I know how controversial the ending of the last chapter was and I normally hate strongarming a story like that but this was a major plot point I didn't know how else to weave in. I foreshadowed it with saying, in chapter one, that it was a tutorial world used for growth, then again reinforcing the 'growth' aspect in the quest message about killing Gaster, so the reader knows what the goals of the system are.

I will not be forcing something like this onto my own story again in the future so, if you liked my story up until now, try and push through this. It'll all end well, as you know.

SacredKoopa: You're reviews are always a joy to read! I hope you stay throughout the entire ride. Now, onto your review. It's complicated, in regards to Sans' reaction to the coming Genocide Run, and it wont be anything like in the game. I'm not spoiling, though, so just keep reading ;). The harem thing, now. Dude, I've barely written enough believable romance for one character, and now I'm giving myself the workload of- what? 20? There are only two Harem members in ARC 1 for two reasons: First, so I can test what a Harem would look like and second, because of preference. I know! Sorry if an UNDERTALE character is left out because of my mere preference but it is still my story, so suck it up. It's not all about harems. Now, GLITTCHTALE. Yeah, I liked it too. A lot, even. I went fucking crazy when Gaster fought against Betty and started using up his kids' SOULS. But, there is no place for that AU in my story. Be content with Glitch-Gaster's powers remaining with 'Frisk'. Lastly, yeah, characters will start remembering.

sid99: Sorry if it felt like BS to you, it felt like it to me too. I couldn't unwrite it though, and my other ways of forcing a Genocide where even worse. Bear with me if you can, this is the very last time I force something like this.

Fire Turtle: ...what? No, the genocide run is happening this chapter. His first run, from chapter one to four was a neutral run due to him killing Flowey. The confession will be weird and I don't know Tiamat well enough to make her a major character, sorry. That's the only prerequisite for a character to be in the harem, along with being female seeing as I ain't gay, is that I need to know the character well enough. Hard for you readers to know who I am familiar with but you can still suggest anybody you like, I'll just say yes or no in the end.

God, I've apologized twice now, am I really that bad of a writer?

Lastly, UNDERTALE is both ARC 1 and the prelude and I'm fucking quivering to finally get to DXD! It's getting repetitive, for both me and 'Frisk', seeing as he had RESET quite a few times, so this chapter is both the end of ARC 1 and the beginning of ARC 2. I could split it into two chapters but I'm keeping a promise I made to myself to always make chapters above 10K words and I'm not breaking that.

Also, this technically means that Chara and Undyne aren't officially in the harem by the end of ARC 1 but... C'mon! They are already so close! Chara promised herself as a reward for a favor and Undyne and 'Frisk' only need to confess. Just wait until next chapter or so.

So, if the ending feels rushed, that's because it is. If it doesn't... well, guess I'm a writing god.

Anyways, I'll give you this next chapter in confidence and trust. I hope you like it.

I take a step forward while looking at my skills.

All but 'Shrine' and 'Domain Expansion' are maxed. I didn't do nothing in those nine months. My Cursed Energy is also through the roof, so k-killing them wont be a problem. I notice my hesitation and burry it deep inside me. No need for that, as Asgore once said 'look at it like a visit to the dentists office.'.

I take out my Hells Reaper scythe, it's white blade hovering above the ground as I hold it by it's black bone handle.

I do not take a calming breath. I do not prepare myself.

I simply walk through the gate and into the room where Flowey dwells.

I see it rise from the ground. "Howdy Frisk! Last time we met, you tried to stop me from killing Monster kid! Sorry it didn't work, though. Is that why you RESET? To sa-" I stop it's shrieking with a well placed Cleave through it's stem. That always kills him, it's too fast for him to even react. The flower stops talking and it's head falls to the ground, face slowly melting together with the white core, only leaving a normal flower behind.

My face stayed blank.

-Toriel PoV-

She had found the child with a scythe in hand, it was frightening, if she is honest. Though now that they're in her home, she doesn't know where it went.

But that's not the weird thing she is thinking of right now about the child. Every time the child comes back home, his hands are covered in dust, she knows what that means. She had tried to talk with them, about mercy, hoping their murder was in self defense. The only reaction she got was the slightest of flinches from him.

But she can still help him! She can't let him go to Asgore, he'd kill the child in cold blood like al- "How do I exit the ruins?" Something was off in his tone, she noticed first. His face is still and blank as ever.

"U-Um, what do you mean, Frisk?" She says with a smile. He had yet to react to anything she said with anything but the shortest of sentences.

Nothing changes in his look but she could swear something in his face had changed enough for her to notice it. "I will be leaving through the door in your cellar, do not try and stop me." Something in his tone was pleading, but she ignored it. She cannot let him leave!

She coughs, blood splattering on the floor below her. "Now I see who I was protecting by keeping you here. Not you, but them!" She looks up at the child who killed her with an expression of realization at his true nature- Just to see a tear roll down his cheek.

It confused her but she couldn't dwell on it further as she disappeared into dust.

-PoV Papyrus-

The great Royal Guard prospect Papyrus had failed to make the human do another puzzle! How can one so blatantly hate puzzles? When he first identified the rock and then the human in front of the rock, he saw someone who needed some cheering up! But now... he's not so sure. The human had been silent, he hadn't spoken at all.

If that was it, he'd accept that quality and try and make the best of it but it wasn't it. The human is also unmoved by anything around them, as if they'd already seen it all, as if nothing could surprise them. Sans seems off too, when they first met the human, his brother flinched visibly. That put Papyrus on edge.

