The first two paragraphs below ONLY apply if you read this chapter first.

Yes, FINALLY DONE WITH THE 4 BRANCHING CHAPTERS! This was a lot of work, and I have to admit. This is a fun experiment for myself. Tell me your thoughts about this experiment itself.

This Author Note will be on all the chapters, because the order DOES NOT matter at all. But do read chapter 24, 25 and 26 as well. There are elements of each chapter that will come in chapter 28 or even later, which will be the start of the Bloodshed. So yeah, it took me a while. Uni life is wasting all my energy to even try getting my Fanfiction together, but today I got time! Hurray for me~!

This chapter is one big mess regarding the stability situation or rather the how the power is spread. It shows the situation might be well contained around the area of Tokyo/Nagano/Kyoto, but that does not necessarily mean further throughout Japan.

Chapter 27 Sapporo Conflict

We were talking about going to Sapporo. It was me, my parents, Ray, Irina and her father.

"So Issei-dono, how do you want to go?"

"Well, I have no idea what's with Hikigaya Tsurimori High. Is it a normal high school?"

"Well, we've found out. It is off-limits during the night, you need a permit to enter this high school during the night. We've got two of them."

"Why two?"

"Because I have an eerie feeling about that fact about the night. So I know Issei's going, but who is coming with him?"

"I will. I want to know what Issei has experienced during his years. I heard Project Dark Crescent has happened in Sapporo, right?"

"Yes, Irina. We were travelling through Sapporo during that time."

"Okay, I'm adamant on accompanying Issei."

"Okay, that's me and Irina. I guess we'll get train tickets towards Sapporo."

Suddenly a call came to me, it was the Escort Cartel. Yeah, I even got an prostitution cartel. Again, same with the drug cartel, we operate through a code. This code is important to keep as many people as possible happy. Actually, the leaders, or pimps in the minds of the people even if it sounds like shit, work together and have been friends for a long time. They're also business partners for that time. They were doing it illegally, just like the drug cartels. That was until Hiro got into power and I got actively involved with SC command. Now the drug and escorts are both graded into levels. The first level is the completely legal level, this is for the drugs called the Pharmaceutics level. This means all legally prescribed drugs will be acquired through this branch of the cartel. This benefits the pharmacies because the costs are way lower than doing it completely 'legally' through the supplier. Yeah, the sarcasm is there because the price is being bumped up by a disgraceful degree. It is not even meant to cover the costs of R&D. We manufacture them, if possible otherwise we just steal it, and sell them to the pharmacies at a 10% gain and they will sell it at a 5% gain above that. Inflation will be compensated like that. This is all regulated by the cartel and the pharmaceutical union. For the escort cartel, this can be called the company girl level. This is due to the fact they are mostly girls who accompany people, sometimes they're even tourists who pay more, through the city and make sure they feel good. Not in a sexual context. The fourth level is highly dangerous, but highest reward as well. Though, it doesn't mean the first level is a shabby reward either. For a proper side job, the first level is ideal. The third level and fourth level are on the degree it seriously requires a very solid pay-off. If one joins one such a cartel, the only thing they have to do is to complete one job.

This is one of the reasons why many youngsters have a part-time job as level one couriers or escorts. I think I've seen Katase and Murayama do such jobs in Kuoh. Heck, I've seen Matsuda work together with other guys with promoting for pharmaceutical items. So let me further explain about level one, because this is a vague line. Level one is promotion, accompany or dealing. It is absolutely not dangerous as the items and these practices are completely legal without even modifying the former law. Level two is actually dealing in soft drugs which are not available at the pharmacies. Stuff like marihuana and tobacco of a stronger degree. For escort service, it involves sexual measures. No actual raw intercourse, but more like the fluffy lovemaking. The fourth level, on the other hand, is considered perverted. The heads of the level four branch cartel are also quite perverted themselves to regulate such a cause. They love the perverted stuff, heck they even teach their employees about the ins and outs of their level. That's how much support they're giving. But this does not encompass one thing, forced in any way. The pervert of the escort cartel started talking to me, it was her own voice.

"Hyoudou, I heard you're going to Sapporo?"

"How do you know?"

"It is obvious since you would try to stop Lorelei with his coming to Japan and try to rule over it. It also doesn't benefit any of us if Hiro is not leading the country anymore. I will tell you this, there's a rumour there is a new escort cartel. We're not sure, but we can't stop them as of now. Though, they are linked with some missing people cases. I will send you the data about them."

"What is the name of the cartel?"

"Release Factory."

"Okay, but what about the missings? Is there anything special about it?"

"Except the fact they happened near Hikigaya Tsurimori, no. They're completely normal people. Their reasons to be near this place is odd, though. It involves a lot of debts."

"How come you guys didn't find them early?"

"Shortly said, the relatives didn't tell. We don't actively seek them, like those folks do. Let's say, I fear for their safety."

Okay, that was a really uncomfortable call. Even I didn't like that call. Even if Hokkaido is the least regulated island, due to distance and we don't have that many people to fend for the crimes over there, it isn't that bad. It doesn't need such security either, so that supports it. Though the situation has been regressing there since Lorelei wanted to run for Prime Minister. It seems his fanatics have started their operations there, we can't just send a part of Honshu-Corps to Hokkaido-Corps mainly due to the unfamiliar terrain for us. This is only for the defensive Corps, but it is still a severe issue. We have a lack of defensive forces. most of us, including me, are trained to fight offensively. Every move of ours has an offensive intent. There is no way we can coward out on anything. That's our mind-set after all. Killing them yourself brings more satisfaction than using fireworks to destroy someone. It doesn't matter, I have to go investigate first anyways.

It doesn't matter now, we're going towards Sapporo. I would've only taken my Glock20 to Sapporo, but that call made me uncertain. I took the XM8 with me. This is not the compact small PDW-style weapon at Kuoh. This is the proper rifle with normal length and proper accuracy. Of course, it is not as accurate as the Longshot configuration, but it is more controllable after firing many shots. This is its optimal configuration for medium/small range. The reason I changed to the XM8 from the M4 is mostly due to its use if it falls in enemy hands. They are both usable, but the M4 is a more developed weapon to my hands and gets my preference. This would give me a severe deficit if I were to lose that weapon due to shady practices. I took my dark clothes with me. They were reinforced with Aramid structuring on microscale. It should take most of the close range issues. If I get sniped, that'd be a problem for me. It doesn't matter now.

"Irina, let's go to Tokyo Station. We'll enter the Tohoku Shinkansen."

"Okay, Issei! I'm ready to go as well."

She's as cheerful as usual, that's the reason I take her. Her mood always lightens mine. It makes me happy to be in her happy company. Always the spirited girl. No wonder she's my Angel. We travelled to Tokyo Station by helicopter. It was a good flight. The ride towards the Tohoku region can't be that bad.

The start of the train announcer was quite cheerful.

"Welcome to the Tohoku Shinkansen Hayabusa, you've entered the train at Tokyo. We hope you enjoy the ride towards Shin-Hakodate. This train is being operated under the flag of East Japan Railways. This is the new line which has been opened recently. We will stop at Omiya, Sendai, Shin-Aomori and our final destination Shin-Hakodate.

We entered the train with high spirits. I guess my spirit dropped the moment we had some protesters. Since I could understand English very well, I could hear what those foreign protesters were saying.

"Death to the Prime Minister! The Sanada Clan should have never prospered! The Sanada Clan should have never existed past the Middle Ages!"

Woah, that's extreme. Why aren't the police shooting them? I looked around and I saw hidden guards with their rifles ready. Tch. I guess they can't cause a huge conflict like this with these stakes. Too many innocents would be killed. I guess I should let it slip as well, until they bother me.

Which they did of course if it wasn't me.

"Hiro Sanada is a corrupt man! He lets the criminals work and the police does not fight them! What is this for fraud!?"

Should I argue?

"You're a supporter of Sanada!? You're not a Human! You should be hung and-"

"Shut your fucking trap. There's a limit I can take your bullshitting. You were specifically targeting me. You want my opinion!? Here's my opinion! Unlike retarded fucks like you who can't be reasoned with, those drug dealers know how economy works. Do you know how much actual criminal activity there is? The number of arrests for severe crimes like drug related ones are nearly in the triple digits! OVER THE WHOLE NATION! Should I name your beautiful nation? Oh wait, your beautiful nation has more problems than we have. We at least have total regulation and your lord Idiot is going to bring Japan to a shithole like your country filled with retarded fucks and brainwashed creeps. Yeah, right. That's better indeed."

