Midnight fell as everyone was in the Occult Research club. That's when writing appeared above the table 'If you want Toujou Koneko, Gasper Vladi, and Ravel Phoenix, come to the underground station with the Gremory Group Sitri Group and Shidou Irina.'
After reading the letter everyone gathered outside of the station as Sona was muttering to herself "To think this of all places."
Issei moved over to Sona "So how did they get in? You don't dig your way into a place like this let alone just ride the train in."
"I don't think it was any of those methods. But I also don't think it was a traitor. But a traitor is the easiest explanation with how they got in." Sona wasn't too sure of everything as everyone was gathered up "Staff of the Underworld and Heaven have surrounded the station." Sona began telling everyone "The Dimensional gap for the train to the Gremory territory has been blocked off. We have yet to find the true intentions of what they are planing, but all we have left is to meet them in person."
"How will combat be dealt with?" Xenovia asked.
"Due to this being an emergency I have leadership over the Student Council and the Occult Research Club. Rias has given me the command powers." Sona said but that left a gaping hole in the plan.
"Whatever Sona gives out for orders you will follow." Issei said looking at Xenovia and Asia. "This is her operation and we will provide backup for what is needed."
"Xenovia, out of the seven abilities of your holy sword, how many of them can you use?"
"Destruction is first hand to me. Thanks to recent training Mimic Transparency and Rapidly are useable but not at mastery level. Nightmare and Blessing are almost impossible and Ruler is the hardest of all to use, Ruling over others is the hardest thing to do."
"I see, think of this as the Rating game all over again. We need to keep the destruction down as much as possible as we need to the station intact." As Sona was breaking things down Issei noticed that an unfamiliar man was standing near Sona.
"Who is he?" Issei asked Tsubaki as Sona was formulating a plan.
"He is currently enrolled in the college division of Kuoh academy and it's our new Rook." Tsubaki answers as the man with grey bangs covering his eyes and a strongly built body spoke up.
"Loup Garou." He answers with a bored tone.
"We call him Rugal, so please do the same. Rugal will be backup on this mission."
"Yep…" Rugal was heard as he disappeared off into the darkness.
Master preparations for the surrounding area has been completed. Out of the roof a Sitri magic circle a small body appeared dressed in the bog-standard Grim Reaper outfit.
"Don't do anything this is my new Knight." Sona made sure to diffuse any possible tensions.
My name is Bennia, I'm a former Grim Reaper. The small frame fell from the ceiling, removing the mask there was a girl's face with golden eyes and long dark purple hair. In her hand was a scythe that has decorations all over it
"You grabbed a Grim Reaper girl."
Sona nodded "Bennia is a Grim Reaper, she's a demigod just as you Half Reaper half-human."
"Yeah, the skin was the tip-off on a reaper." Issei joked around.
"To think the Sitri knight would be a Reaper" Rossweisse said somewhat perplexed considering everything that has happened so far.
"No, we had a different candidate in mind originally. But due to personal arrangements, we recruited Bennia."
That's when Bennia ran up to Issei "Big Boss Oppai Dragon. I'm a big fan of yours " She flung open her robe revealing a plethora of embroidered things in it "I have so many embroideries of Oppai Dragon in my cape." She shoved a piece of paper in his face.
Without fail, Issei signed the paper "A Reaper is my fan."
"Yes Yes, I left because Hades is an ass."
"Bennia, just like Rugal I'm leaving the outside areas to you." Sona said to her
"Can do." Bennia said as a magic circle appeared under her as she sank into disappearing from sight.
"Sorry that you had to meet my new servants at a time like this. Things always happen at the most inopportune times with you." Issei waved it off as if it was nothing. "With that said how is Ddraig's condition?"
Issei summoned the Boosted Gear as there was no glow to it. He waved his hand over the jewel as there was a deep snoring sound that came from the gear. Issei shut off the sound output as they got the hint. "Ddraig wakes up and then goes right back to sleep. Balance Breaker is out of the question. He says I can use it without him, but regulation of that much power is harder than it looks. I can use it if I absolutely need to but it's the last resort right now."
Sona nodded taking all the notes she could. "So any plan that revolves around the balance breaker is out of the plan."
"I can still use Boost and Transfer. But I'm limited by the rules of the system without Ddraig. I still have my physical strength but by now the magicians have figured out that their barriers are too weak and without a doubt reinforced them so I cant shatter them with my raw strength. So until Ddraig wakes up I can't access my full power and that makes me useless as a front-line fighter. Sorry about that."
Sona shook her head "No no no. There's no reason to be sorry about anything. You have saved the underworld on multiple occasions. You worked hard to make that possible. But now it's time for us to make up lost grounds and be the defenders we were sworn to be." The rest of the Student council nodded in agreement. "How many times can you use transfer?"
"Twenty, Thirty times? It depends on how much power I can generate. Losing the voice in your head makes things much harder than you would think."
"Okay…" Sona pointed to the elevators as everybody piled in then as they headed down. Sona rattled off the battle plan and formation during the ride.
When they came out battle formations with Xenovia, Irina, Saji, Meguri, and Yura filling out the front line. Akeno, Rossweisse, Tsubaki, Nimura, and Issei filled out the middle as Sona, Asia, Kusaka, and Hanakai her bishops filled out the backline.
When they came out they saw that there was a small company size full of mages dressed in similar robes as to the attack earlier. The fact that they were able to amass so many mages in the town was a massive lapse in security. "We came just as you asked so where are the three of them?" Issei asked.
"Gremory and Sitri teams what an Honor." One of the mages said.
"What are your objectives? Is it us or is it Phoenix?" Sona asked them
"Both. We got what we want from the Phoenix, but now that idiot Mephisto has ranked your strengths. We plan on proving that Mephisto and his association is wrong by destroying you." A snap of the finger was heard as the mages prepared magic circles. "It's time to see who is better Demonic power or magic!"
{Make them regret their choices of attacking Kuoh Academy.} Sona announced over the earpieces as they kicked off the plan. Xenovia immediately leaped forward making broad slashes with her Ex-Durandal that was followed up by waves of Holy aura.
Rossweisse followed up by raining down magic everywhere in support of Xenovia. Some of the magicians summoned creatures to do their bidding but Rossweisse's barrage made short work of them as it vaporized the creatures and then injured a group of the mages.
Xenovia was just one point of insertion and the mage saw this as they fired off attacks towards the rest of the group. "Expand my Twinkle Aegis" Tsubasa shouted as a glow extended from her hands as a golden barrier formed above them as the mage's attacks pelted it.
{This is one of the Artificial Sacred Gear's we received from Azazel. Tsubasa made a pact with a fairy and it resides in the shield to power it.} Sona told Issei as this was a first for him, the fact that they made an artificial sacred gear was new as he was a holder of the real deal. Sona's voice shifted so everybody else could hear her {Begin the offense}
[BOOST!]
Meguri pulled out a Katana as it was mixing the light and dark into the blade. {it's called something like Blazer Shining and Darkness Blade. It's one of Azazel's weird names.}
"Please don't call it that name." Meguri cried out as she was slashing at magicians "It's powerful so I won't lose to Xenovia."