But that behavior in a human can be fixed, he just knows it! He believes in them! After all, he needs to capture them but he is also a nice person at heart, so he'll help the human first.

Papyrus, his body turning to dust next to his decapitated head, stares up at the human with a strained smile. "I still beli-" his life ended with a sole crushing his cranium.

A figure stares at the scene with no expression at all. The grin that they normally wear is gone.

Frisk would be judged.

-PoV 'Frisk'-

I look at my stats as I pass into Waterfall, a slew of dust behind me as I've cleared all monsters here when I first entered.

Name: Frisk/CHARA?

Titles: [SOUL of Determination] [The Gamer]

HP: 174/174

MP: 542/542

CURSE: 172.500/172.500

LV: 36

VIT: 26

ATK: 43

DEF: 14

DEX: 39

INT: 44

I have passed the normal max level, though Chara hasn't shown up yet.

If she wont interfere, then she's unimportant. I just have to get this over with. An image flashes in front of my eyes, a skull, wide and kind eyes staring up at me as I crushed what was left.

I bite the inside of my cheek and shake my head. I blink my watery eyes open, not as apathetic as I thought I was, huh?

No, not right now, I need to get this over with. Fight through it, it's as much for their sake as for yours.

I step into the room with the flower puzzle, remembering when I just jumped through it. For some odd reason, I take the time to actually do it this time. I take each flower and place them in a row of four, then seeing them bloom. I tread over their shaking forms as they sit in the river.

I leave with the same face as I entered, but not with the same thoughts. Not of guilt or death.

Because I'm thinking of flowers.

I walk over the shaky bridge in a calm stride before I hear a squeaky voice behind me, one I've been hearing for the past two hours. "H-Hey!" I turn and see Monster Kid. The yellow monster runs up to me before tripping and falling, holding on to the bridge with his mouth. I faintly remember there being more dialogue here but I don't care to think further.

I'll kill this kid, I'm not risking an incomplete genocide run. It's strange, I've killed so much. So many people with their own feelings and thoughts that the only thing I think of when I am about to kill somebody is how easy it is. Most people, normal humans for example, die easily. An open artery, a removed heart or decapitation, it's all just a swish of my fingers away.

It's true what Sans said, the higher my LV, the easier it is to hurt others and the easier it is to not get hurt. The higher my LV, the more I distance myself.

The less I get hurt.

And that's what I dearly need.

More LV, less pain.

Please, just less pain.

-PoV Undyne-

She rounds the corner to the bridge to see the human she had been told about standing above a monster that is barely holding onto the ledge of a bridge. The sound of her armor had attracted the humans attention and the last SOUL stops crouching in front of the kid to turn to her.

Undyne had expected a grin of bloodlust, or a crazy smirk on his face as he awaits his next victim.

But the only feature besides a neutral look are glazed over blue eyes. She can faintly recognize a sea of clouds in his pupils but they're covered by a hazy fog. Something in her heart shakes at those eyes, as if looking at a treasure she had long lost but that feeling fades quickly and she remembers why she's here. She charges a spear in her hand and lobs it at the human as hard as she can, she wont let this murderer live to see another day!

But he just stood there, he charged no attack, he went into no stance.

He stood there, until the spear pierced his shoulder, until the very same spear, tip covered red in blood hit the wall behind him. Monster kid had long ran away, scared of the action and not willing to be part of it, so they where alone, on the bridge.

Worst of all, he did not twitch when it pierced him, it even looked like he laxed his muscles so the spear would even hurt him. Is he playing with her?! "Hey, you monster! You think you can kill all of these people and then get to make fun of me?!" He did not react, even as blood flowed down his black shirt.

He looked down and moved his hand over the wound, retreated the limb and looked at the now red hand.

What is with this man?

Somehow, he seemed sad, even when nothing changed in his expression. But even that was gone as he let his hand fall down again. "Domain Expansion..." He called out and his hands fell together, as if he had clapped. Then, the index and pinkie finger curl until only their joints touch. "Malevolent Shrine." The words where spoken softly, in a whisper but they held some unseen gravitas that even she felt. "Undyne. I'll show you something beautiful, something I'm proud of before you die. I promise to make it quick." He said, no inflections in his voice.

The world turned black and she stumbled. Then, the floor was covered by a glowing sea, a blue hue covering the darkness and dark red lights start shimmering in the far distance. She isn't in Waterfall anymore. "W-Where did you take me? Answer, human!" She screamed and threw another four spears that materialized behind her. She tried to make his SOUL green but nothing happened.

The spears fizzled out before they could touch him.

Out of the water behind him, a temple rose. Dark blue tiles as roofing and red stone and wood as material, what she can only describe as a shine rose out of the sea. Then, a mountain of bone followed and the ocean below them turned blood red. Ripples made their way from and to her, originating from her own fidgeting and his rising shrine.

He stood atop the hill of dead bone and chitin as he looked down on her with no expression at all. "It's my domain. I wanted to show you one of the inner domains that make up my very being. Normally, a sorcerer only has one but my lust for power drove me to acquire more. As did it lead me here. Ha, It seems like I'm my own curse. Ironic, considering my powers..." She did not understand his words but she knew a troublesome situation when she saw one.

