Welcome to the next chapter of DxD – The Last Amagiri, but before starting the story. Let's answer some reviews:

altair95: Thanks, I worked on ensuring this would be one great finale. While Alice was healed, both she and Claire were rescued. All the Numbers and their teams were rescued by their parents and guardian in the end. The Ordinals realized what it meant to target their children, no actual parent is ever going to let that slide. Amaterasu made her appearance in front of Kensei, and talked about some things with him, as someone who knows more about the incident.

It showed the Numbers can laugh about their defeat while becoming strong enough in the future to ensure their group can win. Abigail isn't going to let her 'younger siblings' go out into another battle with no backup anymore. Alice returned to normal, because of her monster, but it seemed as if she now has monster cells. After the summer ends, it sounds as if Brynhildr is going to get what she wants and go on a date with her beloved.

Yep, like father, like son. Kensei and the others had their Summer Dance with the Sun Goddess and the Sword God witnessing the entire thing.

shephawk: I'm glad to hear that you liked the moments with Brynhildr and Rossweisse, in addition to the appearance of Amaterasu. I'll ensure the next volume is awesome.

Slimereader11: I have an idea of the manner, in which Kensei would be training Koneko, as well as how to overcome her fear of Senjutsu. Trust me, that's going to be one interesting encounter.

Guest: I loved Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and even replayed it. And that was an epic scene where Raiden says: I said my sword was a tool of justice. Not used in anger. Not used for vengeance. But now... Now I'm not so sure. And besides, this isn't my sword.

I'm glad that you loved the story. It's always the case when you love reading something, then you end up catching up with the most recent chapters.


Shiamano

It was the official beginning of summer, and Kensei found himself sleeping alone in one of the rooms located inside the Amagiri Clan Main Shrine. He found himself waking up much earlier than intended, but instead of getting out of the futon, he was preoccupied with other things. Kensei wasn't alone in the room, as he was joined by the Queen of Kyoto as their lips were meshing together.

"Nnn, aah…."

Yasaka moaned through the entire thing.

It wasn't simply a session of kissing, Yasaka leaned her back against Kensei's chest, turning her neck, while their lips never left the other. The Youkai Queen found herself continuing to softly moan as her newfound lover rubbed her breasts. She felt sensitive in this instance, as she hadn't felt something of this nature in a long time. Kensei's hand was touching her abundant chest underneath the loose kimono she wore.

"Hah, he's teasing me. Kensei-kun is touching all the right spots on my breasts, even underneath this kimono, I'm wearing now. He keeps poking my nipples and making me feel all good," Yasaka said, feeling a warm sensation spreading across her as she twisted her hips uncontrollably. "Ahh~ I shouldn't be feeling this good simply being teased by a young man."

"…."

As Kensei and Yasaka separated for the first time, a trail of saliva linked their tongues together for a moment.

"Hah, this is going to be the last day that I can remain here. You know, I can't be from Kyoto for too long or their leylines might end up becoming unstable. Even with this pendant you gave me, as the leader, I shouldn't be gone for too long, Kensei-kun."

Her pendant, the same as the one Kunou wore was modified using Senjutsu and various techniques too. This one, in particular, could make it so Yasaka could remain from Kyoto for much longer since it was linked to their leylines.

"You make it sound as if you won't be able to come again. If that's the case, then I'll just have to come to you."

Kensei spoke in a strong and confident tone that sent a shiver down the young woman's back, something that'd gotten worse as he almost forced her kimono open.

"Iyah!"

Yasaka moaned cutely, surprised as her breasts were freed from the confines of her kimono, then started feeling Kensei's hands touching her uncovered chest. He found an incredible softness and volume in her breasts as his fingers dug into them.

"Wow, your breasts sure are voluminous, Yasaka-san, it almost feels as if I'm poking my finger in a big mound of pudding," Kensei seemed to tease in a sensual tone, something the mature Kyuubi couldn't help feeling far more enticing. His fingers dug into her breasts and returned to their previous shape as soon as he removed them, this being something he continued doing. "But, if we continued doing this, then we might end up being here the entire morning. And I think the two of us have some business to tend to."

"Yeah," Yasaka said, as her hand tenderly brushed up against her new lover's cheek. "Although, I need to teach a certain someone what it means to attempt to tease a mature woman."

"Eh?"


Lime Start!

Kensei found himself surprised as the mature woman pushed him to the ground, then climbed on top of him, then removed the kimono that she'd been wearing. She didn't need to be worried about removing Kensei's shirt since he never wore one to bed in the first place. The young man in question, looked up from both surprise and almost anticipation as the mature woman looked at him.

"Now, let's start."

Yasaka said, leaning forward. But, instead of kissing Kensei, she started licking his neck slowly, running her wet tongue across his skin. Amid that, the mature woman started systematically moving around her upper and lower body up against his body. It was almost as if Yasaka was using her voluptuous body as a means of instilling a far more than decent pleasure into him.

He'd be lying, if he wasn't feeling it, from her soft breasts, hands, and thighs, each part was doing its part to ensure he wasn't felt without pleasure. It caused an immediate reaction as his member pitched a tent right in the pants he wore. It didn't go unnoticed as the Kyuubi rubbed herself against it, feeling the hardness of it without her showing the intent of tending to it.

"Hah, how does this feel? I'm sure that neither of those girls tried something like this before, Kensei-kun," Yasaka teased while asking at the same time. As she continued rubbing herself against Kensei's hardened member, she started feeling the urge to slide it within her. "So, are you regretting teasing a mature woman?"

"…it sure is an experience."

"And it's just beginning. If you don't mind helping your new lover with this."

Yasaka requested.

Not rejecting that request, Kensei removed his shorts and underwear, causing his hardened member to come out and stand straight. Staring at it, Yasaka couldn't help her heart skip a beat as her excitement built up while licking her lips.

"Wow, what a marvelous thing," Yasaka faintly said, not hesitating to wrap her right hand around it, listening in as Kensei moaned. "Let's see here~"

"Ah."

Kensei couldn't help moaning as Yasaka didn't hesitate to start licking up his member, using her tongue in ways he hadn't experienced before. She was a mature and experienced woman considering that he'd normally be the one on the dominating side. But, here he was sitting there feeling the most pleasure that he felt thus far. A brand new feeling came as Yasaka proceeded to jerk off Kensei while messing around with his balls and circling her tongue around the tip.

"…this…is."

Kensei kept having great feelings of pleasure spreading throughout him. Something that the mature Kyuubi could witness for herself, giggling to herself.

"There's so much that needs to be done with our respective groups. So, let's finish this up."

She ceased massaging Kensei's dick, Yasaka leaned forward, wrapping her abundant and soft breasts around it, causing him to feel pleasure. Holding her breasts together, the woman started motioning them up and down with Kensei's moans being heard throughout the room. As she kept up with this pace, Yasaka noted the pre-cum that started leaking up from the top.

"…," as Yasaka did that, she couldn't help sniffing the scent that'd started coming off of him, something that she couldn't help relishing in. She felt herself becoming wetter as she kept smelling Kensei's scent. "Hah, I don't think there's anyone who could resist this scent."

She felt her movements becoming more invigorated as her breasts became slicker from the pre-cum coming out of his cock. It caused the motions to be far easier than before as Kensei felt started to reach his climax, a feeling increased from the fact her mouth covered the top of his dick.

"Hmm, mmm."

Yasaka motioned her head up and down, not stopping pleasing him using her breasts either.

"Ah, Yasaka-san, I'm gonna…ugh."

Kensei came as he released a stream of cum straight into Kyuubi's mouth, who flinched a bit, but then began swallowing it without choking.

"Pwah," Yasaka pulled back from Kensei, letting a faint breath escape from her mouth while licking her lips. "You shouldn't underestimate a mature woman, Kensei-kun."

"I learned my lesson," Kensei replied, leaning forward and finding himself right in front of the mature woman. "But, I'm not the kind of man who leaves his woman unsatisfied either."

"Eh, is that so?"

Yasaka said, feeling Kensei beginning to push her down on her back, right on top of the futon the two had laid on moments ago.

After that, he spread Yasaka's legs, something the mature woman didn't resist, granting Kensei full access to her vagina. Leaning forward, he spread her lower lips open and proceeded to eat out the mature woman, something that'd an immediate moan to escape Yasaka's mouth.

"Ah, ngh, that feels good."

Yasaka moaned as Kensei continued to lick her entrance, leaning deeper as his hands kept her legs open without letting them close. Instead, as he proceeded to eat out the Kyoto Queen, the mature woman soon found herself running her fingers through his black hair. She felt his tongue entering as her insides were being touched without leaving one left untouched.

"Keep going."

Yasaka almost begged as she leaned her head back, feeling something she hadn't in a long time.

His movements continued becoming vigorous as he soon found the woman's sweet spot, sparking the strongest reaction thus far.

"Uuuu!"

Yasaka almost forced her head back as she climaxed, causing him to drink up the liquid that came out from her. As she calmed down and fell on the futon, breathing a bit heavier from the sudden moment.

"Huff, huff, that was intense. I wonder what it's going to feel like when we have sex."

"Same. Though, I think that talk can wait another time," Kensei said, as he wrapped her arm around Kyuubi's waist. He found himself sitting her up as the woman calmed down from her previous climax. "But, I think that it's about time that we get dressed.

"Yes."

After one more kiss, the two found themselves getting dressed for the rest of their morning.


Leaving the room, Kensei and Yasaka found themselves walking side-by-side, with the woman wrapping her arms around him. She couldn't help smiling in this instance, relishing in the feeling of being someone's lover, more so someone such as the young man beside her. Kensei found himself loving the fact this mature woman is his lover, though he did question when he was going to propose.

But, before that, there was something else that Kensei noticed about the Kyuubi since the incident that involved the Ordinals. From time to time, she would look as if her mind was elsewhere instead of what was right in front of her sometimes.

"Hey, Yasaka-san."

"Yes, honey~"

Kensei could tell that the woman was teasing him, something that caused him to laugh a bit.

"In all seriousness. Are you alright, Yasaka-san," Kensei asked, causing her to react to that question, realizing her mood changes were noticed by the others. "You don't have to talk about it yet. But, you can always talk to me or us if there's something wrong."

"It's something that can't be brought up now. I mean, there's so much that's been happening at the same time. I don't want to overwhelm everyone with anything else without giving them time to come to terms with what's going on now," Yasaka replied, with the kind of rational thinking one would expect from a Queen, then turned around to smile at Kensei. "Don't be worried. I plan on talking about it at some point after the summer break. It's something that'll end up concerning Kunou too. But, now, I'll be on my way back to Urakyoto."

At that, Yasaka freed Kensei from her grasp, then stood a distance from him before smiling and blowing a kiss playfully at him. She then vanished from sight as she teleported back into Urakyoto using a magic circle, causing him to shake his head amused.

He continued forward until he met the others, who were having breakfast together, seeing him, causing Lingqi to wave her hand.

"Morning, Kensei."

"Morning," Kensei returned the greeting with a waving hand to everyone else. "I'm glad to see everyone is prepared for the day."

"And I see someone enjoyed themselves with Yasaka-san before she left."

Claire teased, placing a plate in front of Kensei, the last person to take a seat at the table. That caused those like Lingqi and Ravel to give a faint blush at the images popping in their head. It was the same thing for Kensei, who glanced over to the side feeling flushed about that.

