[Lemon]

Author's Notes

Has no one notice the titles of these chapters yet?

Early Morning

Midgard

Dante awoke to the final day he had with Koneko in Midgard. His eyes were still shut and all he could feel was the pleasant softness that his head rested on. It wasn't an unfamiliar feeling nor a unwanted one. Dante, assuming that Koneko had at some point in the night taken his head into her chest, didn't react beyond smiling. The two had been kicked out of the sauna by a less than pleased Giant, though he couldn't have been too upset as he later returned to his jolly mood the next time the Devils saw him. And then last night after another hunt for their dinner they went to bed in each other's arms, the idea of sex was shot down due to the smallish size of their tent.

"I can tell that she might want to head home a little early so we can have an actual bed again." Dante internally sighed as he felt Koneko's chest rise and fall with each breath. He could even hear a small purring from the Nekoshou that was holding him. "Maybe we can have little… wait minute." Dante frowned as he opened his eyes and saw a lock of black hair in his vision. The former Grim Reaper looked up with narrowed eyes and saw that it was not in fact Koneko holding him. "BAD KITTY!" Dante shouted and from the outside of the tent one would watch as it jumped into the air following this shout. Then see a naked Kuroka being kicked out of said tent.

"Ow… that hurt nya." Kuroka complained, and she was so comfortable too. As the older Nekoshou rubbed her head having landed on it in a very un-catlike fashion, the two Rook exited their tent with hastily thrown on coats. "You know it is quite rude to kick a girl out like that." Kuroka said as a bit of her playful nature returned to her.

"What are you doing here?" Dante's first worry was that she just showed up without offering something to the Norse Gods, which could drag him and Koneko into their wrath. "And please tell me you-"

"I brought along a barrel of beer as my offering so don't worry Mr. Responsible." Kuroka huffed as she crossed her arms under her ample chest. A smirk forming across her lips as she saw that such an action had no external effect on Dante. She liked men who weren't distracted by simple tricks as opposed to little boys with wills as strong as wet paper. "As to your question, I just wanted to see my dear sister and her lover." Faster than either of the Rook could react to, Kuroka was on her feet and clinging to Dante's side. "And possibly get a piece of him for myself." Kuroka purred out as she pulled his arm into her chest.

"Get your hands off him, Dante is mine." Koneko sternly said as she grabbed onto Dante's other said, mimicking her sister's actions and pulled his other arm into her chest. The two then began a tug-of-war with the man with the unreadable expression.

"Yup… Issei is looking smarter and smarter every day." Dante thought to himself and would never admit it to anyone so long as he lived. Eventually however he shattered himself surprising both of the sisters, he quickly reformed back in the tent and quickly put on some pants and returned back to the women. "Okay… first off." He said looking to Koneko. "This is our last day here and we're going fishing, bear style." Dante said then looking to Kuroka. "If you can play nice then you can join in and if I hear some really good begging then you can also join in the following fish fry."

"Dante…" Koneko lightly whined but stopped at his stern look of warning. It actually got her a little excited to see him so in charge. Kuroka meanwhile was much more in tune with her arousal. Seeing Dante acting in such an alpha fashion was signing to her instincts and she knew her sister felt the same way. Both Nekomata and Nekoshou instincts fell deeply in line less with average cats and more with that of Lions, in that there were a few males with large numbers of females with Pride like social structure. In the wake of their numbers dwindling, in part due to the their kinds' being hunted down by Devils, the mentality of finding strong mates to increase their numbers had become priority. Even more so for the rare Nekoshou.

"Mmm~… having another woman out on your special getaway, how naughty of your Dante." Kuroka teased but was fully on board with this. "Maybe-" Kuroka stopped as she felt Dante's scythe blade touch her neck.

"Oh don't get any funny ideas here, the only reason I'm entertaining this idea is because I want the two of you to patch things up and to get information on just who's been hiding you." Koneko's opinion on this softened after hearing that. It was true that she wanted to reconnect with her sister and was happy that Dante was trying to make that happen. And they did already have a great time just the two of them the last two days, having Kuroka around today wouldn't ruin that. Plus it wasn't like they could do anything private, it was too cold outside and there was no way that Starkaðr would let them back into the sauna.

Kuroka narrowed her eyes as she thought this over, getting closer to both Shirone and Dante was her goal here, but Vali wouldn't like it if she gave away too much info on him and their group. She knew for a fact several of the members didn't want themselves to be known at all. A small shiver ran down her spine as she thought of what might happen if two of them ever found out that even spoke their names. She looked back to Dante who had retracted his scythe and was now leaning on it, he did look incredibly powerful just lazily holding onto his weapon while at the same having an air of confidence that spoke to how much he believed in his ability to return that blade to her neck.

"Very well, but understand there might be things I can't tell you." She said to her surprise and eternal happiness her sister actually looked happy that she would be joining them. As mild as her sister would express anything that is.

Late Morning

Kuoh, Dante's Living Room

"I think we've been able to everything back in order." Rias sighed as she leaned back into the living room couch. She and Akeno had spent all of last night and this morning figuring out just what had happened yesterday. They knew exactly what happened at the mall, the Phenex Devils came in and threatened to take Li, Ni, and Ravel but backed off when the opposition proved to be… everyone. But when it came to the situation at home that proved to need a little more investigation.

"Good, I am happy that Riser didn't come himself. Who knows what might have happened." Akeno thought aloud and both of them knew that it would have been much worse. If Riser came then there was a good chance that the maids would have been taken no matter what. And then there was the high possibility that Yubelluna would have gone along with them.

What they had found was that the wards around the building worked as they were supposed to. The Phenex Pawns had tried to directly teleport themselves into the rooms of the most probable women to come with them willingly. Only to be redirected into the Welcome Room that was on the first floor and completely sealed off. The problem came when it was Marion that went to see just who had come. The woman had let the Phenex Devils in upon seeing them. From there Marion led them in and Bürent soon joined them. Isabela thankfully was the one that found the group before they could find Yubelluna who seemed to be the main target. They tried to convince the Rook to join them as well but to no success, Kriminel then came in and captured the intruders and traitors in a binding shadow. He had been watching them as he felt their tainted souls the second they entered the building, but only acted once he saw Isabela acting hostile toward them.

