Reincarnated into a Multiverse, but High School DxD

"So this is just pretending to work hard."

Seeing Rias's expression after her defenses had been shattered, Ren looked thoroughly pleased.

"Being unable to do it and still refusing to try, then continuing to talk tough after I pointed out the problem—Rias's mouth must be made of vibranium."

"Th-That... Rias really does work very hard. She's the hardest-working one among all of us, and she has strengths everywhere."

Although she had no idea what vibranium was, she could tell it definitely was not a flattering comparison.

Akeno Himejima also wanted to defend her good friend.

"For example, Rias has excellent athletic ability. During the ball game tournament, she only spent a few days studying and training before leading us to defeat Sona Sitri's peerage. She's also incredibly capable at housework—cooking, laundry, cleaning, she's good at all of it. Whether it's Chinese, Japanese, or Western cuisine, she's very skilled!"

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After hearing that, Ren's mind was full of question marks.

Those were indeed strengths, and they were especially rare for an aristocratic devil like Rias, but had Akeno gotten something wrong?

Wasn't this just like a certain goddess of water who had been transported to another world?

Other than learning a bunch of talents and magic, she was useless at everything else.

If Rias put even half the effort she spent on housework and sports festivals into training her Power of Destruction and becoming stronger, would her family still need to force her into marriage?

"Then I suggest she come work at my house as a professional cook. If she agrees, then even if she chooses to slack off and doesn't intend to grow stronger, I'll protect her from Riser."

Ren said.

Raynare: "Suddenly on guard.jpg."

Upon hearing that, Akeno Himejima revealed an awkward smile.

As if Rias would ever lower herself to become your servant.

What Do You Want Me to Do, Move or Not Move?

Chapter 75

Night fell.

Following the system mission's guidance, Ren left the center of Kuoh Town and arrived near an abandoned factory in the outskirts.

After opening the map, Ren noticed that the mission target had remained here for quite some time.

Several red dots on the map were also highlighted.

"Not bad. They should arrive soon."

After Akeno Himejima and the others left, Ren came here alone.

This abandoned factory was a temporary base for the stray exorcists.

It was only twenty kilometers in a straight line from the center of Kuoh Town, but even so, it lay beyond Kuoh Town's territory. That was why Rias's familiars had not discovered the stray exorcists here.

Of course, Ren felt that even if they had set up their base in a basement beneath the town center, Rias would still have had a hard time noticing that ghosts had moved into her home, given how little she cared.

Without dwelling on it, Ren focused on the situation before him.

He consciously activated Breath Concealment EX. Combined with his cultivation of qi, Ren was now a humanoid invisible-and-anti-invisible radar. He could clearly sense exactly how many stray exorcists were inside the abandoned factory.

Perhaps because they were working for the fallen angels, there were no sentries outside the abandoned factory.

Even so, a group of heavily armed stray exorcists were patrolling back and forth. There were at least thirty of them.

He also discovered that the only passage leading into the building was heavily guarded, making infiltration rather difficult.

After all, Breath Concealment EX was not an invisibility skill. There was no game-like stealth system where, as long as the enemy's alert meter did not turn red, he could walk right past them without trouble.

And even if he could sneak in, taking the Holy Swords away afterward would be utterly impossible.

In that case, if Ren wanted to succeed, he had to formulate a detailed plan.

Three seconds later, a highly rigorous plan took shape in his mind.

First, step through the factory gate with his left foot. Then improvise from there!

After all, plans could never keep up with changes. Ren believed that adapting to circumstances was what mattered most on the battlefield.

So Ren walked out of the forest where he had been hiding.

Perhaps because they believed that, since they were working for a fallen angel executive, no ordinary people would dare approach, the two guards at the gate were chatting in a very relaxed manner.

And as stray exorcists, their conversation was naturally vulgar beyond belief!

Murder, money, asses, women, boobs—one crude word after another poured out of their mouths.

Ren could not help grumbling inwardly about how society had declined and people's hearts had grown corrupt!

Where was your faith?!

Where was justice?

And where was the location of the deluxe massage parlor?!

"Eh? Did you hear something?"

One exorcist suddenly felt a chill down his back and spoke instinctively, but when he turned around, he found nothing.

"Yes, brother. You did."

"Where? And why did your voice suddenly change? Wait! Who are you?!"

The stray exorcist turned around and saw a black-haired young man smiling kindly at him.

His companion's head had somehow twisted one hundred and eighty degrees, and he was lying on the ground, sleeping very peacefully.

