Third Person POV

Issei couldn't believe it, he honestly couldn't believe what he was seeing right now. Standing before him were his old friends Trish and Lady from his time in Dante and Vergil's world. They were somehow in his world, which Issei definitely was not expecting.

He knew that at some point in the future, he would meet up with them again and do a little catching up. Although, Issei thought that their reunion would be maybe a few months from when he departed their world; but then again, time moves differently in their world.

Issei was in their world for months, yet barely any time had passed in his own world. This made the brown-haired boy a little curious, how much time had passed back there? What had he missed after his departure? Did Ne-Deadweight finally decide to grow a pair of balls and ask his girl to marry him?

Did that mean Issei was finally an uncle? He swore to whatever God existed in his world that Nero better have had a kid because both he and Deadweight tended to act more like brothers than friends, kinda like how Dante and Vergil get along with each other.

Issei: "Trish, Lady. What are you both doing here!?"

Lady let out a fake scoff of annoyance as she grew a small smirk.

Lady: "What? Aren't you happy to see us, Issei? We came all this way to see you and that's your response?"

Issei chuckled.

Issei: "It is good to see you both, but as you can see I'm a little busy at the moment."

A gunshot was heard as Issei moved his head slightly to the left, a glowing bullet zooming past him and hitting a wall before he turned his attention back to Freed who glared at Issei.

Freed: "Hey, don't ignore me for those bimbos!"

Both Trish and Lady's eyes twitched a little.

Trish: "Bimbos? Now that's not very nice..."

Freed glared at the two.

Freed: "I don't care! Both of you can die with this Devil Scum! Prepare to be executed!"

Freed raised his gun and started to rapidly fire holy bullets at the trio, who effortlessly dodged the attacks as Issei launched himself towards Freed once again.

The exorcist saw this and clashed his light sword with the Yamato, grinning maliciously as sparks flew off each time their blades clashed against one another.

Freed: "You're good. Very good."

He smirked.

Freed: "Why yes, I like that!"

As their blades continued to clash together, Freed soon pointed his gun at Issei who stared at it for a split second before the exorcist fired it. To him, Issei being at such a close range would give him a disadvantage because he was focused on the light sword. Unfortunately, Issei dodged the attack by cartwheeling backwards much to Freed's annoyance.

Freed: "Hey, no fair!"

Issei smirked.

Issei: "I think you have more important things to worry about."

Freed: "Huh? What do yo-"

Freed suddenly got shot in the shoulder, causing him to cry out in pain and drop his light sword. He held onto his shoulder as he turned and glared at Lady, who was the one that fired at him.

Freed: "You bitch!"

Lady glared at the exorcist.

Lady: "Be glad I didn't shoot to kill, I was so tempted."

Trish: "Now, now. We can't kill him yet, we need information from him."

Lady sighed.

Lady: "Yeah, yeah."

Freed growled as he backed up a little, this wasn't good for him. He was injured and he could tell that none of them were taking him seriously, Lady even said that she could've killed him with that last shot and that's especially true because Freed's attention was mainly drawn to Issei.

Issei stared at Freed with a serious expression.

Issei: "Surrender or you'll pay with your life..."

Freed gritted his teeth.

Freed: 'Damn it... I need to get out of here! I need to escape!'

???: "Ahhhhhh!"

Everyone perked up as they turned to the sudden voice, Issei's eyes widened as he saw that it was Asia who had a terrified expression on her face.

Asia: "W-what's going on here!?"

Issei: "Asia..."

Asia turned to Issei, her eyes widening in surprise.

Asia: "Issei, what are you doing here?"

Freed glanced at Asia, then towards Issei as he soon got a brilliant idea. He grew a malicious smirk as he turned and pointed his gun at Asia, much to her shock.

Asia: "F-father Freed! what are you doing!?"

Freed: "Sorry, Asia. You're cute and all, but I gotta save my skin!"

He laughed a little.

Freed: "Then again, who's gonna miss a Devil-saving witch like yo-"

Before Freed could finish his sentence or fire the bullet at Asia, he blinked and then Issei appeared to his right. However, that wasn't all that surprised the exorcist; no, it took him a moment to realize it but Issei had actually used the Yamato and sliced off Freed's hand, causing blood to erupt from the wound.

Freed let out a scream of agony as he held onto the stump that once had his hand, tears of pain running down his face as Asia could only stare in shock and horror at what she had just witnessed.

Issei: "Don't you ever...."

Issei glared at Freed, his eyes glowing with a menacing blue and red aura.

Issei: "Threaten those I love..."

Freed glared at Issei, his eyes full of hatred as he attempted to scream something out at the brown-haired boy. But that was short-lived as Issei delivered a powerful roundhouse kick to Freed's face, sending him flying through the wall and outside the building.

