"-Destined to forever serve as my loyal Minion." Kurozai said.
Silence befell the two young men. Making Kurozai uncomfortable. "Are you going to say anything? Or…"
Issei began laughing manically. "I get it now! It's a prank. Kishi-Senpai, did Matsuda and Motohama put you up to this?" Issei said through his laughs.
"Oh yes. They certainly did. Why they even gave me the power to do this!" Kurozai said as he grasped the spectral chain and yanked Issei to the ground. He summoned his sword and held it to his neck. "Listen up you waist of oxygen!" Kurozai shouted. "I resurrected you when you died yesterday night. Chick in straps with wings and black hair, sound familiar?"
Issei's eyes widened.
"Oh, it looks like it does. Good, saves me the trouble of beating the memories back into you. Of Course I was going to beat you anyways, but hey. At Least I won't have to remind you of the severe ass kicking I dished out." Kurozai said, releasing the chain but placing his sword into one of the loops to stop Issei from running. "But then again, that might count as destruction and I don't want to feel that pain again." Kurozai spoke to himself.
Kurozai looked down at Issei who looked like he was about to piss himself scared. "Good, you still have fear. Then let me Fear Monger you into learning something." Kurozai grabbed the chain and his sword. He pulled the sword out and yanked it to where Issei was right against his helmet.
"I am the Overlord here, and in my opinion you're worth nothing more than the dirt under my boots." Kurozai spoke to Issei before letting him go. He pointed his left hand at Issei. "You will speak to no one else about this. Now return to your home and seek me out tomorrow after school." He commanded. Issei's eyes glazed over again and he walked away.
Kurozai sat down on a bench nearby as his armor disappeared. "For him to be my first recruited minion. God what a fucking joke! Maybe I could kill him then get Kiba as my next one." Kurozai spoke to himself.
Something in Kurozai's left pocket began to glow. With a raised eyebrow Kurozai pulled out the culprit. A piece of paper. "The fuck? When did this get into my pocket?" The glow began to get brighter and Kurozai threw the paper onto the ground. He summoned his sword and prepared for a fight.
The light turned into a circle filled with symbols and runes. None of which Kurozai could decipher, even if he did he wouldn't have the time as the rune began to emit sparkles. These sparkles formed four figures.
Two obvious females, a shorter female and a familiar male.
Kurozai's armor sprung to life and his eyes flared at the thought. "WHOS THERE!?" He shouted.
The sparkles vanished and it was exactly who he thought he saw. Kiba, Rias, Koneko and Akeno.
Kiba sheepishly waved at Kurozai. "Hey…"
Silence fell over the five teens. Kurozai gripped his sword tightly, his mind racing through many different thoughts. Why was Kiba here? Was it really Kiba? And if it was, why the hell was he and the occult research club stepping out of a summon circle.
Could Kiba have kept something from him? No! Something else was happening here! It had to be. Kiba wouldn't lie to him about something like this.
Not Kiba!
"WHO ARE YOU!?" Kurozai shouted. Convinced he was seeing either an illusion or a group of Doppelgangers.
"Kurozai it's me, Kiba." Kiba said confused. Hearing this fake saying his name sparked Kurozai's anger and made him dash forward ready to strike.
Then it all went to shit, a thunderbolt struck from the sky and hit Kurozai's metal and conductive armor. "GRAGHHHHHH!" He screamed in pain as he fell to his knees, the sword in his hands being the only thing keeping him from collapsing.
The Akeno look alike giggled into her hand. "Ooh! You have no idea how long I've been waiting to hear that scream!" She almost moaned out.
"PYROS!" Kurozai said through gritted teeth, launching a ball of fire at the thunder caster.
"Huh?"
The fire collided and sent Akeno flying back and crashing through a tree. Rias broke away from the group to go help Akeno.
With the lightning gone, Kurozai shook off the pain and stood back up.
Koneko punched her hands together and Kiba summoned a sword as Kurozai began his assault.
Steel clashed with Minite as Kurozai glared into the fake's eyes. They were filled with fear.
"I'll skin you alive for this mockery!" Kurozai basically growled and kicked Kiba in the stomach.
Koneko caught him and the two began to fight back.
Akeno was back, now with part of her shirt and bra burnt away. She was looking as if she was thrown through a tree, with Rias helping keep her on her feet.
