Disclaimer: This story contains physical torture (trying my best), language, and content not for 13 and under. Dissidia Final Fantasy belongs to Square Enix, Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima, and High School DXD belongs to Ichiei Ishibumi. OC characters belong to me.

By morning, it didn't take long for the Phenex household to wake up with the most shocking sight even by the masters who were unscathed or ignored; almost entirely of their staff members and Riser's peerage were initially dead by whatever attacked them, revealing to them that an intruder has dared trespass in the dead of the night and tried to kill everyone but failed once the Lords and Ladies of Phenex use their drops of Phoenix tears from their stashes to revive every victim to life for any information about what happened. Unfortunately, their shared answer is that they couldn't remember who, when, and how they were attacked. And further weighing their worries and fears, mostly his peerage girls and Ravel; they checked his dirty room that strangely had the doors opened and everywhere in the mansion inside out but there was no sign of Riser everywhere, not even felt a trace of his power and life energies. It is as if he has disappeared for good.

"Riser! Riser! / Brother! Where are you!?" The entire Phenex family and Riser's peerage members continuously ran around the estate, but their efforts were fruitless and made the women more distraught about Riser's disappearance and uncertain fate.

"Whoever intruded here must've kidnapped Riser!" The flabbergasted Lord Phenex deduced in mixed fear and anger, trying to comfort his disbelieved wife worrying in fright. "Love, we have to find him!"

"But how did Riser get himself taken?" Ruval wondered aloud in confusion. "He never leaves his quarters ever since the failed wedding."

"Not surprised he snuck out to do something, for staying in bed every day…" Rhys muttered in displeasure, automatically alarming Ravel in surprise.

"How dare you, Brother!?" Ravel's anger startled her family members and everyone in Riser's group watching the youngest girl scolding one of her older brothers for his unintentionally condensing tone. "Our brother was kidnapped by someone dangerous to kill our workers and his peerage, and you two sound like you don't care about what happens to him!"

"We didn't mean it like that, little sister." Rhys tries to exclaim, surprised by his sister's outburst. "But we all know that whatever Riser got himself to, he tends to talk or fight out of it unscathed…. Unless his new Dragon phobia couldn't help him…" A hand resting on his shoulder stopped Rhys from finishing his sentence, noticing his older brother's softly stern glower and brief nod towards Ravel's slowly fuming expression which made Rhys flinch again for angering his sister again.

"We're sorry, Ravel." Ruval apologized with a brief bow, always the one to wisely defuse his siblings' arguments.

"We shall have an all-round search for Riser and find whoever is responsible for this crime. We could even call for the Thunder family for their assistance…" Their father and lord decided to his family with his wife hurriedly nodding her acceptance. As she first watches her parents and brother walking away from the foyer to the stairway heading to her father's office, only Riser's harem notices Ravel staying behind to look away and mope her sadness tempting to shed tears, alarming the fourteen women with those like Ni and Li, and Mira trying to comfort their former Bishop and master's sister.

Even if she knew her brother as arrogantly proud of a womaniser even to those outside his peerage before the failed engagement, Ravel cannot hate but feel worried about her brother's disappearance. "Brother…"

'RISER PHENEX, MISSING! MYSTERIOUSLY FAILED ASSASSINATION!'

'Lords and Ladies of Phenex unharmed, focusing on all out-search for missing third and youngest son.'

The main and sub-headlines alongside the big picture showing Riser Phenex's headshot became the front page of every Hell News newspaper showing the importance for all pureblood Devil-class, reincarnated Devils, and secret human allies to preserve their knowledge and never openly reveal even to the oblivious humans, with the news noting the time of the assault, how the staffs and Riser's girls were initially murdered, and the potential theory of the Hunters' involvement. This has become the most important news in the entire Underworld and the closest realms connected to it. Some of them are specifically delivered towards the members of the Occult Research Club of the Kuoh Academy by their Fallen Angel and club advisor Azazel, due to their achievements among the Underworld which they are currently reading as soon as it was the school's break time. Almost all of them express mixed horror and sadness for both the Phenex family's attempted assassination and Riser's disappearance.