Black flames engulfed any magician that got too close as Saji was dispatching anybody foolish enough. When he was done burning his opponents any magician who tried to attack had a black line attached to them and their power drained as soon as they tried to use it. {Ise make your way to Saji and transfer your power. He can sort the volume of power.}
Issei made his way through the lines towards Saji. That's when Saji connected a line to Rossweisse as Issei touched Saji. [Transfer!] A large volume of power flowed into Saji as it went directly into Rossweisse as she is radiating power.
{Draining and adding power to one's supply can enhance magic users total output.}
Waves of chimeras came out from the backline of the magicians. Fireballs and Lightning rained down on Xenovia as she was doing her thing slashing away at anybody she could. {Xenovia use the power of Ruler.}
"Uhhhh I can't control living beings."
{That's fine, But I want you to control their attacks. The Ability of the Ruler should be able to stop the chimera attacks and you will be able to take control of them if you succeed.}
Hearing that Xenovia concentrated on Ex-Durandal as it began to glow. A few of the fireballs that were going to rain down on her were frozen in the air. Seeing that Xenovia pointed Ex-Durandal at the crowd as the magic rushed towards the mages exploding in the crowd.
{Just as I suspected. You cant rule over living things yet. But magic is something you can rule over for a short time. It's possible based on your skill that you can rule over any phenomenon, possibility even other sacred gears if you are strong enough.}
"Target the Blue bitch in the back." One of the Mages shouted as massive boulders materialized as they flung them towards the rear line in an attempt to break the command structure.
On Momo's wrists appeared two bracelets as she extended her arms forming a barrier over a wide range. "I don't think you will be taking us down so easily." The rocks smashed into the barrier peppering the barrier.
As the rocks keep flying Akeno lept into the air seeing the launching points. "No, we can't be having any more of that." She held her hand out as her signature holy lightning formed but it circled around her taking shape. The lightning shifted into an Eastern dragon that swam in the air around her as if was living. Issei was so focused on the dragon that he didn't see that on her arm was a bracelet with six fallen angel wings out of her back as she pointed at the rocks. The dragon swam through the air breaking the rocks as they were launched. "Raikouryuu is my special technique with Ise."
"That dumb girl is open." Another mage shouted as they changed focus towards Akeno. Arrows of light went flying in barrages towards Akeno. Seeing that she raised her left hand forming a barrier in front of her. The light arrows pelted the barrier most shattering and others fizzling out as they bounced off her shield.
"Rossweisse taught me this defense spell, and I can enhance it with the rook trait." Akeno laughed as the attacks did little to nothing to the barrier. "But now it's time for some punishment." Akeno pointed her right hand down as the Dragon slammed into the ground sending mages flying as her dragon tore up the crowd.
"She using the Queen piece." Issei said more or less to himself.
Sona however heard it {You understand why of all things. But transfer power directly to Tsubaki.}
Hearing that Issei slinked around on the battlefield as the mages were trying their best to hit him with attacks. Issei got behind her as he tapped her [Transfer!] as her body gave a faint green glow. Tsubaki opened up a mirror as the attack coming towards them impacted with the mirror as it disappeared into the mirror.
{Tsubaki counter it back.}
That's when the mirror opened up as a sheet of ice flew out and caused massive damage to anything that got hit. Mages were laying on the floor covered in ice and others had appendages covered in ice as they were stuck.
"It's Ready." Saji said
{Execelent job Saji. Connect it to Ise then scatter it.}
Out from Saji's arm was a thick black line that attached Issei, right after a plethora of smaller lines attached to everyone. [Boost!] {With this you can transfer power to everyone through the lines. Retreat to the rear with me and power this up.}
[Boost!] Issei fell back as he gathered power.
{It would have been better if we used this method from the start, but it takes time to make sure everyone can receive the power properly. It was fun making tactics using the two of you. But it's time for this battle to end.}
[Boost!] [Transfer!] Power flowed down the lines and into everyone else as what remaining force was left was taken out with minimal effort.
As they were cleaning up and Asia was healing any wounds that needed to be taken care of Sona looked on at the group as she understood all of the decisions. "I was wrong to see why I thoughts Rias' tactics were naive. We fought stronger than normal mages yet we made quick work of them. The Gremory Group is too powerful." She exhaled trying to rid possibilities from her mind. "It's easy to see why Rias can send a forward marching order." Sona looked over to Issei who was standing next to her "She can send you forward and in you Balance breaker you and Kiba can destroy anything you see. You don't need tactics you just need to crush anything that gets in your way."
"That's the power of the boosted gear. My Raw power allows me to do exactly that." Issei confirmed to Sona.
"But even with Kiba missing you cant access the Balance breaker and the limited destructive force of Durandal, you have shown us that Devils do need power along with tactics and discipline."
"I don't want to fight them again. We might die if we do." Issei got a laugh hearing the bishop girls chattering.
As some of the remaining Magicians were surrendering there a portal of light behind them. Issei grabbed hold of the nearest magician as he pointed to the portal. "What's that all about."
"Our leader is waiting for you, Red Dragon, Vritra, Durandal, Priestess of Thunder, Valkyrie, The Grand Healer, and Michael's Ace." Hearing that Issei dropped the magician back onto the floor.
Moving towards the portal the Gremory group saw him as they formed up behind Issei. "We need to finish this, Sona I'm taking Saji."
Sona began moving towards the portal "I'll be joining you. Saji we have other things to do." When they stepped through they were in a large white room that had equipment for manufacturing something and a large area with nothing else in it.
"This place is our factory that we made in the dimensional gap. We adapted the battlefield technique of the devils." A shadowy figure appeared wearing silver robes.
"Ise!" Ravel's voice could be heard off to their right side. Seeing them Ravel and Koneko are huddled together as Koneko was holding onto Gasper as he's out cold.
"You can have them." The Silver-robed man said as they moved over to the group waiting for the robed man to make a move.
Ravel grabbed onto Issei with tears in her eyes. Issei reached down and patted her on the back "Did they do anything to you?" She was silent as her body was shaking. It didn't appear as if she was physical damage as it looks as if it was emotional or psychological.
Koneko set Gasper down next to Asia as she began healing him "Gaspy tried to protect us." Tears were dripping down Koneko's face
"Are you the mastermind of this incident?"
"I am." Sona's question was immensely answered.
"Are you part of the Khaos Brigade? If so what is the reason for assaulting us?
"I am a member of the Khaos Brigade. The mages? They are just stray mages who want to prove themselves."
"So you allied with stray mages to interfere with the peace of the Great powers. But the mages have to have a motive, something like the youth devil's announcements." Sona extrapolated from what little information that was given.
"It's nice when I don't have to explain it myself. Those mages wanted a test to see if the association was accurate. Fortunately, we have many mages that are uncontrollable." The man snapped his finger as there was a bottle in his hand that had many capsules inside of it all full of liquid. "Do you know how the Phoenix tears are produced? The purebloods from the family go into a magic circle in a special ritual. They then drop a tear into a cup that's filled with water and when mixed it makes the Phoenix tears. But the tears need to be shed with an empty mind." He pointed at the capsules "We been able to mass-produce those tears in this factory."
"So that's how the Khaos Brigade has been making their money by flooding the black market with these fakes." Sona said to the mysterious man.
