I'm not going to do author notes very often, but I have seen a lot of you guys getting pissed of because I changed Issei's hair to black. Some say I basically made him an OC, and some say that his hair should be the same. However, I assure you guys, I changed his hair for a reason. And it will not stay black, it will go back to his old hair, but for the moment, that black hair signifies something. I'm sure if you guys think about it, and try and figure out why it's black right now, then you probably won't mind that I changed it for the time being. So again, I assure you, I am not making him into an OC, and I am not changing his hair forever. The black hair just signifies something that will happen later in the story.
Disclaimer! No matter how hard I wish I do not own High School DxD in any way, shape, or form!
" " – Somebody Talking
' ' – Somebody Thinking
" " – Flashback
" " – Ddraig Talking
' ' – Ddraig Thinking
[ ] – Boosted Gear
Issei was sitting on a cliff, watching the purple sky that never changed. There was no day or night here in the Underworld, it was always just a purple sky with two moons. Sometimes he liked how it always stayed the same, sometimes he missed being able to watch as the sun rose and fell over the horizon.
For two months, Issei has woken up, and went to sleep to the same exact sky. In his own opinion, it felt weird. In fact, the purple color of the sky made it seem like it was always night. But, it made sense. After all, the underworld was home to the devils and fallen angels. Beings that strive in dark places.
Him though? Well, he was part devil, so he didn't mind it too much. But he was more dragon than anything else. If he had to guess, his dragon side had already overwritten about a quarter of his human DNA.
For the first two weeks of his training, he trained with Tannin in mastering his dragon fire. Although he didn't completely master it, as that would take years, but he got a good enough grasp on it to train it on his own. So, for the other six weeks, he trained on his own. For the most part, it was practicing his fighting styles, reading books, sparring with Ddraig, and practicing his accuracy with his knives while inside his mind. When he was outside his mind, his training would consist of him pushing his body to the limits. He trying to strengthen his body, but rather increase his stamina. So, he would run while wearing weight magic.
Weight magic was a magic Ddraig taught him in which the more magic he put into the spell, the heavier the weight of the magic would be. The spell could be cast to anywhere on his body, but Issei only cast it on his chest, arms, and legs. There wasn't really a point to put it everywhere on his body.
When he wasn't training his physical stamina, he would be training his magic reserves. Even though he trained in them when he was on Mount Everest, his magic reserves were still pathetic. He could barley even use a teleportation circle, and that's why he still took the train or walked everywhere.
And finally, he decided to take on a new specialty. Some of the books he got from the library had a rather, interesting, weapon he could add to his arsenal. And that weapon was poison. He read all the books he could on the poisons and how to make them, and then we would apply the poison to his senbon needles. This way, he would have multiple options on what to do when facing an enemy.
If he needed to capture his enemy, he had paralysis poison needles, and also narcotic poison needles. If he needs to slowly poison someone, he had multiple poisons for that as well. If he needed to kill someone, he had poisons that would kill someone as well. And all this took was being hit one time by his senbon needle.
So, Issei being the crafty person he was, decided to see what would happen if he used his boosted gear on the needles. And just as he guessed, the Boosted Gear boosted all attributes. For one, it boosted the penetration of the needle, it also boosted the speed of the needle, and finally, and possibly the most dangerous one, it boosted the effects of the poison on the needle.
The ability to boost the poison was one of the things he found very, what's the word for it? Very, overpowered. But then again, the Boosted Gear was known to be overpowered in general. He could boost the poison as many times as he wanted. Hell, he could take an everyday poison like rat poison, which had barley any effect on a devil at all and boost it to the point where it would kill a mauo.
However, Issei still stood by his decision to only use the Boosted Gear in dire times. So, he would only boost the poison if the situation really called for. The only reason he boosted them in the first place, was to see what would happen.
At Issei's current level of strength, he knew he was at least low Ultimate-class, and with the Boosted Gear, he could possibly be on the level of a major God. And he knew for a fact, that the possibility of gaining strength this fast was all thanks to the Boosted Gear.
After all, without it, he wouldn't be able to train the way he did. He wouldn't be able to push his body to the point where he passed out and be perfectly fine a few hours later. The possibility of doing that was all thanks to his dragon genes, and the only reason he was part dragon was because of the Boosted Gear.