"Yeah. Let's not talk about that."

"Mu, Hahaue said she wanted to spend her last time here for a while with Ken-chan. And Kunou even used what was supposed to be her time with Ken-chan," Kunou said with a pout before returning to her usual cheerful smile. "I don't mind, though as long as Hahaue is happy."

"Aren't you a kind daughter?"

Claire said, before rubbing the top of Kunou's head, causing the young Kyuubi's tail and ears to start moving, all without knowing she was lightly being teased.

"So, what're we going to be doing today?"

Minako asked, deciding to remain here, having her break too before needing to leave for another concert.

"Well, everyone in our group has their training plan for the summer. I heard Maria and those from her are planning on receiving some training from her father's previous trainer. Zane and Lena are planning on heading to the Norse Faction to refresh themselves. Rui said she'll be returning home for the same reason. Hisui planned on coming with us. And I heard that since that conference, Abigail plans on heading to Heaven with her team," those were the things the Numbers and their team planned on doing. "And before all that…."

Kensei slowed down the last part, then found himself glancing over to Ravel who immediately got into the action with her Oracle Phone in hand.

"All of us are planning on heading out to the Underworld because Sirzechs-sama and Azazel-sama contacted us about joining in on a meeting planned out. There's also some concern about the incident that happened here and the incident that happened there. It seems as if there was the appearance of another terrorist group arriving to disrupt the Three Factions' treaty signing. And that the Hakuryuukou left Grigori too."

Ravel listed out the report she heard.

Mentioning Vali's betrayal of Azazel at the Three Faction conference, Lingqi couldn't help but wonder what was going through his mind at the time. She heard what happened during the Three Factions' conference, in addition to the appearance of the Khaos Brigade led by the Dragon God, Ophis.

"I fought against Vali once before. I know that he was a battle maniac, who seemed to fight almost as if it was his sole purpose in life. But, I never thought that Vali would ever betray Azazel. From the first time that I met them, it looked as if the two were close."

"Same. But, I doubt that Vali has it in him to ever kill him. Not that we know that much about the guy, aside from the fact he's the original Lucifer's great-grandson."

Kensei pointed out, something the two could agree with.

"Well, we'll be finding out more about what'll end up happening in the future," Claire pointed out, something the others could agree with. "On a somewhat unrelated note, I heard that the Research Group is planning on building the new house over the summer break. But, they'll be using the original building plans among other things as the basis ensuring that it'll be perfect. So, we'll be seeing the new home over the summer."

"Right. We'll also need some more clothes since most of our original wardrobe got incinerated too. But, it seemed as if some times were salvaged because of certain techniques used on them beforehand."

Kensei said although those were some important items, such as the photo album that his mother made from his childhood leading into their final year together. He said that the shrine that he made in homage to her was one of the things not saved.

"And that's going to be fun. I'm sure there is a lot of clothing that we can all purchase together," Minako said in a playful tone, looking forward to the shopping spree that'll come about from this. "So, Lingqi would you want to go on one big shopping spree with us?"

"Uh, sure, I wouldn't mind. There were moments when Jeanne and I would go out shopping, with her criticizing a lot of the choices that I picked. To be honest, she was among the main reasons that I learned so much about the world of fashion and other things."

"I can think there's a lot of things that I think go well with you, Lingqi."

Minako thoughtfully said, with Lingqi feeling concerned about it, as if several ideas entered her mind.

"Well, you can think about using Lingqi as a dressing doll later. First, we need to go to the Underworld and then settle that business. So, let's finish our breakfast and head out."

[Right.]

The girls around him agreed to those terms, before proceeding to eat their breakfast while conversing with each other at the same time.


Finishing their breakfast, the individual groups made their preparations for heading to the Underworld for the meeting. Not soon after, the group went straight to the Phenex Clan's castle, being the closest clan their group is tied to, aside from the Gremory Clan. It sounded as if Rias and her peerage came a day before. Exchanging the usual pleasantries with one another, before dressing up for the meeting that'll be taking place. Although except for their seconds-in-command, the others remained at the mansion.

After leaving, the group found themselves dressed for the meeting, then transported straight over to the location sent to them by Sirzechs. After walking for a time, the Numbers (aside from Abigail) found themselves sitting at a high place alongside the other Maou.

"Hey, Sirzechs."

"Greetings, Kensei-kun, everyone."

Sirzechs greeted with a wave of a hand, though there was some awkward tension as he noticed that Zane was missing an arm. He'd heard about the previous incident concerning the Ordinals, which was around the same moment as their conference. Neither were informed in detail, but witnessing that one of them lost a limb, it must've been more serious than initially thought.

After that, the Numbers took a seat with their respective second-in-command standing beside them.

"Come on. As the current Lucifer shouldn't you be a bit less obvious?"

Kensei asked, referring to the expression he's seen from the Maou, Lucifer.

"Hahaha, I'm sorry. I was surprised to hear about what happened from Diehauser-kun," Sirzechs said, scratching his head. "He previously had a meeting with us but immediately rescheduled because of an emergency, which I guessed had something to do with Claire-san. I found myself shocked to hear about what happened, though that happened after we finished the meeting with the Three Factions."

"Yeah, terrorists sometimes have the worst timing. I mean first, someone with a primordial god backing them had come after us. And, then there's the appearance of another terrorist headed by the world's strongest being."

Kensei joked something that Sirzechs could appreciate about the young man who experienced a worse defeat.

"I see that you haven't lost your personality," Sirzechs said, leaning a bit back in his seat. "Well, I'm sure there's a lot that both our sides need to prepare in the future. But, before that, we need to concern ourselves with what's in front of us right now."

"Right. I heard this is supposed to be a meeting concerning the goals of the most talented bunch among the Devil Youths. No surprise that Rias, Sona, and Sairaorg are among the bunch."

"Yeah. I'm sure that my adorable sister is going to continue becoming a raising star."

Sirzechs said, feeling proud about his sister, something that caused his wife and Queen to wonder if he'll end up losing face as a Maou.

"Zane, if you're looking for assistance in building a new arm. There have been some things that I thought about in regards to potential prosthetics for Devils."

Ajuka suddenly spoke up, showing some surprising concern for Zane, who almost found himself stuttering at that comment from the current Beelzebub.

"T-Thanks for that," Zane replied, then caught himself. "I did have a couple of ideas for a replacement arm, and it would be great if you looked over them with me."

"I wouldn't mind. It would be a shame if a young man such as yourself wouldn't be able to continue their path as a technician because of this."

Ajuka replied with a surprised smile.

"Humph, you've been getting quite close with my So-tan. But, since you helped my So-tan once before when that dumb Cadre attacked, so I'll think about giving you a shot to be her friend," Serafall said, crossing her arms, then turned an accusing finger at Zane. "But! Don't get any funny ideas or thoughts about my So-tan, anyone with her would have to pass the tests I set up! Got it, mister?!"

"O-Okay?"

Zane couldn't give any other response aside from that.

[Good luck, Zane/kun/sama.]

That was the thought that entered the mind of the Kensei and the others, as well as the Maou and even Grayfia, who were well aware that Serafall wasn't the easiest to handle in regards to Sona.

Not much time passed until six of the most promising young devils soon started coming out; Sairaorg, Rias, Sona, Seekvaira, Diodora, and Zephyrdor. Behind them, was, of course, their peerage who were dutifully behind them, though the newcomers from Rias' group looked around the room. It wasn't until Rias' group looked straight up at Kensei and the others who joined the Maou.

Noticing them, Kensei leaned forward with his usual casual smile, while sending out two peace signs. Reacting to that, he felt a quick smack at the back of his head, causing him to turn around to find Claire manifesting what had looked to be a harisen using White Nemesis. At the sight of that particular weapon, Sirzechs found himself nearly trembling, realizing where she got the idea from.

"Claire, did you just…?"

"You'll have to carry yourself with greater dignity than that Kensei," hearing those words from Claire caused him to feel surprised, while Grayfia internally nodded her head. "You might not care about what the Old Devils think, but don't give them a reason to mock you and our group."

"…."

Kensei couldn't respond, almost feeling betrayed. He turned a discreet glance at Sirzechs, who seemed to look at him apologetically and mournfully. Sitting right beside him, Zane, Maria, and Hisui seemed to almost give their regards, because it looked as if Claire was becoming more and more like Grayfia. At that, Kensei simply sat right there and waited for the show to start.

Soon enough, the Old Devils started speaking as an introduction to the meeting for the Young Devils, although the addition of Zephyrdor was due to the death of the former clan head. Despite knowing Iryuka that wasn't one of the things Kensei became aware of. Once the Old Devils finished, Sirzechs started speaking as he looked at all the young Devils on the stage.

"The six of you are all Devils of the next generation who has the pedigree and true ability that no objection could be raised against. That's why I want you to compete together before making your debuts and also increase your power through this method."

Sirzechs said something that caused the Numbers beside him to think about the Rating Game, being the thing that could make that possible.

"Would we also be sent out in the battle against the Khaos Brigade?"

Sairaorg asked that question, causing the people in the room to become silent and surprised by that question from the courage it took. Kensei didn't look all that surprised as Sairaorg was the kind of person who would want to head out into the frontlines against the Khaos Brigade.

"I don't know. However, I don't want to send out young devils if possible."

Sirzechs replied, showing the same expression, but Sairaorg looked confused.

"Why? Even if we're young, we still carry part of the responsibility that comes with being Devils. If we just receive kindness from our predecessors even at this age and nothing further is done…."

"Sairaorg, I acknowledge your bravery," Sirzechs said, interrupting Sairaorg as he continued speaking with actual genuine emotions. "However, you're reckless. It would be too great a loss if you lose the current generation of young Devils. I want you to understand. You're all more of a treasure to us than you think. That's why I want you to experience important things step by step and grow."

At Sirzechs' kind and understandable words, Sairaorg nodded his head and bowed.

"I understand."

He replied, but he still looked dissatisfied about not being sent to fight.

After some time, it was more talk about the current situation from the Old Devils and then the future in regards to the Rating Games from the Maou. Finishing the talk, Sirzechs let a faint breath escape from his mouth.

"Well, we all see our dreams and hopes in you, young Devils. I want you to understand at least that. You are the treasures of the underworld," Sirzechs said, before continuing. "To finish things, will you now let us hear your respective future goals? So, starting from Sairaorg, tell us what your goal is."

"My dream is to become Maou."

Sairaorg declared without showing anything short of confidence in that goal.

[Hoh!]

Those in the room sounded surprised that Sairaorg was aiming to become a Maou, though Sirzechs didn't seem all that surprised. The same thing could be said for those from the Kibou Alliance too, Kensei, in particular, who'd known the next Bael Head.

"It's unprecedented for a devil from the Great King family to leave it."

One of the higher-ups said, surprised about someone leaving the Bael Clan.

"Well, if I were born into a Devil clan where my relatives were assholes to me. I'd want to leave too. But, Sairaorg wants to prove he can raise to that rank without the Power of Destruction. And build an Underworld where anyone can fulfill their goals."

Kensei thought as Sairaorg continued speaking, not losing his confidence.

"When the people of the underworld feel that there's no choice but for me to become Maou, I will become one."

Sairaorg's words were the kind that people who were around the same age or much younger than him could see as uplifting to them.

