Before this chapter starts, I need to clear something up with the last chapter. After I posted the last chapters, a lot of people started to complain about how Shin joined Rias' peerage, and I want to ease their worries. The simple matter is, I wanted Shin to be in Sona's peerage, she simply doesn't have enough pieces to reincarnate him.
Shin entered the student council room, regardless of the fact that since his cycle was done, he was no longer eating 6 meals a day, switching to only 4 to maintain his current body weight. After the whole breakfast debacle, Rias had left, telling him she would bring him to the ORC after school and talk with him.
Entering the student council room, he was met with the glare of the newest member of the student council, Saji Genshirou. Saji hated Shin with a passion, mostly due to the attention of all the girls in the student council gave him.
It was no secret that Saji had a crush on every girl in the student council, Sona especially, but never got any attention from any of them due to Shin.
"What are you doing here?" Saji said venomously.
"The usual. Play chess with Sona, flirt with Momo, and laugh at your pitiful insults." Shin said as he walked by Saji without a second glace, infuriating Saji.
"Hello Sona, how are you doing this morning?" Shin asked as he reached her desk and sat down.
"Besides Saji making a fool of himself again?" Sona asked, referencing what had just happened between Shin and Saji. Saji himself blushed in embarrassment at her words as he muttered a quiet apology to Sona. "Fine. And you?" Sona answers a smile only shown whilst in Shin's presence showing.
"I'm doing great. I had a really good sleep last night. Slept like a corpse." Shin said as Momo in the corner of the room mumbled something about that being a weird analogy. "Of course, that could be due in fact that I died yesterday," Shin said as he grabbed his chin and nodded sagely.
Ruruko Nimura, who was sitting next to Momo, spit out the tea she was drinking.
"Ha! Take that Hyoudou!" Saji yelled, seemingly not understanding the importance of this situation.
"Hm? Sorry Saji, did you say something?" Shin asked, making a white-haired man in an alternate world suddenly sneeze while Saji deflated back into his desk.
"WHAT?! YOU DIED?!" Momo yelled indifferently, standing up and her hands slammed into her desk.
"Yea. Fallen angel stabbed me with her lightsaber thing, and then when I fell with a giant hole in my stomach, I landed on a really pointy rock. So not only did I bleed to death, I did so in a really uncomfortable position." Shin said as he took a sip of water from a water bottle in his bag.
"Wait. If you died how are you still alive." Saji asked from his desk.
"Oh, that's because I'm actually an immortal. I die all the time, but I always come back to life. Don't let my young appearance fool you, I'm actually over 700 years old." Shin said, causing everyone's jaw to drop.
"What? Really? That's awesome!" Saji yelled, standing up and trying to fist bump Shin.
"No. I was lying. Rias used one of those evil piece things to revive me." Shin replied bluntly, causing Saji to deflate once again.
"So, I am assuming that Rias told you about the supernatural?" Sona asked rhetorically.
"Yep"
"And how did that go over?" Sona asked.
Shin suddenly got flashbacks to the morning. Waking up, telling a ligma joke, having a heated make-out session, choking Rias, striking a deal with Rias. "It went fine," Shin said.
"You didn't freak out?" Ruruko asked.
"No. I'm a sociopath so it didn't affect me," Shin said casually.
"WHAT?!" The members of the student council yelled.
"I'm just kidding. I'm actually a time-traveler from the future, sent back in time to save the world from catastrophe. This is what I wanted all along." In a way, that one was actually true. He did technically have future knowledge with which he could avoid things like Trihexa, and he actually did want this all to happen all along.
"Really?! That's awesome! Tell me, my future self, am I really cool and strong?!" Saji asked, getting all up in Shin's face.
"Actually, two years from now, a magician cast a spell on you that turns you into a girl. From then on, you become the number one call-girl in the underworld's most popular brothel." Shin said, causing Saji's face to go green with horror.
"You spend the rest of your days getting paid to have sex with fat old nobles and have seventeen kids, all of which are pansexual," Shin said as if he was reciting the national anthem. By this point, Saji was curled in the corner of the room crying sorrowfully.
"Shin. Stop messing around." Sona said dangerously.
"Alright, you got me. I'm not really a sociopath nor a time traveler from the future. In reality, I already knew the supernatural world existed." Shin said, shocking all the members of the student council.
"You did?!" Tsubasa yelled from the corner.
