Volume 6 – Chapter 16 – Part 2 – Awakening Amidst the Imperial Chaotic Feast

Third Person Point of View

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[Trials of Memories Past – Failed (50 Times)]

[Trials: 1/7]

[Body Restoration: 10%]

[Regain Consciousness at 5/7]

[Evolution Progress: 1/2 – 90%]

[Try Again?]

[Yes/No]

Aaron Toole stared at the screens in front of him. Annoyance and rage built up inside of him—after countless attempts, he came to a single conclusion.

"I'll beat him up—put that asshole into the hospital, break his arm and his legs and shove that stupid trophy up his ass…" he muttered to himself.

In the back of his head, he knew that he had to do this, but he wanted to try other options first. He had no idea what the outcome would be, but he was willing to try anything at this point forward.

"Screw the 'Canon' of my previous life. If that's how they want me to do things…then I'll do it—just like how I changed the Draconic Deus I was thrown into. Let's see how much trouble I can cause…" A grin spread across his face and he pressed [Yes] on the screen.

The second that Aaron arrived in front of his dad, he threw a punch directly towards his face—not expecting this. Aden Toole fell to the ground and touched his cheek. However, Aaron didn't stop there as he stomped on his father's wrist and kicked him in the head with his full strength.

This made his father black out, but he didn't stop there as he got on top of the table and jumped down on his father's leg breaking it, and also waking him back up as he screamed in pain.

"What are—"

"You killed her," he stated simply and kicked him in the head again. This assault continued for the next few minutes and Aaron kept his promise of shoving something up his dad's ass. However, instead of a trophy, it was one of his prized golf clubs that he kept in his office.

To Aaron, right now he had 'Return by Death' or a time traveling ability, so he wanted to see if this 'route' he chose would work.

Once he was done, he stood over his bloodied dad as he breathed hard. After 50 tries, he felt elated, but that didn't last long as guilt set in—this went against everything he had, even if he was fueled by rage towards this man—he still felt guilt.

Aaron clicked his tongue. "Why the hell am I like this…" he muttered. A few seconds later, the door opened, and his mother came in and gasped.

"A-A-Aaron…?" she asked, horror and disbelief in her tone.

"Mom, can you kill me please?" he asked calmly. He walked over and handed her…his father's switch blade. Róisín Toole stood there in shock, but before she could react, Aaron had placed the switch blade in her hand and rammed his heart against it.

"Aaron?!" she screamed as Aaron fell to the ground. Seconds later…he was teleported back to the white void.

[Trials of Memories Past – Failed (51 Times)]

[Trials: 1/7]

[Body Restoration: 10%]

[Regain Consciousness at 5/7]

[Evolution Progress: 1/2 – 90%]

[Try Again?]

[Yes/No]

"…Okay, so…that wasn't it. Fuck, while I did get it out of my system…I still feel guilty as hell," he grumbled. He sat there, thinking about what the hell he had just done. "Jesus fuck, that was like those very angsty and edgy novels I read before…let's not do that again. I think I was meant to just defy him in that part of history, not literally attack or assault him…"

Aaron decided to stay there for a few minutes before he decided to try again. "Okay…let's do this. But…how the hell do I proceed to do this? If I confront him with no evidence…he might literally just 'dispose of me' like those boomer devils…ah…whatever, let's do this…"

Aaron was once again in front of his dad, Aden Toole.

"Are you listening to me, Aaron?" asked his father.

"Oh…yes I am, sir," replied Aaron and he stared at his dad. Aden frowned after seeing his son's face. It was different from what he had seen seconds earlier.

"Hmm. As long as you understand then, you're dismissed," he said and waved Aaron off. Aaron nodded before he left the room and headed to the living room to get his mom.

"Mom, can we talk? Privately, I mean…" asked Aaron. His mother was surprised by this and agreed. They walked back to his room and he closed the door.

"What did you want to talk about, sweetie?" Róisín asked.

"Dad killed Aoife, didn't he?" he asked. This question—no, this statement shocked his mother.

"W-what makes you think—"

"He stopped those results from getting to their family on time, didn't he? There is no doubt that you know and suspect that he does. So, let me ask you, can we get some kind of proof? Solid proof that can screw him over? I know how much influence he has on society, so we have to tread lightly."

Róisín stared at her son in shock. She had thought he would be depressed about the passing of his recently deceased girlfriend, but instead, he was looking for revenge. Róisín weighed her options. She knew that her husband was corrupt—she knew that he had always been like this since he was young. However, he couldn't do anything since she was just a girl from a rich family.

She stared back at her son who was different from her husband, yet the look he had on his face resembled it slightly. "Yes…I had my own suspicions. How did you…?"

"With such a serious illness like that, it would be strange not to get those results on time, so I just put two and two together," replied Aaron. He lied. She herself told him in the future, so he was just using it to his advantage.

"I see…do you want revenge?" she asked.

"I want justice…is what I'd like to say, but I would be lying if revenge wasn't on my mind. So I'll go with it. I want both to satisfy both sides. So do you know anyone that can help us?" he asked again.

"…I have slowly been making connections over the years, so I do have some that may be able to help us. But I would like you to not actively participate yet, please grieve Aoife's death, we—"

"—Want this to be as believable as possible, right? Fine, but please keep me up to date, and if you need any help with it, rely on me," he told her and hugged her.

"Oh dear, when did you become like this? You're like night and day…yesterday you were just so sad…" muttered Róisín.

Aaron didn't answer her and decided to do his own investigation. He had learned a lot from his new world, his new life. So he wanted to make use of it. Perhaps that's what these trials were meant to be. Aaron may need to use his newly acquired skills and knowledge to pass these trials and get through the rest of them like this.

"I'm fine, mom. I'll go to the funeral. I'll be fine, but please keep up with your own investigations," he told her. She agreed and walked out of the room.

Aaron looked at his own room's bookshelves filled with Manga, Light Novels, and Classic Literature titles. "Let's see how far I can tango with this world's own devil—Aden Toole…"

Aaron Toole was ready to go to war with his own flesh and blood.

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Azazel's Soliloquy

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"Are you sure about this, Azazel?" asked Zeus.

"Positive, my own agents have been sent to it to try to stop it. Infinite realities, which means they basically have an infinite army! Hell, they might even have more than one Trihexa to unleash on this world, so we have to try to stop this as soon as we can!" I told everyone.

Right now, I was in a separate room doing another emergency meeting—everyone in the DxD Alliance was involved in this meeting. Once that was done, I planned to inform the supernatural world of how their armies aren't diminishing.

I wasn't sure if they would believe me, or if they'd try to take advantage of the situation and try to go to other worlds, honestly…that's the least of my worries right now. I can just rely on Jin when he wakes up to stop the idiots from going to different realities. God, thinking about that is just giving me a headache, being selfish to the end…that's how some gods are…

"How shall we proceed with this?" asked Michael.

"For now, I'll consult Elyscia, Lianne and Antares since they're Jin's direct subordinates. Maybe even Shaula-chan can temporarily shut it down or even stop it. After that…we can deal with their numbers," I told them.

"You only spotted one so far, correct, Governor?" asked Perun.

"Yes, the ones who found it were my agent's team, the Slash/Dog Team. Fusae, a magician, theorized about this, and even saw some coming out of them, so it's probably beyond a theory."

"It's not a theory, Governor-chan," said a voice. I turned to my right and saw someone walk in!

"Ah, Shaula. Perfect, I was going to contact you sooner or later, so…what do you think that portal-tear-thing is?" I asked her.

"It's as you said, it's a tear in space-time that's connected to various different timelines. However, most of these timelines are where the Khaos Order or the Khaos Brigade won. As you know Jin's existence is unique—he can only exist in one timeline, in one universe…so those timelines don't have him, and are more susceptible to losing or being conquered," she explained.

"I can't permanently deactivate it, nor can the other [Electa] that are skilled with magic or have powers related to it. However, we can stop it temporarily, forcing them to change the location of the tear, so the attacks will happen a lot less frequently. Of course, we can also stop the ones making the tear, but that may be more difficult than you think," she said and summoned a magic circle.

"They're untraceable since they drank the red vial. However, we can try to put a tracking device on them. Jin tried this before but it instantly was rendered useless, Nyarlathotep had thought that far ahead."

It always came back to her, huh? That outer god…it seems like she covered every base she could think of, or was she just extremely paranoid? Whatever the case may be, anything Jin thought, she already had something prepared for it.

"Anyway, Elyscia, Lena, Claudira, Auna, Reuna and I will be doing this on a rotation since we need to help deal with attacks. We already discussed this and we're going to start…now! And just wait for that call…" she said and smiled.

"Call—?" as I said that, another magic circle appeared beside me.

