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Issei's mind scape:

"Raynare"

Standing apart from each other, issei stared into her dull purple eyes.

He had thought about what he would say to her if he were to ever see her again. Many of those times he would shout at her, curse her while also asking why him, aside from his sacred gear. Other times he would thank her because thanks to her he was able to find people that he could get along

with and that would accept him for aside from matsuda and motohama. People that he would protect using the power of the sacred gear.

But now he didn't know what to say. After watching those memory's? He didn't even know what they were, for all he knew it could have been all fake.

But looking into her eyes, the sadness in them. It tore into his broken heart.

"Do you hate me?"

Did he hate her? Issei didn't know. If she had asked him a couple of days ago then he would most certainly have said yes, but now, all that the young boy could feel was pitty. Pitty for the hurt soul in front of him.

"We're the things, I saw there real?" issei knew that asking her such a question, while in her current mental state was cruel. But he needed to make sure, to make sure that he wouldn't regret giving her a chance.

Silence fell upon the room as Raynare lowered her head, the pitch black hair shadowing her dull purple eyes.

It came out between a shoked sub and a whisper but the seeming never ending silence of the room, allowed him to hear her loud and clear.

"yes"

She stood there waiting for him to lash out at her, waiting for him to start yelling at her, for him to curse at her and blame her for everything that has happened to him since

her appearance. From his death to the physical and mental pain that he has experienced. But it never came. Instead the only answer she received was a small, but kind smile that appeared on his face. A smile that she did not see, as she kept staring to the ground.

"Raynare" Issei started walking towards her, slowly. His smile never leaving his lips.

Hearing his foot steps getting closer, she readied herself. She had made kokabiel angry many times when she tried to escape with her sisters or failed in completing some of her missions. The result of which always ended with him torturing or beating her.

Standing right in front of the scared fallen angel, issei couldn't help but to frown as he

saw the shivering girl in front of him tense up, as if waiting for him to lash out at her.

She waited there, waiting for the shouting, the beating to start. But it never came, instead all she felt was the sudden warmth of a hug. As his arms coiled around her in a soothing almost brotherly hug that threatened to demolish the trail hold that she had managed to seize over her emotions.

"I forgive you"

Her eyes widened, he forgives her? But why? It's her fault that her has suffered so much, it's her fault that he will never again be able to live a normal life. He should hate her, he should be screaming at her calling her a monster a demon for taking away his chance to live a normal human

life and breaking his heart.

With shuddering teeth she asked "why?" With a choked sub "how, could forgive me for everything that I did to you? You should hate me! Despise me!" it was unfathomable to her.

He couldn't help but feel sorry for her. Here she was willing to let him release his anger out on her, even though she had no other choice, in order to protect her sisters.

"I did hate you. But after I saw your memories, I understood that you had no choice. To protect those that you loved so much, you chose to follow his orders." he spoke to her softly.

" why…whywhywhywhyWHY?! Her voice cracked and her body shook as the tears

going down her face flowed like a river.

Issei could do nothing more but to hug her closer. In this world where only the two of them existed, he comforted the trembling girl as she cried and sobbed, Letting out the pain that she had bottled up for years.

Underworld: Ajuka's laboratory

Heavy panting could be heard form that three devil's, Ajuka and Sirzechs looked like they could hold one for a while longer, greyfia on the other hand looked like she ran the entirety of Japan without stopping once. This could be seen in her face that looked paler and her clothes that were drenched in sweat.

"Lord Ajuka, how long has it been since we started?"

Looking towards his right, Ajuka's eye's landed on a small digital clock that was situated on his desk "four hours and counting" he received a nod of gratitude from the maid.

Noticing the maids exhausted state, the red haired devil started to grow concerned for her well-being "Greyfia, maybe you should take a break, we've been at this for a while now, take a rest".

With commitment in her voice "I won't, I need to see this through to the end" she stated, standing straighter and pushing more magic into issei.

Glancing at ,Ajuka, Sirzechs could only sigh in defeat as he saw his best friend shaking his head, telling him to give up on

trying to convince the stubborn maid.

After hours the two devil kings were starting to feel a sizable dent being made into their magical reserves, ajuka in particular more so than his red haired friend. No surprise there it's well known that the current Lucifer was among the strongest of devils, some would even say that he had long since surpassed the original Lucifer in brute magical power, earning him a spot as one of the top ten strongest beings.

