The introduction of Asia to Shin's parents was, at the least, a memorable experience. Since Asia couldn't speak or understand a word of Japanese, he was the only one who understands what she said. Despite that, however, Shin's parents still welcomed her with open arms, as well as having Shin warn her about Issei and his perverted tendencies.

Then, since the Hyoudou's did not have a guest room or a spare room, Asia's options were either living in the attic or move in with either Issei or Shin. Considering the attic was full of insulation and only three feet tall, she chose to move in with Shin for obvious reasons.

After moving in all of her stuff, which was mainly just a bunch of clothes, Shin spent the rest of the day trying to teach Asia some Japanese so she could speak and understand important phrases.

Later in the day, Shin was called by Rias, saying she needed to show him something, which ended up being the stray devil Viser being killed. He was sure her hope was to insight some fear into him, the message basically saying this is what happens to strays.

Now, however, he was ready to do what he had been looking forward to all day. Looking at the full moon outside his window, his eyes closed as he released a deep sigh of content, knowing a lot of things were going to change after today.

"Are you going somewhere, Shin?" Asia asked from behind him in her sleepwear, a pair of blue pajamas.

"Yeah. I have something to take care of… Don't worry though, I'll be back before you know it." Shin said smiling, not wanting her to worry.

"Alright," Asia replied smiling as well.

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After a few miles of walking, Shin arrived at his destination, somebody already there to welcome him. Sitting in a tree just a few meters away from him was a woman with the appearance of a young girl. Shin, however, knew her looks to be deceiving.

"Hello there," Shin said as he waved at her, causing her to look down in surprise, not knowing he was there. It was yet another useful ability of his sacred gear. With his control over his magic, he had completely suppressed it, making it impossible for even someone with the sensing abilities of Koneko to detect.

"You! How did you sneak up on me?!" Mittelt yelled, shocked. Even now, Mittelt was shocked as do as she might, she couldn't sense anything from Shin. She couldn't tell if he was human or not, if he was powerful, or if he was dangerous. It was like he didn't even exist.

"That's irrelevant. Instead, could you please call your fallen friends? What I want involves all of you." Shin requested.

"And why would I do that? I can kill you myself!" Mittelt exclaimed, jumping down from her position on the tree, a brief glance of her panties being shown to Shin. Landing on her feet, she glared at Shin, a spear of light forming in her hand, waiting for Shin to make a move.

"Hmmm. Perhaps it will change your mind if you knew I'm the reason for Dohnaseek's disappearance?" Shin smugly stated, watching as Mittelt looked at Shin in shock and some fear.

"What?! How do you know Dohnaseek?!" Mittelt yelled, now very cautious.

"Simple," Shin said as he released his control over his magic, allowing it Mittelt and the other fallen in the church nearby to sense his presence. Although not large nor did it give the feeling of someone strong, Shin was smart and knew how to use his magic in smart ways. "I killed Dohnaseek."

Mittelt was shaken by the statement, not knowing whether to believe Shin or not. After all, Shin didn't give off the presence of a strong person, but that didn't necessarily mean he wasn't capable of killing Dohnaseek.

"So then, are you going to call your friends?" Shin asked, smiling way too innocently.

Mittelt didn't have to be told thrice, flaring her magic to her fellow fallen as a signal to help her. In just a matter of seconds, the space near Mittelt started to warp as Raynare and Kalawarner arrived.

Seeing them arrive, Shin used this to cast a barrier, one unique to him and invisible to the eye as well as senses. Using his sacred gear, he set up a large dome of the repulsive force around all of the fallen as well as himself. No one would be able to leave, nor would anyone be able to get in. However, despite the barrier being invisible to senses, the spike in his magic when he formed it definitely was not and he had no doubt Rias and her peerage would be coming very soon.

"Mittelt, what did you call us for?" Kalawarner asked, curious and also somewhat worried. With the disappearance of Dohnaseek, Mittelt suddenly calling for help was a worrying thing. It was likely whoever was behind Dohnaseek's disappearance was trying to do the same to Mittelt.

