Chapter 5: Asia Argento

Fucking exams had me during this time… but yet, it's time to write again! Who missed me? Anyone? Ok, right…

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How come you couldn't get in?" Rias asked in surprise, looking at her tower, who had reported to her what had just happened.

She basically tried to get into Issei's house, but for some reason unknown to her this became impossible.

"A very strange thing prevented me, Buchou-sama. There was a white line around the entire house" Koneko spoke and Rias sighed.

"Ara ara" a black-haired girl softly uttered. She was Akeno, Rias' queen, "How does he know about salt?"

"Salt?" Koneko was confused.

"Salt is a repellent for demons and spirits, but how would he have known?" Rias put her hand to her chin, deep in thought.

Salt had properties that scared away demons, but those of higher rank could bypass them. This was not the case for Koneko.

This whole situation seemed extremely strange to her, "You can go rest Koneko, you've done a good job" Rias looked at the girl.

Koneko nodded and left creating a magic circle. "What do you think about all this, Akeno?"

"I think that until you interact with that boy, you won't have anything clear" replied Akeno carrying a tray. Rias agreed.

But time was running out, if she didn't do anything to add Issei to her peerage, things would end badly. 'No, I don't want to marry him'

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The night seemed very short to Issei. He was reading a lot about the Enochian language, the one spoken by the angels, and he was also looking for their seals and so on.

Since the sacred oil circle worked against Reynare, maybe the other elements he saw in the Supernatural series could work, he just had to try them.

Now he was facing the fallen angels, so he had to prioritize learning about every element capable of neutralizing angels.

Against the demons at the moment he had salt, holy water and Solomon's pentagrams that could keep them trapped.

But even so, this was not enough to defeat them, so he was also thinking about continuing his training to master the Boosted Gear.

He had to strengthen his body to the point that he could withstand his Sacred Gear without collapsing. But now he didn't have much time, to be honest.

Today he would have to go for Asia, and if Reynare kept the deal, she would teach him magic. He needed to have some notion of magic.

"Wow Issei, it looks like a truck ran over your face" Matsuda commented in a mocking tone seeing Issei's pale face.

"With that face you have no right to make fun of anyone" Issei responded taking a calm sip of his coffee and Motohama let out a snort of laughter.

"There was no need to be so cruel" Matsuda said through clenched teeth and Issei lightly punched him on the shoulder, saying it as a joke.

"Although it's true, I have a bad face from not sleeping much, I'll go wash it" Issei commented, deviating from his path and going into the boys' bathroom.

After turning on the faucet, Issei cleared his face. Taking some paper, he dried it and suddenly someone appeared behind him, "You?"

"I have a name, idiot" Reynare crossed her arms, "Asia is about to arrive, so you must get to this address before those bastards"

"So I'll skip class. Ah, well, I was a little tired anyway and wouldn't have paid attention" Issei muttered and suddenly Reynare touched his forehead, "And what is this?"

"It's a spell to make you speak Italian, and any human language, you'll thank me later" Reynare vanished after saying these words. Issei let out a sigh.

"Well, that place isn't that far from here" Issei looked at the paper with the address. He took his backpack and left the school building.

It didn't take Issei many minutes to arrive, but to his surprise there was no one. So he sat on a bench while he waited for Asia.

Hearing some laughter he turned around, and in a nearby park he saw a blonde girl dressed as a nun, crouching and attending to a child.

"It must be her" Issei muttered, sneaking closer, he saw that the girl was healing a wound on the child, "That's something incredible"

Suddenly the nun girl was startled and released the injured hand of the little boy, who ran away shouting thanks.

"I'm sorry I scared you, I didn't mean to" Issei spoke perfect Italian, which even surprised him by how fluent he was.

"Your Italian is very good!" the girl exclaimed stunned at this, and upon realizing her scream she lowered her head blushing in embarrassment.

"Haha I learned it by magic, I'm Issei Hyoudou, nice to meet you" the boy extended his hand smiling. The nun hesitated to greet him back.

"A-Asia Argento" the girl timidly returned the greeting. Issei confirmed that she was his target, he just had to take her to Reynare.

"It's a nice name," Issei commented with complete honesty, "You have special powers, don't you? I saw how you healed that child."

"I..." Asia didn't know what to say to this.

"Don't worry, I have something similar too. I think deep down, everyone has something special," Issei commented, philosophizing.

"I-I don't think it's anything special," Asia commented lowering her head. Issei felt curious, he wanted to get to know the nun better.

"Why? You healed that little boy, your miracles can help people." Issei inquired further about it, to find out more.

"I was kicked out of my church for helping a person, so I d-don't think this is anything special" Asia replied, with a thread of sadness in her voice, "I've been alone ever since"

"Relax, that's over, from today on we're friends" Issei took Asia's hands, who was perplexed by these words.

"N-no, get away from me... I don't want you to get hurt" Asia murmured, slowly moving away from him.

Issei wanted to ask her what she was talking about, when suddenly everything went dark for him. The last thing he saw was Asia.

And some black, crow-like feathers.