Author's note: I've always wanted to do a Devil Survivor X Highschool DxD crossover. Dreams do come true after all.

Devil Survivor Protagonist - Kazuya Minegishi

When Kazuya first awoke, he was lying in bed. A rather comfortable bed but one that was not of his own. He hadn't slept in an actual bed since…

Kazuya frowned when he looked through his memories. It was all jumbled, mixed up and vague – It might've been amnesia for all he knew. Except it wasn't. He knew that his memories were there, he knew the basic outline of them all and he most certainly hasn't forgotten anything.

His name was Kazuya Minegishi. He is a seventeen years old human.

Kazuya frowned inwardly. That didn't sound quite right, or completely correct. It came to him naturally but the thought felt outdated in a way. Like that was in the past and didn't apply to him currently. He delved in his muddled memories further in hopes of finding the reason behind the odd feeling but found almost all details in his head far too vague to fully recall.

The most he could recall was that he was doing something of utmost important that he had been dedicating his life to before he fell asleep. He had someone – no, people on his side, supporting him for a cause he couldn't remember.

Kazuya decided to get up and slid off the bed to take a better look of the room he was in. White plastered walls greeted his eyes and the air was stale and dull. The room was sparse in furniture, only having the bed, a table and a chair to populate its space. It reminded Kazuya of a hospital.

It was when he felt a breeze that Kazuya noticed that he was more or less lacking any decency. Had someone been with him at the time, Kazuya would no doubt be very embarrassed. Except there was nobody but him, so thankfully that outcome was averted. He eventually managed to spot a set of clothes, or rather than someone had prepared the clothes for him judging by how they were neatly folded.

A black long-sleeved shirt, red pants with a belt strap and black shoes sat on the table. Atop of the pile of clothes was a pair of white headphones that were spiked on the back, almost resembling demon horns.

Demon.

Kazuya blinked. Demon, that was such a familiar term to him. No, that didn't describe it well enough. It was something more akin to making him feel more completed, presenting another piece of the puzzle to the big picture that was his muddled memories.

When he had finished changing into the clothes and put the headphones on, Kazuya spotted a small red and black device on the table.

'It must've been under these clothes,' He thought, picking up the device and flipping it open. Four buttons on the right and a plus shaped button on the left. The screen was dark and no amount of button pressing from Kazuya would switch it on.

A quick inspection of the device revealed that there was a port at the back. It reminded him of a charger port. Perhaps it just needed to recharge?

Kazuya tucked the device in his pants pocket. If he could recharge the device's battery, then there was the chance it could resolve his small little memory issues.

Kazuya had no idea where he was when he stepped out of the building – an abandoned hospital it turns out – and saw the skyscrapers in the sky. A familiar sight but with different buildings, and otherwise told Kazuya absolutely nothing. For a moment, Kazuya could see smoke emanating from buildings in various state of destruction but when he blinked again, there was no such sight nearby.

At least the park he wandered in was nice. Dare he say rather lovely.

On one of the benches in the park, there was a blonde girl dressed like a church nun, with the image completed by a pure white veil atop her head. Something about her disgusted Kazuya and for the briefest moment, he wanted to remove the offender from the plane of existence. He swallowed down the alien animosity and approached the girl.

"Do you know where I am?" He asked as politely as he could manage without letting his distaste slip into his tone.

Either the girl didn't notice or she was being nice, but her voice was of an irritating cheeriness that further grated his nerves. "Oh, are you new here too? So am I, I just recently transferred to this city you see. It's a really lovely city really, with so much to see and-"

"Where is this?" Kazuya repeated slowly, an edge in his tone now present.

"Oh right, sorry for talking so much. We're in Sunset Park. It's a really nice park, isn't it?" The nun answered.

Kazuya neglected to reply to her unnecessary comment. He gave the girl a nod of acknowledgement at her answer and turned to leave when she had called to him again.

"Excuse me, but I don't think we gave each other our names yet, have we?" The blonde noted and held out a hand, "My name is Asia Argento, I'm a nun of the Church."