'I'm strong enough to gain the respect of the mauos, the only problem is the opportunity to showcase my strength. Buchou isn't old enough to participate in rating games yet, so I can't show it there. Not to mention, I'm still a low-class devil. It would look bad for a mauo to be with a low-class devil, if I want to the opportunity, I'll need to be officially considered Ultimate-class. This is going to be tough, I don't know how I'm going to get to Ultimate-class when I don't have the opportunity to show my strength. My best bet would be if I ran into the Khaos Brigade and took out some of their strongest members.'
Issei looked up into the moon and clenched his fist. Issei looked basically the same as when he left, the only really noticeable difference was the brown strands of hair mixed in with his black hair. Similar to on Mount Everest he was only wearing shorts and underwear again. After all, the underworld would get hot at times.
"Today was the last day of training. Tannin should be here in a few minutes to take me to the Gremory mansion." Issei stopped talking and looked behind him at one of the rocks. "Are you going to come out or are you going to just sit there and watch me?"
A few seconds later, a man walked out from behind the rock. The man was tall, at least 6'3, and had black hair with purple eyes. The man was wearing a black long-sleeved shirt with a grey vest over top and black pants. "I'm surprised you perceived me. The names Sairaorg. Sairaorg Bael." The man extended his hand for a handshake.
Issei accepted the handshake and had to stop himself from laughing when he tried to intimidate him by crushing his hand. "Issei, Hyoudou Issei. So, you're from the house of Bael? Odd, I can't sense much magic coming from you." Issei tilted his head and question marks formed above his head.
Sairaorg frowned and let go of Issei's hand. "That's because I didn't inherit the Power of Destruction when I was born." Sairaorg said with a sad frown. Issei nodded in understanding.
"So, what, you don't have the Power of Destruction. Don't get too downtrodden because of that, just become strong regardless and show your family you don't need strong magic to be strong." Sairaorg's frown soon turned into a smile and he laughed a genuine laugh.
"You know Issei Hyoudou, I like you. I thought the same exact thing when I was younger. And that's exactly what I did. A few years ago, I became heir to the Bael clan because of the strength I showed." He said with a smile. Issei nodded before patting Sairaorg on the back, which resulted in him almost falling on his face.
"That's good. I know how you feel though, I'm not very good with magic either." Sairaorg was staring at Issei with wide eyes. 'What strength. Just how strong are you, Issei Hyoudou?' Sairaorg thought to himself.
"Haha, yea. Anyways, it was nice to meet you Issei Hyoudou. Hopefully one day we can have a spar, but for now, I must take my leave." Sairaorg said before leaving. A few minutes later, Tannin led Issei to the Gremory mansion.
When he arrived, Grayfia took him to the room he would be staying at while they were there in the underworld. The room itself was the size of Issei's whole first floor in the human realm. Hell, the bed itself was as big as Issei's whole room.
When he entered the room, he couldn't help but whistle at the size. "You know, I'll never understand why devils make such big rooms. After all, it's not like one person needs a room the size of a house." Issei then walked over to the bed and started taking his clothes out of his pocket dimension.
As he got dressed, he talked to Grayfia. "So, what time is dinner? And where do I need to go?" He said as he put on his skin-tight long-sleeve black shirt. Followed by putting on his red jack without any sleeves and hood and zipped it up.
"Dinner will be in two hours, and one of the maids will come to lead you to the dining room once it is time." Issei then continued to strap on all 4 of his swords on his back, followed by another on his lower back with two daggers.
"If I may ask, what is all the weapons for? It's not like you will be needing them." Grayfia asked in her usual stoic tone. Honestly, that ever so stoic tone creeped Issei out a little bit. Did it hurt to show even just a little bit of emotion?
"You never know what will happen. Best to always be prepared, besides it takes forever to strap on all my weapons." Issei then continued to take out hundreds of knives and senbon and conceal them in his jacket.
"That may be so, but I can assure you that the Gremory mansion is on of the safest places in the underworld." Issei chuckled, which resulted in a confused Grayfia.
"That's what you may think, but this place is too lax. When we were walking to this room, I found 17 holes in the defense of the castle. Here, just to prove it," Issei then suddenly disappeared from Grayfia's vision. She looked quickly looked around the room but couldn't find him, until he suddenly appeared behind her with a dagger at her throat.
"See, even you are too lax. You've only met me two times, and yet you automatically assume that I would never do anything to the Gremory family, or that if I did try, I would be too weak to do anything." Grayfia was sitting there with wide eyes and a few beads of sweat dripping down her forehead.
