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Apocalypse Talking

(Draig) Talking

[Albion] Talking

{Powers/techniques/abilities}

*Thinking*

'Talking'

The Troubled Knight

2 weeks after the rating game, James's bedroom…

James and Rias were currently sleeping together in the same bed. Rias's naked body hugged James's right arm. They had been dating ever sense James beat Riser in the rating game. It didn't take long for the two to fall for each other and rumours to begin spreading around the school campus. While most girls loved the idea, a lot of the boys hated James for scoring the hottest girl in the school.

The alarm clock went off. It was 5 am. James quickly turned it off so that Rias doesn't wake up. He tried to free his arm from Rias's grasp without disturbing her sleep, but it was futile.

'Morning, James.' She said as she looked at James with a happy smile.

'Morning, Rias. I didn't mean to wake you up.' James said as his sky blue eyes looked into Rias's own.

'You know I don't mind that. Besides…' Rias began as she got on top of James, exposing her naked body to him. She leaned closer to James face, her red hair falling around his head. She then whispered into his ear. 'I wouldn't want to miss an opportunity to "bond" with my cute servant.' She finished with a passionate kiss on James's lips.

The kiss lasted for half a minute before the lovers broke apart for some air.

'Well, we got some time left before school, so…' James was interrupted with another kiss from Rias.

Lemon Start…

The two devils began to explore each other's bodies while keeping their lips connected. James's right hand was holding on to the back of Rias's head while his left went up and down her back before finally stopping on her right ass cheek. Rias wasn't letting up as she used her arms to explore every detail on James's scarred yet toned body.

After a couple minutes of enjoying each other, the lovers decided to get serious and move onto the next stage of their "bonding". Rias moved herself into the same position as she was when she was hugging James's right arm. She used her left arm for support while her right went down James chest, then abdomen, and then reached his member. She began to stroke it in hopes of getting it hard. It was working…

James wasn't letting Rias have all the fun for herself. He used his left hand to massage her butt cheek before using it to gently rub her vagina, while his right hand went to squeeze her right breast. This earned him a few moans from Rias, indicating that whatever he was doing was pleasing her greatly.

'I can never get used to your touch…' Rias whispered after they broke their kiss once again.

'I am not even trying yet.' James stated with a smile.

James moved his head to a position that was on Rias's right side of her neck. He then began to plant multiple gentle kisses as well as giving a few quick sucks on her neck. He used his right hand to play with Rias's right nipple, giving gentle yet strong enough pinches to stimulate her body. Once again, James was awarded with more moans from Rias. Using his left hand, James put his middle finger inside of Rias's pussy while his thumb played with her clitoris. It didn't take long for Rias to reach her first climax. Her body shivered at the sensation of cumming to James's foreplay skills.

Resting for a few minutes, Rias decided to get on top of James. This time, she positioned her head above James's dick while giving him a good view of her womanhood. She stroked his penis before sticking her tongue out and beginning to lick the tip of the member. This has earned her a few grunts of pleasure from James who was very much enjoying the feeling of Rias's tongue.

Deciding not to let his partner to be the only one to provide the pleasure, James used his left hand to massage Rias's left ass chick while fingering her pussy with his middle and pointer fingers on his right hand. After a minute of foreplay, James moved his head closer and begun to lick Rias's clitoris. Rias quickly moved her head away from James's penis as she gasped at the sensation of his tongue. It didn't take long for her to move back to pleasuring her partner, except this time she put his member into her mouth. She carried on working the lower shaft with her left hand while continuously bullying the head of the penis with her tongue.

'Wow, you have gotten pretty good at this.' James commended Rias.

'We have been dating for 2 weeks now; I think I would have learned a few things that please you by now.' She said with a blush on her face before using her right hand to caress James's balls.

James grunted at the sensation, feeling that he was nearing his limit. Deciding not to be the only one to display craftiness in love making, James dug his fingers into Rias's woman hood as far as he could before flexing them to hit her G-spot. Rias moaned into her partner's dick as she felt herself in heaven from the pleasure she was receiving. It didn't take long for the couple to finally climax, With Rias's juices spraying on James's face while he was cumming in her mouth. James slurped up all of her love juices, while Rias swallowed the content that was released into her mouth from James's manhood.