"My goal for the near future is to live as the next Gremory head, and to win in each Rating Game battle."

Rias stated her goal, something simple, but it was an important goal to her. Something that Sirzechs himself had looked to be proud of her.

After that, Seekvaira, Zephyrdor, and Diodora declared their dreams to the high-ups, though after listening to the last one, Kensei felt weird. Amid that, the high-ups and Old Devils seemed to be speaking to one another, while their goals echoed in their heads.

"Hmm."

"Did something catch your attention, Kensei-kun?"

Sirzechs asked, turning his attention.

"There's something about that last one, Diodora," Kensei replied, looking straight at the smile and demeanor that he was giving out. At that, Sirzechs and the others seemed to be listening in, realizing that Kensei wasn't the kind of person who would sound like that. "His smile, demeanor, and dream. All of it seems fake. Almost as if he's acting in the way people expect."

"That's quite the comment."

Sirzechs said, surprised about it.

"Ken Ken is right though," Hisui said, as she leaned her head against her hand as looked down at the stage. "I'm sensitive to the presence and auras of others, in particular. I felt the ki of the people as they all gave out their dreams, but his seemed fake. To be honest, I feel disgusted sensing his ki."

"And there's something about his peerage too."

Hisui said that last part, feeling and looking disgusted, with Maria finished.

Hearing that the four Maou took to start, considering the group beside them would understand such things more than most.

"If we're being honest. I have been somewhat suspicious about certain things concerning Diodora," Ajuka stated, with a calm, but serious look on his face. "But, I'll explain after settling the business we've planned on discussing because Serafall's sister is up next."

As Ajuka said that as Serafall turned her attention toward the stage with anticipation.

"Shut up, shut up, So-tan is about to talk!"

[We didn't say anything, though.]

Sirzechs, Ajuka, and Falibum thought in their head while giving their stare at both their long-time colleague and friend.

"I wish to build a school for the Rating Games in the Underworld."

Sona declared, showing no hesitance at all, something that most of the younger Devils could admire, except for Zephyrdor and Diodora.

"Well, she said it out loud. She mentioned that she was interested in the kind of school system that our side had. So, I kinda thought that Sona was planning on building a school."

Zane stated something that the others were surprised to hear.

However, as their group sounded interested in the idea, the Old Devils and Higher-ups seemed to scrunch their noses and expressions at that.

"If it's learning about Rating Games, isn't there already one for that?"

"That's a school, where High-Class Devils and Devils of privileged rankings are accepted," Sona said, continuing to speak. "The school I want to build is one where low-class Devils and Reincarnated Devils can attend without any distinction."

"Oh."

Sirzechs looked interested in Sona's dream.

"Hmhmm."

Serafall nodded feeling pride.

"That's an interesting idea."

Ajuka didn't expect that someone from the young Devils would come up with such an idea.

"…that sounds good."

Falbium said feeling half-sleep and half-attentive.

"Well, I wouldn't mind helping with that goal."

Zane stated, feeling as if building such a school would be beneficial to the children and the entire Underworld as a whole. The same feeling was shared among those from the Kibou Alliance, even Lena, who couldn't hate such a dream. However….

[Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!]

In that instance, all the higher-ups and Old Devils started laughing out loud without showing much concern about how it

"That's impossible!"

"This is just brilliant!"

"I see! So you're a little girl who dreams!"

"It's good to be young! However, for the next head of the Sitri family to state such a dream, I have to say thank goodness that it was here at this place of introduction before your debut."

Each of them showed nothing short of contempt and distaste for Sona's dream of building a school meant for all Devils no matter their ranking. There were those among Sona's peerage, Rias, and her peerage that felt as if that was an insult to Sona. Not looking reactive about the expression from comments she was receiving from those of a higher rank, Sona maintained her calm and stoic look.

"I'm serious."

Zane and the others looked as Serafall nodded her head in agreement, knowing she wasn't able to speak up at all in her younger sister's defense.

"Sona Sitri-dono. Low-class devils and reincarnated devils merely work for their high-class…."

Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap!

At that, the higher-up was interrupted as claps could be heard from the seat close to where the Maou was sitting and originated from the Numbers. There was silence in the room, as the higher-ups and Old Devils turned toward the group of four teenagers. It was obvious enough that those Devils, in particular, were a part of the Great King Factions and had some distaste for the group already.

"You…."

"That was quite the speech, dream, and determination, Sona," Zane stated, manifesting a magic arm, something that he used as a means of clapping. Hearing such a comment caused visible surprise on Sona's face. "Look at it like this, if you don't have this old geezers' support. If anything, you have our group's support."

"Zane-kun?"

Sona uttered under her breath with more feeling, something that didn't go unnoticed by her peerage.

"This isn't something that your group should be involved in!"

"Right. But, you're supposed to sit there and not speak!"

"Don't think that just because you were invited here that you have the right to speak!"

At the comment from the Old Devils, Kensei clapped his hands once more, causing the sound to spread across the room.

"That's quite the comment. You're right, we were invited here because the Maou and we wanted to discuss a couple of things," Kensei stated, as he continued speaking with confidence and didn't care. "Couldn't the same thing be said about you geezers too? Based on what we heard, this is supposed to be a meeting, where the young Devils are supposed to declare their dreams here. Despite the so-called higher-ups and Old Devils, who expect and spout about them by shaming their families for their childish acts. Yet, you're the ones acting as if they're the children by laughing at her dream. So, are your titles just for show?"

At Kensei's comment, those who laughed right at Sona found themselves sending aggressive glares and ill-intent straight at Kensei. Hearing such a comment from him, causing a reaction from the Sona, Rias, their peerage, and Sairaorg, who gave a faint smirk.

[So damn cool!]

Those were the thoughts running through Issei's and Saji's heads but kept those thoughts in their head so as not to make their Kings look back.

"Cool."

Koneko uttered under her breath in a low tone.

"He's right. Despite being laughed at and mocked right in front of her face, Sona hasn't acted irrationally," Maria added, not holding her thoughts back. "You expect them to act in a manner that people would expect from them, and yet you're acting in a manner they're not supposed to."

"If you tell me. You're simply making Sona-chan look as if she's in the right, while you're in the wrong."

Hisui added.

"I can tell that you're looking at Sona's dream from a traditional aspect, while she's looking at it from two different angles. One part, she looks at it from a fair point, and the other from a rational point," Zane said, as he continued to speak. "Just think about it like this. Since the Great War, your side lost vast numbers and land, as a result of the battle. So, if she opens up a school meant for everyone and not those with the proper rankings, then that'll be something that attracts and bring out hidden gems. Is protecting your old traditions so important that you'll stop the Underworld from gaining such important and much-needed people?"

At that logical and rational question from Zane, neither of the higher-ups nor Old Devils could even come up with a single response. But, the most important reason was that uttering a single would cause them to lose face in this situation no matter the response. Neither of them could agree or disagree with Zane. Witnessing Zane both protect and understand her dream caused a feeling of emotion to well up within Sona.

"Hmm, ten points."

Serafall uttered, causing the three Maou to glance at her.

"Well, for Serafall to give points, then that speaks volumes," Sirzechs pointed out in a low tone first, then spoke to them all out loud. "Very well. Then, let's play games, with these young people. Rias, Sona, would you not like to fight each other?"

At that question, Rias and Sona looked surprised about that question, not expecting such an offer. But, this had caused both childhood friends to glance at one another.

"Originally, it was planned for Rias' Rating Game to take place in a few days. Azazel has gathered Rating Game fans from different factions under the pretext of watching the games between the young Devils here before their debut. And because of Kensei and his group, it'll be easier to invite a couple of important people. That's why it's fine like this. Let's hold the game with Rias and Sona."

Sirzechs explained as Rias and Sona came to terms with the agreement before them.

"It may not be an official one, but it feels like fate to me that you would be my first Rating Game opponent, Rias."

"Now that we're competing with each other, I won't lose, Sona."

Both the friends agreed out loud as the people listening in accepted that.

From there, the agreement was that Rias' and Sona's Rating Game would be the first one once the summer ended. A couple of words were said before the people were dismissed. After that, the Numbers gave their farewell to the four Maou, most notably the Lancelot Team and Rui, all of whom had their training prepared. Zane and Lena had been called over to Ajuka's place for some personal business.

Kensei and his team, alongside Hisui, were returned to the Phenex Castle for the night, and met with hospitality, from the people there.


The next morning, in the corner of the Gremory Clan's garden, Azazel stood in front of the entire Gremory Group, who he'd been assigned to be the adviser. Each of them was dressed in their school jerseys, with the Grigori Leader explaining their training regimen to the people in front of him. He went down from Rias, who'd been given a basic training regimen and an intellectual assignment.

He then went to Akeno, who was given the task of unsealing her fallen angel powers, thus awakening the same Holy Lightning as her father. Kiba was told to extend the time frame he could use his Balance Breaker and would be training from scratch under his old teacher. Xenovia, Gasper, and Asia were all assigned the task of becoming better acquainted with their respective weapons.

"Next is Koneko."

"…Yes."

Koneko replied with a good amount of fighting spirit.

For the longest time, she started feeling as if she wasn't putting in the same effort as the others. It first started at their battle against the first Rating Game against Riser, leading to the Kokabiel incident.

"Well, there are some things that I want to go over. But, the person who'll be in charge of your training is going to be arriving in a couple of moments," Azazel said, causing them to become confused about that comment. "But, I thought that he'd be here sooner."

As Azazel said that last part, a shadow caught their attention, as Rias and the others looked up to find there was looked like an Asian Dragon floating above them. Soon enough, someone leaped from the dragon and landed right in front of them.

"Yo, I hope that I'm not late."

It was revealed to be Kensei, who was dressed in training wear too, though it wasn't a jersey. It seemed to show off Kensei's well-built physique while seeming easier to move around in.

"No, actually you're right on…."

"Ah?"

[Aaaaaaaah!]

"Hahahahah!"

Three voices could be heard, causing them to witness Naoto and Akari being suspended in mid-air, in addition to Nariko who'd been floating beside Kensei. Both the younger teens and the infant were being held in the air, as a result of Kensei's telekinesis.

"Ha, I thought you two would remain on my Shikigami."

"Ah, well, I thought to see if I could leap down too. I mean, I would've figured out some landing strategy."

Akari stated as she crossed her arms.

"And Akari-chan dared me."

"…," Kensei looked at the two for a moment, before shrugging his shoulder. "Sounds about right. I did the same thing when I was around seven and ten."

"Ah, so you're bringing your brother and Akari to train too?"

Azazel said with interest as Kensei lowered the two to the ground, Naoto bowed his head, while Akari looked on with a brave smirk. He hadn't expected to see either of them here, but he did have a great amount of interest in their growth too. The most notable is Naoto.

"It's good to see you again, Azazel-san. I thought that it would be a great experience if I trained with Aniki for the summer break."

"Ah, and I'm not letting Naoto get passed me! So, I'm going to be trainin' at full speed!"

Naoto and Akari openly declared without hesitation.

"Hmm, he sure does have good manners and spirit."

"I like her passion!"

Kiba and Xenovia said out loud, but for the motivations from Naoto and Akari.