"It's horrible, all these fakes." Ravel grabbed onto Issei even tighter.
"What we learned from Gasper Vladi is something we didn't expect." The man turned around looking at a wall. "But that's not why I called you here. There is someone who wants to fight strong people like you." He snapped his finger as a Dark Green magic circle appeared.
"Is that a Dragon Gate?" Saji asked as he was spot on.
"Dark Green? It's not Yu-Long, who has a Dark Green?" Issei was confused as he couldn't figure out who it was.
"There was a dragon in the past who took the Dark Green color." Irina said to the group.
A roar came out from the circle as a gigantic monster with dark scales thick arms legs and sharp claws and fangs. "It's the legendary Dragon Crime Force Dragon Grendel."
(It's been a while since I've been through a Dragon Gate. So wheres my opponent? They are here right?) The massive dragon asked around as it was near the same size as Tannin as it towered over everyone.
A black shadow snake appeared next to Saji "Grendel." It was Vritra's voice that looked at the new dragon in town. "Grendel was killed by Beowulf after his rampage of destruction. How he's alive is unknown."
Grendel looked over at the group (Interesting the Red Heavenly Dragon and even Vritra.) Grendel looked at Issei.
"THe heavenly dragons were killed and are now sealed in sacred gears."
Grendel let out a belly laugh hearing that. ( How pitiful the Heavenly dragons were terminated. So who's going to be my opponent.)
Xenovia and Irina both took up combat stances "Are we fighting him?"
"No." Issei quietly shut down anything to do with that.
"Are you not going to wear your armor Red Dragon?" The Robbed man asked Issei.
"Sorry, I recently ran into performance issues." Issei tried to make a snarky sex joke.
"That is a problem. The main objective was to get you and Grendel to fight."
"Oh Ddraig, can you hear me?" Issei held up his gauntlet "We have a slight problem, you know that dragon you beat Grendel, somehow he's back. Ddraiggggggggggggggggggggg." There was nothing but silence as Issei rubbed the green jewel "Come on Ddraig what's wrong?"
[Who's there?] Ddraig answered but his voice was much younger.
"Are you Ddraig?" Issei asked hearing that this was all a first for him.
[My name is Ddraig, I'm a baby dragon.]
Issei was perplexed hearing this as everybody else was just as lost. "Perhaps he…" Sona was thinking out loud.
"Sona do you know what's happening?" Akeno asked as it looked as if Sona knew something.
"It's just an assumption, but I think the Red Dragon Emperor Ddraig has been mentally cornered by Ise Oppai's dragon persona. Ddraig used up all of his power and had to retreat into a deep sleep, now he's reverted into a child-like form."
"There's no way Ddraig has gone that far."
[Oppai…...Oppai…. It's scary.] Issei was shut down hearing that.
"Oppai is fun, not scary." Issei felt a smack on the back of the head as it was Koneko
"Wait so a Heavenly Dragon reverted back to a child?" Saji asked, "How do you even do that, let alone mentally torture a heavenly dragon. Vritra Can you do something?"
"Maybe if we had another Dragon King. We might be able to do something, like Tiamat." Vritra was quick to bring up her name
"Uhhhhhhh." Issei wasn't too keen to let her know that Ddraig wasn't himself.
"Please leave this to me." Asia stepped forward
Sona looked at Asia as if she knew what was happening. "Very well then Asia we will leave this to you."
Asia put her hands together as a golden magic circle appeared in front of her. "Answer my voice, Golden King. Crawl on the ground and you shall receive my reward." The Golden magic circle opened up as it turned into a dragon gate. "Please come to me, Gigantis Dragon Fafnir."
Out of the Dragon gate, appeared on all four a massive golden dragon with no wings and a cloth wrapped around its horn on its head.
"Azazel did step back from frontline combat. So he broke the pact he had with Fafnir and wanted Asia to have it." Sona seemed to know more about this than Issei did consider he was Asia's king. "Rias said that Ophis gave her a blessing making pacts easier."
"I got my luck increased as well. I won the second prize in a lottery recently." Irina gave a thumbs up to everyone.
Sona turned to Issei "Let's be real Issei Ophis is attached to you so you might as well be cursed."
"Gee thanks."
"No problem, I'm just worried about Asia after what she had to sacrifice to make a pact with a Dragon King." Sona moved her attention to Fafnir and Asia.
"What was it?" Issei asked her.
Sona looked away not wanting to answer it. "nties…."
"What?"
"It was my Panties!" Asia yelled out embarrassed to have to admit to it.
Fafnir opened his massive jaw as he spoke "O Panties I have received Treasure. I am happy."
Issei was dumbstruck hearing that "A dragon king wanted panties… and they say I'm a pervert dragon." Then Issei remembered something from a few months ago. Tiamat enjoyed her panties but she is a woman anyway so Issei wasn't going to admit to it.
Out of her pocket, Asia took a pair of panties as it was a blue color with a bow on the front of it. "Asia you cant give him that." "But that's one of your favorite panties" Irina and Xenovia shouted
"O panties treasure." Fafnir seemed happy that Asia was presenting him with a pair of panties.
"Wait!" Irina shouted at Fafnir "There's no reason for Asia to give him that. I'll give you mine.
"You don't wear panties under the battle outfit!" Xenovia shouted
"Fafnir is my battle costume enough for you?"
"I want panties of a blonde girl. The treasure of the panties sister."
Issei facepalmed hearing that "Asia isn't a panty sister." He yelled at Fafnir.
(So is Fafnir my opponent?)
"Just wait, the payoff will be worth it. Both Heavenly Dragons and their comrades are eccentric due to woman's breasts and butt."
"Here" Asia pushed the panties towards Fafnir's snout
Fafnir breathed in getting a whiff of her panties as the air he inhaled whisked the panties onto his horn. "Why are you such a perv." Issei shouted at Fafnir.
"Panties received, Ddraig heal!" Fafnir released a golden aura as a matching black aura was released by Saji and Vritra.
[Huh What's happening, Ah Partner!] Ddraig had awakened and was in his normal state.
"Ddraig you have no clue how good it is to hear from you again. Asia gave up way too much to wake you up." Issei looked over to Fafnir as he was laying down breathing in heavily as his tail was swaying back and forth. "Weird ass dragon."
[Mind explaining why Grendel is here, he should be dead.]
"Hell if I know. But he wants a fight and we aren't leaving here without beating him."
(We can have our fight to the death once again Ddraig.)
Ddraig changed his voice back to speaking to Issei only. [Grendel was insane when he was young. You need to use everything and have no sympathy for killing him. He needs to be put down again.]
[WELSH DRAGON BALANCE BREAKER.]
Issei advanced forward "Leave this to me."
"You're the greatest fighting force we have. So in the words of Rias" Sona pointed towards Grendal "Do it Ise."
[JET] Issei disappeared in their eyes as he rushed towards Grendal.
Grendal saw Issei's movements as he was coming head-on. (Oh yes come on!)
[BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!][BOOST!] [WELSH DRAGONIC ROOK]
Issei swung his fist as it crashed into Grendel's jaw causing him to stagger back but still stay planted on his feet.
When Grendel recovered he looked at Issei ( hey hey hey what was that. You can't be that weak Ddraig, you were crazy strong beforehand.)