"Oh, my goodness." Asia softly gasped in shock.

"Don't know…if deserved." The stoic girl of the group, Koneko whispered sarcastically although everyone even the lone red-haired woman sitting on the couch with her back facing the others heard her, with the motherly Queen of the group, Akeno softly patting a hand on the younger girl's head with her eyes closed matching her mysteriously gentle smile. "Koneko-chan, I think you should keep that to yourself."

"Even if we dealt with Riser from the Rating Game, and Issei's duel for Rias, this could be a huge problem for not only the Phenex family but most of the Higher-class Devils," Kiba noted aloud with a faint frown expressing a tint of uncertainty. Looking up, the others noticed that one or two were confused about this situation.

"Who's Riser Phenex?" Irina quietly asks Xenovia in confusion about the others' reaction to the news but also spots Rias's which prompts the question, receiving a shrug of her friend's shoulders for her obliviousness as well.

"Riser Phenex is the youngest son of the immortal Phenex family, with powers of the Phoenix, and was Rias's ex-fiancé." Asia was the first to answer Irina's question before Akeno assisted in giving her answer. "We lost our first Rating Game against him and his peerage initially to break their engagement, but Issei saved her by crashing their party with our help."

"My! Ex-fiance or not, that sounds romantic!" Irina remarked in awe from her dreamy smile and blush, holding her hands together against one cheek.

"Well, it would've been like that if not for his previous attitude." Issei chuckled with a tired sigh out of his smile, noticing Irina, Xenovia, Rossweisse, and Gaspi's dumbfounded frowns towards him. "Never mind. We'll tell you three about that later."

"But even if they were no longer engaged, how does Rias feel about this?" Rossweisse enquired what made everyone nervously look at their leader solemnly looking away and downwards without a word, but they grimaced at seeing Rias's depressed glower.

To those like Akeno and Kiba, despite the rocky relationship between the two, Rias isn't the type to belittle anyone who initially bore hatred towards too, even her deprived ex-fiancé. But this news and what happened to him made her concerned and even Issei couldn't help but feel sorry for both. He still remembers the furious fight between Riser's Rating Game and their last showdown but something like these human Hunters' involvement in kidnapping Riser is something not even the latter deserves. As he looks at everyone silently looking at Rias and themselves in mixed apprehension or curiosity for the former's decision, Issei thought for a few minutes before he got the best one that made him openly smile his confidence and determination.

"Guys…we should help look for him." Issei's suggestion immediately caught everyone including Rias who whirled around her seat, and all looked at the brunette's bold expression from his proposition, inducing their surprise although Akeno was composedly quick to close her eyes and smile again. "My…"

"Why? He beat your ass before you beat his's for Rias." Koneko reminded, not even hiding the suspicion in her expression and voice.

"I know me, and Riser were once enemies," Issei admitted with a sheepish smile transitioning into a hopefully confident smile. "But even if a part of me thought we shouldn't get involved, another part of me couldn't help but feel bad and I don't want to ignore this. Maybe, if we help, we can put our differences beside us and help each other out in the future." Rias's blue eyes lit up with a soft gasp only staring at Issei smiling at everyone before her as the last with his eyes closed and a delighted noise released from his teeth. To Rias, she sees as if Issei is planning to do the impossible just like the random times before this…but that is how he is.

"I get the feeling that you would say that, man." Kiba chortled with a smile.

"Mmh! Enemies or not, Issei has a heart of gold…unless his perversion gets in the way!" Xenovia remarked with a confident hmph noise from her smile, bold for her words that surprised Issei while the others but Rias and Koneko chuckled their amusements at the response.

"Hey, what do you mean by that?" Issei exclaimed with a pout but was not expecting Koneko to immediately whisper her mind. "…You pervert."

"You don't have to jab me like that, Koneko!" Issei complained in embarrassment and almost everyone, but two girls laughed their happiness, not taking it seriously. Apart from Koneko, Rias could only stare and be astounded at Issei's proposition to search and rescue Riser. Yes, she did think of trying to object to joining the search due to her mixed feelings with Riser even before his distasteful reunion, the Rating Game, and his loss from Issei's victorious fight for Rias's freedom. But she wasn't expecting Issei himself to suggest them join the search if not for his reason…

'Issei…even if it's someone you used to fight for as an enemy, you're so persistent in caring for everyone.' Rias didn't need to see and care that her mouth twitched a bit before her frown was replaced with a soft smile feeling happiness, pride, and satisfaction. 'That's so cute and manly of you.'

