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"That's…quite the progress for just a few hours." Rias commented, staring at him wide eyed.
"I'm a bit of an expert when it comes to the Boosted Gear, and just had him copy me a bit," Kaito shrugged, his eyes drifting back to the screen as Riser finally managed to outlast his opponent and was declared the winner of the Rating Game, "He really does rely on that immortality huh? He's not really a good fighter at all."
"He's never needed to be," Rias sighed, "The Phenex regeneration truly is that absurdly powerful. I've no idea how to overcome it beyond somehow draining him of all his power, but I'd exhaust myself far before him if I tried that while fighting him personally."
"So it's reliant on his magic energy?" Kaito raised a brow.
"Mmhmm," Rias nodded, "The problem is, while Riser may not have trained much as a fighter, he was born with a great amount of magical power, and it has only grown over time naturally and because of how often he uses it."
Kaito nodded simply, eyeing Riser on the screen, "Then what you need is a way to make him continuously drain his power faster than you if you fought him," he said, before looking back at Rias, "Can you control your Power of Destruction remotely after firing it off."
"Not yet," Rias admitted, "That's quite an advanced skill with it that I'm still working on currently. Why?"
"Then there's your answer, master that and you can deal with Riser," Kaito said, making both her eyebrows rise up in confusion, "Once you do that, make a big orb of it, fire it into his chest and keep it in his body. He'll have to regenerate around it constantly and waste all his energy because it'll continuously destroy his body, simple."
Rias stared at him wide eyed, "…It can't be that simple to overcome such a power."
"It kind of is," Kaito snorted, "You said it yourself. It relies on his energy, so you just need to make him exhaust that power. And what better way than forcing him to continuously regenerate? And somehow I doubt Riser is skilled enough to deal with your power and regenerate at the same time."
"But….that's so simple." she refuted weakly, "I've been puzzling for ages over a strategy to over come his immortality, for it to be that simple…"
"Simple doesn't bad you know, and it also doesn't mean easy either," Kaito shrugged, "I mean you said it yourself, the ability to do it would require an advanced skill you haven't gotten down yet."
"So you're saying I've just been overthinking it huh?" Rias mused.
"Pretty much," Kaito laughed, "Honestly, aren't you some big weeb? You'd think with how much anime I heard you watch, you'd have come across a method like that for dealing with regeneration."
"Life isn't an anime," Rias refuted, before narrowing her eyes, "How do you even know that? You can't be seriously telling me the information you got on me and Sona and our peerages included our hobbies as well."
He just smirked at her and didn't say a thing in reply.
Huffing, Rias slumped back against the couch, "Lovely, some group I have no idea about has collected information on me right down to my hobbies, that's so creepy," she said, "Who even are these people? You said they tried to recruit you before right?"
Well, he'd already told Koneko about them, no reason why he couldn't tell Rias either.
"One part of them," he shrugged, "It's a massive organization made up of loads of smaller groups from various pantheons. There's devils from the old Satan Faction, Fallen Angel splinter groups, and the one that specifically tried to recruit me is a human only group made up of sacred gear wielders, and descendants of heroes and gods. They're pretty much human supremacists."
Rias blinked slowly, "…Lovely," she said, "I can't even tell which one would be worse out of those three to have that kind of information on me."
"Well, there's more than just those three," Kaito replied, "Like one specifically lead by the White Dragon Emperor of this generation. And in his group he has the descendant of Sun Wukong, the descendant of King Arthur and even Koneko's older sister Kuroka."
Rias' eyes flew wide open, "Kuroka?!"
"Yeah, I told Koneko about her earlier by the way," Kaito mentioned off handidly, "Gave her a bit of a pep talk and a kick in the ass to get her head out of her ass and to start using her natural abilities as a nekoshou as well. She's way stronger when she isn't holding those back I've gotta admit."
Rias' mouth opened and closed wordlessly for a few seconds, "…How…just how?" she stared at him in disbelief, "I've been trying for years to help both Akeno and Koneko overcome their pasts and accept themselves, with no luck at all. And you've done it with with both of them in the span of two days?"
Rias bit her lip, taking off her glasses and staring up at the ceiling, "Just…what have I been doing all this time?" she sighed in defeat, "They've been with me for years and I've not been able to help them at all. I must be a complete failure as a king for them."
Kaito stared at her for a second before smiling, "Nah," he denied, "This would never have worked if they weren't already in such a good place already."
She wordlessly looked back at him.
"They're already happy and living good lives," he told her simply, "That's thanks to you. If it weren't for you, they'd either be dead right now, or much more angry and bitter. All I did was simply highlight that and rub their faces in the fact that they have nothing to complain about, and they'd lose the lives they love so much with you, if they didn't pull their heads outta their asses."
Her lips quirked a little, "Except saying it that simply means I could have said that to them any time as well."