[It's time to go full out]
["I, who is about to awaken, Am the Red Dragon Emperor who holds the truth of the king up high Holding the infinite hopes and unbreakable dreams and walking the path of righteousness I will become an Emperor of Crimson Dragon And I will lead you to the Path of Heaven, glowing in deep crimson light!"]
The 'factory' was engulfed in a blinding light as it retracted back to Issei in his crimson armor. (Crimson? Now this is interesting Ddraig.)
Grendel jumped forward as he swung his massive lug of a claw at Issei. Countering it was as simple as moving faster than his claw and Issei did just that as he swung his right arm once again as it impacted with Grendel's chest. His fist ground into Grendels scales as Issei couldn't tell if the impact did any damage.
"Ddraig we are kind of limited in what we can do in here, got any ideas?"
[What about what's in the left Gauntlet?]
(Here I come Ddraig) Grendel inhales a huge amount of air as he let loose a massive fireball. Issei can only do one thing as he dodges fireballs and claw swipes.
[BOOST!] [BOOST!] [BOOST!] [BOOST!] [BOOST!] [BOOST!] [BOOST!] [BOOST!] [BOOST!]
[This Grendel is more powerful than the one in the past.]
"Alright fine how about this." Issei ran up towards Grendel dodging fireballs were destroying some of the factory equipment. Running up to him Issei swung his left arm at Grendels ribs.
[SOLID IMPACT BOOSTER!] [TRANSFER] Issei left arm glowed green as it made an impact. The impact echoed through the build looking to break anything fragile like glass. That's when Grendel coughed up some blue blood as his body slumped over from the impact.
"Well did you like you, dumb bastard?"
(That hurts so much, it was a good punch. The pain reminds me that I'm alive. Let's get rid of the spectators and have a fight till we die.)
[I told you he was insane.] Grendel inhaled a massive amount of air as he fired a few fireballs at the group.
"I don't think so." Rossweisse moved in front of the group as she created a barrier to protect everyone. The first ball impacted with her barrier as it fizzled out on Rossweists barrier.
"Water." Sona created a wall of water that engulfed one of the fireballs as it ate it creating steam everywhere.
"Asia protect." Fafnir saw that the fire coming in as he leaped towards the fireball and swung his hand down smashing the fireball into the ground.
"You wanted a one on one fight yet you attack my friends?" Issei shouted at Grendel.
(Oh my bad, I just felt like killing something right now. But make no mistake once I'm done with you they are next.) Grendels eyes began glowing silver as his bloodthirsty rage could be felt.
"Ise! We can fight him together this fight is no longer a one on one." Sona shouted out to them as everyone was ready to attack Grendel.
Issei was hesitant for a moment "Fine but be careful." Truth be told Issei wasn't at full power as Ddraig had just woken up and power was limited.
(Oh yes MORE FOR THE SLAUGHTER. TIME FOR ROUND TWO!) Grendal spread his wings out as it was getting ready to fly. As he flapped his wings down to gain lift he was greeted with nothing but a shadow wrapping around his right leg holding him down. Following the shadow, it ended up at Gasper as he was standing there with deep red eyes and pure darkness emanating off of him. The shadows coiled around Grendel's leg until everyone heard a crack and a pop. Looking back at Grendel his right leg was disfigured and mangled as from the looks of it that shadows broke his legs. Grendel wasn't too phased by it (One more to kill? Fine by me.)
"No wait stop." The silver robed man made a quick stop to Grendel's assault. "We have learned much here today. Next time we need Kiba Yuuto the swordsman and our information will be complete."
(Do not stop me from slaughtering them all. I will destroy spirits break their bodies kill them and eat their corpses.)
"Do as I say, or do you want to be a corpse again? Your body is still fresh, one slip or a random attack from me and you might turn into dust." Hearing that Grendel lowered his fists.
(Fine.)
A magic circle appeared next to the robbed man's ear as he listens in and nodded. "Good news, Grendel. The others are having a hard time with the white one.
(Good to hear.) Grendel looked over to the group (Ddraig, Vritra the downer, and the perverted dragon. Your deaths have been delayed, next time we meet I will kill you and tear you limb from limb.) Grendel was forcefully transported away as the Dark Green dragon gate appeared and disappeared quickly.
The Silver robed man looked at the group and dropped his hood revealing long silver hair. "I am Lucifugus, Euclid Lucifuge."
"Oh?" Issei was surprised to see that.
"You arent their boss right? Someone whos just grabbing the remnants of the Khaos Brigade." Saji asked him as Euclid shrugged his shoulders.
"You will soon know the identity of the boss of the Khaos Brigade."
"I take it as you were the one who brought all the magicians into the town? Someone with the same aura as Grayfia would be easy to slip past the barrier."
Hearing Grayfia his attitude turned sour "Tell my elder sister Grayfia Lucifigus that if she enjoys abandoning the role of Lucifugus then I have the same right to do so." Behind him, he disappeared into a magic circle as the field started to collapse.
Gasper was now on the floor as "Akeno get us out of here." Sona said as everyone gathered around.
Picking Gasper up Issei made his way over to the Group as Ravel flicked as a small capsule into the room "I have things that need to be taken care of." Ravel said looking gloomy as everyone transported away.
When they made it outside of the train station there were medical services as they made their way over to them taking Gasper. Issei found a bench a sat down as he was downright exhausted. Sona had disappeared off to give a report most likely. "Here tea." Issei looked over as Ravel handed him a can of tea that came from the vending machine. She sat down next to him as Koneko sat down next to Ravel. "I won't forgive them." Ravel said determined to never see something like that again.
"We must be strong Ravel." Koneko said as she grabbed ahold of Ravel's hand.
Ravel thought about it for a moment before she looked up to Issei. "Ise can I tell you something that happened awhile ago?" She didn't bother to wait as she continued "Long ago my butler told me a story about heroes. I had my young heart filled with dreams and ideas about becoming a woman who would be with that hero. But as I got older I gave up on it." Ravel turned and Looked at him "But that dream came back, when you appeared as a devil and beat Riser for Rias's sake I felt like that dream was possible again. I tried…." She was going to continue as Issei stopped her as he placed a hand on her head.
"That dream never disappeared Ravel, it was merely delayed till it could be of use to you." Issei smiled at her "The metaphor of me being your hero isn't lost on me. But here's the facts, if any of my girls are in need of help, I'll be there. It doesn't matter if it's something as small as picking her underwear or something as large as tonight. I'll be there for them because they picked me and I'll do anything to make sure they love the decision they made every day."
"Ravel! Are you okay?" An all familiar voice was heard as the looked over and saw Riser running towards them with his peerage in tow. "Wait it's already over?" It was already late but Issei knew it was going to be a long night hearing all of this.
After the night they had a few days of rest was needed and they got there a few days. But returning to the grind was bound to happen a few days later as they were in the large training area on the first basement floor. Today wasn't about the normal training it was about those new to the world. Kiryuu, Katase, and Murayama. "So we know Kiryuu has a thing for the magics. But you two are melee fighters more importantly swordswomen like Xenovia and Irina." Issei hitched his thumb over to them. He turned around and had something thrown at him as he caught them and looked at the two girls. "We need to test the obvious part of you two."
