A Late Night Crime Spree

"Kala-chan bring me more coffee!"

Kalawarner sighed as she heard her new watcher Lady Penemue bellow again for a cup Coffee. Since that mission in Kuoh went wrong Team Raynare had been split up and divided among the Cadre to keep an eye on them.

Dohnaseek had been grabbed up by Kokabiel. Even though the Cadre had tricked them into obeying orders contrary to Azazel-sama's own it was not a real Betrayal so the bastard would not even get a punishment beyond a sharp rebuke from Azazel. Immediately afterwards he had grabbed up Dohnaseek when the discussion of dividing their team came up. That basically confirmed to everyone that it had been Dohnaseek who had changed the orders they received.

Mittelt had been sent as Maid to the Necromancer boy but was officially watched by Azazel himself. Everyone knew that the man had gotten somewhat obsessed with the Necromancer recently for some reasons, so sending Mittelt there was just an excuse for him to drop in every now and then. Still Kalawarner was almost at the point of begging Lord Azazel to let her join Mittelt as Maid.

She herself had gotten a job as Assistant Secretary for Lady Penemue which translated into putting files away, fetching Coffee and a bunch of other Henchman jobs which were slowly running her ragged.

Still she had gotten it better then Raynare. After her wing had been regenerated by one of the Twilight-Healing users in Grigori she had been given into the care of Baraquiel. If rumours were to be believed then Raynare was now the mans Sparring-partner which caused her to regularly be sent to the Hospital for healing her bruised body. Though at least the brat had gotten a new pair of wings out of it.

"KALA-CHAN. MY COFFEE!"

Kalawarner quickly rushed towards the kitchen with a curse. Yeah, she was definitely asking to join Mittelt once Azazel-sama came back. Being a maid must be better than this.

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Here we go, every since I leveled my scheming spirits up to 55 they've gained a new skill, if I close my eyes and focus I can see from their perspectives, right now I'm watching the Devils swiftly approaching my home, directing the spirit to go lower, floating in front of them as they walk, I smirk as Grayfia glares at the spirit, the others haven't noticed as they walk through the spirit, good to know, I didn't think I'd be able to hide from Grayfia, but it's interesting that Rias and Akeno failed to spot it, even as they physically passed through it.

The Rating Game is tomorrow, I can't grind tonight but that doesn't mean I should sleep, I have some... material gathering to do tonight. If I'm fighting tomorrow I need more summons first, and that means corpse collecting. I don't want to just kill indiscriminately, I'd rather not draw that kind of attention to myself, but there has to be corpses somewhere, even if it's more common to be cremated in Japan, I mean there's a graveyard at the old church after all, so there should be bodies there. If not... well, I'll find some corpses, one way or another.

As the Devils approach my home I see them warily glancing at the Bayrok's lurking on my rooftop with their bows, except Grayfia of course, who is perfectly calm. As they approach the door I get a mildly amusing idea.

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"Rias, are you sure about this? If this goes badly we are in the middle of his territory, with all his undead." Akeno says glancing cautiously at the undead seemingly grinning down at her, if she didn't know any better she'd say they were enjoying her fear. Glancing around she could she a pack of rotting undead hounds prowling around the grounds of the out of place mansion.

"It will be fine, I am more than enough to handle these corpses if the worst should happen." Grayfia assured her.

"It's fine, Akeno, even if he refuses I can't see this turning into a fight. And we need the help, us four alone can't beat Riser and his Peerage, Kuro and his horde would turn things in our favour. Risers Numbers won't mean anything if they get swarmed by Kuros own, it's our best chance to win this." Rias said calmly,

As she went to knock on the door in opened, revealing a suit of armour with a eerie blue glow from within it staring at her.

"Erm... hello? Is Kuro in?" she asked, not sure if it could understand her as it tilted it's armoured head... was it still a head if there was nothing inside the helmet? It didn't respond as it continued staring at her in silence.

"...Is there someone else I can talk too inside?" she asked after almost a minute passed, to her surprise it nodded it's head, and promptly closed the door in her face.

"Should we wait? It'd be rude to just barge in, and they might see us as intruders and attack." she asked the others, her brow furrowed in confusion. After a moment the door reopened, revealing a skeleton, who also stared at her in silence.

"Hello? Can you understand me? Is Kuro in?" she asked again as it stared at her.

"This is ridiculous, they can clearly understand us. I will go in and find out if he is in." Grayfia said annoyed after another minute of silent staring from the undead. The moment she stepped through the door five undead ninjas appeared around her, holding their kunai to her vital points.

"Wait, no we are sorry, but we need to speak to your master. We mean no harm." Rias said quickly as Grayfia started to gather her magic, she could see the Bayrok's aiming their bows a them as the hounds started approaching, growling and snarling at them.

"What are you doing?" a voice asked. As she turned around she saw Kuro walking up his path, a gesture from him making the undead stand down.

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The panicked expressions on Rias and Akeno's faces were worth the effort of sneaking out the back door. I didn't actually spend the Shinobi Necro's they did that themselves when Grayfia tried to barge in. I was simply planning on having a different undead answer the door every time to see how long they would waste on this.

"Kuro! I'm terribly sorry about this, we need to speak with you and there was a misunderstanding with your undead, we weren't trying to trespass." Rias said quickly, worried that she was already off to a bad start.

"By forcing your way into my home? Whatever, follow me." I say walking past them and into the living room, taking a seat and gesturing for them to do the same. "So, what's so important that it couldn't wait till Monday?" I ask as they sit opposite me, Grayfia remaining standing behind them as she glares at me, yeah yeah I know.