"Because this guy wanted me to. He says he killed Dohnaseek." Mittelt said, glaring at Shin. Luckily, due to the sudden arrival of the Raynare and Kalawarner, they hadn't noticed when Shin spiked and created a barrier.

Raynare and Kalawarner's heads swiveled to Shin in surprise as they finally notice his presence, Raynare recoiling in surprise. "You!" Raynare said, shocked seeing the person she thought she killed alive and well. As well as apparently having been the one to kill Dohnaseek.

"Hey, long time no see… You know, last time I wasn't able to fully appreciate your body since I was you know, dying… But, now that I can, I give you a ten out of ten!" Shin said, both his hand sticking straight out, giving Raynare two thumbs up.

"Raynare, who is this person?" Kalawarner asked, confused about this entire situation.

"Hmmm, Raynare is your name? After you stabbed me with your lightsaber, I figured Yuuma wasn't your real name. It's nice to know the name of the person that killed me." Shin said nonchalantly, making the three fallen angels uneasy. The way he could act so carefree in this situation worried them. He acted as if he didn't have any reason to consider them a threat.

"Raynare, this person… Is he that kid with the sacred gear that you killed?" Kalawarner asked, piecing together the situation from what she had heard from Shin.

"Yes, that would be me," Shin confirmed for Kalawarner. "However, Raynare didn't know a devil had been keeping an eye on me. So, I was revived by that devil after Raynare killed me." Shin explained to the fallen.

"Are you kidding me?! I went through that stupid, boring date for nothing?!" Raynare yelled, annoyed and outraged.

"Yes, Raynare. You tried so hard… And got so far… But in the end… It didn't even matter." Shin said, very proud of himself at the current moment in time.

Raynare meanwhile looked at Shin, shocked and dumbfounded. "Are… Are you quoting Linkin Park?!" Raynare shouted, not having any idea how to react.

"What's the matter Raynare? Find yourself one step closer to the edge? Are you about to break?" Shin asked, Raynare releasing a very loud groan of frustration. By this point, Shin was trying very hard not to break out laughing at his own joke.

However, Shin came here for a reason, and it wasn't to wittily insult people with song references, despite how fun it was. "Anyway, I came here for a reason. I came to give you a chance." Shin said as his face suddenly went very serious. "You're trespassing in the land of the Gremory and Sitri clans. Leave now or I will kill you. Consider yourselves warned." Shin said, the three fallen suddenly finding themselves on the wrong end of some killing intent.

However, Raynare, Kalawarner, and Mittelt were not new to killing intent. Each one of them had fought in the three-way war several centuries ago, and as such, had several centuries of combat experience.

"And what makes you think we would listen to you?" Kalawarner asked with quite a bit of spite in her voice. "There are three of us here, and only one of you. Don't think just because you're a devil now that you have the strength to kill three fall angels." Kalawarner stated.

Shin couldn't help but agree with her. Shin was reincarnated just a few days ago. By usual standards, he wouldn't even be able to kill on fallen angel let alone three. However, Shin was different. "So, is that a no?" Shin asked menacingly.

"Yes, that's a no," Mittelt said confidently. "No matter what sacred gear you have, you won't be able to defeat all three of us," Mittelt claimed confidently, puffing out her rather small chest out in pride.

"Is that so?" Shin asked rhetorically, letting his hand drop down to his side, his palm facing behind him, and exerting a good amount of repulsive force, propelling him forward at very fast speeds, just as a Chidori sprung to life in his other hand.

Only second after Mittelt's statement, before they could even react, Raynare and Kalawarner gasped in shock at what they saw. "I warned you," Shin said as Mittelt's body stood still, her eyes wide in pain as blood leaked out of both sides of her mouth.

Shin pushed Mittelt backward, knowing she had already bled to death as well as the fact that his Chidori went straight through her heart, she was dead in seconds. "Mittelt!" Kalawarner and Raynare screamed as they saw the lifeless body of there centuries-long friend fall to the ground with a giant hole where her chest used to be.