Alas, Issei removed the dagger and put it back into its place. "Sorry about that, just needed to prove a point. You need to be more on guard around people, even if they are only low-class devils. You never know what people are capable of. You underestimate people too often, that is something you should never do. You should always assume that the person in front of you is just as strong, if not stronger than you."
Issei walked over to the bed with Grayfia still frozen in the same place she was standing. 'How did he do that? He's supposed to be a low-class devil, and yet he was fast enough to disappear from my line of vision! How strong is he really?'
Issei himself was having different thoughts. 'It's a good thing I removed all my weight magic. If I hadn't, I doubt I would have been able to get behind her like that. But, at the least, she'll tell Sirzechs about this incident, and I know for a fact he will then tell all the mauos. This will get them all to keep an eye on me.' Issei thought with a grin.
"How did you do that?! No low-class devil should have that kind of speed!" Grayfia said on guard. This is one of the reactions Issei expected from her. "There's no need to worry Grayfia-san, I'm not your enemy, I was simply pointing out one of your weaknesses." Grayfia's eyes narrowed.
"You didn't answer my question." Grayfia said in a low voice. It was obvious to Issei if he didn't answer, he would probably have a fight on his hands. "Just because I am low-class devil, doesn't mean I have the same strength as one. I simply haven't had the chance to go up in the ranks yet."
Grayfia narrowed her eyes further. "But you didn't show this kind of speed at the three-faction meeting nor at your fight with Riser. How did you become this strong, this fast? Or have you always been this strong and were hiding it?" Issei had to hold in a chuckle. It appears he made Grayfia too wary of him. Now she thinks he is a spy.
"You know that I couldn't have always been this strong. If I was, Buchou wouldn't have been able to reincarnate me. The answer to your question is simple. I trained." Grayfia got out of her fighting stance but stayed on guard.
"Dinner will be in an hour, I will come to pick you up then." Grayfia said with her eyes still narrowed before she walked away. 'She's probably going to go tell Sirzechs about this know. He's smart, so he will probably see my true motive behind that. If Sirzechs doesn't, Ajuka defiantly will.'
An hour later, just as she said, Grayfia came by and picked Issei up. As they were walking down the hallway, Grayfia gave him a side glance and smirked. "That was smart what you back did there. I didn't see why you did it until Sirzechs-sama told me. You did that just, so he would tell the other mauos and they would keep a close eye on you."
Issei smirked and chuckled while raising his hands. "You got me there. This way, the mauos will keep a closer eye on me, considering I was able to best you, one of the strongest devils in the underworld. Now it will be easier to get a recommendation for the mid-class and high-class devil exam."
Grayfia scowled at him. "You did not best me!" Issei chuckled. He must have hurt her pride. "Yea yea, sure I didn't." Issei and Grayfia soon arrived at the kitchen and most were surprised to see that Grayfia was scowling at Issei while simultaneously pouting. The same Grayfia that was known to never show any emotion.
The moment was short lived, however, as Grayfia put up her usual cold front. Issei went to one of the open chairs and sat down. "So, Issei, how did your training go?" Rias asked. Everyone at the table turned to him.
"It went well." Everyone faces faulted at the blunt answer. "That's good, but did you become any stronger?" Issei's face never changed, it showed the same blank emotion as before. "Yes."
Rias was starting to get agitated with Issei's answers and it showed as some Power of Destruction started to spark off her. "How much stronger?" She said while gritting her teeth.
Issei shrugged. "I don't know, low Ultimate-class? Probably Satan-class if I used my Boosted Gear." Everyone that heard him stopped walking, and the people sitting dropped the eating utensils and the drinks they were holding and just stared at him.
"Your joking, right?" Irina said. Issei tilted his head to the side. "No, why would I lie about that?"
"There's no way you got that strong!" Irina was the one who said everyone's thoughts once again.
"If you don't believe me, then ask Grayfia-san. Even if she won't admit the I bested her, I'm sure she will agree that I am Ultimate-class." Everyone's eyes went even wider. "You did not best me!" Everyone turned to see that Grayfia was the one that yelled, her face red with rage, or maybe embarrassment. Probably both.
"Then what would you call it? I had a dagger against your neck. One twitch, and you would have died." Issei said plainly. Grayfia was a stuttering mess, not knowing how to answer. The maids of the Gremory mansion didn't know what was more surprising. That this low-class devil was able to best Grayfia, or that Grayfia was turned into a stuttering mess by the kid.