He pondered if he should bother giving his name out to a complete stranger and eventually concluded that nothing significant would truly happen if he gave a mere name. "Kazuya Minegishi."

"Kazuya." She repeated before smiling back at the blue haired teenager, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Kazuya."

"Likewise." Kazuya replied and glanced around, "What are you doing here anyway? This park doesn't look like it's got a church or stuff nearby."

"Ah, I'm waiting for my guides. There are to take me to the church I'm being transferred to." Asia explained, "I've been told to meet here and wait for them. How about you, Kazuya?"

"Woke up in an abandoned hospital and decided to take a nice walk outside."

Asia's expression morphed into one of worry, "Oh dear, are you feeling well? Are you ill?"

Kazuya nodded, smiling a little at Asia's concerns. "Perfectly fine. Don't remember why I was in a hospital of all places though."

"Maybe you were really hurt?" Asia suggested thoughtfully.

"Probably." Kazuya agreed, mostly out of the lack of ideas in his head.

Asia's suggestion did not feel too off from the truth, but it didn't feel like it was the truth either. Kazuya could vaguely remember that a fight was the cause of his slumber but who caused it was still a mystery. For all he knew, maybe he fought so hard to the point that he had to be sent to a hospital. Still doesn't explain why the building was abandoned though.

"In that case, perhaps would you like me to heal you?" Asia asked kindly, holding up her hands. Two silver rings adorned her middle fingers.

"How would you do that?" Kazuya asked with a puzzled frown, unable to understand the meaning behind Asia's gesture.

"I'm able to heal injuries as a Holy maiden of the Church." Asia explained patiently, inching her hands closer to Kazuya's.

Kazuya let Asia's hands grasp around his own and then the strangest thing happened. Green light gathered in Asia's hand and gradually transferred to Kazuya's own. The sensation was soothing, like a strain that Kazuya hadn't been quite aware about was lifted. Kazuya let out a relieved sigh as the sensation passed through him, almost not noticing Asia releasing his hands.

"Thanks Asia." He smiled at the blonde nun thankfully. "I think I needed that. Feel better now already."

"Then I'm glad to see you are feeling well." Asia smiled serenely at Kazuya before glancing over her shoulders. A flash of recognition crossed her eyes before she looked back at Kazuya, "Well then Kazuya, it's been a pleasure to meet you but my guides are here. May God bless you-"

The rest of the nun's words went unheard when Kazuya felt his head go fuzzy and static filling his hearing. Fortunately, the moment was short and fleeting, and Asia had not noticed what had transpired. Fighting down a scowl off his face, Kazuya bid his farewell to Asia and hurriedly left the park.

He didn't like one bit what had just happened earlier and he wasn't willing to stick around to find the reason for it either.

Kazuya found himself on the street later on. He managed to gather more information of his location, more than what that nun had told him.

The town he found himself in was Kuoh. It was not a big or small, somewhere in between. Schools existed in the town although the most prominent one was Kuoh Academy, a former all girls private schools that became co-ed. Kazuya briefly entertained the thought of applying there before shooting it down. He still had his jumbled memories to deal with.

The rest of his day had been exceptionally lucky. He came across an old apartment building run by an elderly woman. Said elderly woman all but demanded him to stay at an apartment once he revealed to her about his lack of residency and family.

Well he wasn't entirely sure about the latter but something in his head told him that he didn't have any family here.

Point is, he's got a roof over his head now and a very kind landlady. All he's missing is a job and Kazuya is all set for settlement.

Well he could figure the job part out later.

It had taken a while but Kazuya finally got himself a job as a convenience employee. Not the best job and also really laborious, however he finally had a way to pay back his landlady. She certainly waited long enough for him to get a job.

Another bright side was that Kazuya found the right charger for the strange device that he had found with his clothes. The device in question was called a COMP, a hybrid of a gaming console and a communicator. It was a popular device in the previous years before future technology overtook its place.