"Mmh!" Rias finally responded and alerted everyone watching her rising from her seat, giving them her full attention with a wave of an arm and hand for an order. "Everyone, we shall help the Devils search for Riser."

Immediately, everyone including Issei smiles their agreement. "Yes, ma'am!"

Somewhere in the vast realms consisting of different worlds, there is one world that no living or dead entity knows of its existence, not even the oldest of the existing 72 Pillars clan Devils that survived the Great War. But the purpose of that world is not the faintest of souls to venture from the outside…

The entire surroundings are nothing but filthy steel walls with filthy pipes filled with air or oil lining each side and flickering light orange light of a bulb farther from each other hanging on the ceilings that would briefly show anyone's appearance, just like the woman currently walking through the hallways until she heads inside a prison hallway bearing blood-stained cells. Some are empty but littered with dried, disembodied limbs or hole-covered bodies destroyed and burned coal black beyond recognition, while some cells were taken by a single soldier torturing their prisoners, with the air constantly releasing shrieking screams and violent swashes, ripping, and punches against broken bones and skin.

Whether these prisoners may be human or not by their different coloured skins, limbs and bodies made of fur, scales, metal, or like human skin, and additional appendages like wings, tails, horns, and so on, especially humanoid animals but mostly demons and angels, they are shown no mercy but the humans who will do anything to eradicate them from existences. That is the purpose of the Hunters, and no one will stop them from their goals and future.

"Hey, fucker!" The lone woman heard one of her men's voices shouting in rage after the sudden harsh bang in front of her, looking up to see a wounded male Angel, with his white feathered wings and matching hair colour, escaping from his cell and quickly flying towards her direction to escape, the desperation in his face hardened in rage from seeing the woman with his arms reading to reach his twitching hands straight for her head and neck, despite her face boring revulsion. But instead of strangling the woman, it took three gunshots and the angel's eyes bulged and almost popped out of its sockets from the bullets through his back and angel wings. The woman backed away to the side just as her soldier fired the first shot at the angel's back and coldly watched the angel fall on his body in time to be pinned by the gunner harshly slammed his knee and leg on the prisoner's neck and back, forcing another howl by the unfortunate escapee.

"I'm sorry, Captain. I'll make sure to finish disciplining this angel." The gunner apologised.

"…You…" Both the woman and male soldier heard a harsh grunt from the angel under the latter's leg, showing his strength had drastically weakened but his face still boiled fury towards the callous woman. "…You all…pay…for everything…you human…scum!" Unfortunately, the female soldier moved position to almost walk past the angel and swiftly raised her right leg before throwing it down to slam her silver-heeled boot against the back of the angel's head, strong enough for blood to splatter from the now broken and lifeless face.

"Hmph." The Captain heartlessly scoffed and walked past her subordinate and the discarded trash "Get rid of this filth." She doesn't need to stay behind and watch the soldier quickly reload his sniper riffle and repeatedly fire the now-dead angel, even if he is no longer breathing, and proceed her walk.

'Those fiends can try all they want, but they will never stop us from our goals.' The woman flamboyantly flips a hand against the ends of her straight golden orange hair to her neck with swerved bangs to one side. Her uniform like the others consists of a dark grey leather shirt with long sleeves and chain belts all over their stomach, chest, arms, and waist, black leather gloves, and silver steel heels. Unlike the men who wear pants, the only female Captain wears a long, ruffled, black skirt past their knees and fishnet stockings.

After unknown minutes of walking down the stairs from the end of the prison cells, the female Captain seems to arrive at her destination at one of the sealed doors barely muffling the screams of a man being tortured inside. But unlike the other worthless prisoners upstairs, this one is needed alive…. yet.