"So, Koneko, Kensei here is going to be the person in charge of your training. If you want to learn real martial arts, then he's the obvious choice. I gave him the basic idea of what your training is going to be, which will be the basics same as the others," Azazel explained as Kensei continued causing Nariko to float around in the air. "It does include releasing the power you sealed, same as with Akeno. If you don't accept yourself, growth won't be possible for you aside from remaining at the basic level. Among all the people that I know, there's no better teacher I can think of."

"…."

Koneko didn't utter a single word as she glanced to the side.

She didn't have an issue with Kensei training her she was looking forward to it based on all the things she's seen from him. But, deep down, using the power that she didn't want to use, caused a sense of fear to build up within her heart as if it were a weight.

"Azazel. You can't force her into using it if she doesn't want to. It's not the kind of thing that someone can learn all that easily in the first place. I can teach her martial arts if you want, but I can't force her to learn Senjutsu. If you keep trying to force me, then I'll tell them what my mom did to you."

"…?"

Having heard Kensei's comment, the fear that built up started fading.

"Tch, thinking about that makes me feel as if I lost something as a man," Azazel pointed out, cringing at the memory of being kicked in the balls by Sakura. It took almost all the willpower that he had within him, to keep himself from crossing his legs. "Besides, I know that. I'm just saying, if she wants to truly grow, then she can't keep playing cat and mouse with her power."

At the mention of that, Koneko looked down, but Issei, Asia, and Xenovia wondered what he meant by 'playing cat and mouse with her powers'. It was odd phrasing something that neither of them would've expected Azazel would end up using for no reason.

"Before we start training. There's one thing that I've been wondering, Kensei."

"Ah, what's that, Rias?"

Kensei asked.

"Who is that adorable little girl?!"

Rias' eyes surprisingly sparkled at the sight of Nariko floating, the same thing could be said about Akeno who'd been staring at her too.

"Oh, this is our baby sister, Nariko Uesugi. Say, hi, Nariko?"

"Kay, Nii-nii," Nariko seemed to listen to her older brother as she turned herself around and looked at the group. "Hi, Wevils. My name is Nariko Uesugi."

[…!]

At that adorable response, the people standing in front of her almost felt their hearts skip a beat at the cuteness of the young girl.

"Aw, she called of 'Wevils'. What a smart and adorable little girl."

Rias replied, placing a hand on her chest.

"She's sure a cutey, it's almost unfair."

Akeno added.

"Aw~ She's just a darling~"

Asia couldn't respond and was simply awed.

"…so cute."

Koneko said as she stared at the young infant.

"Ah, this is a new feeling. Is this what it means to adore a child?"

Xenovia added.

All the Gremory Peerage members females stared at and adored the young infant, while the sole men among the group kept their thoughts within their heads.

"So, you'll be bringing Nariko too?"

"Yeah, my father and stepmom are going on a rare vacation and asked me to take care of her. So, she's coming alone too. Besides, Hinata-san gave me something to give to her and Naoto too."

"…I'm sorry for any inconvenience."

Koneko said, bowing her head in front of Kensei.

"Ah, come on, there's nothing inconvenient about it," Kensei stated, patting Koneko on the head, causing a rather surprised look on her face. "Even if it wasn't for Azazel asking me too, then I likely would've offered anyway."

"…."

A faint flush could be seen on Koneko's face, while she felt the pleasant sensation of having her head petted, the faintest 'nya' could be heard coming from her mouth.

"Alright, so since Koneko's teacher has shown up. It's about time that Issei's teacher shows up."

"Huh, so who's…?"

Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon!

Just as Issei was preparing to ask that question, there was another shadow that appeared then something soon landed in front of them. A cloud of dust appeared around them, causing them to cover their faces while trying not to falter from the wind pressure.

Once it cleared, what appeared in front of them was a 15-meter tall Western Dragon standing on its two feet with purple scales and wings. At the sight of the dragons, the people looked up in surprise, the most notable being a surprised Issei. Among them, Naoto and Akari looked surprised at the newly appeared dragon.

"A Dragon?!"

"That's right, Ise. This is a dragon."

In response to Issei's surprise, Azazel replied in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Azazel, you have some nerve openly entering devil territory."

After noticing him, Tannin looked down as Azazel came within his vision on the ground, as the Governor General looked straight up at him.

"Hah, I've properly gotten the personal permission of the Maou-sama and have entered this territory fairly, you know? Do you have a complaint, Tannin?"

"Hmph. Well, it's fine. I specially came here because of Sirzechs' request. Don't forget your surrounding…."

"Hahahaha! Dwagon! Dwagon! Dwagon! It's a Dwagon! Nii-nii! It's a Dwagon!"

"Yes, Nari-chan, it's a Dwagon. One of the former Dragon Kings, in particular."

Kensei said as Nariko clapped her hands at the surprising appearance of Tannin.

"Wow, so this is the Blaze Meteor Dragon."

Naoto added.

"Hmmm," Tannin seemed to hum as he knelt, staring straight at Kensei, Naoto, and Nariko before smelling the air around them. Instead of looking or sounding threatening, it instead looked as if he was interested. "I can tell you three have dragon power. But, the scent isn't like humans and neither is it like a dragon either. You must be the person that Sirzechs mentioned, Kensei Amagiri, correct?"

"Yeah, that's me alright. To answer your question, my dad has a dragon-type sacred gear and drank the blood of an Evil Dragon. So, that's the reason for the difference."

"Hmm, so a human truly did drink the blood of an Evil Dragon. Well, that's surprising. I haven't heard a single case where a person survived that. If anything, drinking it could be the same as drinking poison," Tannin stated, having more interest rather than contempt. "Humans could find some trouble in using dragon powers or the traits attained from such methods because it wasn't theirs in the first place. More so, those who don't have a Dragon-type Sacred Gear, to begin with. Though, for you three, it's more natural. If you need any advice then it takes a dragon to teach someone to use dragon power. I have a mountain where dragons reside if you need advice."

"Wow, thanks for the offer, Tannin-san," Kensei replied, feeling surprised about the offer. "I didn't expect to receive such an offer from a Dragon King, former or not. I wouldn't mind having a match with a Dragon such as yourself."

"Thanks."

Naoto bowed his head.

"Kay~ Mister Dwagon."

Nariko said, waving her hand, surprising Tannin as she wasn't afraid.

"Hm, I can also sense Yu-Long's dragon aura from that pendant around your neck. To think you have connections with that Lazy Dragon King," Tannin stated, before standing up as he turned his attention over towards Issei, who flinched. "It's been a while, Ddraig. Can you hear me?"

[Ah. how nostalgic, Tannin.]

Ddraig reacted as the Boosted Gear manifested on Issei's arm, with the green jewel blinking.

"Is he an acquaintance of yours?"

[This guy is a former Dragon King. I told you about the Five Great Dragon Kings before, right? Tannin here was a Dragon King back when they were the Six Great Dragon Kings. The dragon called Tannin recorded in the Bible is him.]

"After Tannin became a Devil, the Six Great Dragon Kings, became the Five Great Dragon Kings. Among the current reincarnated Devils, he's an Ultimate-class Devil, the highest class," Azazel explained before continuing. "The Blaze Meteor Dragon, Tannin since his fire breath is said to equal to a meteorite. He's one of the few legendary Dragons who're still active. Sorry, Tannin, but please help with training this kid who carries Ddraig. I want you to teach him how to use dragon power from scratch."

"The original actual combat form. I see, so you're saying that you want me to torment this boy."

At that comment from Tannin, Issei seemed to have flinched from fear.

After a couple of more words were shared between Azazel, Ddraig, and Tannin, the Dragon King reached his hand out to grab Issei. He, a reincarnated Devil who'd been a normal human until a couple of months prior found this to be a frightening experience. He was nothing short of terrified at the thought of training with someone who could erase him in a single blow.

"Well, since we're about to go out training to become stronger. Let's do it in earnest," Kensei stated, before lifting Koneko, Naoto, and Akari into the air beside Nariko. "Don't you worry Rias, I'll return your Rook stronger than she could've thought possible."

"I have your word on that. I know that Koneko is going to be trying her hardest, but I hope she doesn't overwork herself. Right, Koneko?"

As Rias said that, Koneko looked at her King and Savior, nodding her head in agreement. At that, Kensei leaped in the air, and his Shikigami flew around, landing on top of it. He placed Nariko onto his lap, putting Koneko, Naoto, and Akari behind him. Just as he did that, Tannin flew off with Issei in his hands while the Pawn was screaming in rejection about the idea of training with a former Dragon King.

"Alright, hold on tight!"

As Kensei declared, the Shikigami flew off in the direction of the Phenex Clan's castle behind him, all ensuring not to fall off the ground.

"Hahaha, we're flying."

"Yes, we are Nari-chan."

Kensei stated, while his younger sister clapped her hands together in excitement.

Amid that, Koneko looked straight at the person who'd become her teacher for the summer break. She did think about heading to the Kibou Alliance once since she did receive an offer to learn martial arts. Since the moment Koneko met him, there was this pleasant scent he gave off, something that differed from what she smelt from his siblings. It was more apparent as she was riding behind him, as the wind was passing him.

"He's strong and even saved me that time against Kokabiel too," Koneko said, almost feeling the need to scoop a bit closer to him, but held herself back. "He smells good."


Their group kept flying until arriving in the middle of the Phenex Clan's garden, where Claire and the others were waiting there for them. Leaping off the Dragon Shikigami, making it vanish, Kensei landed on the ground, causing Nariko, Naoto, Akari, and Koneko to float down using telekinesis.

"I'm back and I brought them with me."

Kensei said as the others glanced at the group beside him.

"…."

"…."

After Ravel and Koneko locked eyes with one another, the two wore an irritated expressions as sparks seemed to fly between them. A second later, the two turned their heads from each other, not seeming to want to be in their presence. Noting this, Kensei smiled a bit from the interactions between them.

"Alright, since we've gathered here. But, before that, has everyone here made their preparations for this training ground," Kensei asked, as he turned to find that their entire group aside from Claire nodded their heads, who he looked at. "So, Claire, you're going to be training with Diehauser, right?"

"Yeah. I asked Diahauser-ojisan if he could train me over the summer break. And, of course, he said yes," Claire said, not surprised that Diehauser agreed to train her. "So, I'll be spending the summer at the Belial's territory, learning from him and his peerage. That last battle proved there's so much that I can learn about being stronger and being a good second-in-command too. So, the next time you see me, I'll be stronger than before."

"I don't doubt that. So, you're here to…hmm."

Before Kensei could react, Claire pressed her lips against his, causing both Naoto and Akari, as well as Koneko and Ravel, to look flustered about that. Having finished kissing him, she gave him one final wink before activating a magic circle underneath her feet.

"I wanted to get a good luck kiss. Though, I might not need it."

Claire stated those last words before vanishing from the Phenex Clan's garden and heading straight for the Belial Clan for training. After that, Kensei coughed a bit, earning their attention as Lord and Lady Phenex looked on as an amused look appeared on the matriarch's face.

"My, what a good couple."

"W-Well, I hope that you can leave your daughter in my care again. I'm sure that it'll be a good experience for her to become stronger and learn a couple of new tricks too."

Kensei said, reeling from the embarrassment he felt.

"Ara, someone's flustered," Lady Phenex teased. "Of course, we trust you with Ravel. You've become far more of a great friend of the Phenex Clan from the time we first met. And I'm sure that Ravel wouldn't mind being left in your care for a long time. Isn't that right, dear?"