"How is Yua handling this?" Rias asked as Akeno had just come back from escorting the woman back to her room. It had taken some convincing but they had been able to coax her out of the master bed, she wasn't catatonic but disturbed would be a accurate way of describing it. All of the former Phenex Devils were after hearing what their former friends and fellow servants had turned into.

"She's in her room and sleeping this off. That's about as much as we can hope for until Dante returns." It was very bad timing, Dante being so far away meant that communication by magic was pointless and him being in Midgard meant he got no cell reception. "But what has me worried the most was what we saw with Siris… those black veins."

"I noticed them too… it was hard not to." Rias curled herself up at the memories of Jack the Ripper looming over her, his Sacred Gear touching her forehead and sending her into her worst nightmare. He had those same black veins. "I know Dante said that he couldn't talk about what all that means, but he needs to say something now that whatever it is is targeting us again."

"Do you think they'll try again?" Akeno asked after nodding in agreement. Neither of them had pushed much when it came to Dante's knowledge on the Hunters or the elder god that infested Tori's body. He had warned them that talking about it might bring them attention that they didn't want. But now it was looking like they had that attrition anyways.

"Possibly, they could still be in town." Rias sighed knowing that her control over Kuoh wasn't so absolute as to know every little detail. It was a big place and there was no way she could ever hope to pin down a single entity. "What I'm concerned about is them targeting Issei, Asia, or Kiba. We know the wards here work but they're only so strong because we built them into the building. Issei's house and Kiba's apartment both only have surface wards."

"I doubt they'll go after Kiba, they seem pretty focused on those that Riser doesn't like. Issei might be on their list because he's the one that beat Riser in the Ratings Game." Akeno said but then frowned. "No… he'll blame Dante for that too."

"Why?" Rias asked but then it dawned on her as well. "Issei only won after Dante gave him his power of Death. Before that Riser was winning." Rias said and Akeno nodded. They both knew that Riser's fixation would be totally on Dante. "There's no way that Riser could track Dante to Midgard is there?"

Mid-Afternoon

Midgard

"Hey Dante look I caught another one!" Koneko yelled up the river to where both Dante and Kuroka were, a fish in her hand wriggling to get free. Kuroka was lazily laying forward on a large rock while Dante was knee deep in the flowing river just like Koneko further down. They had left the more snowy lands that existed at the foothills of the mountain range that dominated the landscape. The river was refreshingly cool but not freezing.

"Nice, put it with the others." Dante said as he pointed to the icebox filled with fish, most of which Koneko had gotten. Dante meanwhile had caught a total of two, though his excuse of him being distracted was getting a bit thin. Dante then glanced back to Kuroka who was playfully kicking her feet while giving him a great view of her cleavage. "So he's the White Dragon Emperor huh?"

"Yup… he's not a bad guy once you get to know him." Kuroka nodded with a friendly smile. She had just finished explaining to Dante the basics of Vali's group. She didn't name any names and she didn't give exact numbers. Vali she knew wouldn't care in the slightest about her telling Dante about him. Given that he was so close with his fated rival she supposed Vali might want Dante to know about him. Since Vali had seen the Ratings Game and the Blood duel, both Issei and Dante were in his top ten of people he wanted to fight.

"And how well do you know him?" Dante asked mildly suggestively and Kuroka put on a mixed smile. "Ah… he turned you down didn't he?" Dante chuckled and Kuroka pouted, it wasn't like she tried that hard to get Vali in bed, but a little interest might have been appreciated. Thankfully she had found a new man to tease and seduce.

"Happy about that nya?" She asked resting her cheek on her head, Dante's expression once again was unreadable and that just made it even hotter. When Vali dismissed her it was blunt and like she was bothering him with useless nonsense. But Dante wasn't outright dismissing her, he was guarding himself. She could understand given all that had happened plus he was firmly on her sister's side. She hoped that once she proved herself to him that Dante would play along with her flirting.

"Are you going to catch any fish?" Dante asked and Kuroka returned to her pouting and then glared at the gently running water. "Does kitty not want to get wet?" Dante teased unexpectedly causing Kuroka to lightly blush at being caught off-guard like that. There was so many flirty comebacks to a question like that but all she did was mutter a few things about not liking baths.

"And now he's just not playing fair." Kuroka grumbled to herself feeling like that was perfectly missed opportunity.

"Exactly how long have you been watching this weekend?" Dante asked continuing his strategy of misdirect. He felt a little shame in manipulating Kuroka like this but he needed to keep her guessing. He needed to keep her off her game if he was going to get anything real out of her. All through him asking about Vali's group she had been playing cat and mouse with the truth. That couldn't happen anymore.

"I didn't watch you and Shirone in the sauna if that's what you're asking?" Kuroka said her tail swaying back and forth as she fondly recalled seeing the look on her sister's face just before they went in. Then the look of satisfaction she had coming out before it turned to annoyance with the yelling of the Jötnar shopkeeper.

"It's not." Dante said before looking back at her with a serious look in his eyes. "I'm talking about the conversation that happened the night before." At that all sense of playfulness left Kuroka's body as she stared back into Dante steel gray eyes. The kept this for a full minute before Kuroka's tail twitched and she looked directly towards one of the foulest Kis she had ever felt in her life. Dante also looked toward this new presence and frowned at how familiar it felt in two ways. The first was the vileness of the soul and the second was the soul itself.

"The hell… did really become a Hunter."

"No brat, this is slightly different than those that work directly for the One Who Takes." Dante was surprised to her Lord Death back in his head after so long. Although it did make sense considering the presence of what was coming. "The Hunters are people that desire to Takesomething they seen as their pray, whether that is a group or a single person. That submit themselves to the One Who Takes in pursuit of that and become its Hunters.