Damn foreign idiots. I'm almost considering to do a heavy border security check on all foreigners. There hasn't been one non-retarded foreigner I met in Japan. This does count out Jackson and Archdragon for obvious reasons. This also counts out Xenovia. Though, I can say Asia is that one non-retarded foreigner. Hmm, still. It's odd to see many foreigners I see are mentally retarded or just hypocrite. I guess being retarded is normal in the foreign world. It also explains why Zeus and Commons have absolute control over the most of them. Of course, it is not right to say everyone's the same. But if you think about it, if your experience has always been the same, except for very, very few exceptions. Would one think it is the truth?

"For Lord Lore-"

"I guess you didn't even try to beg for your life. If it was an attempt to do so, it was really pathetic."

I ripped his heart out and dumped the corpse at the next station. I think it was Omiya station. Whatever, I felt pissed because trouble would always find me. This would give a bad prospect for the Sapporo trip. Now why would Murphy's Law apply here? Because it's me. If I would have to list all my unlucky events. Dark Crescent, Devils attacking my Irina, Yokohama attack, saving Ray by sacrificing myself, Nagano Incident, Kokabiel attacking Kuoh, London Incident, Battle of Kuoh against the former faction, Kyoto-Osaka and fucking Vampires. I mean, that's just the ones that were major for me. My jobs didn't go so easy either. I just want to rest. Stupid retarded conflicts, they always tend to find me. The train moved on towards the north.

"It is reported there's a problem at Cabin 6. Wait? You said it's already handled? They were annoying foreigners you say? What were they preaching? Ah they want Sanada-sama to be killed and bothered some passengers there? If you've heard this, yeah. This is severe. It is fine to state an opinion, but especially do not bother people with it. It's very rude and I guess we have to say it explicitly because some stupid foreigners don't even know how to be polite. Silence is a virtue! So, you foreigners should just stay put and just enjoy the ride to Shin-Hakodate."

Suddenly, Irina asked me something.

"Will we be alright? Is Sapporo a fun place?"

"It is a fun place, but I doubt what we're going to do today in all honesty. I can't expect anything with my degree of luck. But for the meantime, I want to enjoy this ride with holding our hands."

"For the couple in Cabin 6. You've got the cabin all for yourself until Sendai. You can do some forbidden stuff now."

"Kya! You!"

"What the heck!"

One of the railway guys stood behind us, but it really sounded like he said it to everyone over the intercom.

"Hahaha, I only want your tickets. I need to verify your seats are here."

"Oh fine."

I gave him my ticket.

"Understanding your train seat is correct, as there's nobody else, it wouldn't be noted if you were actually bothering other people.. It doesn't matter now, you can see the reservations anyways. Oh, you're even sitting on a seat that has reserved from Sendai. Oh well, that's not a big problem. So what will you do?"

"Nothing, we're not that bad."

"Darn it, I always wanted to spot a couple making love in the train. I've heard so many guys who joined the Mile High Club. It seems love-making in the skies than in the bullet train. You would expect there are enough perverts who would do it, right?"

"I will refrain from commenting."

"To think those sinful beings would commit the act of love at such public places. Why doesn't the Bible mention it as a warning?"

"Well, I think it's because the thought of possibly being found out is so arousing it is considered a dangerous force. It is not mentioned because mentioning would bring lust and lust is a bad thing for good people like you. It would corrupt you."

"I don't want to get corrupted."

"Exactly, that's why we won't do it."

I patted Irina, but she looked a bit sad.

"Issei, if we get back home. I want to cuddle you. Unless we can find a good place in Sapporo."

"I'll try to end this case quickly. I hope I can find those files quickly."

"I can already expect that's going to be long one to find all those papers."

The train moved on at a slow speed. Irina notices this, but I'm used to it. This is due to regulations.

"Issei, aren't we supposed to go faster?"

"We can't. We're still in Tokyo, it is dangerous to go so fast with all the trains near us. Also, logistically this is the best way to cope with everything."

"But it's going slower than the regional train."

"Don't worry, that's normal. It is supposed to be like that. I've been on this way before. It will speed up later."

"You mean the Devil Shinkansen?"

"Yeah, it is specially made for Seekvaira, Rias and Sona to travel to Japan from Hell. Of course, they prefer teleporting. Although, I'm not that fond of the Devil Shinkansen. It's so slow. It travels at a velocity of 110 km/h at best. It is really a luxurious train just to show off I can pay an expensive train ride. The interior is nice, but I prefer an efficient interior over that luxury. It took about 14 hours to reach Mount Osore from Kuoh and that's with the course of a Shinkansen. It's the same as the night train, but then more luxurious. I think it felt the slowest when we were in Hell. Ugh, it was really slow. Ah yes, I took it under the Agares Flag, that one is called a Shinkansen. The driver was also a complete bastard. Being able to talk me down like that and also driving like a snail. Well, unacceptable for me. I think it takes a day to travel around Hell and get out of there. Actually, I was talking to myself just now. I wish I didn't remember that. I knew you were with me that day."

"So you don't like that train with all its glitters and stuff?"

"Just the part in Hell is utterly worthless. Damn politics. Safety reasons. Heck, that train goes once a day at best. Ugh, I get all negative when I'm thinking about that train and the stupid politics behind them. It actually means me getting up early."

"Politics?"

"Yeah, everyone goes by teleportation now. How do the Angels normally go to Heaven?"

"Teleportation."

"Of fucking course."

"Though, it must be done at a blessed place. This means it has to be a church or some altar worshipping God, Michael, Gabriel or whatever Angel or canonized being. We do know we land at the First Heaven Square."

"Why do you actually prefer teleportation?"

"Because flight to Heaven would take an experienced Angel about 12 hours at least and it must be done in secret. These two things can't be done. Most of us wouldn't be able to reach the Gates of Heaven in time. So we introduced a warping spell for us to recall. It works like a two-way ride. It remembers the destination and the starting point. If the Angel is back to the starting point, the spell will be erased. This explicitly means we can't be anywhere at any time and reckless warp anywhere. This would give us a disadvantage against the devils. This is a small problem, if I say so myself."

"At least you have a heightened mobility to fight the Devils if you're required. It's a bit worse if we're fighting Renegade Devils or any supernatural with teleportation spells. Since we're forced to be on the offensive, they'll just chicken out and attack us when we have breached deeply into enemy territory. It's not smart, but we can fight everyone now. The SC has levelled the playing field in terms of strength. Where we used to be helpless against supernatural and other godlike beings, heck even gods, we can fight them now on even footing."

"Aren't you guys overly merciless, though?"

"Well, yeah. I guess."

"Issei, just don't act that cold when you're with me, Sona or Ray-chan. Also, don't hurt Shirone-chan with this behaviour."

"Don't worry, my dear Irina. It will be alright. If I will fight for you, it will be out of love."

"Issei~."

"And we have arrived at Omiya. This is the station where we will leave Tokyo. From here on, we shall make you enjoy the speed of the Shinkansen. Enjoy your ride! We will be heading towards Sendai, Morioka, Shin-Aomori and our final destination Shin-Hakodate. This is the Tohoku Shinkansen Hayabusa, under the flag of East Japan Railways. You can switch to the Saikyo, Tobu Noda, Kawagoe and the New Shuttle."

This meant we had to wait for a few minutes before the train left towards Sendai. There wasn't much that happened here. Though, the view is absolutely splendid. It is absolutely lovely. All those beautiful landscapes, flying past at high speed. It gives a completely new sensation to be honest. I think I dozed off, because suddenly I heard this.

"We have arrived at Shin-Hakodate! This is the final destination of this Shinkansen. We kindly request you all to leave this train. If you need to travel further or change trains, you can go on the Hokuto towards Sapporo and local services at Hakodate and if possible the Esashi Line. JR East hopes you've all enjoyed the ride and we wish you good luck on your further travels and have fun if you've reached the final destination."

I was carrying Irina out of the Shinkansen as we had to change trains. The Hokuto. Okay, this might take a while. After a while, the Hokuto arrived and we boarded that train. It was nice to travel by trains. You can just sleep and nobody cares. The best part is going to the end. Because that gives no issues when you fall asleep. It's ideal. I can doze off without any care in the world. I have a great Angel girlfriend next to me. Nothing can go wrong. Exactly and nothing went wrong. It was just me taking a nap at Irina's bust. The best is, nobody cares. It was ideal. I was so happy, I have no care in the world anymore.