"Yea, I figured it out eight months ago when I read that book about the three-way war. I notice that on the back of the cover, it said 'Property of Sona Sitri', so I went back at all the books I read, and they all said the same thing. After that, I decided to fuck with you all by hinting at the supernatural for eight months." Shin said, causing them all to sweatdrop while Sona blushed heavily. She couldn't believe she made such a careless mistake.
"Wait! Then how did you know what my power was?" Tsubaki asked, referring to the time he said he'd prefer to have her power.
"Oh, that's because I read some book Sona had on her desk that had detailed explanations of all of your powers, potential uses, as well as a lot of other information about you all. Including your three sizes." Shin replied, causing them all to sweatdrop again.
Sona meanwhile was freaking out. She had a lot of things in that spreadsheet. A lot of things she didn't want to see others see. She just hoped Shin wouldn't speak about them.
"It also had several of Sona's sexual fantasies. Turns out she's a hardcore masochist." And her hopes were shot to hell just like that. "Oh, and I can't forget about that one fantasy she wrote about having a threesome with her-" Shin couldn't say any more due to Sona covering his mouth with her hands. An atomic blush on her face.
"Please, stop talking," Sona demanded slash begged. After getting a nod from Shin, she let go of Shin's mouth.
"Now, you said Rias revived you. Do you know with what piece, or how many." Sona asked, receiving a nod from Shin.
Taking a long sip of his water for dramatic effect, he smacked his lips as afterword. "The King piece." Shin, causing Sona's face to fall flat on the desk.
Her head shooting up afterword, she yelled, "That's not even possible!"
"Oh yea, I forgot. It was definitely the Jack." Shin said, causing Sona's face to fall onto her desk again.
"That's a card, not a chess piece!" Sona yelled.
"Is it?" Shin asked, tilting his head and feigning confusion. It was at this moment that the bell signaling first class rang.
"Just go to class." Sona groaned, figuring she'd just get the information from Rias later that day.
(Scene Break)
Now the end of the school day, Shin was following Rias as she led him to the ORC. In the anime, she had sent Kiba to do this, but since Rias and he were in the same class, that wasn't necessary.
"This is a really long path. Do you really need to be so far away from the school?" Shin asked, not even able to see the old school building as of yet.
"As supernatural beings, it is only natural we stay away from humans. We would not want to be the ones responsible for the learning of the supernatural." Rias said.
"I get that, but I doubt you all went unnoticed this long if it was as simple as that. Do you guys do not have some kind of barrier or warding device that causes people not of supernatural origins to avoid the area." Shin asked, know for a fact there was such a thing. Hell, he had been in one just yesterday with Yuuma.
"Yes, we do, but there is still the chance of them still seeing something they aren't meant to see. Plus, it doesn't work so well, considering your brother and his friends are constantly running thereafter being chased by the kendo club." Rias said, smiling lightly.
"Ah, yes. Issei. He's an idiot." Shin said bluntly.
"I guess that's one thing you have in common. As well as being a pervert." Rias said, teasing Shin.
"Yes, but unlike Issei, I have a lot more morals. Such as I wouldn't peek on somebody. If I wanted to see someone naked, I'd seduce them." Shin said, causing Rias' face to a fault.
"That's pretty arrogant of you," Rias said.
"It worked on you did it not?" Shin said, resulting in Rias blushing. "Plus, not only did I see you naked, but I also got to have a heated make-out session with you," Shin said, causing Rias' blush to go a deeper shade of red.
Rias was not able to come up with a response, so stayed silent until they reached the old school building. Entering it, Shin wasn't surprised to see it looked exactly as shown in the anime, even the shower off to the side.
"A shower?" Shin said as he stopped and looked inside of it, seeing a shower room with several showerheads all around the room.
"Yes. I actually live here in the old school building, and this is my shower." Rias said, causing Shin to nod sagely.
"Hey, Rias," Shin called, making Rias turn around and look at Shin. "Want to go have sex in the shower?" Shin asked, Rias' blush returning.
"No. We have more important matters to attend to." Rias said, flustered.
"Alright." Shin disappointedly walked behind Rias once again, sulking until they entered the main room for the ORC. The room that was always shown in the anime, looking exactly the same as before with Koneko sitting on one couch and Kiba the other. He was sure Akeno was in the room right next to this one making tea.
"Shin, welcome to the Occult Research Club," Rias said as she waved her hand around dramatically. "The people you see are Koneko Toujou," Rias signaled to Koneko.
"Pleasure to meet you, senpai," Koneko said, chewing on a chocolate bar.