"And that would be?" Murayama asked him trying to be snarky about it.
Issei held the tips of two katanas that were in their sheaths and he pointed the handles towards them "How far you are willing to go to prove your everything."
The two kendo girls drew the blades out of the sheaths as he tossed them to the side. "They're real." Katase said as she notices the blade was sharpened. Issei tossed a sheet of paper at the Muryama's blade as it ripped right through tearing the paper in half.
"Of course they are real. You two use wooden sticks in school but you are now part of the supernatural, killing people is par for the course." Issei pulled out his divine blade as he pointed it at the two girls. "Here's the scenario, you're in the locker room and you just got out of the shower. The two of you are alone and your lockers are open. Inside of them is the blades your holding onto and you two are naked. But you don't hear anything as a man with no pants on and a raging boner the size of new york comes in knowing that you two are naked." Issei could see that his little scenario was working already as they were getting mad for even bringing it up. "You lack a towel no bra and no panties as your last line of defense. What are you going to do?"
The pink-haired Katase was first to respond as she swung her sword down to strike Issei. It wasn't fast by what he had been dealing and training with but they had been. Her blade bounced off his as he had repositioned it ever so slightly to parry her strike as it bounced back sending her a few steps back. Murayama made a side slash typical of the katana as she was only missing the sheath. Issei tilted his blade down to block the attack as the two blades made contact. When Muryama's blade made contact it rang out with the sound of metal colliding but it was as if she had struck a brick wall as she dropped her blade.
Issei advanced forward making them back up towards a wall. Murayama went down to grab the blade as Issei reached down grabbing a hold of her and shoved her into the wall. With his right foot, he kicked the sword away. She tried breaking free by punching him to break free but nothing was happening. Katase started to swing her sword faster as Issei only held his blade to block her strikes and nothing more. As she kept swinging she was getting faster and faster as Issei took notice of this. "Katase promote to Knight." It wasn't a suggestion but an order that she had no clue what it was all about. But she felt a wellspring of power surge in her body. She was light as air as she swung her blade with ease.
The increased speed of her attacks increased as the blades clashed however the katana she had wasn't made for the powers of the supernatural. Issei knew this as he procured these blades on purpose. As Katase went to swing Issei moved his sword just enough as went the two blades made contact her's broke in half. The top of the blade went flying off down the room as it skidded across the floor. "Katase return to Pawn." Issei watched her drop on the floor as she was out of energy he then let go of Murayama as she slumped down to the floor. Issei walked away from them making about halfway between the two of them and the crowd that was watching.
"So how did you think you did?" He asked them.
The two of them thought about what transpired. "They failed." There was a new unfamiliar to everyone else but Issei knew who it was as he was clapping his hands like a gitty little child.
"Well look who it is." Issei turned around and saw in the back of the room a woman with blue eyes and silvery blonde hair wearing a small and thin black dress that was ready for combat. "It's Artemis!" Issei waved at her as he turned around and looked back at the Katase and Murayama. "She right you failed, but do you want to take a guess at why?"
"You're too strong, you held me up on the wall like it was nothing while fending off Katase's attacks," Murayama said getting Issei's attention
"Your correct and incorrect at the same time." Issei told them "I was never your target, you imposed me over the rapist scenario. You chose to make me that monster when in reality that monster could have been a human, a human connection to the supernatural world or it could have been a real monster. The fact is you failed and here's why. I told you that you were swordswomen like Xenovia and Irina. So when we played it out it acted just like they would have. In that same scenario Xenovia and Irina would have killed whatever creature it was in the nude."
"What would Asia do in something like that?" Issei asked, "Runaway." They heard her said. "Akeno?" "Electrocute it till it keels over." "Koneko?" "Punch it till it dies." "Ravel?" "Burn it alive." "What about you Sona?" "Drown it for spying on me."
After Issei went down the line he looked back at the two girls. "It was a test to see how you would react to an unknown situation. But the way you act the two of you would have been raped and possibly killed."
"How were we supposed to know that?" Katase shouted out in anger.
Issei only laughed at his getting them even more riled up "You weren't." His simple answer floored her. "When you attacked me you should have noticed that your attacks bounced off like flies. That's when you should have made the decision for the retreat. When Murayama had her sword thrown out of her hands that was your last chance. Yes in this scenario you were naked but you had a weapon to defend yourself. Running away while covering yourselves and finding one of us who could deal with a threat that was over your head was the most optimal strategy." The lesson was starting to sink in. "In this world, there are things that are stronger than you, everyone in this room aside from Kiryuu is stronger than you and I'm stronger than everyone else in the room." A cough was heard and Issei knew who it came from "I'll prove it Artemis."
She laughed "Your such a little brat. We both know that you're not fast enough to cop a feel even if you wanted to."
"I'll take you up on that later." Issei refocused his attention back on Katase and Murayama. "Do you understand what I tried to show you?"
'Yes." He heard in unison from the two of them.
He walked over to them "That's good." Extending his arms out towards them they grabbed on as he hoisted the two girls up. "Because you don't get to complain about what comes next."
"What would have happened if we passed?" Katase asked him
"The same thing." He answered as they moved over to the group "I think its time we go downstairs?" Hearing that all the girls were happy as it was the main activity of the day.
Everyone piled into the elevator as they made their way downstairs. When the elevator opened up all the girls aside from Katase Murayama Kiryuu Sona and Artemis ran off into the main room. When they walked in they saw a massive pool room as there were some people already inside. "You have a pool as well?" Kiryuu was amazed to see it.
"Of course, it's a pool party day as we need some days off." Issei smiled.
"We didn't bring our swimsuits."
Issei chucked hearing that as he held his hand out as a book appeared. "We have solutions for that." He opened up the book as it flipped to a page as he touched it a bag came out and passed it to Kiryuu. Soon Issei flipped through some more pages as he pulled out a few more magic circles. Placing them on the floor two more bags came out as he kicked them over to Katase and Murayama. Issei pointed over to the room over on the side "Go get changed." They scampered off seeing that they were going to have access to a pool and it wasn't the schools.
Only Artemis was the only one left "So what about me?" She temped him by shaking her hips as Issei looked on and as she a downright bombshell.
Issei was looking through his book for something as he felt an arm lean on his shoulder. "Try again." It was Aphrodite as she had an even larger book in her hands as it was already open. She lowered it down so the two of them could look into it. Murmurs were coming from the two as they were looking in the books pointing things out. After a few minutes of pointing a disagreeing, they had come to a decision. There was only one problem Issei didn't know her size. "Hey, so what's…" He was quickly smacked in the head by his mom.
"I got this." A bag quickly appeared as it was handed off to Artemis "Have fun." Aphrodite smirked knowing what was in store. As she went into the dressing room the two of them giggled as they each snapped their fingers. Issei changed into a red pair of trunks as Aphrodite shed her clothes revealing an all pink two-piece that had a thong and a bra that was just enough to hold everything in place with a small flora print in it.
Aphrodite disappeared off to one of the many chairs around the pool as the girls piled out of the changing room all dressed up. Asia came out wearing her school swimsuit as it was the most comfortable for her. Irina and Xenovia came out as they both jumped into the pool and began a race wearing a simple two-piece with nothing flashy but they were blue and white so they matched. Akeno was the show stopper as usual as she was wearing a one-piece but it was more of a string with just enough to cover her nipples and vagina. Ravel had on a blue and white polka dot bikini with a white shirt over the top of it.