The two rested up for another few minutes before Rias shifted her position to face James again. The two lovers gazed into each other's eyes longingly before they made out again. Rias used her right hand to grab hold of James now fully erect, 7inch member; and guided it to her womanhood. She looked at James with a blushing yet concerned facial expression.

'What if Asia walks in on us?' She asked.

'The walls are soundproof and she is still asleep. Even if she wakes up and makes her way to my room, the magic I placed in the hall way will trigger and tell us of a presence there.' He explained.

Rias nodded with a smile, fully trusting her partner's words. She then proceeded to lower herself onto his penis. It went in. She gasped at the pleasure of being impaled before moving her hips up and down on his shaft. The two grunted from the pleasure of their act as Rias began to slowly increase her speed, wanting more and more of the said pleasure. Soon, James began to move his own hips in hopes of matching Rias's pace and getting into a rhythm. This resulted in the two experiencing even more pleasure from being connected as lovers. They carried on like so for a while before Rias felt herself reaching her limit once more. Her walls tightened around James's penis as he increased the thrusting speed even more. Not being able to hold in anymore, James sat up and hugged Rias, who returned the gesture. They kissed passionately once again before moaning into each other's mouths as they both climaxed. A minute later, the couple went back to laying down position with Rias on top of James, still connected downstairs and panting out of exhaustion.

Lemon end…

'T-that was… amazing.' Rias said with a still visible blush on her face. 'No matter how many times we have sex, I can never get used to the pleasure.' Rias placed her head on James's chest and listened to his steady heartbeat. She was relishing the warmth from his body, so much so that she was struggling to keep herself from falling asleep on top of James. She enjoyed these moments, in fact, Rias felt like she wanted to spend an eternity with James in such position. He looked at her with a smile before giving Rias a light hug with his right arm.

'I do try to make it good for you like you do for me.'

Rias smiled and kissed James on the lips. She then looked at the alarm clock, it was 6 am.

'We should go take a shower, we got an hour left before we need to get going to school.' She said. 'Want to join me?' She asked seductively.

'Sure, but we can't do it anymore or else we won't be able to have breakfast before school.'

'Well, I guess you are right. Too bad though, I really wanted to have some more "bonding" time with my cute servant.'

'Too much of good thing will make it boring, remember that.'

'*sigh* I suppose you're right. Come; let's go take that shower then.' Rias said as she got up from the bed, exposing her beautiful back for James's eyes.

*Man, I sure am lucky.* James thought before he followed Rias to the bathroom.

After shower and breakfast…

James, Rias and Asia were making their way towards school. Rias had her usual smile on her face while James was looking at Asia in thought.

'Hey, Asia. Can I ask you a question?'

'What is it?' Asia replied as she looked at James with curious eyes.

'Do you like Issei?'

The sudden question blew Asia's mind as she struggled to think of an answer. Rias was watching the exchange between her servants with keen interest.

'I-I uh, I.' Asia stuttered as her mind was having a meltdown.

'It's ok to tell me these things. I may be able to help you out.' James assured her as he put his right hand on Asia's left shoulder.

'I-I don't know what I feel for Issei.' She said with a blush on her face.

'Why don't you try and describe your feelings to me then.' James said while giving Asia a warm smile.

'W-well, whenever Issei is around… I uh… I feel warm… and happy being nearby him. He… he makes me feel safe like you do. Even though he acts a bit indecent sometimes, I feel that he has a good heart within him.' Asia finished as she recounted her feelings and thoughts about Issei.

'I think that you may very well be in love with him.' James said with a smile.

'R-really?'

'Tell you what, why don't you ask your heart how you feel. When you are ready and made up your mind, ask Issei how he feels about you. I am sure that he likes you as well.'

Their conversation ended as they have finally arrived at Issei's house, where they usually meet up with him.

'Good morning James, Asia, chief.' Issei greeted everyone with a smile.

Asia looked at Issei and thought about what James said to her earlier.

'M-morning, Issei.' Asia greeted him back with a small blush.

James looked at the scene with a smile.

'Hello Issei, I trust you rested well?' Rias approached her pawn.

'I did, but I'm still feeling sore from James's training schedule.' He laughed while scratching the back of his head.