"Issei? Mou, because you sleep on my chest it is impossible for me to sleep."

"Okay, Irina. I'll let you sleep now."

The peaceful aura she gives off, it just makes me happy again. To see her twin tailed hair. To make her calm like this. It is something I wish I had more. Less nuisances, people being nice. Suddenly we were asked for our tickets.

"I would like to see your tickets, please."

"Here you go."

While I analysed him, he looked at me with a devious smile. He better not be.

"You're travelling illegally. This train is heading towards Sapporo, this ticket is only valid until Shin-Osaka. How did you manage to go to the wrong direction? Are you a retard?"

"Give me my ticket back then."

He gave me a ticket which said unreserved Tokyo-Shin-Osaka, single trip. Here we go again.

"Give my ticket back. I will call you a fraud."

"Pfft, the Japanese Railways will sue you."

"Wrong, because you're saying it wrongly. One, it is JR Hokkaido. Two, its complete name would be Hokkaido Japan Railways. Three, to think you didn't know Hokkaido is an official branch must imply you're a complete fraud and an utter retard. Four, your uniform isn't from JR Hokkaido. You're a fraud."

"I'm not, now pay up the fine!"

"PUNCH TO THE GUT!"

Suddenly a report from the train itself.

"This is JR Hokkaido, there is a fraud walking in this train. If you've got checked and fined, don't worry if you didn't pay. If you did, you can find the fraud if you know where he went. He is wearing a JR Central uniform. He claims to be a railway guard, but he's not. I repeat, he's not a railway guard. If your ticket has been switched, again you can check the fraud. He must have the correct tickets with your reserved names on it."

Oh, look he's out for the count. Time to rob whatever used to be his. Oh look, twenty pairs of tickets. One of them is Tokyo-Sapporo and are reserved under my name. Heh, they're mine. Suddenly a flood of people have arrived at this cabin. It seems he was almost done with corrupting all the tickets, since all the other pairs were all reserved with Sapporo being the destination.

"Where is the fraud!?"

"Like out of the count down here."

"Good job, sir. Can we find whether our tickets are there as well?"

"I think he got your tickets and money from some of you."

After they stole their own money back, it was time to go to dreamland again. With Irina.

Cuddling her while we were nearing Sapporo. It was nice and easy. This ride was besides that fraud quite calm.

"We're approaching Sapporo, the final station of this Hokuto. We kindly request you to leave this train and take your baggage with you. This service has been provided to you by JR Hokkaido."

Finally, I've set foot on Sapporo. A beautiful city to be there, but I've got no time to lose. We had to go to Hikigaya Tsurimori High immediately, so we moved towards the high school.

That is if we can find that forsaken place. I guess we have to ask where it is.

"Hey, am I allowed to ask you a question?"

"Yeah, what is your question?"

"Do you know where this school is?"

"Hikigaya High? Oh dear, why do you have to go there?"

"What's wrong with it?"

"It is a cursed place during the nights. People who have entered that place have never returned. There are a few things about that place. One of them is the fact that the principal is a creep. Second, it is proven since his starting at that high school, the number of female graduates have severely reduced. Third is the fact the last graduates under the previous principal have all shown a severe dislike to the new principal and the new graduates have been arrested for some sexual crimes."

"Wait, are you serious?"

"Yeah, because I was the previous principal of that school. I got ousted by the board, who in turn got ousted by a coup. Let's talk some more at my house, it's near that school. It won't be open for night shift until a few hours from now. You can enter, but it has to be by breaking in."

"Fine, anyways that's my favourite activity."

"Good, my name is Nanodou Jin."

"My name is Hyoudou Issei."

"So you're the military leader of Japan, huh?"

"De facto, yes. Officially, nah."

"Please, this conflicting election is going to be dangerous for you guys."

"I know, I fear Hiro is going to get involved in this dangerous activity."

"Hiro-sama is indeed subject to trouble. But you're not campaigning at all either, right?"

"We don't need to, our voters are still loyal to us. We're good."

"The recent numbers are quite dangerous. I mean 60% to 40%."

"That's odd. But why?"

"I don't know myself. What I do believe is the fact that they're using the absence of Hiro-sama to frame him. How they get votes to Lorelei, despicable man."

"It seems you're quite loyal to Hiro."

"Of course. He has brought peace to the main ground and has made sure the criminal circuit is also clean. Economically we're doing quite well as well. A new president will bring change and that can equate in chaos as well. What do you think about him?"

"He must never be elected, if this does happen, we're in trouble. Our regime will not exist anymore and all our deals will be off. We wouldn't be the best nation and worst of all, his criminal practices are not criminal anymore."

"Do you think the nation will betray you?"

"When their or a dear's life is at stake, yes. Otherwise not. He will use that pathetic measure to make sure people will vote for him."

Irina was looking really spooked while we were talking about serious politics.

"Hmm, did you two enjoy your meal and drink?"

"Yeah, we're off. Thanks for the temporary refuge."

"If you need to run, you can always come here. I know your faces now."

We left the house to enter the school. It was a creepy place, I never though a school at night would be this creepy. You could hear the cries from the halls.

"Please help us~"

What the heck, is this school cursed!? Darn it! Irina was clinging very much to me. I wasn't comfortable at all either. Irina, calm down!

"Yaaa~, I don't like this school."

"We go in and we go out with the files."

"Yeah!"

Fortunately, we went from room to room. Without anybody spotting us. That was the most relieving part. We looked at each room to find files, but everything we found was useless. Until we reached the principal's office. It had this eerie feeling like this is the place where one would hide some corpses. This is bad. We searched through this room, but then we found it. A hidden compartment in the floor. Oh dear, I forgot there were about 6000 files. It doesn't matter.

"Irina, send all these files to Heaven. Make a copy of them and send those original copies to my place if that's how your teleportation works."

"It is only for self-teleportation which is a two-way trip. For packages like these, they can be sent everywhere."

"Then do it. Get it out of here."

"Michael-sama, I need to send a bunch of files to Heaven. Would you please store it for the time being before I come back as well?"

"Okay, Irina-kun."

Then I looked into one of those files. It was her, I remember her vividly. My head hurts when reading that first name. Shizuka.

"Issei? Are you alright?"

"Ugh, no. I get nightmares again from Dark Crescent."

"Come on. We have to protect this place until all files have left this building."

I guess we don't have enough time.

"Irina, I will stop them. Hold my weapon and kill everyone who comes inside without saying 'Gosh, what do I love those foreigners who enter this country peacefully.' Retreat if necessary. It's important you stay safe to complete this operation. If it the cost will be severe."

"Okay."

I gave her my XM8 and the magazines to accommodate with. I took a fire axe with me which was near the door. I don't even know why, but it feels like it has been used a few times. Okay, let's go on the offensive. I saw 20 creeps running towards the principal's waiting room. I'm really happy this school has such a waiting room. That means this place is a completely different zone and thus they can't see Irina.

"Haha, Jack's information is correct! It's that militant shithead! Take him out!"

Wait, Jack? Who is Jack? They knew I was coming here!? Damn it!

"Die, you worthless excuses!"

"Haha, use the stun rifle!"

"What!? Shit!"

I barely evaded that. This isn't good, then-

"Haha, I think some people would love to see you. Guys, enter the principal's room! I want to know what he was doing there."

[Irina POV, Principal's Room]

4300 files have already been sent, but it seems Issei has been taken out. What should I do? I must not let them know of my presence. That's the only thing I can do. I'm sorry Issei. I won't kill them now, that's a sinful thing to do. I have to leave you to your fate.

'Interrupting Transmission'

"What the heck, this door is closed! Boss, I need the keys!" Was clearly said.

"Okay, I'll give them to you."

Clean up all this mess, just to make sure they don't have any clue about my appearance. I hid right above them with an invisibility spell as well, just to make sure they can't get me.

"Where is that girl!? Wait, did that bastard buy two tickets just out of compassion!? Darn it, worthless railway guard! Why didn't he stalk them better!?"

Oh no, they're onto me. It must be that guy 'from' JR Central, that fraud is a complete bastard. He's an enemy of the nation! How come I didn't see that!? To think they're that close already, that makes me worry a lot.

"Tch, let's bring him to the Arena."

"Alright and then we can go back to the toilets. Hahahaha!"

They're still close, I can still sense them. I guess I have to use my heightened sense to make sure I don't get surprised. All of those people here have a corrupt aura. It's not that hard to sense people. Time to go on with the transmission.