"And this?" Dante thought back as he pulled out his scythe, Kuroka stood up and Koneko joined them upon seeing Dante arm himself. Both former Yōkai glared at the tree line where they could feel this source of dreadful Ki was going to come out from.

"You're about to see someone that has given themselves to The One Who Births." Lord Death warned as a figure walked out in full view of the three Devils.

"That's some bad grammar by the way." Dante joked as he scowled at the sight of Riser Phenex standing before them. Though the man was far from what either Dante or Koneko remembered him as. He still wore the same suit as they last saw him only now it was in a putrid dark green color. His hair was pale looking and had a dampness that could only be compared to being drenched some sort of afterbirth. His skin had the same sickly tone that Dante recalled Randel and Jack having, further showing just who he belonged to. His eyes were dead black but for a glowing red dot at the center that gave Dante even more flashbacks to the Hunters he had fought. However the biggest changed was seen on the man's chest. The wound that Dante had given him was clear as day, a strength cut crossing his chest down to his waist. Riser's open button top giving a full look at it. But now it dripped down not blood but a greenish black ooze and had small wriggling tentacles keeping as tightly shut as possible. Riser looked very much the same as Randel or Jack but there was something fundamentally different about him, something in his stance and aura. Where the Hunters constantly had a slightly twitchiness to their movements and a predatory stance, Riser looked sluggish and almost sedated.

"Their real names are unpronounceable by human means or even physical means, it's more a title describing what they do." He heard Lord Death grumble but Dante still thought it was insufferably poor naming.

"Dante Alighieri." Even his voice sounded a little tired. It no longer had the firm sense of smug superiority that it once had and it certainly did not have the aggressive edge the Hunters had. "I am here to settle…" The Devils then watched as Riser then fell to his knee. "… I am here… to settle the score." Riser tried to get out sounding tough and confident.

"Well… isn't this pathetic." Dante said feeling the urge to relax but did not for a second. That was a one-way guarantee to get killed by the obvious horror movie monster that Riser must have brought with him. "Can you just… just hurry this along dude. I wanna get back to having a good time with pretty girls." Dante said making a moving along hand motion. Both of the girls next to him smirked and preened at his words but did nothing to distract themselves from the danger that was right in front of them.

"He should not be here alone as he is." Lord Death spoke as Dante watched Riser struggle to get back on his feet. "He is away from his nest and his spawn slaves. He did not even bring any of his children with him… foolish."

"So many disturbing things can be taken from that." Dante was wide-eyed at hearing what he just heard.

"He is no threat to you but listen to what he has to say. Given how this man acted before I assume what is left of his moronic pride as forced him here to brag and mock you. He will give himself away." With that Dante felt Lord Death slip back deep in his soul. Dante watched then as Riser, using a tree to steady himself, finally got back on his two legs.

"Already I have gotten back what belongs to me." Riser said as he continued to lean on the tree for support. "My lost playthings are now mine again, there is nothing you can do about it." Dante highly doubted that. "And Rias… she will be Mine!"

"Again… hurry this along." Dante said getting impatient.

"You have no right to speak to me!" Riser yelled only to ruin whatever authority he had by falling face first into the snowy dirt below him. Koneko and Kuroka both felt a little silly for having thought this guy as a threat to them. "I will… I will…" Riser groaned as he dragged himself through the mud toward them. Dante just stared blankly at the fallen Phenex and then pulled his scythe back as the blade snapped forward making it a spear. With one throw the Rook impaled Riser's head. To Dante and Koneko's surprise, no flames came and instead the body stopped moving at all.

"That was Riser Phenex right?" Koneko asked as they walked forward and Dante pulled his scythe out of the dead body's skull. He then plunged it back in for good measure and because it felt great to stab it.

"Yurp." Dante responded thinking that whatever immortality that the Phenex family had must not be compatible with the corrupting power of the Sala'dandor. Considering that their primary manifestation in this world, Necrotic Plasma, actively eats away at a person's life force and body… it wasn't hard to see that a Immortal might lose his immortality when doing business with the elder gods.

"And he's dead now so what of it?" Kuroka said eye the unimpressive male, knowing the name from the one that caused her sister's master so much trouble but seeing him in person was underwhelming.

"He's not… or at least he'll be back." Dante said as he crouched down to poke the body a little more. He was surprised that it wasn't melting into a puddle of good like Randel but then again Riser wasn't a Hunter. Maybe there was a different method or something. But one thing was certain, there was no way of the Sala'dandor would have let one of their followers go off to his death in such a meaningless way. "Looks like our weekend is over… time to head home and see what kind of damage has been done." Dante said as he clean off his blade on Riser's tacky suit. He then looked to Kuroka. "Think your buddies can give us a ride home?"

Late Afternoon

Kuoh, Dante's Living Room

"Thank you Ravel, I know it's hard speaking to your family, but we can't ignore the line you have to the situation." Rias said as she set down her teacup. She, Akeno and Ravel were all sitting around the small side table that they had specifically set up for tea. Ravel looked relatively sad, still shocked at the level of depravity that her brother had been hinted at committing. Depravity and debauchery were expected in Devil society, and by human standards they were many that were both in the extremes. But what Riser was apparently dabbling in went far into the realm by which even Devils considered forbidden.

"No I understand." Ravel said sadly as she looked down at the floor. "I will talk to my brother Ruval, my parents will stonewall me but I'm sure that he'll tell me something." Ravel said believing that if anyone would understand and look into this matter it was Ruval. But there was also the possibility that he was already doing so, it would be a hard thing to keep the eldest of the Phenex children away from Riser. Ruval was always trying to keep some control over Riser, but with how things were going its possible that Ruval gave up after the Blood Duel. And Riser's mansion on Phenex lands was fairly out of the way and isolated, originally so that he could have his affairs in peace.

"Is there any chance that…" Akeno began but stopped at all three of the women seeing a swirling red and black portal opening up in the middle of the living room. They all stood and readied for some sort of attack but all breathed a sigh of relief and joy to see Dante and Koneko step out.