Soon enough, Grayfia released a yell of frustration before stomping out of the kitchen, grumbling about stupid cheating dragons.
Everyone from the Gremory house was staring were Grayfia was in utter shock. In fact, I think Rias' father had a minor heart attack seeing the always stoic Grayfia turned into a stuttering mess. They all had already forgotten about the fact that Grayfia had basically confirmed that Issei Ultimate-class and focused on the fact he somehow turned her into a stuttering mess.
Hell, she didn't even show this much emotion when she was giving birth! Soon enough, all their attention was brought back to Issei as he broke out laughing. Soon enough, his laughter was broken however when Grayfia came back to the room and tried to pummel him into the ground.
Issei's eyes widened when he saw that Grayfia had leaped across the room and was flying straight toward him. Issei quickly hopped out of his chair and had to bend his face back in order to dodge a punch from Grayfia.
Grayfia herself was seeing red ever since she heard Issei start laughing at her. She decided to get her payback for embarrassing her. As she sent another punch at Issei he stepped to the right to dodge it, and that's when he noticed her hands we covered in ice.
'Is she trying to kill me?!' Issei though in shock. She continued to throw punches at him and Issei would barely dodge them. Everyone in the room was in awe watching the two go at it. Finally, however, Grayfia landed a hit on Issei's right leg, and everyone watched as it started to freeze over.
Grayfia smirked but soon was turned to shock when she watched the white flames appear where she froze his leg and remove the ice. "Why so serious Grayfia-san? I guess I'm not allowed to hold back either I guess." Issei said as he removed the weight magic that was on his body.
He then shot forward, while Grayfia quickly went on the defensive. She was barely keeping up with Issei's fast speed. To everyone in the room but Rias' father, they were just a blur. Each time their fists connected, it would send a small shockwave throughout the mansion. Zeoticus knew he needed to stop this fight, but he didn't know how.
However, his prayers were answered when a red blur shot into the room and went in between the two. However, when the person that came in and stopped the fight was seen by everyone, everyone had to hold in a gasp. There Sirzechs was, in between Grayfia and Issei, however, he also had Issei's fist implanted into the side of his face.
On the outside, he showed no reaction. On the inside, however, he was cursing at how hard the punch really hurt. Issei removed his fist from Sirzechs face quickly. "What is going on here? I could feel the fighting all the way from my office! Why is Grayfia even fighting Issei-kun?"
Zeoticus stood up and answered the question. "Well, as unbelievable as it sounds, Issei Hyoudou told us about how he bested Grayfia, somehow, he turned her into a stuttering mess and she stomped away in frustration. Issei Hyoudou then laughed, which resulted in Grayfia engaging him in a battle."
Sirzechs' jaw dropped to the floor. He slowly turned his head to Issei, almost mechanically. "Y-You made Grayfia show emotion?" Issei rose an eyebrow.
"Why is everyone making a bigger fuss about Grayfia-san showing emotion than me being able to go tow to tow with her?" Grayfia scowled once again. "You did not go tow to tow with me!" Grayfia screamed.
Sirzechs quickly turned around and stared at Grayfia in shock. His mouth opening and closing like a fish while watching Grayfia's red face glare at Issei.
"So, let me get this straight. Grayfia-san rarely ever shows emotion?" Issei asked. Sirzechs nodded slowly. "Wow, I feel sorry for you then. That must be a really boring sex life if she doesn't show any emotions."
Everybody in the room froze. Out of all the things he could have said, of all the things he could have mentioned, he had to go and mention Sirzechs and Grayfia's sex life, which to everyone who lived in the Gremory house knew, was nonexistent.
That reason is that they all knew that Grayfia didn't hold any romantic feelings towards Sirzechs, she was simply unwillingly forced into a marriage with Sirzechs and forced to copulate with him. Millicas, was a different story, even if he was the son of a man she didn't particularly care for, she still loved Millicas unconditionally, how could she not? He was her son after all.
Issei looked around the room and took notice of the faces of the maids of the Gremory house, and he knew there was something wrong. "I see, so that's how it is." Issei said with a solemn look on his face. On the inside, however, he was furious.
'So, this is the same man, who was completely appalled at the idea of an arranged marriage with his little sister but will go and force a woman into a forced marriage with himself and have no problems with it. I'm sorry Sirzechs, but you've lost all of my respect.'
"I'll be excusing myself. I need some time to think, and Grayfia-san," He looked at Grayfia and seen her cold visage had returned. "I'm sure one day everything will be alright." Issei said with a smile and when everyone but Grayfia herself looked away from him winked at her.