"Yo, Governor! It looks like Jin's subordinates are doing something about that tear in space-time. The ones near it were panicking, but they've been apprehended, but it looks like it's not being handled near us—perhaps it's handled remotely," said Kanami.

"I can't feel any magical signatures near us, so Kanami may be right," Fusae added. "Whoever is controlling it, they will be infuriated by it though, so we'll keep an eye out on where it may appear again…ah please tell the factions and pantheons too."

"Well, you heard them. Please have some sort of surveillance team in each of your pantheons and factions, so we can maximize our response time to dealing with these tears in space-time. In turn, it will make things easier for us and more difficult for them," I told them and got an overwhelming positive response to it.

"Ah, another one opened. I can feel it near us…so it's probably in the Underworld. I'll go deal with it myself," said Shaula and then she left. But a few seconds later she came back. "Done! Now we wait!"

…She sure is fast about it…

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Another day passed, and the attacks have decreased with the work from Jin's subordinates constantly closing the rift and hindering the Khaos Order's plan. A few groups in Team [DxD] have also gotten some rest because of it and their morale has gotten better. Dulio has been doing his job as temporary leader quite well as he said he wanted Jin to return to a team that could function in his absence.

Currently, I'm in the Underworld again with a meeting with the Four Great Satans, Michael, Elyscia, Lianne and Aurelia. Baraqiel came with me to this meeting too. We were discussing the response towards when the Khaos order finally unleashed on the world. I left Shemhazai behind to issue commands to everyone in Grigori.

It was a normal day so far, but we suddenly received a message and then…the entire Underworld began to shake.

"W-what's happening?" Serafall asked while looking around.

[Michael. This is Altaria, it's begun. One of the 'Mini-Trihexa', several Red-armored Scale Mails that resembled the [Boosted Gear], Evil Dragons and other things that belong to the Khaos Order have attacked Heaven. We have kept damage to a minimum, but several lives have been lost in First Heaven.]

Elyscia then created a magic circle that showed us what was happening in the First Heaven. Hundreds to thousands of shadow soldiers, and angels worked together to eliminate the M-Trihexa (Mini-Trihexa) and the numerous monsters associated with it.

Most lower-level angels perished in the attack, the middle to high level angels were injured but would live. M-Trihexa lay waste to First Heaven, that was when Altaria with Layla appeared and sealed it in a barrier.

The miniature Beast of the Apocalypse thrashed around the barrier, as it tried to break it. However, the barrier placed around it was too powerful even for it to break. However, it then howled and created more and more Scale Mails around it, until the entire barrier was filled up. But something surprising happened—the Scale Mails began to appear outside of the barrier, even shocking both Layla and Altaria.

These new mass-produced Scale Mails began attacking everything around them, but they were quickly dealt with by the shadow soldiers and other angels.

"Those Scale Mails are at least God-class in power, anyone that isn't on par with it will die. If you're at least Ultimate to Satan-class you'll…come out of it alive, albeit near death," said Aurelia.

Suddenly, a new angel appeared. She had long flowing pink hair and pure blue eyes, she wore a white dress, above her head was a halo, and behind her, she had two pure white wings.

"That's Areyr another angel that Jin-sama created, and she's also part of the G.o.B," said Elyscia.

The now named Areyr flew towards M-Trihexa and summoned two light rings in her hands, she then combined them and threw them at M-Trihexa, the light rings surrounded the monster and then enclosed it in a light barrier. M-Trihexa began to howl louder with even more rage and began to thrash even more violently.

The Scale Mails that were in it were immediately destroyed by its own creator. However, no matter how powerful the attack was, it didn't die. It just kept trashing around the light barrier and other barrier.

"It looks like the Khaos Order upgraded its regeneration. I can only speculate how much stronger the original Trihexa's regeneration and healing is if that thing can survive Areyr's attack…although she is holding back still since she doesn't want to accidentally hurt anyone around her," said Lianne.

Holding back? She's still holding back? Trihexa is on par with Ophis and Great Red. Now I'll assume that these M-Trihexa's are maybe a level below? So perhaps Shiva and the like, but still, that's still quite strong. Jin's subordinates are power house themselves and they can also destroy our world and probably the universe if they want…

"Is this a live feed?" asked Michael.

[No, this happened a few minutes ago. You will see that…]

Altaria didn't finish her sentence as Layla also flew beside Areyr, Uriel, Raphael, and even Gabriel showed up.

Areyr seemed to give them instructions and they all put their hands out. Even more light covered the barrier and it kept getting brighter and brighter until it was basically blinding all of us watching. I had to look away, like Michael and Baraqiel and the Four Great Satans, but the others kept watching.

The light eventually stopped and when we looked back…a singular bright cube stood where M-Trihexa had been. However, the monsters it came with, and the Scale Mails didn't disappear, so they had to keep fighting them until they killed them all.

[In the end, we trapped it in that cube. We believe that Jin-sama may want to turn that miniature Trihexa into a shadow soldier—just like the original he plans on converting,] explained Altaria.

They trapped it in that tiny thing?! But…I expected him to want to try to turn it into one of his subordinates…God forbid that I die someday and he just casually brings me back as one of his subordinates…the thought makes me shiver.

[I would also like to say…that the other 12 miniature Trihexa's have already been unleashed to the world, and the original is also…in the human world—Antares and Vanbe have gone to teleport it into the Dimensional Gap…]

"I'll switch the feed," said Elyscia.

"Who's Vanbe?" Ajuka asked.

"Vanbe is the leader of the [Guardians]. Jin—or Antares has been building a new base for Jin in the Dimensional Gap. It will also have various homes, and other buildings there and also a Rating Game stadium for the upcoming International Rating Game that's going to be held," explained Elyscia. "The [Guardians] are 8 individuals that are responsible for defending that new base."

After she explained that, the magic circle feed had changed to just above earth. In space, the original Trihexa in all its glory was there.

666 had the appearance of a large beast with characteristics similar to those found in different animals like a lion, a leopard, a bear, a dragon, etc. It has seven necks, seven heads, with ten horns, as well as seven long thick tails of different shapes.

It also had four stout arms and two legs that are even thicker than its arms. Its main body was that of a primate leaning forward and was covered in black fur and what appeared to be scales all over its body. Its size is well over several hundred meters, making it significantly larger than even Great Red.

Antares was there along with…a young man. He had short white hair, blue eyes and wore a navy skin tight suit. He wore a white cloak over it that had gold and black accents on it. He had a blue cape behind him too as well as a large shoulder guard on his left shoulder that was black and gold in color.

In his hands he held a katana/tachi type weapon. The handle resembled his shoulder guard while the blade itself was blue in color.

"It's quite large, so it will take me around a minute to get the magic circle ready to transport it to the Dimensional Gap, delay it for that time, Vanbe," said Antares.

"Roger that," replied Vanbe. He then flew towards Trihexa. The beast in response fired several fireballs from its mouth at him!

Vanbe did a single side swipe with his sword and the fireballs burst into blue light and they were extinguished. He increased his speed and appeared in front of the beast and slammed his foot into it. This forced it to land on the moon with a powerful impact.

"Please try to keep it in one spot, preferable on the moon since you forced it there," said Antares.

"Roger!" shouted Vanbe as he joined 666 on the moon. Once on the moon he ran towards Trihexa, he didn't seem to have been affected in the change of gravity, but 666 was as when it tried to move, it overcompensated and nearly flew away from the moon.

Vanbe jumped up and an enormous blue translucent blade appeared above them. It then slammed into the ground, piercing 666's body and pinning it to the moon's surface.

"…Wait, how in the world is 666 even alive on the moon?" I asked. "It is because of its upgraded regeneration?"

"Most likely, before it can die because of the vacuum of space, its regeneration keeps it alive. It's quite an achievement for the Khaos Order to make—this level of regeneration…if we can find out how it's made, maybe we can also use it?" pondered Ajuka.

Leave it to him to think about things like that. Well, I did have the same thought, but didn't want to say it, but I guess Ajuka is different.

As 666 kept struggling on the moon, the completion of the transportation circle was drawing near. In around 20 seconds, 666 would be transported to the Dimensional Gap. I wonder if they plan on forcing Great Red to fight it?

"Once in there, several more subordinates of Jin will keep it sealed there until he comes back. After that, he will kill it and turn it into his shadow soldier. However, the rest of the supernatural world will need to deal with the M-Trihexa's. 1 out of 12 has been dealt with, but…the Khaos Order still has many other creatures at their disposal," said Lianne.

It's as she said, they had more to throw at us, as well as—

Suddenly a large crimson magic circle appeared all over the moon. Vanbe jumped away and back towards Antares.

"Hmm. Vanbe, join the Nocturnes and keep this thing occupied until Jin-sama awakens," ordered Antares.

"Wait, all of us? What about the sealing?" asked Vanbe.

