*Genderbending Intensifies*

With his hands in his pockets, Julian walked slowly on the blooded ground toward the unconscious Raynare. Before doing anything for the injured girl, Julian inspected her back where four messy big tears in her flesh sat just inside of her shoulder blades.

"Mmm, despite being barely connected to the muscle moving the shoulder blades, tearing them still results in deep damage on the surrounding muscle and tissue. Much more than what I estimated it should be. It's almost as if you were punished for ripping them off." Musing to himself, Julian came up almost instantly with multiple reasons for such a strange happenings.

Posponing happily the resolution of such a mystery, Julian lost his smile in preparation for what he was about to do.

Puhsing both palms forward, Julian fused a portion of his demonic and holy energy to form a sliver of trinity energy. Diluting it and coating his hands in it, causing them to glow faintly in a light orange glow. Julian pressed them on the two upward wounds on Raynare back.

Not minding on the blood coating his palm, he focused himself on his meager understanding of trinity energy and his desire to obtain a certain effect.

Immediatly, you could see the flesh of the tears knitting itself back. Not healing, or regenerating, but just reverting back to what it was before.

Just as Julian was becoming curious about is the wings would reapear too, he felt a strain appearing on the process of healing Raynare and in his mind. It was barely noticable the first moment the feeling sprouted. But, only a split second later, the strain became exponentially stronger. So strong that Julian instantly felt like a string snapped in mind. This happening made his vision flash white for a moment and a vicious pain flare up in his head before it disapeared a second later.

As the string snapped, so did the strain go away.

Ignoring his confusion momentarily, Julian kept carefull to not mess up the operation because of the strange event.

The wounds finally closing themselves, Julian swiped his arm across his forehead to get rid of the slight sweat he had worked up in his concentration.

Feeling something wet and warm touching his lips, Julian brought his left index to it and looked at it afterward.

"Blood?" Julian grinned despite the strange situation, he couldn't remember the last time he had bled, this life and his previous one included.

He could somewhat guess what happened during the procedure, he had lost a fight. A fight of the mind and will but still a fight.

And as proved by the lack of wings on Raynare's back, Julian could quite easily deduce that the fight was over the wings.

Julian had fought, even if unconciously, to bring them back. And the other thing had fight against it.

Losing a fight so directly and overwhelmingly, was a new experience Julian had to admit he rather liked. In fact, Julian can't remember if he ever lost at all in his two lives. Setbacks he had experienced, but not losing.

Repeating the same process with the two remaining wounds on the ex-fallen angel back, this time conciously willing to not bring the wings back.

While observing the orange glow that gave him a feeling of belonging coming from his hand, Julian marveled once again at the puzzle this energy of him was. If there was one thing he was sure about it, it was that trinity energy had a very strong affinity with time. Not the element, mind you, but rather the concept of it.

Unfortunately, due to its diffculty to produce and control. Julian hadn't the opportunity to train much with him. Seriously, the ratio demonic/holy energy to trinity energy was as absurd as 1/100. So, besides learning that trinity energy had the properties of both holy and demonic and an affinity to time, as well as this unefficient way to heal injuries.

The reason why he wasn't reenacting what he did earlier to Raynare when healing her whole body was simply that his reserve of magic was almost empty. What he was doing right now with only using his palms to heal a specific area was to train his manipulation and efficiency at using this energy.

Finishing up restoring Raynare to a pristine form, Julian destroyed the remaining blood on him and eyed up the girl still kneeling.

Her breasts were in the open, the straps of her BDSM outfit had snapped when she hit the ground after he sent her flying earlier.

Shrugging, as it was kinda his fault and it would be pretty weird for people to see him carrying an almost nude girl. Julian removed his t-shirt, destroyed the very slight residue of sweat on it and put in on her.

Placing one her hand under her knees, and the other one behind her back. Julian lifted Raynare up, and threw her like a bag of potato on his right shoulder.

Leaving the barrier he put on earlier and erasing it afterward, Julian strodded up to Issei who was brought out of his haze at his reappearance.

Issei, finally regaining his senses since his life wasn't in some kind of danger, Glared intensely at Julian and with wide gestures exclaimed. "Yo! What the fuck was that!? After Yuuma glared at me, there was an explosion and then you disappeared and reappeared at the end of the parc and then she was sent flying doing like a thousand backflips and crashed on the ground like a rock..."

Remarking the girl on Julian's shoulder, Issei slowed down his speech to ultimately stop speaking alltogether. The seriously messed up situation eventually truly sinking in, Issei lowered his head a bit and placed both of hands on it. He asked in a slightly shaking voice. "What the hell is going on?"

Julian, seeing the distress his friend was in. Closed in on him and patted his shoulder firmly. Julian reassured. "It's okay Issei, it's over. No murderous Girlfriend trying to screw you anymore. And no, you're not dreaming. Here's the proof."

Removing the gift Issei gave to Yuuma, or rather Raynare, from her wrist, Julian presented it to Issei.

"Here, she doesn't deserve it. Give it to your next girlfriend instead. Oh, and her true name isn't Yuuma Amano, it's Raynare. Yuuma was just a persona she used to approach you."