She is captain of the royal guards after all. He stood at the literal mouth of his temple, the walls of said shrine being replaced with gaping maws made of black teeth, before he started striding down towards her. The bones, even as brittle as they look, didn't so much as crunch below his feet as he approached. "For all the monsters you've killed, I will slay you right here and n-" She did not get to finish her sentence.

Some force invaded her brain and she felt her spine get cut, her body going numb. Then, her world spun. She rose high into the air before descending swiftly. She landed on the bloody floor, she did not sink.

She felt shorter than before.

Her vision cleared enough to see two things.

Her own decapitated body and the shrine behind her, the human between both.

'It really is beautiful.' She didn't know if she meant the shrine or the human, for some odd reason.

Neither did she wonder why her last thoughts weren't about her people or Asgore but of a human and his art.

-PoV 'Frisk'-

I don't know what to feel. I'm not sad, but my heart is twisting. I don't feel guilty but the sight of her bodyless head feels like a stab to my stomach. My head hurts. Why do I feel like this now? I killed Papyrus and plenty of other, sentient people but I never felt that strongly about it.

So wh- oh.

I don't feel guilty about killing Undyne. I feel guilty about killing the person I loved.

That's why I'm feeling so weird. I'm tearing myself apart. I look up at the ceiling.

You know, the worst part about knowing what's wrong with you is that you don't know how to fix it.

When I see the dilemma of some anime protagonists I always think 'just talk about it' but that's the very last thing I want to do right now.

I stare at the empty lab of Alphys with an equally empty look. It seemed like a blur walking through the rest of Waterfall, like a segmented slideshow. I need more LV. I want to stop feeling like this. I need more LV.

I continue walking, I need more LV. I want to stop this feeling. I hate it, why do I have to kill them?

Slash, another slash. How many will this fucking plane need? "Could you make this easier? It'll hurt a lot otherwise." I ask Tsunderplane gently as it flies around the place, one wing cut off and half it's tail gone from one of my 'Cleaves'. Man, I sound creepy. But I guess I am creepy. I'm a filthy murderer after all.

A filthy brother killer.

A filthy lover killer.

Shit, I need to get out of my own head. I need to think about something else... Where is Chara?

I focus back on the here and now and lock onto the path of Tsunderplane. Then, the next moment, it's head is cut off. It crashes to the ground and turns into a cloud of kicked up dust.

*You have Leveled up!

I do not acknowledge the screen, I'm not too fond of the system right now. I only take one more step from the murder site before I hear a voice I hadn't yet in a long while. "Greetings, partner." I turn to meet the red eyes of Chara, her form far more solid as the last time I saw her. My LV... it's giving her strength, her personality. I didn't even think of her when I started this murder spree.

Ach! Not like it matters, I still need to continue, I need to move on. "What do you need?" I ask as politely as I can but still, I can't bring myself to pick up my voice from the ground of apathy that it is stuck in. The floor of apathy my emotions are stuck in.

Chara is physically restraining herself from doing... something as it seems. "I need you to stop this genocide. It is... complicating my current psychological state. I would like to keep up our deal but you are actively going against it." Her glare is murderous.

I look down at her. Is she trying to punish me? For this?! Does she think I'm doing this for fun?! Aparently, my anger shows on my face because the little, top heavy girl takes a frightened step back. "I'm not having fun here, Chara. I hate this. I'm doing this for them. If you are still yourself by the end of this run, I'll fulfill our deal. But I don't care enough about you to throw their lives away." I turn and leave, the first to exit the conversation for the first time in our relationship.

Did I just lie?

I arrive at the final corridor in measured steps. I had killed Mettaton NEO or whatever he was called as fast as Frisk did in game before I headed straight through the Core, killing everything in my way. And now, I'm finally here. I'm almost at the end, an empty UNDERGROUND behind me. It's almost over.

For the second time, seeing as I exited the other nine timelines due to a time limit, I step into the yellow corridor.

The shoes I wear, sneakers I've noticed on the ground in the RUINS, squeak as I tread towards the dark, small figure standing between me and the end. "Hey Frisk. You've been busy, huh?" Sans says, eyes piercing my very SOUL. "Now, I remember you promised me something."

I look down at him, just like I forced myself to look down on everybody I killed for the sake of my sanity. Not that that worked, in the end. But I did it for them. "I'm sorry Sans, I didn't want to do this either but I was forced. It was either I kill you all once or we'll be tortured forever."

Sans doesn't say anything for a moment. "You're not the type to lie about something like that. Although, I don't know how that would work. Still, you killed my brother and plenty of other people I cared about." The small dots, the white, shining light they are, leave the sockets of the skeleton, leaving an eerie void in his eyes. "But I also know that you're lying to yourself."

I stop the charge of Cursed Energy I was about to unleash as I saw him getting ready. "What?"

"You may think that you're doing this all for us but I've known you long enough to know better." He begins and my heart starts to race. "There may be a large part of you that truly believes that and acts accordingly but, I think, an even bigger part is fighting for your own survival. You want to continue living as much as you want to see us live."

I look at the floor. Really? Did... is that me? Selfish? Or, at least, selfish enough to gamble on the system not lying to me. But why would my system, that has been so focused on my growth, even want to torture me forever? That doesn't align with what I've seen from it... Oh my god. I took the easy way out, to not risk my own future. Holy shit. I'm- I'm a fucking monster! Instead of questioning or calling it's bluff, I took the easy way out and started doing what I can now do best, killing.

