Timeskip another week later - Student Council Office

"I don't understand." a familiar red head whined, a mix of bafflement, confusion and frustration ebbing from her form while she looked at the picture of Issei she had in hand with eyes full of longing… though not for what one might be thinking.

She wasn't alone, sitting in front of her was her friend Sona and her vice president who took the form of a young bespectacled woman with long straight black hair that extends all the way down to her knees, split bangs and heterochromatic eyes. She seemed to be heterochromic, for she had a violet left eye and a light brown right eye. In addition, she wore the kuoh school academy uniform for girls along with blue, semi-rimmed glasses with square lenses.

This was Tsubaki Shinra, the vice-president of Kuoh and queen of Sona's peerage.

As the opposite to her distressed friend, Sona calmly sipped on her victorian teacup tea as if she were a typical Englishwoman before putting it down. There were sometimes when she could understand why many in the Underworld fervently drunk the tea that the UK was so connected to and proud of despite the dark origins of it.

"What are you confused about Rias? Weren't you focused on recruiting Issei after the last stunt you pulled two weeks ago?" Sona questioned calmly while opening one of her closed eyes to look at Rias incredulously.

Right after the day when Issei had been confirmed to have gone on a date with the fallen angel they had discovered, Rias had seen this as an opportunity to reincarnate Issei into her peerage. This would have been good (in the redhead's eyes) because not only would she looked to have saved his life, but she would also have gained his trust since she WAS the one who made sure he got to live a second life.

She WAS a devil, of course it was her nature to be manipulative.

However, that was what her and Sona had anticipated would have happened, reality made things a lot more confusing. The first sign that something had gone wrong was found when Issei apparently didn't summon Rias or any of her peerage members, which made them assume the worse in that he didn't activate the pamphlet in tme. She was both disappointed and sad she lost a possible recruit for her peerage, so she had her entire peerage to announce that Issei had been killed.

But to her surprise, it hadn't been long before that assumption got thrown out the window when Issei was seen to be still among the living. Walking through the school grounds of Kuoh like it never happened. She overcame her surprise(after a VERY long lecture with the rest of her club members for pulling this type of stunt by the vice principal of Kuoh Academy) and had promptly sent Kiba to bring Issei to her club.

The thought that Issei had somehow survived the Fallen Angel incident both confused and excited the Gremory Devil for various reasons. For one, Issei had apparently not yet awoken his Sacred Gear according to their prior recon activities and had been confirmed to not be connected to the supernatural world in any way. Or rather there hadn't been anything to indicate such connections in Issei's records. Thus one wouldn't be wrong to assume that he wouldn't have been able to escape the Fallen Angel on his own but apparently he was still alive, which meant something had happened. Either he got lucky and the FA simply removed his memories of her or he managed to evade death somehow, the prospect of which excited her since it implied that Issei may be even more useful to her than she had first thought.

When she had attempted to bring Issei to her club, she had thought he'd be over the moon at the prospect of being around so many women with varying breast sizes, something she'd learned he was known to favor. Neither she nor Sona expected him to actually run AWAY from the entire freaking schoolground!

What was worse, apparently that incident from the school memory got erased but not by anyone affiliated with herself, Sona or even those in the School aware of the supernatural. It seemed to have been done by someone she couldn't detect, which added a new layer of worries for the redhead which lay mostly in her security.

Then there was the fact that whenever she tried to head to Issei's house, there was a block on any kind of demonic transportation to that area alongside a barrier surrounding his home preventing any kind of entry via supernatural means. She suspected that whoever had erased the memories of those in school had a hand in this as well

That left her with only one way to get to him and that was within the school grounds, although she hardly had much luck on that front either. Whenever he came to school, Issei had always managed to avoid anyone associated with the name 'Rias Gremory' like the plague, buzzing around so fast the human eye couldn't keep track anymore. After a week since the Fallen Angel incident, she had of course tried again but even then no luck had been favoring her since it seemed like Issei's guard hadn't dropped in the slightest.

On a side note, Rias DID notice that the human had been gaining muscle (Which did attracted her a bit). Up till now, however, that got offset by her annoyance at being avoided by Issei who did the same with her entire Peerage.

This brought things to the current situation.

"Why does Issei keep avoiding me like the plague? What am I even going to do? Its not like I've done anything to him." Rias whined before putting her head at the side and pouting like a small kid.

Mentally noting about the hypocrisy behind that statement, Sona didn't mention it out loud since it would have been pointless anyways. Instead she thought about possible options to Issei's successful evasion of Rias and her group. Part of her believed that if Rias were to ask for her help Sona and her Peerage may have more luck cornering him, but one the Gremory heiress was too prideful to ask her rival to help, and two was the following point she elected to make with her friend. "Have you ever considered that Issei might've gotten help from a second party group?" Sona suggested to Rias, catching her attention. "Perhaps one that might've told him about the supernatural world and about us devils?"

