Hey everyone and get ready for this chapter. This chapter will cover the things that happen in between one Arc and the next. I'll do the whole meeting the Student Council, the sports they play against each other, the Familiars and other stuff I'm going to add in for the plot of my own story, not to mention a prologue for the next Arc. Also in this chapter, you'll see the return of a character who hasn't been seen for a while. Hope you all enjoy it.

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"Shirou" Regular speech.

"Shirou" Thoughts.

DRAGON SHOT Attack names.

(Shirou) Words said previously.

"SHIROU!" Shouting speech.

[Ddraig] Dragon talking.

Fighting, Sports and Familiars Forest

Play OST Shokugeki no Soma - Searching for the Dawn of Cooking

I sometimes wondered how long it's been…

Ever since that day. The day I started my new life after burning down all the bridges behind me…

I wasn't upset though, about who I killed or what I had to do to get here…

All I knew was, I was free, and so was Mika…

Everything from my past was gone…

The only thing I kept was my name…

Shirou Tsukiharu…

It means. A child of a radiant white like the springtime moon…

And Mika was always at my side. Never leaving me…

"Big Bro." An eight-year-old Mika looked up at her Brother. "I know you say it's not a problem, and that I can't do much anyway. But for me, it's hard to see you do so much while I do nothing. Sometimes it feels like I'm just burdening you with more problems."

Mika started to get teary-eyed and tears started to fall, an eleven-year-old Shirou just reached out and placed his hand on her head and followed by pulling her in an embrace.

No, you were wrong Mika, you weren't a burden…

You were my very reason for being…

And the only thing that kept me from running wild…

Sometimes I think of the monster I could've easily become if I didn't have you…

That's why I swore I would live…

For her and myself I would never let myself die…

Until I made our dream a reality…

Music Off

"Uuuhhh…"

After a short yawn, Shirou awoke and sat up in his bed. He rubbed his eyelids before opening them and shook off his drowsiness. He looked a bit irked.

"Dammit, why'd I have to dream about that again?"

He sounded annoyed and got out of bed. It had been several weeks since he had successfully defeated Raiser and won the Rating Game. Ever since he has been doing nothing but severe training, for no other reason than the fact that he wanted to see just how much stronger he could become after his Boosted Gear had reached Second Liberation. And just how far he could go in making techniques with the new Transfer-ability. Shirou already thought of some ideas for the latter. But because of the lack of enemies to fight, that wasn't really a factor.

After a few minutes, Shirou had finished getting dressed for school. "I guess I better go." He said in a bored tone. "Here's to another boring day."

KNOCK! KNOCK!

Someone was knocking at his door.

"Are you awake, Shirou-san. It's almost time for morning training."

Talking in a pleasant tone on the other side of the door was Asia.

"Morning training?" Shirou wondered. "I thought I did that at dawn… Well, I guess I can do a quickie before School." He shrugged.

Even though Shirou trains around the clock, most don't realize he sometimes starts at the same time the sun rises from the horizon, though he stops in time to get some sleep before School. That said, if he ended up late for School in-favor of more training, he wouldn't complain.

"Shirou-san? Are you still sleeping?" Asia asked a little worried.

"I'm awake." Shirou replied. "Come in, the door's open."

The door to Shirou's bedroom is opened and Shirou himself turns around to see Asia with a smile on her face, dressed in the Kuoh Academy female P.E uniform, consisting of a white T-shirt and dark blue bloomers.

Shirou raised a brow. "Asia, why are you dressed like that when I'm the one who'll be training?"

"Oh. Well, I." Asia nervously lowered her head. "I was thinking since I'm going with you, I might as well wear something more suited for training at least."

Shirou shrugged. "Well, whatever." He then headed for the door. "Let's go."

Asia quickly followed like a little dog following her master.

As they went downstairs, they both saw Mika sitting on the couch reading a book. She looked completely memorized by what she was reading, to the point where she didn't even notice her two housemates approach.

"Um, Mika-san?" Asia poked her shoulder.

"Wha?" Mika looked up and finally took notice to them. "Oh, hey. What's going on." She greeted.

"The usual, what are you doing, reading light-novel?" Shirou guessed.

"Surprisingly enough, not this time." Mika held up the book. "It's a tome for High-Level spells, I asked Rias for it."

Mika, while not as extreme as her Brother has also been training since the Rating Game. Whenever she had the time she would learn new spells and magic, as well as train to strength her magic reserves to be able to use stronger magic for an extended amount of time.

"Why are you reading that?" Asia asked.

"Obviously, I showcased my strength as a Magician in a blaze of glory back in the Rating Game." Mika stated in a matter of fact like tone. "But why stop there, I want to learn as much magic as I can. And pretty soon I'll even outclass Rias and Akeno."

"But there are a lot of spells in that book, are you sure you can learn all of them?" Asia asked, unsure.

Mika grinned. "Oh, Asia. Never underestimate a NEET's ability at memorization." She said pride.

"More like never ask a NEET about their abilities at all." Shirou argued dryly.

Shirou then headed for the front door. Asia seeing him leave, followed.

"Anyway, we're gonna head to school after training." Shirou told her with his hand on the knob. "See you after that."

Shirou was about to open the door and step out, but then Mika calls out to him.

"Wait!"

Shirou stops and looks back. "What?"

Mika then smiles and places her hands together to form a heart. "I love you."

Shirou, feeling this situation had happened before sighed.

"Is that going to become a regular thing with you?"

"Why, do you not like it?" Mika asked.

"It's just that you do that so often, and it's starting to feel awkward." Shirou answered.

"That's not true, Shirou-san." Asia chimed in. "It just means she wants you to know she cares about you. I think it's nice."

Shirou facepalmed. "Must you turn everything into an argument?"

"Ah, you technically didn't say you didn't like it Bromeo~" Mika pointed out, with a grin. "So that means you secretly like it."

"Not true, at all." Shirou denied and with that he left, Asia left with him and closed the door.

Later that day, as the sun set and School was over, the members of the Occult Research Club had gathered in the meeting room. Asia sat on one of the couches drinking tea, Rias sat behind her desk doing paperwork, Akeno stood next to her with her normal smile. Kiba was reading a book at the side of the room, Koneko eating junk food while sitting on the other couch, Mika was playing on a handheld videogame next to her, and Shirou just sat next to Asia staring at the ceiling. Everything was normal.

Though one could argue everything was boring at the same time.