"We're back baby! Oph!" Dante was immediately tackled by the current three women in the room. All overjoyed that he was safe and had returned unharmed from his trip across the world. Dante was, eventually, able to get them all off him. Only to be taken back to the ground by Li, Ni, and Yubelluna who all felt his return back home. Again, he was able to eventually get them all off him. "I can already tell some shit has happen, let's compare notes." And with that the events of the last two days were looked over and collected by everyone. Dante was too say the least pissed at what Riser had attempted. And summarily gave Li, Ni, Ravel and Yubelluna reaffirming embrace and vow that he would not let Riser touch them.

"We can't just let this situation keep us hiding in fear, something will need to be done." Rias said as they all gathered in the living room, Isabela and Karlamine joining them once all the emotional scenes were over and done with. Now everyone that was affected by this new development was gathered in the same room, minus the maids who were confined to their rooms for letting the Phenex Devils in and attempting to run away with them. "Contacting Ruval might not be enough. I'm going to report all of this to my brother, Riser Phenex has attacked and attempted to kidnap servants under the protection of both myself and the House of Gremory."

"What do you think he'll do?" Dante asked while being semi-strangled by Yubelluna, Li and Ni. Even with her assurance that he would protect them and not let Riser take them back, Yubelluna was still needing his direct presence in order to calm herself in this difficult situation. And Li and Ni were acting beta support to the woman along with Dante… along with just enjoying being so close to Dante. Koneko meanwhile was a little miffed that Yubelluna was taking her spot on Dante's lap but let it going considering the state the woman was in.

"Officially he'll launch a investigation into the Phenex family but that will go nowhere. As one of the last remaining pure houses, they will be assisted in grinding down the official process by the old guard in the nobility." Rias explained with a sigh, she knew that getting things done officially had slowed to a crawl in the last few years. The older generations of Devils were clinging to their power for dear life. Trying every tactic they could to gum up any progress that was to be made by her brother's rule and his government. Change was naturally slow to Devils so long as they were content in their desires, and so really the only thing that was on the mind of Devil society was building back their numbers as that was the one thing they agreed on as a problem. Everything else was secondary and not a pressing issue for most but those effect by whatever issue that might be.

"And unofficially?" Isabela asked with a small chuckle as she looked away from Yubelluna enjoying being in the arms of their future master. She looked so peaceful as opposed to frightened mask that she had on before he got home. Isabela was at times worried that in Dante's efforts to help the poor woman he was changing out one mental problem for another. She might be getting better when it came to the trauma dealt by Riser… but damn was she getting very dependent on Dante in exchange.

"He'll likely send one of his own servants to gain some information, all of them are quite well trained in stealth. Brother's peerage was once the most successful guerrilla combat teams in the civil war." Rias stated in such a casual way that did not in any way give everyone present the idea that her brother once ran a death squad of highly effective killers and assassins. "But for right now I think it would be best for everyone to try to stay at home as much as they can."

"You got fired again right?" Dante asked looking to Isabela who grumbled her confirmation. "You're on babysitting duty to anyone that needs to leave for any reason." She sighed at the way that Dante put it but she had no problem acting as peerage bodyguard.

"What about our date… you promise." Li asked deploying tactical cuteness as she had in the past. She had gotten her dream date damnit and wasn't about to let Riser of all people ruin it for her.

"We can do that, I doubt that they will try to do anything with me there." Dante said confident that he could take on anyone in Riser's current household. And with the man himself so weak there was no threat at all for just the two of them to be out on the town. "If that is all, I'd very much like to smoke away all my troubles." Dante said as he stood up, along with way bringing Yubelluna. Carrying her bridal style as he made his way outside to the patio. Rias had a soft smile as she watched him deposited his future Queen on a pool chair nearby while he grabbed a packet out from under a table.

"We keep finding them and getting rid of them and he keeps finding better places." Akeno sighed and Rias did so along with her. It was by far their least favorite aspect of their Life Mate but he was considerate and keep it far away from them. "But Dante's smoking habit aside, we do need to start combing the town for possible Phenex Devils, I'll have my imps do a general wide search."

"I'll request some reinforcements from Hell, along with asking Sona and Voledro to keep their eyes open." Rias said thinking on what had been discussed, and what hadn't. She knew Dante left out a few key details on Riser's visit to them, she knew that he had an idea of why Riser was so weak. And an idea about all of this.

Early Morning

Kuoh, Sub-Basement of Dante's Home

"Why are we here so early?" Issei yawned as he stretched out a bit, Asia was next to him nodding in agreement. It was far too early for her to be her normal cheerful self. Pregnancy was taking its toll and everyone around Asia was trying to be accommodating.

"Because maggot you are too flabby to sleep in!" Dante yelled Full Metal Jacket style before throwing a medicine ball at Issei, the Pawn gave a loud oph and fell to the floor under the heavy object. "We need to get you buffed up, be man for that kid you apparently are having." Dante shouted down to the moaning Pawn that Asia tried helping.

"Dante might be a little extreme in his delivery but he is right on the main point." Rias said with a encouraging smile. All of her household and all but two of Dante's future peerage was standing in the training gym that had been built under Dante's penthouse. Here they were going to train in preparation of future battles, Ratings Games, and possible threats.

"You're all here to get stronger and purge out your weakness." Otto said as he went into full-on couch mode. The giant German mercenary would be overseeing all of the training as Rias trusted the man not to pull any punches and not coddle any of them as she knew she would. She loved her servants dearly and wanted them to do their best but she understood that her affection for them would make her go easy on them. "First up let's handle the Pawns." With that Li, Ni, and Issei all stood in front of Otto. "Blue Cat Girl…" Ni's eyes twitched at that. "Your Ki powers is controlling water, to fully use that you need to learn a style of combat as fluid as water itself. But first we're going to get your dexterity and reflexes as seamless as possible. For that I turn to Red Cat Girl." Otto said before looking to Li who was bouncing in anticipation. "You're going to start throwing fireballs at your sister. Work on your aim, concentration of fire in a smaller ball, and the speed at which you can throw them."