Kurozai was fighting brutally against the two. Koneko went in for a flying kick and Kurozai caught her small leg and threw her away like she was a piece of trash. Kiba went for a disarming strike, met with a parry from Kurozai and a sock to the chest. This blow knocked the wind out of Kiba and he dropped his sword.
Kurozai held his blade to the imposter's neck. "Any final words, you damn fake?" He said, ready to hurt the monster that looked like his friend.
"THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER!" Kiba shouted.
Kurozai's body became rigid and unmoving.
"The first of September, 7 years ago! That's when we met. I was on the swings at the park and you joined me. We were both in junior high-school!" Kiba stuttered out as Kurozai began to lower his sword away from his neck. "You asked me if-"
"If you were into medieval times… You thought I was talking about the restaurant and I got mad. I corrected you then we talked about swords for three hours." Kurozai said, shocked.
Then he felt nauseous. He had just tried to kill and almost killed Kiba. He threw off his helmet and barfed at his feet. "Oh god!" he stuttered out.
Kiba got up and patted him on the back.
Once Kurozai stopped he scooped some water from the nearby fountain to wash out the taste of barf from his mouth. The metal gauntlet made the already Iron taste from the water worse. But at least it wasn't as bad as the food from yesterday coming back for round two.
Now in his right mind, Kurozai held out his left gauntlet and his helmet flew from the ground and into it.
Kurozai stared at Kiba for a moment before another wave of anger filled him.
Kiba had already accepted the ass beating he was owed as Kurozai's metal fist collided with his jaw. "MIND EXPLAINING?!" Kurozai shouted at Kiba.
"Kishi-kun that's enough!" Rias shouted. "Not only have you harmed three members of my team. You also threatened to skin one of them alive. So why don't we all calm down so we can talk like the adults we are meant to be?" She finished.
Kurozai growled and put his helmet back on. Kiba got up from the floor. "Nope. I deserved that one." Kiba said as he held his jaw. "God, your right hook is dangerous."
"Speak." Kurozai said, crossing his arms.
Kiba held up his hands. "Alright. I'll explain, Kurozai. I am a devil. Everyone here right now, except for you, is a devil." Kiba said, to prove his point he summoned his wings.
Kurozai walked up to Kiba and reached out to the wings. They were intangible, yet they were there. Kurozai could feel a warmth from them.
Kiba stood there awkward as Kurozai kept trying to grab them. "Uh they can't be touched by a-" Rias started. "No, let him get it out of his system." Kiba interrupted.
Finally, Kurozai stopped trying to grab the wings. "So, you're a devil? Like, Doom?" "No. Like Dante." "So half devil?" "No resurrected." "YOU DIED!?" The two began to have a conversation on the specifics of what type of devil Kiba was. "Before I met you, yes." "So you're a thrall?" "No. I have my own will and emotions." "This shit is so confusing." "I can tell." Kiba joked.
Kurozai smacked the back of his head as his armor vanished. "Don't be an ass." Kurozai grumbled.
Rias made herself known once again. "Well, like Kiba said, we're devils, and I have an offer for you." Rias started again.
"My soul is my own, I'm not selling it." Kurozai interrupted.
"It's not like that. If we need a contract it's object based." "What the fuck? Do you get paid for this?" Another conversation was about to start before Akeno launched a bolt of lightning into Kurozai. His body jolted around before he collapsed onto the floor.
"Thank you Akeno. No, I am not asking for your soul. I actually wanted to offer you a place in my peerage." Rias said as she watched Kurozai get back up.
"Pyros. What the hell is a peerage?" Kurozai said as he launched a fireball at Akeno again, knocking her to the ground this time.
"They're my devil servants. You join me and I'll make sure you are taken care of." Rias said proudly. She held her finger up.
"Pass. Like Hard Pass." Kurozai interrupted again. "I'm no one's servant."
Rias stood there wide eyed with her mouth open, finger still pointed up. "Heh?"
"I'm not being your slave. Wait, is Kiba your slave? YOU MOTHER-" Kurozai said, ready to behead the red haired teen.
"I choose to Kurozai, don't kill her please!" Kiba said, holding kurozai back.
"... Fine." Kurozai said, stopping his second assault of the day. Kurozai pointed his fingers at Rias then to his eyes, and back to Rias. "So was that it? The whole thing with the paper was a marketing ploy?" Kurozai asked.