My vision starts to blur as tears trickle onto the clean floor. Just like in my first life, instead of taking matters into my own hands, I let others tell me what to do and, as often as I can, I take the easy way out. I don't struggle, and that I've gained this much power got to my head, making that even worse. I killed them, because I'm selfish.

HOW!? Why didn't I think through this a bit earlier? I just cried for nine months and then started killing because I didn't want to take a risk! "Sans." My voice is shaky, I could rid myself of emotions when I had a relatively Just cause I could hide behind but now that I know, it's not that easy. It's impossible, frankly. I killed them all, because I wanted to enjoy my second life and not risk it. I do not bother asking him for forgiveness, I don't deserve it. I killed everybody he loved.

I killed Undyne for nothing.

I killed Papyrus for nothing.

I killed Toriel for nothing.

You have matured sufficiently!

UNDERTALE is now your HubWorld.

In a HubWorld, HUB for short, the rules of said world still apply. Meaning, you can still RESET and SAVE. Now though, there is no time limit to your stay.

You will be teleported to your first real World and the HUB will be locked until the first major quest is complete. That stipulation has been added so that new players get comfortable in the new world instead of staying in just one.

You will be teleported in:

30...

I do not comprehend the screen for a good second. This was intended? This overbearing stab I feel in my chest is intended? The immaculate self-hatred and guilt that now perforates my body was my growth? I...

Before I can start launching attacks at a screen that I cannot touch, I remember the timer. "S-Sans. I'm sorry, I'm not asking for forgiveness. I will RESET but I wont show up for a while. Maybe that's for the best." the last part was muttered but I know Sans heard it. "I will return, and when I do, I want you to judge me." Yes, I need a punishment. I can't live with this guilt if I'm not absolved somehow. It's like an Anaconda is tightened around my heart. I don't even acknowledge how emo I sound right now.

5...

Sans looks up at me, his smile plastered on his face. "I will, kiddo. I just wanted you to realize what you where doing. It seemed like you where on auto-pilot the entire time. You must be bone tired-" And I can't hear the rest of his pun as my consciousness fades.

-PoV Rias Gremory-

Rias, one of the great ladies of Kuoh academy, portrays herself as prim and proper to any stranger or distant acquaintance who speak to her. This includes random teens who appeared in front of the school gates. "Pardon me but classes are over. They have been for two hours." She begins as she looks up at the boy who is a head taller than her. His black hair extenuates his sharp features, though pitch black sunglasses cover his eyes. Somewhere deep inside herself, she is a bit disappointed. Such a mysterious boy, who had just appeared on her premises without triggering the wards she activates every time school ends to look out for unwanted visitors, must have some pretty eyes?

For a moment, he just stares at the sky above them. His mouth is slightly open, as if shocked by something. Then, his head turns down and what are presumably his eyes lock onto hers behind his sunglasses. Or, at least, she thinks so. "DXD..." She hears him mutter. She has no clue what that means. Is he crazy? "I get sent here after that?" His voice is shaky and has a pitch raise at the end of his sentence, something happened to him recently.

And it's nothing good, her devil side feels an inflection in his admittedly large mana reserves. Mana is directly tied to the mind and such an inflection she had seen many times before, most prominently in her peerage. Guilt. And seeing from the frequency of his spikes, it's a lot of it.

Her mind goes from on guard and watchful to worried and sympathetic. "Are you, perhaps, lost?"

The black voids of his sunglasses stare at her Soul.

-PoV ?-

I stare at Rias Gremory. Rias Gremory. From High School DXD. Is this a joke? This fucking system. First, it manipulated me into literately killing everybody I loved both platonically and romantically while I literately tore myself apart with both desperation and self-hatred, then it all turned into Guilt and even worse self-hatred.

No. Compartmentalize, focus on the here and now. I've learn that through the first half of the- the genocide route. That god damn route. Why didn't I- No! I'm doing it again.

I'm in DXD, Rias Gremory is talking to me, I need to focus. She asked my if I'm lost, I think? "You could say I am." Both emotionally and physically, I very much am. Not that I'm telling her that.

I keep an ear open for her reply while a new notification show up in front of me.

You're STATUS has been updated!

You have completed the TUTORIAL!

Tutorial rewards available...

You have unlocked QUESTS!

I tell myself to just keep playing this fucking game, to just get stronger instead of thinking about them and me and I open my status.

Name: Tamashi Kowareta

Titles: [SOUL of Determination] [The Gamer]

HP: 191/191

MP: 542/542

CURSE: 172.500/172.500

LV: 40

VIT: 26

ATK: 43

DEF: 14

DEX: 39

INT: 44

Tamashi Kowareta? Doesn't that mean, like, 'Soul Broken' or something? Is that irony from the system or is it just very edgy?

"-re you even administrated here?" I hear the tail end of her long string of questions.

Am I?

Yes, tomorrow is your first day.

I loath to thank the system for anything, so I don't. "Yeah, I think. My first day is tomorrow." While you're so chatty system, do I have a house here?

Data uploaded.

In that moment, I get a set of directions and a clear path through a city I barely recognize from memories not my own that lead to a small apartment not too far away from my current location, which is Kuoh.

I hear Rias nod at that. "I presume that you where just scouting your new campus, them?" She asks me in a kind tone. Her words would come off pretty arrogant, where they spoken by anybody else but she can keep it sounding nice and smooth. Is that a devil thing?