Waiting for almost a minute to hear more of the screams despite no cause of a beatdown, whipping, or chainsaw mauling, yet still finding satisfaction in the sounds of the pathetic prisoners' wails, the Captain impatiently opened the door and headed inside the massive steel room only containing a single stone throne for the prisoner sitting and strapped against by his tormentor while a large barrel of pure water is placed in front of the throne and the. At the wall on the right, one of the six barrels in the room is left unattended while the other four barrels are placed at the other side with another soldier keeping guard of it, having the initials P.T. at the side of each barrel with black marker.

"Have you got anything from the soon-to-be dead meat?" The Captain demanded the two soldiers noticing her arrival, with the one forcefully holding and gripping the prisoner's head facing down and above the water barrel with his right hand feeling him shudder with a croaked whimper when she spoke. On the soldier's left hand, as his method of torturing the unfortunate prey, holds the vial of Holy Water above the prisoner's opened body intact and healed from having a hole when they took him but still scraped with countless tiny bruises all over his skin, his blood-stained and tattered pink pyjama shirt ripped open, leaving his also bloodied but intact pants untouched.

"Just one more batch will be ready, miss. Easier now that it just took a single drop of Holy Water to make him cry his eyes out every time." The soldier who carefully grabbed the new additional barrel of newly made Phoenix Tear-imbued water informed the Captain, his voice hissing in sadistic glee like the woman smiling in cruel delight.

"Excellent." The Captain nodded, waving a hand gesturing the tormentor to remove his right hand from the bloodied man's head only to grab the blonde's hair herself and forcefully raise it to see his pathetically terrified face stained with blood, cuts, sweat and tears, releasing a strangled gasp. "Poor, baby. Your proud family wasted two months sending out an all-out search on you with other hell-fiend Devils and human traitors helping, but we made sure their efforts would not get through." The woman falsely cooed in mocking sadness.

If Riser was his old self before his loss and kidnapping, he would've argued and burned everyone and everything in this hell with his pride intact, but due to their ongoing torture and how his powers have been drastically weakened by their hands, he could only muster a meek sob as his first word after today's torment. "W…why…"

"What do you think? You're a Phoenix." The Captain heartlessly scoffed, shocking Riser. "As part of the disgusting demon who heals everything with their tears, yours will help us achieve our goals of fighting against the Devils and humans who betray our kind by being their playthings."

"The more Phoenix tears we'll squeeze outta you, the more our leader and the entire Hunters can wipe out the old relics of Hell and we can take their powers." The soldier keeping guard of the newly made Phoenix Tear barrels threatened with a laugh.

"If we kill you, we'll just throw your corpse back home and replace you with your precious family." The soldier who always tortured him added what terrified Riser in dismay, not wanting to imagine the worst of both his death and his family taking his place to die themselves even if they were Phenexs.

"Y…You wouldn't-!?" Riser's plea was immediately replaced with a harsh scream almost ripping his throat from a swift punch with a few large drops of Holy Water by his tormentor's left fist still holding his vial, since the Captain was still gripping tightly Riser's hair, almost tempting to rip a few strands off.

"Chickens should be sliced and diced, not squawk their voice. Especially as disgusting as a Devil fried chicken, who became weak from losing a fight with some human brat." Riser's tormentor demeaned, removing his hand from his bloodied stomach not before dropping another drop of Holy Water to force another scream from Riser.

"From what we heard from our leader, your family must be seeing you as weak and pathetic now even if we didn't take you out of your home, huh?" The soldier with the barrels mocked what made Riser close his eyes, trying not to show his vulnerability and give these abusive humans more of his Phoenix Tears but his words may have got through him. Riser has been trying not to react the worst and even believes that he isn't what that soldier dare calls him…but a part of him that slowly but quickly grows inside his heart and mind had no choice but to accept him as what made him want to cry more. Because of his arrogance, and now being forced to manufacture Phoenix Tears against his will for this cruel plan, Riser will be forever weak and pathetic, and the sole responsibility for the new terrorism against humans, Devils, and Angels.

"H-Hey, let go of us!"

"What are you planning to do with us!?"

"G-Grgh! Unhand us, vile insects!"