"And this person is right here is Kiba Yuuto." Rias now signaled to Kiba.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Shin," Kiba said, smiling with his eyes closed, giving off that knight in shining armor vibe.
Shin ignored Kiba in favor of admiring Koneko, this being the first time he saw her. Almost instantly, he was in love. Shin, even in his previous life, always tended to find the kuuderes, especially the ones with silver or white hair more attractive.
Suddenly, Akeno wheeled in a tray from the other room, a plate with several cups of teas placed on top.
"And there is the final member of the ORC, but you already know her," Rias said.
"Hello, Shin," Akeno said smiling. "Would you like some tea?" Akeno asked, wheeling her cart over to him.
"Yes, thank you," Shin said as he took a cup of the tea and sat down next to Koneko. "Hello there," Shin said to Koneko, the pretty boy smile he had spent the last year perfecting on display, yet it drew no reaction out of Koneko.
Koneko only looked at him for a second, then went back to eat her chocolate bar. "A kuudere. I like that." Shin said, still getting no reaction out of Koneko. However, this just made him more motivation to get one out of her. Damn, maybe Akeno was rubbing off on him.
"Pervert," Koneko said coldly, Shin taking no offense to it.
"Well, if you're done flirting Shin. Let's get down to business." Rias said as she walked over to her desk, Shin smirking slightly at the position the desk was put at. He found it quite amusing that her desk was placed on the elevated part of the floor, forcing everyone else to look up to her. He had no doubt this was a subtle power play on her part.
"And what would that business be?" Shin asked.
"We need to explain to you your new devil duties," Rias said, snapping her finger as a bag of fliers appeared. "As a low-class devil, your source of income is to do contracts. What you do is you go around town, handing out these fliers to people who you think would use them. If they do, they summon you to grant their wish. Following the law of equivalent exchange, they will give you whatever you deem an adequate payment." Rias said, tossing the bag to Shin.
Shin caught it in one hand, stared at the contacts, then decided he would make his stand right here. Using what he knew of the DxD world, devil magic worked simply by imagination. If you could imagine what you wanted to do, then you could do it. So, following that logic, he set the bag of contracts on fire.
"Umm, yeah, about that. I don't do grunt work." Shin said as he walked over to the metal trash bin in the corner and dropped the bag of fliers into it, forming a fireball in his hand simply by imagination, and threw it at the bag.
'Wow. It really is as simple as imagining what you want to do. That's just fucking broken. As a weeb who has watched hundreds of anime, they're just begging me to recreate a bunch of moves.' Shin thought as he watched the bag burn with fascination.
Suffice to say, the members of the ORC were shocked by Shin's actions, especially that he could create a fireball so easily, despite not having any prior teaching of how to use his demonic magic.
"S-Shin. How did you do that?" Rias asked, shocked and flustered.
Shin smirked as he clenched his fist, lightning suddenly forming around his hand, the sound of birds chirping. 'I'm sorry Kakashi, but I have officially just stolen your move.' Shin thought as he watched his newly made Chidori crackle with glee. Unclenching his fist, the Chidori disappeared, the grin on his face, however, did not. 'I am about to rip off so many moves.' Shin thought.
"H-How did you do all that?" Rias asked, flabbergasted.
"I just imagined it happening. Like with the fireball. I simply imagined a fireball appearing in my hand, and then one did." Shin said, shocking them even further.
"That doesn't make any sense. Sure, demonic magic is power by imagination, but you don't even know how to circulate your magic throughout your body yet, so creating anything with magic should be impossible." Akeno said, giving her insight into how demonic magic worked.
"Hmmm, is that so?" Shin asked, putting his palm out and willing another fireball to appear. This time, he took it a step further and made the fireball twirl around his hand, then threw it back and forth between each of his hands. "Then if that's the case. It's most likely my sacred gear." Shin said.
"Your sacred gear? Do you know what it is?" Rias asked, thinking that his sacred gear could be the cause of this, but even then, she hadn't heard of a sacred gear that made you instinctively use demonic magic.
"Nope. No idea." Shin said as he suddenly added two more fireballs, moving straight into juggling them. "However, there really is no other explanation. As I wasn't born a devil, it's not likely it was instinct, and since I have no prior use of magic it wasn't experience either. The only explanation left is my sacred gear, whatever it is." Shin said.
It was at this time, that Rias finally noticed something, most likely not noticing it before due to her being so shocked by Shin's display of using demonic magic. "Shin, I need you to take off your shirt," Rias ordered.