I don't want to become a devil, Old Me said it was a bad idea, but how the fuck am I supposed to get out of this? Ignoring Old Me's advise is dumb, getting instakilled by Grayfia by going back on our deal after fucking her is even dumber.

"I was hoping to convince you to change your mind about joining my Peerage, I know you have already rejected me once but I need you to reconsider, no matter what it takes." she say, she's really bad at negotiating isn't she? I saw Grayfia wince slightly at the desperate tone of Rias's voice. Makes sense, all her Peerage was basically handed to her on a silver platter.

"Why would I do that? And why would I agree to serve someone weaker than me? And why couldn't this wait till Monday, I like having my weekends problem free. Besides, joining the Devil faction will mess with my relationship with the Grigori." I say, enjoying Grayfia's angry look, but she says nothing. If she wants to hide out deal I can't just agree immediately.

"Have you joined the Fallen?!" she asks quickly taking in my words. I see Akeno's face twitch angrily before she suppressed it, she really has a grudge against fallen.

-5 Affection with Akeno Himejima

"No, but we have a good thing going on, mostly I do favours for Azazel in exchange for rewards, like my new home and maid. It's really none of your business, but joining the Devils would make things a bit awkward since you are at war with them, even if it's a cold war." I explain.

"I can assure you I have no problem with you keeping it up, even as a devil, and I'll deal with any devils that don't like it. But more importantly, what will it take to get you to reconsider? I have a Rating Game coming up tomorrow that I have to win, no matter what. After the battle I won't ask anything of you, and I'll never order you to do anything, but I absolutely must win tomorrow. So name your price, whatever it is, I'll accept." she says seriously. A blank check? And she promises to never try and control me? Despite her inexperience in negotiating that's actually tempting, but what to ask for? Grayfia is glaring at me intensely, so I can't ask for too much, but I can't ask for nothing either. The problem is that she really has nothing I particularly want, but I can work with this.

"Ten unconditional favours, to be called whenever I want. Sona already owes me one favour, but if I'm joining you I want to be able to call on you ten times, for whatever I want." I say after a moment of thought, it's too much and she'll negotiate me down to a more reasonable amount like five or even three. But having even three favours from a Devil Heiress will come in handy, especially since I am already getting 'paid' by Grayfia, and Sirzechs with my High Class Devil Promotion. Sorry Old Me, but I need to not be killed by Grayfia, I'll try and find a way to switch races later.

"I accept, if you join me I'll do whatever you want ten times." she replies immediately beaming at me. What.

+15 Affection with Rias Gremory

+5 Affection with Akeno Himejima

What.

She is not a smart girl, is she?

No, but she's sexy enough for it not to matter...

"Would you like to be a Pawn or a Bishop? Wait, do you know what they do?" she asks happily. I ignore the game, it's never made comments like that before.

"I do, and I don't want to be called a pawn, even in a technical sense, so I'll be a Bishop." I answer, if someone calls me a pawn they're getting eaten by my hounds. She immediately goes through a bag she brought and brings out a Chess Piece, rising and approaching me as I rise, moving closer than she needs to she presses the piece against my chest pushing it in.

Evil Piece (Bishop) Detected, Accept Devil Transformation?

[Yes] [No]

I don't want to press the button with them all watching me. So I just wait as Rias looks more and more worried.

"So, how does this work? Is there something I have to do?" I ask looking confused as nothing happens.

"No, it should have worked already... I don't understand..." she says, I almost feel bad about this, as tears start to form, her former happiness vanished, replaced with growing despair.

"I can feel... something? Near my soul, but it isn't doing anything as far as I can tell." I bullshit. I can't feel shit.

"Lady Rias, I will head to the underworld and ask Ajuka if he knows why this isn't working, hopefully he is free today." Grayfia says, looking slightly pale. Can't blame me for this, I can't possibly be doing anything, so I am innocent. Well, I'm not but they can't prove that. She quickly leaves, leaving us all sat down awkwardly, Rias looks like she's about to start sobbing at any minute, I guess having her hopes rise and then be immediately dashed would do that.

Akeno is comforting Rias, but she keeps glancing at me for some reason, it's not a suspicious look, more hopeful? Not sure what she wants but whatever. Wait, her mother died. And I'm a Necromancer... I know what she wants, but I can't bring back the dead properly yet. As I read a random book while we wait, we hear someone banging around upstairs.

"Do you have company, Kuro?" Akeno asks looking at the ceiling.

"It's probably just my maid dropping something," I say, you aren't having Asia, so it's better you never realise she exists.

"Does your maid have a Sacred Gear? I can feel one nearby." Rias says also focusing on the ceiling. They can sense Sacred Gears, of course they can, I knew that. Damn it.

"No, but a guest of mine does, she's from the Grigori and I'm letting her stay here as a favour to Azazel, so she's off limits unless you want to risk starting a war." I say coldly glaring at the both as Rias winces, a guilty look on her face.

"Of course, do you know Azazel personally?" she asks changing the subject, trying to hide her sadness.

"Yeah, I've met him a couple of times." I say dropping the glare now that she's gotten the message.

"It's a bit frustrating knowing that the Grigori Governor General was in my territory without me knowing, but that's not your fault." she says frowning, I suppose I'd be worried if I found out the leader of a rival faction was happily visiting my lands without my knowledge too. "I suppose it's fine, we have decent relations with the Grigori after those fallen were handed over, no reason worsen them again over this, I'll tell Sona, but I doubt anything will come from it."

"Can your undead understand people? I mean other than you?" she asks after some more silence.

"I don't know, want to test it?" I ask as I mentally order one of my Living Armours to come to me. "I command them Mentally, and I don't exactly keep them around other people."