Grayfia got the message loud and clear, that he would try to do something to help her in her unfortunate situation, but she knew the chances of that was minimal. After all, she was already married to Sirzechs and already copulated with him. The only ways to escape her basically forced servitude, would for Sirzechs to die, or for her to go astray.
Although she wasn't too appalled at the idea of Sirzechs dying, she would rather that not happen. He was the father of her son after all, and Millicas loved Sirzechs, so she didn't want her son to lose someone he loved. And the chances of them getting divorced, and her being relieved of the Gremory household, was minimal.
For one, Sirzechs would never agree to divorce her. In fact, she was sure if he could, he would force her to become a breeding stock and make multiple offspring. But in their marriage contract, it stated she only needed to birth one heir to the house of Gremory. Thus, she couldn't be forced to have sex, nor give birth to any more children.
Contrary to popular belief, Sirzechs wasn't the nice guy everyone saw him as. In fact, even his own family didn't know how manipulative Sirzechs was. However, that's what made him so great at ruling the underworld. Because he could manipulate anybody, besides Ajuka, without them even knowing.
The only thing stopping Grayfia from becoming a stray devil or taking her own life was her son Millicas. He was the only thing that kept her 'loyal', in a sense, to Sirzechs and the house of Gremory. The only people she cared about, was her son Millicas, and her 'husband's' little sister, Rias.
Even if Rias didn't have any blood relation, and if her marriage with Sirzechs was a loveless one, she still saw Rias as her sister-in-law. Unlike the rest of the Gremory house, Rias didn't know that Sirzechs forced Grayfia into a marriage. Sirzechs made sure of that himself.
He had told everyone in the house of Gremory, that if they told her, or even gave her the slightest hint that he was the manipulative son of a bitch he was, that he would have them, and their family, publicly executed for treason against the underworld. He even had his own damn parents under his thumb.
After that situation was all said and done, Issei left the kitchen and went back to his room. 'I knew that Sirzechs wasn't the guy that he let everyone believe he was, after all, he is the Lucifer mauo. Those titles were given to the mauos for a reason. They were given those titles because they were the most qualified. And that did not only mean in terms of strength but the ability to lead in Sirzechs' case.'
'The is the reason why I knew he wasn't the person he leads everyone to believe. But what just happened then, now I know somewhat what Sirzechs is really like. Most people in the room missed it, in fact, I'm the only one who noticed it, but when I mentioned Grayfia and Sirzechs' sex life, all the maids, as well as Sirzechs' parents froze, and looked at Sirzechs nervously. Once he noticed their stairs, he sent them a glare, and then everyone went from nervous to scared. He had them all under his thumb, and as the Lucifer mauo, that means he can do anything he sees fit to them.'
Issei's fist clenched. This was a side effect of training in his mind so much. Whenever he trained with Ddraig, it also strengthened his mind, it made his mind work faster, thus, he became much more perceptive. That's the only reason why he was able to notice all that.
In addition, because of this perception, his ability to read people movements in fights and predict them was also improved. 'If I had to guess, Grayfia and him are in a forced marriage, and by the slight expressions that Grayfia would show, whether it was just a slight twitch of the corner of the mouth, or even one of her fingers twitching, I could see through her cold front.'
'In fact, when Grayfia noticed Sirzechs in the room, she completely changed, whenever his gaze landed on her, her right pointer finger would twitch, that indicated that she was either nervous or uncomfortable. When I mentioned their sex life, her whole left hand twitched and I could see her trying to force herself not to clench her first, an obvious indication that she holds resentment for Sirzechs. And finally, whenever Sirzechs' name was said, her right pointer finger would twitch, and her eyes unfocused for a fraction of a second, another sign that she holds resentment for him, or at the least, a fear of him.'
'She may be able to put up that cold visage around people, but the things I saw were clear indications that she's suffering. That she is barely making it through day by day, that she hated her current life. I might not be able to do anything about it at the moment, but I will try and help her out once I can.'
He was broken out of his thoughts when there was a knock on his door. "Come in." Soon enough, the door open and Grayfia walked in with a tray of food in her hands. "You left before dinner could be served, I assumed you would like to have some." She walked over to the bed and sat the food on it.