A slight gasp escaped her lips when Rias heard these words, a possibility that she hadn't even considered before leaving Sona's mouth. "What? Thats impossible." A second later Rias denied it however, as she repeatedly shook her head which caused her hair to shift about behind her. "If there was, then we could've known. There's no one that we don't know is in our territory. And besides, even if there was then we could ask if they were the ones who saved him." she replied, frowning at the thought of a third party intervening in this.

But now that her friend had mentioned it the possibility refused to leave Rias's mind, if there was a chance that someone else had interfered in a Devil's plot then there should be some grave consequences to be implemented for them. Taking what had been hers since she first laid eyes on it wasn't a smart idea.

On her side of things, Sona began to think about her best friend's word for a while, all the while trying to think about who could be the third party who interfered but there was no one in her mind that came up…

That is until she remembered Rias saying about territory, combining it the fact they don't own Kuoh city anymore. Thus, the only ones who could be the culprit…..was….oh shit. She then instantly paled all of a sudden at the VERY LIKELY possibility that appeared in her mind.

There could be only ONE third party responsible for something like this, no matter how hard she wished otherwise.

"Rias." Rias looked at her best friend and became surprised at her expression. Tsubaki was also taken back by her president as well before Sona said the following. "Do you remember that there's something else residing in the city?"

Unaware of why her friend's mood took such a drastic turn, a slightly disturbed Rias tried to ponder about what Sona was trying to say to her as her brain began to process the information as well. It took a while before she actually froze at the ONE possible culprit… "No, no it can't be." she stammered, going just as pale yet still she kept trying to deny it.

Sadly, Sona didn't have any other options nor any inclination to indulge in any fantasies about this not being the case. Instead she had her mouth set into a frown, already confirming the fact that it was a possibility. "Don't even try to deny it Rias. there's only one culprit responsible for this, you know as well as I do." she took a deep breath, trying to calm herself before looking straight at her blue eyes. "It's very likely that Hellsing is responsible."

"Thats…!" Rias started to once again deny the possibility, but then she stopped mid way and shut her mouth. Initially, Sona thought that she had been too scared of even speaking about the subfaction from the UK faction, but apparently she was wrong when Rias pulled in an angry face. "They crossed the line!" she bellowed.

BAM!

In a rage, she let out a angry yell as she slammed her hands on the table and got up from her seat, making the tea cup set tremble from the impact. "First, they take our territory, antagonize us for a while and now they dare into our business?! I've had it with those Hellsing bastards!" she shouted in rage, making her red aura glow around her entire body.

Rias couldn't stand the mere presence of Hellsing in the land which should have been hers, not one bit no matter how much good they have done. She wanted to show her family and brother that she could handle things on her own like a responsible adult. It was not her own fault for not investigating the other stray devils location because they have school to attend and whenever they try to locate the stray devils they had little to no luck because of their own issues! Its not her fault or that of her peerage at all!

Darklord: that is DEFENITLY the case she proclaims, but come on! At least Hellsing doesn't give up or procrastinate because they are the responsible ones.

Hunter: This is why even in Canon I see Rias as a bit of a spoiled wimpy brat. Issei is even worse.

Darklord: That is definitely true.

But yet, when her brother and Sona's sister told them that Hellsing was now going to be taking over the administration of their territory Rias had nearly thrown a temper tantrum. She could not accept it because Kuoh's administration had been her's, to begin with, after an incident involving her predecessor although she knew very little about that.

However, all of her arguments had left her once a single serious look on her brother's face which had rendered her silent… and all too compliant.

And then, they dared to even take away her potential pawn for her peerage? This will not stand at all. She was about to march to the door, when she did however.

BAM!

SHING!

The door was closed all of a sudden with a magic circle in front of it spinning around as if blocking her exit. She recognize the symbols on the center of the magic circle, she slowly turned around and saw Sona was the one who casted the spell, evidently with her hand that was forward and glowed in power.

"Sona." she growled her name in fury, grinding her teeth. "Release the magic spell." she demanded.

"No." Sona replied just as seriously, her gaze pointed and her energy simmering under her skin as evident by the slight vapor one could see surrounding her hands.

Rias aura glow intense as her eyes begin to radiate her family's bloodline power. "I won't ask again Sona, release that spell!" her red aura began to increase, her anger mirroring her powers.

"And what would you do even if I DID release the spell Rias?" Sona already knows her answer but choose to ask her best friend.

"Don't get in my way Sona!" she leaned forward and conjured a red destructive ball. Her power of destruction was beginning to effect the room, disintegrating some stuff. "They interfered too much of our business! Hellsing and their soldiers have taken away so much of our privileges, they took away our land, they took away our power, our own territory, they even have the audacity to have a Stray Devil in their group! Are they just TRYING to spite us?!" she ranted out the list of reason against Hellsing.