His COMP switched on after having its battery recharged. Unfortunately, either the COMP was damaged or its data was corrupted, because he could barely access most of the apps installed on it except the most basic ones. All of the emails in his inbox had been corrupted into indecipherable text so he couldn't trace back to the sender and hopefully get a reason behind his hospitalization.

Kazuya knew he wasn't human. The fact irritated him. He had tried attach himself to the title of human before finding that his very being rejected the notion. It was wrong, it was not him and most importantly, it was not who he is. But then if he wasn't human like the other people that he walked amongst, then what was he meant to be?

Something greater than humanity or something that wanted to be a human?

Whichever he was, he just wishes his memories would hurry and clear up.

Lately, things have been getting strange. He's not sure when exactly or perhaps it's been there all along, but the residents of Kuoh were all… odd. First there was that crossdressing magical girl fanatic guy Kazuya met on the train. Then there was also the black wings he could've swore he saw in people's shadows. The air had also started smelling strange too, in a way Kazuya couldn't quite describe. Not to mention the people who all looked at him strangely.

Some even tailed him for a while, but he always made sure to let them know that their presence hadn't gone unnoticed. Overall, Kazuya had no idea what was happening around him and he suspected that it wouldn't be long until he did.

He was right.

The revelation came in the form of one event, or more accurately a series of small events that'd make up one huge arc. It started when he saw Asia Argento again, in another park with a brown haired male that looked around Kazuya's age.

Correction, she was hanging out with the boy until a woman with black feathery wings appeared and demanded Asia to follow her. The boy hadn't taken her demands well and attempted to resist by summoning a strange red gauntlet on his arm.

He swung and flung his punches at the feathered lady, but none of them made contact with the woman. It was crude and clumsy, the way he 'fought'. It was no wonder why his fists only hit air where skin should've been. It made Kazuya cringe at the sight.

The woman struck back when the male slowed down in his assault. She slapped her hand over his face and the boy let out an agonizing scream, as the scent of burning flesh filled the air.

It was a scent that was familiar to Kazuya, yet something he still couldn't put his finger on.

"Stop! You're killing him, Raynare!" Asia screamed, flinging herself onto the leather clad woman. The woman hadn't budged an inch at the extra weight.

"And? What does it matter if I do?" The woman, Raynare asked airily.

"Please, I'll go back with you." Asia pleaded, pressing her face against Raynare harder, "I won't leave again. I'm begging you, just let Issei go."

"Don't… say… that..!" Issei, the boy hissed out from the pain of having his face burning. He swung his leg up, above Raynare's hip and forced her to loosen her grip enough for the boy to slip out of her grasp. "I said… she's not going… with you!"

Had he been in a better state to live up to his words, Kazuya might've applauded him for his courage. Apparently Issei had used up all of his strength because once he had finished uttering the last word, he crumpled to the ground as an unconscious bloody heap.

On another note, Issei had managed to agitate Raynare because the woman had the expression of a furious cow and a spear of light forming in one of her hand.

"This bastard…!"

"NO!" Asia screamed, positioning herself between Issei and Raynare with a pleading look, "Don't. Don't kill him."

If looks could kill, then Asia would've been killed many times over from the sheer glare Raynare had.

"He touched me," Raynare glowered fiercely, "He laid his filthy hands on me."

"Please, Miss Raynare," Asia begged, eyes glistening with tears. "I beg you to have mercy."

For a moment as Kazuya watched, Raynare looked like she was positively about to murder anyone nearby. His suspicion transformed to concern when he thought that she'd try eliminate both Asia and the unconscious Issei, when Raynare raised the spear in the air. However instead of flinging it into the soft flesh of the nun and the boy, Raynare stabbed the spear into the ground and forcibly exhaled out slowly.

"Heal him. Then we leave." Was all Raynare said with a tone of finality. She would accept no more favors from Asia.

"Thank you." Asia's voice wavered with fragileness that hadn't been present the last time Kazuya saw her. Then again, it wasn't like someone was on the brink on death nearby when they did.