"Uh, I wouldn't call it that. But yes, it was to have you join our peerage. I suppose we can fall back to Issei then." Rias said, before talking to herself.
"Oh shit, I'll trade you."
Silence fell over the group again. "What?"
"Yeah, so that light you guys were talking about was actually me reviving Issei." Kurozai said, scratching the back of his head. "But I'll trade you for him. I get Kiba and you get the bastard. Deal?"
Rias was shocked. "No! Not a deal! You revived Issei?" She asked as sweat formed on her brow.
"Yes. I didn't want to, the fucking corruption stopped me. I guess Issei was too innocent to die from a bitch with wings. So I resurrected him, he's my minion now." Kurozai said as he groaned to himself. "If I had the choice I would have let him bleed out on the ground."
"Kurozai, you do know about an Overlord's minion army right?" Rias asked.
"Yeah, the goblins right?" Kurozai nodded.
"Well, mostly yes. But if you resurrected Issei, you can't get rid of him. He's bound to you and only you." Rias said, with Akeno, who had gotten up sometime when Kurozai and Rias were talking, holding her hand up to her mouth in shock.
"Great!" Kurozai said, throwing his hands up. "Now I'm stuck with him! FUCK!" Kurozai shouted as he grabbed a park bench and threw it into the distance.
Rias sighed. "Great! Just great. Not only has Kurozai denied me, he has also stolen Issei from me as well! Could anything else go wrong?" She asked.
"I mean, it could be worse… You could be stuck with him." Kurozai said, shoving his hands into his pockets.
"I'd rather be stuck with him! He has a sacred gear and- OOP!" Rias started but stopped herself.
"Sacred Gear? What the fuck is a Sacred gear?" Kurozai asked.
"It's nothing, I'm sure someone of your power wouldn't care for it anyways." Rias said nervously.
"... He's got some kind of mcguffin doesn't he." Kurozai asked as he turned to Kiba.
"Yep." Kiba said. "We don't know what kind though. But hey congrats! Your first follower has a magic power!" Kiba said as he lightly punched Kurozai in the arm.
"Yeah, gooo me! I get the pervert with powers." Kurozai grumbled to himself. "You're sure I can't trade?"
"Yes I'm sure. And you're sure you don't want to join me?" Rias asked.
"Yup." Kurozai said, popping the P. "I suppose we're at an impasse." His stomach grumbled. "And I believe that calls it a night." Kurozai said as he turned around, throwing his hands behind his head as he walked away. "See you guys around!"
Kurozai was almost home until he saw a fast food place that was open. His hunger got the better of him and he walked in. 20 Minutes later he came out with a bag of food and a strawberry flavored lolly pop he bought off a kid for 500 yen.
Putting the sweet and succulent flavor into his mouth, Kurozai returned home.
Once home he left a bag out infront of his sister's bedroom and knocked. "It's not delivery!" He shouted before walking to his room.
Once inside he heard the response. "Well it's not digiorno either!" His sister shouted from down the hall.
"You're right about that!" Kurozai shouted back. He opened his bag and tore into the food he had been denied from for most of his day.
He ate at his desk while drawing up some schematics for a new weapon.
He worked until he was tired and went to bed.
Once again, he had a dream. The Raven from the previous one stood before him. It squawked at him.
Kurozai stared at it and noticed three crows joined it. "Alright then. So what do you want from me? An apology?" He asked the birds. He didn't even know he said the words until they were out.
The crow with a bottle cap on its head squawked.
"Oh yeah sure. Real original. Alright #####. It's your call here." Kurozai spoke again without his knowledge, He turned around and looked at the crimson dragon from before. Its green eyes stared down the birds in front of him. It roared in acceptance and bowed its head.
Kurozai grinned. "Alright then!" He shouted before reaching out with his left gauntlet and snapping his fingers.
Kurozai's eyes snapped open. He was out of the strange dream and now was awake.
Checking his clock it was only an hour before he had to wake up.
He got up and moved the trash from his dinner into his trashcan beneath his desk and pulled a book from the drawer.
Flipping through the pages he found it. Overlordian visions. "Overlords can have premonitions of the future. These more often than not reveal themselves as pains in the head with flashes or dreams. The dreams can be nonsensical at first until the actions in the dream come true." Kurozai read aloud to himself.
He rested his head in his hand and thought about his dream. "Birds, and a dragon. Before that there was a firebird and a fairy. Is fate trying to tell me to open a zoo?" Kurozai joked as his alarm went off.