Shirou let out a yawn.

"What's wrong, Shirou?" Rias asked.

"Nothing, it's just." Shirou kept looking at the ceiling. "I already finished my afternoon training, and I'm still bored."

"Afternoon training? Then you still plan on training through the night." Kiba asked.

"Well yeah." Shirou responded as if it was obvious. "What'd you think I was going to do, sleep? Study? I don't think so."

"But why are you training so much." Akeno asked. "The Rating Game is over, and things are peaceful now."

"Exactly. Since there's no ten-day time-limit, I have all the time in the world. Now I can work on all the things I didn't have time to work on but at the mountain." Shirou explained. "Not to mention I can work on new stuff too."

"Shirou." Rias got up from her chair and approached him. "I appreciate your enthusiasm, but why are you so determined to get Stronger? Is there a reason?"

"Reason? Isn't it obvious?" Shirou looked at her. "I want to hurry up and become a High-Class Devil already."

Rias blinked. "What?"

"I've been going about this the wrong way, instead of waiting for something interesting to come to me, I should look for it myself, and if I become a High-Class Devil, I'll be able to fight strong opponents. I'll even get to enter more Rating Games."

"You WANT another fight?" Rias asked surprised.

Shirou nodded. "Yeah, better that than wasting away in this boredom."

"Umm, Shirou-san, I think it's nice when things are peaceful like this." Asia argued timidly.

"Asia's right, Shirou." Rias agreed. "It wouldn't hurt to enjoy a peaceful School life for a change. Besides, I think most of us would rather not jump back into a battle, not since the last one."

The others (Barring Mika) nodded.

Shirou snorted. "Oh please, what do guys have to complain about? You barely did anything." Shirou points to Kiba and Koneko. "The only thing you guys did was beat one enemy exclusively." He then points to Rias and Akeno. "And you two, the all powerful King and Queen duo, did nothing."

"You're never going to let us forget that, are you." Kiba said, feeling his self-esteem take a hit.

A sentiment the rest of them shared.

Akeno raised her hand. "In my defence, I had my opponent take from me by Mika-chan."

Mika looked at Akeno. "Then, are you saying you could have beaten her better than I did?"

Akeno opened her mouth, wanting to respond but couldn't.

Mika smiles at that.

"I rest my case. Though I agree with Brophala. We're way stronger than any Low-Class Devil at this point, there's a video to prove it. Why not just promote us and get it over with?"

"I do agree that you both have come far in terms of abilities, but unfortunately it takes more than power to be promoted." Rias said.

"But you said, (In the world of Devils, power is everything,) and we've got power." Shirou reminded her.

"It's not that simple, Shirou-kun." Kiba chimed in. "While it is true Devils can get promoted based oh how strong they are, it still takes a while for them to be recognized. Especially for reincarnated Devils, even in record time, it takes years for one to be promoted to Mid-Class, and twice as long to High-Class."

"Are you kidding!" Shirou was annoyed by this information. "Why do I have to wait years for something I clearly deserve now? How many other Low-Class Devils are the Goddamn Red Dragon Fucking Emperor? How many can take out a Phenex?"

"Whether you deserve it or not isn't the issue, Bronikin." Mika said. "My guess is the reason it takes so long for reincarnated Devils to rank up is because the Pure Blood Nobles are the ones who run the show. And obviously they don't want reincarnated Devils to rise above them, so they keep them in lower ranks for as long as they can." Mika then rested her head on the armrest of the coach. "The usual elitist crap."

Rias sighed. "That's not how I would choose to word it, but there is some truth in her statement."

Shirou groaned. "Lousy Nobles, if they weren't already in Hell I'd tell them to go there."

"Now, now." Rias went over to him. "Don't get too upset, for now, you should just let things run their course."

"Don't patronize me Rias." Shirou got up. "I'm just going to deliver today's batch of fliers and get back to training. Come on Asia."

Shirou and Asia were about to grab some when Rias stepped in front of them.

"Actually that is what I was planning to tell you both." She smiled. "As of this day, you both no longer have to deliver fliers."

"What do you mean?" Asia asked worriedly.

"While it may not be a promotion, you've been Devils long enough that you don't need to do tasks like these anymore. And thus, you will be getting a familiar."

"And that is-What exactly?" Shirou asked.

"A familiar is—"

"Familiars!?"

The busty Red-head was interrupted by the high-pitched outburst of the little girl behind her.

"We can get familiars!? That awesome!" Mika's face was filled with excitement.

"And how is that?" Shirou asked annoyed. "I have yet to receive an answer on what a familiar is."

"That's true, I don't know what they are either." Asia stated.

"Familiars are—"

"Familiars are creatures that act as a both a pet and an errand-boy to those who own one." Mika explained, interrupting Rias again. "They are mostly animals or small creatures and people use them to do grunt work. Apparently people in the Supernatural world, Devils in most cases can gain familiars after they have enough experience and have them hand out fliers instead of doing it themselves. Familiars also appear a lot in anime so I practically an expert on the concept."

"Ahem." Rias coughed out looking displeased. "Could you please not interrupt me so often. Now familiars are…Um…T-They're…Basically what Mika just said." She sighed.

Mika grinned.

"Moving on. Does that mean you guys have familiars already?" Shirou asked.

"Actually, that's exactly right." The Crimson-haired Devil held out her hand and waved it. Then an oddly round, cartoonish looking bat appeared over her palm in a puff of smoke. "This is my familiar, I use her to pass out fliers."

Shirou looked confused.

"What? What can that thing possible do that?"

He got his answer when the bat puffed into a ball of smoke again. When the smoke cleared, what was revealed was a young woman with short brown hair and a red dress.

[Aaahh.] The Tsukiharu siblings said together.

"That's how." Shirou said knowingly.

"Guess it's true what they say 'sex sells'." Mika said knowingly.

The girl turned back into a bat before puffing away into a ball of smoke.

"And of course I have one too." Akeno smiled and pointed slightly to the ground and in a small green light was… Well a little green man small enough to hold in her palm, with a horn.

"Huh… I don't even know what to call that." Shirou responded.

Turning to Koneko. The White-haired first-year had a small white kitten with a bell-collar in her hands. "This is Shiro."

Shirou scoffed. "Oh yeah, a white cat named Shiro, that's original."

"You're named Shirou." Koneko pointed out.

"I didn't name myself you know." Shirou argued.