"You know, it's pathetic really," Shin said as he turned toward the two fallen who were still alive. "You lot are centuries old, yet you're still at the bottom of the food chain when it comes to power. I know it's a foreign word to most you supernatural beings, but to imagine that if you spent your time training, you would probably be a cadre class fallen. Pathetic." Shin belittled.

But the more he thought about it, the more pathetic he thought it to be. These people were several hundred years old, yet they were only as strong as a low-class devil. Vegeta would be rolling in his grave if he knew how little people trained in this world.

"Now then, should I just kill you now?" Shin asked, knowing that if he wanted, he could just release a large amount of repulsive force that would shatter their organs and bones. Or he could release two different repulsive forces, and sandwich them between the two, pushing the two forces together until they were squished to death. Or the most morbid one, repel their upper body away from him and attract their lower body towards him, which would rip them in half.

He may not have the raw ability to double his own power or to create a magic that destroys anything it comes into contact with, but he did have technique. He knew how to use his magic in the most effective way possible. That's what made him strong. Or rather, that's what made him smart.

"Kalawarner, we have to go," Raynare said, her fight or flight senses tell her to get as far away as possible from Shin. Kalawarner did not disagree in the slightest, deciding to follow Raynare's lead as their wings made their appearances and they took to the sky, a wormhole opening above them.

However, before they could enter it, they found that something was stopping them from moving any further. Try as they might, whenever they tried to reach the wormhole, something constantly pushed against them, making it impossible to get to the wormhole.

"Who said you could leave?" Shin asked from ground, making the two of them swivel their heads to the side in horror. They could suddenly feel Shin's magic spike and the air in the area grow cold, signaling Shin was launching an attack.

Just as they thought, seconds before they both made their move to dodge, dozens of large spikes of ice appeared from the ground and came at them at very high speeds. Dodging to the side, Raynare released a gasp of pain as one of the spikes clipped her in the shoulder, impaling it.

However, she considered her lucky when she looked to her side in horror after hearing Kalawarner release a scream of pain, only to find her friend, a border-line sister, impaled in the stomach with one of the ice spikes.

It was at this time that Shin noticed that Rias and her peerage arrived, looking to the side he saw them staring at the scene in front of them in complete and utter shock. However, he was surprised when he saw Sona and her peerage present as well. He was not expecting Sona to come to his aid as well when she felt his spike in magic.

The help, however, was not needed. Looking away from them, he focused his attention on the only fallen angel still alive. The one who he had allowed to escape from his attack with only an ice spike to the shoulder.

"Having a tough day?" Shin asked as the Ice spike suddenly pulled back into the ground and disappeared, the ground being recovered by dirt, making it look like nothing had happened as the sound of Kalawarner's body hitting the ground was heard by everyone.

Raynare followed soon after, broken, without the will to fight anymore. She had seen her friends die right in front of her, and she knew there was no chance of her escaping. She had come to accept the fact that she would not be surviving this ordeal.

"You know, I like to consider myself a good person, and I have my mother to thank for that," Shin said as he slowly walked towards Raynare. "And one of the things she taught me as a kid, was that if somebody hurts you, you hurt them back tenfold… That's what I plan to do to you." Shin said as he stood right in front of her, looking down at her on her knees.

Suddenly, two spikes of ice came out of the ground and impaled both her Achilles tendons, making it impossible for her to stand at the moment. Screaming in pain, Raynare thrashed around as she yelled. The spectators who were trying to get into the place but had not been able to thus far cringing when they heard Raynare's scream of pain. Well, with the exception of Akeno since she suddenly grew a massive blush.

"Please, just kill me," Raynare begged, no longer having the will to live. Seeing this, Shin decided to give her an out. Forming an ice spike in his hand, he dropped it right in front of Raynare, confusing her.

"You want to die? Then go ahead. Do it yourself." Shin said, silently enjoying the terror in Raynare's eyes. The spectators, however, were appalled and shocked at Shin's brutal display. They never expected someone like Shin, who was constantly telling jokes and making people laugh could be so sadistic and cruel.