'Resume Transmission'

Fortunately, that part went much easier than before those idiots came. I took the file Issei had in his hands and I looked at the name. Onodera Shizuka. She does look cute indeed, but the last words on her entry were brutal.

'It's time to finish her. Zenkou, give her your love. Make sure she doesn't survive and make sure she enjoys it.'

Oh my Goddess, that's what Issei was talking about. This isn't even fun anymore. How come this went so much down the gutter? I have to leave this dark place. Shooting a window and then off to Nanodou-san's house.

"Hey, there's someone jumping from the principal's room!"

"Nah, you're just seeing too much. Go take a nap. You've got a full night to go by."

"Yeah, alright."

I ran towards Nanodou-san's house as fast as I could. I can't believe this!

I arrived at his house, but then I saw it. A woman being raped by a few guys and Nanodou-san has to watch it with his genitals exposed while a few hideous women were about to take him.

Why didn't Issei give this weapon a silencer? Why wouldn't he do it? Is it because it would be short enough to take it with him, but still isn't such a silencer detachable? I guess I have to make one myself using the energy of light. It takes a lot of effort and quite a bit of my magic power.

"Stop it! Why are you hurting her!?"

"You should have accepted the reign of Zuko-sama, but you never accepted it and aided with the escape of all the female students of the school! We are now sexually frustrated! So we happily take your wife! She can take a handful of us, right?"

"You bastards!"

As Issei would have done it, no mercy. Precision and speed are required to take them out. Now die in the name of Michael!

"There's someone here! That's impossible, this house is so secluded from the city! Unless they have visited this house! Take cove-"

One more. She was running and was already ahead by a few hundred metres. This final bullet will decide if this comes back or whether this can be easily cleaned. Suddenly, she was shot by a sniper rifle.

"Well, that was unneeded, Harunome. I was already being saved."

That was uttered by Nanodou! Huh, what is he!? We entered his house, I was joined by the sniper and I was tending the wounds of his wife now who lays there under a blanket after given a change of clothes.

"Sorry, Shidou Touji's daughter. We kept that façade up with Shirei because it was for our own safety. He proposed it himself anyways. I'll reintroduce myself. My name is Nanodou Jin. That's the truth, also that I used to be the principal of Hikigaya Tsurimori High. I am also an officer of the SC. Lieutenant Nanodou at your service. How did it go?"

"It went alright, we got the data. Though, Issei has been missing."

"That selfless idiot. To think he'd give his life to expose Lorelei. We can't find him, I guess we have to hope for the best."

"One thing, do you recognise this name? Onodera Shizuka."

"Oh god, one of her sisters has been missing recently. Her first name is Haruka. I've heard her say the words, I want to find my sister. They still don't know her fate. I had a young son who was sent there. "

"You mean Nanodou Ryuusei?"

"Yeah. Do you know what happened to him?"

"As you know, Issei is the only survivor of Dark Crescent. I'm sorry to say, but he's dead."

"We've already given up hope years before, but at least this horrendous story has been closed. We've got a young daughter, she's now about 12."

"Papa!"

"Hey, Yuna. You're doing well as usual?"

"Yes, papa! What's wrong with mama?"

"She fought a bit. She'll recover."

"Who is this stranger?"

"Who? That's uncle Harunome and she's a visitor. Don't worry, she's kind."

"Are you an Angel?"

"Hehe, I'm so nice I'm sometimes called that."

"Hahaha. Papa, I'll watch tv."

"You've been nice, go watch some anime."

"Hurray!"

Then silence returned and thus the mood went serious again.

"You need to leave this place, the SC can handle this. Hyoudou won't die easily after facing that Project."

"Don't worry, I'm not worried about that. I just hope he will come back unscathed."

"I see."

"I guess we can only wait. I'll help you protect this place. Do you have something to tighten my chest?"

"Okay. Why?"

"So I can fake being a guy, just for safety reasons. I don't want to end up like your wife with those freaks nearby."

"Understood. I'll forge a plan to handle them now. This chaos must end."

I changed myself and took a more boyish appearance. This would make sure I'm safer than usual. I guess I have to fight them here. Issei, call me when you're back again. Please, stay safe until then.

[Issei POV, Unknown Location]

I woke up, just to take a look around me. I was put in a jail. I don't even know what happened to my clothes. I feel so naked. This is just a single layer of cloth. Odd, I don't remember wearing this little for Sapporo. I don't even have shoes. I should take a look where I am.

This jail is odd, it was leading to a circular arena like plaza. From the angle between the jail cells, I think there are 12 jails with a path in between cell 1 and 12. I can't see through the jail doors. That sucks. I guess I have to wait.

"Welcome initiates and recruits! This is the Freedom Labs! You have been chosen to enter this initiation process! If you want to advance to the higher classes, you need to outdo everyone else! Everyone, take off your clothes please and enjoy each other!"

Yeah, how about no? I guess those initiates do it with pleasure. Suddenly I was shocked and my clothes(like if they're considered clothes if they get destroyed that easily) were destroyed without any trouble. I felt a sharp pain flowing through my head. This isn't good.

"Let's party!"

"Let's do it, mate the master!"

"Yeah, let's do the handsome guys and then throw off the ugly guys!"

Some random stuff was uttered by the random other 11. All I could think of was.

'I must find a way to get out of here safely. And find my clothes.'

I was being chased by all the 11 idiots, for some reason the other 5 guys are old and absolutely disgusting, while the 6 women look pretty good and somehow are really horny. I must run as I've got no choice.

"Come on, you need to mate with each other!"

"Boring! Let us hear some moans!"

"Use the aphrodisiac on them!"

Darn it, not that. I smelt it, wait. This is a weak kind aphrodisiac. Really, they think they can arouse me!? I'm resistance itself! Fight me! Though this is a lot harder when you're naked I just realized. This is almost impossible without chasing the perverts away! Tch, I might as well go all the way defeating all of them!

"Hey, don't hit us! We're here to supervise you and still initiate 6, you're doing really bad. You must release all those demons within you!"

"I am your worst nightmare, enjoy hell. Rargh!"

"Impossible! Everyone, retreat! You must all run to safety! He's dangerous!"

"Nooo!"

"Subdue initiate 6! Now! Take him out!"

After taking down so many people and killing a handful as well, I felt disoriented. I fell to the ground again, but now I wasn't unconscious. I was being clothed again and I was brought to a hall. Though I couldn't hear that clearly what was said. I couldn't do much against it either.

[Third Person POV, Same place]

As Issei is being subdued or disoriented. His head is spinning funny and he's placed in the middle at the first row. A whole speech has been held about finding freedom and letting them go. It was odd for a storyteller to tell this calmly. This is not important, let's listen to the speech.

"We have a new batch of scientists! They're trying to find freedom at this place! This is such a special occasion, we have brought our leader here!"

"Yes and therefore, we shall set the example by stripping ourselves! Let's do this, ladies!"

Okay, I'll explain how everyone is placed. If one would use a grid of 8 by 8, rows 1 and 2 are occupied by a grand stage. Issei and the other initiate are sitting at row 3 at column 4 and 5. The other initiate is a female. The rest are surrounding them and occupying the rest of the room. The speakers take row 2 and columns 6 and 7. This sect is madness, but that's something Issei already knows.

"We shall call our lord! Bring us some example men! Come here and enjoy our bodies!"

"Come to us, Zenkou Zuko-sama!"

And then Issei snapped.

[Issei POV, Dark Crescent]

I am reliving this nightmare again. Where they killed Shizuka, I'll never forget the murderer's name.

"High five, men!"

"Good work, Zenkou!"

"Thanks Mister Lorelei! That's how we finish them! Hahaha, I'm so happy to do this! The best experience in life!"

I couldn't do much back then. I vowed I would bring him to death. Even if it takes my life. I found a new purpose when I was saved by Irina and Touji-san, but this will have my top priority now. That name, I will never forget it. Zenkou Zuko. That bastard, to think I'd meet him in Sapporo. It must be destiny for me to kill him.

[Freedom Labs]

"Rargh!"

I looked around and I saw a group of 6 men surrounding the other initiate who was left of me. I knew there was another initiate.

"Come on, Onodera-chan. You need to free the demons! Let us help you!"

"Hey, you shitheads. What about my exorcism? Would you kindly die for me? Or would you kindly help me exorcise the actual demon from this building?"