"Mine's badass." Kiba stepped up and summoned his familiar. A small golden light appeared on his should and what appeared was a small golden bird that looked like a cross between a hummingbird and an eagle.

"…Good enough." Shirou muttered. "No offence, but is this really it? These familiars all just look like mascots or playthings. Aren't there any that are good for fighting?"

"As I said before, most familiars are either for grunt work or pets." Mika reminded him.

"…Great." Shirou groaned.

"Well, I would really like having a familiar." Asia stated.

"Me too." Mika agreed.

"I'm glad you feel that way." Rias said. "You will gain your familiars by—"

KNOCK! KNOCK!

She would have said more, but was interrupted by a knock on the door that got everyone's attention.

"Wow, you cannot stop being interrupted tonight, can you?" Mika rhetorically asked Rias.

Rias chose to ignore that comment. "Akeno, can you get that."

Akeno nodded and opened the door to let in those who came to visit.

The door was opened it the ones who waked in revealed themselves to be two bespectacled beauties with a serious expression on their faces. The one in front was petite in size, her hair was black styled in a bob-cut, and her eyes a violet colour. Her compatriot, possessing far longer black hair that reached her back, and heterochromia eyes as well as a far more curvaceous frame, stood respectfully behind her.

Behind them were five more females that had the same expression. All of them were wearing the Kuoh Academy female student uniform.

"How nice to see you, Sona." Rias greeted.

"Hello Rias, I thought I might drop by." Sona said.

Shirou narrowed his eyes at the new arrivals. "Student Council President."

Sona likewise, narrowed her eyes upon laying them on the delinquent. "Shirou Tsukiharu."

It was a moment Rias dreaded for what seemed like ages.

The meeting between, Sona Stiri, the strict disciplinarian Student Council President of Kuoh Academy, and Shirou Tsukiharu, the delinquent king with a will of rebellion that seemed practically infinite.

As the two stared each other down, most observing tried to determine who would be the first one to start a conflict.

Then Sona's mouth curved upwards into a smile, the girl stretched out her hand to Shirou.

At first, Rias presumed it was some kind of attack spell or she was trying to take something from Shirou, but then she realized that Sona was just holding her hand there, her face expectant.

"It's both a pleasure and a surprise to see you again. I was not made aware that you had become a Devil."

"I feel the same way." Shirou responded, while shaking her hand. "I mean imagine my surprise, the Student Council were Devils."

"I would have made my appearance known sooner, but unfortunately I couldn't attend the afterparty after your Rating Game."

"Oh, you saw that?"

"Yes, many in the Underworld did, you were quite impressive." Sona complimented.

"Well I'm glad you enjoyed the show."

"Again, I would like to reiterate my gratitude for your assistance last year." Sona said grateful.

Shirou brushed it off. "Oh come on, I already told you, it was nothing."

Everyone from the ORC, even Mika, stared wide-eyed, jaw-dropped in shock at the almost amicable way the two clashing personalities treated each other. Those from the Student Council however, didn't look surprised.

Rias was the first to snap out of her shock, needing to manually push her jaw closed. She gestured to them. "You two… Know each other?"

Sona placed a hand on her hip. "Of course. Tsukiharu was one of the students who volunteered to help the Student Council set up the culture festival last year."

"He was!?" Rias felt bad about sounding so shocked.

"Well to be more precise, the choice was not his." Sona clarified. "He was conscripted to help us by me after looking over his record."

"Apparently I went over the "maximum acceptable number of absences"." Shirou said irritated. "And unless I helped with the festival in exchange for extra credit I'd be held back a year."

"I was surprised by what a diligent worker Tsukiharu was however. We actually finished preparations ahead of schedule for once."

Rias could not help back feel disbelief in what she was hearing. Whenever she thought of the words "Diligent" and "Shirou" in the same sentence, she always assumed the words "Training" or "Cooking" would be involved.

"I just wanted to get it done, besides I always keep my end of an agreement." Shirou said casually.

"You were still a great help." Sona assured him. "And you even took the time to help out the food stands. Thank you."

"No thanks are necessary." Shirou assured her. "That was the one thing he had fun doing."

"Wait, you helped managing the food at the culture festival?" Kiba asked.

Shirou shrugged. "I just gave them a few tips."

"No wonder everything tasted so good, last year." Akeno said quietly.

"So then, does that mean that all of them are Devils like us?" Asia asked, gesturing to the girls behind Sona.

Sona nodded. "That is correct. This is my Peerage."

"Yeah, they're also the Student Council." Shirou starting pointing to them. "Tsubaki." He pointed to the girl with long black hair who walked in beside Sona. She nodded. "Tsubasa." He pointed to a girl with blue hair. She nodded. "Momo." A girl with white hair. She waved. "Reya." A girl with dark brown hair tied in two braids. She smiled. "Tomoe." A girl with reddish-brown hair tied in two ponytails. She bowed slightly. "And… I don't know this one." A girl shiny brown tied in two ponytails.

"This is Ruruko Nimura." Tsubaki introduced her. "She's a First-year who only joined last Spring."

"Ahh, that explains why I didn't see her at the culture festival."

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Ruruko said with a bow."

"In any case, care to tell us why you dropped by Prez?" Mika asked, somewhat interested.

"Well, in truth I was planning to introduce my new Servants to Rias," Sona said but looked slightly annoyed. "But apparently one of them is running late."

"You have another new?" Shirou asked surprised. "Who?"

"Who else?!"

A voice spoke out coming from outside the room, yet in the nearby hallway. Shirou's eyes widened for the simple reason that he recognized that voice. While he hadn't seen him in a while he could never forget the owner of said voice. After all, he used to hear it almost every day.

Soon that person stepped inside the clubroom and walked up the Shirou, he took his place right beside Sona rather than behind her like the others. He wears the same standard uniform as Shirou expect for him the sleeves on the blazer were cut off making it more of a vest, and the top three buttons on his T-shirt were undone. He had dark purple hair with red highlights in his front bangs that was messy and spiky going down, and his eyes were black. He had the same bad boy look that Shirou had, both of his hands were wrapped in bandages which showed he regularly used them for fighting.

He was Takeru Saito, now as a Devil.

"Long time no see, Tsukiharu." Saito said with a smirk.

"Saito." Shirou said, with a glare.

The two of them engaged in a stare-down, one so heated it almost looked like a fight would start.

They were however interrupted.