He slapped the top and got ready for school.
He even had a little extra time to cook up two breakfast sandwiches. It was a delicious thing to eat in the mornings. Strawberry jam slathered onto two pieces of toast, with eggs, cheese, sausage and bacon making up the middle. Kurozai ate both and walked out the front door to stop in his tracks. Kiba and Koneko stood outside his door today.
"If this is a marketing tactic then-"
"It's not Kurozai. I wanted to walk with you to school and Koneko tagged along." Kiba said, interrupting Kurozai.
The Overlord stretched and felt his back pop. "Fine. Let's go then." Kurozai said as the three walked away. Koneko had some trouble keeping up with the two older students, being short had its disadvantages.
Soon enough the three made it with a few minutes to spare. The three were intercepted by another group of three.
The Pervert Trio.
Issei stood in front of his two friends with his arms crossed. "Kurozai." Issei spoke with disdain.
Kurozai looked at Kiba. "You two should go. I'll see you at lunch." He whispered. Kiba nodded and motioned his head to Koneko for them to leave.
Kurozai stared at Issei and his two friends with his hands shoved into his pockets. "So, what's up?" Kurozai asked as he pulled a hand out to pick at his teeth.
"I want to fight you." Issei said, his two friends looked at him like he just said he was gay.
"Uh huh. You know how that ended up last time right? I think they actually still have my Shinai at the Kendo club. I think they'll let me borrow it too." Kurozai said, getting the piece of egg out of his teeth and flicking it at Issei. The egg landed on his shirt and Issei wiped it off.
"Not here. I want to fight you later. Meet me at the park. Alone." Issei said.
"Dude you act like I need anyone else to beat you three." Kurozai spoke back with snark.
"Nope. It's just gonna be me alone." Issei said, glaring at Kurozai who was not taking this seriously at all.
"... Alright, sure. I'll even bring an ice pack." Kurozai said, shrugging his shoulders.
One of Issei's friends, the bald one. Kurozai didn't care for his name, spoke up. "You better be ready son! My dawg Issei's gonna beat your ass!"
Kurozai stared at him like he grew a second head. He was silent for a minute before he spoke again. "Who are you again?"
The bald friend grew a scowl and started to walk over with his fists clenched, but the one with glasses held him back. "Let Issei take care of it man. Pretty Boy here will get his soon enough."
"Wow, I didn't know you were gay glasses. But now that I look at you… Eh, I can see it. Just gotta, There we go!" Kurozai said as he held his hands together and tilted his head.
The three friends were starting to get angry now and a small crowd started to form. "Welp, I'm getting outta here before anything starts. See you at the park Knave." Kurozai said, moving past the perverts and breaking through the crowd.
He heard whispers as he walked away.
"Oh man, Kurozai's gonna kill them."
"I don't think he was even taking it seriously."
"Weasel boy's fucked this time!"
Both Issei and Kurozai ignored these whispers. For Issei the world dissolved around him as he glared at Kurozai.
For Kurozai? 'Man, what am I gonna do for lunch? I could always order something for me and Kiba to split.' He was thinking about lunch.
School passed with Kurozai and Souna both answering all of the questions the teachers asked them.
Lunch came and Kurozai ordered pizza for him and Kiba.
The two sat next to the club building for the Occult Research club. They were sitting on the ground leaning on it having a conversation. "- and her father is on the school board. He's a demon too?"
"Yep. Whole reason why the school went public was because of me." Kiba said, drinking some soda out of a plastic cup.
"Crazy. So I wouldn't even be enrolled at this school if it weren't for you? That's wild. 'Nother slice?" Kurozai asked as he held the box up.
Kiba nodded and opened the box. It was just a cheese pizza. Kurozai wanted to save money. Both boys grabbed a slice.
"So what happened this morning?" Kiba asked as he started to eat the pizza slice he grabbed.
"Hyuoduo wants to fight." Kurozai said as he started to chew his slice.
"Why?" Kiba asked.
"I assume it's because of what happened before and how he's one of my minions now. 500 yen says he's doing it for his freedom." Kurozai bet.
Kiba laughed. "I'm not stupid it is One hundred percent the reason."
Kurozai finished his slice and laid the box of pizza on his lap as he put his hands behind his head.