"My shirt? So then, taking me up on my offer of having sex in the shower?" Shin asked cheekily, willing his fireballs to disappear.
"No, wait, it's gone," Rias said, now thoroughly confused. The instant Shin dispelled his fireballs, the thing she was sensing disappeared.
"What's gone?" Shin asked, just as confused as Rias.
"Just take off your shirt," Rias said, walking towards Shin.
Shin, not seeing a reason to say no, did as she asked and took his shirt off, thoroughly enjoying the way she blushed despite seeing him in this state this morning. "Now turn around," Rias said, Shin, complying again.
"I don't get it. Is there something on my back?" Shin asked.
"No, but earlier when you were using those fireballs, I sensed a strong aura coming from behind you, and since there wasn't anything behind you…" Rias said, Shin, catching onto what she was saying.
"You figure that whatever my sacred gear is, that when it's in use, it does something to my back," Shin said. 'That would make sense. It would also explain why I haven't been able to notice my sacred gear. Unlike the Boosted Gear that takes up and entire forearm, if my sacred gear appears on my back, I would never see it.' Shin thought to himself.
"Alright, now summon those fireballs again," Rias said, and Shin complied once again, willing the fireballs to appear, and judging by the gasp he heard from the three people behind him, something happened.
"This symbol. Shin, I know what your sacred gear is." Rias said, suggesting to the black symbol that now appeared on his back. Then, just slightly above it and to the left, was another, smaller, symbol.
"Alright, then please, do tell," Shin said, anxious to figure out what his sacred gear was, and if he knew of it.
"This symbol on your back, it's from Greek origins and means unity. This symbol appears on the back of people who have the sacred gear Limitless Body." Rias said, confusing Shin. This was something he had never heard of before, so it was likely something that was created when he was reincarnated into this world, meaning he had no knowledge of it.
"Alright, sounds strong. What does it do?" Shin asked.
"Sadly, it's not as strong as it sounds. The ability of Limitless Body is that it adapts to anything. Such as poisons or being burned. If someone with Limitless Body is poisoned by something, then the body adapts and becomes forever immune to it. The same goes with things like getting burned, your body adapts and builds up a resistance to fire, forcing the flame to be hotter and hotter to do any damage." Rias said, although Shin could tell by her voice, she was disappointed.
"However, the description of the gear never said anything about this," Rias said as she touched the second, smaller symbol. "Akeno, go get me a book of Greek symbols." Akeno nodded, taking off, returning a few minutes later books in hand.
After looking through the book, Rias finally found the corresponding symbol. "According to this book, this symbol stands for control," Rias said, confused.
Shin racked his brain, but it only took him a few minutes to figure out what that meant. "Rias, could you take a picture or something of it? I want to see it for myself." Shin asked.
"Yea, sure," Rias said as she summoned a phone from thin air, most likely the same place she summoned those fliers from earlier. Hearing the snap from her phone, he turned around, grabbing the phone Rias was offering to him.
Looking at the picture, it only took him a few seconds to deduct what the symbols likely stood for. He silently thanked all the mmos he played that involved solving cryptograms and the like for quests.
'So, this is my sacred gear. Judging by how it looks, there's more to it than meets the eye. Control likely refers to control over my body and is probably the reason why I am so easily able to control my magic. If I had to guess, it grants complete control over the body, and I unlocked due to my desires to gain weight.' Shin thought, piecing together his sacred gear.
'And then there's the symbol for unity. Judging how it's much bigger than the symbol for control, it's the core of my sacred gear. But why is there only control, and in such an odd positioning as well? It's off-centered, which suggests there are more symbols I haven't yet unlocked.' Shin thought, everyone now staring at him weirdly as he had been staring at the picture on the phone silently for several minutes now.
'So, if there are more symbols to unlock, then Unity likely represents just that, the unity of all the symbols. My guess, once I unify all the symbols, it either unlocks balance breaker or evolves.' Shin deduced, expertly putting his skills of deduction to use.
However, his entire theory was reliant on the fact that control, actually stood for control over the body. If it didn't, then he could be wrong about unity as well, which would mean he knew nothing. Luckily for him, however, he knew exactly how to test his theory.
Closing his fist except for his pointer finger, he imagined his magic to come forth at the end of his pointer finger, taking on the shape of something akin to a slanted blade tip. And, just as he thought, it worked just fine, however, this wasn't the test. This was still control over magic, not body.