"Err, sure? What should I do?" she asks looking at the armour standing besides my chair. I send it the order to obey her.

"I've ordered it to listen to you so just try telling it to do something." I say, I want to know this myself to be honest.

"OK, come over here?" she half asks the armour, immediately it approaches her, standing in front of her. Good to know, if I let them they will obey other people. Immediately I cancel my order and order it back.

"Interesting, if I understand Rating Game's they end when the King is beaten right? My Living Armour's are bodyguard specialists, if we fix the problem then I'll have a couple guard you during the match." I say, looking between my Armour and Rias.

"That would be wonderful, thank you. Can you leave them behind? Is there a distance limit?" she asks.

"Not really, they stay here while I'm out after all, and my Spirits are scattered around the town, I use them as scouts, I don;t want to get caught off guard again after all. I don't think you can even see them, since you walked through one of them earlier." I say smirking slightly, I am proud of my spirits, they've done good work.

"Wait, I did? When?" she asks blushing slightly.

"When you were walking down the street just outside my house, I was watching through it's eyes, it's why I got back so quickly, since it saw you coming. There's one in this room right now, right there." I say pointing to the spirit floating around the corner of the room.

"Wait, seriously? I can't sense anything at all..." she says, while I watch both she and Akeno cast various spells attempting to spot it, but they fail. Another test I wanted to do, I want to know if they can find a spirit if they are specifically searching for it, looks like they can't which makes my spirits excellent spies.

Almost an hour of small talk passes before Grayfia returns with Ajuka following behind... I wasn't expecting him to come in person. Wasting no time he pulls out a device and presses it to my chest.

"I can see the problem, it's trying to connect to his soul but it's being blocked somehow... I thought it would be an issue with him being too strong for her to turn at first but that's not it, otherwise it would have been rejected and would have fallen out, instead it's just stuck there." he says, after pressing a few buttons he extracts it from me, and the option to accept the piece vanishes.

"I'll look into this but it will take time, too much time for him to be turned before tomorrow." he says looking at the piece, as Rias's tears return. He scans me with another device ignoring her.

"Is there no way to turn him before then?" Grayfia asks frowning.

"No, but he can just be stay human for the game, Sirzechs will accept it obviously, and Serafall will most likely accept it as well. And I highly doubt Falbium will care about this in the slightest. The Phenex might not like it, but with two, maybe three Satans, allowing it there's little he can do about it. This does mean he'll not have the safety net that Devil's do, if he gets injured he won't be able to be pulled out like normal." he says, wonderful... "I'll look into why he can't be turned in the mean time, Grayfia, you should celar it with Serafall just to be safe." he says leaving quickly.

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A Human in a Rating Game? How ridiculous. Happy now?

Quest Complete

Objective: Make Sure Kuro takes part in the Rating Game

Reward: You get to live!

Still something was strange, he could have sworn he sensed someone strong hiding in the mansion.

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"I will go and speak with Lady Serafall, to ensure that there are no problems with his participation, good day, Lady Rias." Grayfia says leaving as well, as Rias wipes her tears away, she doesn't look too happy though.

"I... are you sure about joining the Game? It will be extremely dangerous for you without the bonus safety Devils usually have..." she asks reluctantly.

"Then I want 5 more favours. And I want to call one in immediately." I say immediately.

"That's all? Of course. What do you want from me?" she asks cheering up, it's actually flattering that she gave me the opportunity to back out due to the danger, she's the least Devilish Devil I've ever heard of.

"I need more suits of Armour, I want to make more Living Armours before the match, but I lack the materials. I can gather the souls myself, but I don't have a way to get the armours, not before tomorrow at any rate." I explain.

"Is that all? You can keep the favour, I'll do that happily. It'll help me as well after all. The Gremory Family will have some, do you need them immediately or can I bring them tomorrow?" she asks happily.

"Tomorrow is fine, I can make them immediately before the rating game... here, give one of these to Koneko and Kiba, they're healing potions, they aren't perfect, but they'll heal about 35% of your health when drunk." I say passing them four healing potions, I have six and the Senzu Bean so I will have two for myself, plus a full heal, plus Drain Life.

"Seriously? Healing Items are rare, even weaker ones, where did you get them? I'll reimburse you for the cost." she says taking them gently.

"I made them, I'm an Alchemist as well as a Necromancer after all." I say, not quite bragging.

"...you really are amazing, Kuro-kun." Rias says with a small smile.

+5 Affection with Rias Gremory

"I am, if that's everything I want to make some preparations for tomorrow, you can show yourself out." I say rising back from my seat as they do the same.

"Of course, I will come and collect you tomorrow at around 10, the game starts at 12pm at our school. Will two hours be enough for you to make your Armours?" she asks, I tell her that's enough time and she gives me a smile as she leaves, Akeno hesitates momentarily before she follows, she definitely wants to use my talents.

As they leave a voice comes from behind the door that heads deeper into the house.

"Is it safe to come out now? Are the scary devils gone?" Azazel asks, walking into the room like he owns the place. This fucking guy... has he hidden portals somewhere in the house? He seems to pop up whenever he wants. "We didn't want to interrupt your important meeting so we hid for you." he says sitting in the seat Rias just left, Kalawarner, Mittelt and Raynare following behind him, wearing revealing maid outfits.

"Seriously? Scary Devils?" I ask, sitting back down.

"With a Satan and the scary maid even I would be worried, I'm just here to deliver your reward for helping me out with the adorable Asia, that's all." he says, gesturing to the two Fallen.

"More Maids? You know they all tried to kill me before right?" I ask deadpan.