'If you want to catch up to me in power, you need to get used to that 50 kg per piece of clothing, otherwise you will never get stronger. Isn't that right, Ddraig?' James asked.

(I tell him the same thing every time to motivate him.)

Since James arranged a training schedule for Issei, it didn't take long for Issei to awaken Ddraig. Turns out, the red dragon is pretty relaxed about having the black dragon emperor, who is his rival' training his host.

'Oh yeah, James, you never told me about the kind of training that you do these days.' Issei said.

'You really want to know?' James asked to now nodding Issei. 'I must warn you, it will give you a shock, so don't get de-motivated from your training.' James warned.

'I just want to know the difference between your training and mine.'

'Ok, but I warned you.' James said as he got a bit serious. 'Right now, I… I'm using magic to create a 200 times earth's gravity sphere to train in!'

'200 TIMES GRAVITY?!' Issei shouted in disbelief causing some pedestrians to look at him weirdly. Issei soon recovered, realizing that everyone on the street was staring at him. 'I-I mean, uh, can you imagine living on a planet like that?' He laughed as he made it seem like a normal conversation to any people that were eavesdropping. He then got closer to James and whispered. 'How the hell can you pull that off?'

'It wasn't easy, I tell you that.' James replied. 'I started with 60 times and then managed to get up to 200.'

'I feel like I'll never be able to catch up to you. You got that strong in 2 weeks?' James nodded at Issei's question. 'Man, I sure am jealous of you right now…'

'Don't envy my powers, Issei. It will only get in the way of your development. Use that as a goal to achieve higher power.'

Issei nodded and the 4 devils carried on with their journey to school.

At the classroom…

It was break time. The perverted trio had gathered around Issei's desk.

'Have you heard the rumours about James?' Motohama asked.

James's acute hearing picked up on his name so he listened in.

'What rumours?' Issei asked in confusion.

'Rumours about him getting one girl after another and doing all sort of evil!'

'What?'

'By blackmailing Rias and Akeno into doing all kinds of sexual activities with him!' Matsuda took over. 'He even has his bloody hands on the school's mascot, Koneko. He devours her under-developed body like a beast its prey!'

'What are you talking about?' Issei asked in confusion.

'Not to mention, James's seemingly endless lust for girls has reached out to Asia as well!' Matsuda ignored Issei.

'And we started it all!' Motohama confessed with a smile.

'What?' Issei was still dumbfounded before he gave a scared expression.

'I'd go crazy with jealousy if I didn't do this!' Matsuda admitted.

'Perhaps we've gone mad already!' Motohama exclaimed.

'You must have because if he catches you then…' Issei began before Matsuda cut him off.

'That's not all the rumours we spread. There is a rumour, that James and Kiba are gay lovers!'

'I hear it's popular between a lot of the girls!' Motohama informed.

'And you guys are dead…' Issei said to the now confused pair of perverts.

They felt a hand grip their shoulders, instantly paralyzing them in fear. They slowly turned around to see sky blue eyes, penetrating their skulls with their stare.

'Is that the rumours… that you two been spreading?' James asked with a dark smile on his face.

'N-n-no we didn't!' The perverted duo exclaimed.

'That's odd. I seem to recall Motohama confessing to have spread them…'

'Eh well, you know Motohama. He likes to make silly jokes, hahaha.' Matsuda laughed nervously.

'Well, guys, I don't do jokes like those.' James said as he dragged the now crying Matsuda and Motohama out of the classroom.

20 minutes later, at Kendo practise room…

'Well guys, Kendo practise will be next period. I'll see you back at class later.' James said with a cheerful smile.

James had tied the half-naked perverts with a rope to a support pillar that had a branch sticking out of it. In front of them was a sign that had "Free training dummies for Kendo club!" written on it. It was facing away from the boys so that anyone that looks their way could easily see the text.

'James, don't leave us here!' Motomasa yelled.

'Have mercy!' Matsuda pleaded.

Their screams however, fell on death ears as James continued making his way back to class.

In Issei's room, afterschool…

The Gremody devils had gathered for a meeting at Issei's bedroom.

'Um, chief, why are we holding a meeting here instead of the clubroom?' Issei asked.