The two sat in silence for a moment. "You think I should kill him?" Kurozai asked, staring at the sky.
Kiba spit out some soda he had in his mouth. "Where did this come from?"
"I don't want him." Kurozai said. "Even if he has a… What the fuck did you call it?"
"Sacred Gear."
"That's it. Even if he has a Sacred Gear. I just don't fucking like him, and if I can't give him to you guys then why even have him you know?"
"Because then it's murder."
"Eh… If no one knows what happened it isn't." Kurozai said calmly.
"Yeah well either way he's yours now. Plus who knows, he could have a kick ass sacred gear, like mine and you'd waste it."
Kurozai sat up and looked at Kiba. "You have one?"
"Yeah. Sword birth, let's me make swords." Kiba explained holding his hand out and summoning a sword hilt. A sword made from cold steel appeared. It vanished then was replaced by a blade of fire.
"That's cool. It's like Krogsta but just for swords." Kurozai said.
"Krogsta is the spell that allows you to make weapons right?"
"Yup." Kurozai said as he went back to leaning on the building. He grabbed a pizza slice and started to eat it. "We're so fucking cool." Kurozai said, between bites.
Kiba laughed at him. "What happened to not talking with your mouth full?"
"Man fuck you." Kurozai laughed.
The two friends giggled like idiots at each other. A cough came from Kurozai's right and they both turned. It was Koneko.
"Hello Koneko."
"Yo."
The two friends waved hello. "Why are you two out here and not inside?"
"Akeno." Kurozai explained with a singular word. "You want a slice?"
Koneko shrugged. "Sure. What kind is it?"
"Cheese." Kurozai said as he opened the box and handed her a slice. "Kiba do you want anymore?" Kurozai asked.
"Nah man it's all you. I had some chips in class so I'm not too hungry. Thanks for the slices I did get though." Kiba said as he waved his hand.
"You're welcome." Kurozai said as he ate another slice. Koneko sat to the right of him and ate.
"So are you just trying to mingle into our duo here or somethin?" Kurozai asked, glancing at Koneko out of the side of his eye.
"You're the one who takes Kiba almost everyday. Is it wrong to want to hang out with him?" Koneko asked.
"No. Still, you get him during your "Club" activities. So I think it's fair game if I get him during lunch." Kurozai answered her question.
"That's true." Koneko concluded. "I have some candy inside if either of you want some."
"Got any strawberry flavored candy?" Kurozai asked, returning his gaze to the sky.
"Yes I do." Koneko responded.
"Alright fuck. Let's get in there then. Maybe I can convince Akeno that I'm not real." Kurozai said as he stood up.
"She might try to grab you then." Kiba concluded as he stood up and helped up Koneko.
"Fuuuuck. I never get a break from this shit. Fine. Hold this." Kurozai said, shoving the box of pizza into Kiba's hands as he drew what was basically a large stick into the ground.
"Krogsta." He whispered and the ground glowed. A large pole arm came from the dirt and he held it.
The three walked inside and into the main club room. Akeno and Rias were playing a chess match. Akeno caught sight of Kurozai immediately and stopped playing. She jumped up and started to run over to him.
Kurozai hit her with the pole arm. Knocking her to the floor. "This is the whacking stick. Every Time you try to touch me or approach me without my explicit permission I will hit you with it, do you understand?" Kurozai spoke as he took the box of pizza back from Kiba.
Akeno nodded. "Oh please hit me again!" She said as she crawled across the floor to Kurozai.
"Kiba." Kurozai called out and handed him the stick.
Kiba used it to push Akeno back.
"Thank you." Kurozai nodded to Kiba who nodded back.
"So Kishi-kun, to what do we owe the pleasure? You didn't reconsider, did you?" Rias asked with a sly grin.
"No. Koneko said she had some strawberry flavored candy and she was going to give me some as thanks for letting her have some pizza." Kurozai explained, as Koneko walked over to a storage closet and pulled out a box of candy. She grabbed a handful of pieces and handed them to Kurozai.
"Thank you for the food Senpai." Koneko said with a bow.
"Ain't no thing. Plus you don't have to call me senpai. You can call me Kurozai if you want." Kurozai explained to his junior.
Koneko nodded. "Then thank you Kurozai." She said with another bow.
"You're welcome. I gotta get back to class now. Cya later." Kurozai waved goodbye to the devils and walked back to class.