"And they failed, don't worry they are very sorry about it, right girls?" he asks, getting them all to agree, Raynare is far more reluctant to do so.

"Right... I guess this place is a little hard for just Mittelt to clean, I'll take them." I say ignoring the small blush on Mittelt's face.

"Wonderful! So..." he trails off, smiling far too widely.

"So... what?"

"Alchemy huh? Can I have one of those potions as well? I'll make it worth your while..." he asks.

"If you show up with that Dohnaseek guy in a maid outfit I'll not be happy." I say, I don't need any more maids, and that's a scary thought.

"You don't have to worry about that, what's the point in maids if they aren't sexy? No, I'll find something else, so... please? Pretty please?"

He has a point there.

"If I give it to you will you please go away? I have stuff to do." I say taking another one out and placing it on the table.

+10 Reputation with Azazel

+10 Reputation with the Grigori

"Deal, I'll bring you something wonderful for it, oh and don't worry, we can still be friends after you become a devil." he say pocketing it immediately... just how long was he hiding back there?

"You could at least pretend you aren't spying on me." I say as he rises.

"Why bother? You're too smart to believe it. I think I'll get Serafall to let me watch this Rating Game, it should be fun." he says as he leaves.

Once he's gone I take a deep sigh, leaning back in my chair.

"Right, I have important things to do. Mittelt you're the head maid, so you show those two around." I order getting up.

"Wait, I'm in charge of these two?" she asks, Kalawarner doesn't seem to care but I can see Raynare getting angry.

"Yes, that's what being head maid means." I say deadpan.

+10 Affection with Mittelt

+10 Obedience with Mittelt

"Why is she in charge? I'm stronger than her!" Raynare yells losing her temper, making a light spear, immediately the Living Armour pounces on her, backhanding her to the ground and placing it's sword against her throat.

"And you're weaker than me, you're stronger than you were when you tried to kill me, but I'm much stronger now than I was then, as are my undead. If you're staying here, you will listen, besides, you're a maid, being strong won't help you dust." I say coldly as she freezes, she's managed to gain 6 Levels since then, which is impressive for her, but I am far stronger now. I order the Living Armour to release her, and head upstairs to my room.

+10 Obedience with Raynare

+10 Obedience with Kalawarner

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Watching the powerful Armour go back on standby against one of the walls the three Fallen spent a moment in silence before Mittelt broke it.

"I have a good thing going here. And I won't let you ruin it Raynare." she said glaring at the rising Fallen, who was red with embarrassment.

"Is that anyway to your superior? And how good can it be, you're a servant to a human." Raynare sneered.

"Former superior. And in case you've already forgotten, I'm the head maid, so I'm your superior now."

"I'm still stronger than you."

"Didn't help you against Lord Kuro's undead though did it?" Mittelt mocked as they glared at each other.

"How has he gotten so much stronger? He wasn't that strong before, neither were his undead..." Raynare asked, not breaking her glare.

"I don't know, he keeps getting stronger, and fast, it's no wonder Lord Azazel wants to have good relations with him, so you shouldn't ruin it."

"I won't, I just don't see why a weakling like you should be in charge." Raynare replied angrily.

"In case you haven't noticed, all three of us are weaklings compared to Kuro. If he says Mittelt is in charge then she is, until he says otherwise. If you don't like it, you just have to prove that you deserve the position more." Kalawarner said calmly, not realising the effect her words would have as Mittelt and Raynare glared at each other, both thinking the same thing, that they would prove to Kuro that they were more useful than the other.

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It's still late afternoon, and I need to wait till nightfall before I start my little crime spree in preparation for the battle. So fuck it, I can't grind so I'm taking a nap. I am not getting involved with that cat fight.

You don't want to be in between them? Sounds like a good time to me...

OK, why are you acting so weird?

Let's just say the usual guy is... out of the office at the moment. I'm Shiro by the way, you know me better as the First Gamer.

The Game's been a bit of an asshole to you, hasn't it?

...Yes. Is this the part where you kill me. Because if so I'd like to say that this Game is bullshit.

Nah, I just wanted to meet my junior Evil Gamer, I only kill the wannabe Heroes. And you are no Hero.

Since the Game has been so mean to you, I'll give you some gifts, to celebrate us meeting, even if it's not face to face.

[Blood of Shisui Uchiha] added

[Blood of Kushimaru Kuriarare] added

[Nuibari] added

[Skill Orb: Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation] added

So, I'll be watching since you seem entertaining.

Every now and then I'll send you a quest, trust me the rewards will be worth it...

Later.

I hate that guy sometimes.

There he is, the Game I know and... well not love, but I know him.

You're lucky Shiro finds you interesting, I don't want to talk about the details but he doesn't want me messing with your growth so much any more.

Seems boring to me, but apparently "What's the point in a game if you can't do what you want!" is what the idiot said.

It's far too much trouble to fight him over this, so consider yourself Blessed.

...I'm not undoing the Penalties though, you have to earn that.

I can see why my older self said he could be a friend. Having the game stop messing with me so much will help me speed up my growth much better, even if I still need to earn my ID Create back first.

Using the Skill Orb immediately, I get my new skill.

Skill Added

[Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation] (Active)

5000 CP to use

Forcibly resurrect a target as a slave

Requires a Sacrifice and some of the DNA of the target

Shikotsumyaku (Dead Bone Pulse) (Active) will now use CP instead

Until CP is unlocked MP will be used instead

Using MP for Chakra Abilities increases the cost by 100%

Special INT Perk Unlocked

[Perfect Chakra Control]

Your intelligence makes controlling your Chakra child play

All Chakra Skills cost 50% less CP

Interesting, I can enslave Shisui Uchiha, and some other guy I don't know, but given that I have one of the Seven Swords of the Mist I can guess who he is... But first I need some sacrifices... I guess I could bring back Issei as a slave but really, why would I? Without Boosted Gear he is useless to me.