"Yay!" Li shouted while her sister hung her head in the gloom of their assigned training. Li began dragging her sister off toward a unused section of the massive gym to begin their work.

"And… the mini dragon former known as pervert number one." Otto said as he looked down to Issei. "What you need is a lot of work to your base stats. The fundamentals and basic training will never stop being what you need, the stronger your lowest is, the faster you can Boost into super tier shit." When it came down to it that's what Issei really needed, anything more at this point was secondary as Issei was still fairly weak when compared to the average Devil. Once that changed, with his Boosted gear there would be little that Issei couldn't do. Once he got there then he could work on the extras. "Get to weight training and don't stop. If I see you slouching then we're moving onto pain tolerance." Otto warned and Issei gulped at the mental image of what Otto might mean by that. "Next up, the Knights."

"So far so good, I gladly look forward-" Kiba began but was quickly interrupted by Otto.

"Pretty boy, you are slated for strength training. Your speed is impressive but if you got no umph! behind it then you're useless." Otto said cutting right to the point. "At best right now against a well-balanced opponent you will be doing little better than bug bites, you join up with the Pawn on the weights." Otto said and to his continued annoyance Kiba just smiled and politely went along with it. The mercenary didn't like people like Kiba, too clean for their own good. Typically it was those with the bloodiest past that tried to hide it in a cover of neatness. "Next up, lady knight." Otto said then looking down to Karlamine. "Hope your skills haven't dulled."

"Want to test that for yourself?" Karlamine challenged and Otto chuckled… as well as the jawless man could.

"Can't focus too much on one person today. I would say that you need what the other Knight needs, but you actually balance decently between strength and speed. But he's faster and he's got a Sacred Gear. I want you researching for something that can give you a edge." Karlamine nodded and went off to begin her search, she had a few ideas but needed to lay them all out and pick one that was best to pursue. "Next, the Rooks." Dante, Koneko, and Isabela's turn came.

"I've already got a project going that I need to work on." Dante said, his arms crossed and his face solid as steel as Otto glared down at him. The two maintained this staring contest before Otto finally just looked to Koneko. Dante smirked and walked away to a side room to continue his secret project.

"Cat." Otto simply said before looking her over. "You have your Ki training, can't help you there so get to it." Koneko also smirked as she also got out of Otto's training with her own personal training. He then looked to Isabela who had her best bring it on face. If Otto could he would have a smug look of challenged accepted. "You're with me, let's see if you can make be budge an inch." Even if his face couldn't express it, his voice still sounded smug. "Next, the Bishops."

"I'm assuming that I'm too work on my pyrokinesis?" Ravel asked with a dignified and respectful tone, Otto just grunted a bit. He also hated snotty nobles that thought they never everything. But he had gotten good at hiding his thoughts as a lot of his clients were snotty nobles.

"Yes, get to it." Otto dismissed and Ravel walked off to a safe distance to work on her family magic. "And you…" Otto said before looking to Asia who stifled under his gaze. "I would have liked to get you trained in some small arms or blades or something. Give you some chance in a fight but given your new condition I know better than to think anyone will ever let you within a kilometer of a fight. Basic exercises to keep your body in shape, try not to strain yourself."

"Thank you." Asia said bowing before leaving. She knew that she wasn't going to be much help with her being pregnant and everyone trying to keep her safe. But at the same time while felt guilty she couldn't find it in herself to try to do anything that put her body at risk.

"Queens." Otto turned his head and found Akeno and Yubelluna waiting for his training regiments. He first looked to Yubelluna. "You are surprisingly solid on all counts, the fucking fried chicken really misused you in more than one way. For a normal human you seriously have the chops to beat even high-class Devils, I'd say for you the best place would be helping out the others." There was a loud explosion from the room where Dante had gone off to following that statement. Otto just continued to look forward while everyone else turned their heads to the blown off door as a frosty mist started pouring out. The Devils expected Dante to call back telling them he was okay… instead they got a mad cackle.

"I'm getting close!" They all heard Dante yell out.

"And by helping out the others I mean make sure the Grim doesn't blow himself up." Otto said bluntly and Yubelluna absentmindedly nodded before rushing over toward Dante's room. Otto then looked to the last remaining Devils before him. "And then there were two." Otto chuckled and Akeno frowned as she had a good idea of what her training would be. But Rias was just flat out surprised that Otto was including her in the training regime.

"Me? You can't be serious." Rias said feeling that she had the skills and power already at a high enough level to opt out of training like Yubelluna and help the others.

"Watch it princess. Your arrogance showing." Otto snapped quickly making Rias pout and Akeno giggle. The Queen knew that her best friend's most prominent sin would be pride. She was very good at both hiding and controlling it but it did show at times. "Your skill with the Bael Power of Destruction is good, but nowhere near what it could be. Your brother make use of it along with the Gremory innate deep reserves of magic power perfectly, becoming a beast on the battlefield. Don't try to outright copy him but you do need to reach for his level of control and power." At this Otto walked over to one of the several crates filled with all sorts of goodies that he had bought for training. He was having most of the Devils handle the bare basics first and work them up to the more advanced methods. But for Rias and Akeno he was going straight to his toys. The two Devils watched as he pulled a brightly colored package with a shrink-wrapped white sponge in it. On the package was a man in dark green coat with a white and green hat on his head covering his eyes. The man was giving a peace sign with a goofy smile. Otto ripped the white sponge out of the package and dropped on the ground, Rias and Akeno watched as he took out a bottle of water and poured it onto the sponge.

"Is this supposed to…" Rias began.

"Shh!" Otto interrupted her as the sponge began to grow and grow. Until it reached the rough shape and size of a average male human, then in a puff of smoke it took on vague human features. Pale white skin with not a single strand of hair on his head or face, including eyebrows, and near undiscernible facial features. It was a face a Spook would find acceptable.

"Hello! I am Gi-guy and please punch me to your heart's content." Both Rias and Akeno were stunned by the unexpected upbeat and bubbly way the… man… spoke in. Seconds later there was a second identical being next to the first who announced the very same thing.