Taking the bracelet, throwing a look to Raynare Issei brought it to his chest and squeezed it. He whispered confusingly. "But... Why?"

Julian looked up at the sky and sighed longly in annoyance. "It's... Complicated, and really annoying to explain, so I'll let someone else do it for me."

Smirking lightly, Julian turned his gaze back to Issei and asked. "Speaking of that, do you remember the card you were given by that girl just before beginning your date with Raynare here? If yes, take it out." Julian's tilted his head toward the girl on his shoulder and waited for an answer.

Issei thought for a bit, confused. But then, after he realized what Julian was talking about. Issei put away the bracelet he still had in his hand in one of his pocket to afterward search in another one and taking a card out of it.

"You talking about this?"

Taking calmly the card from Issei's hands, Julian brought it closer to his face and inspected it with his magical sense.

From what Melissa said in response to one of his question, Julian learned that every supernatural beings had a magical sixth sense from birth and that it wasn't something unique to him. He also learned that the power of this sense varied from person to person and also due to someone own strength.

From what he could see from the card, it was a summoning circle that would be activated by a strong yearning for something or if the vital signs of its bearer were becoming weak. For some reason unclear to julian, it would also be activated if the bearer thought about the hair color of house gremory like said in the show. Each conditions fulfilled would send a particular signal to the other owner of the other half of the card.

How could he decipher all that only by gazing at a magical circle? Well, Melissa surprisingly knew a lot of thing.

Magic circle found themselves to be a mix of coding and mathematics. And if there was something Julian was godly at even in his previous life, it would be coding.

Unfortunately, it seemed Rias wasn't as rash as she seemed to be. As the card seemed tied to the magical signature of Issei. It wouldn't activate even if someone else fulfilled the conditions.

Not wanting to used destruction power in front of issei yet. Julian rolled his eyes annoyingly and gave back the card to Issei. "Okay, don't ask why. But I need you to imagine me as a girl with entirely crimson hair and big boobs. And I want you to wish to fondle them badly, okay." Julian said not really thinking deeply about what he asked.

Issei threw a really weirded out glance at Julian and even if he wasn't really in the mood right now he tried nonetheless. Closing his eyes, Issei pictured Julian changing into a woman.

A moment passed, before Issei shuddered and said out loud. "That's gay."

Julian rolled his eyes again, focusing on altering the signal from Issei's vitals to the card and didn't change his expression until issei gained a perverted smiled with flared up nostrils and a blush.

"Eheheh, it's not so bad finally."

Finally gaining an horrified expression Julian shouted. "Okay! That's enough! It's working! It's working!"

Seeing Issei not stopping and beginning to do grabbing motions with his hands. Julian gained a dangerous expression and menaced. "Issei, if you don't stop this instant I swear I will genderbend you as a loli... In real life."

Issei immediatly stopped and opened his eyes in fright. Scratching his head nervously, he chuckled. "I was just joking! Just joking! There's no way I would simp over my best friend genderbent form after all."

Diverting his gaze to the side, Issei rubbed his wrist with cold sweat coating his back.

Meeting eyes with Julian a moment later, Issei asked uncertainly. "You were joking too right?"

"Of course." Julian answered with a small, totally fake smile.

The two stopped their banter as they were distracted by a human sized red magic circle appearing beside them.

Going from up and down, the circle materialized a crimson-haired girl who had her back against them.

Both Julian and Issei stayed silent at this scene, the former in uncaringness and the later in a numb way.

"I have come, you were the one who summoned me were you not?"

Turning herself to face them, the girl, Rias, froze in her track at what she saw.

Her eyes flicking to Raynare on Julian's shoulder and his nude upper body to finally set on his face. Rias said blankly. "Oh, that's where you were gone to."

Before Julian could get to business, a scream full of anguish and horniness made Julian want to facepalm. "*GASP* THAT'S THE GENDERBENT VERSION OF YOU I IMAGINED IN MY HEAD JUST NOW! What the fuck Julian!"

Ignoring the look full of reproaches sent his way, Julian took advantage from the omega confused state Rias was in and said. "Don't bother yourself, I already know what's going on and your plans for him."

Tilting his head toward Issei, Julian continued. "Deal with him first, as I have something to take care of as you can see." He indicated with his free hand the girl hanging from his right shoulder.

Julian gained a cunning look. "And be honest about everything he wants to know and about your wants. If you're not, I will tell him the truth, the whole truth. About, you know, that you aren't the only 'King'."

His wide smile abating to a casual one, he patted Issei on the shoulder. "Now then, I'll leave him in your care, till next time." Julian sent a lazy wave to Rias.

"Please wa... And he's gone." Rias muttered the last part a little dumbfounded as Julian disappeared from his spot, It seemed she heavily understimated his overall capabilities.

Even if she felt somewhat frustrated that her plan didn't worked out, but in the end, she just smiled at it. As it only made her want to have him in her peerage even more.

Meeting gaze with issei that seemed as much at a lost than her made Rias regain her confidence and previous composure. Of course, only because the disturbing element was gone.

Still smilling a little wrily. Rias spreaded her devil wings and presented herself for real. "Greeting, I am Rias Gremory, heir to the great house of Gremory. And I am a devil."