Having been knocked out by her crimson haired king, Greyfia lay asleep on a couch near Ajukas's desk.

He was certain that the maid would not be pleased with her king. That particular thought caused a shudder of fear to shoot

through his body, her anger was legendary among the devil kings after the events that occurred during one of the many festivities celebrating the victory of the new Satan faction against the old devil kings.

Despite the fear that they had felt he can't help the smile that tugged at his lips. That day Sirzechs had gotten particularly drunk and made a comment about how Greyfia seemed to have gained weight because a request had been put in for a slightly bigger uniform.

Need less to say that when the white haired maid heard him she showed why she was one known as the strongest queen. Sirzechs had been beaten by the maid to a bloody mess, after which she proceeded to freeze him from head to toe in her strongest ice magic.

It was days before they had been able to convince her to release the the red haired devil, in exchange she would have an entire month in the human world's best hot spring resort's spas and food at the most luxurious restaurants, all paid for by her king.

That event reinforced their belief, and that was to never anger the silver haired maid. Thankfully it wasn't difficult after all they just needed to make sure that they never acted like her king-which proved to again not be difficult.

Spotting movement from the corner of his eye, Ajuka, turned to see Grayfia getting up from the couch. Already predicting her question Ajuka answered, also getting the red haired devils attention "welcome back

Greyfia and before you ask, no there hasn't been any development on issei's condition, yet."

The maid nodded in understanding, clutching her head as a way to try and soothe the headache caused by her stubbornness. As she stood beside the bed that issei was currently laying in, she couldn't help but to feel annoyed at him not having woken up yet, but even more at the fact that there had been no changes to indicate if everything was proceeding smoothly or not.

On the outside she still held her mask of indifference, but on the inside was a different matter. Grayfia Lucifudge was feeling two particularly strong emotions, the first was worry and the second was anger.

Worry regarding the procedure that hadn't been done before, but that Ajuka has confirmed that it could most probably kill the young man, because of how low the chances of survival were.

And anger with a sliver of bewilderment at what could have possibly possessed Rias to do what she did. After all wasn't she in love with issei?. The more she thought about it the less it made sense and the more her frustration grew.

Knowing that issei still needed their help, she repressed those thoughts for another time. Right now all that mattered was making sure that issei survived.

Issei's mind scape:

It has been approximately forty minutes since Raynare started crying while she hugged issei with a vice grip, preventing him from going anywhere.

So issei did the only thing he could do at that very moment. He comforted which caused her the Raven haired women to cry even harder. Once she had calmed down enough to stop crying, she pulled herself away, with a more serene expression on her face.

Issei ignored the wet Stein on his shirt, opting to look at the slightly red face of Raynare. "Have you calmed down now?"

A slightly embarrassed raynare answered with a soft "yeah". After a couple minutes of silence, she spoke again.

"hey… issei"

"Yeah"

"I-i just wanted to say… thank you"

"Hm?"

Taking a deep breath she elaborated "thank you for forgiving me, for giving me a chance and" after taking a deep breath to calm her nerves, she was about to finish apology but was cut off by issei's raised hand.

"You don't need to apologize to me. After all, I understand why you did and if I were to be in your own shoes… well, let's just say that I would have done the same thing".

The black haired fallen angel couldn't help

but to smile at his kind and forgiving attitude. It made her happy, but also sad. Sad because it's her fault that he would no longer be able to live a normal life.

She wasn't naive, she knew that with the Aura that he was radiating he would still have ended up drawn into the supernatural world. But maybe if she hadn't gotten involved he would still have been able to finish high school as a normal human or at the very least long enough for another faction to recruit him on his terms and most importantly of his own volition.

But because of her cowardness and weakness she couldn't protect her sisters from that-that man! Just thinking about his condescending tone as he humiliated not just her, but her precious family too. It just went to prove how pathetic she was.

The unending silence that had permeated through the town was disturbed by the sound of a sudden crack, catching the attention of the two people inside one of the houses. Prompting them for run out onto the dark street.

What greeted them was large western dragon, it's blood red scales gave the impression of an impenetrable armor. His body casted a shadow over the entirety of the town, while his bright green eyes glowed with power the likes of which even gods would run in fear of. The Aura it radiated demanded respect.