Yet, if that wasn't bad enough those assholes just HAD to have one particular person whose influence unsettled one of her precious servants the most. That happened to be Kuroka, Koneko's older sister.

This caused some devils to be outrage that Hellsing has recruited a stray devil to their faction. They could not allow or stand this but what else can they do? Sona with more logic reason knows they cannot go against the Hellsing organization because of their literal groups of monsters, evil beings and blood always spills wherever they go. Koneko sometimes always had the feeling that Kuroka would come after her because Hellsing must've tamed her and now is living with them. She sometimes has nightmares which causes Rias to sometimes be with her on her sleep.

Meanwhile, the calm Sona slowly felt her control over her power slipping the longer this went on. She honestly couldn't believe just how freaking STUPID her friend was being right now, ans she just had to call her out on such BS. "Are you even thinking straight Rias?" she walked forward with her blue aura, unaffected by Rias power of destruction. "Do you even know what will happen IF you try to go against them?"

It may as well be like talking to a brick wall with how Rias shook her head and seemingly dismissed her legitimate question. "I don't care what happens, they have gone too far now Sona! Aren't you tired of them trying to flaunt their noses in other people's personal issue?!" she ranted, her rage close to boiling over which had a VERY noticeable impact on her surroundings. Cracks spread from her feet across the floor as a notable pressure blanketed the atmosphere.

"Yes I am mad Rias, I understand your frustration I do but-"

"But what Sona? Do you know what they are doing?! Their trying to make the devils look bad in the eyes of the other factions?! We are trying so har-"

SLAP!

"?!"

"SHUT UP ALREADY!" Sona could not keep her calm anymore at this point. She felt just done with Rias's bullshit so she, in a fit of rage, slapped Rias on her right cheek which had the effect of both interrupting her rant as well as stunning the redhead into shocked silence. Sona then began to rant as well, taking advantage of the lull in their argument. "Do you not know, how much frustration I am feeling right now Rias Gremory? Do you? Our reputation is already almost-ruined because we are part of the Christain faction. ALL the other factions hate us because the abrahamic religion has been spread almost across the whole world. The Shinto's are upset with us because we did not keep our territory in check resulting in multiple PREVENTABLE deaths and kidnappings."

She may not have said this in her rant, but Sona also wanted to point out that many of their contractors had broke away from their deals with the devils because of Hellsing's interference. Many deaths had had been avenged, many were brought to justice which so happened to be a popular trend amongst a few of their summoners resulting in devil funds decreasing from 20% to 8% percent. They had explained that the reason for their breaking contracts was 'At least Hellsing are more competent than devils. You and the rest of your kind said you promised to get justice/kill of our beloved ones, but how long has it been since then? How many still got off scot free? It seems devils's cannot be trusted.' That whole lost funding debacle had forced Serafall to have many sleepless nights because Japan was their biggest income source, so such a blow had forced her to try to seek alternatives to keep the Underworld economy going.

Sona could've done anything for her anything, despite her sister's personality grating on her, but in this case she couldn't.

Not against the Angels of destruction.

"For god sake Rias, if you try against them anything.." she stopped for a while as she began to shake in fear due to her struggles of saying his name. She gathered her courage to speak. "Then Hellsing will bring their full forces against us. they will send monsters, nuke our city. And they will also send….the living darkness." her eyes began to water by the end there, fear and dread now mixing with the anger churning in her gut. Now that she had the chance to let go of her emotions she built over the following months she couldn't stop the onslaught that had been unleashed. "Hell will rain blood over our corpses, death will claim all of us, our souls will be trapped inside of him. And you know what will the other factions will do? They'll celebrate our demise, they'll spit on our graves and will not grieve over us. No one gives a damn about us because no matter what we try to claim otherwise, we are creatures of evil." tears drop from her eyes, as her vice president put her hand around her president's shoulder as if comforting her.

Sona's words were true because no matter how much they tried to change their ways, they were still the same at their cores: Creatures of darkness, literal demons of hell. Ajuka's invention of the evil piece had not the brightest choice or the best invention he had ever made because most of their kind used it as an excuse to exact their will on others. The majority of Devils kidnapped many races from their homes, their loved ones etc and either forced them to become Devils themselves or just outright killed them just to revive them as their servants against their will. They always tried to claim it was to repopulate their race, but if that was the case then how come there were so many reincarnated servants instead of purebloods? They say the Devil Race was on the verge of extinction, but in the world's eyes that was just an excuse. Even the origin Devil leaders: the four princes of hell, had been better at ruling the Devils than the New Satan leaders.