"You're late, Saito." Sona reminded him, displeased. "I told you to arrive with the rest of us."

"I had stuff to do." Saito said, unconcerned. "Besides, I'm here now, aren't I?"

"That's not the issue." Sona was now irritated.

Saito sighed. "Right, right, the whole "meet and greet" thing, whatever."

Sona adjusted her glasses, clearly not happy about what just happened.

"Now all that all of my Peerage is in attendance, let us began the introductions."

"Very well then." Rias said, trying to hide her amusement.

This was somewhat nostalgic for her, seeing Sona and Saito at odds with each other reminded her of the times she and Shirou were always arguing when he had first joined. Even though it wasn't that long ago, it feels so distance right now. At this point, all she can do is look back on those days and laugh.

"This is Ruruko Nimura, my Pawn." Sona gestured to her, without looking at her.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Ruruko greeted.

"Well, this is Asia Argento, my Bishop." Rias said, likewise gesturing to Asia. "And Mika Tsukiharu, my Rook."

"T-Thank you for coming." Asia greeted, nervously.

"How's it going." Mika greeted, not bothering to hide her disinterest.

"And this is Takeru Saito, my other Pawn." Sona then gestured to Saito.

"Yo." Was all he said.

"And as you all know, Shirou, my Pawn." Rias then gestured to Shirou.

"Sup." Was all he said.

This obviously wasn't going well.

"I don't remember you wanting to join the Student Council." Shirou said.

"It wasn't my first choice, but apparently I had to in order to join her Peerage." Saito clarified. "I become a Devil around late Spring."

"That's around the time you stopped challenging me to a fight." Shirou noted.

"Yeah." Saito points to Sona. "Sona here, wouldn't get off my case unless I did Council work on top Devil work. And she wouldn't stop complaining about my fighting."

"I thought I told you to call me President." Sona ordered him.

Saito snorted. "Yeah, not gonna happen."

"Besides that, I told you before, a member of the Student Council can't go around acting like a thug." Sona scolded.

"And I told you, outside of school, you're not the boss of me!" Saito shot back.

Mika looked at the scene in front of her and asked what everyone from the Gremory Peerage was thinking. "Anybody else feel like you've seen this before."

They all nodded in agreement.

Sona sighed. "I'm sorry about him."

Rias gave her an understanding smile. "Likewise."

"Alright, let's finish this up." Sona spoke out. "Shake hands."

Both Pawns groaned. As they reached out to shake each other's hand, once the handshake began everyone could tell they were both putting a lot of strength behind their grip like they were trying to break each other's hand. While doing this, they decided to continue their conversation.

"So you're a Pawn too, huh? How any Pieces did you take up?" Shirou asked.

"Five, how many did you take up?" Saito asked.

"All eight." Shirou answered.

"Serious? Is it because of you Boosted Gear-thing?" Saito asked.

Shirou blinked. "Yeah… How do you know about that?"

"I watched you fight against the flaming chicken."

"You too? Anyways, how did you take up five Pieces?"

"It's because Saito also possesses a Sacred Gear." Sona answered for him.

"I can speak for myself, Sona." Saito told her with a glare. "But yeah, I do."

With that, they let go of each other's hand (And to their annoyance they were unable to break each other's hand) and Asia approached Saito.

"I'm Asia Argento. It is very nice to meet you Saito-san." Asia greeted him with a warm smile.

Saito just looked confused by the sudden introduction, not to mention the smile that came with it. "…Uh, yeah, you too. I think."

"I've heard so much about you, it is so nice to meet another one of Shirou-san's friends."

Both Shirou and Saito did a doubletake after hearing that.

"Wait, wait, friends?" Saito asked. "Where the hell did you hear that?"

"I would also like to hear where you got that idea." Shirou said.

"Well, the two of you have known each other for a long time." Asia answered innocently. "And you see one another almost every day."

"Yeah through fighting." Saito corrected.

"It's true, the only reason I see him all the time is to pound his skull into the asphalt." Shirou added.

Saito glared at him. "Hey asshole, I'm not some punching dummy!"

Shirou shrugged. "Look, I know you're frustrated, but the fact is I have zero loses against you, and your number of loses is a three-digit number."

"There yo-you see that!?" Saito turned back to Asia. "How can you possibly call this a friendship?"

Asia's expression didn't change. "I know you both can be rough at times, but I can tell. Deep down I believe that you both truly think of each other as a friend." She then looked at them with a peaceful looking smile that was oozing kindness and good-nature. "I know that you two believe it as well."

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The two delinquents just stared, completely unaware of what to say, or what even was the statement they just heard. It was as if everything that was just said was a language they didn't understand, that's how confused they both were. After a little while, Saito broke the silence.

"What is wrong with her?"

Shirou just shook his head.

"I stopped asking that awhile ago."

CLAP!

Mika clapped. "All right, since Brodouji is done making out with his boyfriend—"

"Hey screw you!" Saito cut in.

"—Let's hurry up and get our familiars already."

"Oh." Sona said with mild surprise at Mika's revelation. "Is that what you were planning to do, Rias?"

"Yes. I was thinking of going tomorrow evening actually." Rias replied with equal politeness in her tone.

"Well, that's a bit of a problem. We were also planning to see him…and he only sees people once a month."

While they were talking Shirou and Saito looked to each other, believing they were thinking the same thing.

"Who are they talking about?" Shirou asked.

"No clue." Saito replied, equally confused.

Back to the two High-Class Devils.

"In that case, why don't we have a little contest between our two Peerages to see who gets to go?" Rias suggested with a smile on her face.

"A contest?" Sona asked with surprise. "Surely your not talking about a Rating Game?"

Those words immediately got their attention.

"Can we?" Shirou asked hopefully.

"I can get behind that." Saito said excitedly.

Rias chuckled softly. "Sorry boys, but no. We'd never get permission for something like that."

As she waved off Sona's suggestion, the two Pawns that consumed multiple Pieces felt their enthusiasm deflate completely.

"You're right." Sona agreed. "We'll just have to settle this a different way."

"Why not a sports contest?" Akeno suggested from beside Rias, her wide smile never leaving her face.

"Good idea, Akeno." Rias praised her Queen before looking back at Sona. "What do say Sona? Fancy yourself a little game of Tennis?"

"You're on," Sona replied with a little twinkle in her eye. "Two-on-Two, our partners will be our Queens."