She bowed and went to walk out of the room but was stopped by Issei's voice. "You hate him, don't you?" Grayfia froze. "I'm talking about Sirzechs." Issei watched as her right pointer finger twitched again. "You right pointer finger, whenever his name is mentioned, it always twitches. It's a sign that you either resent him, or you have a fear of him, or both."
Grayfia still had her back turned to him and she had to stop herself from letting her eyes get watery. When she finally responded, it was barely a whisper. "Both."
Issei nodded, not that she could see it. "You know, when I train, I actually do most of it in my mind. It's an advantage I get with have a sentient Sacred Gear. I can go into my mind and train nearly everything in there. The only thing I can't is physical capabilities. But there is another advantage, the more I train in my mind, the stronger my mind become."
Grayfia had a confused face, she didn't know what he was getting at. "To be more precise, the more I train in my mind, the faster my neurons work. If you didn't know, neurons are the fundamental units of the brain and nervous system. It controls sensory input from the external world, sends motor commands to our muscles, and is responsible for transforming and relaying electrical signals in everything we do."
Again, Grayfia was still confused. What did she need a science lesson for? "What I'm getting at, is that with all I've trained in my mind, as a side effect, my brain works faster than most people. The only person I can think of who's brain is faster than my own, would be Ajuka Beelzebub."
Although still confused, she was shocked by what he said. Ajuka was well known for having the fastest brain anybody had ever seen. He was known to make hundreds of battle plans and consider every possible outcome in a matter of only half a second.
"The point is, because of what just happened, I got a pretty good read on your situation. From the almost unknottable reactions and actions in what just happened, this was my evaluation. At the end of the devil Civil War, Sirzechs forced you to become a servant of the house of Gremory. After that, for hundreds of years, you stayed as head maid of the house, and once the evil piece system came out, once again Sirzechs forced you into yet another thing. This time, he forced you to become the queen of his peerage. Then, after several centuries of nagging from the elder council about getting a wife, he forced you into marrying him. If I have to guess, in that contract, if stated that you were to give birth to an heir to the house of Gremory. And thus, in the same year you got married to him, you gave birth to Millicas. After that, your life went back to the way it was before you got married to him, this time with the title of being Lucifer's wife. Since then, you've been struggling to get by day by day, with the only thing keeping you from taking your own life your son Millicas."
Issei stopped, indicating his summed-up prediction of her life was over. "Am I right?" Grayfia could stop it anymore, and for the first time in centuries, tears escaped her eyes fell to the ground.
Once again, when Grayfia spoke, it was nothing but a faint whisper. "Yes." To her surprise, Issei came up behind her and put her hand on her back and started rubbing it in comfortable circles. "Hey, there's no need to cry. I told you earlier, one day everything will be fine. I might not be able to do anything at the moment, but I promise you I will do everything I can to help you in your situation."
This time, to Issei's shock, Grayfia turned around and hugged him, put her face on his shoulder, and started to cry. "Everything will be alright, I've already come up with multiple ideas to get you out of this situation, I just need time to execute them. Until then, stay strong." Issei said in a comforting voice.
In a way, Issei felt like he was betraying Serafall, but at the same time, he didn't. He did admit to himself that Grayfia could possibly be just as beautiful as Serafall, but he didn't feel the same way for Grayfia as he did Serafall. For him, Serafall was the only person he would ever consider pursuing a relationship. At the moment at least.
In the case that he couldn't gain the respect of the mauos, he knew he would have to move on eventually, and try and find someone else. But he wasn't going to let that happen. He was going to do everything in his power to make sure he would gain that respect.
"Why? Why are you helping me? Do you even realize what he will do if he finds out about this?" Grayfia said in a whisper. Issei frowned, that was another thing he considered. If Sirzechs found out about what he was doing, he would most likely have Issei killed. But, he couldn't leave Grayfia to a fate like this.
"It's because you don't deserve to live a life like this. Nobody does. That's why I promise you I'll try and help you. Even if it costs me my life. Because it disgusts me that Sirzechs would do this to someone, anyone, no matter who the person is."
Grayfia soon stopped crying and let go of him. She wiped the tears from her now red and puffy eyes. "I'm sorry for the way I acted, I will be taking my leave now." Issei waved off the apology and watched as she turned around to leave. Right before she opened the door, she paused for a few seconds. "Thank you." She said in a whisper, but Issei still heard it.
Without waiting for a reply, Grayfia left the room. Issei sighed and flopped down onto the bed. "Why do I always get myself into troublesome stuff like this? This will only make my life harder." Issei shook his head and grabbed the tray of food Grayfia brought him.