He finished the last two slices of pizza during class and once it was over threw the box away.
Kurozai left the school and walked to the park. He sat on one of the benches and waited for Issei to show up.
An hour after Kurozai arrived, Issei showed up.
Kurozai got up and stretched. "Alright, so how are we doing this? First one to give up or get's knocked out?" Kurozai asked.
Issei nodded. "If I win, I want my freedom back!" Issei said with determination.
Kurozai stretched his arms back and felt his back pop again. "Alrighty then, if we're having conditions set on winners, then if I win, You stay in my army, and if I see or hear of you being perverted, I get to take disciplinary action. Deal?" Kurozai asked as he stood straight. His shadow towering over Issei.
"Deal!" Issei said as he got ready to fight.
"Krogsta." Kurozai whispered to the stone beneath him. A standard short sword emerged from it. He tossed the blade to Issei. "You're going to want to use that."
Issei picked up the blade, it was heavier than he expected. But he held it regardless.
The park was covered in a dome again. Similar to when Kurozai had found Issei both times previously. This time however, the spell was casted by Kurozai to make sure no one interfered.
Kurozai dashed forward and clashed his sword against Issei's. Issei pushed back.
Kurozai knocked Issei's sword out of his hands.
Issei rolled out of the way from a downward slash. "Good dodge!" Kurozai congratulated.
Issei grabbed his sword and dashed in, to try and stab Kurozai. His attack was met with a parry. "Nope! Too open!" Kurozai said as he kicked Issei in the balls.
Issei dropped the sword and held onto his precious nuts. "You dick." He wheezed out and collapsed to the ground.
Kurozai leaned down over Issei. "Give up yet?"
Issei shook his head.
Kurozai sighed and dropped his sword. He summoned his metal boots and proceeded to start kicking Issei in the back.
After a few minutes of doing this he stopped. Issei was definitely passed out at this point.
Kurozai picked Issei up and carried him over his shoulder. He began to walk home when Issei started moving. "Are you awake?"
Issei was silent for a moment. "...yeah…"
"Good!" Kurozai said and dropped Issei. He crouched over Issei. "What did we learn?" Kurozai asked like a parent teaching a child a lesson.
"I was supposed to learn something?"
"Yes. You were supposed to learn that I am much better than you. Some old dude said that Hubris is the downfall of man." Kurozai said. He patted Issei on the shoulder. "Meet me at the school gates after class tomorrow. We'll start your training then. Go home now, okay?"
Kurozai helped Issei up onto his feet and Issei walked home. Battered and bruised.
Now alone Kurozai lowered the dome and was met with the glare from The Spirit. "Oh hey spirit! What's up?"
Now home, Issei ignored his parents and sat on his bed. Slowly the bruises healed until they were all gone.
Issei stood up confused until he saw a shimmer. He practically screamed when he looked up and saw a ghost in armor.
The Spirit floated above Issei for a moment until he calmed down. "What the hell are you?"
It stared at him and then looked at the window.
Issei looked over and Kurozai had his face pressed up against the glass. "Please let me in." He said, his voice muffled.
Issei opened up the window and Kurozai fell in. He stood up and dusted himself off. "Alright, so the spirit wanted me to apologize to you about the severe beating I gave you. Also he wanted me to give you this." Kurozai said, holding out a sword. "He said you would appreciate it later. So uh, yeah. Bye." Kurozai said, climbing out the window and down to the ground below. He walked home leaving Issei and the spirit alone.
Issei looked up at the spirit, confused.
The spirit nodded and vanished.
Night passed and Issei hid the sword beneath his bed and went to school.
On his way there he was lost in thought until he bumped into someone. He got a view of a pair of pale white panties. He had some perverted thoughts before he snapped himself out of it.
Issei stood up and helped the girl on her feet. She was a nun from the christian religion with blonde hair and green eyes.
"I'm sorry about crashing into you." He said while bowing.
The girl stood there nervously. "T-thank ewe?" She spoke in a broken form of japanese.
Issei snapped his fingers together. He coughed and started speaking in english. "Are you not a local?" He asked. Issei had moderate knowledge of the English language. If only because of western pornography.
The girl nodded. "Yes I'm sorry. I have been trying to learn the language here but it's not easy." She laughed nervously. "Your english is really good! I had expected some people to know it, but not this well." She said with a smile.