"Lena, Auna, Shaula and Reuna will create a seal and barrier to keep it there, Shaula will stay to maintain it, now go!" shouted Antares as his magic circles became brighter and then suddenly vanished. 666 also vanished along with them, and so did Vanbe.

Our feed then changed to that inside of the Dimensional Gap, in it were 7 people that looked very strange.

"Why…why do they look like that?" asked Michael.

"They are based on demons from another world. Their leader is the man with multiple eyes, his name is Kokushibo," said Aurelia.

The man called Kokushibo held a Katana in one hand and then disappeared. He appeared on the other side of 666 before its body was sliced into hundreds of pieces. Crescent moons trailed behind him as he made this move.

The only female in that group was also restraining the beast while she sat on a rock. Any time 666 tried to attack her, someone with sickles appeared and prevented any harm from hitting her. They seemed quite close. The man with sickles then threw out several blood-red slashes toward 666's body that had regenerated and also destroyed it again.

"Their goal is to keep it busy. They won't kill it, but they can easily do it," added Aurelia.

"Ah, it's Akaza!" I shouted and pointed at him. It's been a while since I last saw him, so I wondered where he was!

Akaza who had been standing on the spot watching everything unfold, disappeared and 666's body exploded at certain parts. However, the beast then created those Scale Mails again and they began targeting the other 'Nocturnes'.

"Hohoho! Isn't this fun, everyone?" asked a man with a fan.

"That's…Doma, he's an interesting individual," said Lianne.

Doma was a tall young man with a toned and muscular body, who was of a notably pale complexion and possessed unusually long, pointed nails that appeared to be stained with a pale blue color. He possesses long platinum blond hair.

His eyes appeared to be made up of an array of rainbow pastel tones that fade into one another as they circle his irises.

Doma wore a blood-red turtleneck of a design that made it appear that the section between his neck and upper chest is covered by a black substance that looks like it's dripping slightly down his body.

"Daki-dono, I'll help with restraining it~" he said happily before 666 was encased in a large icy prison.

"…I was fine, you didn't need to do that, you know?" she said with annoyance.

A large lightning attack followed by various other elements then hit 666 as the two argued. Another person appeared.

A short and muscular child with short hair that spikes up at various angles around his head and narrow orange eyes. He wore black hakama pants covered with a piece of cloth bearing a close resemblance to a kimono and tied together with a long strap of white cloth. He also wore long sleeves. Finally, he donned a plate of armor that is gold in color that only covers his chest.

He had a series of drums connected to each other that were inexplicably floating behind his back, with each drum having the kanji of 'hatred' displayed on them. He also carried around a bone-like dagger in each hand.

"Ah, that's Hantegu-chan!" Serafall shouted. "He helped me once with keeping this thing!" She pulled out some kind of battery that glowed yellow. "It can reshape to any battery size and its charge lasts forever~"

"…What? So he's just a human charger?" I asked.

She huffed and added, "He can use other elements too and has other powers. I just mentioned the one thing he helped me with!"

Elyscia suddenly turned around and seemed to frown. The rest of us followed and I left something was off…

"Is something wrong?" Sirzechs asked the woman.

"Another M-Trihexa appeared in the territory of the fallen angels, it's being attacked right now—the same with…here!" she shouted and disappeared follow by the rest of us.

As I ran out of the meeting room, I summoned a magic circle and contacted Shemhazai.

"Azazel, one of the miniature Trihexa has appeared in the main institute. Kishku and Ezekiel have been sent to confront it along with Penemue, Raynare and Slash Dog!" said Shemhazai.

"Try to capture it or kill it, it doesn't matter! Don't let those in there die!" I shouted back.

"There's no need to worry, Azazel," said Aurelia. "It seems Islene joined Xeara in the Underworld. Xeara is in the capital with us, so leave Islene to help Grigori."

"Fine!" I replied and we finally arrived outside. All hell had broken loose, several buildings had already been blown away, but there were thousands upon thousands of shadow soldiers in the area killing the forces of the Khaos Order.

"I will inform the rest of the alliance of what's happening. I will leave the defense of Lilith to all of you," said Falbium as he summoned a magic circle and started speaking into it.

"Fufu, it's been a long time since we last fought together," said Serafall. "Time to show my magical girl power!" she shouted and changed into her magical girl outfit.

"Indeed it has been a long time," replied Sirzechs as he floated up with his wings. Several small balls of [Power of Destruction] appeared all around him and targeted the enemies around us. As soon as they touched them, they were vaporized.

The M-Trihexa was above Lilith, and its body was larger than the capital itself, so if it decided to land down here…there was a high chance it would wipe out the entire city.

"We need too—" As I was about to say something, a female appeared in front of me, everyone turned to her and Aurelia and the rest smiled.

The woman had long turquoise hair, sharp purple eyes, and wore a long black and purple feathered dress. She also had a tiara on her head as well as black horns with purple accents on them. Around her body were numerous blades that exuded black, blue and purple auras.

"Xeara, is the rest of the capital safe?" Lianne asked.

"Of course, the shadow soldiers and my little swords will deal with them. All that's left is to capture that thing. Areyr told me of the technique she used on the one she dealt with in Heaven. I can use it by myself, so it's fine," said the woman called Xeara.

Xeara raised her hand and millions upon millions of those swords around her appeared and then flew towards 666. It pierced its body and they began to glow. Suddenly a giant cage made of those swords appeared around it.

Just like earlier in Heaven, this M-Trihexa began to thrash around its cage and began to create millions of Scale Mails and they eventually overflowed from the cage and began leaking out to the Underworld. However, this one also made some…monsters of various types.

Some resemble giant bats, some giant lions and tigers, and even ones from the supernatural. They were also covered in those red scales, but each one also had a different color apart from the red, like blue, black and so on.

A large batch of them instantly froze as Serafall swung her magical wand at them. "Freeze for me specters!" she shouted. She then created numerous creatures made of ice and they began to fly around. "Freeze and eat them!" she commanded before they all flew away.

Ajuka himself also participated in the fight. Using his superior demonic powers, he quickly dispatched the monsters that began to swam us. There were also several other devils who joined in the fight. Even though they weren't killing them, they did enough damage to draw their attention.

I was surprised that these guys stopped their protest to do this right now—although, I can see why since their capital was under attack, I think living and not having it burn down takes precedence over their hatred of the old devils who lied about the Rating Games.

Xeara suddenly flew up, creating a shockwave behind her that eliminated hundreds of our enemies much to our surprise. Once she arrived in front of 666, she smirked and millions of cuts appeared all over its body. Straight after that, the black, blue and purple flames began to burn away at its body.

666 seemed to summon countless magic circles around it, and tried to extinguish the flames on its body, but it did not. The opposite happened, actually. The water that was used only ignited and made the flames even stronger!

With a smirk, Xeara said, "Only I can extinguish those flames, you stupid beast. Using any type of power or magic will only strengthen it even further. But go ahead, I guess you can keep trying."

As if heeding to her words, 666 began using more and more spells and abilities on itself, further fueling the flames. The sky above us was now mostly an amalgamation of those colors and it kept getting brighter. Some of the fighters stopped to look up and only saw a large flaming monster.

"Now it's confirmed for me…that thing is a mindless and stupid beast," I grumbled quite loudly.

"Xeara is enjoying herself…but she needs to stop otherwise those flames will be what burns down the capital of the Underworld," said Lianne as she put on her helmet and disappeared.

She appeared beside Xeara who flinched. "W-what can I—"

"Kill it or capture it. You had your fun, haven't you?" she asked and Xeara meekly nodded.

"Y-yes ma'am…" she replied and then put both her hands forward. The flames quickly changed into a ball and began to shrink in size, in turn the bladed cage around 666 also began to shrink, this kept going until a similar cube floated in place of it.

Xeara made it float towards her and handed it to Lianne. Lianne smiled and patted her head.

"I will convey your contribution to Aaron once he awakens. You want his praise, don't you?" she asked and again Xeara nodded. This time she sported a blush. "Come then, we will restore some peace to the Underworld."

After that, both became a blur and the numerous enemies in our vicinity started to explode or just simply wither away. I watched in awe at how fast this all became. Aurelia who was near me began to laugh. Everyone else had stopped what they were doing as the duo of Lianne and Xeara made quick work of the invaders.

Around a minute after they started, all of the Scale Mails, Cryptids, Divine Beasts, mass-produced Evil Dragons, Monsters, Super Devils, Vampires and other creatures were all dead. The sky, buildings and any other surface of Lilith was covered in their body parts and blood.

Both of them appeared beside us and dusted themselves.

"It seems we're done here, Xeara, go join the others in the pantheons and factions we're allied with, track down the other M-Trihexa's," ordered Lianne.

"Yes, ma'am," she replied before disappearing.