I know who I'm sacrificing tonight... they can die for the sake of my future, after all I've already killed one third of the Perverted Trio, might as well finish the job. They're unimportant minor side characters anyway, I send the thought for my spirits to find them, they'll track them down and find out where they live for tonight, I can happily kill off some useless perverts if it gets me two powerful minions.

But I can't go on a crime spree, grave robbing and killing in broad daylight, I'll wait till the cover of night.

So... nap time, the longer I stay awake the harder I find it too think properly, even if my body isn't tired, my mind is.

- Late Night -

It's midnight, and that means it's time to get to work. Putting on a dark outfit, a pair of black jeans, a black t shirt and hoodie and some black gloves I head out. My spirits are telling me that the streets are practically empty at the moment, and they can help me avoid the few people out late. Sneaking out the back of the mansion I set off for target number one, a hardware store...

With my spirits guiding me from the sky it's child's play to get there undetected, I keep to the alleys and shadows, putting my thief class to work to avoid people seeing me from their windows. I've noticed that there are basically no cameras around this city, probably curtsey of the devils not wanting cameras to pick up the supernatural that is so common here, it's probably the same in Kyoto thanks to the Yokai there. It doesn't matter if you can wipe memories if it's recorded and seen by thousands, if not more. I always wondered about that in Harry Potter, with the growing tech, which the ministry clearly don't understand, it's only a matter of time before they get found out, it might be the same here, but the Three Factions seem a lot smarter than the Ministry of Magic.

Once I arrive at the shopping district I head to the back door of the store, I still don't see any cameras. Finding the door I send a spirit inside to check for cameras, looking through it's eyes, there is a single CCTV camera, aiming at the back door, which is a problem. As I'm trying to decide how to destroy it one of my Bayrok's summons it's self, without any orders from me, it turns into a shadowy form and slips under the door, reforming out of the cameras line of sight, immediately firing a arrow and smashing the camera.

Quickly pick the lock of the door with a hairpin I grabbed from home, I really need a proper Lockpick set but this will do for now, I open the door and had inside, thankfully with no alarms, this place is pretty old fashioned. I might only be a Level 10 thief but I can handle this much, the door wasn't particularly difficult, just an old lock that probably hasn't been changed in years.

Taking a moment to smash the camera beyond repair, so it can't be seen that it was shot with an arrow, I head into the main store, grabbing everything and throwing it all in my inventory, I'm only here for some shovels but I don't want to make it obvious what I came for. After a moment of thought I break open the till as well, looting it, and try to pick the lock on the safe in the back, but my Dex and Thief Level are too low, so I throw the entire safe in my inventory instead.

Leaving the store I decide to repeat my feat at a Grocery, looking for Potions Ingredients, and a Flower Store, each time taking everything not nailed to the ground, including the safes. I'll sort through everything later, but for now I just want to get moving. I head out to the old church, making sure to avoid any houses that have lights on, I don't want to have to explain why I was lurking around this late if someone sees me from the windows.

Getting to the small graveyard quickly I summon my Skeletal Horde, and pass out the shovels. I got around twenty shovels so we can do this efficiently as they go to work digging up the graves while my spirits keep watch. While they do that I go through the various food and flowers to see what can be used in potions, the answer is pretty much everything, but most of the food just does Restore Health/Restore Stamina, while the more interesting flowers have more varied effects, I make around 30 Restore Health Potions, plus 15 Restore Stamina Potions and Restore Mana Potions, and 10 Resist Fire Potions. All in all, this was a good heist, I still have a fair few ingredients but this should be plenty for tomorrow. I even have enough to give more to Rias and the others to grind up that affection. Maybe they'll even manage to be useful so I don't have to do everything myself, I doubt it but still...

My skeletons are doing good work, there's already a couple of rotting corpses piled up near me, but this will take a while, there's a good 20/30 graves here, not much compared to a regular graveyard but at least there are bodies here, Christians tend to get buried so I'm not just finding ashes. Getting an idea I get the chessboard I put in my inventory out and sit down, getting a Living Armour to play with me, it's... a slow game, he keeps knocking the pieces over with his large gauntlets, but eventually I win, getting +5 INT, I wasn't sure it would count but I'm glad it did.

Out of boredom I spend a good hour or so playing with my Armour, while the Skeleton's dig, the advantage to undead is that they never get tired or want breaks, so before long I have 18 corpses, and 7 skeleton's that are too decomposed to count as corpses any more. I can use Corpses for Skeleton's but not Skeleton's for Corpses.

With the Skeleton's I can either make a Greater Skeleton Horde, which needs 5 Skeletons, or I can use three corpses to make a Bone Golem which needs 10 Skeleton's worth of bones. I have numbers already, so I put the skeleton's and 3 of the corpses in a pile and use [Create Greater Undead]. It's fairly gruesome as the bones are torn from the corpses and skeleton's, all fusing together, by the time it's done the Golem stands almost double my height and width, a hulking beast of bone, with large blades made of rib cages for arms. I like my new friend, and more importantly Riser won't. He is already level 50, so it's easy enough to power him up.

There's something I find odd, why can a single weak corpse be used for a stupidly powerful undead? I would have expected to have to use higher quality corpses for the better undead, but I don't need to, even one of these random bodies can become something like a Zombie Giant, or a Frost Knight.

I can change it if you'd prefer...

No, I wasn't complaining, I just found it odd, this is fine.