Riser and the three soldiers heard three new voices yelling in fear and anger heading to his cell, with the former noticing in shock that the male voice sounded EXACTLY like him just when the four watched three soldiers barging him with their hands holding three blonde figures struggling but failed to escape.

A man and two young women, with the one having shoulder-length and straight lemon yellow hair, hazel brown eyes, and well-endowed with her chest size wearing the almost exact pink pyjamas as Riser while the girl with wavy platinum blonde hair tied in a ponytail and violet purple eyes wears a red dress with a purple cape, tights, and red boots. But the man, not only his voice, surprised Riser not by his slightly pale skin, knee-length blonde hair with a spiky scalp a pair of golden horns from the crown on his head with coloured jewels on his forehead and side of his hair, but his golden and purple attire which gives Riser the knowledge of him being a royal kind…possibly a dark magic-enhanced human for sensing him.

"Captain! We accidentally summon three people from their worlds outside our prisoner's realm!" The soldier holding the man in gold notified the Captain, trying so hard to control the man struggling harder to escape like the two women with him. "This prick even sounds just like him!"

"You, filthy mag-gah!" The man in gold with Riser's voice couldn't finish yelling his anger when he received a harsh punch in the left cheek from his captor, spitting saliva of blood he received from the cut at the corner of his purple lipstick-painted lips.

"Emperor!" The girl in red gasped in worry, revealing the man's identity that caught everyone, mostly the Captain's attention.

"Hoho, an emperor, huh? Can tell with all that gold…and feel such power." The Captain whistled with a wickedly seductive smile, secretly licking her lips that no one noticed.

"This guy and girl tried to use their magic on us, but we got them sealed. Luckily, this pretty thing doesn't even have any." The soldier holding the woman in pink pyjamas noted with a disgusting obscene smirk that made both women shudder in disgust with his captive's eyes starting to water in fear before he glanced back at his superior. "What shall we do with them?"

The Captain first looked at the three new prisoners struggling harder but failed by her men before turning towards Riser who mewled a gasp in fear. After a brief silence, The Captain's mouth curled in the most sadistically lustful smile towards one of now four prisoners in their hands. "…Perhaps we can use them to force more Phoenix tears from our main prisoner. Strip His Mighty Highness and put him on the throne. These three can stay in the corner." The Captain ordered and her men immediately do their work upon command.

"N – Nngrah!" The 'Emperor' grunted in pain and anger from being roughly moved closer to the throne the soldier hurriedly grabbed Riser off, with one of the free soldiers from the side moving towards him and starting to roughly grab and pull whatever he grabbed from the golden armour and crown, purple cape, and face jewels, tearing his attire in the process. "R-Release me, this instant!" The Emperor yelled and struggled, but was still unable to escape and even wheezed from the furious fist hitting against the now armorless stomach under his skin- tight, sleeveless, turtleneck-like black shirt by the same soldier stripping him of his armour.

"N-No, w-wait/ Emperor/ H-Hey, stop!" Riser and the two women begged in dread but they were pulled and forced to sit in the side of the room, helplessly watching the 'Emperor' strip off his golden armour and jewels laid at the other side to now only in his shirt and skin-tight, leather purple leggings while being forcefully strapped to the throne with his arms and legs bounded like Riser was earlier, furiously squirming with inaudible grunts and glared his vehemency at every soldier mostly the female Captain standing in front of the newly bounded man with a smirk.

"Mmh. For someone who sounds just like this baby chicken, you're very handsome." The Captain seductively giggled after grabbing the 'Emperor's' face with her hand and forced him to look up, smiling harder at the long-haired man's handsome face scrunching in wrath for his mistreatment. "If I let you go and leave them to die by my men, I'll be your Empress."

Immediately, instead of words, The angered 'Emperor' spat a droplet of saliva and blood from his cut lips that landed on the Captain's cheek, stunning her to back away in disgust while everyone including the soldiers froze in mixed surprise towards the Emperor giving a brief cough and shudder but his lips twitched into a dark smirk flaring his teeth towards the mad woman glowering in bafflement shifting to incense just by his quick response. "…Why would I want some crude wench like you to serve me?"