Rias nodded in agreement.

"Yeah um." Shirou cut in. "No offence but, this sounds kind of pointless and unnecessary."

"True, not to mention we don't really want familiars that much." Saito said in agreement. "Wouldn't it just be a lot less of a hassle if one side just waits till next month?"

Now it was Rias and Sona's turn to be confused.

"What? Why are the two people in this room who love fighting more than anyone, now suggesting against a confrontation?" Rias asked.

"Because this isn't a fight." Shirou pointed out dryly. "It's just sports."

"Yeah and, we won't really be doing anything." Saito pointed out dryly. "It'll just be you guys."

Sona fixed her glasses. "…Are you sure you two aren't friends, because you seem to agree on most things."

[We're not!]

"Relax you two." Mika got their attention. "I think you're missing the point, Sairou."

"Don't combine our names!" Shirou barked. "We're not some stupid Hollywood couple."

"As I was saying." Mika continued. "The truth is those two don't care about who goes where and when anymore, all they care about now is beating each other in a contest. You can see it in the spark in their eyes." She pointed out them.

Shirou blinked and turned to Akeno. "Is that true?"

Akeno chuckled a little. "Ara, Ara~ The two of them are Childhood friends, yet they've always been competitive against each other."

"But why Tennis? Why not some other sport?" Shirou asked.

"Because Tennis is the one sport that Akeno, Sona, Tsubaki, and myself are good at." Rias answered that one.

"Wow." Shirou said rhetorically with a deadpan expression.

"Are you serious?!" Saito said to Sona annoyed. "We came here, just 'cause you wanted an excuse to outdo Princess Kool-aid hair!"

After hearing Saito call her that, Rias narrowed her eyes and sent him a glare.

Mika tried to hold back her laughter. Shirou did not. "Hahahahahaha!"

Sona didn't appreciate his tone. "Why are you so bothered by this? It's not like you'll be doing anything."

"Yeah, but if I know this was going to happen I wouldn't have bothered showing up." Saito replied.

"It wasn't enough that I, Your King ordered you to be here?" Sona asked, narrowing her eyes.

Saito immediately shook his head. "No, not even close."

And with that, Saito began to make his exit.

"Where are you going?" Sona questioned.

"Out." Was all he said, before he was out of sight.

Sona looked like she was going to have a migraine. "It seems we must take our leave." Sona and the rest of her Peerage turned around and started heading towards the doors. "I hope you're ready to be beaten, Rias." Sona remarked challengingly.

"And I hope you're ready to bring your A-game, Sona." Rias said back to her, before the council closed the door behind them.

Shirou just looked at Rias and the door in which Sona walked out of and thought. "…I'm still bored."

Night had fallen and once again, Shirou was training himself to the bone to gain greater power. Right now he was training with Ren in the middle of the woods outside of town, and a Barrier was up so they wouldn't be disturbed.

PUNCH! BANG!

After a fierce exchange of blows, the two of them skidded back and came to a stop. Both Shirou and Ren were covered in dirt and bruises, Shirou even had a few burns.

"That should be enough for now." Ren said, walking up to him. "I think you're ready to try it."

Shirou's face lit up with anticipation. "Really? All right, how do I do it?"

"Just try powering up. But not Demonic or Dragon power, try picturing the power coming naturally from you yourself." Ren instructed.

Shirou nodded and then closed his eyes, raised his, and took a fighting stance. He dug deep into his mind and tried searching for the power buried down inside, a power he had newly obtained, and drew upon it, letting it flow from around his body, surrounding himself in a pure-white aura that was almost see-through. And in that moment Shirou could feel it, it was like the energy of life itself was coating his body, he was stronger in both aura and strength. Right now Shirou never felt stronger and more in-tune without his own body.

Ren smiled satisfied. "Congratulations, you're now able to use Touki."

"Touki." Shirou repeated, turning off the aura. "I didn't think it would feel this potent."

"Touki is like using your own life force and turning it into a source of power. Its ability is pretty basic, all it actually does is increase all your physical traits like strength, speed, power, and stamina, along with all the others." Ren summarized. "And while it sounds simple on paper, the difference in performance is in truth, so great it's like you're a different fighter, that's why they call it fighting spirit."

"Then I couldn't be happier." Shirou said, before turning to Ren. "Not to change the subject, but tell me. You knew Rias and the others were Devils from the start, right?"

Ren nodded. "Yeah, like I told you, I can sense the presence of others while masking my own."

"Then did you also know about the fact that the Student Council were also Devils?"

"Of course I did." Ren confirmed. "But honestly, it wasn't that hard when you think about it, I mean Rias and Sona meet up a lot and they always act like they know something others don't, you could see whenever they spoke to each other."

"Yeah, I guess they were dropping some hints. But I'm pretty sure only someone who knows about the Supernatural would notice." Shirou argued.

"Sorry I never told you, but like with Rias, even though I know these things, I'd rather not tell people about someone else's secrets unless that person is directly involved." Ren stated.

"Don't worry about it." Shirou brushed off. "It was never my place to know unless they felt like telling me, and unlike Rias, I still believe in privacy."

"Point taken." Ren agreed. "Still, who would of guessed that Saito would join her."

"Hmph… Whatever reason he had isn't important." Shirou brushed off. "Besides, this just means I can fight him again, it'll be nice to do some light workouts again."

"You have a one-track mind." Ren commented. "Still, here's something you should know. Sona and Rias have more in common then you think."

"They both love bossing people around?"

"Not that obvious."

"They both have Delinquents for Pawns?"

"True, but not that."

"They both have Black-haired, tall girls who always stand next to them?"

"All true, but not what I meant." Ren replied. "What I mean is, they're both the younger Sister of a Satan."

Shirou's eyes widened. "Are you serious?"

Ren nodded. "It's true. Sona is from the House of Sitri, that's the family that the Maou Leviathan came from, before than Sona's older Sister was the heir to her Household."

"Just like Rias." Shirou noticed. "Man, does every Devil King have a younger sibling? Wait, the Asshole Zephyrdor said his older Brother was the Maou Asmodeus." Shirou remembered."

"And apparently the Devil King Beelzebub has a younger Brother." Ren informed him.

"Huh, must be a Satan thing."

"Yeah well, at least the more agreeable ones are the ones at this school."

"All right, let's get back to training." Shirou decided. "So tell me, think you can teach me some Senjutsu now?"