I nod, she did just give me the best excuse for my presence here. "Yes." I answer, not in the mood to deepen this conversation. "But I'm leaving now anyways." I look down at Rias and nod. "I'll see you tomorrow." I then turn and leave, faintly hearing her mutter something about 'Names'. Oh, I forgot to introduce myself.

Kuoh Town is... something. I never visited Japan, I never visited anything outside my city in my first life, so I might be biased when I call it pretty awesome for a town in Japan. Yeah, it's probably just a regular town compared to something like Tokyo for the Japanese but I think it's cool. From the chops to the atmosphere and even the occasional ash blossom tree, it all creates an atmosphere far more serene than the dreary skies of my home town.

While I wander over to my home, I had opened my new rewards for completing the... tutorial and the new 'Quests' tab.

[QUESTS]

Completed:

Ongoing:

Pending:

[Supreme Leader Part 1] 0%/100%

You have arrived in your first world! This worlds main quest 'Supreme Leader' guides you to become the ultimate ruler of all three biblical factions, awarding bonus rewards for additional pantheons and factions. Rewards are obtained through tiers of completion.

In part one, you are tasked with becoming one of the Satans of the Underworld. For this, you need to become a devil. Do not worry, this change is neither permanent nor harmful to you, even the king you swear servitude on has no real control over you as they normally should.

Reward Tiers:

10%: -5 Skill Points- -A Cursed Tool-

25%: -Unlocking the 'Gacha' function-

50%: -Unlimited Peerage pieces-

75%: -A Cursed Tool- -The 'Dungeon' function-

100%: -Unlocking the HUB- -10 Skill Points- -100 Stat Points- -New Skill-

I nod to myself, a good goal. Uniting all under my banner is the best way to peace, I hope. As long as I don't go crazy, it should be all good. Not that I care much about peace nor am I good at ruling but what the hell else am I going to do with my unlimited potential and insane power? I pass an old lady and presumably her son, red hair both and they happily greet me. I don't wave back, for some reason.

I continue walking, only noting the unusual hair color from that interaction and open the rewards I got.

You have completed the Tutorial with flying colors!

Rewards:

-New Skill Tree tab-

I open my skill tree, this tab could be whatever the fuck it wants to be but I need to complete both the SOUL and MAGIC tab, still!

[DEVIL]

Devil?

From... what series?

I open the skill tree to see- what? There are only four skills.

[Summon Devil] 2 Skill Points

[Summon Primal Fear] 3 Skill Points

[Summon Horsemen] 5 Skill Points

[Devil Absorption] 10 Skill Points

What does that mean? 'Summon' implies that it's like the ten sha- Oh. It's Chainsaw Man. 'Devil' in the same context as 'Primal Fear' and 'Horsemen' implies as much. Oh- OH! That makes the connotation of the word 'Summon' even worse. Wait, I have my Cursed Spirit Absorption! But, why is there 'Devil Absorption' there then?

As I continue to think about the nuances of my new skill tree and my near future in this world, I had stopped thinking about my hell for a short while. The pain in my heart, the stabbing feeling, still remained, as it should because it's what I deserve, at least, but I didn't think about it for a minute.

And that's enough.

I use a short Cleave on my door hinge, seeing as I don't have my keys right now, and I enter the room. I quickly repair the door behind me with Cursed Speech before I gaze at my new empire!

It's three rooms.

Bathroom, as I can see from here as it is at the end of this hall.

Bedroom, to my left.

And a kitchen to my right.

This is just a corridor with three rooms attached.

I've lived in worse, it's fine.

I enter the bathroom and I'm greeted by the smallest shower even seen or created by man. I can barely stand in there. How fucking poor am I?

I take out my phone and immediately notice that my monster phone-thingy has been replaced by an actual iPhone. I have no clue which model, probably past 10 due to the two cameras but it's not like I care. I search for my banking app, find it, take out my wallet, log into the app and then see that I have a grand total of...!

849300.96 Yen.

Christ, that's what? Like 5K bucks? I hope rent isn't that bad here.

I shower, my hot water not turning on so I had to heat it up using Cursed Speech, the multipurpose tool that it is, before I went to the bedroom. It's not much bigger, enough to fit the king sized bed that occupies all of the space in my bedroom. Yeah, that's some shit I'd do. I would most definitely save up for a big bed that I don't have space for and then resigning my bedroom to become on big mattress.

This apartment that felt more like a hotel is suddenly a lot more homey.

I flop down onto the bed to sleep.

I didn't get any, flashes of my past keeping me awake. My first life, my awakening in my second, and my genocide. I cried, a lot. For about an hour, I'm not gonna lie and say I tanked through it like a man because that's not how that works. And even if it did work like that, I wouldn't want it to. I can't live with myself until I can get rid of this guilt.

I killed so, so many because I'm a coward.

I had made it to the land of dreams, or Nightmares in this case, at six AM. Meaning that I was awake an hour later and started to make my way to school. I'm not tired, my body is too superhuman for that, but I'm mentally exhausted. My feet took me back to the school half an hour before it began, some students where already there and waiting, the diligent bunch. Of course, seeing as this was an all-girls school not too long ago, all of the students I see are female and true to DXD, their god damn super models.

I adjust my sunglasses and make my way to a bench that stood built onto the ground next to the wall that separates the school from the rest of the city. I need to hide my Cursed Energy and Mana.