"O-Okaa-sama."

Ravel looked down flustered at her mother's comment.

"Hahaha, well we trust you more than most people we've known for a short period. So, I don't doubt that it would be good for Ravel."

Lord Phenex said, agreeing with his wife.

"Alright, then we'll be off then."

"…where are we going?"

Koneko curiously asked as Kensei walked some distance from them.

"Well, that depends. I haven't been there myself, but there's some special space my clan has under their control," Kensei replied, looking forward and forming a symbol using his hand while gathering spiritual power. Just then a symbol manifested in the middle of his forehead. "I am the one who leads the Onmyouji and Onmyoushi of the Heavenly Mist. And through the authority, I open the world that conforms to the four heavens!"

Pointing forward, he manifested a complex magic circle in front of him, originating from Shintoism, which created a torii gate. Witnessing this, Lord and Lady Phenex, as well as the others, witnessed right in front of them, which was something neither expected. Alone, the torii gate released a strong presence that activated the senses of the Devils near the area.

"What an incredible presence. I don't even know what this is, but it's a remarkable technique."

Lady Phenex uttered, surprised by the presence she was feeling in that instance.

"I heard that the Amagiri Clan was a collection of Shinto warriors and magicians, but I was never expecting that such a thing would appear right here," Lord Phenex said, staring at Kensei's back from behind, who looked straight into the torii gate, which seemed to be a doorway. "Just what are the origins of the Amagiri Clan?"

"Well, we'll be heading inside. If you guys don't want to, then I won't force ya," Kensei said, turning to them, most notably those who're more non-resistant to such powers. "I haven't seen such a thing before, but it feels as if this place might be too much for even me a year or two prior."

"I said a long time ago, that I'd follow you and Claire to hell and back," Alice said, walking beside Kensei without hesitating at all. "And since we've already been in the Underworld, I don't have much of a problem with this."

"You can't scare someone who does dangerous things as a hobby."

Minako stated the following too.

"If I can't handle this, then I can't fight Kurohime either."

Hisui added.

"I'll follow Ken-chan and the others anywhere."

Kunou declared.

"I'm interested in this place based on feeling alone."

Lingqi stated.

"I'm the daughter of the Phenex Family, I won't back down from this."

"I'm going to become stronger here!"

"I'm not letting Naoto get ahead of me!"

Naoto and Akari declared.

"…I want to become stronger. So, I'll be coming too."

Koneko declared in a strong tone, showing no hesitation at all.

"Alright, then let's go inside."

At that, Kensei followed by the others behind him started heading in the direction of the torii gate, vanishing after passing through it. At the same time, the torii gate vanished from sight, almost as if it wasn't there.

"Each time, I see Kensei-kun. I find myself wondering more and more what he's going to end up accomplishing in the future. It makes me glad that we left Ravel in the care of him compared to Riser, although, he never did utilize her talents before," Lady Phenex said, as she looked forward wearing a smile. "I feel that Kensei-kun can correctly use her talents and show her a whole new experience."

"Yes, after meeting Kensei-kun for the first time. I felt myself asking Tetsuo-san more about his son because he gave off such a presence that pure-bloods would feel quelled," Lord Phenex said. "I ended up mentioning Ravel's true nature was supremacy. It was as I expected, his true nature is the path of a warrior, someone who'll walk the earnest path that values life and growth. If there's anyone that I could trust Ravel to, then it'd be him."

Both Ravel's parents looked on with a relieved looks at the person who their daughter decided to follow.


Meanwhile, inside a new location, Kensei and the others looked on surprised about the all-new environment around them. It looked almost as if the group went back to Ancient Japan, where there was aesthetic beauty with it being the opposite of Urakyoto. Whereas Urakyoto was a dark space with a unique atmosphere, this one was a pure space with a spiritual atmosphere. A beautiful sky no different from the Human World, but it seemed almost as if it was a supernatural world. And the current location looked to be a road leading to somewhere.

"Wow, this is quite the place," Lingqi said, looking around as she felt the intense atmosphere. "Standing in this spot, I can feel the intense spiritual power radiating throughout this place. It's as if it's saturated in this world."

"I never thought that the Amagiri Clan would have a place like this," Kensei said, sensing the dense atmosphere using Senjutsu, but couldn't tell the exact size of this space. He then turned his attention over toward Ravel and Koneko. "Are you two doing alright? I know that Devils aren't used to going into shrines. So, being here might be a bit too much."

Kensei knew that shrines had the kind of atmosphere that was almost overwhelming for devils without a certain amount of demonic power. But, this location was beyond any shrine that he'd ever been to.

"I can sense the spiritual power, but it isn't overwhelming. I can move around as if I'm not in a shrine, but," Ravel explained before holding out her hand as she created a small flame. She attempted to create a larger flame than this, but this is what came out. "But, the one thing that seems to be surprising is my demonic power. I can't even manifest anything aside from a flame this small."

"…same."

Koneko said as she couldn't summon much demonic power.

"Huh, that's weird. I know this space was created by the Amagiri Clan, but it seems to have been designed to be a place for supernatural beings too," Kensei said, before noticing multiple presences coming towards them. "Look alive, someone is coming towards us."

At that, the group looked prepared, having received that warning from him. Seconds later, a little group consisting of men and women dressed in white traditional kimonos with the Amagiri Clan emblem on them. Each of them looked calm and composed, to the point of being almost stoic, but a small graced their face.

[We welcome, the next Head of the Amagiri Clan, Kensei Amagiri-sama. It's an honor to meet you.]

Bowing their heads, the men and women introduced themselves, showing their absolute loyalty to Kensei. Staring at them, he seemed surprised as he moved forward.

"You're all Shikigami, aren't you?"

"That is correct," the lead male said, standing up. "We are Shikigami that have been created by the second daughter of Itsuki Amagiri-sama and Kiyoko Amagiri-sama. As such, we're under the serve the Amagiri Clan."

"I haven't met Shikigami that has an actual will and consciousness. More so, since you've remained here for that long while continuing to serve the Amagiri Clan. And you're aware of my name."

"You'd be correct, Kensei Amagiri-sama. You see, once the 'key' to Shiamano was embedded within you, we've become aware of your name," the male Shikigami spoke before holding out his hand. "If you would please follow us to the castle. I'm sure that our leader would be more suitable to explain the situation than I could."

At that, the male and female Shikigami turned around, then started heading down the road leading to the 'castle' in question. Having no reason to deny that request, the group followed behind the group, while sensing no kind of ill intent from them.

"Kensei, these Shikigami are in a different league from what I'm aware of."

Lingqi pointed out, something that Kensei could agree with.

"Each of the ones here is as strong as a High-Class Devil. But, I don't know what they were made for. They're meant to serve a particular purpose depending on the creator. I haven't met someone who could produce anyone this life-like, even among the Five Principal Clans. It's almost as if they're living beings."

Kensei added.

"Well, for whatever reason. This place, Shiamano is almost like one big treasure trove for martial artists seeking to master Qi and spiritual powers in general. I doubt that this location was created through normal means. I could see the reason that it is considered your clan's greatest treasure."

Lingqi said, feeling as if just being in this space could be considered training.

"I can't wait to see what happens here. Because these Shikigami aren't the sole residents in this place," Kensei said, as Lingqi, Hisui, and Kunou could agree to that. "There are numerous other creatures residing in this world, and all of them seem to be stronger than expected. I wonder what the true nature of this location is."

At that, Kensei and the others continued following the Shikigami, who was leading them in that direction. But, at some point, the group found themselves walking through numerous buildings and houses as if it was the actual real world. More and more, it looked as if their group traveled back in time into the Edo Period, with most being a collection of Shikigami and human-looking residents.

After their new appearance of them, the Shikigami and 'Humans' turned their attention, most notably at Kensei, as each one seemed to give a faint bow. It was almost as if Kensei was royalty turning to their kingdom, which must have been due to his Amagiri Clan lineage.

"Wow?!"

Ravel couldn't help sounding surprised after the group realized the direction they were heading. Everyone else in their group shared the same feeling, after noticing it. From the distance, the group could see an enormous castle, of course, based on Japanese aesthetics.

"What a beautiful castle?!"

For someone who lives in a castle, Ravel could see from this distance that the castle's structure and aesthetic were beautiful. She wasn't alone as the others shared the same personal opinion as her, neither expected to see such a castle in this location. It did almost look as if it was meant for a royal family, something that stirred their pursuit of reaching that specific location.


Arriving there, Kensei and the others looked to find different Shikigami, male and female lining up with each other opening a path into the castle. The group could tell that each one gave off a defined aura, different from the ones either of them met before. Each Shikigami was as strong as a High-Class Devil, dressed in the same outfit as the first group. Not focusing on them the entire time, Kensei and the others continued moving forward into the Japanese castle.

Inside, it looked as beautiful as the outside, the group could see there were various items and trinkets inside the castle. Everyone couldn't help glancing around the insides of the castle, with a great deal of curiosity building up in them, and could feel that this building wasn't normal.

On one wall, Kensei noticed an accurate painting in amazing condition, consisting of six people: the first one, a handsome black-haired man whose hair was mixed with crimson, and crimson eyes. A beautiful black-haired and violent-eyed woman, a perfect Yamato Nadeshiko. A black-haired and crimson-eyed young man no different from his father. A black-haired young woman with purple mixed in it and violent eyes. A dark brown-haired young man with crimson eyes. And a purple-haired, violet-eyed young woman.

After getting to the last woman in question, almost bears a strong resemblance to his mother.

"I'm guessing the man is Itsuki Amagiri, my ancestor, his wife, Kiyoko Amagiri, and their children," Kensei noted the similarities between them based on the information he received. "Huh, I never thought about what either of them looked like. But, I can see certain features in from the Amagiri Clan."

"So, that's them. It's a rather beautiful painting, I wonder who painted it," Alice noticing Kensei stopping to look at that painting and looked at Kensei. "I think you look kinda like your ancestor. At least in the eyes."

"Yeah, I think the same thing. Well, let's see what else this place has in store."

At that, Kensei continued walking with Alice beside him, their group continued walking until finding their way into what looked like a throne room. In front of them, there was a young woman who resembled Kiyoko Amagiri, but the group sensed she was a Shikigami too.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Kensei Amagiri-sama," the woman was kneeling on the ground in a manner usable in Japan. "As I'm sure you're aware that I am, in fact, a Shikigami. But, I should inform you that I was created in the likeness of my creator. I was the first one to be created by her and, as such, I'm the oldest Shikigami among the Shikigami residing here."

"No, the pleasure is mine. I didn't expect to find such a place here after thinking that I'd simply be training," there was a surprised tone in Kensei's tone as he scratched his head. "So, I was wondering if you could explain what kind of place this is."

"Of course, but could you please take a seat here?"

The Kiyoko Shikigami pointed at the seat positioned to look as if it was meant for the person who ruled over this location. To him, it would be a bit too embarrassing for him, more so since he could see the teasing eyes aimed at him. A faint sigh escaped out of Kensei's mouth, having no reason to reject the offer, causing him to walk over and took a seat.

Just as Kensei took a seat, aside from feeling comfortable, it almost felt as if he could sense whatever was going on around the castle and outside. It was almost as if it was a more accurate version of his ki sense, thus making it possible to sense the presence of the other beings in this world. After experiencing it, Kensei started feeling it coming under control.

