In the abandoned church of the city of Kuoh. There were Irina and Xenovia, waking up after a night's rest.
Xenovia was cured by the sacred gear of Asia, so her wounds from her body disappeared. She just needed to rest to recover.
Irina told Xenovia what happened after she fainted, she told her that Asia had cured her.
Even when she received contempt from Xenovia. Issei was also easy with her, he didn't hit her face much.
So the biggest damage was to the body. Xenovia now understands that perhaps the two of them alone cannot recover the sacred swords that were stolen.
"Irina, what should we do next?"
Irina saw that her friend now had doubts, well after that beating anyone would doubt himself.
"First we need to fill our stomachs, we have almost no money anymore, then maybe we should apologize to Asia."
"And asking Issei for help, as her childhood friend, may help us find the sacred swords."
"I don't think they'll send us reinforcements, we're in the territory of the devils, and the fallen angels are planning something."
"If more people arrive from the church, the underworld could misinterpret it and we could come into conflicts with them."
Irina said.
Xenovia thought about everything her friend said, and it seems that Issei was right. "It seems that we are alone Irina."
"Don't worry Xenovia, we'll manage somehow."
- - - -
Issei and saji were in an outdoor cafeteria, with their drinks in hand. Issei began to speak.
"Saji, I need your help to find some sacred swords that were stolen from the church."
"Some fallen angels along with renegade exorcists, they brought them to this city, it seems that they are planning something."
"Yesterday came two women who are bearers of the sacred swords. They informed Rias and Sona, that they were here to recover the sacred swords."
"And Rias ordered us to leave the church's ensends to do their job, but Kiba didn't listen and he's also looking for them."
"So saji, help me find them so that Kiba doesn't get into trouble."
Issei said while putting his hands together to ask Saji for a favor.
Saji, he was in shock, he didn't know that something as dangerous as the sacred swords had entered the city.
"You must be joking Hyodo. Disobeying your master Rias, won't get you in trouble, but I will get into trouble."
"Sona will kill me!!! She's too strict, so much so that it's scary."
"And the rest of us are devils, the sacred swords are poison for us, I still don't want to die." Saji said.
"Forget it issei, I'm leaving, I still don't lose my chastity to walk around looking for death."
Then Saji got up from his seat and walked to the exit, but was intercepted by a small hand.
Koneko, who heard everything, decided that it was time to intervene to help Issei.
"Wait saji, let's talk about it calmly."
"Koneko?" Issei asked.
Saji, who couldn't take Koneko's hand away no matter how much he tried, had no choice but to sit with them to continue talking.
"We don't have to fight with those who stole the sacred swords." Koneko said.
"We'd better join forces with the church's envoys, and also with Kiba to keep an eye on him."
Saji thought about it and maybe if there are more people, they mean fewer problems, he won't be alone with Issei and they can help each other.
"Well, I will help them whenever the carriers of the sacred gear also join." Saji said.
So the three got up from the cafeteria and went out to look for Irina and Xenovia.
"And how will we find them?" Saji asked.
"They should be recognizable from a distance with those white robes they are wearing."
A few minutes after walking, the three found two women in the middle of the street asking for money.
"A help for this sheep that needs money to eat." Irina said.
"Please help Kami-sama's envoys, we have an important mission and we can't do it on an empty stomach."
Issei "..."
Koneko "..."
Saji "..."
"This is uncomfortable issei, I thought you and your perverted delusions were strange, but seeing two beautiful women begging, is on another level."
Issei "..."
Why the insult towards my person saji, I thought we were friends.... Issei thought.
"It seems that the perverted sempai found two rivals." Koneko said.
"You too Koneko!!!" Issei said.
"Whatever." "Hey Irina, whoever saw you asking for money, if you needed help you would have told me." Issei said approaching the girls in the church.
So Issei invited them to eat again, it's been two times that I pay for their food, now I will also help them with the sacred swords.
No, does that already make me his sugar daddy? I wonder if they will pay me with their body, Issei thought as he let his imagination fly.
Koneko seeing that Issei was in his fantasy world hit him, bringing him to reality. "Stop daydreaming, we have things to do."
"That hurts Koneko."
"Well, thank you for the food." Xenovia said.
"Why were they looking for us? They decided to look for the sacred swords?" Irina asked.
"Maybe we should look for the sacred swords together, so we have better opportunities." Koneko said.
Irina and Xenovia turned to see, they agreed, that was in their plans.
Now all that was left was to find Kiba, Koneko contacted him to meet in the park.
When Kiba arrived, and found the two women of the church with Issei and the others, he had his doubts.
"Kiba, we decided to look for the sacred swords together." Issei said.
"Come with us to look for them, there is no need to go alone, you saw that a cut of some sacred sword is dangerous for the devils."
Kiba was doubting whether to go with them or go alone, after all, that was his personal revenge, he didn't want to bother Issei and the others.
Xenovia who saw Kiba with the doubt asked him.
"What is your business with the sacred swords, since yesterday it seems that you hold a grudge against them."
Kiba turned to look at her, and told them the story he had with the sacred swords.
He told them that when he was a child, he was taken to a church laboratory, that they aimed to create a human to carry the sacred sword of Excalibur.
But no matter how many experiments they did, there were no results, there were several children in the laboratory, every time they took a child, sometimes they did not return.
Then one day they canceled the experiments, and decided to close the place, we were no longer useful.
So they tried to get rid of all the children who survived, but the children put up resistance.
"I was the only one who survived the church's experiments." Kiba said with melancholy.
"Soon after I met Rias and he gave me the option to become a devil to seek revenge."
"Oohh." "What a sad story, now that I know your tragic past, I will help you." Saji said.
The others agreed.
"Valper Galilei." "That's the man behind the experiments." Xenovia said.
He was expelled from the church for experimenting with humans, it was something he did on his own.
Kiba kept in memory, the name that was going to receive his revenge
Then everyone set out to look for the sacred swords.