"So cocky!" The female superior hissed in anger, throwing her the lust she initially had for him, with her right hand pulling something from the back of her skirt to be a stainless-steel water bottle, and her left hand gripped the new prisoner's spiky hair to tilt his head backward and looking up with a painful gasp. Riser and the two women almost move their positions in worry, wanting to save the 'Emperor' from whatever she is planning to do with him, but the men are still overpowering them with their strengths.

"Maybe a drink will clean your filthy mouth!" Without warning, the Captain forcefully stuffed the opened head of the bottle inside and through the 'Emperor's' mouth with a muffled gasp, but suddenly the Emperor immediately shrieked and his violet eyes bulged wide in muffled screams from being forced to drink boiling water that could burn his throat and vocal chords. "Come on, drink more, Your Highness! It's – on – the – house!" The Captain urged with a manic smirk as she continuously chugged the Emperor's mouth with almost scorching water, not caring but enjoying the sight of his purple eyes immediately shedding tears as he screamed but almost choked from his mouth overflowing.

"Emperor!" The girl who revealed his identity cried in horror but noticed how the two men holding both her and the other blonde woman were trying to grab them from their hands behind their backs to their clothes, trying to rip them off their skins.

"Come on! Let's taste your beautiful bodies!" The two soldiers grinned sadistically at the terrified women now trying to get them off themselves after the violet-eyed girl's detached sleeves and leggings were ripped off her arms and legs white the hazel-eyed woman almost lost her shirt, afraid of knowing what these vile men were going to do with them!

"No! Get away from us!" The blonde-haired woman whose right hand has a pink mark of a bird-looking motif, warned and hurriedly held onto the other girl in an embrace, shielding themselves and even kicking her legs and bare feet to surprisingly knock one of them almost unconscious, startling the other men but still persistently grabbing their hands on the innocent women.

"S-Stop! Leave them alone!" Riser managed to knock his tormentor backwards, almost knocking the Holy Water vial off his hand when he hurriedly shielded his fidgeting and bloodied arms around the women in a hug to protect them from their soon-to-be rapists, but Riser screamed from being pulled back with one arm tightly coiled around his throat, releasing strangled gasps growing louder but hold his tongue and teeth in fear of the incoming Holy Water ready to swig into his mouth and throat at the other hand.

"Don't try to stop us, you bastard!" Riser heard his persecutor scolded in fury but his teary eyes only glared at the terrifying vial of deadly water inches closer to follow the Emperor's ongoing torture. "You're nothing without your powers, just like the rest of the…"

"STOOOOPPPP!" Everyone froze in stunned silence including the Captain ceasing her forceful drinking torture on the Emperor's slowly destabilized body when they all stared their mixed confusion, horror, or bewilderment at the weakened Phenex man sobbing with choked cries after his scream due to his abuser strangling his throat with his arm and almost force-fed him with Holy Water that should've killed him inside and out.

"…I'll do it…" Closing his watery eyes with his tears already streaming down his cheeks, Riser sobbed his plea without seeing everyone staring at him. "…Riser will give you more…. please…please don't hurt them…" Although they initially wanted to further their torture even kill them to break him further, the sight of his tears was enough to stop them.

"Good choice." The Captain muttered before pushing and slamming the Emperor's head against the strapped throne once, releasing another scream from the captive after removing the boiling water bottle off his lips but the strength was strong enough to disorient the long-blonde-haired man with a groan.

Releasing her hand to walk away from the throne with a nod towards his men, the soldiers backed away from the two distraught women who were forced to watch one of them place the almost forgotten barrel of water and open the lid with Riser's tormentor roughly lifting themselves and make Riser stand on his knees with his head hovering above the barrel. With more strangled groans and whimpers, Riser unwillingly shed more tears that flowed down his cheeks and under his chin before each teardrop dripped onto the water with his abuser and the latter's superior noticing how the water immediately sprinkled orange-flame-like wisps inside when each Phoenix Tear made in contact with the water. It only took another minute before the tormentor pulled Riser aside and another soldier closed the barrel now containing the last batch of new Phoenix Tear-blended water.