"Shit, how come you have returned to your senses! Kira, you start with her! Make sure she gets even a bit of our healthy juice!"

"I guess you wouldn't kill yourself, then I will stain my fists with your blood on your filthy disgusting unworthy bodies. May Hades be nice to you and burn you immediately afterwards I killed you here!"

After a murder fest, I picked up the female initiate who had the same surname as Shizuka. Today I will protect an Onodera from these sick people! That's my duty, I failed Shizuka. I will not fail this one!

"Ne, should I be saved by those guys?"

"Those guys aren't trying to save you, they're trying to kill you. Just like back then, it's led by the same guy as the one who murdered many people long time ago. Though I need to get inside a certain room."

I had to go to a special room where some stuff were placed. There were lockers to hide some items. Tch, I have to need to get one of the higher up. Goddamn it.

"Stop those two! If you get them, you can do whoever you want!"

"Those orders given, that's the one I need. Would you kindly tell me how I can retrieve my clothes?"

This was asked from a few dozen metres away from each other.

"Do you really think I would listen to a renegade initiate!?"

"Now you minions, would you kindly step aside for me?"

I guess not. They are looking to attack me and hurt me and then even worse stuff. Fine, I will beat them senseless. Some 20 idiots. That shouldn't be too hard. Punch to the face! Punch to the face! And yes, a kick to the face! Punch to the abdomen and another punch to the cheeks! And that's 5 less. I might as well go faster and take them all out for an indefinite time and chase the higher-up.

"Come to me, would you kindly just stop?"

"Kyaa! He's trying to kill me!"

"Come here, now would you kindly inform me how I can access my clothing I actually wore? They're kind of more stylish than this shitass cloth. I can also choke you to death. Your choice."

"Fine fine. I must insert a code like this into the terminal and here you go. Your clothing. You are the worst initiate by far. To think you'd resist that hard to get out of here. You're a demon who needs to be cleansed by some of our members."

"It doesn't help if I didn't volunteer or sign up for this nonsense."

Finally my clothes have returned to me. The woman who gave me the code ran at a horrendous speed. Not my problem. That's what I thought, but oh god. I'm underequipped, outnumbered and I've got delicate cargo to take care of. It might be better to hide in the room. Therefore I had no time to get Onodera's clothes. This locker room is seamlessly going into another room, the storage room. The best room to play hide and seek. Although, if we get found I will get killed. I'm sure of that.

"Come on, let's hide from them!"

"Yes. Will you get me safely out of this perverted mess?"

"I will. That will be my main objective now. It has my priority now. Now let's go."

We walked past a bunch of crates to hear some moans. It was large enough for two people to do that. Illicit activities. No further explanation required I hope. We need to find another large box to hide, we had to look into some of them. At least I did. After 3 failures, I finally found an empty box. This is the place to hide for a few hours. It is a bit obvious, but I hope hiding in plain sight works as their minds are paranoid and filled with perverted stuff. I think.

We've entered the box, but for some reason Onodera-san's clothes began to disintegrate. Yeah, this is really considered a piece of shit cloth. It was the same way as my initiate clothes. That really is a piece of shit.

"Kya-"

"Silence, I can't see you're naked. Though I can guess you're naked now. Though it feels like we're lying on a blanket. Take it with you when we leave this box."

"Okay, understood. Though, who are you?"

"Hyoudou Issei, the one and only who can tell what really happened to your sister Shizuka."

"Oh, I'm being rude here. I'm Onodera Haruka. Shizuka's older sister. I'm told she will be taken care of by foster parents. They said she's a special person."

"She's dead. Murdered by those people out there."

"Oh my god. No."

"I know, it's hard to believe it."

"I can't believe I was going to get raped and murdered by them as well. I went to them just to let them use me. Thanks for saving me from their claws."

"For now. I need to think of a plan. I think you should sleep, those bastards won't know they're facing someone they wish they didn't meet."

"Yes."

She fell asleep so peacefully. I could only her breathing beating as such a constant rate, it was soothing to listen to it. On the other hand, I heard a lot of noise as well. All those sounds to tell about finding me at any cost and they can't find me. Such hard life, such incompetence.

I can't think of a proper plan which ensures her safety and gets me Zenkou killed. Damn. This sucks. I need to take a break as well.

[Irina POV, Nanodou House]

As they've been pondering about Issei's whereabouts, I suddenly got a jolt from Issei. That's odd.

"Hey, I received a jolt in that direction."

The north-eastern direction, why there?

"Uh, that tells us nothing. Wait, there are two things that can contain a great amount of people. An old military base and an old factory which was used to produce processed metals for further distribution."

"So what happened to both of them?"

"There's one thing that makes it very unlikely that it is the factory. It's considered off-limits for everyone and has been locked away for safety reasons. There was a horrendous incident which got a quarter of its employees killed. The researchers found out it was a new compound of chemicals which would silently kill a certain kind of people. What they had in common was they had a certain gene. This virus would only kill people with those genes. They would be separated from the people known as the Templar and the Assassin. You know the Templar are those chivalrous knights in armour to protect their loyal leaders from the Assassins who try to murder them? That legend has a dark touch if you realize some of those leaders were really evil beings. Though some of those Assassins aren't clean beings either. Don't worry about that. Somehow their conflicts between each other is conspired to be one of the reasons all the chaos has happened. This would even stretch to our Oda Nobunaga's Honnoji Incident. This is proven due to the corpse of Mitsuhide being found before the battle of Yamazaki. It would have happened just before the Honnoji Incident. It is also found possible the battle of Sekigahara was between the two factions."

"Why are they doing it?"

"They're both trying to find Eden and do weird stuff with it. Or at least construct it, but they're both too stupid to see it all. Eden represents serenity when it is unperturbed, but represents apocalypse if being tampered with. Though I think this Third World War is one of the few wars that is started by a nation as one and being motivated for without involving money. Our Japanese Nation. It has no motivation for the Templars, the Assassins or even the Stonebridgers. Even if they think it will benefit them, it doesn't."

"Who are the Stonebridgers?"

"They're an elite group of ultra-high-rise Western billionaires. Most of the world thinks this is a conspiracy to think a few elite people are the actual assholes, but this is wrong. There are many Stonebridgers. They're rich and do everything for more money. This war will not benefit them. If it was money motivated, we'd attack a few nations and bombard them slightly. This is a full on ground war with the stakes being the destruction of all. Worse, we know who the enemies are, but the enemies can't see who their enemies are. We're disguised as them."

"Isn't that a bit being a coward?"

"It is dishonourable, I know. Though we fight against milliards with thousands. Hyoudou isn't stupid to go full on the face. Though, we also use our brains to technologically advance much faster than the rest. To fight at an improved standing against the enemies. Though we swore never to use robots to do our dirty job. We love the dirty job too much. We've found out recently the enemy does use robots. We're researching a way to fry the controller behind safety. It works if it is actually being controlled by a controller device or through a helmet which sends commands. Though it does not work on more autonomous bots, like the ones controlling itself but only gets initial commands from the controller."

"That's enough right?"

"We can't stop the Robot Invasion like that."

"What about our Mecha Suits?"

"Don't speak about that Project. That project is-."

"NJ92-KIRI. I'm vaguely involved, but I'm curious how the main project is doing. I've been doing a bit on small-scale in England. That's a complete failure, since some English are really stupid. I had no real time either to work on it during my training as exorcist. Though, I think you're more familiar with my father's enlisted SC number, NJ92-ASUN."

"Oh, you're involved. Understood. NZ22-PEPE, here. I'll show you a bit of our process."

He showed me a picture of the great mecha.

"Does it work?"

"It works, but it is not modified to wield weapons or use them."

"Okay, so just one huh. Do you guys have a pilot?"

"Sadly, no."

"Fine, I'll find you guys one. Is Issei involved in this?"

"No, he has access to the room, but is not mainly involved. He's the Commander, but he's still has to set some priorities. I think Commander Akane and Miss Archdragon are the supervisors of our Project. Those two are supervising together these days. I'm scared how much Miss Archdragon knows about metallurgy with her being a mage. If she can bend metal with her magic, that'd be so nice. It doesn't matter now."

"Then we can hide it from him, now back to the main problem. Where is Issei?"

"I don't know, I have no way of tracking him. Do you have something, Shidou?"

"Yeah. We can go, I'll guide you. How many weapons do we have?"

"We only have one sniper over there, and just us. Though I can only provide protective measures, due to my condition being subpar these days."