They both watched in awe as the body of the enormous dragon completely passed through a rift in the sky that was being previously hidden by the powerful

creatures body.

Issei looked at the red dragon with an expression of astonishment. Raynare on the other hand was trembling at the sight of the legendary red dragon emperor of dominating, Y Ddraig Goch.

She wasn't old enough to participate in the great war during that time, so she and the other younger angels were tasked with helping in the infirmary where the wounded soldiers of heaven were brought. But she could still clearly remember the fear and the mumbling of those soldiers many of which had lost their sanity. But there was one constant piece of information and that was "a monstrous dragon with red scales, manipulating black fire that could burn the souls of god's." And "a majestic dragon with white scales, whos

poison could dissolve a god's soul."

She remembered being doubtful of such claims, until that day. After she became and adult,Raynare was assigned to a unit as a healer, she was delighted to finally be able to do her part for heaven and at the same time be able to fight along side the Archangel Michael himself.

Nothing could go wrong, nothing should have gone wrong. But there was a sudden emergency massage. One that caused Michael and the rest of his unit, including her, to rush onto the battle field. But once they arrived, they were met with the bloodied and dying and bloodied form of their beloved father.

The God of the Bible, creator of the sacred gear system and the world. The strongest

being in the top 10,dead by the power of the dragon of domination. True weakened as he was from fighting the dragon of supremacy Albion and the Satans.

And now for the first time since the great war, she was seeing one of the heavenly dragons in the flesh. But her awe was soon replaced by fear as the great dragons eyes landed on them.

They had been at it for at least a day now and the two devil kings were starting to feel the pull on their magical power. The machine having long since stopped taking in their magic for reasons that Ajuka didn't know. But that didn't mean that it had stopped working, far from it, it was working better than Ajuka would have ever expected. Precisely targeting then areas where his evil pieces were located, and

starting the process of severing their link to issei.

And much to their surprise,Issei's body had started absorbing their magic like a sponge. Not knowing what stopping their sharing of magic would do to Issei, they decided to not take anymore risks and kept feeding him their, each time increasing their output in relation to the speed of at which the boy's body absorbed it. Which kept increasing.

Hence why they were already down to below half of their reserves and reaching their limit fast. Which is they had ordered Greyfia to inform the other satan's, that their help might be needed, so they should be prepared incase either Ajuka or Sirzechs called for them.

But it would appear that it wasn't needed as issei's body after, started to twitch. Soon after Ddraig's voice came from his left hand.

"Get ready, don't let up on your magic. When I say duck, you duck."

Before they could ask what he meant by that last part. Issei started to thrash around in pain, struggling against his binds. Screaming at the top of his lunges.

For what felt like hours, the two satan's stood there watching the boy convulsed in pain. The veins on his neck and the rest of his body started to shine an ominous color, followed then by his heart, until it stopped.

After a second the eight spots that housed the evil pieces started to get warm. Ajuka's

keen eyes saw as the evil pieces appeared to absorb the magic in his body as well as the Magic in the air, until.

"DUCK!"

Quickly throwing themselves into the floor covering their head's. The two devil kings heard as something was fired off from where issei laid, going in random directions, hitting and destroying many rare and valuable equipment.

Sure that there wasn't any danger, they roses from the ground and looked around them. And just as they heard, the inside of Ajuka's laboratory looked like there was a fight between infant dragons. With even the machine that was positioned above issei having been damaged, and upon closer inspection, it having a cracked piece

lodged inside it.

While his green haired friend checked the pawn piece that was lodged inside the machine, Sirzechs checked on isseu's condition. Sighing in relief as issei's breathing calmed down and his face took on a more tired but serene expression.

"How is he?" Keeping his eyes on the young man, the devil king answered "he seems to be ok now, aside from the great exhaustion that he must be feeling right now there isn't anything of not." Moving his eyes from his face to different part of his upper torso "on the other hand, it looks like when the evil pieces were ejected, they burned their way out."

True to his word there were nine burn marks the size of a quarter, all around his

body. But there wasn't anything else that they could do, so they informing Greyfia that it was a success, they took him to one of the empty rooms of the gremory manor. There they could have someone keep and eye on his condition that they could trust to keep it a secret