"That's the last of the Phoenix tears for today, boss." The soldier grimly cheered and lightly slammed his hand on the barrel's lid in confidence, receiving a nod from the proud, dictating woman now standing in front of Riser who hastily opened his eyes and gritted teeth with a muffled whimper, dreading for what she shall do to him next.

"Unless we'll make you see these intruders getting their first new batches of torture HARDER than yours, I suggest you'll be more willing." The Captain forewarned Riser and grabbed his face now looking up and straight to her furious sneer with the same hand she grabbed the Emperor's head with, mewling his pain for the tight grip until she and his tormentor brutally pushed and knocked Riser's damaged body against the tile floor, making him scream from his ribcage possibly broken from the impact. "We're done for today. Tomorrow morning, we'll have these intruders join him in their punishment for existing with powers." The Captain informed her men.

"Aww, what? We would've started breaking our new sex dolls." The soldier who initially started the plan to torture the two women complained in displeasure, inducing their fear and their spines shuddering in disgust.

"Don't worry, we can plunder them harder as OUR first time." Another soldier reassured his friend with a heartless laugh as he and another soldier quickly and carefully grabbed all the discarded golden armour from its possibly unconscious owner laying motionlessly on the throne. "Thanks for your gold, Your Majesty! Ahahahaha!"

Without a word and noticing the two men were either unconscious or trying not to be unresponsive, the two women glared at the soldiers proceeding to exit the cell with them inside from the Captain to Riser's tormentor violently slamming the door shut, making the girls and Riser shudder with the two hearing more muffled whimpers from the traumatized and broken man, feeling their hearts weighing heavily in both fear for their new circumstances and sorrow and sympathy for his damaged state.

"H-hey…are you guys alright?" Once it was safe, the girl in pink pyjamas enquired the other girl in red and hopefully the two men once they broke apart their hug with the speaker carefully crawled closer to Riser and carefully lifted him off the floor in an embrace, feeling him shaking like crazy while sobbing after she gently placed and rest his head on her chest.

"I…I hope we are." The girl in red prayed in apprehension, looking back to carefully walk closer towards the throne and unconscious Emperor where the back of his head seeping blood against the throne's surface from earlier, silently and nervously reaching her now bare hands to clasp his chest for seconds. "…I can feel a heartbeat and sense The Emperor's life isn't cut off." The girl detected with a faint sigh of relief from her mouth once she removed her hands from his chest and hurriedly fidgeted her fingers to untie the straps of each of the Emperor's strained wrists and bare ankles, also relieving the girl in pink to subtly smile but still worry for themselves in this horrid place.

"…I'm sorry…" Initially watching the other girl helping release the unconscious man, the woman in pink pyjamas heard the broken man she was comforting weeping harder in her chest and trying to hug her back with his frail arms, his words and tears horrified both girls in sorrow with the young woman in pink slowly shed her tears from her eyes and sadly stroke and pat the back of her right hand against his back. "I'm sorry…I'm scared…and now they're going to kill us…"

As the soldiers busily do their work of tormenting their prisoners for a crucial or no reason at all apart from their jobs, the news of three unknown intruders has spread all over their base like wildfire. Already, there were rumours and questions about their identities, the power of this Emperor and the girl in red while suspecting the woman with the pink mark on her right hand could be magicless, to their wishes of torturing them mostly the two beautiful girls, making the men cheering their sadistic lust and excitement for their bodies.

One of them, however, is also curious about these intruders that he heads to the one place that no one would DARE to enter unless given a good reason which he does when he arrives in front of a door he boldly opens without a knock since his hands are holding a tray of food and drinks, and entered an exquisite bedroom and shared living room for a nobleman, brimming light and life from its fireplace holding a cauldron filled with delicious-smelling liquid faintly boiling, multiple different coloured and sized bags used placed on some parts of the floor as the room's chairs and the ceiling bore countless long and different coloured sheets hanging above the soldier and the owner's heads with the latter currently sitting on the bed. "I am here to..."