"Subpar being?"

"Unable to climb 40 floors of stairs in 15 minutes."

Okay, those guys are just plain sick and I'm in love with one of the sickest. Issei, I'll come get you.

"Let's move, Shidou and Harunome. Lead us, Shidou."

"Okay."

After reaching a large military facility, we made our plans.

"This place, are you sure?"

"Yeah, this is the place where Issei is."

"Okay, I'll give you an overview of this building. This is everything you need, also you might use some less terrible clothing. It is no use to pretend being a guy, you're an intruder anyways."

"Okay, I'll change for a bit."

I went into the bushes to change my outfit to hide to my previous outfit when I went with Issei. I never mentioned my preferred clothes. Mostly the boots and the pants underneath a skirt are something I really like. Today I'm wearing a shirt and a coat over that. Looking really cool and still a bit inconspicuous. I'm going to enter the facility. After the charges have been blown.

I just entered it and it felt like it is horrible. What is this for place? You could hear people moan so loud, but it still gives me an eerie feeling. I was armed with Issei's XM8 with enough ammunition, I hope. A dozen magazines should do right?

"It's an intruder! Get her!"

Crap, I've been spotted already! I don't even. They're not even bothering to take their clothes on and rush at me while naked. Take your time to give each of them a bullet. I don't think Issei would mind if I killed a few of them. I know Issei is close, his pulse got stronger after I got inside this building. It was cold outside, but inside was the chill of something ominous. This is explicitly not the aura of Issei. His aura is warming to me, though it should scare the ones who see or feel it.

Finally, I can feel his aura very clearly now. He's in the storage room! But I can see others being nearby, I need to distract them. Hmm, so they use the term initiates, huh?

"There's a new cute initiate at Room Terra! Come and say hi to her!"

"What!? How did we miss that one? Zenkou-sama needs our help! Let's go!"

The coast was clear, I could walk to the place where Issei is. Inside a box, I'm not remotely impressed at all. I made a bland face when I saw him with a naked woman.

"I did not make love with her! I swear Irina!"

"Oh? I will punish you for fondling her and taking advantage of her during this confusion. You sneaky pervert."

"Yes, Irina."

"Anyways, here's the gun and 9 magazines. I used one completely."

"Wait, and they didn't raise alarms? That's odd."

"That is indeed odd."

Yeah, it was odd. To make even more cliché, the alarm was raised just now. Exactly at the moment I threw the assault rifle to Issei.

[Issei POV]

"There's an intruder and two renegade Initiates! Hunt them! There are two women, I want them stripped of their clothes and pleasured here! You can also do whatever you want with the guy!"

Really, just when Irina just rescued us? Now that's what I call bullshit. Okay, we might have to go serious.

"Can you light up the whole building? You're strong enough to sense my weak pulse of light, you might as well use it for real stuff. I'll infuse you with Holy Energy. Here it comes."

I held Irina's wrist and chanted some nonsense. Yes, I call it nonsense okay. I'm fighting occult shit with human technology. If this was an actual occult shit story, bullets would be completely fucking ineffective to them.

'Hey, I might have learnt Japanese in a fortnight, but those are just Hebrew lines of simply 'I shall imbue you with the Holy Light of the Son'.'

"How should I know it's in Hebrew?"

'I thought your language knowledge was great.'

'Yeah, right. Jesus, you know our partner is a warmonger. He might be able to speak English and Japanese. That might be too little, but that's ancient Hebrew. You just translated into simple Japanese. One doesn't simply learn an ancient language if there's a modern variant of it.'

'I thought I could fool you guys.'

'Dude, I'm more than 4 milliard years older than you. One doesn't simply fool me. Except an actual retarded fool.'

"So, okay. Are we done yet?"

'Oh shit, I imbued her with too much Holy Energy.'

'To think Jesus would say the word shit. Stuff of the Legend.'

"What is the problem with it?"

'Well, it might beacon this building and it would be visible from 6 kilometre above Shin-Hakodate station.'

"Oh. That sucks. Oh well. Irina, do your thing!"

"Bless thee! Surging Light say hello to the true light! Shine towards the skies!"

Somehow I think not everything is used. It is bright, but it's not bright enough to say this is dangerous. Though it seems more likely we've created multiple light sources to make sure we can see enough to get everywhere.

"Now, before we leave I need to get her clothes. Give me a minute, hmm. I think you should have held the rifle a bit longer, oops. Hold it please."

"Okay!"

"Wait, does she know how to use such a weapon?"

"She used a full magazine and she's still here being quite normal. So yes, I have faith in her, Onodera. Don't worry, nothing will go wrong. Unless we get overrun by everyone from the facility, which I don't see as an impossibility. Have you been spotted, Irina?"

"Well, I was spotted but everyone was silenced who saw me. Though, I do believe they've got their suspicions when I forcefully opened the door."

"How?"

"A package of C4 is what I heard."

"Oh dear. So someone confirmed there was an explosion. Great. Wait, how did you get explosions?"

"Nanodou-san."

"Ah, understood. I see. I'll poke him later. Onodera, are you almost done?"

"Yes! Almost! Okay, I'm ready to go! Let's go!"

Such a cute schoolgirl outfit. The good old sailor outfit. Such bliss.

"Hey, Issei. We need to move out and escape this building!"

"Yeah, sorry. Irina, do you have any idea how to get out?"

"Yeah, don't worry. Follow me."

"Onodera-san, hold her back. She can hold her own, trust me on that. Irina, escort her out. I'll follow your lead closely."

"Okay, Issei. Let's go!"

I followed Irina who had a very good idea where she came from. There was one but, it was sealed with like 30 of those sect idiots. Might as well fill them with lead.

"For Matsuhiko-sama!"

Exactly, you just gave me the ok to shoot you until you're more remains than corpse filled with holes.

"Shirei!"

"Gentlemen. Have you guys been able to scout this perimeter?"

"Not entirely, we've used Shidou-kun's trails to scout the perimeter. Unfortunately, it is obvious there is still more."

"Fine, I'll go back inside. Since I've got nothing to worry about, I'll be good."

"Okay, good luck Shirei."

"Good luck, Issei."

"Irina, you can analyse the stuff we've found already, right?"

"Yeah, I'll do it at Nanodou-san's house if you don't mind."

"Yeah, fine. Shidou-kun. You're permitted to use my house as a hideout. Do come back, Shirei. We still need you to solve this conspiracy."

"Of course, I won't rest until this civil cold war has won and the Third World War has ended in our glorious victory."

"That's the spirit, Shirei."

"I'm off."

Going back inside, but with a better sense of direction and the advantage of being the hunter now. This should be possible. Time to kill the leader of this sect.

It was a lot calmer now, it was like they didn't care about me anymore. Might as well go to the main hall, where I escaped from with Onodera.

"Okay, we've tightened the security and places some more people at all locations to cover everything. Everyone will be armed with knives, so that should do it right?"

"Yes, Zenkou-sama."

How about no? I've infiltrated again. You're doing a terrible job securing the perimeter.

"Okay, now that's been dealt with, let's do a reconciliation party! Free yourselves from the despair of the afternoon! I'll join you guys! Enjoy!"

I'll watch this spectacle for just a minute. Just long enough all the clothes are gone. This is better because they're with about a few hundred in the room. This means there are more people outside this main room doing stuff with other people.

After a while, it actually took less than a minute, I turned up the microphone and scared them.

"Would you kindly listen?"

"Haha, we only listen to Zenkou-sama!"

Oh, shots are fired. Literally, I killed him. I'm not stupid enough to forget a silencer for this weapon. Nobody would know where it came from, because the noise of moans was still overwhelming from the other rooms.

"Now I will ask this question again, will you kindly listen to me?"

"Silence implies yes, thank you very much. Good, I will do my word. You know, I will make a bold statement. Your fat leader never had such good times like 13 years ago! I think! My brain is fuzzy about the exact date!"

Fortunately, the first reaction was confusion. This made it easier for me to speak on.

"Right, Zenkou. It was the best one of your life, right?"

"You survived the ordeal, Kosuka-san? I'm so happy you've made it!"

"Wrong, I'm not Kosuka. There were indeed a few who made it out of there alive, you, me and one more. I can confirm, since I've counted the corpses before the facility went down."

"You can't be alive. That one person. You're not human."

"Thank you for stating the obvious, you dipshit. You took it away from me, what else did you think?"

"What's wrong, Zenkou-sama?"

