"So that's how it is. I really did reincarnate."
Suddenly, Issei's mind cleared, and he got to his feet as if nothing had happened at all.
When he tried to spread his wings and fly away, Raynare looked at the suddenly rising Issei and said with a faintly annoyed expression, "A human, and yet you're stubborn. More importantly, why are you still alive after being pierced by a Fallen Angel's spear?"
She had assumed the [Sacred Gear] had activated, and since it had only just awakened, she thought it would be easy to kill him. But this was completely different from a [Sacred Gear].
"So this is what it feels like to understand how to use it."
As if the knowledge had always been part of him, as if [Rinnegan], [Sharingan], and chakra were already woven into his very being, the method of using them came flooding back.
'Then first...'
He used chakra to heal the wound in his abdomen. The spear wound closed so cleanly it was as if he had never been stabbed at all, and Raynare stared at the vanished injury in disbelief.
"A healing-type [Sacred Gear]!? No way, one of the rarest kinds of [Sacred Gear]... a healing type..."
Not long ago, she had received orders from above to secure a healing-type [Sacred Gear]. And now it was right in front of her. To her senses, it had definitely seemed like an offensive [Sacred Gear], but this completely unexpected turn left her briefly stunned—before her scheming mind started turning.
"Hee, interesting. So your [Sacred Gear] is [Twilight Healing]? When did it awaken?"
"..."
Issei looked at Yuuma—no, at the Fallen Angel Raynare, who had gone from his girlfriend to an existence trying to kill him, and his feelings swung between joy and sorrow. In both his past life and this one, she had been the girlfriend he had wanted so badly. Amano Yuuma was the embodiment of that wish. He had wanted to love her with everything he had, to cherish her sincerely, to treasure her above all else. Even now, with his memories restored, that feeling had not changed. So he looked at her with deeply sorrowful eyes.
"Yuuma-chan... tell me it's a lie. This whole situation is a dream, right? I don't need reincarnation or [Rinnegan] or anything else... please, just tell me this is a dream..."
Issei had decided he would throw away everything he had gained as reincarnation privileges if it meant loving Amano Yuuma. But Amano Yuuma—no, Raynare—said, "Disgusting. What are you, a human, even saying? Don't tell me you really thought I was serious about dating you?"
"No... I really did decide to love you! To cherish you... I thought I'd make you happier than anyone else..."
"Oh, really? Then hand over that [Sacred Gear], and I might consider giving you a kiss. How about that? Ah, but if I take the [Sacred Gear] out, you'll die, so kissing you would be pointless! Ahahaha!"
He threw everything he had at Raynare with complete sincerity, but she did not return to being Amano Yuuma. This was her true nature: a Fallen Angel who delighted in human despair and suffering. And seeing that, Issei realized he did not have the confidence to simply let this Fallen Angel who had toyed with him walk away. But the memories of Amano Yuuma barely held that impulse back.
"Run away..."
"Huh?"
"Run away from me..."
"Run away? From you? Do you really think a human like you can do anything to me?"
Raynare approached him as if the whole thing was absurd, and Issei lifted his head to stare straight at her. His left eye had transformed into the [Rinnegan], its purple iris marked with several concentric rings, and he fixed her with that gaze.
"! What is this feeling now!"
Power surged from his eyes, the kind of aura one might only feel from the Fallen Angel Governor-General Azazel himself. It was a death sentence. The instant she met that gaze, her entire body went numb, and she felt her consciousness slipping away little by little.
"W-What did you do to me!"
"I put you under my control with genjutsu. Your mind is still yours, but your body will move however I want."
Uchiha Sasuke, who had awakened the [Rinnegan] in the ninja world's five great nations, had controlled nine tailed beasts at once. For Issei, who already had the Ten-Tails within his body by the grace of the world, something like this was easier than breathing. And now Raynare was forced to choose: would he crush her mind and kill her, or would he fulfill the wish he had carried since long ago—to finally have a girlfriend?
And at that moment, the fierce obsession of Hyoudou Issei surged to the surface.
'If there's a pair of breasts right in front of me that I can touch and I don't touch them, then I'm no gentleman!'
"U-Um... I, I was just thinking maybe I should reconsider..."
Raynare realized Issei was no ordinary human and tried to change tactics, but—
Squish
"Eep!"
He had stepped into forbidden territory. Her outfit barely covered her modesty, and her rather large breasts were exposed right in front of him. Probably F-cup or bigger. No healthy man—no, no man at all—could possibly look away. Even Gandhi himself would not have had the spiritual resistance to refuse this. Men simply did not possess that kind of power.
"Ah... this is a breast!"
"S-Stop..."
"Breasts! Breasts!"
In the empty park, there was no one left who could stop Issei's rampage. The desire that had accumulated over thirty years of virginity exploded, and he began kneading Raynare's ample chest with both hands to his heart's content.
"Ooh, so soft! It's soft! C-Can I suck on them?"
"Hiiik!! I-I was wrong, so... forgive me... please forgive me... ngh!"
As Issei's face drew closer and closer to her chest, Raynare screamed in terror and even shed tears, but Issei did not stop. The moment his mouth was about to enter forbidden territory...
"Mom... what is that big brother doing?"
"Don't look!"
"No way..."
As Issei had feared, people began passing by the park. Until just moments ago, no one had been able to approach because of the barrier Raynare had set up to kill him, but once she was bound by the [Rinnegan]'s genjutsu, the barrier shattered.
"It's the police! Hurry, call the police!"
"No, isn't that basically a play? The woman's almost naked too..."
"How disgusting... doing that in a park..."
"Kids these days, honestly. The world's gone to ruin."
"....."
Under the flood of condemnation and contempt from the crowd, Issei broke out in a cold sweat.
'Calm down, me... there has to be a way. Yeah, there's a way...'
Like a middle schooler caught by his parents while masturbating, Issei lost his composure and panicked. There was a simple way to erase everyone's memories with genjutsu, but in his panic he could not think of it.
"S-Sorry!!"
He blurted out an apology and fled the scene on the spot. Left behind, Raynare stood there with a stunned expression, then looked around and quickly vanished into the bushes. Watching the place where they had disappeared from a distance in silence was someone else. She had long hair that seemed even redder than red itself, flowing in the wind.