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"An exorcist invaded your home?"

The next day, after Noah told Rias and the others in the Occult Research Club about his encounter with Freed yesterday, nearly everyone showed a surprised expression.

Koneko in particular had an uncomfortable look on her cute face.

"...No wonder there was such a terrible smell when I went home last night..."

Noah really wanted to tell Koneko that it was his home, not hers.

But before that, Rias spoke with a frown.

"A Church exorcist actually slipped into my territory. How unpleasant."

As a place that worshipped God, the Church was directly affiliated with Heaven and served as the representative of God and the angels in the human world.

As mentioned before, devils, angels, and Fallen Angels had fought a great war since ancient times for supremacy over the world, yet none of them could do anything to the others.

Later, that war fell into a deadlock and turned into a war of attrition, severely draining all three factions—devils, angels, and Fallen Angels—and leaving them all short on fighting strength.

In the end, the war concluded inconclusively, and the badly weakened devils, angels, and Fallen Angels were each reduced to relying on humans to continue their existence.

Under such circumstances, the devils developed a technique that could reincarnate other races as devils, thereby replenishing their numbers.

Meanwhile, Heaven, led by God, trained exorcists through the various Churches in the human world.

Thus, the Church was an organization directly affiliated with Heaven and even acted under Heaven's orders.

Naturally, the number-one enemy of exorcists was devils.

Although exorcists were all originally ordinary humans, they possessed the ability