"That person, to think he would come back."

"You know, to end this list I only have to kill two more people. You know which two, Zenkou Zuko."

"You will never get me alive!"

"I don't want you alive either. Though I would prefer it if you died by my hands. So would you kindly say hi to my Big Daddy?"

"Damn it, everyone run away from him! Just run, don't protect me! It's useless!"

"Good man, that's the right choice. Now let me pick you up to a trip to hell."

And so the chaos has started. I'm the hunter with the assault rifle and more weapons, while the fat man is the hunted with only his feet to run around. Outside, everyone was getting shot with subduing ammunition by the Sapporo Police after this was reported with the witness account of Onodera Haruka. Did so much time pass I could hear proper MP5, MP7, UMP and M4 shots? Oh damn. This is a serious case. I could hear the shots quite loudly.

"Cops, please arrest me! There's a hitman trying to kill me!"

I stood behind him and put a knife down his ass. Penetrating it. One of the men who made me like this.

"Exactly, and you will die in a very suggestive way. How does the item feel in your butt? Does it feel good? Would you kindly answer me?"

"Argh! Hah! You don't deserve an answer from me! I'm almighty!"

"Almighty going to bleed to death. Does it feel good being molested? This is the pain you've sent through all your victims! Your only verdict will be a bleed-out death while being penetrated by a sharp object! Does it feel good!? Would you answer my question!?"

"Do you know the definition of insanity?"

"The definition of insanity is to keep repeating the same goddamn thing while expecting change, now would you kindly answer my question?"

Putting the knife further up his arse.

"Never! I will never answer a question from an insane man!"

"What? You're so rude."

"Just let me live, I beg for mercy!"

"Your life for Shizuka's life."

"Why is the life of a sister so important to you!? One life!? Don't you care about saving the world!?"

"Do you know the definition of insanity?" I said with a creepy smile.

"Lorelei is a hero, you're not!"

"One chance, I'll let you walk. But wait, I've got a gift for you."

Putting a prototype detonator down his arse. Just far enough he can't go to the bathroom and just poop it out. It's a small nuclear firecracker.

"Now I'll kindly explain what I've put in your butt. It's a small nuclear bomb. It's enough to cause a small reaction to make you die very painful. Once detonated, it will cause a chain reaction of unstable nuclear plutonium which has been made unstable by the detonator. Since that has such a high amount of energy, this will give your body an energy boost. Since your body can't take that much energy, you will swell up and become a hollow shell until all that energy detonates you. It's a thing that detonates in about 24 hours. If you don't get your occult friends, you'll die. If you don't do as your promised me, you die. If you snitch to Lorelei, you die and kill him in the process as well. This is due to transmission shock. If you're ready, call me. If you've failed the transplant of life, you'll die anyways. You can get your chance of redemption to die in honour by an executioner bullet. If you don't, I'll simply detonate you and you'll scream. Because it hurts a lot."

"Wait, I'll die anyways!"

"What, you think I'm kind enough to let you alive? You'll die not so painful or you'll die really painful. I don't care about your life. You're a waste of human development. What have you achieved? You've only destroyed human lives! You only worshipped occult enemies of humanity! Now would you kindly go to your occult fools?"

"Fine, fine."

"MOVE!"

The fat fool moved away from me, we arrested everyone from the cult. So we need to take care of abandoned buildings.

"Hey, Nanodou. Do you guys have a proper military facility?"

"No."

"Then use this one, it's good enough for you to get proper supplies and everything else."

"Well, we have to ask the government."

"Don't worry, I came prepared. It's already ours. You should take action on that accursed school. It is turning into a school for people like Zenkou."

"About Zenkou, are you going to let him live?"

"He's dead, don't worry. I can track each movement he's doing now. Right now. See, he's taking a taxi to Sapporo Airport. Might as well give him a shock."

Shock applied.

"Hey, I can also communicate with you. Where do you think you're going?"

"Hey, give me some privacy!"

"No, you've been raping women privately. Now I will rape your last day. Where are you going?"

"Okay, okay. I'm going to Sapporo Airport. Lorelei-sama is meeting me there for a new arrival."

"Don't let him know about this, if he does. I'll detonate."

"I know. Just let me do my job."

"Go! Make haste, you son of a bitch!"

After a while, they met.

"Yo Zuko."

"Hi Lorelei."

"How did the new initiates I brought you feel?"

"They feel good, they're fresh. That's I guess one of the best things about initiates. They're not as rotten as the other girls. Anyways, I need to bring a few of my people. You know, those guys."

"You need to revive your wife again? What killed her this time?"

"The usual. My overly large dick."

I don't even believe this, how can they talk like this?

"Fine, I'll give you a day off. I'll bring your guys from Okinawa. Yes? Bring them to Sapporo! Immediately!"

I could kill them both right now, but that'd cause a wave of hate and we absolutely do not have the defences to take out millions of enemies right now. They'll crush us through the north, guaranteed. Now onto the conversation.

"Still, don't do it too often. Your libido needs to rest as well."

"What? No, it doesn't need to. I need to satisfy it all the time."

"Ugh, you would be a better right-hand man if you didn't jack off all the time. We could have prevented that incident years ago, if you didn't seclude that woman!"

"Dude, you joined in as well."

"I know, but in hindsight it wasn't smart. To think a rebellion started because we wanted to 'mate' young women."

Goddamn it, they're both fucking sick! Damn, I don't even. I'll kill them. I can guarantee it. I'll kill them myself. With my own hands in blood.

"Even you agreed it was the best feeling!"

"It was! Now your people have arrived, so please. Don't kill your wife this time."

"Don't worry, I won't. This is seriously the last time I'll call them."

This dumbass casual conversation took a long time, but it was 95% bullshit. Mostly about sex on younger women and stuff. Ugh.

"Now gentlemen, this is the last time you will be used. Because I have to sacrifice my own life."

"Right. Now do we have the enjoyment of doing someone?"

"No, you don't."

"How will you expect to pay us then? If there's no women, we expect money!"

Wait, isn't that the voice of Hermes? I might be wrong.

"Yes, you'll be expecting money. A few million drachmae."

"Good boy."

Yeah, this is a Greek person. Now the clock says about 3.5 hours until his ass says detonate and die.

"Fine, here I am with my occult group! Now what do you want me to do!? You monster!"

"There's a corpse. Actually, she's decayed because she's dead for over 12 years. There's a soul ball containing her soul. If there's anything else you need, we can provide."

"Hmm, so we have the flesh of a human. How is it possible it can be refreshed to a 6 year old?"

"Because we've got a part of her DNA as well. Remainder of her hair. It is preserved properly."

"We've got the artefacts. Okay, open fire on the northern hill!"

"You think I'm that stupid? Actually, I am. I'm right next to you, I'm one of the occult fucks. Now time to sacrifice your life."

'Detonator has been primed, enjoy your trip to the Realm of the Dead. Say hi to Hades for me.'

"AARGH! IT HUUUUUUUUURTS SOOOOO MUUUUUCH! GYAAAAAAH!"

"Now that was a wasteful effort. Now do the ritual! Or you're next."

"Hahaha, naïve Human. Thinking he can defeat a God."

"A deity, yes. I can. Let me guess, you're the messenger of Zeus. Hermes."

"How do you know my identity!?"

"Your tone is disgusting. Now would you kindly commit the ritual?"

"Haha, stupid Humans! I'm Almighty! I can defeat you!"

"Sniper, aim at his right arm please."

"Affirmative."

And look, it's another against all shield to protect him.

"Oh look, I'm invincible! I've got a 'badass' shield! I'll cut you!" Was uttered by me in a very sarcastic tone.

"Haha, you think you can catch me!?"

Aaaaaand he's gone. Of course, the cowards. Yeah, I hate shields like that. It must be because I saw people play Pocket Monsters and some people frequently used the ability Protect, which prevents any attack from happening. It was just a waste of a turn. I played the game quite a bit during my first year, when I had time. Ugh, Protect. It's just a denial of an attack. It was an anti-climax of each heated battle.

Now I've got a radioactive corpse, a normal decayed corpse, DNA, memories of her, no occult fools and no spell book how to handle this.

'Why do you want her to be revived?'

"No particular reason for the cause, it's a selfish one. I want to meet her in better circumstances. Also, it's a more useful use for someone who should've been dead years ago. A sacrificial item. That's why I didn't resort to something like the revive you guys have, even though I think that's only possible if I die."