Ren paused, and looked unsure. "Um…I, I don't think that's a good idea right now."

Now Shirou was confused. "Why?"

"Senjutsu is different from Touki. While Touki is something anyone can learn to use with enough training, regardless of their race, without risk. Senjutsu contains a lot risks." Ren explained. "Senjutsu is a power that is similar yet different from the magic. Senjutsu is the power to control the flow of life energy or Ki in living beings, some call it Chi, but the meaning is the same. Using it, you can strengthen both your inner and outer body or even cause vegetation around you to bloom or wither. And Senjutsu users are able to sense the Ki and auras of others, thus letting them track targets from far away distances. Also if you can disrupt the Ki of your opponent or sever it, it's possible to cause direct damage to their spirit and using this as an attack could result in killing their opponent. As such, there are very few ways to defend against Senjutsu.

"Whoa." Shirou was impressed. "Senjutsu sounds awesome."

"It is but it also has a fatal flaw," Ren spoke grimly. "While it lets the user read and handle spirit power, Senjutsu will uncontrollably take in the malice intent and ill will that flows in the world, therefore if an amateur used it in an incorrect manner, then the malice will end up corrupting the user."

"Corrupt?" Shirou asked. "And what'd you mean, malice intent and ill will?"

"I mean, all the dark and negative thoughts and emotions that flow around you, everyone has them and they're attached to their aura." Ren clarified. "When you use Senjutsu you essentially become like a beacon that it flows into, and when that happens it affects your mind. You become more vicious, drunk off power, and all your darker thoughts become amplified. Like some of those horror movies when the character would get mind-fucked and become psychopaths, that's what happens to amateurs who can't control their Senjutsu."

Shirou takes in all this new information in. He'd be lying if he said he wasn't shocked, he never imagined that this new power he had desired carried such risks, and the side-effects could be that catastrophic. Now all he could do was stay silent and think about all this.

"Fortunately, none of that will happen if you stick to Touki." Ren finished. "So we'll just train on that."

"…Hey Ren." Shirou spoke serious. "Have people who aren't Youkai tried learning Senjutsu?"

"Hmm, yeah, I've heard of a few." Ren answered.

"And do you know of any of them that didn't go crazy?"

Ren shook his head. "Afraid not, Any Human or Devil that I know of that tried to learn it all failed."

"I see." Shirou then looked up with a confident smirk. "Then I guess, I'll just have to be the first."

Ren was taken aback. "What? You still want me to teach it to you?"

"That's right," Shirou confirmed. "Even if it is as deadly as you said, for me the risks aren't worth backing away from it." He then had a look filled with desire. "I want the power of Senjutsu, and there's no way in hell I'd ever fall prey to my own power, instead I'll make it my own, no matter what."

Ren didn't seem to share his confidence. "But, even if you say that the success rate of what your trying to do is 0%"

"That may be, but so what." Shirou didn't waver. "To me, the pros outweigh the cons, and right now I want to become as strong as I can, that can't happen if I keep trying to play it safe during training. And even if the risk is myself going insane, I know I can do, my mind is too strong to be broken by something as shallow as malice intent."

Ren still seemed unsure. "But… what of the chance that it does mess with your mind, if only slightly?"

"Heh, if that ever happens." Shirou smiled. "If that ever happens, come and set me straight all right. That's what best friends are for."

Ren looked surprised by his answer at first but then smiled himself, feeling his unease wash away. "Yeah, I guess you've got a point there." He then took a stance. "Okay then, let's begin training, this'll be harder than anything we've done to this point."

Shirou took his own stance and smirked. "Sounds pretty niiiicceee~"

PUNCH!

BOOM!

BANG!

BURN!

[BOOST!]

The next morning in Shirou's opinion was something, much like last night, he couldn't forget.

The difference was that in the next morning's case, it was not in a good way.

One thing Shirou knew was that in Kuoh Academy, word travels fast. So when people heard about a Tennis match between Rias Gremory and Sona "Shitori", many rushed out to the Tennis court to see if from themselves first-hand. Though to be honest, the audience was less here to see a Tennis match and more to see, the four most popular girls in the school in Tennis uniforms, and for the chance to ogle them in their tight-fitting sports clothes that hugged their bodies in all the right places.

"Lousy School of horny fucks." Shirou muttered from outside the fence as Rias and Akeno stepped on the court.

The two gorgeous young women wearing white wrist sweat-bands, while the redhead wore a pink sports dress with a low V cutout that showed much of her cleavage and no sleeves. Akeno was wearing a yellow sleeveless polo and a darker yellow mini-skirt.

Sona and Tsubaki also stepped on the court. The two of them also wearing—While covered more—didn't leave much to the imagination. Both Black-haired girls wore white sleeveless polos and black wrist sweatbands, but Sona was wearing a pink mini-skirt and Tsubaki was wearing a green one.

"Akeno, we're in it to win it." Rias said to her Queen.

"Got it." Akeno responded. "No mercy!"

"Everybody ready?" The Redhead smiled confidently while holding up the ball. "Good."

"So then, may the best Devil win." Sona said to her.

And with that, Rias served the Tennis ball. Sona didn't need to move that much and sent the ball back over the net. Akeno rushed to her right and shot the ball back over. Tsubaki holding a racquet with a strangely long handle strikes the ball overhand back at the other team.

While the game was going on, Shirou had no trouble following the Tennis ball's movements, unlike the crowd. But the crowd wasn't really interested in following the ball, what had them excited was the fact that whenever one of the girls hit the ball, their skirts lifted up just enough to see their panties. And while the guys were excited whenever they saw that, surprisingly enough, all the girls seemed to prefer seeing Sona's.

A little bit away from Shirou's location, Kiba and Koneko stood next to each other as the crowd around them continued to grow.

"I don't think I've ever seen this many people at a Tennis match before." Kiba commented after looking around at how many students there were. When Sona shot the ball back almost all the Girls cheered. And then when Akeno hit the ball, almost all the guys cheered.

"Is it just me, or is this getting a little out of control." Koneko noticed.

Back on the field, Sona was about to serve the ball when an idea popped in her head. "Let's see how you like a magic attack." She said before striking the ball, however, a blue Magic-Circle with the crest of the Sitri family appeared behind her as she infused her magic into the ball. "Sona Sitri Style!"

The Tennis ball, now giving off a blue aura, rockets towards Rias at high speeds.

