Reincarnated into the Multiverse, but High School DxD Chapter 34

"Mittelt, Kalawarner, in Grigori, we're just the lowest-ranking two-winged fallen angels. If you want others to respect you, then follow me and work hard!"

"Once you rise through the ranks, show those people who used to look down on you that fortunes can change!"

"Don't bully poor fallen angel girls!"

After that, Raynare began painting a picture of the wonderful future that awaited her two partners once they rose through the ranks.

Setting aside her strength and plans, Raynare was undeniably an expert at making empty promises.

To ensure nothing went wrong, Raynare had specifically sought out her three companions and a large group of stray exorcists.

After promising them all sorts of benefits, she hastily assembled a team.

Mittelt and Kalawarner had also been swept away by her words.

The two of them were the most ordinary fallen angels in Grigori. Having lived at the bottom for years, they had been looked down upon by many of their peers.

That was precisely why they had immediately agreed when Raynare invited them.

"So don't worry," Raynare said.

"As soon as we get the Sacred Gear, we'll head back."

Before coming to Kuoh Town, Raynare had already sent people to live in the city for several days.

They had also learned that the town was under the watch of devils.

Yet after several days passed without any reaction from the other side, they had risked entering the abandoned church in Kuoh Town and reconstructed the barrier beneath it.

"By the way, where's Dohnaseek?" Raynare suddenly asked.

Dohnaseek was her third companion, but after arriving in the human world, he had rarely been seen.

His personality was strange as well. If she had not truly been unable to find anyone else to help, Raynare would never have asked him.

Mittelt and Kalawarner both shook their heads, indicating that they had no idea.

Why would two beautiful girls like them stay with that gloomy shut-in?

"Keep scouting. Before the saint arrives, try not to alert the enemy," Raynare said with a sigh.

Just as the three women were preparing to go their separate ways, they suddenly heard an unusual sound from above.

Fallen angels possessed physical abilities several times greater than ordinary humans, so their hearing was far sharper as well.

Even the faintest sound was much easier for them to detect than it was for humans.

Mittelt and Kalawarner had heard it too. They looked at each other. "What happened outside?"

"No idea. Could the devils here have come knocking?"

Raynare's heart tightened at those words.

Still, she decided to go out and take a look.

They followed the stairs back to the surface.

Sunlight streamed through the roof of the abandoned church, gentle and warm enough to make one instinctively lazy.

But compared to lounging in the sun, the three women who emerged from the underground altar were staring in disbelief at the wrecked entrance of the church.

More than a dozen stray exorcists lay scattered across the ground. Each had a bloody hole in their forehead, and none of them showed any sign of life.

Among those stray exorcists in bright silver uniforms was a face Raynare and the others recognized.

He was a pale young man in a black robe, with a sinister expression.

Like the stray exorcists, he had no breath left in him.

His black wings, the symbol of a fallen angel, hung limply on the ground. His corpse had not yet stiffened.

"W-What exactly happened here?"

Faced with a situation they could not comprehend, the three fallen angels froze in place, unable to recover for a long while.

"Could it really be those devils coming after us?" Mittelt's voice had become a little fearful.

"No. Those devils wouldn't use something like guns," Raynare said gravely.

But just as she was about to continue, a male figure appeared directly in front of the church's broken gates.

The barrel of the firearm in his hand gave off a faint trail of smoke. Given the scene before them, the identity of the killer was obvious.

"Who are you?!"

Once Raynare saw that he was not the local devil lord, she sighed in relief—but switched into battle mode the very next second.

Leather clothing resembling a straitjacket tightly wrapped around her body, outlining her curves while leaving plenty to the imagination.

When Ren saw the three fallen angels transform after being frightened by him, he could not help but complain inwardly.

Do fallen angels usually dress this outrageously?

This is called combat gear? Isn't this just lingerie?

"Surrender. If you behave, I might generously spare your life," Ren said with a light laugh, putting away his gun.

Against supernatural races like fallen angels, ordinary firearms were no longer effective.

Ren still remembered Raynare quite clearly. After all, when he had watched the first episode, he had thought she was the female lead.