"You… You want me to kill myself?" Raynare asked, shocked, staring at the spike of ice on the ground.

"What? Surprised? Shocked that the innocent guy who makes stupid song references and makes comedically perverted jokes could be so brutal? Don't be. You've been alive for a long time, so you should already know. People like me, who have stupid personalities like that, just do it as a way to cope. As a way to fit in with everyone else. To hide how fucked up they really are." Shin said, shocking the spectators.

"For example, take a look at the four mauo. Sirzechs Lucifer puts on an act of being childish and an over obsessive siscon. Serafall Leviathan acts like a huge siscon and dresses like a magical girl. Ajuka Beelzebub throws himself into science. Falbium Asmodeus sleeps constantly, no matter where he is or what he's doing. All just ways to cope with what they've seen, with what they've had to do." Shin stated.

"They may not have fought in the three-way war, but they witnessed it. And after it ended, they led the Anti Satan Faction in the devil Civil War. Fighting your own, torturing your own, killing your own, and all while still being a teenager? It fucked them up. There quirks and personalities are ways to cope with that." Shin ended his rant, Rias and Sona looking at Shin in complete shock.

Raynare, seeing the person she hates above all else at the moment like this, decided to get back at him a little. "Oh yeah, and what's your excuse? Why are you so fucked up?" Raynare asked, catching the curiosity and somewhat horror of the spectators. Curious to what Shin would say, but also scared to know.

"If you're expecting me to say something like I watched my whole family die in front of me, you're thinking wrong. What fucked me up was just life itself." Shin said although he knew if the entire truth wasn't.

"What do you mean?" Raynare asked, thoroughly confused. Shin looked back at the spectators of all this, then looked back to Raynare. It wouldn't be a good idea to discuss what happened in his previous life in front of them.

"What's it matters? You're going to die anyway. There isn't any point in telling you." Shin said, causing Raynare to smirk, knowing she had begun to get under his skin.

"Is that so?" Raynare said as she looked at the spectators watching the whole thing go down. "Or is it that you don't want them to know?" Raynare asked, looking at Shin with a smug smirk. Shin smiled innocently, basically confirming it for Raynare, before his hand suddenly shot forward, stabbing an ice spike into her chest.

Raynare's eyes contorted in pain as blood leaked from her mouth. "Consider us equal," Shin said as he let Raynare fall backward, falling onto the two spikes of ice that impaled her Achilles tendons, resulting in the spike of ice piercing into her shoulder blades.

Unlike Mittelt and Kalawarner's deaths, Raynare's was not quick. Shin stabbed her in the lung, causing blood to slowly build up in her lungs, making it harder and harder to breathe until the point where her lung was so full of blood it started to overflow, coming out her throat and bubbling in her mouth as she tried to breathe, causing her to choke on the blood.

As Raynare slowly died, Shin released the barrier, Saji who had been constantly pushing up against the barrier falling onto the ground as it was suddenly released. "Hey look, I broke the barrier thing!" Saji exclaimed proudly, puffing out his chest in pride.

"I released the barrier your dumbass. The only thing broken here is your pride." Shin said, causing most of the girls to chuckle while Saji turned into a depressed mess.

"Shin, before… What Raynare said… Is it true?... Do you not want us to know what happened to you?" Sona asked, hurt that Shin didn't trust her enough to tell her, despite everything they've been through.

"It's not that I don't want you to know, but rather I don't know how to tell you," Shin said, but he still didn't know if it would be a good idea to explain to them why he was as messed up as he was.

"Shin, it's alright. Every one of us here has our own backstory. We won't think any less of you or judge you for what has happened to you." Momo said, coming up and grabbing Shin's hand. Taking a deep breath, Shin decided to tell them, they had the right to know after all. He would just have to change a few things, like the fact that this world was just and anime where he comes from.

"Alright. Then tell me, do you believe in reincarnation?" Shin asked, causing them to shake their heads. "Well, I can tell you, it's real. It happened to me. Maybe I have memories of a previous life, maybe I was reincarnated into a different world. I don't know. But at the very least, I remember my previous life." Shin said shocking everyone there.