Then the unknown came out first it was Kiryuu she had on a red one-piece swimsuit with a large open elongated rhombus in the center revealed where the belly button would be. As it went up to the top of the rhombus it closed and opened once again as there was string crisscrossing the two holding the breast areas together as the fabric revealed most of her breasts but covered her nipples. Sona came out next as she had on a blue one-piece with an assortment of patterns. Katase came out in yellow with red stripes bikini as they were almost form-fitted. Murayama had on a purple bikini but attached to her bottom was a removable silk skirt that didn't hide much but it was for the appearance.
Seeing them all come out he waved them over as he sat down on the far side of the pool of Irina and Xenovia's race. "You know Issei your the first man to see me in a swimsuit outside of my family." Sona said as she sat down with Akeno as the other three girls sat down on the other side.
"Well, then I'll have to make a big mental note of this privilege." Issei chuckled as he turned to his pawns. "Before I let you three go there are some other things we need to talk about. Two of them I'm sure you have already noticed."
"It's the eyesight isn't it." Kiryuu had already figured out one of the things. "I'm having troubles wearing my glasses."
"That is one of them." Issei said.
"Give me your glasses." Sona stuck her hand as Kiryuu handed them over. With a quick magic spell, Sona transformed the lenses in the frames as she handed them back. "As your a devil now it's best to keep your cover. Since you wore glasses beforehand we can't have you no longer need glasses. So to keep your cover and questions down you wear glasses just with no prescription in them."
"That." Issei pointed towards Sona. "I'm guessing you two have noticed that you have perfect vision." They nodded "And the Dark vision?"
"Yes, last night was interesting. I woke up and was able to see everything as if it was daytime." Murayama admitted.
"That's a thing you will have to get used to but it's extremely convenient. But along with being able to speak any language, the ability to change your appearance don't try it. Your hearing has been upgraded so you can hear at many further ranges such as a conversation a city block away."
Sona wanted to add on more information "There are other things that just reincarnating as a devil gives but you not at that stage yet to be able to do it."
"There is oneeeeeee more things." Issei stretched it out as it was a sensitive subject "But it's a girl thing."
Issei felt a small ball of energy bounce off his head "Don't tell them about that, let them figure it out. It's cuter that way when they figure it out." It was Aphrodite and she knew what it was about.
"No, I'm gonna be honest to them for once." Issei shouted back as he looked at them "Devil's have a reduced birthrate, and it's hard for a woman to get pregnant."
"What does that have to do with anything?" Katase was getting ready to pummel Issei.
Issei held his hands up "You no longer have to deal with your period." The three girls were at a loss for words "Shark Week at cooch creak, Red Wedding."
All three of them looked over to Sona only to get a nod from her confirming it. Katase and Murayama did something out of character for them as they pounced on Issei and hugged him. "I accept hugs as payment." After a couple of seconds they backed away "And going with that I've uh never seen you two through the peephole. Motohama and Matsuda always hog it."
"What about Kiryuu?" Katasa asked
"We've had sex twice." Kiryuu was quick to admit to it.
Issei pointed at the pool "Go swim laps until your tired. It will be great for building up the strength that you're lacking." The three girls scampered off once again as Kiryuu went to find Asia and Katase and Murayama went to play in the pool.
Once the younger ones were gone Issei looked at Sona and Akeno. "About a couple of nights ago."
"What about it?" Sona asked him.
"A man with Silver hair and an aura similar to Grayfia's." Issei's words weren't needed to remind them of the name Euclid Lucifuge. "And he said we would find out who was the leader of the Khaos Brigade. Putting the few clues we have don't you think we are in over our heads?"
"I've thought about it and no doubt we are in for a fight." Sona admitted.
"No no no, Lucifuge's in devil history serve Lucifer. Grayfia does that in more ways than one for Sirzechs. If there was another Lucifuge alive and he was doing work for somebody."
"Your referring to Rizevim Livan Lucifer, his whereabouts or status haven't been confirmed in over three hundred years." Sona said knowing well about devil history.
"Make no mistake that man is alive." Walking towards them was Artemis in a skimpy red thong bikini and a bra that was just as skimpy. She walked over to them as Issei stood up to confront her. "You're just as bad as your mother. I've had to deal with her shit for thousands of years and you pull the same shit like her." Issei went to reach for her left breast as his hand was swatted. Right after he did the same thing to her right only to receive the same treatment this time it was louder. "I told you."
Issei wasn't done only redoubled his efforts as he sent his right hand to grab ahold of her ass with his left hand was going to grab ahold of her panties giving her a surprise. When he put that plan into motion she saw right through it only for Issei to receive a smack across the face. Sona and Akeno were laughing seeing Issei being treated like this. But what Artemis didn't notice was the fact that Issei had moved in closer during all of this. And when she did it was too late, only the pool was behind her. Issei put her into a checkmate position as his left hand was hovering over her breast. He didn't grab onto it as it was more proof that he could do what she taunted him about. "Never tempt a pervert, it will only end up ill for the person who tempts them." Artemis heard Issei and Aphrodite speak at the same time. Issei smiled as he motioned for her to lean her head down as she was much taller than him "I ended up getting over it. Tiamat apologized and then she made it up by letting me turn her into a mess, she's even now my familiar." Issei put a hand on her breast as he felt her squishy yet firm C almost D cups " I'm not that young boy anymore. And I hope you will unwind and no longer stay a prude because you're hot."
Issei backed away as he pushed her towards his mother, as she walked over there in a trance-like state. "Sorry about that." Issei sat back down this time between Sona and Akeno. "I had to finally call out Artemis on her shit."
"And you thought squeezing her tit was the best course?" Akeno asked her lover.
"It's a long story but she used to be like Rias. But ancient Greek history happened and something happened between her first and now dead lover Orion."
"Orion being dead probably has something to do with it." Sona said.
Issei nodded his head "From what I hear he tried to abuse her and she killed him. Then she turned into well…" Issei looked over at Sona "Somebody like you. Not interested in sex but she was always smart, and always physically fit." He waved off anything else "Enough about her, what do you think of these girls."
"It's going to be all girls isn't it?" Akeno asked him.
"Yes but you and Rias knew that was going to be the case from the start. But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm asking about how well they fair."
"Kiryuu has magic potential that much is apparent but I'm not sure if your claims of her having a sacred gear are true." Issei was sliding his index finger through a circle.
Sona smacked his shoulder "That's hardly appropriate."
"But it's true that's how I know she has one. You can't tell me you couldn't feel Saji's when you did the monster mash."
"You are such a perv." Sona was flustered as she wanted to keep it quiet.
"You never said no tho. But Katase and Murayama are going to have the biggest Issues no?"
Sona breathed deep a few times calming down. "Unless they have a growth spurt in power, they might be on par with my peerage. Then again they are with you so who knows what leaps in power they might develop."