"Okay…so we should—"

"Leave Grigori to them, we should focus on the others…I received notification that Little Olympia, Several realms in the Irish Pantheon, the Egyptian Pantheon, Kyoto, Hindu and other pantheons we're not in an alliance are under attack by the remaining 10 M-Trihexa's," said Lianne.

So they've finally used it, huh? Then—

"Not just that…several large stone statues have appeared in the human seas all over the world. They have not moved yet but it seems like they're going to attack them soon," she added.

"Wha—what do you mean, so they're the Battle Gods?" asked Sirzechs.

"Only their heads have been shown, but the planes that have flown over them says that they had bodies underneath. We can only assume that it's the Battle Gods. I will have Misheia investigate and if it is them, I'll have her destroy them," said Lianne.

"Have Iztia and Addite do the same once we confirm that it's the Battle Gods," said Aurelia.

"Yes, that's the plan."

Lianne turned around but I asked one last question.

"Where did Elyscia go?"

"Grigori, she's there with Islene, as I said they will be fine, now please go to those pantheons, we will monitor everything else and respond accordingly." The way that Lianne said that, it was quite reassuring so, I along with Michael and the Satans agreed and went our separate ways.

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Third Person Point of View

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"Oi, Mittelt, go over there, if you don't, you'll just die!" Raynare shouted.

Grigori's main institute was mostly fine, but the outside on the other hand was in ruin as M-Trihexa had laid waste to it as soon as it appeared. However, unlike the last two this one split its head and it grew its own bodies!

Seven smaller Trihexa's were rampaging around Grigori along with the original M-Trihexa. If the Original Trihexa was on par with Great Red and Ophis, then the super powered one that was experimented by the Khaos Order, it should be at least Universal-class, with the M-Trihexa's at peak God-class or Dragon God-class and these seven smaller Trihexa's at Satan-class to Low-Mid God-class.

However, two of the seven smaller Trihexa's had been killed by both Ezekiel and Kishku. Fighting alongside them was Tobio Ikuse in his Perfected Balance Breaker, and seven Gin 'hounds'. Penemue, Raynare, Mittelt and Meruem were there too as they opted to stay behind than join the Slash/Dog Team in their missions right now.

Yet they were forced to fight because of the M-Trihexa and its smaller split parts. Sae Toujou was currently in the Himejima household as she went there to help protect Shuri if anything happened. They were also guarded by Nattsu and many shadow soldiers.

"So…annoying!" shouted Ezekiel as he slammed his fist into one of the smaller 666's and obliterated its head. However, it quickly regenerated it and kept running around causing destruction. "Tch! I hate relying on anti-healing and regeneration, but that's what killed the other one I dealt with!"

Ezekiel dashed towards the 666 he just attacked and covered his fist with touki. The touki around his fist quickly morphed into the shape of a tiger's head, while using anti-healing and regeneration he slammed his fist into its head again, destroying it.

He landed on the ground and watched its body convulse for a few seconds before it exploded—but to his surprise, a small black and blue circle appeared and started to pull everything around it towards it.

Ezekiel slammed his feet into the ground and quickly jumped towards it. "You piece of shit! Annoying even in death?!" he launched a touki attack in a shape of a snake towards it and once both abilities collided it exploded into a large swirling white beam of light.

"Fuck, I have to warn the rest about that then…!" He grumbled and activated his transceiver. [Oi! Those smaller 666's creates mini black hole things and will suck everything around it after you kill them. The two we killed earlier didn't have it for some reason, but assume that the rest do!]

In another part, Tobio Ikuse was fighting another smaller Trihexa with Gin by his side. As the beast fired several balls of fire at him, he jumped away. Once he planted his foot on the ground several distorted blades of darkness appeared in front of him and stabbed Trihexa all over its body.

However, it didn't do anything to the creature as it kept firing its attack at Tobio. The man himself dodged the attacks as he knew it would be dangerous for him. Hundreds of Gins began to attack the beast too as they hacked and slashed at the creature, but it made no difference to it. 666 also swung its body around, destroying a few Gin clones.

Tobio summoned a scythe in one hand and slashed at the beast. Seconds later the beast was sliced in two and spit apart! But it quickly reattached itself and turned its attention to Tobio. It then ran towards him at a speed he didn't think was possible for its size.

<<What the…how fast can you move in a body like that?!>> he asked and jumped away while dodging several attacks from tentacles that came out of its body.

Tobio melted into the shadows once he was back in a corner in one of the ruins. He then appeared behind 666 along with the original Gin and all the Gins and they all attacked it together. 666's body was cut in several places and exploded into an array of body parts!

They backed away as the body parts started to fly back together and quickly reconstructed themselves. Tobio clicked his tongue at the absurdity of it all. However, Ezekiel suddenly appeared beside him.

Ezekiel cracked his knuckles and said, "I'll apply the anti-regeneration, then we kill it!"

<<Those are words I could live by, Ezekiel-san,>> replied Tobio. He summoned two scythes and brandished them towards the beast.

"Let's do this then!" shouted Ezekiel as both of them dashed towards the beast. Tobio had jumped up and prepared to swing down both scythes. Numerous Gin's appeared around the beast and Ezekiel prepared to punch the beast in its eye.

Ezekiel was the first to reach it. He smashed his fist into it while applying anti-regeneration and healing. Next were the numerous Gin's beside him as they began to use their blades to slash at the beast. Finally, Tobio swung down both his scythes and sliced the beast into several parts.

The beast didn't have time to retaliate or holler in pain, as its life was ended quite abruptly. Once Tobio landed he and Ezekiel high-fived.

"I'd like to say good job, but we're not done yet. Four left out of the seven and…the black hole thing didn't appear. Let's keep moving, Ikuse," said Ezekiel.

<<Yes, let's hunt the rest down,>> replied Tobio. They both dashed away to the same spot and found that Raynare and Mittelt were facing off against another one. They were near one of the fountains outside the institute and there were some dead fallen angels there and several injured.

"Tch, they didn't run when this thing showed up?!" Ezekiel shouted in frustration.

"They were caught by surprise, E-Ezekiel-sama," replied Mittelt as she desperately fired balls of light at the smaller 666. Raynare was the one fighting it alone and her attacks were already slowly killing it as she had her own anti-healing and regeneration.

<<It looks like Raynare's fine with fighting this alone, but let's help her to end it faster,>> said Tobio as she summoned another scythe.

"She already has her anti-healing, so I'll stay here and watch this little pipsqueak's back," said Ezekiel. This made Mittelt flinch as she turned back to see Meruem, Raynare and Tobio fight the smaller 666 together.

<<Raynare-san, we're here to help!>> Tobio slashed at the beast along with his army of Gin's and Meruem fired bullets of touki at the beast.

"I was doing fine, I just wanted Mittelt out of my way! Keeping people safe while fighting this stupid thing is harder than it looks!" she complained and used her light powers to form a large swirling ball in the sky.

"…We didn't get time to train," said Meruem.

"I'm not blaming anyone! I'm just saying that she should have taken cover so we could end this sooner!" shouted Raynare.

Tobio slammed his foot on the ground and 666 was again impaled by hundreds of distorted blades, he then cut off one of its eyes and it howled in pain. Raynare saw it distracted and finally fired her swirling light ball at it. The attack came down on the beast and produced a colossal explosion in the area.

Ezekiel grabbed Mittelt as he saw that they would be caught up in the explosion, the rest also ran away from the detonation area. Once her attack had ended, they saw that there were no remains of the small beast. But as they began to relax, two more showed up and one of its tentacles hit Tobio on the side of his shoulder, drawing blood.

<<Khh…!>> Tobio grunted in pain and leapt away. Gin joined him and looked at his wielder with concern. <<I'm fine, just a small scratch.>> This confirmed it for Tobio, the fear he had, that this beast could bypass his darkness and reach his body. 'I can't let it touch me anymore…'

"Shit! I'm joining in—!" shouted Ezekiel, but as he was about to move, two large swords impaled both smaller 666's. One sword was made of pure white light, while the other was made out of pure darkness.

"What the…ah!" Ezekiel looked up and saw a woman there.

She had long gray hair in a ponytail, she had blue eyes, and wore a dress. The top half was black with gold and white accents, while the lower half was mostly white and red. She had shoulder guards on both shoulders and she carried a fan in her left hand. However, behind her—she had two feathered wings. The one on the right was black while the left was pure white.

"Fufu, were you having trouble, Eze-chan~?" asked the woman.

"…You're late, Islene," replied Ezekiel.

The two swords began to rotate, and then multiple spikes appeared from them, killing the beasts as they continued to spin. They then vanished as Islene landed near them.

"Hmm-hmm, you seem injured, Slash Dog-kun. Come here," she said. Confused, Tobio walked over to her and she touched his shoulder and healed the injury.

<<Ah…t-thank you,>> said Tobio. <<But isn't there two left? Along with the original?>> he asked.