Frost is good against Fire, so I use five of the corpses to make 5 Frost Knights. Almost immediately the area becomes freezing as I shiver slightly, I can see my breath in the cold air as the Five Knights kneel before me, each of them hulking beast like men, in heavy armour which has ice covering it, their blades have a layer of ice on them. After powering them up to 55 I dismiss them, I'll summon them when they are needed, but if I keep them out I might just die of hypothermia before Grayfia gets to me.

Next I make 5 Death Knights, each looks similar to the Frost Knights, but with a black aura, instead of the icy blue of the Frost Knights, unlike the other knights they are armed with a giant greatsword, instead of a sword and shield. They aren't tanks like my Living Armour, they are pure DPS, existing to deal as much damage as possible.

After some thought I use the last 5 corpses to make a Greater Skeleton Horde, as they burst out of the rotting flesh and rise, clutching various weapons, from Greatswords to Warhammers, comparing them to the other skeleton's I can see why they are classed as Greater Skeleton's, despite both being level 55, the Greater Skeleton's have almost twice the HP of a regular Skeleton, and they are far larger, easily a foot or two taller, than their lesser brethren.

Honestly it was inefficient to summon a single Greater Horde when I could have used the corpses for 5 more Frost Knights or even some Wendigos. I want some Lesser Lich's, but it requires the corpse of a magic user to summon one. The Greater Horde will serve as commanders, each taking 10 regular Skeleton's under their control, it will take some of the micro management off my shoulders, and I can command the smaller hordes separately, since normally I command the entire horde at once. This way I can have them carry out individual orders instead of just swarming.

I still have around 70 souls in my tower, and I can access them even without summoning the tower, so I summon more Spectral Knights, taking my total to ten, that should do for now.

Dismissing my horde, ready to be summoned the moment I need them I head out, following my spirits as they guide me to my Sacrifices.

Fortunately they live close by, just a couple of streets away from each other, Glasses can be first as I pick the lock to his back door and sneak upstairs, even a Level 10 thief can easily stay undetected against regular sleeping humans. His parents don't even stir as I move past their room, and enter his bedroom. Now... how to do this? I should take him away but he'll definitely wake up...

Summoning a Living Armour and pulling out the Sacrificial Dagger I so rarely use, I place it against his throat as shake him awake, it doesn't take long for him to come too as he freezes at the feel of the cold metal at his throat.

"Get up, slowly. Try anything and my friend over there is going to end you, and then your parents. Stay silent, if you speak I'm taking your tongue." I say as he obeys shaking in fear. My Armour holds him at sword point as I use some rope from the Hardware Store to bind his hands, stuffing his mouth with some boxers on the floor, and duct taping his mouth shut. I lead him out of the house, making sure he doesn't try anything as we pass his parents room.

-100 Reputation with Motohama

I think I'll live...

As we leave I push him to a Bayrok, who throws him over it's shoulder and vanishes into the night, heading silently back to the Old Church, it seems like a good a place as any to sacrifice them.

That went well enough, next victim.

Heading into Baldy's house I notice his mother is awake, getting a drink from the kitchen. I hide and watch from the shadows as she heads back upstairs, with my following behind silently, honestly I'm not surprised that Baldy ended up a pervert, his mother is a milf, and her sleepwear is less then modest, the see-through babydoll barely covering her swaying ass as she walks up the stairs. Puberty must have been a bitch for him, she heads into her room, getting into the empty bed, no father?

I wait for her to fall back to sleep before I head into Baldy's room, to my lack of surprise it's covered in porn posters and mags, yeah this guy isn't going to be missed by the world.

Things go down hill from there unfortunately, as I try and repeat what I did to Glasses Baldy wakes up fast, throwing a punch at my face as he rolls out of bed, it does very little damage but it does knock me back slightly.

"Kuro?! What the fuck are you doing here Asshole?!" he shouts as he rushes me, I'm ready this time, and dodge his punch, before I knee him in the stomach, punching him in the face knocking him out, I almost killed him with that, my STR is far above human after all.

-100 Reputation with Matsuda

"Matsuda? What are you shouting about?" his mother asks as she enters the room, before she sees me and lets out a scream, panicking I grab the dagger and rush her, stabbing her through the heart immediately as I cover her mouth while she dies. It doesn't take long as she coughs up blood covering my hand. I lay her down next to her unconscious son and look out the window, but after a couple of minutes pass with no movement I calm down.

It's a shame I had to kill her, she had that sexy lonely middle-aged woman look to her, but sometimes you have to kill a milf.

No need to waste the body though, I quickly stick it in my inventory, I'll deal with it later since I don't want to leave any evidence behind. Binding the fool I carry him out of the house, passing him to another Bayrok as he heads off to join the others.

I head back to the Church myself, heading into the building where my Bayrok's have stashed them both, it looks like Baldy is coming to as my Living Armours force them both to their knees in front of me.

"What the fuck is going on?! What are you doing you fucking creep!?" Baldy shouts at me, I can see Glasses trying to get him to shut up with his eyes but he can't speak with his mouth duct taped. I walk over to him and rip it off him as he immediately spits out the boxers I gagged him with, Baldy is struggling but he can't hope to shake off the Armour holding him down.

"Matsuda, Shut Up! Don't insult the guy with a knife and fucking monsters, can't you see the blood on him?" he shouts as Baldy looks over me.

"It's your mothers by the way, you woke her up. And what's going on is a sacrifice, I need more undead servants but I needed two sacrifices for them, I volunteered you two. Using my new skill causes a scroll to appear in my hand, and I roll it out in front of me, I get Glasses moved over to the side as he is forced to watch. Starting with Kushimaru Kuriarare

I smear his blood on the scroll as Seals spread out beneath baldy as the Armour moves back, taking a moment to stab him in the leg first.