'Well, we can only revive/repair you for a reason. We rather not want to tell you this yet, so we're not telling it now either.'

"Fine fine. I understand, but what can we do with this?"

"We first need to get occult fools, we've got the spell. Actually, Luce knows the spell. Though we need a sacrifice. A living sacrifice."

"Whatever, I'll get those occult fools. Everyone, hunt those guys in cloaks. Wait, Nanodou."

"What is it, Commander?"

"Would you please try to preserve this all in the best condition as possible? Can you deliver it to my storage in Tokyo?"

"Consider it done, sir."

"Thanks."

After a few hours, there was nothing.

"Everyone, abort the hunt. It seems useless now. Nanodou, please bring everything to my storage. You'll meet a handful of people who know you."

"Yokohama?"

"Yeah."

"Alright, that's cool. Do I need to be protected?"

"Already being taken care of, from Tokyo."

"Commander, Hiryuu at your service."

"Shirayu at your service."

"Kurima at your service."

"They'll protect you."

"Ah Hiryuu, long time no see. Though those other two look like rookies."

"Yeah, they're JSDF soldiers. We're with way too few to be able to do anything else. This is how we have to accommodate, training SDF soldiers to our standards."

"Why would they need to?"

"They volunteered, it wasn't my choice. The soldiers themselves wanted to see how SC trains for a few weeks. So we might as well use them for our more glorious jobs. Deliveries and protection of stuff."

"Agreed. So shall we move on?"

"Yes sir!"

"Yes!"

"Okay, Nanodou-kun."

I saw these three off while they're moving to Tokyo. I might as well make my move as well. It's so damn late. Oh look, I've got some time left to reach the train towards Ueno! Also, I didn't expect we have all pulled an all-nighter.

"Irina and Haruka-chan! We need to run towards Sapporo Station. The train is leaving at 16:08!"

"What!? But we only got like 20 minutes to reach the station."

"Well. You can come with me."

"Oh yeah, forgot Nanodou. Take us to Sapporo Station, please."

For the ones interested, it's one big ass lorry. Okay, maybe not that big ass. It can fit about 4 rather big guys in this one and still be quite comfortable. With five, it might become slightly awkward. Though since there are 2 guys and 5 girls inside this. Wait, this does become awkward. Oh well, we have no choice. The five girls are sitting behind me and Nanodou. I just took a glance at them and I just turned my head again. They were doing some indecent stuff. I can't take such stuff for now.

"So what are you thinking about? Tits of that auburn girl or the tits of the raven-haired girl?"

"Why are you implying I only think about the bust?"

"Because that's what you are, you are a boob lover. I mean you're lucky the boobs are coming to you, but you also caused it a bit yourself."

"Oh shush. We're not going to talk about one's perversions. That's also quite awkward with the subjects hearing us over and not meddling with each other anymore."

"Oh crap."

"Exactly. Just get us to the station."

"Yeah, got it. Now we're here. Just 4 minutes left."

"Long enough! Girls, move it! We need to reach this train!"

Jumping over people and stuff. We ran at an alarming rate, fortunately the first door was close enough. The girls got inside, but then the whistle was blown and I had only a few seconds to get inside. Fortunately, I got inside. Phew, just a few seconds left.

"Issei, where are we sitting?"

"Uhm, cabin 5 seats. Ugh, fuck. I forgot to buy tickets for her through all this chaos."

"What? There's no problem, my daddy works at JR. He can get something done for me. I got this JR Pass, but it's only for East. Will this be a problem?"

"I have no idea, I need to ask one of the staff here."

"Yes, what is it, sir?"

"By whom is this train operated?"

"Welcome to the Cassiopeia train, this train is operated by JR East. Is there anything you would like to inquire?"

"Do we need to pay extra fees?"

"Did you inform yourself properly?"

"Well, we did. But she has an JR East Pass with a seat number unknown. It has a reservation pending for a spot, but something went wrong."

"Ah, the name's Onodera, huh? Yes, Mr. Onodera is doing that often. You're such a spoiled bastard, you're lucky to travel with JR often. She has to pay some fees regarding the tunnel and the luxury seat you two have ordered, this will be in total 7500 yen."

"That's kind of expensive."

"Blame them."

"Heh. I'll pay. Here it is, 7500 yen."

"Thank you, I will tell Mr. Onodera everything has been taken care of."

"Thank you."

It wasn't much of a seat as it was a room with three beds. Obviously, only one was used. I went clothed, but the two girls went nude inside my bed.

"Wait, both of you! Why!?"

"Oh come on, you promised you would treat me now."

"I'm embarrassed enough anyways, I don't mind losing my virginity to you."

Suddenly that bombshell was dropped.

"I had no intention of any sexual contact, but when she just flat out said it, I guess I can't stay behind."

They just went at it and caressed my body. It was the moment Haruka tried to enter me, I saw her getting shot by sniper shots. Though there were like 10 in one volley. But this volley was way too fast to be a single line, but I looked at where the shots came from. This was impossible, consistently the same spot. So they were with only ten. This must be the British! The only nation which has the legendary Quick-Bolting. To think they'd have such a trump card against us! Irina and Haruka had no chance against this violence. I was still lying down. I could roll behind the bed for cover. Might as well go and try to hide somewhere else. Staying low of course.

It was after 2 minutes this violent rain of bullets have ended. Man, nude girls laying there drowning in their blood. It was close for me as well.

"Right, you think you'd live tomorrow?"

"What!?"

I received a stab from the back which was something that looks like a thunderbolt motif. Zeus has come here to murder me!? Are you serious?

"To make sure nothing of you remains. Burn!"

I felt my body burning while I was choking in my own blood. Blargh!

"FUCK!"

"Hey, Issei. Did you have a nightmare? You're really sticky."

Wait, this was only a nightmare? Are you serious? The cabin looks fine, the girls are still alive. Then what was that nightmare? It was too real to be a joke. That pain was too realistic. It must be one of those mind tricks again. Also, my sweat is all over my body. Shit.

"Issei, what is it?"

"Go back to sleep, it's not much."

'Don't lie, you even woke us up.'

"I know, there's something manipulating my mind."

'So his minions have spread that far. This is troublesome.'

"Whose minions? Zeus or Lorelei's?"

'Is there a difference? How are you so sure it's not Rizevim, Luce's son?'

"He wouldn't kill people close to me. He's fucked up enough to just attack me and scare me shitless without ever involving others."

'That's something I take pride in, he's a good son. He has a code of honour if it regards fighting. He would never backstab, but if he's not fighting well he can do whatever he wants.'

"Exactly, I think I know his motive. Therefore I need to contact Euclid and Rossweisse. He was very fond of it."

'Hah, I know what you're talking about. Wait, why is that Valkyrie involved?'

"Because oddly she made a report about it."

'Fuck.'

"Yeah, indeed fuck. If this falls under hands unlike mine, Euclid's or Rizevim's, it will spell worse than whatever you'd think of."

'Wait, what is worse than Apocalypse?'

"Mating with whoever brought the damn thing. Only one thing came out of that mess, a dead host and a FUCKLOAD of Hellspawn."

'Wait, what's so bad about Hellspawn?'

"Well, they're disobedient and they tend to mate with everything else. I think Luce had to clean them during the Black Death in Sabbath."

'Don't remind me of that. There was just too many of them.'

"Exactly, it was a shitty process as well. Nobody wanted to deal with that shit."

'Now what are you going to do?'

"Finish this Arm. Electrical hand, here I come. Might as well do it. Though, I need to order some things."

"This is the JSDF Weapons Depot. What is it?"

"Yes, I would like to order-"

"Is this the Commander!? Oh my god, I get him on the phone!"

"Yeah, I guess. I want to order three sniper rifles, with a graphene finish. All of the AI company, L115A3, is this possible?"

".338 Lapua Sniper Rifles of the maker Accuracy International, understood. Mark 115, addition 3. Good, we'll send the order immediately."

"Thank you very much"

"No, thank you for calling us. Kyaaa~!"

"Okay, fangirl screams. I am a little bit surprised."

"Sorry, we didn't expect the great Commander to call us for supplies."

"Oh well, I need them. I want them as fast as possible."

"Oh, what do I hear? They can come at 9 tomorrow? Okay. It will be done quickly."

"Thank you."

Fortunately, the ride towards Kuoh was uneventful. We got close to it, but it wasn't much that happened. Sapporo, check. It has been secured, but it seems we can't control it as well as the Kanto region due to the lack of my involvement.