"Well, so this isn't just a seat meant for the Clan Head. I can sense what's happening and those other creatures in this place too," Kensei said, as he turned off the sensing technique. "But, this isn't some normal space. Is this the result of a Longinus?"

"You're correct. You see, Itsuki Amagiri-sama's four children each held a Longinus," the Kiyoko Shikigami said as she held up four fingers, which she counted down. "His oldest son, Akiharu-sama held Canis Lykaon. His oldest daughter, Tsukiko held Zenith Tempest. His second son, Asuma-sama held the True Longinus. And last, but not least, Mirai-sama held Innovate Clear."

"So, it's true. The four children of Ken-sama's ancestors did have Longinus," Ravel stated surprised to hear that Itsuki's four children did have Longinus. "I heard that Azazel-sama said that multiple Longinus users have been born in the Amagiri Clan. But, I hear it is still surprising."

"Same here. I haven't heard much about Longinus users constantly being born in a single family at different times," Lingqi added. "It was almost as if there was something about them that was attracting them."

"Innovate Clear is a Longinus that combines Dimension Lost and Annihilation Maker, making an ideal world that living beings can reside. Same as her siblings, Mirai-sama poured her talents and imagination into her Longinus, creating worlds where creatures resided inside of other dimensions. And in the end, she created Shiamano through her Balance Breaker. Mirai-sama made it so that it would remain even after her death."

Kiyoko Shikigami said as she continued explaining the nature of this world, dubbed Shiamano to Kensei and the others with a great amount of detail.

"What's the purpose of this world? I could sense that spiritual power is practically saturated throughout this world and powerful creatures and locations are abundant here."

"Shiamano is a world meant for training and rest," the Kiyoko Shikigami replied, as she continued. "Each time, a member of the Amagiri Clan finds themselves in a dire situation they're unable to break through. Or even physical, mental, and spiritual exhaustion, they'll come here. Here, the capital is a peaceful area, but there are other areas, where you can train or rest. In certain areas, the concentration of spiritual power will become noticeable. Here in Shiamano, it's possible to good progress in powers related to them."

At those words, Kensei and the others marveled at the ideal world that Mirai Amagiri developed through utilizing her Longinus, Innovate Clear. She created this ideal world for the members of her clan and their descendants.

"Did my mother train here for her fight against Kuroakami? My dad said she came to some special place to train for that fight."

"You're correct, Sakura Amagiri-sama trained here for three days to prepare for her fight against that legendary Evil Dragon. Her progress here was amazing in a short period. There are areas where one can feel closer to their soul. Here, the capital and the beach near it is a peaceful areas meant for rest. All of the beings living here adapted to the spiritual power saturated in Shiamano. Not just us, the creatures residing here, the spiritual beasts became strong enough to be no different from supernatural creatures. If you travel far enough, you can even find the strongest ones that resemble Dragons."

"Huh, after three days training here, she was strong enough to help my dad against a weakened Kuraokami, who drank dragon blood too. And we'll be spending time here for twenty-one days," Kensei stated, feeling almost excited at the thought of what he'll find here. "Alright, let's get this started. Naoto and Akari said that they wanted to do their training. So, I think that it'll be best to let them experience this world. Minako, Lingqi, Hisui, Alice, and Kunou said they also wanted to explore their abilities. So, that leaves me in charge of the feisty cat and bird rivalry duo."

At that comment, Koneko and Ravel glanced at one another with their glares matching one another, before both looking at each other.

"Kensei-sama, aside from tending to this residence and other tasks. I should inform you that other Shikigami here have been designed to act as instructors too. Certain ones sometimes inherit the knowledge their master has just before their death," the Kiyoko Shikigami said bowing her head. "If I'm not mistaken, three of them own the Sacred Gear, Spiritus Armiger. Even Annihilation Maker and Empyreal Anthem. If you permit it, I could have them help in their training."

"That'll be a good help for them. Anything that you can do is appreciated," Kensei said, before standing up from the cushion that he'd been sitting on. "Alright, assign the Shikigami you believe would be beneficial to them and who can act as a guide around Shiamano. If possible, could one show me to a suitable enough location for me to train two people?"

"I'll make it possible, Kensei-sama. All I'll need is a couple of minutes."

Smiling the Kiyoko Shikigami gave one more bow before standing up.

"Alright, one more thing," Kensei summoned a training outfit that resembles theirs, then walked over to hand it to Koneko, who looked surprised. "I thought that it'd be cool to be matching. So, I had another prepared for you and it's made to adjust to your size. You can ask her to show you a place where you can change."

"…thanks."

Koneko said in her usual tone, and she did appreciate the gesture.

She held the training outfit in her hands as she walked outside of the throne room, one of the Shikigami showing her somewhere she could get changed.

"Well, this is an unbelievably amazing world."

Minako said, unable to believe anything she'd just heard, even though she stood right there. She wasn't alone as the others, even Kensei couldn't believe most of what he heard.

"I can't imagine a place as amazing as this in the Human World. It feels much similar to the mountains Masters of the Byakko Kenpo are allowed to train. Grandpa Jie said he wanted to figure out how to turn the mountain into a more suitable location for training," Lingqi said, recalling a conversation with Jie. "I wonder if it would be possible to use this location as a reference."

"Well, I wouldn't mind since it benefits your group. We can all benefit from training here," Kensei said, looking up and recalling the feeling of being able to sense almost everything around this capital's parameters after sitting on that makeshift throne. "There was one place that I noticed much further from the capital, but I couldn't sense much in it. However, among the places here, I can almost feel a mixture of different spiritual signatures there."

"So, does that mean there's something there?"

Hisui asked, as her nekomata sense was becoming triggered from being in this world.

"No, that's not the problem about something being there. It's more that there was a familiar presence inside that location. It felt be the residual spiritual power of several people mixed into one. It felt as if it was some location where my mother and grandfather were because theirs were mixed there too."

Kensei replied, surprising them.

"Well, it must be some important place. It must have something to do with what Amaterasu-sama mentioned as a lot of information about the first generation is supposed to be contained here too."

Hisui reminded him.

"Yeah, but we'll get to that at some point. But, before that, Naoto there's something that Hinata-san wanted me to give you," Kensei said, turning his attention to Naoto, who walked over towards his older brother wondering about the nature of this. He pulled out something from another dimension and handed it to his younger brother. "This is a special pill she's been preparing for a long time."

"A Dragon Pill?"

Naoto titled his head at the pill's off shape, which did look like an Eastern Dragon's head.

"For the sake of safety, she's steadily researched our constitution that'd been altered because we'd inherited the blood of an Evil Dragon. Hinata-san prepared it using a combination of Senjutsu and Youjutsu, with ingredients I can't even explain. She said it's supposed to remove the impurities and strengthen your dragon blood. It'll be fully purified after leaving here. Your dragon power has been purified, but some hints of the 'evil' are still a part of it. She said that she and Natsumi performed purification rituals on you and Nariko since you were born."

At Kensei's explanation, Naoto kept staring at the Dragon Pill in his hands with a curious feeling building up in his chest. He wanted to become stronger and stronger, which was stirred by what he heard about what happened to the Numbers and his older brother.

"Come on, what're you waiting for?! Just eat it!"

In that instance, Akari smacked Naoto on his back, causing the Dragon Pill to be knocked out of his hands and into the air.

"Wah, don't do that Akari-chan!"

Naoto scrambled to catch the Dragon Pill in the air but held it in his hands after grabbing it.

"What're you hesitating for?! Didn't we come here to become stronger to prepare to fight those Yami assholes," a strong tone could be heard from Akari who pointed her finger at him. "If you're worried about getting a lead on me then don't look down on me jerk! I don't care if you have dragon blood or not, I'll catch up!"

After that declaration, Naoto couldn't help smiling which caused him to swallow the entire pill in one go. As soon as it went down his throat, he started feeling his body becoming warmer as the pill dissolved in him. It was nearly an immediate reaction, but Naoto didn't let it get to him.

"Alright, then let's get training Akari-chan!"

"That's what I like to hear, Naoto!"

Naoto and Akari smirked and declared at the same time while crossing their forearms together.

In that instance, the sole young man and woman looked at the two with a mixture of happiness and almost wanting to tease them. Neither of them wanted to ruin the moment, though.

"Well, can't let these younger teens beat us in terms of motivation. So, let's get this training started."

[Right!]

Everyone in the room agreed to that, with each of them burned with the intention of training to become far stronger than before.


After a couple of minutes, Kensei, Ravel, Koneko, and Nariko, who were being tended to by a Shikigami sat there watching the three. He stood before in front of the nervous-looking Ravel and prepared Koneko, both wanted to know what their training will entail. Both were dressed in the brand new training attire the Kibou Alliance prepared through Zane's oldest brother, Albert's assistance.

It did seem to hug their body, but Ravel, Koneko, and the others found it easier to move around in, almost as if it was as natural as being naked. The women found it embarrassing that the thought even entered their minds. It didn't change the fact it was better than most of the training wear either of them has worn before.

"Alright, Koneko, I've already gotten a good grasp of what you specialize most in martial arts. I watched your fights against Xuelan, Cerberus, and Kokabiel. Aside from straight punches, you add in a mix of kicks and throws and you're skilled in grapples too. It's a good mixture of things to be added onto your fighting style," Kensei said, complimenting Koneko for her adeptness in combat. It was something that caused the hidden Nekoshou to feel a lot better. "But, the path of a martial artist isn't the easiest in the world. And there are some things that I can teach you that'll groom and make you more efficient in combat."

Hearing such words was something that Koneko wanted to hear because she wanted to become much stronger than she was now. More than that, despite hearing that releasing 'that' power would be the most beneficial, Koneko didn't want to ever release it.

"So, in this, we'll be focusing on increasing your base strengths, speed, and stamina. Despite being a Rook, you can move around much easier than others. I kinda want to focus on training your Rook trait, but that'll be focused on in the future. Speaking of martial arts, Koneko did you notice the martial arts I used against Kokabiel?"

Kensei asked Koneko that question as she thought back to the previous battle against Kokabiel and the attacks he used. Aside from the elemental attacks, she did remember the attacks he used.

"…yes, you're Tougen Amagiri-ryuu. It looked to be strong, but it didn't look like you were trying."

"Ken-sama mentioned that…."

"…didn't ask chicken little."

As Ravel was prepared to answer the question, as if she were a diligent student, Koneko shot her own.

"Ah, I was trying to answer the question."

"I didn't ask. And he's the teacher, not you."

"Argh!"

Ravel glared straight at Koneko, who disregarded her.

"Now now, don't argue let. I wouldn't want to have spanked either of you," at that Koneko and Ravel blushed at the idea, something that caused Kensei to laugh. "Hahaha, I wasn't that serious. Well, as Ravel was about to explain the Tougen Amagiri-ryuu is the result of me adding in three martial arts I learned and the fourth I made. But, the first three martial arts that I learned were the fundamentals. Despite that, each one focused on the attainment of proper coordination to achieve those feats. I think that an example is needed."

Kensei snapped his finger, causing a smooth earth block to be manifested beside him, causing the two to wonder what its purpose was.