"I've trapped the original M-Trihexa and killed the other two, so we can start with repairing this place," replied Islene. "But I do still need to turn that original into a cube, so you can leave that to me."

Tobio nodded before he exited his Balance Breaker and ran back into the institute to go check on Sae. Raynare also sighed and walked to Mittelt, she then reached out to the smaller fallen angel and pinched her cheeks.

"Why don't you ever listen?! I told you to evacuate you stubborn midget!" shouted Raynare. Meruem was about to step in when Islene stopped him with her fan. He looked at her but she shook her head. So he stopped and surveyed from afar.

"Ow! Ow! S-so what?! I wanted to help! Even though I didn't do much, I still—"

"I don't care about that; I was worried about you! The reality is you're not strong enough to fight these, you value your life, right? You also have Meruem. If you don't want to listen to me, at least evacuate for him! He'd be worried sick about you if you were injured! You were kidnapped not too long ago too! Have some self-preservation, Mittelt…"

Mittelt was stunned by this and she just stared at Raynare, unsure in how to respond to this. Mittelt was aware of Raynare's change, but she didn't think she would change into this kind of woman—to someone who would care so much about people—especially her. They never did get along that well.

Mittelt had a few ways of reacting to this, but in the end she sighed. "…Fine, it's my bad…I'll try to be more careful next time," she told her.

"All well that ends well, huh?" asked Islene. Meruem stared at the two and nodded.

…

"Viva Las Vegas!!!" Thor shouted as he zapped multiple Scale Mails with his Mjolnir. Many people around him stared at him in confusion.

"I…I…what does that mean, Thor-sama?" asked Helmwige.

In the Norse realm, Asgard they were also attacked by the M-Trihexa. All of the warriors there that range from the Valkyries, to Gods and even other species and races came together to help defend the realm. Even some tourists that were there to visit also joined hands with the residents there.

In this…squad, led by Thor, the God of Thunder…his squad was confused by his strange battle cry. However, they still charged forward and began eliminating the various monsters there. Thor swung his hammer towards the enemies and blew them away making more room for them.

The Valkyrie Squad led by Brynhildr was also with Thor, meanwhile Rossweisse was over in Svartalfheim helping the dark elves there defend their home.

M-Trihexa had appeared in the main realm while another group attacked Svartalfheim. However, Rossweisse had shared her sealing technique with Brynhildr during the years they spent in Aaron's [Training Facility] and with Rossweisse's help, Brynhildr managed to learn it and also the anti-healing and regeneration techniques from Rossweisse.

Every one of Aaron's lovers knew of the technique and also were able to utilize it. This meant that anyone with a powerful healing ability or regeneration ability could be dealt with easily by them.

"Make way for the Valkyrie Squad so we can start taking down this…M-Trihexa? Well, whatever the name is, it doesn't matter!" shouted Thor and everyone began to make a path for the Valkyrie Squad led by Brynhildr.

However, M-Trihexa kept on making more and more Scale Mails making it harder for them to get any closer, that was until…a dragon appeared and slammed against the beast while also firing a white beam of light at it, making a large hole through its body. Everyone in the alliance was alerted by this and got ready to face this new dragon. Until—

"S-Selene-san?!" shouted someone from the Norse group. The dragon named Selene smirked at them before transforming into her human form.

"Greetings, Asgardians, I have come here to provide assistance. I shall clear a path for you, now go," she said and summoned a fan before waving it and creating several beams of light that hunted down their enemies.

Every time the light struck an enemy they would freeze on the spot before slowly turning pale white and crumbling away. These beams of light stayed even after killing an enemy. Selene then summoned white-colored butterflies that flew around the entire area. After each group arrived near certain enemies a large white-light colored twister would instantly appear, drawing anyone close enough in and killing them.

Seeing this opportunity granted to them by Selene, Brynhildr and the Valkyrie Squad flew towards M-Trihexa. Once they got closer to it, the beast turned its immediate attention to them and began firing balls of fire at them with all of its heads, as well as using its tentacles from its body to try to hit the group.

All of the Valkyries scattered and dodged all the attacks aimed at them. Ortlinde summoned her spear and flew around killing various Scale Mail that M-Trihexa started to produce. Helmwige, likewise summoned her battle axe and swung it around killing the same armored monsters too.

"We'll take care of these guys, Captain. Please go on ahead!" shouted Helmwige.

Ortlinde also gave them a thumbs up, while Brynhildr and the rest continued on their way. Any Scale Mail or monster that appeared in front of them were quickly dealt with by Helmwige or Ortlinde, or if they were too far away, the remaining members of the squad killed them instead.

Once the trio arrived near M-Trihexa Brynhildr immediately fired several magical attacks at it, all imbued with anti-regeneration and anti-healing properties. The beast did not try to dodge it as it didn't perceive the attacks as any threat. This was a very beneficial thing for them as the anti-healing and regeneration was applied to M-666 (M-Trihexa).

"We have the power to kill this thing. Throw everything you have at it!" shouted Brynhildr. All three of them summoned hundreds of magic circles and began a barrage of attacks on the beast. Surprised by the increase in their strength, M-666 began to attack them back too.

Brynhildr had initially used a weak attack to apply to M-666 as she didn't want the beast to think they could kill it; she wanted it to underestimate them. Brynhildr herself didn't know if Trihexa had any sort of intelligence, or if it was just a mindless beast, hellbent on causing as much destruction as it could.

Schwertleite created several large spears of fire above her and threw them at M-Trihexa, each one hit the beast on the body and it was immediately followed up by powerful shocks of electricity.

"Brynhildr-senpai, I received a message just now that they wanted these M-Trihexa's to be captured or sealed in something. Do we use that sealing technique that Rossweisse taught you?" asked Schwertleite.

"We will attempt it. While I have performed it before, I have not used it against an active opponent. Please buy me some time," said Brynhildr.

"Roger!" Schwertleite and Grimgerde replied in unison, and thus began the seemingly long battle between M-666 and the three Valkyries.

…

[Trials of Memories Past – Failed (231 Times)]

[Trials: 4/7]

[Body Restoration: 50%]

[Regain Consciousness at 5/7]

[Evolution Progress: 1/2 – 90%]

[Try Again?]

[Yes/No]

"Fuck…me…! What…the…fuck?" panted Aaron. He wiped sweat from his forehead as well as the tears and snot from his face. "Shit…did I really go through all of that? I've tried everything…! What am I missing…?!" he grumbled.

Aaron Toole had to battle through a certain period in time in his previous life—a time when the bullying was at its most intense. He attempted fighting back, that failed. He tried to create friendly relations, but that failed. He attempted to inform the teachers, but that didn't work. He tried going full nuclear revenge on everyone…which also failed. Whatever he attempted, it would always result in failure, hell, he even attempted to run away to a different country and that was also unsuccessful.

Aaron fell on his back and sighed deeply. "Shit, being mortal and having no powers sucks…I didn't know how much I'd relied on them since I reincarnated, but…during this hell I've been through, the experiences that I've been through have also helped me. But still…nothing is working on this one."

"I just need to get through this trial so I can wake up!" he shouted. Aaron had found out after he completed his 4/7 trial that he would have 1 hour max of doing whatever he needed to do before he was forced back to this place to do the remaining trails.

Yet, he had already failed 231 times in total and he was stuck. He didn't know how to proceed…as he lay there, he noticed that someone had stood over him and he looked up.

"…White panties…Cúntóir?" he asked.

"…I'm both happy and disappointed in you, Aaron. The fact that you could tell that it was me through my panties…you're a bigger pervert than you allow people to know, don't you?" she asked.

Aaron sat up and grinned at Cúntóir, he wiped away the remaining tears and stared at her. "Can I get a lap pillow?" he asked her instead of answering her question.

"Are you not concerned by what's happening in the outside world?" asked Cúntóir. "…But go ahead," she said and sat in a seiza posture.

Aaron thanked her before resting his tired head and body on her squishy and smooth thighs. "…Ah, much better…just…just a little bit, let me stay like this—I might get some kind of inspiration with this kind of help," he mumbled with his eyes closed.

"…Of course, I'm concerned about the outside world. But I also trust my subordinates, the girls and Team [DxD] to pull through. I'll use that 1 hour I have to do some things, speak to some people before I come back here. God, I hate it. Living through the past, I mean," he told her.

Cúntóir began to stroke his head as Aaron began telling her about the various things he learned and remembered as he lived through all of those memories.

"You know, at some point…I thought you were Aoife, but you're a small portion of Azathoth instead. You two are like night and day you know?" Aaron said with a snigger.

"Ah! I found out I had a personal maid! That was weird…because one day she just appeared out of nowhere. Her name was Cindy Byrne. Do you know if she's alive or not? I mean…like if she was reincarnated and living in a new world?"