'Because, Issei, the clubroom is getting cleaned today, so we can't do our devil related business there.' She replied.

'Then why not use James's house? The guy is loaded and all.'

'Same reason as previous, my house is getting cleaned as well.' James answered Issei's question.

'I see…'

'Well then, let's begin with the contract summary.' Rias said. 'Akeno formed eleven.'

'Yes'

'Koneko formed ten.'

'Yes.'

'Yuuto formed 8'

'Yes'

'Asia formed three'

'Yes.'

'You are doing great, Asia!' Kiba commented.

'My, my! Not bad at all!' Akeno said.

'That's not a bad result for a rookie.' Koneko stated.

'Thank you so much!' Asia thanked for the compliments.

'As for Issei…' Rias began before drinking tea. 'Zero.'

'I-I'm ashamed of myself.' Issei said with a sad smile.

'Oh dear, Asia is even newer that you and she got more contract.' James said before laughing at Issei.

'Chief, what about him then!'

'James completed thirteen jobs.' Rias stated.

'W-what?! How?!'

'I guess that there are lots of people that need an assassin's services.' James said coolly.

'You need to get those contracts made Issei, otherwise you'll never become a high-class devil.' Rias informed.

'I know! I'll make it to the top of the group next month!' Issei exclaimed with determination.

James just snickered at that.

'What?'

'Nothing, just thinking about how you going to do that, that's all.'

'You'll see, I promise.'

'If you say so...'

'Sorry for interrupting!' A woman entered the room with a tray full of homemade cookies. 'You're having a Karuta club meeting, aren't you? I just thought I will bring some cookies for your friends Issei. Oh, and something to look at as well!' She said as she held 2 photo albums in her hands.

'Huh?! Mum, what the hell?!' Issei exclaimed seeing what his mother brought up to his room.

It didn't take long for the group to begin their trip into Issei's past.

'This here is Issei back in the elementary school!' Issei's mom pointed at a picture with naked Issei drinking from a milk bottle.

'Oh, my. He's stark naked!' Akeno stated while looking at the photo. 'He was so small. Isn't it adorable?'

'Issei's embarrassing history…' Koneko bluntly said.

'That was back in kinder garden. He was already going after girls' skirts.' The mother informed the group.

'Just great.' Issei said un-amusingly.

'He looks so cute!' Rias stated while looking at Issei's photo.

Asia couldn't stop from blushing at Issei's picture.

'Damn it …' Issei whispered to himself. 'Why did you have to dig those out, mum?' He asked.

'She's a good mother.' Kiba commented while holding the other album.

'Yeah, right!' Issei retorted angrily.

'It must be nice to have a family.'

Upon hearing those words, James listened in on their conversation.

'Oh yeah, Kiba, do you…' Issei began before getting cut off.

'Hey, Issei, this photo here…' Kiba began while pointing at a picture with Issei and another kid.

'Oh, that boy used to be my neighbour. We played a lot back then. He moved because his parents got a job overseas or something like that.' Issei informed Kiba about the kid. 'What was his name, again? I think it was…'

'Hey, Issei…' Kiba interrupted him. 'Do you remember this sword?'

'Nah, it was a long time ago.'

'It really is a small world.' Kiba said with a smile. 'I'd never thought I be seeing it like this.'

'Seeing what?'

Kibas eyes narrowed as he displayed a face that showed anger towards the sword.

'This is a holy sword.'

'A holy sword?'

'Never mind.' Kiba said before closing the album and giving it back to Issei with a smile. 'Thank you, Issei.'

After a few minutes, Kiba left the room.

'Hey, Issei, show me that picture that Kiba was interested in.' James requested of Issei.

'Uh, sure thing.' Issei said before opening the album to the right page and handing it to James.' Here, this is the picture.'

'I see… that's all I wanted, thanks.'

'No problem.'

*I wonder why Kiba is acting like that to a holy sword.* James thought.

Later that evening…

James was summoned to a random flat room. He prepared the Gremory magic circle and stepped through it. When he arrived, James found himself in a rather expensively furbished room. There was a man with black hair with front golden highlights, wearing a black night gown.

'You summoned a Gremory devil, correct?' James asked with narrowed eyes.