"What happened in your previous life?" Sona asked, shocked and curious.

"Well, I was born into a poverty-stricken family. Drunk, abusive father, druggie mother, an older sister, and a little brother. My father was unemployed most of the time, never being able to keep a job due to his drinking. So, to take out all his anger and self-hate, he would abuse my mother. My mother, needing a way to cope with the abuse, did a lot of drugs." Shin explained.

"Then, when I was about eight, after finding out she was pregnant again, my mother decided she didn't want to bring a baby into this world, knowing its life would horrible and filled with nothing but pain. So, she killed herself, jumped off a bridge." Shin said, drawing gasps from everyone.

"With the death of my mother, my father only became angrier, more of a drunk. My mother no longer there to take out his anger and self-hate on, he turned it onto us, his kids." Shin explained. "My sister, who was 13, after a couple of months of getting abused, she couldn't take it anymore. So, she also killed herself, jumped off the same bridge as my mother."

"Then, my brother and I finally caught a break. Two suicides within two months? That made the cops suspicious. The detectives investigated and found the true nature of my father, what he had done. My father was taken away and convicted for manslaughter. He got life in prison."

"Afterword, me and my brother were sent to live with our grandparents. It changed my life, and to cope with what had happened, I did anything to distract myself from it. Mainly video games and sports. And I lived a good life until I was 15. My brother, however, did not."

"My brother couldn't find a way to cope, so it just ate at him. He was just too messed up from what happened. When he was 13, two years younger than me, he started doing drugs. At 14, he got involved with a gang. As an initiation, he was forced to be a shooter in a robbery. However, the victim had a gun as well, and my brother ended up getting three rounds to the chest. He died."

"After my brother died, I just broke. I couldn't handle it anymore. I did anything and everything I could to repress my feeling. To get rid of them. Video games, sex, working out, drugs. You name it, I did it. Before I knew it, I was a high school dropout living life by stealing credit cards and identities. The last thing I remember was getting hit by a truck, and then I woke up here, as Shin Hyoudou. The same age as my previous life." Shin explained, everyone presents thoroughly shocked.

"When I arrived here, I knew, this was my second chance. My second chance to do things right, to make an honest living. New family, new identity, new body, new everything. A clean slate. However, those feeling from my past life, that anger, they never left. I just repressed them and pretended my previous life didn't exist."

"However, those feeling bottle over sometimes and spill out. Like the morning after Rias reincarnated me." Shin said, referring to when he pinned her to the wall. "Or when I defended Asia, who reminded me so much of my older sister. Naive and innocent. Always smiling and trying to make everyone happy." Shin said, a tear falling down his cheek as he spoke about it. "Or more recently, with Raynare," Shin said as he, as well as everyone else, looked at the dead fallen.

"Life fucked me over, and because of it, I have a lot of repressed feelings. Their a part of me, and they always will, that will never change." Shin said as he walked over to Raynare's body. "Anyway, I have things I need to do," Shin said, repeating what he did with Dohnaseek, he started to absorb the holy energy of Raynare.

Unlike his demonic magic, his holy magic didn't have a limit on how much he could hold. At the same time, however, he couldn't produce holy magic. But it would still come in handy to have a lot of holy magic at the ready at all times.

Everyone couldn't help but do anything as they watched Shin absorb all the holy magic from all three fallen angels. Too shocked by Shin's backstory to do anything at the moment.

Finishing up absorbing all the holy magic, Shin took a few minutes to catch his breath, feeling the effects of light poison kicking in again. Although his body had adapted to holy magic, it only adapted enough to contain the holy magic in his body, but now he had around forty times as much holy magic in his body as before. If he was a fallen angel, he'd likely be a four or six-winged fallen at this point.

"Look, I'm going to go home now. I'll talk to you all tomorrow." Shin said, not bothering to look back as he left, despite them telling him to stay. Wounds had been reopened, and then had salt poured on them. He just wanted to go home and sleep.

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