"Give me your report on today's surprise." The room's owner composedly interrupted the soldier standing in front of the bed, startling the man who just placed the tray of food on the end of the bed, which was littered with stacks of golden-looking cards, coloured stones, coins and open notebooks by the owner currently reading one of them. "Three unknown individuals were taken from their worlds by YOUR people's magic; One of them is presumed to be an emperor alongside a magic-using girl and a powerless woman via spiriting magic." The voice continued with amusement. "And you're here not only to kindly give me dinner but for a future outcome?"

"Tch." The soldier immediately snarled in anger for being interrupted, especially by the person he was meeting. "You should keep your bloody mouth shut when YOUR masters speak."

"If I do, all your precious time would be wasted." The owner presumed, hearing an angry growl from the irritated soldier but paid no mind. "Ah, yes. The outcome…" Instead of using his hands, the owner nonchalantly and unhurriedly reached his bare left foot and grabbed one of the cards with his big and second toes to look at the front, as the soldier noticed the same card emitted a soft glow of white light from the same side he is looking at. As soon as he stared at the card, the revealed magic user initially bore surprise in his face and mouth faintly opening a glimpse of his teeth…before the card dimmed its light in time for the card owner to smile an eerily pleased smile.

"Oh my~. It seems this new game shall be INTERESTING for once!"

"Game?" The soldier's initial surprise and annoyance at the magic user's words, still harbouring his people's disdain for devils, angels, and magic immediately turn into anger for what he just heard. "You think what we're doing is a game, to you!?"

"Well…your people's eternal game of 'Catch and Torture' is boring to me. Yes, you people have invoked fear in non-humans' hearts for centuries…but I see that fear will be extinguished sooner than never with this outcome." The magic-user admitted with composed politeness, but the truth of his words did little to ease the angry soldier's temper.

"There's no way that's right! We've worked hard to get rid of those filthy demons for years, we'll never stop until Hell and Heaven will be extinct!" The soldier yelled, immediately pulling out his sword from his hilt that hung on his hip towards the magic user who was unfazed by his soon-to-be death to calmly place the card down from his foot. "We knew we shouldn't keep a damned dog like-"

WHOOSH! / CRUNCH! / SPLAT!

"Graaaaagh!" However, the magic user did nothing when the soldier was surprisingly grabbed into the air from above by an unknown source and did not see the gruesomeness and disgustingly sounding torture inflicted on the unfortunate prey when he slowly reached both his feet, never using his hands, to grab his tray and start using his feet and toes to carefully pick up his food and eat them one at a time using his body's flexibility. Even when he noticed a large amount of crimson blood and some detached body pieces descending onto the last place the now-dead soldier stood with large thuds and splashes, the magic user did nothing until he finally finished his food…

"…Achoo." The magic-user softly sneezed a brief sneeze with a tired but pleased smile, not caring about the dead soldier and the presumption of his death by his hand. From how he presented himself and his stupid arrogance, slightly more than the lower-class dullards who share the same hatred as their so-called leaders, the soldier who reported to him seems to have an authority higher than a normal soldier, guessing a captain or a vice-captain of some squad…but that's hardly any different with how they shall die.

It was when he heard a foreign noise or two that he looked up and noticed that his door was left open, revealing that the late soldier was an idiot for not closing it shut, but the two guests that walked inside caught the room's owner's attention when he first raised an eyebrow in confusion…

"Ah, what strange guests you are! But a welcoming one!" The magic user happily smiles his pleasure towards the confusing guests. "Would your owners and my new players live for the game?"

To be continued…

A/N: I wanted to write a Dissidia X High School DXD crossover only about Emperor Mateus (FFII) and Riser Phenex because they share the same English voice actor and even sound similar in Japanese. But as I think and lucid dream further for story ideas and inspirations, and rewrite my other story Tainted Repentance, I also want to add Terra Bradford (FFVI) and Lucy Heartfilia because I like these four characters together.

- Emperor (I always call him Matty) being tortured in this chapter was based on the exact lucid dream I had like this on 9 /10/ 2023 (no joke; I surprisingly dreamed Matty strapped to a throne and forced to drink something that made him in tears…)

- I can call this story a crossover remake of my Dissidia fanfic, Tyrant's Blood which is also Emperor-centric.