Another reason why almost all factions hate the three factions. And another regret Ajuka has ever made causing their reputation to be lowered.

"For god's sake Rias, just think for once in your lifetime about your actions! Just think of the consequences if you go against a literal force of nature. They have all kinds of monsters ready to be deployed, they'd kill you before you would even notice." her rant about Rias's nigh-suicidal run on Hellsing over, Sona finally slumped back to her seat, putting her hands on her eyes. Finally, she had just went and expressed all of her emotions that she'd been building up inside after being unable to do so previously.

Opposite her, Rias got rendered utterly silent from the rant launched against her, forced to listen to every word of what Sona had said to her. She never knew that Sona had any of these feelings bottled inside of her. Rias had been sheltered her entire life, always wanting to go to the human world. This was maybe one of the reasons why her parents were reluctant to even send her to the human world, and why her brother showed an uncertain expression. Devils were never really liked in the supernatural world. And this must be the reason why the devils gave the territory to Hellsing because they are more strict and disciplined than the Devils.

The UK faction was a rather safe country with low levels of violence and street crime, not just because of the police but also the Hellsing soldiers. They guarded and oversaw the supernatural security for the country 24/7, maintaining high standards for tourists to come and visit Scotland or London. Furthermore there were other elements at work within those islands that make them a dangerous place for any supernatural elements to visit. Not only were the people protected by the country, but the forces of darkness as well. A darkness that had been tamed and turned to service the entire faction.

Things weren't always like this, Rias could still remember the history lessons she learned at the private academy her father enrolled her in about the history behind the various factions. For one, the UK faction had a much older history than one might think, having existed under the public eye for centuries before even the romans discovered the Royal Isles. Back then though their level of power and influence was rather miniscule on the grand scale of things, what didn't help was that they had lost to the Americans during the American revolution due to being weak and pathetic little beings. During those times, they had been discovered by Paul Revere who had shouted the famous following 'The british are coming!' which was used as an insult to the British empire.

Even the hero clan had bullied them, which had taught the UK faction what it was like to be on the bottom of the food chain and social ladder.

But then, centuries later their opportunity to shine and grow as a faction came. It came largely thanks to Hellsing gaining its fearsome reputation after its founders defeating the legendary vampire king alongside a group of humans. From there, the success and growth of the British Empire also served as the UK Faction's growth period as well, for their strength and ability to ward off the other factions grew with their experiences, wars and conquests. It helped that they largely attributed this strength to their domestication of the Vampire King as their most important lapdog.

Their story was LITERALLY a country-wide underdog series: from a small pathetic faction into one of the most feared, respected and also the bloodiest factions around.

Considering all of this made her anger eventually ebb away, like how the US and Russia edged away from the nuclear option which would have destroyed the planet via radiation. Rias eventually acknowledged Sona's decision and turned her back from the door, a sigh of resignation escaping her lips alongside any remaining rebellious thoughts. Briefly looking at the magic circle on the clubroom entrance, Rias watched it spinning for a bit until she saw it slowly diminish and disappear. This was largely due to Sona no longer powering the spell with the state she'd gotten herself into

Rias may have turned her back to the door, but she still did not show her face thanks to her hair shadowing her eyes so her emotions were hard to describe. Even her aura had vanished, a sign that she wasn't as volatile currently. For a while she did not speak until she formed a Magic

Circle under her feat and teleported herself out of the room.

"..."

All became silent and tranquil with Rias's departure, allowing the black haired girl the opportunity to collect her thoughts and regain her composure. Sona still had her hand on her eyes, ignoring everything around her environment. She imagined various spectral images of giant Theseus, Kuroh, Meredith, Vali, and Michel loaming over her back as if showing their superiority, their dominance.

Fear Hellsing, by the gods fear them.

Somewhere

"Uhhhhhhuhuhuhuuuuh." a familiar brown-haired teen could be seen laying down on a bench, an arm overlapping his face covering his eyes. He whined pitifully from all of the fatigue currently striking him with the full force of a hammer. His whole body twitched and ached maddeningly.

With the combination of Theseus' hardcore training and Kuroh almost killing him numerous times, he'd even asked God many times if he had fallen into literal hell right now because it sure as fuck felt like it. None of them had held back and seemed to find some sick enjoyment from his suffering. If there had ever been a time when he'd say he went through life or death experiences, this would be it, the whole thing with Raynare practically paled in comparison.

One time, Issei had asked Theseus a question during training, if he could even awaken his SG and protect himself from being treated like dog shit from the powers that be. In response, the blond male had told him that its not easy to unlock the gear because it required extreme emotions, emotions strong enough for his soul to awaken it or the other was when he was strong enough. Right now however, Issei's body cannot handle its power so he had to first train himself to handle the Sacred Gear's pressure.