"Koneko, this earth block is something that hasn't been strengthened much using spiritual power," Kensei stated, knocking on it using his knuckle. "So, punch it as normally as possible."

"…alright."

Koneko didn't have a reason to reject it.

She stood in front of the earth block, then slammed her fist into it as she usually would, sending her fist straight into it as sizable cracks formed around it. If it was a normal block, then there is a chance that it would've shattered, or even knocked out a section of it. Not bad for a Rook, more so one of Koneko's particular body type, something that surprised Ravel as she compared her to Riser's Rooks.

"Good, now watch me."

Kensei said as he walked to another corner of the earth block, as Koneko and Ravel moved to get a better look at what he'll do. He stood in front of the block, his hand positioned an inch or two from the earth block, then after a breath, thrust his fist into it. Surprisingly enough, the strength poured into that punch caused a noticeable impact that splintered the block.

Comparing the two impacts, Kensei's side had a far greater impact despite not reeling his arm back to the same extent as Koneko. She noticed there wasn't much noticeable strain in his movements and he seemed relaxed til the last moment.

"So, this is what I'm going to be teaching you. All three of those fundamentals go well with one another, one of them in particular matches well with you. Hakkyokuken, or Bajiquan, is good in situations where you have to be up close to an opponent. That's perfect for a Rook, who has high strength and defense. If you master what I'm about to teach you, then you'll become someone able to fight with zero wasted moves. You'll be able to conserve your strength while maneuvering around the battlefield. And this is going to be with or without your true ability."

Hearing those words, caused Koneko to feel some hope in herself about becoming stronger without needing to access her sealed abilities.

"And now, for my favorite Phenex."

"Yes, Ken-sama?"

Ravel stood in a straight position, interested and looking forward to whatever training she'll be doing.

"Great enthusiasm," Kensei said, pointing his finger straight at Ravel. "Since joining our group, I have focused on increasing your base stats, because your brother didn't focus much on training your group. I'll continue doing that in Shiamano alongside Koneko here. But, the thing that we'll focus on is what you're good at, which will be your Bishop trait, demonic power, flame, and wind."

"But, I can't train them here, because of the spiritual power here."

Ravel said, bringing up a good point about the spiritual power saturated throughout this world, which dimmed the Devils' demonic power compared to the outside.

"Yes, but that's training too."

"Huh?"

Ravel asked, cutely tilting her head to the side.

"You're demonic power is being restricted in this world, because of the dense spiritual power. But, it's not like you can't use it. Imagine it, what if you trained in manipulating your demonic power in this unstable environment and to the same extent as outside?"

At that question from Kensei, Ravel felt her mind explode at the idea and concept that entered her mind, spurring up the respect she had for him.

"That's brilliant, Ken-sama! If I can accomplish that while in this world, then I'll be able to manipulate my demonic power and flames much more than what I could accomplish before."

"…weren't you supposed to be smart?"

"I am smart! But, pure-blooded Devils don't train, let alone as much as Ken-sama!"

"…heh."

Koneko lightly laughed mockingly, while glancing to the side, something that sparked irritation from Ravel.

"I'll be teaching you about manipulating your fire and wind compared to before. There are several techniques that I used that are based around using those elements fluidly. If you accomplish this, it'll raise those stats enough to have an advantage against Riser."

"I won't disappoint you, Ken-sama."

"Alright, I don't doubt you'll become strong for this. But, now I'll be going onto the second part of your training, but you might not like it," a faint pause from Kensei caused Ravel to become worried. "In this training, I'll be teaching you some defensive martial arts. And to accomplish that, you'll have to spar with Koneko."

"…."

Ravel paused for a second, at the thought of that, then turned her head to find that Koneko was giving a genuine smile at that thought.

"…I like that training."

"Of course, you would!"

Ravel shouted as she glared at Koneko, her flames coming out a bit from the aggression building up.

"Now now, no fighting. At least not yet," at that last part, Ravel groaned a bit. "But, in all seriousness, this martial art that I'm about to teach you will make it easier for you to move around while using your demonic powers at the same time. It'll let you avoid attacks that you can't take even with your clan's immortality."

"Alright, Ken-sama," Ravel replied, not going against Kensei's suggestion. "But, what about your training?"

"Come on, we have twenty-one days here. So, I've got enough time to be starting my training," Kensei replied, as he waved off her concerns. "Besides, this basic training for me since it gives me more of a perspective about the things that led to me reaching this point. At some point, you two are going to be able to continue with this kind of training on your own. And when that moment comes, show me your results. But, don't train to the point where you're exhausted, because it'll cause more harm than good."

Both Koneko and Ravel listened to what Kensei told them without question, nodding their heads in agreement as the two. From there, he proceeded with their training within one of Shiamano's beaches, while Nariko and the Shikigami who tended to her watched the entire thing. This group wasn't alone as the others were beginning their training on this island.


During their first night in Shiamano's castle, Kensei found himself finishing up bathing, having spent almost their first-day training Koneko and Ravel. Since it was the start of their training session, he didn't do much aside from teaching them the basics. As expected the spiritual power in the atmosphere did deter Rave's Immortality too, but it didn't deter the young girl.

Now, he found himself in a bedroom, something that could be called the master bedroom, there was good space in all the rooms. Inside, it did have a comfortable-looking futon, placed on a wooden frame causing that despite looking like the Edo Period, it showed this world was progressing in its direction. A closet for closing, a table meant for tea and sitting pillows meant for discussions.

There wasn't much modern technology, but the lighting situation was handled, because of the small flames, he found floating about, resembling will-o'-the-wisp. But, there seemed to be the recent creation of a thing that'd let this world refrigerate food.

"Hah, it felt almost rough training in this world compared to the outside. It feels about the same as training at a higher altitude. I can see the reason that I haven't been in this place until then. If I'd trained here when I was a kid, then I wouldn't have been able to endure it. It's a good thing that I thought ahead and put a spell on Nariko," Kensei said, leaning backward. "Speaking of, I was surprised about how proactive Lingqi was about her sleeping in the same room as her."

He almost laughed at the suggestion from Lingqi, and about how excited the young woman looked.

"Well, I don't think there's anyone in the world who can resist Nariko's cuteness," Kensei joked to himself, noting all the reactions people had from meeting Nariko, even Devils couldn't resist it. He then started looking serious. "I think that she's been feeling lonely. She hasn't seen either of her younger siblings or parents in five years. I know the feeling of being separated from Naoto."

His mind went straight to the Hagun Island Incident, something that had continued to haunt them in the form of the terrorist group, Yami. Kensei and the others knew the group might resurface, but he didn't think it would be this dangerous. His mind couldn't help going back to the numerous incidents that'd occurred too.

"…."

A decent amount of frustration started building up, from being unable to fight against Arata and then Alice almost dying because of it.

Knock! Knock! Knock!

He paused, letting a breath escape from his mouth as he heard knocking on the sliding door.

"Come in."

At that, the door leading into his room opened, revealing Kunou standing there dressed in a frilled nightgown that looked adorable on her. More so, since the young Kyuubi entered the room while fidgeting about nervously and headed to Kensei without uttering a word.

"Hey, is there something wrong, Kunou? It's not like you to enter without your usual bubbly air," Kensei asked, as he looked on at the young girl who'd continued messing around with her clothing. "Did something happen during your training?"

"No, Kunou's training has been going fine. One of the Shikigami that was assigned to Kunou said there was a lot I could learn about barriers and things such as that. Kunou couldn't do much during that incident, so I'm going to be giving this training my all."

Kensei smiled at the enthusiasm that Kunou was giving off, something that caused him to smile compared to the feelings he felt before.

"So, then what's wrong with one of my favorite Kyuubi?"

"Hehe, Ken-chan, you only know Hahaue and me."

"And I love both of you."

Kensei replied as he rubbed the young Princess' head, causing her to giggle.

"Kunou has been worried about Hahaue," after a minute or two, then she began speaking. "She hasn't said much about what was bothering her since the incident, but Hahaue hasn't been her usual self sometimes. She always looks worried and sad for some reason. So, Kunou has been worried about Hahaue."

At that, Kensei could see the reason that Kunou wasn't acting like her usual self. It made sense, as her daughter, even Kensei, and the others were worried about Yasaka. Hearing all of this caused him to wrap a comforting arm around his fiancèe, pulling her into a hug.

"Don't be too worried. You still need to focus on your training too. And besides, Yasaka said that she'll be telling us what's bothering her once we're done training. So, let's push those thoughts aside and focus on becoming far stronger from this training."

"Yes," Kunou agreed, but it looked as if there was something that was still bothering her. "But, I felt that Ken-chan was still bothered about what was happening. Minako-san and the others noticed it too. You haven't been able to focus much on training either. Though, you did focus on training Ravel-san and Koneko-san."

"Well…."

Kensei was preparing to say something but stopped as Kunou placed both her hands on his cheeks, then turned him around so that she could face him. He was surprised about the fact that Kunou was staring at him with a far more determined look.

"So, we all came to the agreement making Ken-chan forget about it all. So, if Ken-chan wouldn't mind. Would you do the same thing Claire-san and Alice-san?"

"Kunou."

"Mmm."

Kunou moaned as Kensei leaned forward pressing his lips against hers.


Lemon Start!

First, they started with a heated kissing session as neither moved from the position where the two stood on the bed. Due to the amount the two had practiced such things with one another, their lips meshed together in a near-rhythmic manner. It progressed, to the point where Kunou felt his tongue entering her mouth without hesitation or resistance on her part.

"Hmm, mmm, ah."

Kunou moaned as she kept feeling it from the passionate kissing session.

Amid that, Kensei reached his hand behind her back, then started going further down until reaching the base that her nine tails were coming from. As usual, his fingers began running across the sensitive areas of Kyuubi's nine tails. It sent a shiver down her spine, feeling her nine tails being touched and rubbed.

"K-Ken-chan…touching, my tail."

Kunou couldn't help moaning and shivering as she felt her tail, something that caused her to lose all control over their kissing session. She didn't mind this at all, as it meant that she was receiving more and more love from the man she promised herself to. Soon enough, Kunou found herself being pushed onto the futon using the gentlest amount of force.

One hand worked on her tail, while the other one found itself massaging the still-developing body of the Kyuubi, her ass, waist, stomach, and breasts. Feeling these spots being touched, caused her to shutter, more so as she felt these spots being stimulated because of Senjutsu.

"K-Ken-chan, Kunou's nightgown, please remove it."

Kunou requested, looking on adorably and almost submissively as she played with the bindings of her gown, as if in an attempt to tempt him.

"What a bad fox doing such a thing."

Kensei replied, hovering above the, causing her to shutter from the strong tone he uttered.

He reached his hand out, touching her nightgown's bindings, resulting in it coming undone, revealing the bra and panties she wore underneath. From appearances alone, the underwear seemed to hug her, causing Kunou to wriggle around in place. Having taken off the nightgown, then tossing it in some random direction, Kensei went back to doing what he was doing before.

"Nnn, ahh~"

Kunou moaned as her different spots were being touched as she felt herself being simulated by the ki directed into her, while hers appeared to be influenced. Her nails dug right into the covers as her pleasure and sensitivity increased. A feeling that she and the others come to relish as Kensei's massages mixed with Senjutsu gave them this kind of pleasure.

Amid this, she felt her starting to become wetter from the pleasure that was approaching being mind-numbing, as shown by her expression.