"She…is together with your mother. Both of them were reincarnated together. They were close in that life and she requested it to happen," explained Cúntóir.

"…Leave it to mom to do something like that," Aaron said with a smirk. "I guess I'm getting a new maid sooner or later…" There was a brief pause in the conversation and then Aaron asked, "hey Cúntóir, are you sure you can't give me a hint?"

"I can't…" she said in a despondent tone. Suddenly Aaron shot up startling Cúntóir, she stared at him confused, until he leaned in and kissed her. She was too shocked to move or do anything, so she felt him snake his tongue into her mouth.

After a few seconds Aaron pulled away. A bridge of saliva could be seen between their tongues. Cúntóir stared at him in shock and in a daze.

"…Y-you…w-why now? I-I asked you for a kiss months ago…j-just because you gave me one doesn't mean I'll g-give you a h-hint…!" she stuttered out.

"Cúntóir…I am the Oppai Dragon, aren't I?" Aaron asked, ignoring what she had just said. Confused, Cúntóir nodded in response to the question. "In the style of the Oppai Dragon…I need inspiration. Please let me feel and suck on your tits."

Cúntóir…was left speechless by this. She stared at Aaron unblinkingly for the next minute. However, she eventually started to take the upper half of her kimono off, all the while blushing. Finally, she exposed her bare breasts to him.

"Hmm. I've always wondered how these looked," Aaron nodded his head sagely as he said this. Again, Cúntóir didn't reply as she was left stunned.

"Excuse me then." Aaron reached out and cupped both of her plump breasts before poking and then twisting her nipples. Cúntóir stifled her moans but she eventually cracked.

"Iyaaaaan~"

"Nice. Then excuse me again," he said before taking her left breast's nipple into his mouth and began sucking, licking and gently biting it. Again, this enticed sweet moans from Cúntóir. Aaron kept this up for a full minute before he stepped away.

"…I see, so that's what I'm missing!" he declared while clenching his hand.

'It worked?!' Cúntóir was shocked by this—it almost seemed stupid to her. But she was again reminded that Aaron had embraced that role and just accepted it as fact.

"Alright, I'll get going then! I'm going to wake up soooon!" he bellowed while raising both his arms. "Ah, I love your tits, and I love you, Cúntóir!" with those final words and a stupid grin on his face, Aaron Toole disappeared.

Cúntóir fixed her kimono while still blushing. "Unbelievable…." She muttered and sighed. Cúntóir looked around herself and the scene had become much clearer to Aaron, but she was confused as to why he never mentioned it.

"Maybe he already knew what this place was…?" she asked herself. Cúntóir shook her head. She would just ask Aaron about it when he came back to this place, but for now, she left.

…

Azazel's Soliloquy

…

Another day has passed, all the M-Trihexa's had been dealt with…but even more showed up today. We weren't sure if they had cloned them or if they had found them in a different timeline or universe. However, all our suspicions were cleared when Shaula and Lena came to speak to us.

"Those aren't clones they're replicas. They're the real 666's from different timelines. Because of the knowledge they have, they annihilated those worlds and timelines before their versions of Team [DxD] were established, or any of the current generation became strong enough. Right now…along with the one from our world that's trapped in the Dimensional Gap, there are 12 other 666's running around," explained Lena.

Everyone in the conference room was horrified by this. However, she continued.

"Rest assured these things aren't as powerful as the ones trapped in the Dimensional Gap, so with the current Team [DxD], the [Electa] and shadow soldiers, along with the DxD Alliance then we can safely deal with them."

Shaula created a magic circle of a live feed that showed us the situations in various factions that were hit. The Hindu, Shinto, Norse, France, Roman and Irish were to name a few. The others weren't part of the alliance yet, but they were still being helped by thousands of shadow soldiers.

"What's the death toll so far?" I asked.

"As of now, around 2000 people have lost their lives. They range from being caught off guard during the initial attack, to fools being reckless and charging in without backup or a plan. However, the injured exceeds that at around 800,000. With the slime pills that Jin-sama left us, then we still have around 80% of them left. So we should be fine," explained Lena.

"I sense that the Underworld is in even more unrest since last time. You guys should reassure them that everything is under control otherwise…you know," said Shaula. She didn't want to say that the rebels would finally snap and start a rebellion.

Sirzechs nodded. "We were planning on doing that, Shaula-san. Would you two please join us and help reassure our citizens? Knowing that you two are his subordinates, I believe that they would feel even more secure," explained Sirzechs.

"Yeah. I agree, if even one of you are there, then it should be plenty of reassurance for not just the Underworld, but to most of the supernatural world that haven't been attacked yet, and that's only a small portion left. We should extend this broadcast not just to the devils, but to everyone, Sirzechs," I told him.

"If that's the plan, then I can connect it to all the broadcasting systems around the supernatural world." Shaula put her hand up and offered to do that. Sirzechs and I looked at the other Satans and Michael. They seemed to agree so we decided to do that.

With that, we made our way to a broadcasting room. Sirzechs, Serafall, Lena and Shaula would be the ones to address everyone. Michael, Baraqiel, Lianne, Aurelia, Elyscia and I would be in another room watching and listening to them.

They discussed what they would say in detail for around five minutes, before we started to broadcast it.

[Everyone in the Underworld and the rest of the Supernatural world, currently, the entirety of the Underworld that also includes the Fallen Angels' territory and many other places in the world has been subjected to an unprecedented crisis for the last few days,] said Sirzechs.

The Satan Lucifer recounted the events which had occurred to the public one by one and in relative detail. The Khaos Order was the culprit behind this world-wide event. He also told them of what the beast was, the legendary Imperial Beast Trihexa. As well as all 'clones' were unleashing destruction upon various factions' territories.

In addition, a video of various battles was played. This was previously only seen by the leaders of the DxD Alliance along with other prominent figures. It then played the attacks of yesterday, and how they were defended, as well as today's attacks…we decided to show them the live broadcast too.

[The beast that you are seeing right now is the legendary Imperial Beast Trihexa—]

Seeing that even gods were participating in battle, the ordinary Devils would feel as though it was truly the end of the world. The video then cuts over to show that the Norse World, Asgard had been successfully defended, and presented the image of our side which was cheering due to victory. How would the Devils feel when seeing such a scene?

[The ones shown fighting in this battle aren't just Devils. There are also the Fallen Angels and the Angels of Heaven who have formed an alliance with us. In addition, there is strong support from other mythologies that have rushed over to help us one after the other. A significant amount of force has been exerted against Trihexa and the Khaos Order has increased significantly.]

[Although they have been temporarily pushed back, they will reappear soon, and continue their destruction. The scale of this has already been significantly greater than the 'Demonic Beast Riot' which occurred several months ago. Nevertheless, to everyone in the Underworld and the Supernatural world, please stay calm. There is no need to panic. That is because we have the stars of hope.]

The next images and videos that were shown were of Team [DxD] along with the [Electa] and various shadow soldiers, gods, and anyone that helped defend those places.

[It's as you see, this is the anti-terrorist team [DxD]. Right now, along with the Middleman's subordinates, they are protecting the world by going to various places to help protect it. These brave warriors make me proud as they bravely and fiercely put their lives on the line.]

Sirzechs then showed a sad expression to them. [As some of you may know, Jin Skyward, the Middleman is currently out of commission right now. He is in a coma, however, before he entered it…he gave one last order to his subordinates—and that was to protect this world in his absence.]

The images then switched to a live broadcast of the Dimensional Gap. His 'Nocturnes' were still busy keeping the original 666 at bay, and the one that took over for keeping the seals in place was a different woman. She resembled a witch that had a purple hat.

[This is the Dimensional Gap, and that creature right there is the original Trihexa. It is being kept at bay by Jin Skyward's subordinates in that place. So please rest assured that this beast won't come to our realm, or any others,] said Sirzechs firmly.

[These two beside me are two of his subordinates, Shaula-san and Lena-san. They have been the ones that have made certain powerful seals that keep that beast in the Dimensional Gap. Right now a different comrade of theirs is doing that so that they could appear here.]

The two then said a few words about not giving up hope, and that they would repel the Khaos Order eventually. They didn't add anything like that Jin would wake up soon, or anything like that, which would just give false hope.

Serafall, who remained on the side, appeared in front of the camera and smiled towards it. [That's right! Everyone! I will also be deployed to the front lines, so there's no need to worry!]

Sirzechs couldn't help but show a slight smile as he looked at Serafall, and then continued to elaborate.

[We will definitely protect everyone in the Underworld. Even if I have to sacrifice my own life for it, I swear that I will protect the citizens of the Underworld even if it costs me my life.]

Sirzechs' words were very firm. Seeing the figures of Rias and the others who were just shown, how would ordinary people feel? At least compared to having a suspicious person like me on TV, it would give the people more peace of mind if Sirzechs personally said that.