Theseus ask him if he feels something is awakening his soul, which he reply there is something inside of him that feels like its getting closer and closer but can't go deeper. Theseus did tell him that if he wanted to awaken his sacred gear that bad, then he needs to open the dam and unlock it. A shark does not grow up that quickly to become the ultimate predator, it took time.

And now here Issei was, laying down on a bench while looking very miserable. No time to wallow in agony, he needed to get back to the Hellsing manor for the rest of the training. Theseus had informed him there will be someone else who will be his magic instructor, to which he could only wonder who it could be. After a while, Issei tried get up only to wince and fall back down thanks to the sharp spikes of pain that ran up his damn legs.

Oh wait a minute, the pain actually started going away! And its relaxing his muscles, no longer making them twitch! Its like a miracl-wait a minute.

Abruptly Issei opened his eyes and saw someone close his legs, hands near it while those same hands kept constantly glowing with green energy. Issei widened his eyes in surprise at this, to see someone was healing his legs not that he minded, and sat up on the bench.

"Ci andiamo." she spoke an unfamiliar language that Issei didn't recognize at all.

The blond hair girl looked nervously at Issei. "uhhh, non mi capisci?" she questioned, still speaking that different language to Issei. The language barrier seems to be quite hard for Issei to deal with because he only knows Japanese and english.

So he decided to try and to help the…nun, thats what he figured she was given her current attire. "Do…..you….speak…..English? You…..know English?" he spoke slowly to her hoping that she understood him. He spoke english pretty decently alongside Japanese, one of the few talents he had aside from being a borning pervert who had next to no testosterone in his body.

Fortunately this proved to be a good choice to do, for immediately the nun's face brightened at the familiar language. In the following seconds she went and clasped her hands in the form of a prayer. "Oh thank the Lord for his help!" she praised God before looking at Issei.

The said male guessed that this girl was probably a foreigner now that he wasn't in so much pain he could hardly think straight, and that would mean she likely didn't speak japanese making things difficult for her regarding communication. That must be why she was so thankful that she found someone who could speak a language she knew.

With this in mind, Issei scratched the back of his head in nervousness. "Its actually no big of a deal, sister. But why did you came and heal me?" Issei asked the blond girl #why she would heal a stranger like him. She probably must have some connection with the supernatural and stuff, it'd fit the themes surrounding his life right now.

"I saw you were in deep pain and I could not bear to see someone in deep agony. And as such in the bible 'Those who are gracious to the poor lend to the Lord, and the Lord will fully repay them.'" She recited a bible verse, impressing Issei a bit and almost want to clap her hands in gratitude for being such an angel.

Though, this didn't last long as Issei returned to his normal composure. The training and strictness he had to deal with had disciplined him a bit, though he still had much of his perviness which he would not deny. Plus, he still wanted to be a Harem King to have loads of oppai around him, what else did one expect from him? He's a pervert, and he was proud of it!

His moment of perverse bliss then got broken like shattered glass, his expression shifting from that to one of confusion when he suddenly remembered how she had relaxed his muscles without any kind of medical equipment, just her own hands. One could understand that he'd be rather curious after seeing something like that. With curiosity reigning over his mind, Issei promptly spoke to the sister. "Uhhhh sister? How did you make my body feel so relaxed? How did you do that?" he asked.

The sister lifted her head up like she was beaming before she smiled. "Oh why its a gift from God himself. He gave me his instrument when I was born." she replied, once more praying.

Gods instrument. Issei repeated those words for a while in his mind, finding those words rather familiar while he tried to remember what she meant by them. From what he had seen of her, Issei guessed that she was a Christian, so that would be a big hint to what she meant 'God's instrument'. "Do you mean a sacred gear?" Fortunately, one idea cropped up in his brain when Issei recalled what Kuroh had told him about Sacred Gears like the one he possessed.

The moment she heard his question, the nun's eyes brightened as she nodded her head in affirmation of his question. "Oh, so you know about them? Well then yes! It's also a sacred gear." That confirmed Issei's theory, she DID have a sacred gear. Honestly, this was the first time he'd seen one in action.

When Issei had been training at the Hellsing HQ, he had once asked if there were other Sacred Gear users in the city like him, and Kuroh had explained that several of their members used them. Although, he didn't mention who and what SG's they had out of respect for said members, and given the look he saw in the man's eyes when stating this Issei had felt it would be best not to pry, not like it would have gotten him anywhere. Kuroh looked like the type of guy loyal to his brethren unlike a lot who'd sell one another out at the first chance they got.

Unaware of his thoughts, the sister put her hand forward, showing Issei a pair of green glowing rings on her index fingers. "The one I possess is called 'Twilight Healing', I had received the blessing of God himself. Praise the lord." The sister explained, almost swooning as she gazed down fondly at the rings on her fingers, her gaze like that of a loving mother adoring her children.