Issei panted slightly as his eyes soon returned to normal, putting away the Yamato as both Trish and Lady walked over to him.

Lady whistled.

Lady: "Wow, that's a side I never thought I'd see."

Trish: "Are you okay, Issei?"

Issei nodded his head.

Issei: "Yeah, I'm fine. Just got a little worked up..."

Issei turned his attention towards Asia, the poor girl must be traumatized from all that had just transpired. He can't blame her, if he were in her position then he would honestly feel the same.

But he better make sure that she's alright.

Issei slowly approached Asia, who looked up at him.

Asia: "I-Issei..."

Issei: "Asia, are you hurt anywhere? Do you feel any pain?"

Asia slowly shook her head, causing Issei to let out a small sigh of relief as he brought the blonde-haired nun into a deep hug, much to her surprise.

Issei: "Thank God, I thought I wasn't quick enough..."

Asia: "I-Issei..."

Issei looked down at her.

Asia: "W-why are you here?...what are you?..."

This caused Issei to let out a small sigh.

Issei: "That's a long story, I'll tell you somewhere safe... and when you wake up."

Asia couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

Asia: "Wake up? Wake up from what-"

Issei cut Asia off by delivering a quick chop to the back of her neck, knocking the nun out in one swift motion as she fell into Issei's arms.

Trish: "Issei, who is she..."

Issei glanced back at Trish and Lady for a minute, making them a little nervous because the look in his eyes for some reason didn't sit right with either of them. He didn't say a single word to them for that whole minute, but then he looked back to the unconscious Asia in his arms.

Issei: "A friend..."

(Time Skip Brought to you by Issei playing Video games with his friends)

Lady: "So this is your place, huh?"

Currently, Issei was back at his home with Trish, Lady, and Asia. Issei dropped the blonde nun in a spar room that his parents haven't gotten around to clearing out, which was a good thing for Issei because he didn't want Asia to sleep on the couch.

Speaking of her, Issei already knows that he'll have to explain himself and his actions to her when she awakens. It was going to be tough, mainly because the fact he has the power of two God-like Demon brothers from another world and wields a Sacred Gear housing a powerful Dragon. Despite only meeting Asia once, he enjoyed her company and he didn't want to lose her.

She reminded him a lot of Deadweight's girl: Kyrie, both she and Asia were pure-hearted and very kind to the point it's almost adorable. Though the difference is that Kyrie feels like a gentle older sibling, while Asia was someone that Issei wanted to know better, who knows maybe they could become a thing in the future.

Issei then heard a chuckle from Ddraig.

Issei: 'What's so funny?'

Ddraig: ['Oh nothing, it's just that you seem to be more like Vergil than Dante']

Issei raised an eyebrow.

Issei: 'What do you mean?'

Ddraig: ['Well Vergil had Nero with some Nun he met. Nero likes Kyrie, who is also a nun and now there's you who thinks this Asia girl is cute...']

Issei fell silent as his eyes widened a little, his mind totally blown as he couldn't believe what he had just heard. Ddraig was correct, Issei was starting to be more like Vergil than Dante and it's all because of Asia, who was a Nun.

Issei: 'Holy shit....'

Ddraig laughed a little, finding his partner's situation a little amusing.

Ddraig: ['Hahahaha! Only you, Issei. Only you']

Issei blushed slightly as he put on an annoyed expression.

Issei: 'S-shut up, Ddraig!'

Ddraig just laughed louder, causing Issei to let out a small sigh of annoyance. This was his partner, the so-called "Welsh Dragon of Domination" who struck fear into all of the supernatural; laughing like he was some father that told a very bad dad joke, but decided to laugh at it anyway.

Issei: 'I hate you...'

Ddraig: ['Yeah, yeah. love you too, Partner']

Issei rolled his eyes at this before he soon turned his attention over to his two friends from another world who were in his kitchen. Trish was leaning against the counter with her arms crossed, Lady on the other hand was merely sitting on top of the counter.

Issei: "Well, first things first...."

He smiled.

Issei: "It's good to see you both again"

Lady and Trish returned the gesture with their own smiles.

Trish: "It's good to see you too, Issei"

Lady: "Yeah, you seem to be doing well"

Issei chuckled slightly.

Issei: "Well, some things have happened as you saw back at that place"

Trish: "Is that normal here?"

The brown-haired boy merely shrugged.

Issei: "Not sure, first time meeting an exorcist and one with a mind that would give Deadpool a run for his money"

Lady chuckled.

Lady: "No kidding, that dude was lucky that I didn't put a bullet in his head! No one calls me a bimbo!"

Trish: "I agree with Lady"

Issei sweatdropped a little, making a mental note to never say anything that would anger Trish or Lady because he may have God-like powers; but as his father once told him... there is nothing more dangerous than a woman's wrath.