Asia hurried over to Issei's side and the green glow returned to heal the burnt male, flesh reknitting to the healthy skin color.

It just occurred to Kazuya that the air smelled cleaner.

Without the overpowering scent of seared flesh, the air was fresh and clear, and all too easy to pick out the faint smell of rosemary and something else. Apparently the same applied to him.

Raynare snapped her head towards Kazuya's direction where he had hidden in the bushes once the fight went ugly. Her expression was a mixture of apprehension and anxiety.

"Who's there?!" She demanded loudly, startling Asia from healing Issei. A light spear formed In one of her hand, body poised to attack at the slightest movement. Kazuya held his breath in anticipation.

Seconds passed and nothing happened.

Raynare narrowed her eyes before hurling the light spear at a high speed into the bushes. The spear just barely flew over Kazuya's head, singing a few blue strands of his hair before landing somewhere further behind him and detonating.

"Get out of that sorry excuse of a hiding spot. You can't hide from me." Raynare demanded, summoning another light spear in her palm.

With no other options left, Kazuya crawled out of the bushes he was hidden in and approached the fearsome winged woman.

To his credit, Kazuya did not run. He knew the power Raynare wielded were anything but human. It was really hard to acknowledge such as human, especially when he had personally witnessed Raynare beat someone to near death without a hint of remorse.

Asia's eyes widened with fear when she noticed Kazuya's presence. "Kazuya, what are you doing here?"

"It doesn't matter what he was doing here. Most importantly, he's a witness." Raynare smiled cruelly at Kazuya, a light spear forming in her hand. "We can't possibly have that now, can we?"

Asia shrieked at the same as Raynare did, "Kazuya, run away!"

"Die for me, filthy human!" Raynare jeered in delight, hurling the spear at light speed towards Kazuya's direction.

Ordinary men would've cried and run away from the danger. It was mankind's instinct to fear the unknown and escape the danger it poses. The winged woman had no doubt that Kazuya would be the same as the other humans she had killed.

The problem was that Kazuya didn't feel quite as human anymore.

For a moment, an overbearing presence filled the air at the time the light spear left Raynare's grip. Eyes watched as the light spear that once radiated power, gradually dissipated into nothingness the closer it got to Kazuya, until there was nothing left of it by the time it got close to his chest.

Asia had shut her eyes tight in desperation, whispering prayers under her breath as she tried her best to survive under the suffocating pressure. Raynare gritted her teeth, fiery present on her face but unmasked fear in her eyes.

When the presence finally faded away from existence, did anyone dare to breathe in the same air again.

Beads of sweat dripped down Raynare's skin, her eyes staring at Kazuya with utter disbelief. "W-What are you..?!"

Kazuya paused, only staring at his hand with wide eyes.

"I said, what are you!?" Raynare screeched, shakily forming another light spear. "Answer me!"

Kazuya looked back up at Raynare's eyes and the woman fought down the urge to flinch. Behind the calm blue eyes that the human bore, was something that terrified her very essence, her tainted Light. Something was hiding within Kazuya Minegishi that devoured the Light of Father itself.

"Raynare!" A man in a trench coat hurried over to Raynare's side and grabbed her arm roughly, which brought the woman back to reality. "We're leaving now!"

"Don't you order me around, weakling!" Raynare hissed back, having regain some of her nerves back and roughly grabbed Asia. In a flurry of wings, Raynare and Asia disappeared with only black feathers indicating their existence and shortly afterward, so did the man in the trench coat. All that was left in the park was Kazuya.

"Asia…"

Oh and the brunette too. Kazuya had actually forgotten him from all what's happened. Well, wasn't like the guy was conscious at the time too. Kazuya stared down at the brunette lying on the ground before taking his leave from the park.

What a day.

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Good morning. Here is today's NEWS.

Around 17:00, a girl will be part of an ancient ritual in an abandoned Christian church in Kuoh. She will die as a result.

At around 17:30, a devil will die for saving a girl.

At around 18:00, the Overlord will rise once more.

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