51 Chapter 51
[Alternative timeline, ten years in the future].
"Hahaha! So that's your strength? Pathetic." A handsome man with white hair and red eyes said arrogantly.
Next to this man was another man lying on the ground with injuries all over his body.
The fallen man had brown hair that matched his eyes of the same color.
Issei Hyoudou, who was lying on the ground, looked at the man in front of him with hatred in his eyes.
The man he stared at with hatred was once one of the people he trusted the most, but who unfortunately betrayed him, to be exact, Issei found out that this man really never treated him as a friend, but only as someone he could use.
Everything this man did was perfectly calculated for his own benefit, and even the times he helped him, it was only to show a kind façade.
And if that wasn't enough, the women that Issei thought loved him, actually despised him and were only by his side at Akira's request. But that only became clear to him the moment they stabbed him in the back.
'Now I understand why they never let me touch them...'
As he remembered these women, an even greater hatred arose in his heart.
"Partner, in your current state it is impossible to beat you, I think we should back off and think of a new strategy." Ddraig's voice sounded in Issei's mind.
"Heh! Do you think he will let us escape? He probably planned to kill us today." Spitting out a bit of blood, Issei stood up as he muttered those words.
"But-"
"No more! Only one of us will make it out alive today!"
Interrupting Ddraig, Issei stood up with difficulty, but before he could use Balance Breaker, he felt a weight on his chest.
BOOM!
Before he could react, he found himself being thrown into a nearby wall, which collapsed from the impact.
"Cough!"
Coughing up another bit of blood, Issei tried to get up again, only to find the white-haired man in front of him.
"A- Akira!" Issei said with hatred.
Moving his gaze downward, Akira's eyes met with Issei's who was kneeling in front of him.
"This is where our eyes meet." Akira said coldly, his palm was a few inches from Issei's forehead. He was about to kill him.
"S-You bastard!"
"You took everything from me! And for what? I don't remember offending you, in fact I always considered you a friend!"
Issei couldn't help himself, but knowing he couldn't resist this next attack, he screamed out all his frustrations.
"Not only did you make Rias and the other girls trick me, you even killed my family in front of me. Why?"
"WHY?!!!" Issei screamed, blood dripping from all his orifices.
"..."
Akira was silent, and conjured a magic circle in his palm.
"YOU DON'T WANT TO ANSWER? YOU SON OF A BITCH!"
Issei seemed to have gained a sudden boost of power, after getting no response from Akira, he felt a surge in his power, which punched Akira.
A glow of surprise appeared on Akira's cold face, he didn't imagine that Issei still had power inside him, but that was just as well.
Just as Issei's punch was about to hit him, he stepped back a few feet. Which proved to be the right choice, since even though Issei's punch hit the air, he felt a strong wind on his face, which showed the strength of his punch.
'So that's the will of the world? Really biased.'
Issei feeling a huge amount of demonic energy entering his body, chose not to continue attacking but to gather this huge amount of power in his left hand.
A red gauntlet appeared in his left hand, and looking at the state of it, he knew that this would be his last attack. But this time he was confident that he could kill the man in front of him.
"Akira, I hope you are ready to die!"
"I have fed my hatred for you, all this time."
A huge red sphere of demonic energy was gathered in Issei's left hand, his brown hair flickered due to the distortion the energy was causing.
"Partner, I will use all my remaining power to help you, so finish him off!" Ddraig said.
Just then Ddraig's voice could be heard saying, "BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST! BOOST!"
Issei's eyes at that moment were filled with hatred for Akira.
"YOU ARE DEAD!" Issei shouted as he ran towards Akira with the intention of attacking him with the energy sphere.
"AAAAAH, DIE!" Issei yelled.
When he was close enough to Akira, he moved his left hand with the intention of piercing Akira's heart with the demon energy sphere.
BOOOM!
A huge explosion was heard, and a huge amount of dust rose covering the entire surroundings.
"ARRGH!"
After a few moments of silence, a cry of pain was heard. And soon the dust was dispersed, revealing Issei who had his left wrist being grabbed by Akira.
All his demonic power had already been evaporated.
His gaze was one of total disbelief, he never expected that Akira would be able to contain his strongest attack so easily.
Grasping Issei's wrist, Akira lightly contracted his hand, thus breaking Issei's wrist.
"Argh!"
Issei fell to his knees on the ground, as he felt his wrist being broken.
Sweeping his gaze to the surroundings, and then to Issei who was kneeling in front of him, Akira said, "Your Sacred Gear is depleted, and you have no more demonic power, it's over for you."
"DEAD!" Issei who was kneeling shouted and in an impulse he threw a punch towards Akira's face.
Seeing the punch coming towards him, Akira just ducked to the side as he punched Issei in the stomach.
And he didn't stop there, he sent a sequence of blows at Issei.
Punch to the face.
Stomach kick.
Punch to the chest.
Issei was met with a flurry of blows that he couldn't defend himself against.
At this point, Issei was already lying on the ground, his condition was irreversible, even if Akira didn't kill him, he would probably succumb to his injuries.
Looking at Issei on the ground, Akira felt it was time to end this.
Grabbing Issei by the neck, he slammed him hard into the concrete wall that was next to him.
"You don't have enough hate." Akira said coldly, and as if to further provoke Issei, he brought his face closer to his ear and continued, "And you probably never will."
With his other hand, he summoned a spear that was filled with holy power.
Without waiting for Issei's response, he pierced his heart with the spear.
Issei's body went rigid for a few moments, and soon Akira released him by dropping him to the ground.
Looking at the destruction of the surroundings, Akira let out a sigh, but soon shook his head as he disappeared into the horizon.
...
[Current timeline, back to the present.]
A brown-haired young man was sleeping comfortably in his bed, until suddenly, he felt a shock run through his body, causing him to wake up.
"WHAT?!"
The young man exclaimed, causing a huge commotion in his house.
And only a few minutes passed, until he heard footsteps coming from outside his room, and before he could react, he saw two familiar people enter his room.
"ISSEI, WHAT'S THE MATTER? DON'T TELL ME THAT YOU-"
"Dad? Mother?"
Before the man and woman could finish their speech, they saw their son appear in front of them, before they wrapped him in a warm embrace.
The young man was Issei.
He didn't know what was happening, all he could remember was being killed by Akira, but now, he was back in his home, and his parents were still alive.
'What's going on? Have I gone back in time?'
'Akira...'
As he remembered that man, a hatred took over his heart.
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Author's Notes:
This is the first chapter of volume 2, and no, Issei is not going to beat up Akira or anything like that, I actually have better plans for Issei so I decided to take this route where Issei goes back in time after being killed by Akira in the future
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