'That is correct.' The man said.

'What is it that you would like me to do, then?'

'Well, I was just hoping to have a drinking partner.'

'… Is that so? Seems like an easy enough task.' James said never looking away from the man.

'Alright, I'll be right back with the drinks.' He said before disappearing through a door.

*This guy… He is definitely a fallen angel… and a strong one at that.* James thought.

A few minutes later, the man came back with a tray. It had a 2 cups and a whiskey bottle on it.

'Sorry for making you wait.' He said before placing the tray down on the table and sitting down on the sofa.

'No, no it's fine. I got plenty of time.' James said as he sat down as well.

*This young devil… if my reports are correct, he became a devil about a month ago. Yet, he harbours such power… Its unheard of.* the man thought.

'Whiskey is all I got. I hope you don't mind that.' He asked James.

'I'm fine with that. Um, what should I call you then?'

'Call me… Aza.' The man said after a short pause.

'Aza?' He nodded. 'Why can't I just call you by your real name, Azazel?' James asked with a serious expression.

'So you could tell.' The man now known as Azazel closed his eyes and smiled. 'May I ask, why are you acting so calm if you know that I am your sworn enemy?'

'Because, Azazel, I don't feel any magic signatures around the area that suggest this to be a trap. Besides, you're strong enough to instantly kill me. The fact that you haven't done so means that you have some sort of business with me, am I right?

'You're quite a sharp devil, I must say that.' Azazel said before pouring himself some whiskey.

I have read about you.' Azazel's right eyebrow rose up. 'You are the leader of the fallen angel group called Grigori. During the Great War you made the decision to pull away your forces and began your research on sacred gears. Am I correct?'

'Yes, that is correct.' He answered before tasting the drink he just poured for himself. 'You seem to be quite knowledgeable about the supernatural.'

'I do like to read books.' James told Azazel. 'Now tell me, Azazel, what is the real reason for you being here?' He asked as he poured himself a glass of whiskey before smelling the liquid for any poisons and only then taking a sip.

'I have reasons to believe that one of my fellow fallen angel leaders has gone rogue. While it is unknown as to what exactly he is planning, I cannot do anything to him without proof.' Azazel said before taking another sip of whiskey. 'I came here to supervise Kuoh in hopes of stopping him from committing any horrendous acts that may very well cause another Great War.'

'That would explain that, but you called me here for a different reason didn't you?' James took another sip of whiskey, getting his throat used to the sensation of the drink.

'That is true; I've come her to check out the host of the "Soul of the Apocalypse" for myself. It is a legendary sacred gear after all.'

'And what exactly is it that you want to know about me then?'

'I just want to study your gear in action. No hosts have been able to make it far with the gear. I am hoping that this generation's black dragon emperor will prove to be different.'

'Apocalypse told me about it and it has been said in the books I read from, no host had survived long enough to make any significant progress with the gear, perhaps you have some more info on that?'

Azazel gulped down a large portion of the drink from his cup before looking at James with a smile.

'Well, a lot of beings out there are afraid of Apocalypse. I don't blame them for it though. The dragon was considered by some to be nearly as powerful as the two dragon gods.' Azazel looked at James to see his reaction. He found it surprising that James continued looking at him without showing any emotions. 'Apocalypse's hosts can become incredibly strong, but no one had enough time to become strong enough to unlock its true potential. They usually get killed by outside forces that are too afraid to let the hosts live long enough for that to happen.'

James took a gulp from his glass before looking at Azazel again.

'I believe that someone has already gone out of their way to kill me when I was just a little kid.'

'Not surprising really. But you are still alive so I guess it's all good.'

'Yeah I guess…' James said before going into thought.

The two men then began to converse about different things.

30 minutes later…

'So what you saying is, the pet master took you guys to a lake and you found an undine?!' Azazel asked as his face was red from the alcohol he consumed.

'Yeah, you should have seen my friends face. He was all like "What the fuck is that?!"' James laughed out as he too was intoxicated by the drink. 'The familiar master was all like "That's a rare sight. You should consider yourself lucky boy" and he just flopped over like a fish!'

'Hahaha, what happened after? Did he take that undine as his pet?'

'Nah man, he just carried on insulting the poor thing for looking like a body building man with tits.'