She definitely can't be an enemy that's for sure because look at her, she's too bright and pure-hearted to be one. There's no way she was a danger to him. And she's nice enough to even reveal her sacred gear to him, telling him of its name. Those thoughts filled Issei's mind as he stared at her in a mesmerized manner, practically floored by the purity that he was seeing from this Sister.

While ramming his thoughts, he notices she has a luggage near her which means she must be going somewhere. "So uhhhh sister." he called out to her, catching her attention. "Where are you headed to?"

"Oh! Why I was about to ask you where can I find a church around here, I was sent here by someone to come to the church."

The church? Here? But thats not possible, that church has been abandoned for quite a while now, as long as he could remember practically. Hell he even once took a visit there and saw it was empty, abandoned.

He finally decided to tell her this, not liking the thought of dashing her hopes but felt it better to let her know beforehand. "Uhhh, I'm sorry to disappoint you sister but the church has been abandoned for some time now, barely anyone goes there." he told her.

That lowered her mood, the Nun lowering her head in sadness and had a hurtful expression. "Oh, I…see." she muttered to herself.

Seeing her in this state made Issei feel a bit sorry for her. She looked to be a good person and a faithful follower of God, and he had just told her something like that. It made him feel like a bit of an asshole, to be honest and that irked him more than he expected. Maybe it was just the purity behind this girl and the thought of hurting that purity, but his usual perverted thoughts didn't really surface around this girl for once.

Weird.

Just as he was about to recommend her some places around Kuoh city to temporarily stay, Issei's brain kicked in when he thought about something. She had a powerful healing-type Sacred Gear and the Fallen Angels were still around, maybe they are the ones who sent her here in the city. They'd probably do some wacked up shit to this nun who would be none the wiser due to her innocence that made even HIM want to act like a gentleman for once.

While he rummaged his thoughts for a solution to this problem, one stemmed by his desire to help the Sister to repay her for helping him, he got an idea. "Sister, I know of a place where you can stay for a while." he told her.

The nun lift her head and beamed at his suggestion. "Really?! Do you know of a place sir?" she questioned eagerly.

Her brightness practically blinded him for a moment, but Issei didn't take too long to recover. "Yeah I do. its-"

Later

Within the Hellsing HQ's living room…

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" The brown pervert was sitting with both of his legs crushed underneath side edges, his hands tied behind his back and weights on his legs increasing the pressure.

Opposite him was Meredith(who had awoken from her sleep-depraved comatose state and had donned her default noblewoman's outfit despite Michael's objections), and she did NOT look very happy at things that had happened since she had gone under. The woman currently stood before the screaming male with her arms wrapped around her chest, and if things were different then Issei might have tried looking at her decently sized oppai.

The auburn haired woman currently glared angrily at Issei with multiple tick marks on her head. It was one thing that her subordinates had taken in THIS heap of hormones, although she could understand why when informed of the situation surrounding him, but the sheer INCOMPETENCE she had seen from him had pushed her limits and they weren't that high at the moment. "What was going through that thick skull of yours, you damn idiot? What was your bright idea to bring a stranger to our house?" She demanded, her tone a scathing one.

Off to the side, the nun looked nervous at the fact that she was seen like an uninvited guest. And seeing Issei being punished by a scary looking man who had weights on his arms only exasperated that feeling.

"PLEASE LET ME EXPLAIN MISS! THERE IS A REASON FO-"

"No excuses! More weights!"

"With pleasure."

BAM!

"AAAAHHH! OH GOD, WHY!?" the scary looking man, AKA Theseus, dropped another weight on Issei's legs, increasing the pain and misery upon the young pervert.

Meredith put her hand on her forehead, muttering something before turning her attention to the nun who flinched her gaze. Seeing this brought a spike of guilt onto her consciousness, to which Integra's apprentice softened her face before speaking in a placating manner. "I'm sorry for being rude. You did not have to see this. Apparently, SOMEONE saw fit to not inform us that we were having someone at our manor." She explained, glancing down at their resident pervert who kept screaming his ass off.

"CAN YOU JUST LET ME EXPLAIN-"

"More!"

BAM!

"OH COME ON! YOUR BEING UNREASONABLE!"

Ignoring Issei for the moment (as much as it pained her to see her benefactor being treated so harshly) the nun shook her head while stuttering the following words out of nervousness. "I-I-it's a-a-alright m-Ms. It's my fault for being an intruder to your house." she replied, lowering her head with her hands overlapping in front of her lap.

Meredith merely shook her head at this, another pang of guilt erupting in her chest for scaring this girl. She just seemed to demure, kind of like a fragile rabbit. "No-no, don't blame yourself sister, I was just acting too brash at the moment. If you don't mind me asking, what is your name?"