I haven't thought of how I will exactly act in this world, so now that I've realized that I'm really in DXD, my brain is panicking to come up with a game plan. The last time I did that, I killed my friends. I shake my head and push the thoughts out of my mind, there is nothing inherently wrong with a plan.

My goal is to become one of the Satans, a position with currently only four seats. So, either I remove one of them or I become famous and important enough for them to add another. But how do I get such prestige? Two things come to mind, I show off my power somehow, by becoming first in the rating games for example, and I need to somehow gain a good political backing. The second requirement is achieved by gaining the trust and allegiance of my two most important recourses, not including myself and my powers, here in Kuoh. Rias and Sona. I'm becoming one of their peerage members, if I don't find a way to become a devil in any other way, so my first thought of hiding my magical powers isn't really that good. Counter intuitive, even.

But I'm not going to go around flexing it, that could make them suspicious. For now, I'll continue emitting my energies while I go through classes I don't need.

-PoV Rias Gremory-

The sister to the most powerful Satan sat in her club room, two of her fellow members in both the club and her peerage on the couch in front of her own desk. Her thoughts drift to their new student, Tamashi. She and Sona had talked about him and his blatant magical potential and her fellow king of Kuoh had decided to abstain from taking her potential savior away from her. Now, she only needs to convince him. It should be easy, really, it should, seeing as he is a teenage boy and any amount of female attention should, at least, do something.

But she get's the faint feeling that that wont work. She barely knows him, and his preferences, so her tactics could result in the opposite effect of what was desired. Rias groans as her head plops down onto her desk.

"My king?" She hears Akeno ask, her tone intrigued and teasing at her kings misery.

Rias manages to remove the thoughts of her soon to be arranged marriage and the seemingly only way out to look up at her Queen, the woman incarnating said piece standing in front of her desk, her sizable bust casting a shadow over Rias' head. "I'm fine, Akeno." She tries to placate, but even as she says the words, she knows them to be ineffective.

Akeno chuckles, her... unique laughter able to send shivers down one spine and feelings of pleasure through another. "It seems something is on your mind, a boy, perhaps?" She casts her hook into the water.

And Rias bites, unknowingly giving Akeno her prize. More teasing material. "Yes. The new student, Tamashi, has a large mana pool and probably a Sacred Gear, seeing as another energy signature is radiating off of him. And, while Sona wont be targeting him, I still struggle to find the courage to actually propose it to him." The empty glazed over gaze of said boy flashes in her mind, the fluctuations in his mana she also noticed accompanying the image.

Akeno nods and partially sits down onto her kings desk. Where Rias interested in the female form, this position would surely flood her brain with plenty of dopamine. Her queen nods at Rias' qualms. "Ah, but you're not the type of person to have trouble with simply proposing the position to a boy. If you're doubting that it'll work, we can... encourage him." A devious smile stretches across the second lady of Kuoh's face.

Rias blushes slightly at the idea. She can't think of why she does, she has no problem with her own figure, she's proud of it even, so showing it off to some guy she barely knows to get what she wants shouldn't be a problem. But why then, does the idea make her heart beat ever so slightly faster?

-PoV Tamashi-

I sigh as I stand in front of my new class's door. The large thing style typically Japanese and keeping up the standard Japanese high school trope in my mind. I hate to go to school again but not as much as I hate myself, so everything should be fine. Coping through humor, how original. I ignore my inside thoughts and open the sliding door.

The first thing I see is the teacher and her desk, the lady herself of a good height, not nearing my own but not bad at all, crowned by dark black hair and a form fitting teachers garb. Said teacher noticed my entrance and stops whatever she was announcing to the class to usher me inside. "Ah, Kowareta, I assume? Come in!" I nod, a bit delayed as both my first and second names are still unfamiliar. But I like 'em enough to make them my own, so I'll get used to it quickly enough.

I nod and enter, turning quite a few heads. I immediately notice that I'm in Issei's class, the boy sitting at the window seat behind his two perverted friends. I don't hate him, I just think he shouldn't be as important as he is, his aspirations and his intellect is to lament over, so I wont be stacking my chips on him any time soon. The teacher guides me next to her, behind the podium that is her desk and begins to talk again. "Class, today we are welcoming a new student to our group. Please, introduce yourself."

Teenage girls do as teenage girls do and a few of them go red at my sight. Now, I'm not one to stroke my own ego, not after my run, but I know how a supermodel looks when I see one. And, apparently, my VIT or any other stat increases the real life equivalent of video game charisma, making me not only possess the powers of Gojo, but attract the chicks like him too. I remember that I need to introduce myself and am immediately thankful for my INT, seeing as it accelerates my thought process a great amount. "Yo, I'm Tamashi Kowareta." I stop myself and think, how old am I?

16

Christ. "And I'm sixteen years old." I don't go further, though that peeves a few of the girls in the class. Though, one stands out among the rest. A girl with light brown hair, two braided strands falling down the sides of her head and red rimmed glasses covering yellow-orange eyes. A smirk is proudly plastered on her face. It's Aika Kiryuu. And her 'Ability' is to scout the size of a guy's 'manhood'. Fuck, I have not thought of that since my reincarnation, I just ignored it in favor of my power and social connections but how big am I?