"The great thing about being in Japan is that I can go to the most batshit insane inventor for all his little doodads." Otto said mostly to himself as he walked behind the two Gi-guys. "These things were made by a former member of the Soul Reapers Department of Research and Development. They are based on their Gigai tech and are virtually indestructible… for one hour. Then they melt." That tended to be the theme of the stuff that came out of that unholy hell pit of a R&D center. Does wonderful and amazing things… only to be completely useless for a side reason. "They also will not fight back for any reason… and I assume not for a lack of the techs trying."

"Ready for many kicks to the face!" One of them said and it felt a little sad how happy he said it. Even Akeno, the ultimate sadist, found it sad couldn't feel any hint of excitement for this.

"Yeah… you don't get used to that." Otto said picking up on the girls feelings. "But they are great in telling you how well the damage was dealt, like verbal analytical charts on how well you are doing."

"So we are just supposed to attack these things as they critique how we do it? Given how strong they look I doubt they could last a minute." Akeno asked with a skeptical eye. In that moment however both of the beings dispositions changed radically. Going from jovial gung-ho to mocking sneers and darkened superiority.

"It's you two that look to be the weaklings."

"One minute, try a thousand years and you could never hope to put a scratch on us." A second passed before both of the artificial humans were blasted across the gym by each of the Devils' respective powers.

"This is going along swimmingly." Otto would smile if he could as he watched the various Devils all training, at times having to dodge out of the way of Rias and Akeno's merciless attacks of the two human bodies that would not stop dispensing harsh and often rude remarks on their attacks.

Mid Evening

Kuoh, Outside Kuoh Movie Theater

"That was awesome! I can't believe Rias was able to get a whole night of American action movies to play here." Li cried out excitedly as she and Dante left the theater having just watched two of those said action movies. That being Mad Max: Fury Road and the original Terminator.

"Well she does run the whole town, pulling something like this is a small thing." Dante said knowing that all it did was take a little time for Rias to arrange it. During that time since he had returned for Midgard, all the Gremory Devils had done was their contracts and training. No one felt too safe to go out for anything else with the threat of Riser's servants possibly in town. Even with Isabela on bodyguard duty most of them just spent the time in the sub-basement training. But tonight was different, tonight Dante was taking Li out for the date she had been promised.

"She's so nice, doing things so that another woman can enjoy her man." Li giggled at how funny it all was. Sure she had been in harem before, unwillingly but still a part of one. But the dynamic between being with Riser and Dante was polar opposites. For one thing, everyone actually wanted to be with Dante. And then on top of that, all the girls liked each other and were friends. Back with Riser you out for yourself, Yubelluna tried to help everyone but that ended in her getting a even bigger share of the torment. Li and Ni stuck by each other and everyone had friends in the harem but the second that Riser came into the room for the most part it was a free-for-all to shove another into his line of sight. Li could never see that happening with Dante, if anything it was a free-for-all to get a piece of him at times.

"She knows that everyone needs to get their time with me… but soon…" Dante murmured to himself that last part. He was so close to completing his masterpiece. "I just hope you're having a good time. Considering what you may heard I did for the others."

"Nope, this has been the best date ever. I don't need a fancy trip around the world." Li sighed as she leaned into Dante side as they walked through downtown Kuoh. "Actually… it's my first date ever." Li admitted with a bit of uncharacteristic shyness that had Dante surprised.

"Really, you don't seem like the type to not go nights out on the town with someone you have your eye on. And here I thought I had you dead to rights as party girl." Dante lightly teased much to Li's pout.

"I was fourteen when Riser took me and my sister, I was just getting to dating when that fried chicken came along." Li grumbled but then returned to her blissful state as she snuggled deeper into Dante's side. "But that doesn't matter because now I have the best boyfriend ever. All those guys I could have dated in LA mean nothing."

"Really because I'm pretty sure you could have gotten some pretty high tier guys considering the circles your father could have got you in." Dante deadpanned and frowned at the thought of Li in the Los Angeles party crowds. Hanging out with celebrities and living the high life. Instead of now going on a small town date with him.

"Nope." Li chirped before moving from his side to in front of him. Leaning in close but not close enough to make a move. "Best boyfriend ever." She smiled brightly before seeing something and then dragging Dante off the streets of downtown to a park. It was beginning to change tonight, the sun was already dipping down past the horizon and people were starting to go home. The park in which the two devils were now in was empty, not a soul around to see them.

"Didn't take you for someone that enjoyed nature." Dante remarked as they passed by a pond. Li left his side and walked up to the edge and picked up a stone. Dante then watched with interested as she successfully skipped the stone all the way across the water's surface to the other side. It wasn't a large pond but big enough for that to be impressive.

"Daddy would like to take us to parks like this a lot when we were young. He said that mom really liked it… and didn't like the big city." Li chuckled as she picked up another stone and handed it to Dante. He judged the small rock and attempted to skip it like she did only for it to plop into the water. "That's it… I can't date someone that can't even get one." She playfully mocked as he grumbled a bit before picking up another stone and trying again.

"Which was why he took her to places like parks. You do things to make people you care about happy." Dante said as he continued to try to skip a single stone only to fail each time. "Any hints from the great one?" Dante said looking to Li who just smiled and took the stone in his hand and skipped across the pond.

"There's your hint." Li smirked and Dante just grumbled a bit as he went down to grab another, only to be pushed on his back and straddled by Li. The next thing he knew was that Li had her hands on his face and pressed her lips to his. He however recovered and returned the kiss, wrapping his arms around her pulling her close as the kiss intensified. He could feel her hands leave his face and begin to slip under his shirt, her fingers racing across his toned muscles in excited exploration of his body. Eventually however the did part and instead of getting off of him like he expected so that they could find a hotel, they weren't bringing this back home where they would surely be interrupted, she then pulled off her top. Her breasts bounced as they were freed of confinement, Dante had known all night that she had gone without a bra.