"I'm so tired." Kuroka's voice was heard as she opened the door as Le Fay followed behind her. The two of them moved over to where Issei was as Le Fay merely waved trying not to be a bother. When she made it over to Issei she loosened her Kimono and grabbed onto Issei "I'm back nya." Issei felt his body almost be absorbed into her as his head rested between her breasts. "Heal me up Red Dragon."
Akeno was having none of that Kuroka was rubbing up on Issei as if she was a cat in human form. To put a stop to it she pointed her finger at Kuroka and a small but ultimately harmless bolt of lightning rolled off her fingers and zapped Kuroka. "What was that for Nya."
"Weren't you just with Vali?" Akeno asked her shocked victim
"We were, but we came back after we fight this Azi Dahaka thingy that attacked us." That name caught everyone
"Azi Dahaka was an Evil Dragon that died over a thousand years ago." Ravel said as Sona continued on. "The Evil dragon created by Angry Maya and slain and sealed by Oraetaona of the Zoroastrianism army."
"Ah, the Persians were such fun people to mess with back in the day." Aphrodite spoke as if it was a trip down memory lane.
"Sure." Kuroka shrugged her shoulders "We were traveling around as Vali was looking for people to fight. And we came across him. He laughed at us as he punched kicked and sliced his scales. Even when he was bleeding he showed no signs of stopping. It's almost as if he was broken it just wasn't normal."
"Sounds familiar." Issei said "We fought Grendel and I hit him with a punch to his ribs that was imbued with Ascalon's power. He coughed up some blood but he took the attack almost as if nothing would stop him." Issei watched as there was a wave in the pool as a golden dragon slithered into it
"Vali was happy to fight those dragons." Kuroka shook Issei "But you don't need to be like that. No need to become an evil dragon."
"I like the ladies too much, being evil is too much work." Kuroka rubbed his head when she heard that.
"We also found out the name of the stray magicians who attacked us yesterday. They go by the name Hexennacht." Sona said as Kuroka was thinking about it.
"Never heard of them Nya. What about you Le Fay."
Le Fay shook her head "Never heard of them, I have heard of Nilrem another magician faction in the Khaos Brigade."
Kuroka let go of Issei as she swapped places with him dropping herself onto Issei's lap. "Getting away from the boring stuff. Who was your first servant Sona?"
"Ah Tsubaki, I met her when I came to Japan and made her my servant with no hassle."
"That simple?"
"Well no. Tsubaki had her problems. But I made her into my Queen and she got stronger and got past some of her problems. I'm still surprised you were able to convince or con her into a date with Kiba." Sona was still highly suspicious of it "What did you promise her?"
Issei wagged his finger "She got exactly what I promised her. Ask her if you must know."
"Sister I found you." Koneko ran over to them as she grabbed onto Kuroka's hand as Gasper was in tow.
"Nya? Shirone and Gasper want to swim?"
Koneko shook her head "It's time for you to train us. That's why you get to stay here."
Kuroka stood up as she looked over at Issei "Hey Hey Red Dragon Can I ask you something?" Issei nodded "Do you think you could look at Le Fay to become a candidate for making a magician pack with you?" Kuroka asked as she pointed at Le Fay.
"Kuroka." Le Fay hissed at her
"What she's an expert magician comes from a well knows family and she's a fan of yours. Perfect for making a pact with."
Ravel sighed hearing all of them "It doesn't change the fact that all of you are terrorists. Even if you left the Khaos Brigade the situation your in doesn't make it any easier. I have to think about Lord Issei's reputation as my highest priority."
Sona leaned and whispered "Lord?" Into Issei's ear.
"Don't ask. She loves to refer me as such."
"Just take the plug out of your butt and give her a simple interview Little Birdy."
Ravel was fuming hearing that "My name is Ravel"
"Calm down Ravel, if I'm honest I kinda wanna see what she knows."
"Fine.." Ravel looked at Le Fay "Please answer the questions." Ravel took out a notepad and began asking questions and jotting down the answers. After a few minutes, Ravel was looking a the things she had written down "Impossible, Black White Norse fairy, pacts with Fenrir and a Gogmagog."
"Is something wrong?" Le Fay asked as having qualifications like that was generally a good thing.
"I have standards for magicians, you exceeded those standards by quite a margin. You are gifted with potential in many areas of magic compared to the magicians that I have been looking at… until now."
"The fact that she supported the Khaos Brigade is a big deal." Sona said calmly.
Xenovia came out throwing a towel down next to Issei as she flopped down on his lap. "Hey Hey look Shirone your territory was just taken."
"That's fine I'll be sitting there later."
Issei heard pen and paper as he looked over and saw that Ravel wasn't writing Oppai Dragon's lap is a fought after territory. Issei then looked back and saw Bennia sitting under a table watching them.
"I almost forgot you brought her this morning." He told Sona
"It sure does seem fun to have a pool in the basement." Everyone turned to see a woman dressed as a nun, it was Griselda that was being escorted by two men. "I'm sorry." She apologized "We came to visit your home and we were let in and guided down here by a light."
"Hello." Aphrodite raised her arm up as she was holding a tablet in her hand while laying down on one of the many beach chairs.
"I see." Griselda now understood what it was.
Issei pointed at the pool "You uhh wanna take a dip then?"
Griselda walked over to him "No thanks." Issei felt Xenovia's body get stiff as she towered over the two of them "For you to be sitting on a gentleman's lap at such a time. You have turn into a shameless girl."
Xenovia had her cheeks pinched by Griselda as she apologized "I'm zorry." She had morphed into a cutesy girl like Irina when she was being punished by her mother figure.
After dealing with Xenovia she turned to Sona and Akeno who were standing getting ready to move to the table next to them. The three of them sat down " I heard that the Gremory and Sitri groups would be having a discussion so we figured we would join you."
Issei looked over and saw a Japanese man that was a similar height to him only better looking. Sitting next to him there was a pure black dog with golden sparkling eyes. The dog was far from normal as it gave off an aura reminiscent of the supernatural.
The second man dressed in a priest uniform breaks his silence "Hello? Nice to meet you all. I'm called Dulio Gesualdo, I hope we can get along for now."
"Dulio that name sounds familiar." Issei was bad with everything unless it was sex related or fighting even tho he had been told that name.
"Joker." Sona said quietly as she understood who exactly he was.
"I head that the Red Dragon has many beautiful wives, and it seems like there is truth to the talk."
"Dulio, You are the Joker the trump card of Heaven, don't be rude about it."
Issei only laughed hearing it "You would need to break that celibacy thingy. And that's why I'm not part of the church of Heaven."
"You wouldn't last five minutes as an angel." Aphrodite mocked her son.
"Duh if Tiamat found out she would try to fuck and or kill me."
"Oh Lord, that rumor is true as well." Griselda could facepalm as the devils groned at her word choice.
Issei waved his hand as there was a small Dragon Gate not activated but it was blue "Guess I'll let the cat out of the bag."
"If Vali was here he would be happy." Kuroka said looking at the Japanese.
"You know him?"
Kuroka made a big smile "He's the possessor of Canis Lykaon better known as Slash Dog. He's the only 'Human'" She air quoted the word human "Besides Cao Cao that can force Vali to use the Juggernaut Drive."
