Serafall Leviathan, the current Satan in charge of foreign affairs, with the title of "Leviathan", sighed as she crossed her arms. Sirzechs, Michael, and Gabriel were not the only ones who had sensed the boy's power. Serafall could sense the immense power as well, and it greatly brought a pleasant feeling to her, due to the radiance emitting from the aura. But she chose not to interfere into the boy's life.
Until Sirzechs Lucifer had agreed for the third son of the Phenex Clan to fight Issei Hyoudou.
Originally, Serafall had thought that Riser was far too paranoid, and only wanted to fight Issei for the sake of reassuring his superiority. It turns out she was right, as Riser had intentionally provoked Issei into fighting him through despicable means.
When she witnessed Issei accessing his Solar and Hell-Fire transformations, Serafall couldn't deny that she felt great worry. She knew right then that Riser was going to lose, no question. But what worried Serafall the most, was the intensity of Issei's Hell-Fire aura. In his second transformation, Issei potentially had enough power to completely destroy the Underworld.
After Issei had destroyed Riser, Serafall didn't know what to expect from the young boy. She was actually a little surprised that Issei had enough willpower to prevent himself from decimating every Devil in front of him. That falcon punch he gave to Sirzechs was probably from his leftover anger.
As she closed her violet eyes, Serafall shook her head.
"Sirzechs-chan, you baka. Why on earth would you do this? Now this young boy...his life will change. The only question is: how severe is the change?"
In the Student Council Room
The members of the Occult Research Club and the Student Council all stood as they contemplated. They couldn't help but feel just a bit cautious. After the stunt Riser Phenex had pulled, which ended up backfiring on him horribly by the way, the Devils of the two clubs at Kuoh Academy felt really conflicted.
Due to Riser's actions, there was a large chance that Issei Hyoudou would hold a great animosity to all of the Devils. The only Devils who had come in contact with Issei, were in fact Genshirou Saji and Yuuto Kiba.
The two young men severely hoped that Issei wouldn't go off on them by the off-chance they would encounter each other again. They deduced that since Issei had unlocked two new transformations, they knew that he could potentially have the ability to sense energy.
Which means he could tell the energy signature of a Devil.
Well, that certainly wasn't a good thing.
Sona sighed as she fixed her glasses.
"Now that Issei Hyoudou can detect the energy signature of a Devil, I think it would be best if we stay away from him."
The rest of the Devils turned to her in surprise, with Saji speaking their mutual thoughts.
"But kaichou, we didn't do anything! We weren't involved with Riser's plan at all!"
"I'm aware of that Saji. But you have to think about how Issei feels in his point of view. Although he has spoken to you and Yuuto a number of times, he was, at that point, unaware that you two were Devils to begin with. Both Riser and Rias's Onii-sama were the first two Devils that had wronged him. I wouldn't blame him if he had adopted a slight prejudice against us."
As he listened to the rationalization within Sona's words, Saji lowered his head and crossed his arms.
"Damn. I just..."
He then sighed and looked away.
"I understand what you're saying kaichou."
Rias narrowed her eyes as she looked out the window.
'How could Onii-sama allow Riser to do all of this? Now because of them, Issei's personality might have changed for the worst. If only he had just left Issei alone, then he wouldn't have perished.'
Sitting in one of the room's chairs were Akeno, Yuuto, and Koneko. Akeno adopted a disappointed yet saddened look on her face as she placed her hands on her lap.
Yuuto was not handling the situation any better. Even when he had been trying to convince Issei to come visit the Occult Research Club, he had genuinely been trying to act as a friend to the young man. After Rias had told the rest of her peerage that Issei could not be reincarnated into a Devil, Yuuto had to admit, he was actually a little disappointed from the news.
Koneko remained silent in her chair. She, along with Rias, Akeno, Sona, and Tsubaki, had never even met Issei yet. However, the first day he arrived to Kuoh Academy, she and the others could all sense him. But Koneko was extremely sensitive to Issei's aura, due to her sensitivity to the life-force of other beings.
Next to Sona, stood Tsubaki, who maintained her cold stoic expression. Although her surface features showed that she was calm, inside she was feeling uneasy. What she had just witnessed, was absolutely shocking. Sure, she had heard traces of the Great War between the Three Factions, and she wasn't unfamiliar to the sights of battles. However, she found it hard to grasp what had just happened to Issei.
She couldn't get that boy out of her mind. When first seeing him walking away from Kuoh Academy, it wasn't hard for Tsubaki to decipher that Issei was a reclusive young man. It was because of his eyes.
'Those strange eyes.'
His left eye. The color of innocent doe-brown. The color of doe-brown represented innocence, naiveté, and yet, it also represented vulnerability. It matched Issei's shy nature.
His right eye. That represented the color of the powerful source of energy in the entire world: The Sun. Originally Tsubaki could not understand what Issei's right eye signified. But...it finally came to her when Issei transformed into his recently acquired Solar Form.
Issei's right eye represented his repressed anger. It represented the isolation that was forced upon him due to the different coloration of his eyes.