'Oh, I am sure that she had a good heart… beneath all that muscle that is.'

'That's what our bishop said.' The two laughed a bit more before a magic circle appeared next to James's ear.

'Hello?' James answered.

'Hey James, we need you to come to us. There has been a sighting of a stray devil and we need to take care of it.' It was Rias on the other side of the circle.

'Sure thing *Hic* I'll be right over.'

'Are you drunk?!'

'Yeah, why?'

'I thought you said you had a contract that needed to be fulfilled.'

'I am fulfilling it right now though. The guy asked for a drinking partner.'

'Oh… well, come in as soon as you can. We need you to help us out.'

'Sure thing, I'm just about finished here anyway, right, Aza?'

'Well, the bottles finished so I guess so.'

'Aza? Who's that?'

'That's my client. Anyway, I will be there in 5 minutes.'

'Okay.' Rias responding before ending the conversation

'Well then, "Aza", that was fun and all, but I got some devil business to attend to.'

'That's fine. The question is what do you want for compensation? I don't really have anything at hand to give to you… perhaps you're interested in my soul?'

James looked at him with "You serious?" expression.

'Dude, from what I've read, we don't take peoples souls anymore, at least not since ancient times.'

'Ah yes, you're right… then how about this painting here?' Azazel pointed at an expensive looking painting of some flowers.

'That will work.'

After a few minutes, the painting was securely wrapped up and James used the rift ability to place it back at home.

'Alright then, I will be seeing you around I assume?'

'Probably you will.' Was all Azazel said before James nodded and stepped through another rift to get to his team.

At the abandoned warehouse…

James had arrived at the scene. Rias and the rest of the gang were waiting for his arrival before proceeding with the operation.

'Ah, James, you're here.' Rias greeted her love with a smile. 'You don't seem to be drunk like you sounded, what happened?'

'I burned off the alcohol through the use of magic. I do like to drink every now and then, but forget getting a hangover… hate that shit.' James informed Rias of what he had done.

'It's good to know that you will be at 100% for this. The stray devil is hiding inside this warehouse here. We been told to kill it immediately due to the danger it imposes on everyone in this area.'

'I see… so what the game plan then?'

'I was thinking of keeping Asia outside since indoors provide too many opportunities for sneak attacks. I want you and Akeno to wait outside as well while Issei, Koneko and Yuuto go in and draw it out. You will then immobilize it with your magic. Does everyone understand the plan?'

Everyone confirmed it except for Kiba who was idly standing by and staring into an empty space.

'Yuuto?' Rias asked with concern.

'Y-yes ma'am' He finally responded.

'Let's go then Kiba, Koneko.' Issei called out before rushing over to the door.

'Yes.' Koneko followed him.

'Okay.' Kiba did the same.

Rias looked at Kiba with concern thinking about what could possibly be troubling her knight.

'So you have noticed that as well?' James approached Rias. 'I mean Kiba's behaviour of course.'

'I don't know what's gotten into him. He seems troubled about something, but he doesn't open up about it.'

'He started acting this way since he saw a picture at Issei's house.'

'What picture?'

James was about to answer but got interrupted by a spider like creature flying out through the roof.

'James, Akeno, do it.'

'Yes.' The pair responded before charging up lightning and unleashing it onto the stray devil. The power of their combined magic charred its body and damaged it so badly that the creature couldn't move anymore once it landed on the yard.

'For abandoning your master in pursuit of your own desires, I, Rias Gremory, shall eliminate you in the name of Lord Gremory!' Rias stated before unleashing her power of destruction and vaporizing the creature.

Soon after the mission was complete, Issei, Koneko and daydreaming Kiba walked out of the warehouse. Asia rushed to Koneko's side as her left arm was injured during the fight. Soon after, a slap was heard. Everyone turned to look at its source to see that Rias had slapped Kiba across his left cheek.

'Did that wake you up?!' She asked before displaying concern once again. 'What's wrong with you Kiba? Someone could have died in there.'

'I'm sorry president, I need some time off.' He then began to walk away from the scene.

'Oy, Kiba, where are you going?' Issei called out as he tried to approach Kiba before being stopped by James.

'Let me go James, I want to talk to him.'

