Unexpected visitors!

"So, how was she?" Asia asked as she walked home with Issei after classes. Rias was handling some club paperwork, so wasn't with them. She was grousing about the whole thing as she did, but Sona had strict standards.

"Raynare? She was pretty good," Issei remarked as they walked back. "So long as she behaves herself, and doesn't cause trouble, I think she'll be a good addition to the harem. Though, if she doesn't get along with you all, I will have to reconsider that."

"I don't mind tolerating her, so long as she behaves herself," Asia smiled as they approached his home.

"That's-" Issei started as he reached for the door, before he was hit by an intense wave of dread. He knew that feeling... He had felt it when he had first approached that church with Asia, and when Freed showed up the first time, and tried to kill his client of the time. Asia shuddered, obviously feeling it too.

Issei went pale, not just from the feeling, but also from a horrified realization. His mom would be home from work around this time... With Freed back in town, and if he had found out where Issei lived... In a panic, he threw open the door, shouting, "Mom!"

He and Asia rushed to the living room to find... Issei's mother sitting amicably in front of two women at the table, said women wearing church robes, one of them having a long, wrapped item behind her. "Oh, Issei, you're back," his mother noted, before her face furrowed in concern. "Why are you looking so pale?"

Issei held back a sigh of relief, and lied, "Long day at University today..." His gaze went to the two women, who looked at him curiously. They were definitely from the church, evidenced by their robes, and their crosses. Exorcists? Just what was their business here?

One of them, a woman with chestnut hair, stood, and waved cheerfully at Issei. "It's nice to see you, Issei-kun!" she chirped, her tone familiar, like she knew him.

Issei paused, and stared at the girl, trying to place her, she acted like they had met before, but he was pretty sure he would have remembered meeting a pretty girl like her. "Um... Nice to meet you too?" he replied, his tone questioning.

She pouted cutely. "Huh? You don't remember? It's me!" she told him. Before Issei could question her, his mother grabbed the photo album.

"I didn't recognize her at first either, but this is Irina," she told Issei pointing to the old childhood friend in the same picture that had set Kiba off. "It was surprising to realize that she was a girl..."

"...wait, you were a girl!?" Issei asked in shock, now recognizing Irina, who chuckled sheepishly.

"Well, I never specifically told you my gender, and was a tomboy stuck with a masculine face back then, so I suppose you couldn't help that mistake," she admitted. "Guess that was my fault."

Issei then turned his gaze to the woman she was with. She had a serious, intense expression, and the wrapped item definitely looked like some kind of long weapon, and the strongest sense of dread Issei was feeling came from it. It was no doubt a Devil destroying weapon. Yep, this was definitely a dangerous woman.

"Though... It seems a lot of things happened before we could meet again, hm?" Irina noted, leaning towards Issei, a knowing glint in her eye. "...truly, you never know what might happen at a reunion..."

Issei stiffened. She knew, he was sure if it. She had noticed he was a Devil now.