"My name is Tobi Ikuse. I came on behalf of the former Governor Azazel. This one here is Jin. Think of him as the Longinus itself as it is an independent avatar type. He has his own instincts and does whatever he wants. I'll be supporting your work from behind the scenes." Saying that Jin ran off down the side of the pool towards where Fafnir was floating seeing that Ophis was sitting on top of his head and Rassei in her lap. The dog cocked its head to the side seeing the dragon stacking madness as it moved back over to Tobi.
"Oddly enough each factions Longinus possessor are gathered here." Sona said pushing up her glasses."
"Say Red Dragon will you be doing personal training today?" Tobi asked.
Issei thought about it "Ehhhh it's kinda hard to as my training partner isn't here."
"Well that makes things easier, I was asked by Azazel to take on Kiba Yuuto's role while he is gone."
"Alright then, training with a Longinus possessor is going to be a new experience as they generally want to fight or kill me."
Dulio raised his hand "That's right Lord Michael ordered me to do the same."
"Oh geez. Your as strong as Cao Cao right?" Issei asked Dulio
"I fit those qualifications."
Issei nodded hearing that as he moved over to the pool. "Girls hop on out were going to do some training for a bit. So go get changed don't worry about a bath there will be plenty of time for that later."
"I have the possessor in my peerage. Would it be okay if he tags along for this? I would like for him to reach his Balance Breaker and with this many Longinus users around it might be a jolt he needs to get closer to it."
Dulio nods "I don't see any issue with that."
"Terrorists are making more and more mysterious actions. We should strengthen the powers of the youth whenever we can. And unfortunately, strength is needed in these trying times. We can't afford to lose the Gods and Chief Gods from the factions. That's why we need everybody like your groups to become powerful so you can lend your powers not only to the Three Great powers but the other factions who need us and innocent humans. Unfortunately, we can only support you in these times." Griselda had her head down
"Raise your head, Griselda. Nobody wanted things to come to this. Those girls I just sent off to get changed do you think they wanted it? Hell, they don't even know what's going on, they failed a basic test about running away and finding backup because they were too eager to prove themselves but they tried. And when the time comes we will do our job so we can have the peace that we all need."
"Lord Michael told me that it's heartbreaking that Issei and everyone here is fighting all the time." Dulio said as Katase Murayama and Kiryuu came out of the dressing room after a few minutes.
"Alright everyone let's have some training today." Issei said trying to get pumped up.
Sona grabbed onto Issei's arm getting his attention "Before that we need to discuss what we're going to do from now on."
Issei waved the rest of the girls off so they would go get changed. "Katase and Murayama need a crash course in adapting their kendo skills into the real world. Pads and wooden sticks can teach you only so much. Kiryuu needs the fundamentals of demonic power and how to shape it into an element and drive it into her head. And conveniently I get to dump that on the others." Issei said with a smile.
"Wait your our master and you're not going to teach us?" Katase was perplexed to hear that Issei wasn't going to take that kind of responsibility.
Issei nodded his head. "Yep yep yep. It's best that way."
"I don't see how…."
Issei walked over to them as they were standing at the top of the pool. The boosted gear appeared on his arm. [BLADE!] Ascalon ejected from the gauntlet as he caught it as his other sword appeared in his hand. "Ascalon here is a holy sword from the Angel of Heaven, and my other sword is a Divine sword made from the fragments of Chronos's scythe. In the right hands, they are extremely deadly. These swords are not my style of fighting but I still keep them." Issei pushed the blades towards the two girls. "Unlike those katanas, I gave you earlier these are the real deal. But you want me to train you girls on how to swing swords around?" Issei laughed at the thought. "No no, no Xenovia and Irina can train you far better than I can attempt to. So take on try one out and swap them so you get the feel of different swords."
His attention moved to Kiryuu "As for you magic isn't my thing."
Aphrodite peered out over from her tablet "Issei does three things. Punch things, Burn things, and hump things."
"That's a crass definition of your own son don't you think?" Griselda wasn't too happy to hear that.
"Have you seen him fight? Have you seen his harem? He has two devil princesses a fallen who is into more things that I could imagine for her age, your former holy maiden a former exorcist, a current angel, a literal kitten, and quite possibly two fox girls. Let's not forget the dragon as well. He has my blood and magic I know what's possible. I remember my wild times and they were no different from when I see my son."
Aphrodite shut down any argument Griselda could put together as Issei looked back at the girls "Look my fighting style is punching things, and I'm good at it. I can use my blood magic but I can't teach you that. I can also breathe fire, that I can teach you but you would die."
"It's magic why can't you teach us it?" Kiryuu asked as Issei turned to face the pool as he breathed in mixing the dragon energies as he let out a stream of fire over the pool.
"Because it's the power of a dragon, my lungs are of a dragon so I can create flames inside of it and spew them out. Your lungs are still human even tho your a devil so you would burn your lungs the same way as if you were in a car crash and breathed in all the smoke." Issei held up his hand as stopping them from asking thing else. "Once you get the basics down things will ramp up. Akeno will be teaching you how to teleport around but for now, just focus on what you know." Issei held out his hand as a book appeared as he handed it to Kiryuu. "Call it a bribe or whatever you want but I want you to work hard. And if you do you can pick out an outfit for each of you."
Kiryuu was flipping through the pages "Some of this is pricey."
"Don't sweat the prices."
"There a nightgown in here that's over a thousand US dollars." Kiryuu's eyes were almost coming out of her eye sockets. "There's no way I can pick something like that. I can't put that kind of finical strain on you."
Issei Aphrodite Sona and a few others who understood how the underworld worked got a chuckle. "I have a kids tv show in the underworld. The portion of the money I get from my likeness being used has enough zero's attached to the end to choke a horse and all of us. Outfits consist of matching Bra and panty, socks or stockings, tops, bottoms, footwear, gloves, or a handbag." Issei walked away as he went to sit down with everybody else as they waited for the rest of the girls to get changed.
"You're bribing them?" Griselda asked as it was an odd thing that would happen.
"I am not on their best side." Issei pointed over towards them "But they are girls in the end just look at them. I need to ease their transition as it was already rough for one of them."
"Issei's school career hasn't been the best thing." Sona added on.
"Oh it could be worse I could have seen you."
"And how is that worse?" Sona wasn't too happy to hear that.
"I'm not messing around with your sister. I'm not going to fight that battle." Issei shook his head.
"What about Gabriel?" Aphrodite threw out the holy grail.
"Oh that's not fair and you know that."
"What's not fair is how cute she is." Artemis sat up and looked over to Issei. "I know many goddesses who would do unholy things to her if she wasn't an angel. The first time I saw her long ago she gave me a nose bleed from how beautiful she is, she's got amazing breasts and is cute as a button."
Artemis's rant confirmed many things to Issei first and foremost she was a pervert. "Artemis." Issei got her attention as he pointed to the table "There are three angles there. I don't think they want to hear how you rubbed one out to her." Issei got up and whispered in her ear "You can tell me the details later."
Next to Sona on the floor, the Sitri magic circle opened up as Sona quickly changed clothes with magic so Saji wouldn't see her in a swimsuit. Saji came out of the circle dressed in his school outfit without the tie that he used for training. "You called ma'ma?"
"Good you're here." Sona said as she pointed towards Dulio and Tobi. "You have an opportunity to train with other Longinus users today, make good of it for today."