"Where are we going?" asked a woman in revealing attire, as she clung to the arm of a tanned man with bleached blond hair.
The man gave a small teasing smile, but his eyes contained a dangerous and lustful gleam.
Unfortunately for "him," the woman was feigning ignorance of his deplorable acting.
She pressed his arm a bit more between her generous breasts, stirring the desire that she read in him like an open book.
A subtle game of a huntress playing with her prey, who thinks himself a hunter.
"Don't worry, princess... we're going to a very nice and private place."
The man wasn't really hiding his intentions and purpose.
This shows just how confident he is.
"Hmm ~ Are you sure? We've only been dating for two weeks... and you want our first time to be outdoors?" Her voice had an ambiguous sweetness, oscillating between embarrassment and temptation.
The man didn't answer.
He smiled casually, as if he had already achieved his goal the moment they left the nightclub.
Finally, they reached a deserted area.
The man gave in to his base instincts and pinned the woman against a wall, before beginning to kiss her crudely.
There was nothing tender in it, just a man wanting to satisfy his desires or urges without caring about his partner.
Although she was surprised by the sudden initiative, she already knew her partner's original intention.
'Too easy,' she thinks with satisfaction, responding to the tongue in her mouth.
An obscene battle slowly began to form, as the exchanges of oral fluids continued.
After a moment, the man slowly began to extend his hand toward the woman's lower lips.
A wet sound echoed in the alley, which delighted the tanned man's ear.
'Hah... She's already wet?'
He gloated inwardly, congratulating himself for slipping that subtle drug into her drink earlier.
Slowly and crudely, he began to caress the woman, seeking her weak spots in her intimacy.
But...
Slash
A sharp noise, followed by a sickening gurgle, resonated in the silence and darkness of the night.
The man stepped back, wearing a shocked and incredulous expression. His chest was pierced by the woman's delicate, thin arm.
"W... why?!" He finally collapsed, like a puppet whose strings had been cut.
He received no real answer to his question, but the woman simply monologued in front of his corpse.
"Not bad foreplay... but you're really terrible at acting."
She casually licked the blood flowing down her fingers, her eyes now emotionless... inhuman.
"The blood of human pseudo-predators is the sweetest. Loaded with arrogance and sin."
But she didn't see the shadow forming farther away on the roof.
Bam
A flash bomb exploded in the alley.
"Haaa!!!", the woman screamed in annoyance, but she had the reflex to hide her face.
'Why is this light so annoying? It's like... the sun!'
The woman quickly understood the situation, after activating her neurons.
She is the prey of the hunter who has been wandering in this area for a few days.
Alarmed by the situation, she didn't hesitate to take her monstrous form as a masterless devil, or stray devil.
But... it was too late.
Bam!
Zzzit!
A metal net crashed down on her, crackling with electrical energy.
The acrid smell of holy water ate away at her skin, before causing an unpleasant odor.
Despite her screams and small attempts to tear the electric metal net, she eventually gave in to the pain and collapsed.
The beast in human skin lost consciousness.
A silhouette waited a few minutes to ensure that the creature wasn't playing dead before descending from the roof.
The man wore an all-black military-style outfit with an imposing bag on his back.
His face was hidden by an engraved gas mask, which seemed to come straight out of a horror or science fiction movie.
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"Haha, these monsters always make the same mistake: they rely too much on their magic... or their brute force."
The voice that came from the mask was hoarse, distorted, and inhuman.
Nevertheless, Gorou Hyoudou did not hide his amusement as he looked at his defeated prey.
It's been a while since he arrived in the DxD universe.
[synchronization level with the model: 10%]
His progress has evolved steadily, especially when he imitates the actions of Stanford Pines.
For example, after renting a warehouse and beginning to set up various technological objects inside for his experiments.
The percentages evolved more rapidly.
This pushed him to study the supernatural races and paranormal objects more deeply.
Of course, he began to note this in journals like Stanford Pines.
He divided it into three categories.
The first focused on rituals, spells, and magical information he was able to obtain from stray devils.
The second is a compilation of his scientific experiments, future projects, and theories.
The third contains information about all creatures encountered or obtained via the darknet.
He hasn't recorded any data related to DxD inside, or knowledge too dangerous or morally taboo.
He also encrypted it and wrote certain passages in invisible ink.
'I have a living subject, that will help.'
He had already faced some stray devils, but none could be captured alive.
They are just too fierce, stubborn or proud? But also difficult to restrain for his current self..
This situation led Gorou to contact Irina's father to obtain holy water with the excuse of increasing unease at night.
Fortunately for him, the religious man took this seriously.
He even gave him rituals to perform in the house to keep evil at bay.
He couldn't use the ritual after the first use because of Issei.
He literally became ill and even vomited.
Gorou later used the holy water on his equipment and went to great lengths to find a good intermediary on the dark web to obtain certain... shady materials.
The result is that he obtained an ordinary-looking warehouse with a basement converted into an advanced research laboratory.
"Now, all that's left is to bring this back to the lab."
He injected a paralyzing solution into the woman as a precaution, before throwing her over his shoulder.
He hadn't modified his body, but he now possesses a rudimentary exoskeleton.
He wanted to build a different model later, as this one is too cumbersome.
Despite his internal complaints, he is happy to be able to easily climb above the city rooftops and act like a parkour expert.
"Stop right there!!!"
Of course, he didn't stop.
He simply glanced over his shoulder and observed a small white-haired loli and a blond teenager chasing after him.
"Why should I stop, kid?"
Despite his voice being distorted by his mask, Gorou's voice still contained a mocking tone.
"You're on Gremory clan territory!!"
"Correction, you're in Japan here, so in the Shinto faction's territory."
Gorou knows that devils are the owners of the city of Kuoh.
However, he simply doesn't care.
'I pay my taxes and I'm a Japanese citizen, it's not a bunch of demonic teenagers who's gonna give me orders.'
Despite the warnings from the boy identified as Kiba, he didn't stop running.
On the contrary, he was looking for a way to lose them and return to the warehouse.
Crack
As he was about to open a sewer grate.
The loli, whom he assumes to be Koneko, gave him a blow to the back.
'How did she close the gap between us and find me so quickly?!'
Several questions rapidly flashed through his mind.
Fortunately, he was able to glimpse a strange creature flying in the night sky with Kiba.
The latter seems to have thrown something, given his current position.
'I see, magic and ingenuity.'
Kiba probably projected Koneko, and she hit him in the back to destabilize his spine.
Simple and effective.
Cough
Blood flows from his mask and the armor hidden in his clothes is clearly destroyed by the brute force of the monster in human skin disguised as a loli.
However, Gorou wasn't afraid and kept his calm.
He got up from the wall where Koneko had thrown him.