"Enemy—"

Before he could finish, Ren sent him to meet his brother.

Repeating the process, Ren easily and efficiently took out more than a dozen exorcists on the perimeter before casually entering the building's only entrance.

Not long after entering, Ren heard people talking from the deepest part of the building.

After walking several dozen more steps, he saw stray exorcists standing all around, their gazes fixed on the center.

A short, fat old man in a bishop's robe was saying something to a stray exorcist.

The exorcist standing before the bishop had several longswords strapped to his back.

A sacred aura rushed toward him.

Under the dim lighting, Ren suddenly noticed that the exorcist's face looked somewhat familiar.

Ren immediately opened the system panel to inspect the other person's information.

[Name: Freed Sellzen II]

[Gender: Male]

[Status: Holy Sword Factor enhancement in progress.]

Ren was surprised. He was actually an old acquaintance.

But hadn't Ren killed this guy back at the Vatican?

How was he still alive?

No, there was a "II" after his name.

Ren quickly thought of a possibility.

Freed had not been produced through normal male-female reproduction. He was a Church warrior cultivated by cloning the genes of Sigurd, the heroic figure celebrated by the Germanic peoples.

Freed's strength was also quite notable among the stray exorcists.

Since his abilities were powerful, the Church naturally wanted to cultivate more of them.

Ren remembered that there had even been a female version of Freed in the story.

After figuring it out, Ren had already appeared at the only exit.

Moreover, he had deactivated Breath Concealment after coming inside. Thus, Ren's appearance quickly drew the attention of the stray exorcists.

Seeing Ren suddenly appear, the stray exorcists froze for a moment before reflexively grabbing pistols or light swords and aiming them at him.

"Don't move! Get on the ground!"

"Squat down!"

"Raise your hands!"

"Don't move!"

The stray exorcists shouted one after another, but each command was more contradictory than the last.

Ren looked at them and helplessly spread his hands. "So do you want me to move or not move?"

Hearing the question, the stray exorcists all froze. They seemed to genuinely consider what Ren had just said. After exchanging glances, they actually failed to reach an agreement for a moment.

Seeing this, the old bishop at the center of the altar snapped back to his senses. "What are you standing around for?! Kill him already!"

Only then did the stray exorcists react.

Right!

They were psychopathic stray exorcists. Murder and robbery were second nature to them. Since when did they need to waste so many words like righteous people?!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Gunshots erupted everywhere.

But someone suddenly shot out several lamps in the room, plunging the entire space into pitch-black darkness.

Inside the dark room, Ren alone remained unaffected.

Leaving aside Ren's night vision, with the dark crimson triangles the system marked above hostile units' heads and his judgment through qi, he could precisely pinpoint every stray exorcist's location.

The next second.

Muzzle flashes lit up the surroundings. Spinning bullets instantly blasted holes through the stray exorcists' foreheads. Some even had their skullcaps blown off, red and white matter splattering everywhere.

Some experienced stray exorcists immediately sought cover behind obstacles after the room went dark.

But no matter where they hid, Ren's bullets accurately blew apart their heads.

The number of red dots on the map rapidly decreased.

"Damn monster! I'm going to—"

Before he could finish, a bloody hole exploded in the exorcist's head.

In less than ten seconds, only two people besides Ren were still standing in the entire room.

Brothers, Come and Cut Me Down

Chapter 76

The heavy stench of blood filled the air. When the emergency lights came on, only the bishop and Freed standing in front of him remained.

"What astonishing power. Are you also a warrior cultivated by the Church using heroic genes?"

Although nearly all his subordinates were dead, Valper did not feel afraid.

He had long grown accustomed to bloody scenes like this. More than that, he was curious about where Ren's power came from.

As one of the researchers involved in the cultivation program, he understood the difficulty of the process and its extremely low success rate. According to the information he had received before leaving the Church, clones like Freed had the highest success rate.

However, because cloning technology involved ethical issues, it was urgently halted by the higher-ups.

Valper had been extremely dissatisfied with that.

Afterward, he began researching Holy Sword Factors, but because the experimental process was too cruel, the Holy Sword Project was also halted.

At the same time, everyone connected to the Church who had participated in it was captured and interrogated.

But Valper received word in advance and escaped.

He later joined the fallen angels and, upon learning that Kokabiel had sent people to steal the Holy Swords, immediately volunteered himself.

Naturally, he had completed the Holy Sword Factor experiment as well.

During the time before Ren arrived, Valper injected Freed Sellzen II with Holy Sword Factors extracted from past test subjects, and the experiment succeeded.