"I-it's Asia, Asia Argento."

"Sister Argento, may I ask why we're you with this idiot?"

"Uhhh I-I-I was a-about to head to the church when I saw him laying on the bench in agony. I could not leave him in constant pain, so I healed him."

Issei cried in tears at Asia innocence and bright voice, lifting his spirits which helped ignored his pain. It was also affected Theseus a little, shown when his expression softening a bit. "Ah, Asia my Angel. Your words soothes my heart."

"DOUBLE IT!"

BAM!

"WHYYYYYYYYYY!?"

While groaning in irritation at the incessant wailing, Meredith made to order Theseus (somewhat flinching when she remembered the last time they had talked) to put double the weight on him. But then, she caught the word 'heal' when sister Asia had said she healed him. There were very few who could heal Issei's sore muscle fast and a few of those means she could think of involved Sacred Gears.

That could only mean…

She raised her eyebrows before asking her a particular question. "Heal? May I presume you have a god's instrument? Twilight Healing per chance?" She asked the sister, moving to a nearby sofa to sit down on it, crossing one leg over the other while placing both hands on her kneecap.

Sister Asia nodded her head, showing the woman the rings on her index fingers. "Yes I do Ms, I possess twilight healing." she explained after being guided by Theseus to another sofa. She gave him a polite smile and a nod in response, the brightness behind it slightly marred by her nervousness about him.

So that must be one of the reason why Issei brought the sister to the Hellsing HQ, now she was no racist idiot regarding the divide between the catholic and protestants but it could definitely be interpreted that way by onlookers. Maybe she wasn't thinking too clearly right now, not only had she just recently awoken but she still had a lot on her mind after all the things that had happened.

However, none of those could take priority in her mind at the moment since she still needed more information. Deal with the current situation first, worry about the other issues later. Shaking her head, she proceed to ask more questions. "May I ask why have you arrived at Kuoh city, sister? Now I don't want to be rude to you but if you could kindly explain to me that would be great." she softly said to sister Asia.

Asia shakes her body nervously for a while. Briefly she glanced towards Issei's screaming figure, really wanting to heal him to end the suffering he was going through, but Theseus shook his head at her while trying not to look threatening, to which she started paying attention to Meredith again. "W-well, I w-was sent h-here by s-some p-people who wanted me t-to come to K-kuoh city and meet them a-at the c-church of Kuoh. W-when I approached Issei, he told me t-that the church was abandoned f-for sometime. I-I had n-no where to go, s-so he o-offered me a p-place to stay." she explained to Meredith.

"SEE?! THATS WHAT I WAS TRYING TO TELL YOU! I WOULDN'T BROUGHT HER HERE WITHOUT A REASON, BUT NO YOU DIDN'T LISTEN TO ME!" Issei shouted to Meredith, tears building at the corners of his eyes thanks to still suffering from his punishment.

Now that she knew the bigger situation, Meredith sweatdrop as a wave of sheepishness, guilt and shame washed over her Perhaps she was acting too quickly regarding punishments, from what she had heard she could agree with Issei's decisions, something she could now sense that begrudgingly Theseus also shared her sentiment on judging by the now complex look in his eyes. She needed to get her thoughts together, so with a tired sigh she shook her head before waving her hands, to which several whooshing sounds accompanied the loosening of Isseis binds.

Free at last, Issei quickly moved the weights off of him and rolled at the side. "Ah dammit, now I can't feel my legs."

As if drawn to the situation in the living room, a Tasmanian tiger walked to Issei, sniffing at his legs before licking it as if trying to soothe his pain. Michel appeared in the living room walked towards Issei, who did not pay attention to Meredith but she can tell he was disappointed in her.

Just before he could help Issei, Asia quickly walked towards Issei after Theseus walked back, allowing her to heal him. Her hands glow green for a while before once again Issei was healed again. His legs are back to normal.

It impressed Michel, knowing what type of sacred gear the sister possessed. "My word, what an amazing talent you have sister."

Asia blushed after the praise the scary doctor gave her. "Th-thank you Mr…" she began, but trailed off near the end when she realized that she lacked the man's name in her memory.

Fortunately, the doctor clarified that for her before she could do anything that would make herself look stupid. "Please, call me Michel. You have an amazing sacred gear, young one. Perhaps I can help you around a bit with it, as while I do not know its function as I am not an expert on SG's, I can still help you with medical knowledge that may be useful for you."

The corners of Asia's mouth upturned as she grinned brightly at the offered opportunity. "Th-thank you Mr Michel! I'll look forward to it!" she exclaimed her excitement to the doctor which amused him a bit, judging by the faint chortle that escaped him since his mask covered his face entirely.