"Oh really?" Rias said. "Let's see the 'Gremory Counter-Strike' —" Before she could even to try and hit it, the ball went off in a completely different direction. This shocked Rias by the suddenness.

"Point to Sitri." Reya announced from the high chair.

"And of course, here comes the official cheat, also known as magic." Shirou commented.

"Hey, we did agree on no magic, didn't we?" Kiba asked Koneko, feeling a bit afraid of what this was going to lead to.

"Yeah, but that doesn't seem to be stopping them." She replied.

"Well then, I guess we've kissed the rule book goodbye on this, huh?"

"Look, Sitri." Rias said with a confident smile. "You can cheat all you want to, but in the end, it's not going to mean a bit of difference in this game." She then challenged Sona by pointing her racket at her with her fist on her hip. "You want a 'magic show'? Well, I've got a few tricks up my sleeve!"

"Do your worst, Gremory!" Sona accepted her challenge with a confident smile of her own. "You think I'm afraid of you. Bring it on!"

"Funny how, even though she calls magic cheating, she doesn't hesitate to do it herself." Shirou commented.

"Guess they forgot about the audience or they don't care." Saito commented from the other side of the fence. "How can someone so smart be so stupid?"

The rest of the game was like watching two powerful beasts battling chaotically against each other.

That evening. Back at the Occult Research Club meeting room.

Kiba and Koneko were holding a pair of broke Tennis racquets, that were completely totalled from the match.

"I swear, something is wrong with those two." Shirou commented.

"It wasn't that bad." Asia attempted to argue.

"Not that bad?" Shirou asked rhetorically. "Asia, the equipment they used was destroyed, the referee's high chair was broken, and the court was on FIRE! I'd call that bad."

"Hahahaha!" Mika laughed. "I wish I could've been there."

Shirou messaged his head. "And for me, the worst part was listing to everyone rave every time they saw a panty-shot."

That got Mika's attention. "Ooh, ooh, ooh, is there a recording of it?" She asked like a kid asking for a toy.

"Actually yes," Shirou took out a camera from his pocket and gave it to her. "Go nuts."

"Shirou-san!" Asia looked at him disapprovingly.

"What?" Shirou shrugged. "If they didn't want to become fap material, they shouldn't have worn those stupid outfits, besides I didn't record it, I just grabbed the camera from some idiot standing next to me in the crowd."

"You stole that." Asia was now more upset with him.

"Relax, I'll give it back that guy. Unless I can't find him or of course I forget." Shirou brushed off the subject, making Asia give him a pouting expression. Which didn't affect him all that much.

"…Chief has already hired some Devils to repair the court before the next morning." Koneko said, putting the two broke racquets on the table. "…But it's too bad it was a draw. …Since no one won, they're suggesting we all compete in a team match."

"Are you kidding, now I have to join in on this shit."

"Afraid so my friend." Kiba said. "They're all out there right now deciding what we should play."

The conversation ended when the door opened, and in walked Rias and Akeno. "We've chosen Dodgeball as the game to play." Rias announced before walking over to the others. "We'll meet the Sitris tomorrow night in the gym. Luckily no one will be in the School so we'll be able to play without anyone in the way. So, let's win this."

[Right!] Her Peerage responded with enthusiasm.

Shirou lazily threw up one fist without any enthusiasm. "…Yay."

Mika didn't respond at all, more interested in watching the recording.

On the night of the Dodgeball match, the Gremory team was in the gym before the Sitri team had arrived.

"They outnumber us by two people since Mika won't be playing, so we've asked the others to be the referees." Rias told the five team members while four of them stretched themselves to prepare for the game. Shirou just stood there, not feeling the need to stretch, and Mika just sat on a bench.

Most of them were all wearing the same clothes they wore during their mountain training.

Right now Asia was on the floor painfully doing the splits, with not much of a choice as Akeno was bent over and pushing her back, she was wearing the same Kuoh Academy female gym uniform as Asia and Koneko, which was white shirts with navy blue accents on the front and side, and navy blue bloomers that showed off much of their legs and thighs.

"What are the odds this'll turn into another magic fight?" Shirou asked uncaringly.

"The way I see it, as long as we don't break any rules, using magic isn't an issue." Rias claimed.

"Right, but what happens when your magic destroys the ball?" Shirou pointed out.

"Ufufu, don't worry about that." Rias then picks up the ball. "We've already placed a spell on it, it won't break no matter how hard we strike at it."

"Aaah, my legs feel like they're on fire!" Asia yelled in agony, continuing to be forced down to stretch.

"Come on, just stretch a little further. You can do it." Akeno said in an assuring tone, smiling as she helped Asia.

"I'll try." Asia said through the pain. "AAAHHH!"

Shirou just stared at the scene. "She's obviously enjoying that. Sadist."

The Silver-haired Pawn felt a tug on his left sleeve and saw it was Koneko. "…Can you help me?" She said simply with a small blush.

Shirou shrugged. "Fine, but just to warn you, this might hurt."

She turned around and sat down on the floor, he crouched down and placed one hand on her back. One he started, his strength immediately pushed Koneko further than she was expecting or prepared for, she felt like her body was going to split.

As this went on, Koneko's cheeks reddened while she let out a moan and yelled in pain. "Aaah! Augh! AAAAHHHH!"

"Oh suck it up!" Shirou told her while pushing. "You're a Rook."

Some of the others stopped what they were doing and looked at them.

"Don't break her, Playbro." Mika said amused.

"She'll be fine, we have a healer." Shirou replied.

"Ara, Ara, does Shirou-kun have some hidden Sadism in him?" Akeno thought interested.

After two minutes of preparing, everyone gathered around.

"Let's go out there, and do our best to kick some Sitri butt!" Rias exclaimed.

"Yeah!" The others (Barring the Tsukiharu siblings) cheered.

"I have something else in mind." Shirou thought.

"Ready to rock?" Sona's voice was heard. They turned their heads and saw the entire Student Council standing on the other end of the gym. Just like the Gremory team, the girls wore T-shirts and bloomers, while Saito wore a Black T-shirt and Blue sweatpants.

As everyone spread out to begin, Shirou and Saito were face to face.

"Tsukiharu, today you'll lose." Saito declared, determined.

"That's not possible, Saito." Shirou shot back, confident.

And with that, the game began with Tsubasa holding the ball. Momo and Ruruko were elected to be the referees, so they stood away from the players.