After he finished eating it, he took a shower and went to bed for the night. An hour into his sleep, Xenovia, Asia, and Irina stopped by his room asking if they could sleep in his bed since they felt weird sleeping alone in such big rooms. Too tired to argue Issei allowed and went back to bed.
The next morning, he woke up in a rather interesting position. Asia was to his right like she usually is every morning, but this time he had two other guests in his bed. Those were Xenovia and Irina.
Irina was laying quite latterly, on top of him, using his stomach as a pillow. And Xenovia was using his legs as a pillow as her legs tried to ruthlessly strangle him. 'Not exactly what I imagined waking up between someone's thighs would be like.' Issei thought to himself in amusement.
After ten minutes of getting all three girls in his bed awake, Issei got dressed in his usual clothes and went on with his day. Today, the young devil gathering was to happen, and they would be leaving at noon.
As everyone gathered in their formal clothing, for everyone bar Issei, who wore the same clothes as before. It wasn't that they didn't try and get him to wear something more formal, he just refused to wear anything like a suit for the reason it had too much clothing.
So, Issei was gathering a lot of attention considering everyone else was wearing tuxedos, dresses, and gowns. While Issei was walking about armed to the teeth with weapons on display and not so formal clothing.
As they walked through the halls Issei ignored all the stares of shock and the whispers people were making about him. Rias said that she and her peerage were there to make sure that none of the younger generation got out of hand and started fighting.
Issei however, knew that any second know someone would start fighting with someone else. After all, that's what devils tend to do, they always start bloating about whoever has the better peerage or who's household is better, and it always results in a fight.
Just as Issei was thinking this, a door a few feet in front of them burst open. "Looks like you really want to die, Zephydor." I woman with long blond hair going down to her back, purple/pink eyes, and glasses said.
The other person in question was a man with blue hair with two long strands going down to his hips. He had tan skin and green eyes with lightning bolt-like markings on his cheeks. "You stink of virginity! What wro-"The man didn't say anymore because a senbon needle was sent into his shoulder and he fell the ground unconscious.
Everyone looks around for the culprit and looked at Issei as he just kept walking like nothing ever happened. "Did Issei do that?" Rias asked in shock. Suddenly, a deep voice from behind Rias answered.
"Yea, that was Hyoudou-kun. When all of you stopped to see what was going on he kept walking and threw a senbon needle at Zephydor. It seems the needle was coated with narcotics and it knocked Zephydor out cold.
Everyone looked behind Rias and were shocked to find Sairaorg walking up to their group. "Sairaorg?" Sairaorg stopped and looked at Rias. "Hey, Rias. Nice to see you again." Sairaorg said with a large smile.
"Come on Buchou, we don't have all day. We still need to greet the mauos. We can talk about the annoying blue haired guy later, for now, we need to go see your brother." Everyone looked to Issei and saw his annoyed face.
"I guess we will be leaving for now, then." Rias said, even if she was slightly ticked off that Issei was telling her what to do when she was his master. Not the other way around.
A few minutes later, they reached the hall where all the important devils were, including all four of the mauos. After greeting Sirzechs, they all went their separate ways to socialize with the other devils. Issei decided to go and get a drink of juice.
However, before he could get to the juice he was intercepted by a woman with blond drill-like hair. "Red Dragon Emperor!" Issei looked to his left to find Ravel Phenex standing there, staring at him with a slight blush.
"Fried chicken's little sister?" Issei responded in somewhat shock. He didn't really expect her to talk to him ever again, not after what he did to her brother. "Speaking of your brother, how's he doing? Having meaningless sex with his peerage I assume? Bar you of course. Unless you and him are into that kind of stuff." Issei said in amusement.
Ravel blushed a deep red. "I do not have that kind of relationship with my brother!" Ravel nearly yelled. Luckily for her, no one else heard her. "I am no longer in his peerage either. But your assumption would be correct, that is all he ever does. He won't leave the house now because of his fear of dragons, so he just stays in his room all day having sex with his harem." Ravel said in obvious annoyance and disgust.
"Well, that's not a surprise. So, if you're not in his peerage anymore, then what happened? Did you get your own peerage?" Ravel shook her head in a negative.
"No, I was transferred to my mother's peerage. Since she doesn't compete in any rating games, I'm a free bishop now." Issei nodded in understanding. "Also," She then took out a black cylinder with a phoenix marking, the item itself looked very similar to a women's sex toy. Because of that, he decided to mess with her a bit.