Sirzechs and Serafall then discussed the future and the unfairness of the Rating Games during the broadcast. Following that, they continually made such announcements to the citizens for dozens of minutes.

As the broadcast was about to end…a loud rumble was heard throughout the capital of the Underworld, Lilith.

"Shit! Now what?!" I shouted, panic slowly rising, but…the ones around us, his subordinates had smiles on their faces. When I looked at Sirzechs and Serafall, both Lena and Shaula were also smiling.

Lena took the mic from Sirzechs and simply said, [He's awake…]

Suddenly a powerful and enormous white pillar of light burst from a certain building. T-that was the Serafall Memorial Hospital! Wait does that mean—

The entire Underworld began to shake violently for a few seconds. The light kept expanding and expanding. And in the live broadcast of the Dimensional Gap, it also appeared there!

"It seems the entire earth has been covered by that pillar," said Lianne.

"Indeed. This is quite an entrance, even for him," added Aurelia. "But…he'll—"

"Only have one hour at most," said a familiar voice. We turned to it and it was the woman called Cúntóir.

"One hour? What do you mean?" I asked. She then told us about the trials he took, that after he was successful with the first five, he would temporarily awaken and then he would need to finish the last two.

"His fifth trial…he failed is 231 times, they are…challenging to him, but he finally passed, and now he's—"

Before she finished her sentence, Jin appeared in front of us. His entire body was covered in a silver and blue aura consisting of rippling, fire-like energy, complete with sparkling particles of a magenta color. His entire hair was also silver along with his eyes.

"Jin?" I asked.

"Sorry for the wait, but…I won't be here for too long," he replied and smiled at me. He patted each of us on the head and added, "Thank you for your hard work, please keep it up until I finally come back. But first…"

He then disappeared and appeared in the Dimensional Gap.

[It seems…Jin-kun has awakened and has appeared in the Dimensional Gap!] Serafall exclaimed.

Jin thrust his right hand forward and slowly closed it. The Imperial Beast Trihexa began to howl loudly—it sounded like it was in pain. Suddenly it burst into black and purple flames that resembled shadows. The flames kept on increasing and eventually…they died down and nothing was left of the beast.

The entire room was silent, and so were the citizens of the Underworld and I would assume the rest of the Supernatural world. However, he then uttered the words—

"Arise…"

After that, enormous shadows burst from the ground and a certain beast began to come back to life. However, this time it was mostly black and its various eyes on each head glowed purple. They resembled his shadow soldiers now.

[…Did he just turn it into his subordinate?] Serafall asked the obvious question.

Jin then disappeared from the Dimensional Gap and suddenly the entire Underworld was covered in the same aura that shielded his body. Everyone in the room also felt it. It felt weirdly warm.

"He's healing everyone around the world," said Lianne.

"Where's he headed then?" I asked.

"To rid the world of its current crisis," Lianne said calmly.

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Third Person Point of View

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Aaron had various places he needed to visit in this limited hour. His first stop were the various factions and pantheons being attacked by the other worldly 666's. He first went to the Hindu Pantheon, once in Bhuloka, Sewkusta he saw various buildings destroyed and a few dead and many injured, yet his shadow soldiers and some of Team [DxD] were here, especially the Hindu group.

Aaron raised his hand and healed the rest and brought back to life the others. This drew their attention and they were surprised to see him here, even after the live broadcast. Aaron then appeared in front of the rampaging 666 and touched him—the beast burst into an amalgamation of particles, before also turned it into another shadow soldier.

"Captain?!" one of the members of the Hindu group shouted.

Aaron smiled at them and said, "Please prepare, this isn't the end." He then disappeared. Next, he arrived in the Shinto realm, Takamagahara.

The scene was the same, many buildings were in ruin, and there were various injured and dead. Aaron once again raised his hand and healed the injured and revived the dead. Raiko, who was here with the [Yamaūjin]. Flew towards him and embraced him.

"Aaron…!" she said tearfully.

Aaron kissed her on the forehead and said, "I'm sorry…I won't be here for too long. I have an hour. If you want to speak to me go to our home after I've dealt with the rest." He stroked her cheek one last time before disappearing.

Seconds later, a large and powerful light enveloped all of Takamagahara, and then, the Imperial Beast Trihexa also disappeared along with Aaron Toole. Raiko smiled bitterly and gave out orders to her group before joining them—she wanted to finish up here quickly so she could go to their home to speak with him.

Aaron this time arrived in Asgard and saw that everyone was fighting another 666 from another timeline.

"Aaron…?" a voice called out. He turned to it and found Rossweisse who was in shock.

"I'm sorry for leaving so abruptly, but I can only stay awake for an hour. Please go to our home if you want to speak to me in that limited time, but for now…"

"T-there's more in the other realms of Asgard!" shouted Rossweisse. Aaron looked at her before he nodded and teleported beside Thor and Odin.

"Oh? Jin my boy! So glad you could join us. This thing is quite sturdy, isn't it?" Odin asked while firing multiple attacks at 666.

"My war cry of 'Viva Las Vegas' didn't work on it earlier either, I was quite disappointed," added Thor. Aaron turned to look at the God of Thunder and gave showed him a confused look.

"Ha-ha-ha! He picked it up because we traveled to America a few times in the past year. Would you believe it? My sons are finally indulging in their fathers' lecherous hobbies!" Odin said with a creepy laugh.

"None of us liked it!" shouted Vidar in the distance.

"Odin-sama, Vidar-sama, Thor-sama, topics and conversations like this aren't appropriate at times like this," said Brynhildr and Rossweisse in unison. All three gods flinched and backed away before they continued attacking 666.

"…I will check the other realms first then. It seems that all of you are doing fine…" said Aaron before he teleported to the various other realms.

He didn't stay too long on each of them as most of them didn't have too many enemies in them and he took them down quite easily. However, he stopped briefly in Svartalfheim. He felt as if there was someone with greater power than the rest he had killed, so he entered the giant tree and saw that a single devil was terrorizing them. His subordinates were standing around and Aaron listened in.

"Did you see that?! No matter how fast you are, the second you move, that shitty dark elf you're protecting will go boom!" shouted a devil.

"Yeah. Go boom," said Aaron as he stood behind the devil, grabbed his head and squeezed it. The devil's head exploded. Blood, bone and brain matter splattered everywhere. A few dark elves were horrified by this, but they also recognized him.

"Who died?" Aaron asked and a few pointed to a dark elf who lay motionless on the ground. He walked over, knelt down and resurrected the male dark elf. "Is Freida here?" he asked.

"N-no, she went back to the main realm and was helping defend the island," answered one of the dark elves. Aaron nodded and restored their home before leaving for the dark elf's island.

Once he was there, he saw many monsters were swarming the island. They mostly consisted of Evil Dragons and Super Devils. As Aaron disappeared from the spot and landed on the island, a red mist covered the skies above the dark elf's island.

"Wha—w-wait, Middleman?!" asked one of the dark elves.

"Jin!" someone shouted, when he turned look at them…it was Sephora, one of Queen Frieda's guards. She had various cuts and bruises throughout her body and looked exhausted.

"…Sephora, is Frieda here? Also, are you okay? You look…well," he didn't elaborate and gestured at her body.

"I-I'm fine, but Euanthe, the Queen's sister is injured. I was about to go find someone who could heal her!" explained Sephora.

"Take me to her," said Aaron and they quickly made their way to the Queen's room. In there was Frieda, Razzus (drunk dwarf) and Fulla, one of Odin's maids.

"Sep—Jin?! Can—" Aaron put his hand up and walked over to Euanthe, her right arm was missing as well as part of her right chest area and stomach.

"What happened?" he asked.

"…We were defending Svartalfheim with everyone else and your subordinates. But once we heard from Feluni, one of my other guards that our island was also under attack we also came back here. But Euanthe had become quite careless and heroic over the last few months, so she pushed me out of the way when an attack was aimed at me."

"One of your subordinates also got in her way, but they didn't block all of it as it had a strange characteristic and hit Euanthe as well," she explained.

He nodded and healed Euanthe who was asleep. She had lost a considerable amount but after Aaron healed her, he also provided her with some blood. Once she was healed, Freida hugged her sister and softly cried.

"It's a good thing only parts of her were injured, otherwise she would have died…" He wanted to add that he could have resurrected her, but death is never easy for anyone. He knew that even after he resurrected the ones that died earlier.

However, since Aaron had limited time before he had to go back into his coma, he couldn't dwell on those things yet. He also knew that the last two would be the hardest he would face as he had an inkling of what they would be about—each trial kept on escalating after all.

"…Yes, I'm thankful for that, and thank you for helping her and our island," said Frieda as she got up and hugged Aaron.