Issei: "I see.... But back to the more important things"

Issei crossed his arms.

Issei: "How are you both here? more importantly why are you both here?"

Lady: "What? don't you wanna see us?"

Issei deadpanned at Lady.

Issei: "You both actively sought me out, which means that this was more than a social visit"

Trish let out a small sigh.

Trish: "You're right, this isn't a social visit. There's a problem back in our world, involving the underworld"

Issei raised an eyebrow at Trish's words, there was an issue in the underworld? This filled Issei with both curiosity and annoyance. He was annoyed because from the tales that he was told during his training, whenever there was a problem it seemed that the underworld was always at the eye of the storm.

However, Issei was curious because if memory served him correctly, access to the underworld was supposed to be sealed off since Vergil used the Yamato to close the portal he made when he was the Demon King. How could something be happening in the underworld?

Issei: "What's happening in the underworld?"

Lady shrugged.

Lady: "Thats the thing, we dont know. All we know is that there was a significant amount of demonic energy that suddenly appeared a few days after you departure"

Issei: "A significant amount of Demonic energy?..."

Trish nodded her head.

Trish: "I've only ever felt such energy one other time, during the time that Mundus ruled..."

Mundus.

The big bad, the prince of Darkness and former Demon King before Vergil took over. Issei only knew a couple of things about Mundus, mainly that he toppled the previous Demon king and was responsible for the death of the Sparda brothers parents. Other than that, Issei knows nothing else about Mundus; though he figures that the less he knows the better.

Issei looked at Trish with a serious expression.

Issei: "You don't think he's back?..."

Trish shook her head.

Trish: "Not likely, Mundus was sealed away by Dante five years ago and when Urizen took over it seemed that all had forgotten about him"

Issei: "Then if its not Mundus.... who is it then?"

Meanwhile with Freed.

Freed: "D-damn it... this fucking hurts."

Freed was in the nearby woods that surrounded the town of Kuoh, gritting his teeth as he slowly limped down a dirt path that had been made a long time ago. He managed to sneak away as Issei was busy with Asia, although he knew that it would only be a matter of time before they decided to track him down.

But what could Freed possibly do? He was no match for Issei, even if those two bimbos didn't show up and ruin his whole evening. As much as Freed hated to admit it, he was beaten by a darn Devil, and if word of his failure got out, then this would not only make him a laughingstock but he'll also be killed by his boss.

He couldn't let that happen; he wasn't going to die some pitiful death. He has come so far in his life to fall to the hands of some filthy devil scum. No, he was going to survive and get revenge on the brown-haired boy who made a fool of him.

Freed gritted his teeth as his eyes were full of nothing but rage.

Freed: "That Devil... I swear the next time I see him..."

The exorcist slammed his remaining good fist into the trunk of a nearby tree, ignoring the painful sensation that coursed up his arm the moment he did that.

Freed: "I'll kill him! I'll tear open his chest and feast on his beating devil heart!"

Freed's call filled the entire forest, causing numerous animals to take off in fright from the noise. However, while Freed was panting heavily from both exhaustion and rage, he soon heard a deep and dark chuckle.

???: "For a weak human, you sure have spirit..."

Freed: "Huh?"

Freed's eyes darted around the forest, trying to find the source of the mysterious voice. Unfortunately, his efforts were sadly not successful as there was nothing but himself in the forest.

Freed: "Who said that!? Is that you, Devil Scum!?"

The voice let out another chuckle, this one sounding amused.

???: "You call him scum? Well, that is something I definitely agree with you. That boy, Issei Hyoudou, is someone who shouldn't be allowed to live."

Freed's eyes widened a little, but soon a malicious smile grew on his face.

Freed: "Alright, you agree with me. That brat deserves to suffer! Suffer a fate worse than death, suffer as he watches his loved ones die!"

???: "Indeed, Freed. I'm glad that we are on the same page, which is why I want to offer you... a deal"

Freed raised an eyebrow in curiosity.

Freed: "What kind of deal?"

???: "I will provide you with a new body and grant you a small fraction of my power. However, in return, I ask you to do me a favor...."

Freed narrowed his eyes.

Freed: "Oh yeah? What favor?"

The voice laughed a little.

???: "You will learn in time, so tell me then, Freed Selzen...."

Suddenly, a bright white light appeared before Freed which caused him to cover his eyes due to how bright it was. The light slowly disappeared as Freed opened his eyes and looked at where the light came from, his eyes widening as he was greeted by a being that could only be described as... Godly.

???: "Do we have a deal?"

Freed stared at the being in silence for a minute or two, but before long a malicious grin formed onto the exorcist's face.

Freed: "Heck yeah we do, I look forward to working with you... um?"

Mundus: "Call me Mundus, the Prince of Darkness"

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END OF CHAPTER