"Really… that's what you want?" He smirked as after a quick extension of the senses showed that they were indeed completely alone in the park he was fully ready to do this here. Li nodded her agreement as she did the same. While the idea of getting caught did get her hot, doing it in public was enough of a turn on for her along with the incredibly hot guys she was with, she didn't want it to be interrupted by anything.

"You didn't think that Ni was the only one with a fetish did you?" Li asked as she pulled Dante's hands up to her breasts, she moaned as he took the hint and grabbed hold. Kneading with her flesh and every now and then rolling her nipples between his fingers. He knew what he was doing and she could already feel herself getting wet at this small amount of foreplay. "The one single time Riser was able to satisfy me was when… fuck~… we did it in public… I want you to burn that memory from my mind forever with an even better one." She said as Dante continued to play with her sensitive tits, she held his hands closer to them trying to get as much pleasure out of the act as she could.

"Challenge gladly accepted." Dante growled as he suddenly flipped Li over putting her under him. Before she could say anything however her lips were captured by Dante's in a heated kiss. His tongue entered her mouth with no resistance and there was only a playful fight on her side before he completely dominated her tongue. She moaned into the kiss as she felt one of his hands still grope her breasts and roughly tweak her hardened numbs, sending ripples of pleasure across her body. This however paled when it came to the sudden feeling that Li felt as she felt Dante reach down under her skirt and dive into her moistened womanhood. Li gasped as she felt two of Dante fingers explore deep within her walls while a third finger rubbed across her sensitive clit.

"Fuck yes! Finger fuck me master … I want to feel everything you can give me!" She cried out as Dante continued to pace himself. She squirmed under him and he could feel her nails dig into his back as her body grew closer and closer to release from his ministrations. Li patted hard as she Dante moved down from her lips to her neck and to her collarbone. She hissed as he lightly bit down on a sensitive spot he found, her Nekomata instincts flooding her mind with the pleasure of having her mate mark her as his. "S-so good… so good…" She mewled as Dante began increasing the pace of his fingering.

"You're gripping to me like a vice, I can feel you getting close." Dante felt her insides constricting on his fingers, but he didn't let up the pace for a second. He watched as her head was thrown back as he pushed in a third finger and widened her folds out.

"Master! I can feel it… keep going~" Li whined as she pulled his head deep into her chest. Hearing out what she wanted he quickly took her right breast that had been woefully ignored at this time in his mouth. The park echoed with the sounds of animistic cries as Li immensely enjoyed the feeling of her master's sucking a light biting of her breast. "I'm cumming!" She shouted as she held onto Dante for her life as felt the best orgasm of her life hit her. A surge of euphoria crashed over her like a tidal wave ending in her going limp in Dante arms as she struggled to catch her breath. "That was like… totally awesome." She said with a hungry look in her eye as she looked toward Dante's lower half. She was soon pulled off the ground, but fell in line with what Dante was doing by wrapping her legs around his waist.

"And that wasn't even the best part." Dante growled in Li's ear. It didn't take much for Dante's pants to be taken off and his erect girth to be set free. Li motioned her dripping folds along its length already dreaming of the feeling of it inside of her. Just having it slide across her slit was bringing her back to the edge of pleasure.

"I know that it's stupid but I know every guy wants to hear this." Li said as she had playfully teasing smirk on her lips. It was just too funny not to say this to her. "You're so much bigger than he was." She giggled as she felt Dante slightly twitch at that comment.

"You're right it is stupid." He said this but the smug look on his face said he felt otherwise. Anything more that Li wanted to say on the subject however was quickly put aside as her mouth was otherwise occupied. A moan escaped their kiss as she felt Dante grip her ass tightly and pull her up to line up her pussy with the tip of his cock. Li then gave out a sharp whine as she felt him slowly enter into her waiting lips, what she said before was absolutely true. He was way bigger than Riser, and did it feel wonderful to have Dante thrust deep inside her in ways she had never before felt. She held onto him as he began pumping in and out of her hot womanhood, her nails reeking across his back. The feeling of her nipples brushing across his exposed chest as she bounced up and down on his rigid cock felt amazing, she was soon lost in a world of pleasure.

"Yes! Fuck me with that glorious cock of yours master!" Li screamed before biting down on his shoulder as he plunged deep inside her reaching in places that made the edges of her vision turn blurry. Tears began forming in her eyes as she felt so happy to finally be not just having sex but making love along with it. Dante was everything she ever wanted in both a master and a man, he was kind to her and her sister and protected them from the monster that dominated their lives. "Keep going… don't ever stop. I don't ever want you to stop loving me like this." She cried as she held onto him even tighter. "Please don't leave me master."

"Never, I promise that I'll always be here." Dante said as he could feel Li's heart and soul reach out to him. He knew that for so long she needed someone to rely on. And since the very beginning of having all of Riser's victims come to come he wanted to do just that. The two continued on with their lovemaking, time seemingly blending deep into the pleasure of the moment. "Li… I'm getting close." Dante grunted as he felt himself unable to hold back anymore.

"Me too…" Li panted and then moaned loudly as she felt Dante climax. The feeling of his seed filling her womb triggered her own orgasm. Her eyes snapped wide as she felt his spunk fill her to the absolute brim to the point where she felt it drip down her inner thigh. The rode the roars of ecstasy that her climax sent her through until the cat-girl's body went rigid as she saw more than the stars in the darkening night sky above them. Dante then fell down to his knees still holding onto Li's now limp form. "… fucking fuck… again!" Li shouted as she wanted nothing more than ride that high again and again and again all night long. Dante chuckled before gently dropping off onto the ground. Li whined at the sudden loss of fullness that came with her sliding off his dick but stopped as a idea came to her mind.

"Which we will do on a actual bed." Dante said having no problem with that but with the stipulation that they move the location. "We…" Dante stopped as he groaned in response to Li suddenly wrapping her lips around his wet cock. He enjoyed the feeling of her cleaning him off of their combined juices ending with her letting his tool go with a loud pop.