Now, to use the Jutsu itself, the moment I want to my hands move on their own. Tiger, Snake, Dog, Dragon my hands move through the hand seals by themselves. Before clapping together on the scroll. "Summoning Jutsu: Impure World Reincarnation!"

Immediately ash covers Baldy as he struggles, before he is replaced with a man wearing a white Anbu mask, his skin grey and cracked, I could fix that I just don't see a reason to.

Normally you'd need a control talisman to command them, but I've made some adjustment, you're welcome.

Immediately the undead swordsman attempts to rush me, but just before he reaches me he collapses, clutching his head in agony as he writhes on the ground.

"Don't bother fighting, the Jutsu won't let you, you're mine now." I say taking out his sword, Nuibari and throwing it in front of him.

"You're dead, killed by Might Duy, your choices are to serve me willingly, or for me to wipe your personality leaving you as an emotionless tool." I say coldly as he rises on shaking legs, as he grabs his sword and stares up at me, before clutching his head again, looks like even thinking about attacking me is enough to punish him.

"You think one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist would ever serve some scum like you?" he sneers before he clutches his head again, that's fine. A single thought from me makes him go still, his personality gone as he rises and walks over to the side.

Kushimaru Kuriarare

One Half of the Heartless Pair

Race – Human (Enhanced)

Tier – Elite

LVL – 35

That'll do, he's tier three so he's definitely powerful, in pure levels he'd be level 140, even higher than me, he'll be a fine addition to my army, especially since he doesn't count as a undead summon. I don't feel like dealing with his personality though since he dropped straight to -100, so that's fun, even if I could command him he'd fight against me constantly. But once I took away his personality his obedience jumped to 100.

Gesturing for Glasses to be dragged into the spot I ignore his begging. That cost 5k MP, but I can work out why first it was 5k, then it doubled to 10k since I don't have Chakra properly yet, then it was reduced by the perfect control perk back to 5k, that means that once I get my own Chakra it'll only cost 2.5k, still I had to wait a minute for my MP to regen, since I only have 9.5k overall, starting again I spread out the scroll again and smear Shisui's blood on it as the seals spread out again.

"Summoning Jutsu: Impure World Reincarnation!" I say over the crying, as the ash covers glasses, silencing him forever.

Shisui is far more patient than Kushimaru, rising and looking around slowly.

"In case you haven't noticed you are dead, I used the Impure World Reincarnation to bring you back, you can either serve me willingly, or join Kushimaru over there as a mindless tool. Choose." I say as he locks his red eyes onto me, his Sharingan spinning wildly.

"Are you from Konoha?" he asks quietly, remarkably calm.

"No, we aren't even in the Five Great Shinobi Countries any more."

"Are you planning on hurting my village?" he asks, still calm as he takes in his surroundings.

"No, my enemies are very different, I don't know if I'll ever even go to your world." I respond impressed by his calmness.

"My world? Not land? Interesting, as long as you don't threaten my home I'll serve, don't worry I won't try anything, the headache that started when I tried to use my Sharingan on you made it's point. I don't want to end up like that Mist Swordsmen after all." he says still perfectly calm. His obedience is at 60, and his rep at -20. he is an odd one, I thought he'd be angrier.

Shisui Uchiha

Shisui of the Body Flicker

Race – Human (Enhanced)

Tier – Elite

LVL – 80

...Well that's most of my problems dealt with, he isn't as strong as Grayfia, being 13 Levels lower, and human, but a Elite Anbu Shinobi, with a Sharingan under my control? Riser is a special kind of fucked.

"Welcome to the Horde, we have a battle tomorrow, so you can rest for now." I say, I would make Shisui look more normal, since I can do that but I want it to be clear that they are undead, so Riser can't complain any more than he no doubt will. I dismiss all my undead as they all go wherever they are when I don't have them.

Normally they would return to your Hub, but you are a peasant who doesn't even have a Hub yet so I just stick them in stasis in a void.

Right... when does this hubless peasant get a Hub then?

Next World.

Good to know I suppose.

After getting back home I head back to my room and sit down, I have an idea on how to not kill Riser, but not spare him. Trap Soul plus a Soul Flask, once he's beaten I can just steal his soul, which gives me something to barter with, if they don't offer enough for it back I'll just find another use for it, that should work right?

If he is weakened enough so he can't resist it, yes.

His body will be comatose until it's returned, which can be done by opening the Soul Flask near the body.

So that's the plan, his soul is mine. Now I just need a way to devour souls and I'll be a regular Shang Tsung.

Devour Soul is a higher level Necromancer Skill.

Wait, seriously? I was joking...

Maybe I should keep his soul and Devour it for his regeneration instead? Although that would make a lot of enemies, and besides Regeneration is a fairly common ability, I'll have other opportunities to steal it from someone so on second thought I'll just make the Phenex's pay a fortune for their sons soul instead. It's like kidnapping, but I'm leaving the body behind.

I want to be asleep for when Rias gets here, I'll use the excuse that I spent the night making my potions in preparation so I definitely wasn't robbing graves and sacrificing people. Still, I need an alchemy table to make it seem more realistic but I don't know where to find one.

Ugh, Here.

Why do I have to help him? It was funnier when I was tormenting him but noooo I have to play nice...

Be grateful weakling.

A Skyrim Alchemy table appears in the corner of my bed room as the messages pop up, looks like I owe the First Gamer a lot, he's definitely a worthy ally.