So, using his pointer finger, he cut a line straight across his palm and willed himself not to bleed, and the effects were fascinating. There was his palm, a laceration straight across the front of his palm deep enough to see the veins underneath, yet no blood leak out. It stayed in and continued on its intended course.
"So, I was correct," Shin mumbled to himself, but Rias and the others heard him.
"What were you correct about?" Rias asked.
Looking up, he showed his palm to Rias, causing her eyes to widen. "The symbol on my back, the one that stands for control. It represents one of the powers of my sacred gear. It grants complete control of my body. As my magic is an extension of my body, I have complete control over that as well. To put it simply, I only have to imagine what I want to happen, then my sacred gear will take care of the rest on its own." Shin said.
"That's all well and dandy, but I don't see how that could be super useful. I mean, it stops you from bleeding out and allows you perfect control over magic, but this sacred gear is supposed to be very close to Longinus class in terms of power. Control alone wouldn't make it that powerful." Akeno said from across the room.
"I think you underestimate the limits of control, as there really is none. It first started working it's magic when it responded to my desires to bulk and get stronger. So, it forced my body to create more testosterone and estrogen, while also slowing down my metabolism so I would put on weight quicker." Shin said.
"Then, once it was time for me to cut, it changed my metabolism back, and then even sped it up, burning my fat at a much quicker rate than normal. Mimicking the effects of anabolic steroids." Shin said.
"I think control alone is much stronger than you give it credit," Shin said, but as they probably still weren't convinced, he would need to do a demonstration. After all, controlling a fireball and creating some lightning is common in the supernatural world. So, he would just have to use magic they hadn't seen as of yet.
Bringing his hand out, he pointed it at Akeno palm first. "But since you underestimate it, I'll give you a demonstration." Everyone in the room was shocked when Akeno was seemingly grabbed by an invisible force and was sent flying towards Shin at high speeds, stopping right before Shin's pawn and floating in mid-air.
"What did you do?" Rias asked, shocked.
"Simple, I willed my sacred gear to use what is known as attractive force to draw Akeno to me. I could also do the opposite and use what is known as repulsive force too." Shin said as similar to before, Akeno was sent flying backward at high speeds, stopping right where she was before, before dropping to the ground.
"If you need an analogy, then think about magnets. Usually, if magnets are by one another, they cling together on their own without any outside help, which is an attractive force. But then if you flip over one of the magnets, then they push away from each other. That would be a repulsive force. So, if it makes it easier, think of it as me turning Akeno and myself into magnets, and using the natural forces to do whatever I like." Shin said, shocking the members of the ORC.
"However, I don't have to stop there. Attractive and Negative force isn't the only natural force I could theoretically control. There is of course also…" Suddenly everyone in the ORC felt a weight drop down on their shoulders, making them feel much heavier than before. "Gravity, and also so many more," Shin said just as the weight left their shoulders.
"Do you understand now? How strong complete control over one's body, and by extension, magic is. As long as I can think of it, I can do it." Shin said, thinking of all the ways he could use this, but one in particular kept lingering in his mind, nagging at him. However, he wouldn't be able to do it until he was alone, because if it worked, it would cause chaos amongst the entire supernatural.
"I-I see. That indeed is very useful." Rias said, her eyes the size of dinner plates as she looked at Shin with awe and slight fear.
"Yes, it is," Shin said as he grabbed his shirt and put it back on. 'However, that really took a lot out of me. Note to self, just because you can do certain things, doesn't mean you should.' Shin thought, beads of sweat dripping down his forehead. "Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to go home. That really exhausted me." Shin said as he left the ORC.
Once Shin left the room, Rias looked over to Akeno. "Are you alright?" Rias asked, wondering if being used as Shin's guinea pig to test his attractive and repulsive force injured her at all; but Akeno's only response was to blush heavily.
"That magic. So, strong. So, dominating." And of course, instead of being injured she would just be turned on by it.
"Akeno, relay a message to Grayfia explaining what happened. I think my big brother would like to know of the power of Shin's sacred gear. Judging by what he just showed, if there is even more to his sacred gear, it might be a Longinus class sacred gear." Rias said.
"Yes, Buchou," Akeno replied, regaining her composure.
'If things keep going the way they were, and Shin keeps improving at the rate he is. Then I made the right choice in reincarnating him. It was a risk reincarnating him due to his sacred gear being unknown, but it looks like it will pay off. Shin might just be able to defeat Riser.' Rias thought as she started doing paperwork at her desk.
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