"Bwahaha! Look at you getting the Queen's affection, boy! It's also been a long time. Thanks for checking up on Hurmol and Theda, Jin," said Razzus and he drank from his gourd.

"It's no problem and I have to leave, I need to stop Trihexa, we can catch up at a different time," he told her.

"…Y-yes, until then," replied Frieda as she let go off him. Aaron nodded and said his goodbye's again before he appeared beside Rossweisse again.

"Any progress?" he asked.

"A little bit, I offered to destroy it myself, but Odin-sama and the rest are quite insistent they can destroy it themselves," Rossweisse said with a bit of frustration.

Aaron patted her on the head before he vanished and stood in front of 666. The Norse group were surprised, but Aaron touched 666's body before it vanished in a small light, in his hand was a small cube. He would have dealt with this earlier, he had plans for it—he may try to merge all these Trihexa's and see what he could make out of it.

"We were just getting to the good part!" complained Odin.

"Maybe another time, Odin. Ah…more attacks will come, so go prepare, but for the next hour…I'll deal with them personally," he told them before he disappeared again.

The place that Aaron teleported to was a futuristic one, however, it was also enveloped in chaos and fighting. Everywhere he looked there were battles happening.

'It looks like this place is quite futuristic. I should come here and form an alliance soon,' he thought and spotted 666 in the distance. Aaron flew over what was perceived to be the main home of the gods as it was elevated from the rest of the city.

However, the city below also contained large skyscraper-type buildings and various others. There were additionally neon-like highways and flying futuristic-looking ships in the sky that also killed many enemies around him. As he got closer to 666, he noticed various people there along with his shadow soldiers.

"Hmm? Ah, Middleman, your subordinates have been of great help. They have kept this beast at bay and didn't allow it near our city," said Jupiter.

"Casualties? Injured?" asked Aaron.

"No casualties, however there have been quite a few injured, including a few gods, but they are nothing serious. I can promise you that," replied Jupiter.

"I see…I'll heal everyone after this then, I'll come and make an alliance with you in the future too," he told him. Jupiter laughed heartily at him and agreed. Aaron appeared on top of 666's body, he touched it and it began to shrink, and eventually it transformed into another cube.

"…We've been fighting this thing for so long only for him to come and do that?!" a god complained. When Aaron checked him with [Observe] he noticed that it was the God of War, Mars.

Ignoring the annoyance of the god, he raised his hand and sent out a pulse that healed all the alliance in the realm, as well as giving them a passive healing buff. Aaron explained what he had done and wished them luck as he still had a few more places to go to.

He appeared in various Irish realms, helping them with various assaults from the Khaos Order. However, his subordinates had mostly done a good job as they kept the deaths to a minimum, the same with the injuries, yet he still needed to heal them as well as heal a few that died.

His final stop was in the Land of Heaven Falls. A place that held painful memories because of the recent attack. Once Aaron arrived there, he immediately swiped his hand and killed the other attackers.

666 was in the distance, and he a flash of the destruction caused by the others who attacked this place appeared in his mind. Without hesitating, Aaron moved towards 666 immediately, touched it and instantly trapped it in a cube.

The ones previously battling it were stunned, but then cheered as the endless battle they had been on was finally over. He turned around and healed the injured warriors and told them to rest up, as they would probably only have a few hours of rest before the Khaos Order starts again.

He located Nuada and landed beside him.

"Jin, I'm glad to see you're okay, and thank you for helping us," said Nuada.

"I'm glad to see you're all mostly okay too," replied Aaron.

Nuada laughed and said, "It was mostly thanks to Cana, Danu and Áine. Those three along with your shadow soldiers were a big help."

The three goddesses in question were sitting further away discussing something. They hadn't noticed Aaron yet, but as Brigid and Lugh called to them, they turned around and saw him. All three were shocked, but Danu was the first one to stand up and embrace him as soon as she arrived at his side.

"Don't…"

"I'm sorry, I have to. I only have an hour…probably less now," he told her. Danu simply sank further into their embrace and said nothing else. After that, Aaron told them of what would happen in the future, and that they should prepare for an even larger attack on the human world and their realms again.

"What about Trihexa and the others that appeared?" asked Dagda.

"Only a few remain and you saw me deal with the original did you not?" he asked back.

Dagda awkwardly laughed and added, "I-I was in the bathroom…"

Aaron sighed and Nuada told him of what happened. Their leader wasn't aware of Dagda being absent as his attention was on the broadcast that was airing.

Aaron looked around one more time and said, "I still have a few places to go to and kill more things." He looked at the three women, "If you want to speak to me before I leave again, come to my home." He then disappeared, leaving a disgruntled Danu embracing the air.

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Jin Skyward's Soliloquy

…

I didn't think I would have so much to do once I woke up. That one hour had turned into a mere thirty minutes. Once I was finally done with checking the world, the supernatural world and anything else, I went back to my home. I met various people when I travelled around, but I gave Dulio a few words saying that he'll need to be the team's leader a bit longer and I would treat him to delicious food in the future.

Once I entered my home, I was immediately surrounded by various people. "Guys…let's go to the living room before you pile on me," I told them. "We only have 30 minutes left…"

We moved to the living room and I answered as many questions as I could. Most were of the trials I had to take and I didn't hide anything from them and I told them about all the things I had to do, the different choices I had to make. It didn't matter if I liked it or not…they were the 'correct' choice, and I was usually left and seen as a villain afterward.

"How long do you think you'll be gone for this time?" asked Kuroka. She looked pretty bad and ignored the large pile of food on a plate beside her.

"…I don't know. The fifth trial took me around 200+ attempts to complete, so I would say the next few will double or even quadruple the number of times, unless I get lucky and pass them," I told her.

We spoke at length about the various things that they had been through in my absence, the things they would like to do in the future, and about our graduation, and the trip afterward, as well as the anticipated Rating Game World Tournament. And just like that, 25 minutes passed and I only had 5 minutes left before I had to leave.

Cúntóir: Answer: Aaron, I would suggest you go to…this location.

I received information in my head about where I would need to go. 'W-why? And why on this planet?' I asked.

Cúntóir: Answer: We will begin parts of your evolution. Currently, you are at 90%. When you complete all the trials it should push you to 95% completion. During your last two, your body will send our powerful blasts all around you, that's why we need to stay as far away as possible. I…along with Azathoth will create the barrier to hide you too.

I was surprised by this, but…I need to do this, so I need to go far away. To a place called TrES-4b.

TrES-4b is an extrasolar planet, and one of the largest exoplanets ever found, after WASP-12b, WASP-17b, CT Chamaeleontis b, GQ Lupi b and HD 100546 b. It was discovered in 2006, and announced in 2007, by the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey, using the transit method. It is approximately 1,400 light-years away orbiting the star GSC 02620-00648, in the constellation Hercules.

"I have to leave soon. Everyone should start preparing to go out again," I told them. Many were reluctant, but I promised them I would come back as soon as possible. So they slowly started leaving the place. A few remained though.

Grayfia came over and hugged me. It was rare for her to show open affection to me in front of others, but…

"…Please come back," she whispered before she gave me a kiss and left. She was very upset and was still is. She was among the oldest here, so she couldn't just openly show how upset she was.

"Shin-chan kept me company…please come back, we still haven't gotten married," Lavinia said and squeezed my hand, but also left. I expected her to be more attached to me, but I guess she's grown up as well.

"Akeno…Suzaku…"

"Mom will scold you once you wake up again, so you better be prepared, also…you owe me a lot of private time (sex)!" Akeno said trying to me cheerful. She then grabbed my hand and added, "…Come back soon."

We shared a kiss before she also left to join Rias' group. The others looked like they wanted to say something to me, but decided to leave it for another time.

"I won't repeat what they said, but…I have a lot of things to say to you when you come back. I never thought I would be this vulnerable when you suddenly disappeared, so please repent when you come back…and I wish to be spoiled rotten," said Suzaku.

"Yeah, I will. I'll promise you that." Suzaku smiled at that before she left. She came back and gave me a kiss, seemingly remembering afterward.

"I'll protect Ireland along with the rest of the world. I want you to come back to our country and bring the rest for your graduation trip, okay?" said Danu. She grabbed my head and kissed me on the forehead. "You're really troublesome…"

"Sorry…" I glanced back at the clock. "I have a minute before I pass out so…"

"…Good luck and stay safe, Team [DxD] and everyone is waiting," she said and also left the room.

I nodded and turned my attention to Cúntóir. 'Your turn, get me there,' I told her and I was suddenly in front of a large planet. A timer appeared beside me and I flew towards the planet and slammed into the surface.

Cúntóir: Answer: Go deeper into the planet, near its core.

Heeding her instructions, I punched a hole in front of me and flew further into the planet and submerged myself into its fiery-liquid-y core. After that, I lost consciousness.

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