The day after Issei met with Touji, he met with them to do as he was asked and let them know about the supernatural while the kids were out playing once again. Later that night at supper time, Issei and his parents talked about what Touji had told them earlier that day.

"I still can't believe what Touji told us earlier about there being more to the world than what we knew and believed," Gorou said as they were eating supper. "And he also mentioned that you had something that tied you to the supernatural world but wouldn't go any deeper as he felt that you should be the one to talk to us about it," he finished getting a nod from Issei who was thankful for that.

'DDraig, do you mind if we go ahead and let them meet you?'

'[I don't see how it will hurt and don't mind it since they were fine with it in the previous timeline, which still surprises me if I'm being honest.]'

Nodding internally, Issei went ahead and called upon the Boosted Gear to show it off to his parents and shocking them at its sudden appearance. "This is how I learned about the supernatural. I honestly don't know what caused it to awaken within me but it's here now and I don't plan on doing anything stupid with this power." He said knowing how his parents were. 'At least not yet.' He thought, getting chuckles from the dragons. After that, the family kept eating supper and just talking about the supernatural as well as whatever else was going on.

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Kuoh Airport

As the day finally arrived for the Shidous to leave for Europe, Issei and his parents were there to see them off with Issei and Irina getting one last hug in. "Don't worry, I'm sure we'll see each other at some point, though I will miss you." He said, getting a tight squeeze from Irina.

"Much as I hate this, at least our parents set us up with a way to keep in touch." She said pouting, though happy that they would be able to talk to each other long distance. Both of their parents had made them an email account that they could use to keep in touch with each other, knowing that it might help Irina in her training to become an exorcist if she had someone she could talk to outside of it and such since Touji had alerted Issei's parents why they had to leave and Issei had already mentioned he had had a feeling.

"You're right and please, whatever it is don't worry about messaging me and I'll be sure to message you back as much as I can." He said before letting go of the hug as he knew they had to leave before hugging Mrs. Shidou and shaking Touji's hand before they went into the gate to get on the plane.

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Kuoh Park

As Issei was walking around Kuoh trying to figure out a plan, he couldn't help but stop at the park where he and Irina played all the time, he happened to notice the old man nearby that was one of the reasons for his perverseness in the future timeline.

'[Please don't go back down that route this timeline Issei… I don't want to have to deal with that again.]' DDraig said, but before Issei could comment, DDraig had one more thing to say. '[Is it just me, or does that person look and feel like Azazel?]'

Putting aside DDraig's comment about the future timeline as something to deal with later, Issei turned once more to the old man and noticed what DDraig was talking about. 'I think you're right. I'm not surprised I never realized it in the previous timeline, but I am glad that we realized it now.' He said and answered the unspoken point before DDraig could ask. 'If we can find a way to do it, we could have Azazel help us train our powers and maybe even learn more than he was able to teach us in the previous timeline.'

'[I think that might be a good idea too as right now we didn't really have an idea in place since you were spending your time with Irina which I can understand and don't blame you for. And who knows, he might be one of the people that will remember the future.]' DDraig said knowing that the time his partner had been given with Irina had done them both good and knew it might help them in the long run.

Nodding his head, Issei went to move towards him when he heard a commotion nearby and when he turned towards it, he recognized two faces nearby that were being harassed by a group of boys. It was his two classmates Yui Katase and Kaori Murayama.

'DDraig, can you give me a couple boosts quietly so I can deal with these assholes? I know the two girls weren't really friendly to me in the previous timeline but I can't stand aside in times like this.' While he had his sights on talking to Azazel, this took higher priority in his mind.

'[It won't be much but I think it will be enough to handle these dudes from what I can tell.]' DDraig agreed as he gave what few boosts he knew that Issei could handle at this young age and Issei snuck in behind the gang before he used the element of surprise to knock the one farthest in the back into the guys in front of him and knocked them all to the ground where once they untangled themselves from each other, got up and before anyone could say anything, Issei did for them.

"I know you're probably gonna say what the hell or something like that but I'll stop you now and just say I won't let anyone harass girls."

Once he said that the boys all surrounded him before trying to attack, but to Issei, it was all too slow and he was able to deal with them easily. Once he finished knocking them out, he turned towards the girls who had stepped back when the fight started. "Are you two ok?" He asked before noticing that there seemed to be some sort of recognition in the two's eyes.

"Issei? Is that you?" Kaori asked as the next thing they know, a massive headache hit all three.