'Let him be.' He told Issei before letting him go. 'He needs some time for himself.'

'But what if he gets in trouble?'

'He is chief's knight; he can handle himself if the need should arise. Now drop it.' James gave no more room for arguments.

Issei simply nodded before walking back to the rest of the group. Everyone had a brief chat before dispersing and making their way home. Only James, Asia and Rias were left at home.

'So, what picture were you talking about then?' Rias asked James who then took a certain picture out of the rift.

'During our meeting today at Issei's house, Kiba found this picture and asked Issei to give him more information about it.'

'That's a holy sword!' Rias said while looking at the sword behind the two children.

'He began acting strange ever since he saw the sword. Do you have any clue as to why is that?'

'It has to be due to his past.' Rias stated with a serious expression.

'His past?'

Rias then explained to James that Kiba was part of the holy sword project, and that Kiba was the sole survivor of the said project.

'I see… he probably hates holy swords for what he had to go through due to them. That would explain his unnatural behaviour.' James concluded.

'I don't know what I should do… I don't want to lose my knight.' Rias said with sadness in her voice.

James approached her and gave her a hug. She returned the gesture while enjoying the heat that James's body emitted.

'Sometimes, you just have to let things go by naturally.' He said as he felt a light pressure of Rias's head resting on his chest. He took the opportunity to take in the smell of her crimson hair. He enjoyed these moments very much. He couldn't quite understand why it was like that for he had multiple girlfriends in the past. Yet Rias seemed different to him.

'Come, Rias, let's go get some shut eye and we will see how things play out tomorrow.' James ended the hug, much to Rias's disappointment; as he created a rift that led back home.

'Okay…' Rias said as she went through the same rift following James back home.

End

And that's chapter 10 finished! Some of you guys did want me to include lemons in the story, so I decided to make an attempt at writing one. That's right, This is the first lemon that I have ever written. I focused on making it a bit more romantic than just "let's go shag" type of lemon. I hope you guys liked it. Before you ask, yes they had sex off script in the story as indicated in their dialog.

I decided to put Asia's and James's relationship into that of siblings instead with James being like an older brother (even though he is younger than Asia… funny that.) Asia will be paired with Issei, sorry guys who think it should be otherwise, I thought about it and just felt like I don't want Asia to be with my MC as a lover.

I don't know how much time passed since the rating game in vanilla when season 2 started, but I decided to put in 2 weeks so that it would make sense that James and Rias have developed a proper relationship by then and not just "Knight in shining armour came and save me from a dragon" type of crap. I know I didn't write anything about the dates they had, but if you guys want me to then I will happily include that in the future chapters. As for now, I will just go with Rias and James developing romantic feelings to one another with some lemons in-between. Don't worry, harem will still happen.

Fillers… I don't know if I want to write about them, at least not yet. I want to focus on the main story first as I found it more interesting. Besides, fillers are more of a comic relief in DxD's case so yeah.

Characters introduced:

Azazel – Fallen angel governor (strongest governor I should add)

Issei's mum – I don't know her name. I don't think that it ever gets mentioned… at all

Stray devil (No name) – Just some random devil in vanilla that got its ass handed to it

Power levels:

Issei – 1700

James (After 200x gravity training) – 62000

Rias – 15000

Asia – 120

Kiba – 7900

Koneko – 8000

Akeno – 12000

Stray devil –3500

So, James is getting pretty strong no? I decided that he should go with gravity training like Goku did before reaching Namek. I did some research and found out that it him 6 days to reach his destination. I am still trying to include some maths into this, but I know that later on logic will have to be taken out of the equation. It will be just pure bad assery. Also, you may be asking "if James did 200x gravity, why he is not stronger than goku was in the DBZ series". Well, this is highschool dxd so power levels don't work the same way. I have stated before that having a higher power level doesn't necessarily mean that you have already won a fight. The power levels displayed could mean your magical or physical capabilities (James has both). For example, during the fight with Riser, James had a lower P.L. than his opponent, but due to him training in speed and power and Riser being a mage type character, Riser couldn't handle James's physical attributes. That's why he got his ass kicked by someone with a lower power level.

That's all I wanted to say, so see you guys in chapter 11. Bye!