"I still think there are some more preparations needed before approaching the main event," Kensei said, setting up the Kyuubi Princess who seemed almost, then got behind her. "I'm doing this because I know a certain girl loves to be pampered first."

"Then, please pamper Kunou lots."

At that, Kensei moved clover behind Kunou, one hand remained at her bra-covered breasts, while the other went to her panty-covered vagina. His upper hand proceeded to massage the young girl's breast, while the lower one's index finger started running across her covered entrance.

"Ah, nnn, ah~"

Kunou felt herself being pleasured from upward and downward, which was the beginning of what was going to happen in the next couple of minutes. Not long after, she felt her bra pushed up, granting him free access to massage the girl's unrestricted breasts. At the same time, Kunou felt Kensei's fingers beginning to enter her vagina, causing a sudden moan to escape from her mouth.

"Iyaah."

Kunou couldn't stop her moans from escaping her mouth.

"So tight. I think this is the tightest that you've ever felt before."

Kensei uttered almost teasingly feeling Kunou's inner walls tightening around his fingers that started going much deeper into her. He felt her nipples harden as he poked and toyed with them, sending ki into that park, neither of his hands stopped working.

"Kunou, Kunou is gonna…yaaah."

Kensei felt Kunou climax for the first time in their night, causing his fingers and hand to become stained in her feminine essence. A couple of breaths escaped from Kunou's mouth, then she found herself turning around, before kissing Kensei once again. He showed no resistance in falling backward as the Kyuubi found herself getting on top of him. More passionate than before, the two started sharing another kiss, Kunou wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist.

"Hmm, Ken-chan, Kunou is…."

After another minute or two of kissing, she moved back with a flushed look.

"I know. Let's get started."

After moving back, he removed his shorts and boxers revealing his hardened cock, something that caused Kunou to wriggle around. Her heart seemed to skip a beat with the girth of Kensei's member, causing her body to shutter and feel a greater amount of anticipation.

"Alright, here we go."

"Okay."

Kensei spread Kunou's leg more, granting him full access to what was right before him, and would lead her to not being a virgin anymore. He moved forward, lining up with her untouched virginity, touching her entrance with the head of his cock. It caused Kunou to flinch at the contact, more so as he started rubbing it against it, as a moan escaped Kunou's mouth.

"It's going to hurt for a moment," Kensei stated, as he started pushing himself into Kunou who groaned, while her hands clutched the covers. "But, I'll use Bouchujutsu to make all the pain go away and it'll feel better."

"Alright."

Kunou replied, nodding her head in agreement, feeling Kensei's cock entering her, while he felt her inner walls tighten around it. He reached the one final barrier, her hymn, then found himself performing one final push, finally claiming the young Kyuubi's virginity."

"Ahh," Kunou winched and screamed at the pain in that instance, trembling as she felt herself losing her virginity, having a feeling of pain and love. As promised, Kensei had activated Bouchujutsu, causing a sudden pleasurable experience to spread through her entire behind. "Iyaaaaah~"

"Hah."

At Kunou's moan, Kensei groaned as he felt himself within the young Kyuubi, who seemed to become tighter as he paused for a moment. Knowing there wouldn't be an issue if he continued things from here, he started moving his hips back and forward.

"Ah, mmm, aaah."

Kunou moaned as she felt Kensei's dick being removed, then thrust right back into her continually at a comfortable rhythm. The girl's face was almost being distorted in pleasure as Kunou felt a deep-seated warmness sent down right into her core. The first came from feeling Kensei's hardness being pushed within her, the second being the warmness from his Ki being sent straight into her. Both her ki and his started blending as if they started to spiral together.

"I can feel the warmness of Ken-chan's cock and ki entering Kunou. Hah, hah, hah~"

Kunou managed to speak in the most coherent manner that she could manage, considering the pleasure being spread throughout her. It didn't stop as Kensei, doing the same act he previously did with Alice, feeling the spot points where her energy seemed to be focused most at. He touched those spots, spreading them through her body. Kunou's pleasure reached its peak as she climaxed for the second time.

"Iyaaah," Kunou moaned as Kensei felt her climaxing as a breath escaped from her mouth, feeling her essence coating his member. "S-Sorry, K-ken-chan, I ended up cumming first."

"That's fine. We still have some time before stopping," Kensei said, caressing Kyuubi's cheek, something that caused her to nuzzle up against it with a smile. "Let's see about this."

"Eh? Iyah!"

Kunou gave another surprised moan as Kensei suddenly thrust straight into her, producing the slapping sounds of their waists. She started feeling pleasure once again while keeping Kunou in place who felt herself continuing to tighten around Kensei's cock. It was a surprisingly sudden increase in speed and force of his thrust, but the Kyuubi relished in the feeling.

He leaned forward as Kunou wrapped her legs around Kensei's waist, who proceeded to suck on the young girl's neck.

"A-Ahhhh, K-Ken-chan?"

Kunou was surprised about the sudden upsurge of pleasure.

Kensei realized a long time ago, with Alice that by using Bouchujutsu, he could sense the particular erogenous area of the girls. For Alice, it was her breasts and other parts, while for Kunou was the left nape of her neck. He didn't stop his motions as he continued sucking on Kunou's neck, feeling himself beginning to reach his climax.

"Kunou, I'm about to."

"A-Alright, let me feel it Ken-chan!"

"Alright."

Feeling himself reaching the climax, after one final thrust, he released an abundance of cum straight into Kunou, something that caused a warm feeling to spread throughout her. At that moment, an orange almost gold aura had wrapped around Kunou, while a blue aura wrapped around Kensei. Same as Alice, he could see that there was a hint of golden light within her eyes as hearts could be seen.

After removing himself from Kunou, he could see that the sperm started leaking out from her, as breaths escape from her mouth. A breath escaped from Kensei's mouth as he watched Kunou calm down from that climax, as he could still see the hearts in her eyes.

"Ken-chan…. Kunou wants to do it again, Kunou feels a sudden burst of energy in her."

Kensei noticed the new change in Kunou as she sat up, then started crawling over towards him, something that surprised him. He noticed that Alice felt more energetic after he did the same thing, but she didn't have this kind of reaction as Kunou. Kensei didn't receive a question as Kunou straddled him, then went on the initiative starting to kiss him again.

"Nnn, aha, chu, Ken-chan."

Kunou moaned as the two started kissing one another again, while Kensei rubbed and massaged Kunou's ass, a sense of pleasure started spreading from that spot. To him, it looked as if Kunou became more sensitive, while in this state of arousal. He felt Kunou rubbing her entrance against Kensei's member, which hadn't lost the slightest bit of vigor. Her pleasure continued as Kunou felt Kensei rubbing her tails once again, her heated breath could be felt from their close contact.

In that instance, Kensei moved down onto his back, causing Kunou to get on top of him while continuing to rub herself against his hardened cock. Acting almost on instinct, she lifted herself as his member stood straight up at attention. An excited breath escaped from her mouth, as she felt his dick's head poking her entrance, then fell into it.

"Iyah!"

Kunou moaned as she felt Kensei's cock entering her in a single go, using the force of gravity.

She didn't waste time as she started motioning her hips against Kensei, showing more of a sudden and abrupt boost of energy. Her hands touched Kensei's chest as Kunou lifted and allowed her hips to fall on his cock, relishing in the pleasurable sensation she felt in this instance. Kensei didn't move an inch, simply allowing Kunou to do the energetic work.

"Ah, this feels great."

Kensei himself was enjoying this moment, feeling his cock tighten around her inner walls. His eyes looked to also flicker with a blue light while staring into Kunou's gleaming with a golden light. A happy smile could be seen on her face as the hearts could still be seen in her eyes. At the same time, Kensei felt the sudden pleasure building up within him, realizing that Kunou herself was using Senjutsu to stimulate him too.

"Hah, you're quite the fast learning when it comes to doing this."

Kensei groaned as he felt the pleasure caused by the stimulation of Senjutsu.

"I learned from, Ken-chan. Hah, mm, ah, I can feel Ken-chan's dragon power inside of him, I could feel it flowing into me too. It's making me feel soooo goood."

Kunou moaned as she stared down at Kensei, almost finding herself drowned in pleasure.

She was right though, aside from his Ki, because of Bouchujutsu, some of his Dragon Ki was flowing straight in Kunou too. It seemed as if Dragon Ki, of course, held more of a stimulating effect when compared to Ki. Wanting to start doing something, he found himself leaning up and Kunou leaned forward. The newfound closeness was to the point where her breasts were pressed against his chest.

"…Ken-chan."

"Kunou."

After uttering their names, both of them shared another kiss, while her movements were assisted by Kensei to match her movements. Neither of them held back in showing the love the two of them had for one another, as the two simulated the other using Senjutsu.

"Kunou, I'm about…."

"Same, Ken-chan. Let Kunou feel it one more time, please!"

At that declaration, Kensei found himself pushing Kunou onto her back again, thrusting into her, while sucking on her nape again. Striking both her weak points at the same time, Kunou felt herself reaching another much bigger climax than before.

"Ah, kuu, aahhh, Ken-chan, I'm about to…."

"Same here. Let's do it at the same time."

"A-Alright. Kuuu."

Kunou started feeling it more as Kensei thrust himself forward straight into her, this time, Kensei's dragon power started building up within him intentionally. Amid all this, Kunou's inner walls tightened around his cock, as if it intended to milk it. At one final thrust, Kensei thrust straight into Kunou, as his dragon ki followed suit with a greater amount of semen pouring into her womb.

"Aaaaaaah!"

Kunou climaxed at the same time, as her head was thrown back.

Her tongue left out her mouth, while the apparent pleasure could be seen in her eyes, which showed with greater brilliance. She was stimulated to the core as she felt Kensei's dragon power shooting straight down to her core. It was noted their aura wrapped around their bodies with more brilliance before settling in them. Removing himself from Kunou, his semen started leaking out from her as the girl continued riding off the pleasure.

A couple of moments later, Kensei and Kunou found themselves laying beside one another, the former cleaned themselves and the bed up using a cleaning spell contained in a talisman. The young Kyuubi lay down right on his chest breathing with a calmer show and seemed to be asleep. As Kensei stared straight at the young girl, he found himself kissing her forehead, while she seemed to smile.

"I'm glad that I have you girls."

Kensei stated while rubbing the girl's head and found himself sleeping too. He was looking forward to what he'll find in this new world and the amount that he could grow from training here.


A/N: And there goes the next chapter of DxD – The Last Amagiri, this is the official start of their summer training. It started first with Kensei and Yasaka sharing their special moment, then proceeded to the Meeting of Young Devils. There, the Kibou Alliance stood up for Sona's dream, while there appears to be some suspension about one of our most hated Devils.

It moved over to what training Kensei and the others would be doing first. There'll be more on what training the others will be doing, but I wanted to focus on their first. More so, since the training location is another world, Shiamano produced through the Longinus, Innovate Clear. Now, it's going to be fun exploring the location here, since it's considered the Amagiri Clan's greatest treasure.

I hope that you liked the chapter, until next time.

Kensei's Harem: Alice, Claire, Hisui, Kunou, Yasaka, Lu Lingqi, Sarah, Minako, Koneko, Kuroka, Ravel, Amaterasu, Brynhildr, Rossweisse, Ophis.