"It's not great. I still have much learn." Issei said. Mentally facepalming at the issues he was having. "So, the weather is good?"
The girl nodded. "I suppose so. I'm sorry to do this to you, but can you help me find the local church?"
The Spirit watched from a distance as Issei helped her find the only christian church in the town. He vanished and returned to Kurozai, who had entered the school.
Issei arrived at school sometime later and was almost late. He was met by his two friends, Motohama and Matsuda. The two of them looked at Issei expectedly.
Issei looked at the two and shook his head. "Sorry guys, he won." Issei said, disappointed.
The duo sighed, Matsuda cheered up immediately though. "It's fine man! We just need to get you some training. I know this gym that has all the hot babes! So it's exercise and a show." He finished and slapped Issei on the back.
Issei interrupted. "Actually Kishi-Senpai offered to train me. I think he felt bad about winning." Issei lied.
He knew that the King of Kuoh didn't care. But that ghost did. Kurozai called him "The Spirit." So it was someone he knew.
Motohama's glasses flared in the sunlight. "Something about that sounds wrong. Did he say where to go?"
"He told me to wait for him at the school gate." Issei explained.
Matsuda nodded. "Well if you're meeting him somewhere safe then I trust the process. Shit son! We need to get to class before we're late!" The three perverts ran to class.
The class day ended and Issei walked out to the gate. Kurozai stood there with his hair tied up reading a paper.
Kurozai looked at Issei and nodded. "You ready?"
"Yeah. But, why are you doing this if you don't mind me asking?" Issei asked while he followed Kurozai away from the school.
"Simple, if you're going to fight for me you can't die from a single hit to the nuts. So we're going to help you." Kurozai said as he led Issei into the forest.
"You say we, you mean that ghost right?" Issei asked again, ducking beneath branches that Kurozai knocked forward.
"He'll be there, yeah. But it's not just gonna be us among the living." Kurozai said with a smirk looking back at Issei.
The two came to a clearing where the trees showed battle damage.
"Hey! You two made it!" Issei heard.
He looked over and saw Kurozai shake Kiba's hand. "Remind me to thank Rias for letting me borrow you." Kurozai said as he turned back to Issei.
"Alright Knave! Meet your trainer. One of the best swordsmen I know, Kiba Yuuto!" Kurozai announced as Kiba summoned a sword.
Kurozai stood and made a hand motion to move. "You gonna grab your sword?"
Issei stood there nervous. Kurozai stared at him for a moment. "You left it at home didn't you?"
Issei nodded.
"Thought you would. I had the spirit get a spare." Kurozai said as he tossed a similar sword to Issei. "Alright! Now today is just to gauge your abilities with a sword. You may begin!" Kurozai announced.
As soon as he finished, Kiba dashed forward, with his sword ready to clash into Issei's. Knocking the teen on his ass.
"Ok. Let's try that again. This time fight back!" Kurozai shouted as he sat down on a tree that extended its branches out to be a seat.
The Spirit and Kurozai watched as Issei kept getting knocked on his ass until the sun started to set.
"Ok! I think I got it!" Kurozai deduced that Issei fell on his ass for the twentieth time. "We need to work on everything! Makes sense. Tomorrow we'll work on basic stances and swings. Thanks again Kiba!" Kurozai announced. Kiba nodded and walked away, the tree's clearing out of his way to make a path home.
"So, what did you learn from this?" Kurozai asked Issei, who hadn't gotten up yet.
"That I suck?"
"Yes! See he can be taught!" Kurozai said. He held his hand out and Issei took it. "So because you know nothing it means we can take advantage of it and put as much knowledge into you as we can. I say you've earned some food. Come on. I know a place that will still be open by the time we get the-" Kurozai stopped himself and immediately surveyed the surroundings. "We're not alone." he said as his armor covered his frame.
"Who's out there!" He shouted. Issei grabbed his sword and Kurozai did the same.
A woman in a red coat and long blue hair walked out from the tree line. "I see I have found the knight, and his new bitch." She said as she walked fully into the clearing.
Issei blushed. "Dude! Look, she's just wearing a jacket!"
"I can see that Issei. Now is not the time for perversions!" Kurozai whispered before coughing into his left gauntlet. "So! Might I get your name pretty lady?" Kurozai said, getting ready to start the taunts.
"I am Kalawarna! The last person you will ever meet!" She yelled and dashed forward, a pair of black wings sprouted from her back.