But Raynare had immediately stabbed the protagonist to death. If the real female lead, Rias, had not appeared, High School DxD would have ended in its very first episode.

"You sure talk big. You're nothing more than a church exorcist. I am a noble fallen angel. A lowlife like you has no right to stand before me."

Raynare's voice was mature and seductive, and her contempt for humans was impossible to miss.

"Noble fallen angels? Aren't you all bullied in Grigori every day?" Ren's expression turned strange.

If he did not know the plot, he might actually have been intimidated.

Raynare, Mittelt, and Kalawarner—the three female fallen angels—along with Dohnaseek, whom he had just taken care of, were basically minor characters bullied by athletic school tyrants in a Western high school drama.

After learning about Asia, they had risked infiltrating Kuoh Town in hopes of stealing her Sacred Gear and changing their fate.

"No way. How could a human like you know about that?" Mittelt blurted out.

But she quickly realized she had misspoken and hurriedly covered her mouth.

Even Kalawarner's cold expression was beginning to crack.

If Raynare had not promised to help them get ahead and stop others from mocking them, why would they have taken such a huge risk to enter the territory of a high-ranking devil?

Raynare's expression twitched.

She did not know the man before her at all, and he carried no fallen angel aura. How could he possibly know about their experiences in Grigori?

Could Dohnaseek have told him?

What a useless idiot!

"Though I don't know where you heard such false information, don't think you can leave after coming here. Mittelt, Kalawarner, attack with me!"

Light gathered in Raynare's hand, and a spear of light wrapped in holy radiance shot toward Ren.

As a fallen angel, Raynare was physically powerful, and the concentration of her light power was enough to serve as an energy source for an exorcist's light swords and light spears.

But after seeing how Dohnaseek had died, she understood that Ren was not someone to be trifled with. The moment she finished speaking, she attacked, aiming to catch him off guard.

"Okay! Let's join—"

Mittelt began gathering the light power within her body as well, but before her spear of light could fully take shape, a fierce gust of wind hit her head-on.

When she looked again, she saw that the man had already appeared before Raynare, pressing a silver-white holy sword against her delicate neck.

Perhaps because it was pressed too tightly, a thin red line had appeared on Raynare's pale skin.

A crimson bead of blood slid down the blade and fell to the ground, kicking up tiny specks of dust.

Raynare's entire body stiffened. Her mind could not comprehend what had just happened.

In a single instant, the situation had completely reversed.

What happened to the spear of light she had fired?

That was a spear of light capable of killing a low-ranking devil in an instant!

"I'll give you one last chance to reconsider your words," Ren said with a light smile.

"Your lives are your own."

"Gulp..."

Mittelt assessed the situation before her, then looked at the spear of light in her hand. She planted it in the ground, then dropped to her knees with a thud...

Mittelt stared at the person beside her in shock.

Kalawarner, who was usually cold in both conduct and speech, had actually knelt down without saying a word.

What was wrong with her?!

Why had she suddenly knelt down?!

Why had she not even given her a heads-up?!

After Kalawarner knelt, Mittelt swallowed hard and promptly followed suit.

Just as Ren had said.

Her life was her own.

Raynare had only called her over to help make up the numbers. The promised reward was still nothing but an empty promise, so why should she risk her life?

"I surrender! I surrender! Don't kill me!" Mittelt raised both hands high, her face full of innocence.

"I didn't do this! I don't know anything! Raynare called me here to help, then promised me a reward, so I came!"

"Me too."

Kalawarner's expression remained cold, but upon closer inspection, one could see tears gathering in her eyes.

She was clearly on the verge of crying from fear.

"You two traitors!" Raynare was immediately furious when she saw them sell her out in an instant.

But when she moved slightly, pain shot through her neck where the blade scraped against it, and she did not dare move again.

"And you?" Ren's gaze fell upon her.

The air fell silent.

Raynare stared coldly at Ren, as though weighing the pros and cons. But just as Ren was about to lose patience, the coldness and dignity on her face suddenly collapsed. Her eyes curved as she revealed a flattering expression and gaze.