By the feel itself, 'cuz, you know, I can feel it as it's my fuckin' dick, it's bigger than my previous one, which was slightly above average. So, cool, I guess? Nothing to ride home about but one person in this class apparently likes what she sees- does she 'see' it or is the knowledge just beamed into her head? I need to stop thinking about hentai logistics- and I look back at the teacher expectantly. She stammers for a bit, not thinking that my introduction was over and she quickly nods and points at a seat next to- to fucking Aika. "Ah- You can sit right over there. I wont be grading you for today, so you can just get comfortable with the classes!" Her high pitched voice tries to encourage my learning spirit but it falls on deaf ears as I've already begun my march to me new resting place and my new grave for the next one and a half hours.

I plop down onto my seat and my head immediately falls into my folded arms, it would not look good to act like this on the first day but I couldn't care less about my reputation with the teachers or my grades. I probably wont even be attending this school in a year or two, too busy running a fucking religion if everything goes right.

I have to actively restrain myself from activating Infinity while I sleep, something I learnt to do while on the... my last run because some monsters where more retaliation friendly than expected, to avoid normal people finding out about the supernatural and, in turn, giving the big bads and big goods of the supernatural world a reason to rip my arms out. I may be strong, but I'm not Great Red or Sirzechs Lucifer strong. Yet. My sides are therefore attacked my a set of fingers as a certain girl wants to get my attention. "Hey!" She whisper-shouts. "I'm Aika Kiryuu but you can just call me Aika, big boy." A sultry tone overtakes her teasing introduction. I twist my head enough for one of my eyes to peek out of my folded arms, escaping the resting place that I've always built in every school setting I've been in in both my lives.

"What?" I pointedly ask, I don't not like her but basing your opinion of someone on their member is kind of an asshole move. I shouldn't complain, seeing as I was blessed in both lives but I can still recognize character flaws when I see them.

She shrinks back into her seat slightly but regains her swagger quickly. "I thought that you maybe want a tour of the school. We could even have some fun, if you now what I mean." She's obviously kidding, but it's still kind of worrying that she jumps at the opportunity to make such comments. If a guy'd have said that, he'd be six feet under in the mind of the public.

I don't groan but a gust of air escapes my nostrils as my disappointment in her mounts. "No." I retreat back into my cave and actually sleep until the end of class.

I am the last to exit the class room as the bell rings, not having a bag to carry around making the teacher question me and delaying my exit. But when I do eventually escape my newest bore-fest, a pair of girls I faintly recognize stop me in my tracks. It would be easier to pin-point who who is if the conversion from anime character to real life people would be smoother. But, whoever decided to make DXD real, made everybody here the next rising star in the beauty scene, so it's hard to differentiate. Though some, like Rias, have their own unique beauty and unmistakable features, like her red hair and massive tits- like holy shit.

I refocus on the girls in front of me and shoot them a pointed look for stopping me. The fidget slightly but the nod to each other, obtaining confidence from their numbers advantage before they finally speak. "We have been asked by the student council to give you a tour of the school and two clubs of our choosing." The first girl begins, the one with dark brown hair that's tied in a red ribbon behind her head to make for a great ponytail to accompany the rest of her style. The other girl picks up on her partners sentence, her Sakura levels of forehead making me want to shoot a sarcastic remark that it's actively blinding me but my common sense restraining my tongue. Another similarity between girls #2 and Sakura is the pink hair and large eyes, though the blue coloration of her eyes makes her unique enough. "Y-Yes, and we'd thought that we would ask you what clubs you want to visit."

I deadpan and almost shoot the remark that I have no clue what clubs there are but I don't want to seem too incompetent, so I pretend that I've researched the school beforehand and just say the only two I know are a thing here. "The Kendo and Occult Research club seemed interesting." On second thought, maybe mentioning the club that acts as a cover for a party of devils wasn't too good of an idea.

The pink haired girl nods and continues. "Then we'll give you the tour while walking to both. O-Oh, and my name is Murayama Hanami." She introduces and I suddenly remember the two from the anime. Convenient that I mentioned the Kendo club, then.

Katase, having stood back up after her loss, stood next to us with an open mouth and wide eyes. Murayama was trembling slightly, my hit from before still rattling her bones and her face displays both surprise and awe. "H-How have we not seen you in any championships yet? How do you not have multiple trophies?!" Katase almost shouts.

I shrug. "Maybe I do, you don't know. But you haven't seen me on TV 'cuz I don't care about Kendo." I know she meant combinative sports in general but I'm not going to come up with a believable lie any time soon for my lack of exposed talent compared to what I show off on a regular basis. "Do you guys need to go to the nurse? I hit pretty hard." It's and honest question, I can limit my strength but not down to the percentage, so there is some leeway. I could very well have torn some muscles or cracked a bone, even. Bruising is to be expected, though.

Her friend picks up on her intention and nods along. "And I'm Katase Ishibi but you can use our first names." I don't think you can decide that for someone else here but sure, whatever you think is right. We begin to walk, making our way below a sign hanging from the ceiling that denotes the PE hall, probably to reach the Kendo arena. "So, you're interested in Kendo?" Katase begins, trying to make the awkward silence that filled the air disappear in favor of light conversation.

I nod. "In fighting in general, Kendo was the only thing I saw that let me fight with a weapon." Yeah, I've found myself enjoying a fight and even with my... bad experiences with violence, I can't find it in me to become abstinent in it's practice.