Kurozai grabbed Issei by the shoulder and threw both of them to the ground "DOWN!"
Kurozai stood up and got his sword ready and blocked a few spears of light. These ones didn't have as much light as the other two, but was still more refined than the first one. This spear was yellow as well.
Issei started to feel useless as Kurozai kept blocking the attacks. 'Why am I still here, I could run now and go get Kiba. But, I can't leave him alone.' Issei thought to himself.
Kalawarna kept to the air and didn't come down, causing Kurozai to have to focus on his magic for attacking.
Kurozai was struggling, Issei knew that. But Kurozai held his left gauntlet to his helmet. Looking straight up, Issei saw the Spirit holding his left hand to his helmet.
Kurozai nodded and took his gauntlet off his helmet.
"So, Ms. Kalawarna, I gotta ask.. Oop! Is it Ms or Mrs? I wouldn't want to assume."
Kalawarna growled. "It's Ms."
"Right. So, I gotta ask. You feel safe up there?" Kurozai asked as magic energy filled his gauntlet.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Kalawarna asked.
"GRECH!" Kurozai said and slapped the ground. The earth shook and the ground below him shot up sending him into the air. He held his left gauntlet below him. "PYROSIS!" He shouted and a stream of fire shot out from the gauntlet allowing him to fly! As he flew, a fire burned around his shoulders and a crimson cape birthed itself from the fire.
Kalawarna summoned a spear and blocked Kurozai's sword. The metal grinded against the light spear. Kurozai flicked his sword up, and wrapped his legs around her.
The two plummeted to the ground and Kurozai twisted, launching her into the pillar of earth.
She glared at Kurozai and summoned a spear behind her back. Issei saw this and paled. "You think you're clever huh?" She asked him. "Well, I got you onto the ground." Kurozai said, walking up to her with his sword ready to strike her down.
"WATCH OUT!" Issei shouted as he held out his left hand, a green glow covered the top of his hand. A small crimson bracer covered his hand with a green gem embedded into the top. A green light shot out from the gemstone and made Kurozai jump back, the light shot through Kalawarna. She was fine physically, but her clothes ripped to shreds.
She blushed and spread her wings out. "YOU LITTLE PERVERT!" She screamed, ready to throw the spear. Kurozai threw a fireball at her.
She dodged it and growled. "I will not forget this!" Kalawarna yelled as she flew away.
The two were left alone in the clearing.
"Well, I guess a thank you is in order here." Kurozai said as his armor vanished.
Issei stood up and the bracer on his arm vanished too. However it disappeared in a green light. "Your welcome Senpai." Issei said.
"No, don't call me that. Either call me Lord or something along the lines." Kurozai said as he crossed his arms.
"... Does Boss work?" Issei asked.
Kurozai nodded. "Yeah. Let's just get out of here yeah?" Kurozai asked. Issei nodded. "Cool, you still want that food?"
"Yeah."
Kalawarna landed at the abandoned church. She pushed past the fallen Priests and to a chest full of her clothes. She put on another jacket.
She stopped as she thought back to how cocky that overlord was.
She blushed slightly. How dare she have these thoughts, he was most likely just a teen still. Plus he was the enemy. Yet, she had to admit, using the gauntlet's magic to fly was creative.
Now clothed, she found the rest of the fallen and told them what had happened.
Raynere sat still. She still couldn't speak and that damn nun wasn't ready to heal her yet. Her face was still covered in bandages, but now she had both eyes exposed. She grabbed a pen and wrote down something. She passed it to the other fallen.
'He is a danger to our plans. Kill him if you can.' It read.
She felt anger just even thinking about what he called her
"The slut in the straps right?"
She looked over at one of the fallen priests, a woman who wore a suit of armor.
The other fallen angels were arguing how they could kill him when the light spears were easily blocked and most likely couldn't even penetrate the armor.
A scream ripped them out of their thoughts as Raynere killed the woman in the armor. Taking it for herself. Raynere grabbed another paper and wrote down 'Bring me the nun.'
[NEXT TIME!]
Kurozai and Issei share a meal and talk about their futures
Issei meets the Occult research club and runs errands for them.
Kurozai and Issei are inducted into the Occult Research club.
The plan to kill Kurozai is put into action when Issei is attacked by a fallen exorcist.
The Nun Issei met is in grave danger!
[An Overlordian Siege!]