Dream

Under the halls of the church–in an underground basement. A beautiful woman was anxiously circling black and forth as she chewed on her fingernails. She had long black hair that reached her hips and violet eyes, paired with her slender and curvacious body made her quite the sight for sore eyes. 

But currently, her beautiful face was marred with a deep scowl as she lifted her head to the ceiling– more precisely the constant screams coming from the priests, ordered to guard the entrance "Tch…What are those trashes doing?!"

"Ken-san…" She frowned and turned her head towards the cross–where a girl with blonde hair was tied. Her eyes were closed and her face was covered in sweat, as if she would pass out any moment.

"Did you call him Bitch!" Raynare strode towards the Blonde and grabbed her face by the jaw. Asia's eyes fluttered open, only to see the sight of her captor.

She didn't speak, she couldn't speak, even uttering those two words took all of her efforts, but now, under the threatening gaze of the fallen angel, she couldn't help but whimper and hope that Ken-san would save her. 

She knew that it was wrong of her to hope so, she knew that she was being selfish, and she also knew that it goes against the Lord's teaching. But….but….she didn't want to die. 

Not when she had just made her first friend, not when she hadn't seen anything in the world.

"Hah. As if your Little boyfriend could save you! You are already half dead, you will die any moment now. And then I will get your sacred gear, and with it, I will kill your Knight in shining armor. Too bad you won't live long enough to see that…"

Raynare flung Asia's head to the side as she grandly declared, however, her voice turned sad at the end, as she would be unable to see the despairing face that the innocent sister would make was a great loss for her.

Asia, hearing that panicked. She mustered every ounce of her leftover energy and shouted in a tired and frail voice "NO! NO! Please don't do anything to Ken-san, you can have anything you want…Just…Just promise me…You won't harm him…" Tears started to fall from her eyes and her voice cracked.

"Who the hell do you think you are ordering to, human!" However Raynare wasn't pleased, nor was she interested in the blonde's sobbing, so she directly knocked her out with a single punch.

***  *** ***

After finishing off the last of the humans, Ken started walking deeper under the halls of the church, towards the stairs leading to the underground layer.

He arrived just in time to see a black-haired woman slowly sinking her hands inside the blonde's chest and then violently yanking something out of it.

Her hands glowed green as she turned towards Ken with a wide ear-to-ear smile "Did you come here to save this bitch. Haha… it's too late to save her. She is already dead"

She then brought her hands towards her chest and then the green light faded from her hands. But the next moment a pair of silver rings appeared in her hands, glowing in the same ethereal green light Ken had seen when Asia had healed the boy at the park.

" HAHAHAHAHA…. I finally did it!! After all this time I finally have sacred gear!!...HAHAHA…" The fallen started laughing maniacally.

Ken stood still and let her have her moment, only after he saw her somewhat calming down, he called out to her "Why did you kill her?"

"Huh…As if I need to tell you that?" She sneered at Ken, unfurled her wings, and took to the sky as a light spear materialized in front of her eyes "Just because you beat some humans, don't get cocky human! We, The fallen angels will be always the superior race!"

She launched her light spear toward and turned around the lowly human and turned around to leave, without even glancing back at him, thinking he was already dead.

Clank! 

Until she heard that sound…. She turned around, and to her utter bewilderment the human had a similar spear made of Light power–and that too was much more concentrated than hers.

Ken cut her off before she could voice her doubts "I cannot fly currently. So I'll appreciate it if could just come down to the ground"

He launched his light spear at her.

Swish!

"What–?!" She hurriedly tried to dodge the attack, but she was too slow however she got hit on her stomach.

"Aaaah….!" She cried out in pain as he fell to the ground. 

Ken slowly stood in front of her, The fallen looked up at him in disbelief as she stuttered "W-Who are you?"

"Just a human" Ken answered honestly.

"Bullshit!" Raynare shouted, her face indicating she clearly didn't believe him "No human can have light power!"

Ken ignored her, instead his eyes traveled to the silver rings in her hands, Raynare was currently healing herself as much as she could– it wasn't much however as she wasn't proficient in using the said gear.

"Hey! That can heal injuries right?" Ken asked, his gaze still fixated on the rings.

"...Yes...?" Raynare answered with some hesitation and confusion.

He created a dagger made of light power in his right hand and slashed his left palm with it. He extended his hand and simply commanded "Heal it"

Raynare blankly stared at his hand, as blood continued to drip on the floor, she raised both her arms to heal him, ignoring the pain that came from the stomach wound as she did so because she knew that, he was much stronger than her. And if he wanted, he could kill her at any moment.

Ken closed his eyes, as he tried to feel the sensation- tried to replicate the phenomena.

"Done…" He opened his eyes and saw his wound was already healed, not leaving signs of any visible damage.

