Episode 5 (Season 1)

"I Will Defeat My Ex-girlfriend!" is the fifth episode of the High School DxD anime. It premiered on February 3, 2012.

Summary
Reynalle takes Asia's sacred gear and puts it into herself. As this occurs Issei, Kiba & Koneko are fighting the group of priests. Kiba shows his sacred gear which has the ability to take the holy light and absorb it. After Issei gets Asia from the cross- Reynalle released her to him-, he takes her upstairs to the main part of the church. While he is up there, Reynalle shows up and they end up fighting. During their fight if you are paying attention, Issei's sacred gear says "Boost" several times. One of first time his sacred gear is shown, Reynalle says it is a 'Twice Booster' which only boosts the user's power by 2 times. Issei wins the fight, but cannot kill Reynalle, because of his attachment to when she was part of this world as his girlfriend. Rias and everyone else in the Gremory clan shows up. Rias then explains Issei's sacred gear is not a mere 'Twice Critical' but 'Boosted Gear' which has the power to kill 'Gods'. Raynare tries to plea her way out of death to Issei and Issei asks Rias to deal with/kill Raynare. Asia's sacred gear is then returned to her and is also brought back to life as a devil using a bishop piece from Rias' chess pieces.

Stats
Original airdate: February 3, 2012

Written by: Tetsuya Yanagisawa

Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance. New characters listed in bold.)

Differences between novel and anime

 * 1) Freed temporarily reappears after Raynare's defeat, with Raynare ordering Freed to save her but was abandoned by Freed who escaped alone.