Murayama beams at that. "So, you wouldn't hate it if I asked you to spar? You could join us if you like it enough!" I look down at the watch on my phone at her light hearted suggestion. I have literately nothing to do otherwise, normal training doesn't do anything for my stats anymore except for when I use heavenly restriction combined with training equipment the weight of a mountain, which would not only attract attention of similar size but it'll also bore me to death. I'd rather socialize with important people and fish my system for a quest so I can get Skill Points to get more powerful.

Still, I nod at her suggestion. "Sure, we can spar."

I hear Katase chuckle next to me. "How much experience do you have with a sword." She asks with confidence derived from her years of experience in the art.

I smirk, contrasting my next words heavily. "None."

She stops for a moment. "But you said you liked to fight with weapons?" She asks me, confused at my logic.

My smirk stays where it is on my face as I nod. "I didn't lie, I just never used a sword." I'm really not lying, despite my Perfect Combat Adaptability, the skill that'll let me beat both of the girls next to me soon, I haven't fought with anything but Playful Cloud and the good 'ol fisticuffs.

Katase then smirks at my own smirk in annoyance, hating that I'm apparently so confident in my ability despite my inexperience and feeling challenged for it. "Well then, big shot, why don't we make a bet?" She suggests.

Finally, something exiting. "What bet?" I ask her.

She nods as the door to the gym comes into sight. "If you beat both of us at the same time, you can ask anything of us and we cant refuse." Murayama blushes at that and her friend revels in her club partners embarrassment.

Well, they wont have to worry, I aint no scumbag. I don't even get embarrassed myself at her implication, Chara's proposal was far worse. "I accept."

And just then, we enter the gym.

I stand in the middle of an arena marked by a white line that's painted onto the smooth gym floor, two girls in their white Kendo garbs, holding two wooden trainings swords opposing me. I suggested real swords but their counter question of asking me where they'd get such weapons in a school made me facepalm. I stand ready with my own sword, my level 100 Combat Adaptability skill making me a literal god of any weapon I pick up, as I don't use a fighting style but always react to any situation optimally.

Katase get's into her stance, Murayama following her friend. "3. 2. 1. GO!" She counted down before she began the match. They had laid out special rules to simplify the sport for me, as I didn't want to bother learning all of Kendo for one match. If you get hit five times, you're out. Both of them then rush at me.

They might very well not have even moved to my vision, my brain using all of it's facilities on instinct when the fight began. I have to actively bring my strength, both of mind and body, down to human levels so that I can actually participate in this fight without killing these two poor girls. Still, I'm not about to loose this because I held back, I will still be using enough strength for it to be considered Overkill.

Katase comes at me with a vertical strike aimed for my left side. Now, I could just slap her sword with mine and use my strength to break it or at least make her drop it, but I'm going for style points here, because I want to have some fun and being cool is fun. In that moment, I remember the Chainsaw Man anime, the memories having resurfaced recently due to my new skill tree branch, and I reminisce about the scene where Kishibe was 'kind' enough to train both Power and Denji.

So, I imitate his move and duck into Katase's guard before stabbing at her chest thrice in quick succession with my dummy sword, not stabbing her like Kishibe but I sill felt cool nonetheless, so it's a win for me. She is stunned by my attacks, spit flying out of her open mouth as I knocked the air out her lungs. I sense Murayama aim for my legs to trip me, having gotten herself back together from her surprised state after seeing my speed. Seeing as Katase was still winded by my attack, I utilize her current combinative impotency to my advantage and twirl to the stunned girls left until I finish my spin with a sword strike to her side, stun locking her even more.

My evasive maneuver succeeded and Murayama missed, a flinch marring her face for it. My extreme close quarters combat strategy paid off, my assumption that the Kendo girls fighting style relies on keeping the opponent at the end of their sword due to the nature of Kendo. Katase regains her functions and tries to step away from me and regain her stance.

I do not let her.

I follow her backstep immediately and stab my sword into her right hand, her fingers trembling from the shock and letting her sword fall to the ground. That's five hits for her. Murayama tries to avenge her teammate by stabbing at my back while I hunted down Katase but I intercept her attack by simply letting my sword rest in front of my back, as if I'd sheathed it there. I keep it afloat there, connected to my enemies blade while I turn to face her, starting to move the 'blade' of my sword closer to her.

Like a coiling snake, I start to twirl my blade around hers before I reach her hand and disarm her with a flick of my wrist. The sword clatters to the ground behind me and I raise the end of my training stick to her neck. "I win." I say, my face as neutral is it has always been in a fight.

Both shake their head. "No, but you do hit hard. My chest still feels like it's about to collapse in on itself." Katase comments with a chuckle before retrieving her sword. I let her collect mine and don't notice both their shock at seeing the grip of my sword riddled with cracks, my strong grip having absolutely decimated the puny wooden handle. They both enter the side room of the gym to put the training swords in their proper place before returning to me with a smile on their faces. "Now, while I dearly hope you join our club, I respect your interests and wont stop our tour. We'll visit the Occult Research Clubs building now." Her need to question me further is evident on her face but she keeps herself from prying further into my private life.

I shrug, I don't really care either way. They've both been pretty nice even after I beat them so soundly and easily, I expected more jealousy from teens but I guess people can be responsible sometimes. Their company is also appreciated, while I care little for my reputation at this school, having some friends would be nice. At the thought of friends, my mind drifts to the ones I slaughtered and my mood is promptly dampened.

I try and distract myself by thinking about the immediate future. I'll be visiting Rias of my own accord, which is not at all suspicious for the new kid wit magic. I just hope I'm not souring any relationships here.