He frowned and proceeded to cut his palm again, as he presented it to the fallen.

Raynare, on the other hand, was weirded out by his behavior. She even considered him to have masochistic behavior, thankful she didn't speak out loud and healed him again.

Ken again tried to feel the sensation, that he often feels when he copies different powers. He let out a disappointed sigh at the thought that he couldn't copy it.

It made sense though, If he could copy everything willy-nilly, doesn't that mean he can also copy all the special traits of devil families, divinities of different gods, and although far-fetched the concepts of dream and infinity of dragon gods?

His SC only helps in generating different powers, what he does with that power is up to him–But everything's not bad– He, now, has an idea about how to proceed with his further training.

"Okay! I don't have any need for you now, Die…:" Ken muttered as a ball of flame started to form in his hand.

"Wait! Wait! Wait….!" Raynare panicked as she fearfully stared at the blazing hot fireball, she knew that if that spell even touched her–she would die, even from afar she was sweating crazily from the sheer heat radiating from the ball of flames hovering over his fingertips.

"What is it?" Ken asked impatiently.

"D-Don't kill me Please…" She pleaded for her life, trying to act as cute as possible and hoping that her seduction would work on him.

"I am sure my dead friend over there said the same thing…" He lowered the fireball at her.

"Stop! Wait! I-I will do anything…" She finally said.

"Anything?" Ken rhetorically asked, his eyes shifting to her bountiful chest as he said so.

Raynare smirked triumphantly when she noticed his eyes drifting to her breasts, she leaned forward–giving him a better view of her breasts and cleavage as she seductively purred "Anything…"

"Nah, I prefer to eat a five-star meal" He rejected it in a heartbeat. And chucked the fireball at her.

He turned around amidst the screams of the fallen angel.

He arrived in front of the cross and checked the blonde's condition. And sure enough, she's already dead.

He untied her bindings and slowly laid her on the ground "Weak, ignorant, naive, and… dead– Just like her"

"Hey, Ddriag…you in there?" Ken said.

"...What is it?" the boosted gear appeared in Ken's hand.

"Devils can reincarnate a recently dead person as a part of their peerage, correct?"

"...so I've heard" Ddriag replied with some hesitation.

"Okay…" Ke raised his hand above the blonde's chest and… Plunged it into her chest.

"..."

Ken ignored Ddriag's surprise, instead, he wrapped his fingers around her heart and squeezed it…

Burst!

Blood erupted from Asia's chest, pouring out of the wound. A small amount of blood also leaked out her lips in the process.

Ken withdrew his hand from the gaping hole he had created in Asia's chest. His arm immediately caught on fire as he did so, evaporating all the blood clinging to his skin.

A moment of silence enveloped the underground basement., only broken by the Ddriag's question "...Didn't you say that you wanted to change?" 

Ken didn't answer his question, instead, he asked a question of his own "Ddriag, Do you know what my dream is?"

Ddriag, although confused about the sudden change in subject, still answered "Wasn't it traveling the world and trying different things?"

Ken shook his head "That is my goal. Not dream"

"Does that matter?"

"Well yeah, A goal is something realistic- something that can be achieved, A dream is an impossibility– even if give your all, the chances of things working out are so abysmally low that even hoping for it is a fool's errand"

"Then, what is your dream?" the Welsh dragon curiously asked his host, because despite living in his head, the proud dragon was unable to understand him.

"You've watched all of my memories, correct?" Ken again changed the topic.

"Yes?"

"What do you think about Captain Jack Sparrow?" 

"Huh… Where did that come from?" Ddriag asked in confusion.

"Just humor me" However, Ken dismissed it and asked again.

"If I have to say, He was a worthless fool–Whose worth equals to a mere ship" Ddriag snorted coldly as he said that. However…

"I disagree. That was beautiful– only because the ship was 'The Black Pearl'. I wish to have a Pearl of my own. Even If have to create one myself"

"And Pray tell, what does your oh-so-beautiful dream have to do with killing people?" Ddriag asked impatiently, This bastard was running him in a circle when he could directly walk up to the target in a straight line.

Ken's eyes remained fixated on Asia's lying figure "Nothing much partner, she was a hurdle, I needed to eliminate…." He turned his eyes towards the charred corpse of the fallen angel "...And she was trash, that I couldn't care less about"

As he said that, Ken heard the sound of footsteps echoing in the distance, so he said "Now shut up and go to sleep…"

The boosted gear disappeared in an instant, just as he heard a familiar voice "There you are! Seriously Kenny…"  Rias sighed in exasperation as she came closer "You just Keep causing trouble one after anoth–Oh!"

Rias peeked over his shoulder as she saw the lying figure of a blonde girl wearing a church's clothes.