Chapter 1 Death by a Fallen Angel
The night sky above Kuromiya Academy glowed red as the sun sank behind the rooftops.
Students were laughing, heading home after club activities but for Ren Asakura, this was the last sunset he'd ever see… as a human.
Ren wasn't anyone special. A second-year student, average grades, below-average luck, and an unhealthy obsession with girls he'd never have a chance with.
He'd just confessed to the new transfer student, Airi Tenshima the silver-haired beauty who seemed too perfect for this world.
And she smiled.
"Meet me at the old church tonight, Ren. There's something I want to show you."
His heart nearly burst with excitement. But when he arrived, the world turned cold.
Airi stood beneath the moonlight, her angelic face now twisted with sorrow and something darker.
Behind her, black wings spread open not feathered white… but shadowy, pulsing with a wicked aura.
"I'm sorry, Ren. Orders are orders."
A black spear of light tore through his chest before he could even scream.
The world faded to silence.
Darkness.
Pain.
Then a voice.
"So this is the one you chose, Riasha?"
Ren's eyes fluttered open.
He was lying in what looked like a massive crimson circle drawn in glowing runes. Around him stood five figures men and women with horns, wings, and eyes glowing with power. Devils.
The one kneeling beside him was breathtaking long crimson hair, deep sapphire eyes, and an aura that radiated both danger and warmth.
She smiled gently.
"Welcome back, Ren Asakura. I'm Riasha Gremory, your master. From today forward… you're my servant devil."
He tried to speak, but his chest still burned. His hand gripped the wound
and then he realized.
His left arm wasn't normal anymore.
Scales of crimson metal covered it, pulsing like it was alive.
A dragon's voice echoed inside his mind.
"So… you are my new host. Interesting."
"I am Ddraegon, the Red Dragon Emperor. Don't die too fast, human."
Power surged through Ren's body like molten fire.
The devils stepped back as red light exploded from his arm forming a gauntlet with a glowing green gem at its core.
Riasha's smile widened.
"Looks like we've got ourselves a new problem for the Fallen Angels."
Ren looked down at his arm, his heartbeat syncing with the pulsing light inside the gem.
"A dragon… inside me? What the hell did I just become?"
The dragon laughed.
"Something far greater than a devil, boy. You've become the balance breaker of two worlds."
And thus began the rebirth of Ren Asakura the human who died for love,
and came back as the Crimson Dragon Emperor of the Underworld.