"Now then, why don't I show you where your room is?" He offered, gesturing behind him to the corridor. Off to the side, Issei could be seen standing up in preparation to get her luggage as if already knowing what to do. "Come, I'll guide you to where you will be sleeping at." Asia nods her head before getting up from her seat, she heads to the corridor where Issei is following her.

Just before he was about to leave, he shift his attention to the duo, or more importantly Meredith. She flinched a little at the way his mask's eye sockets glinted at her with a pointed gaze being felt through them. "I suggest you take a day to rest your mind because you are not thinking clearly about your actions. Like Issei said, you're being unreasonable at the moment." the doctor told her, of which Meredith didn't respond in favor of silence.

Having said his peace, Michel then promptly left the room, leaving the duo alone.

"..."

Now, one could definitely feel the awkward tension that arose throughout the room. Meredith had her head down in shame and silence. When she raised her head, she saw Theseus already having walked towards a nearby wall and submerged into it like a phantom. She again put her head down in sadness.

As for the male in question, Theseus had begun walking through the walls due to his Sacred Gear, but then he stopped for a moment. He had the urge to turn his head around to Integra's apprentice, but he resisted the urge when he'd noticed his head starting to turn a little. Shaking his head, he ignored those thoughts and head to his room.

He remembered their last interaction and how FUBAR it went, to which he had almost lost his battle against the urge to spear her with his Trident when he first saw her up and about. Hence why he had left as promptly as he did. It was best for him and Meredith to be separated for a while.

Later - University classroom

It is a bright early morning day, and currently it was the beginning of PE which meant the students were still in a classroom in prep for going to the changing rooms to prep for an expectedly outside session.

Thus, as the Teacher assigned to this session Karasuma currently stood in front of his other students with a clipboard on his hands and a pen while announcing the students names. "Roll call, Tenzu Hachi?"

"Here."

Suzshimaru Najire?"

"Here!"

"Minato Kali?"

"I'm here!"

"Hozu Satoru?"

"..."

"..."

Arching a brow when he did not get a response from the aforementioned students, Karasuma lifted his head and looked across the classroom, waiting for those students to call out their names. However, they never did, and after looking at their assigned seats he noticed that they were vacant. 'Vacancies this early in the year? Kids…' the man thought to himself. He narrowed his eyes and focused his attention to a fat student. "Where is your friend Mr. Satsushi?" he asked the student.

Normally he would've been intimidated by the coach in front of him but instead he showed legitimate confusion, putting his hand on his chin. "I actually don't know coach, I haven't even heard from him in about some time. I tried even calling him so many times, but he's not been answering." he answered.

The other students followed him as well, several mutterings flying across the classroom as they became abuzz thanks to this recent topic.

"So your not the only one?"

"Dude have you heard from one of Lemun's lackey, today is the super ball event and they wouldn't miss it!"

"Thats the thing, I haven't heard of him as well."

"Do you think Chisa is going to be fine?"

"I don't know, knowing my GF she's never been absent for as long as I can remember…that is if you do not count the times she overslept."

"You think something's going on in the city right now?"

Whereas ordinarily Karasuma would have quietened the class with just his sergeant-like glare, but this time he read the overall mood the class had found itself in and it did little to lessen his own confusion… and a mounting worry at the same time. As such Karasuma didn't stop the classes discussion and looked over his other attendance sheets. He pulled a couple of papers, rummaging through them which resulted in him noticing there had been a lot of students counted as absent and missing.

'So many students are absent, this cannot be normal.' the man thought, the worry in his chest growing the more he listened and dug into his papers. He also checked the list of the student's records to figure out had been repeatedly absent.

His first reaction to this had been to furrow his brows in puzzlement since the majority of absent students were ones with no previous records for missing class. They behaved well, stuck to their deadlines, arrived on time, essentially acted like model students did albeit with some minor quirks to their personalities. Karasuma had even met with some of them for providing advice on their training regimens and diet optimization. Thus, these kids were not the ones he would have thought to be absent from class.

With all this intel, Karasuma's honed instincts were quick to start telling him there's something going on here, something really WRONG to be more precise. For someone with a background like his, trusting his instincts had been something Karasuma did quite a lot and now would be no different.

With that done, the man got up from his desk and faced the entire class with his sergeant-like glare on full force, forcibly quieting the class since everyone had ample experience with that glare. Now that he had the students' attention, Karasuma made the following announcement. "Until further notice, the physical education class will not be in session. I will be looking through the students who are absent, I will also inform the director of the university of the reason. So until then you will all receive study time." he declared, stunning the class into silence.

He then promptly walked out of the classroom with an almost mechanical stride to his step.

As he walked through the corridor of the school hall he began to think. 'Whatever the case of the missing students, I can only hope that their all ok. Because if they aren't…' darkness covered his face and his eyes glinted with intense, blazing fury behind them. 'So may the queen help me.'