"A dildo? Why are you giving me your dildo? I don't have any need for one." Issei said plainly. Ravel's gained an atomic blush in an instant and looked away. After a minute of calming down, she looked back at him.
"It is not a dildo! It is a Phenix Tear. You should be grateful, this is usually a gift to a High-class devil! You are an inferior devil at best." Ravel said. Issei rolled his eyes and took the tear.
"Hai, Hai. I already knew that, I was just messing with you." He then noticed out of the corner of his eye that Koneko stiffened suddenly before running off. "Anyways, I have to get going, I have something to check on." He said as he put his hand on top of her head and patted it.
He then left, but Ravel sat there with a blush on her face while feeling where Issei had just patted. As Issei left the hall, Rias noticed Koneko leave and then Issei too and decided to join him to find out what was going on.
After following Koneko through a forest, they finally stopped when Koneko stopped in front of a woman with two black tails and a set of black ears laying in a tree. "Kuroka." Koneko said in her normal dull voice.
Said woman looked at her with a smirk. "Shirone. I only sent out a bit of my chi. I'm glad you can still feel our sisterly bond." Issei's eyes widened. 'So then, Koneko is a nekoshou? That actually makes sense now that I think about it.'
"What do you want, Kuroka." Koneko glared at her sister, cause Kuroka to smirk even more. "What do you think, babe? I came to take you with me back to the Khaos Brigade." Koneko snarled at her sister.
Issei decided now would be a good time to intervein. After all, he already knew that Kuroka knew they were there. She was nekoshou quite adept at Senjutsu after all. "Yea, sorry. I can't let you do that, Koneko is precious to me, and I'm not going to just let you take her just because you want to." Issei said as he walked out from behind the tree.
"I was wonder how long you and that red-haired bitch would hide there." Kuroka jumped down from the tree and got into a defensive stance. She had already heard what this guy had done to Vali, so she knew that Issei was strong. Probably stronger than her.
"Hai, Hai. I don't have time to waste fighting you, I think I'll just knock you out really quick and leave." His fun was cut short however when the same guy that saved Vali came to the rescue. He looked at me and narrowed his eyes before turning his gaze to Kuroka.
"Come on, Kuroka. We're leaving. We won't be able to fight him, Vali even said it himself." Kuroka looked at Koneko with a look a of longing before reluctantly nodding and teleporting her and Bikou out of the forest.
Koneko looked down and clenched her fist, struggling to keep her tears back. Issei came behind her and put his hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry, Koneko. I won't let Kuroka do anything to you, nor anyone else that we care about." Koneko reluctantly nodded.
"Come on, guys. We have to report this to my brother." Rias said as they all started walking back to the young devil gathering. Little did they know, that they were currently fighting a minor Asgardian God at the young devil gathering at the moment.
This is an author not for the people who think that Issei is getting too strong, too quick. So for those people, I'm going to prove to you that Issei is not getting too strong, too quick. In all honesty, I made him underpowered then what he could be. Now, here is what I mean by that. In Highschool DxD, it is a common fact that Supernatural beings are able to run much faster than humans. I would say the average speed of maybe a high-class devil would be 60 mph. Now keep that in mind. Next, we are going to talk about Issei's weight training. In Highschool DxD, it had shown Koneko carrying 2000 pounds of weight on her body. Now, in this story, Issei uses mainly physical capabilities. So, we are going to say, at the end of his latest training, he wore 2000 pounds of weight on each foot. In all honesty, that sounds about right for supernatural beings, and I think you all can agree that that would be possible for him.
Now, say he can run, 30 mph with his weights on. About just as fast as the fastest human alive in real life. Now, in this story, we are going to say that Issei is 140 pounds. Considering his height and the physique he has in the story; 140 pounds is pretty accurate. So, with all this, we have that he weighs 140 pounds, and can run 30mph with 2000 pounds of weight on. This means, that he can run 30mph while wearing weight 14.3 times his body weight. So, when those weight are removed, he would run 14.3 times as fast as he would with the weights on. So, instead of 30 mph, he would run around 430 mph. That's nearly the speed of sound. And keep this in mind, this is the underestimate version. I could have made him so much stronger. I could have made him faster than the speed of sound while being scientifically proven that he could run that fast, but I didn't. Hell, I didn't even make him possible of running 430 mph. So don't tell me I made him overpowered, he's not. That's the bottom line.