Highschool DXD: The Harbinger

Kuoh, Japan,

In the old club room for the Devils, we can see Ryner sitting on a couch as a nervous Asia is also sitting next to him,

In front of him, Rias was looking at him from across her desk with annoyance as the rest of her peerage was looking at Ryner wearily, except for a certain someone who was busy ogling Asia,

"What do you want Ryner?" Rias asked

"I detected a sudden burst of mass teleportation magic a few days ago and then sensed an ultimate class being in the city last night, care to explain it?"

"Why should we tell you anything ?" Issei shouted as Ryner gave him a lazy gaze,

"Because I am the owner of this town right now so I am well within my rights to know what your filthy kind is up to" he said not noticing the slight flinch from Akeno when he said the word Filthy,

"Why you-" " enough Issei," Rias said seriously to which Issei calmed down while Ryner had a mocking smile on his face

"So you already managed to put a leash on him? Got to say when I heard from Gorribal that the kid had a dragon in him I expected him to have a little bit of pride but who would have thought that he would be a disgrace to the dragon race, what would the dragon aspects say if they were to see him?" he said as Isseid got up from his seat, ready to attack Ryner but was once again stopped by Rias, Akeno finally looked at Ryner and said,

"Why are you trying to antagonize him?" she asked, Ryner's eyes momentarily softened before they hardened once more,

"I have no reason to tell you" he gave a simple, short reply which hurt her a lot,

Just as the issue was about to escalate a magic circle materialized in the room from which a beautiful woman with silver hair and a stoic expression along with a man with blond hair wearing a formal attire came out,

"So this is the human realm? Must say it is quite disappointing? The man said as Ryner watched with amus.e.m.e.nt at the weakling's words, even the orcs that he had seen from Gul'Dan's memories were stronger than this weakling and yet he talked as if he owned the world,

The woman who introduced herself as Grafia Lucifuge told Issei and the others in the room about what was happening, about how Rias was engaged to the weakling called Riser Phenex, about how she was going to fight in a 'Rating Game' where they utilized their slaves to fight battles for their masters and how her freedom was on the line,

For once, Ryner did not like the feeling of glee that he had felt when he heard that the freedom of the devil was in peril, a clear indication of the void corruption getting stronger, he needed to find the Taeshalach as soon as possible once he was done with his mission here.

During the talks he noticed the l.u.s.tful looks that the weakling was directed towards all the girls in the room, but the way he looked at Asia and Akeno made his blood boil, even if his cousin had chosen to abandoned her humanity and practically cut all her ties with him, he still had the obligation to protect her as he had always seen her as his sister even if she did not see him that way, and as for Asia, he would admit that he had started to crush on the innocent girl who made the Fel in him go crazy with the d.e.s.i.r.e to corrupt her innocence while the Arcane fought to keep the dark d.e.s.i.r.es at bay,

"And why is a Human in this room anyway?" the weakling asked towards Rias as Grafia looked towards Ryner, and for a second, a trace of fear and weariness passed her eyes along with recognition,

Ryner grinned, good, at least she did not forget the scar he had given to her when he was 15,

"He Is right Rias-sama, what is the Mad One doing in this room?"

"I am the owner of this land Devil, you do not have the right to question where I go in this territory" Ryner said as he glowed with a blue light which set off all the warning bells in every single devil in the room,

Fun fact, as the Arcane was the incarnation of order and good, it could be manipulated into becoming something similar to holy energy which was very harmful to a devil, but unlike the normal holy energy, the Arcane energy was potent enough to deter even a Satan class being, so much so that a mere contact with the energy would cause the current Lucifer to be grievously injured, making Ryner the Anti-thesis to anything that had devil physique,

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Nighttime, Kuoh,

It was during the night that Ryner received an uninvited guest to his house,

"so, Why are you here miss Himejima?" Ryner asked

In front of him stood none other than Akeno Himejima, his cousin and the last remaining relative by blood,

"Ryner, please help me train in-"

"No" Ryner declined before he even hears her full sentence,

"I will not help you use your demonic energy in effective ways," he said,

Akeno expected this answer from him after what she had said to him during their reunion but still could not help the pang of hurt she felt when he flat out rejected her, with a sad expression she was ready to leave the house when she heard him say,

"But if you want to learn to use the holy energy in you, then I shall help"

Ryner watched as tears gathered in Akeno's eyes as she flung herself to him, embracing him for protection and hope just like she would do when they were children, a smile came to his face as he thought,

'What a hypocrite I am, I hate devils to the core but now I am doing the exact opposite of my nature'