it was a staircase. Time to go up them then.
The storm had built up quite a bit as Rias watched it swirl faster and faster above the tower, her body shivering a bit from the cold winds. Then the thunderous boom of the way too close lightning strike, shaking the tower as she was tossed into the wall where her chains connected. Riser, on the other hand, was thrown to the stone floor. He growled as his body ignited before extinguishing itself, making Rias even colder because of the loss of heat.
"Fool," She could hear Riser snarling, "how is he killing them so easily?! They're Devils, not regular humans!"
Rias blinked, having forgotten that tidbit of information, because RIser was right. Devils were a step up from humans in that they were tougher, faster, stronger and more damage resistance to things that easily harmed humans. Of course, a step up also meant they had downsides too. Rias remembered her hellish three months of training, how Medusa put every member of her peerage through the ringer to remind them that they were not invincible. Koneko, the toughest of them all due to being a Rook, was put down by one of Medusa's clan members with only a dagger.
That had shaken the group as cut marks wouldn't be left but being stabbed was very much on the table, though you needed a very sharp blade to do so. Dull ones didn't even work nor did barely sharpened weapons. You needed a fully sharpened blade to even cut into the skin of a Devil, which was tough to do already as you needed to throw your back into it if you didn't have some Holy blade.
"Isabela, Xuelan," She heard Riser growl, speaking into a magic circle, "Find that bastard and put him six feet under! I wanted him dead yesterday!"
Rias couldn't help but feel a bit smug over Riser failing but also feel very unsettled that Issei had to put down Riser's peerage because they were beyond saving.
Issei sneered as he ran up another flight of stairs before frowning, listening intently. Grinning darkly, Issei punched the door off its hinges before bringing his other arm up and jabbing his elbow behind him. Weight on the two spikes on his gauntlets told him that he had gotten his target, pulling his arm free as he glanced at the body. The victim of his prediction was the Rook, Xuelan, her forehead and throat having two holes that pierced all that way through. Her death had been swift, comparatively speaking.
How much blood was on his hands now? Issei was becoming desensitized to the deaths of the peerage members. They were simply husks of the people they used to be, he remembered his Aunt Miyuki. That night when the drug that ruined his childhood for good, seeing the Aunt he looked up to degraded into some moaning cheating whore of a woman. He knew the effects of the drug on people as it was clear to see, pale bodies and gaunt faces. They smelt of need and lust, something that was a turn off for him.
"You bastard!" The other Rook, Isabela, shrieked as Issei dodged from her punch.
"My parents are happily married," He snapped back, "unlike yours I assume."
Isabela snarled as she tried to punch him again, face contorted into a rictus of wrath. Issei continued to dodge before knocking her away, slamming her into a wall. His gauntleted hand stabbed into her back, tearing through her ribs, flesh and organs before he ripped his hand out of her back. In his hand was Isabela's heart, beating a few more times before going still as her body collapsed. Issei turned away before something knocked him to his knees, before a pair of hands grabbed his head.
"Take this you monster."
He saw a vision in his mind as it showed his mother and his aunt on their knees before Riser Phenex. Both were clearly on the NTR Drug they had puddles of their own making under them as they panted erotically. This image only ignited his anger further, roaring as he pushed the vision away. Mihae, the one that was trying to put him down with magic, stumbled away as though she had been shocked. Snarling, Issei reached for her with both hands. Mihae couldn't get away as he stabbed his taloned fingers into her head, punching through her skull before aiming his thumbs at her eyes.
"I hate you," He snarled into her face, spittle flying, "no one shows me my family forced to prostitute themselves to anyone, especially your master! I WON'T HAVE IT!"
His thumbs punctured her eyes, destroying them as he pushed them as far into her skull as he could. Her blood splattered against his face and gauntlets as he sank his thumbs deeper before they stopped, his anger erupting like ancient Pompeii had done. He pulled at her skull apart, tearing her head down the middle as blood, flesh and brain matter went flying everywhere. He finished tearing open her head before dropping her corpse to the stone floor, her blood pooling and filling the runes that were carved into every stone of the tower.
The door to the next staircase exploded and the last three living peerage members rushed into the room; Yubelluna, Siris and Karlamine. Turning towards them, his body started to erupt and spark with lightning.
Rias felt the tower shake again as she tried to figure out what was going on when the stones a few feet away from the stairway. The form of Issei landed in a three point landing, while the body of Yubelluna crashed near the feet of Riser. Her skin was black, cracked and bleeding as she took a final breath before going still. Riser's face turned into a snarl before going neutral.
"So," he said, tone flat, "the 'hero' has made it to the top of the tower. Your hero, a murderer."
Issei looked very chilling with blood dripping off his gauntlets as rain started to pour upon them all. He stood up slowly with rage written across his face.
"Those were not living beings, those were husks of the people that used to be!" He growled, a taloned finger pointing accusingly at Riser, "I saved them from your tainted touch, so they won't suffer like my Aunt did!"
Rias winced, remembering Akeno mentioning something about it but Rias had to go searching for what she was talking about.
"You came up here to fail," Riser sneered before lifting his hands, palms facing Issei, "only to be turned to ash in the fires of defeat!"
With a roar, twin pillars of flames erupted out of his hands. Rias couldn't help but try to tell Issei to move but it was too late. Riser's flames were stated to be as hot as the flames of a Dragon. Issei screamed, his skin turning black as he burned alive. Soon, his muscles melted and boiled away, organs vanishing as only his skeleton was left. Riser lowered his hands, cutting off the flames as he smirked.
"So ends the hero," He laughed darkly, turning towards Rias, "I believe now I have won, my d-"
"Don't turn your back on me…" The rasping voice of Issei filled the air, making the pair of devils look over at the skeleton.
The skeleton remained standing, black as the void due to how burnt it was. Both gauntlets glowing hot without blood or gore upon them. As Rias watched, she saw black tentacles come out of the back of the gauntlets as they snaked around Issei's bones. However, the golden luster of the heated plates disintegrated as they fell off. There were loud cracks as bone shards were pushed to the surface of the new flesh, growing into bony armor plates as the fingers flexed. The tentacles slithered around the chest, down it as it created a long tail that forked. The twin forks were armored with bones like the spinal cord, ending in twin massive spikes.
Rias couldn't help but see the arms were armored by the bony exoskeleton, covering the arm up from the top of the hand to where the elbow joint started. On the upper arm, between the shoulder and the elbow, bone armor wrapped around the musculature. The shoulder joints were left open but where the pauldrons would be were massive half skulls leaning on large curved spikes. The head itself looked like the skeletal skull of a dragon, with glowing red eyes staring directly at them before taking its first breath. Steam came out of its black tooth filled maw, the grin turning demonic.
"I have returned!"