I was planning on sealing your inventory when the battle started taking your potions away, so yeah you definitely owe him.

Before I go to sleep, I want to be at 100% tomorrow after all, I take out the corpse from earlier and lay it on the floor. Now, what am I supposed to do with you? Wait, I know.

[Raise Dead] (Active)

25 MP per Targets Level to cast

Raises the corpse of a unit on the battlefield to fight for you

Raised unit will die after the battle is finished and cannot be raised a second time

Another skill to upgrade, a single battle is nothing after all so this is useless to me as it is.

[Raise Dead] (+1) (Active)

250 MP per Targets Level to cast

Raises the corpse to serve you

Raised corpse will be [Zombified [Original Race]] race, and will serve you until it is killed again

Raised Units are only capable of following simple instructions, and have some of the skills they possessed in life

Undead corpses cannot be raised.

The highest level I could raise with my current MP is 38, but that's fine, she's only level 6 after all. A single spell later and she rises, simple standing in front of me waiting for a order. I give her the command to kneel which she follows without a word staring blankly forwards at me.

"You know, I killed that idiot son of yours, killed you as well, how do you feel about that?" I ask mockingly as she stays on her knees staring up at me blankly, I want to make sure there's no mind in there, don't want her to stab me in my sleep after all. Despite my words she simply stares, with no signs of life in her eyes.

"Stand. Spin Around. Bark." I order smirking as she immediately obeys, if I tell her to spin she will until I change her order, even now she's repeatedly going 'woof' in a voice completely empty of emotion. "Ok now jump." I order amused at her obedience, I think I'll keep her. As she obeys I suddenly feel a tightness in my pants, she's still wearing her see-through red teddy, it's solid around her nipples but it covers nothing else, her small red thong in clear sight as she bounces, her breasts bouncing with her.

"Stop!" I order immediately as she freezes. No, bad Kuro, it's a corpse, well a zombie technically, but still.

Although... I do need to make sure she's not acting, just to be absolutely safe, moving closer I reach up and grope her breasts as she blankly stares at me before I pull back.. I need to think long and hard about whether I'm really going to stick my dick in a zombie, fuck it, I'm going to bed. I open one of the overly large wardrobes in my room (I have 3 for some reason, but I only have enough clothes to fill one, so two are empty) and push her into it, telling her to stay there. Closing it, I place a death ward on it, just to be sure no one finds her.

Ignoring the fact that I have a barely dressed zombie in my closet I get undressed and go to bed, Rias will be here in a few hours after all.

- Sunday, 10am -

Getting shaken awake is never particularly fun.

"Lord Kuro, please wake up, you have guests. Lord Kuro?" I hear a feminine voice as I wake up, looking up I see Mittelt looking down at me.

"I'm up." I say pulling the quilt off of me as I roll out of bed, I always hated waking up.

+5 Affection with Mittelt

What? Looking at Mittelt I see that she's bright red, looking away from me. It takes a moment for my brain to catch up as I look down at my naked body, my erection standing proud.

"...I was having a good dream." I say unashamed as I grab some clothes and start getting dressed. I'm not admitting I got a erection from a jumping zombie.

"I... Erm... I'll leave you to get dressed, your guests are in the living room." she says glancing down before running away.

Well, Rating Game, here I come. Riser, you're a special kind of Fucked.

- Bonus Scene – Just before the rating game (Written by Zweig) -

Serafall Leviathan let out a small sigh as she sat down besides her fellow Satans in the VIP-Area of the Rating Game Arena.

Looking at the monitor showing the two Teams she had to admit that she was rather interested in seeing how the Necromancer Kuro was planning to defeat Riser Phenex.

She owed him slightly for getting her a future favour with Grayfia, she really didn't care that he wasn't a Devil yet, if Ajuka and Sirzechs both allowed it her opinion wouldn't change much anyway, but she'd happily take a favour from Grayfia for it.

His handing over of the four Fallen Angels was not some truly genius move in politics but it showed that unlike 99% of the Devil Nobles he could step away from committing petty actions when it benefited him.

Combined with the Intellect he showed in actually defeating Sona at Chess and his rapid powering up in his Magical reserves he certainly was one of the best potential Reincarnated Devils, at least he would be when Ajuka worked out why he couldn't be turned.

Honestly, if not for his clear distaste towards serving others she would have offered him a spot on her own Peerage. Well, Sirzechs already informed her of Kuro being granted High-class status if he should defeat Riser which would make him a free agent technically. Maybe some sort of business-deal to make him join "Temporarily"? She was sure she could keep him around after he initially joined up.

Not to mention she would shield him from Sirzechs and Grayfia lashing out at him. The two would be pissed at her but she really didn´t care about that. Her little Sona had a crush on him and Serafall felt slightly attracted to him herself so keeping him safe was something she didn´t mind doing. Especially from those two.

Sirzechs was a friendly acquaintance at best and Grayfia was both a rival AND former enemy. While most devils had decided to forget about her former allegiance Serafall never could. In the early stages of the Civil-war it had always been her who fought against Grayfia and her brother Euclid and both had at various instances almost killed her.

If there was one thing Serafall could say about herself then it was that she held Grudges for a very long time. It was the same with Gabriel in a way, though in her case it was because the ditz had rejected Serafall's romantic advances towards her by being oblivious about it. That had hurt heavily and Serafall had asked for another Angel to take over Heavens foreign relations in regards to dealing with Devils. It still had resulted in her having a grudge towards the most beautiful Angel.

"The Rating Game between Riser Phenex and Rias Gremory begins."

Snapping out of her thoughts Serafall looked at the screen again.

"Now, show me what you can do Kuro-chan."