"Oh yes… this is the first thing I'm having when we get a hotel." She said this but the fact she was stroking the hard member some life back into it suggested she was still fine doing it here. Dante reluctantly pulled away from the sexy cat-girl. "Why~"

"You just said why, we're moving this to a hotel." He said as helped the Nekomata onto her feet. She whined but Dante was having none of it. "Right now I'm not confident that no one heard us." Dante said causing Li to blush hard at sobering thought. They found their clothes and quickly made their way out of the park just as a beat cop who had been called in on a noise complaint was about to enter the park.

Early Morning

Kuoh, Dante's Foyer

Dante and Li both walked through the entrance of the main floors of the section of the building that was actually in use. They opted to walk home rather than straight up teleport as the morning was nice and neither felt very in the mood to extend the effort to magic their way home. Instead just lazily walk home. Dante went to kiss Li on her cheek only for the Pawn to pull him in for something a bit deeper before bouncing her way back to her room.

"It seems the two of you had a good time last night." Dante turned to see Akeno walking down the grand staircase, a robe covering her nude form as she still refused to walk around naked as Kriminel still stalked the halls.

"We did have a good night." Dante said about as innocently as one could. It was still hard for him to get over the fact that Akeno was now encouraging him to find more partners. It was a change in her priorities that he needed some time to fully get used to. That thought however reminded him about a feeling he got during his date with Koneko. "And did you have a good night?" He asked as she came down to the last step, a small look of surprise came over her as she figured out what he meant. Not a guilty look but a small pout that something she wanted to be a surprise was now ruined.

"As a matter of fact I did, not anything wrong with that is there?" Akeno asked as she came up to Dante to give him her own kiss of the morning. The familiar taste of mint sent shivers down her spine and made her hair stand on end. "When did you figure it out?"

"Just had a feeling, but the real question I have is did you figure anything out in your little lesbian adventure with Rias?" Dante asked as Akeno clung to his side as they ascended the stairs to his floor.

"A few things." Akeno said teasingly that had Dante groan.

"Out with it woman, I thought you wanted that threesome." Dante said impatiently and Akeno continued to pout at the fact her surprise had been ruined. She had been working on a whole thing for Dante involving a lot of leather and a collar or two.

"Rias is a submissive… a very eager one at that." Akeno giggled as ever since that first night Rias had fully embraced her bottom position in bed between her and Akeno. She still maintained that she was the King outside the bedroom and Akeno was fine with that. In fact Akeno preferred it that way, she wasn't looking to undermine Rias' authority as King or even the previously held relationship that had prior. All Akeno wanted was a submissive little slave girl in the bedroom and for Rias to understand who was the head wife… was that asking too much? Akeno didn't think so. "Oh… and another thing." Akeno whispered something that she had learned recently from Rias' mother. "And addition apparently all members of the Gremory family absolutely love to take it up the ass." Dante listened but his eyes went wide at hearing it.

"No way." Dante mumbled, all his knowledge when it came to women flew in the face of what Akeno just said.

"It's actually not that uncommon among Devils and Fallen Angels. Given our bodies are made for sinful pleasure… it's not hard to imagine. But for the Gremory family it's something of a family fetish, it goes along with loving their servants and the red hair." Akeno said and enjoyed Dante dumbfounded face.

"O-okay…" Dante was still having a tough time computing this. In his experience that was something that a very few number of girls even entertained much less enjoyed. The added fact of Devils and how they take to debauchery did make the idea make a lot more sense. There was a lot about the Devil body that differed from the normal human one. Akeno found his reaction to be amusing but decided for his sanity to change the topic.

"On to more pure news, it seems Koneko is ready to take her vows." Akeno said getting Dante's attention in nanoseconds. "All throughout the night she was suffering as you as Rias did. That date must have finally given way to everything the Link needs to be completed."

"Really… I'll see what I can do about it. With Minos still in his lamp we won't be able to get grandfather here that quickly and I don't know-"

"I can do it." Both Dante and Akeno jumped out of their skins at hearing Kriminel's voice suddenly come from next to them. "Sup."

"Dude… seriously don't do that again." Dante said as he caught his breath, he had no idea that the Loa was even in the same wing of the building let alone next to them. "But you can set up the Linking ceremony." There was the expected small moan from Akeno at the mention of said ritual. But she held back her desires as Kriminel was right there. He still chuckled at her reaction anyways.

"I told Lakwa dat little feature would be funny." Kriminel thought as he recalled back during the days when the Death Gods were crafting the soul mechanics for the Grim Reapers. "Sure, just have da your girl ready tonight and everything will be set." Kriminel said before fading back into the shadows where he came from.

"I still agree with Rias that he should go." Akeno said and Dante nodded but both knew that it was unlikely that he would be leaving at any point in the near future.

Reviews

rmarcano321 - -_- I'm more disappointed in you with each question

Curse of Whimsy - yeah, I really don't like the loli type, so I had to make her look her actual age. And thanks for that, I really worry sometimes that my lemons are just shit. I know that this isn't a smut story but I still like to have the lemon scenes as this is DxD and the canon is woefully lacking in that. I know why it is... but it still makes me sad. And yes... Lovecraft will be proud of the shit I have planned.

Spartan of Rome - Thank you and I do have a end for Riser that will be coming by the end of the summer arc. And as for Black Fairy, Darthmart is currently having some family issues that have kept her away, it is mostly her story as I only organize her ideas and put it up online. For the time being until she comes back it is not going to be updating for some time as I don't feel comfortable writing it myself

ArcherGenes - Riser will be dealt with once and for all in this arc. So don't worry about him ever returning personally beyond now. As for Yubelluna, I will say that the two might meet once more but not alone. As for lemons... sorry but this is the summer of love arc. Even if that title has taken on a sinister meaning now it still will be filled with lemons

LucasVAMP - Oh don't worry on that. I will confirm that Riser will be getting none of his former servants for any period of time. I'm not that cruel.

AJR3333 - Thanks, I wanted to flesh out a lot of the Phenex girls and I even plan on doing that to some degree with the ones that didn't join Dante.