The game started when Tsubasa threw the ball. It ended up hitting Koneko in the left breast, shredding through her shirt in the process.

"That's a point!" Momo announced, holding up a red flag.

"Already! What kind of Rook are you!?" Mika reprimanded her from the bench.

Now Tomoe had the ball. She charged it with Demonic energy and cocked it back. She threw the ball at Rias.

POW!

The Redhead was able to catch it with both her hands, as her hair was blown all over the place by the wind created from the speed of a Knight throwing the ball, even ripping pieces of her tracksuit.

"Wow, being able to see Tomoe's fastball and catching it to boot is impressive." Sona said to her.

"Don't forget, Sona, I'm a Gremory. That's just how we roll!" Rias said.

"Wow, that was lame." Shirou commented.

"So lame." Saito commented.

Rias shot the ball towards her the other team. After it left her hand, she opened a magic circle in front of it, making it pass through it and infusing it with her Crimson energy.

Reya saw it coming towards her and held out her hands, hoping to catch it. However, the ball was too strong and it hit her, burning off her clothes and leaving her Nude.

Seeing that, Shirou raised a brow and looked at Saito. "Do you find it odd on how, she was hit by a fire spell and while her clothes completely burned away, her skin is untouched?"

"That is strange, to the point where you can say, it makes no sense." Saito agreed.

The game continued with members of the Occult Research Club and the Student Council were throwing the ball back and forth over the court, because there was only one ball the only strategy of the game was dodging the ball and throw it back. Over the course of this match, it now came down to only Sona, Tsubaki, and Saito on one side of the court, and Rias, Akeno, and Shirou on the other side. Although since the game started, Shirou and Saito hadn't touched the ball once, and have barely moved.

Rias then passed the ball to Akeno. "Akeno, finish this!" Rias instructed her Queen.

"Don't mind if I do." Akeno complied and shot the ball towards Sona. After it left her hand, she opened a magic circle in front of it, making it pass through it and infusing it with yellow electric energy.

As it closed in—

[DELETE!]

POW!

—The aura surrounding the ball completely vanished and the ordinary Dodgeball had been caught, stopping in its tracks. To everyone from the Gremoy teams surprise the one who caught the ball was Saito who was standing in front of Sona, he held the ball in his right hand and hadn't even flinched when the landed in his hand. But that wasn't what surprised everyone. The surprise was what was on his left hand.

It was a metallic, armored-like attachment, it seemed to made of the same substance as Shirou's Boosted Gear, only it was pitch black. Its appearance resembled that of a Lizard's head, with a sharp spike on the back, it covered the back of his hand and went up to his wrist, though it left his fingers uncovered.

This was a Sacred Gear.

"Are you surprised?" Saito asked, getting their attention. "This is my Sacred Gear, Delete Field. It has the power to completely suppress the powers of my enemies, provided they're within range. And just so you know, it's also a Dragon-type Sacred Gear."

"I see now." Rias narrowed her eyes at Sona. "So this was the reason you scouted him, Sona."

Sona smiled confidently. "That's correct, Rias. After I saw his potential, I knew he would be an asset to my Peerage, and the fact that he was strong enough to consume five of my Pawns Pieces was also a welcomed miscalculation. At his best, even though he is new, his power surpasses the rest of my Servants. He's the ace of the Sitri Peerage, Takeru Saito."

Mika also narrowed her eyes from the bench. "This is a surprise, I didn't expect she was hiding something like that." She looked around the court. "With his power, it's not just suppressing, he can essentially negative or deactivate any magic attack or power-up we try to use, not to mention we don't know his maximum range, but there's no doubt it's far enough to reach anywhere on the court. It could be troublesome." But then Mika smirked. "Unless of course…"

Shirou just stood there, while his eyes were overshadowed by his bangs. "Ridiculous."

"Point to Sitri!" Momo announced, holding up a red flag and Akeno left the court.

"Here." Saito passed the ball to Tsubaki. "Try not to screw it up."

Tsubaki ignored that and she charged it with Demonic energy and cocked it back. She threw the ball at Rias. "Take this!"

As it closed in—

"You're all so ridiculous."

[BOOST!]

POW!

That ball was caught once again. This time the one who caught the ball was Shirou who was standing in front of Rias, with the ball in one hand and his Boosted Gear covering the other. Like Saito, when he caught the ball, he didn't flinch or budge even a little from where he was standing.

Sona, Tsubaki, and the rest of the council were surprised by how he did so with such little effort, while Saito just glared unsurprised.

"…Unless of course, the opponent is Big Bro." Mika finished her thought.

"Are you trying to equal me, Saito?" Shirou glared. "Don't get carried away."

"Point to Gremory!" Momo announced, holding up a white flag and Tsubaki left the court.

Now the court was left was only the two Kings and Pawns. In sports it would be the same as a two on two match between two captains and two aces. They were all emanating a strong pressure.

Saito groans. "You know what. Enough of this." He steps forward. "I'm done, doing this 'by the book' game with rules and limitations just isn't for me." He then stops directly in front of Shirou. "Tsukiharu, the only reason I'm still here is to beat you. Let's finish this the right way."

Shirou didn't back down. "I'll play your game. Here's how it works, you lose if you're hit by the ball, if you catch it then just throw it and hope it hits the other guy, use of Magic or Gear is allowed and it doesn't matter how you launch the ball so long as it hits." He listed. "That good enough?"

Saito nodded, ready. "Sounds good, let's do it!"

"Hold it." Sona stepped in. "We're already in the middle of a game that the two of us agreed upon. You can't just randomly change the rules to better suit your liking at the last minute."

"And why not?" Saito scowled. "You had no problem screwing with the rules earlier, yet there's a problem when I do it?"

"Saito, think." Sona scolded. "You are letting your own personal feelings dictate your actions, it isn't necessary to change the rules, even if you want to defeat Tsukiharu, you'll have to wait until after this match."

"Sona, you don't seem to get it." Saito wasn't convinced. "Of the two of us, you're the only one who cares about this match. I'm here because you dragged me into something you started because of your own personal feelings. Honestly, the only thing I'm interested in right now is going against Tsukiharu." He then looks at both Rias and Sona. "So you two Princess need to shut up and stay out of the way."

After that, there was a silence in the court. The members of the Student Council were surprised that Saito would take such a forceful tone against Sona, someone who is both his master and known to be a strict disciplinarian. While the Occult Research Club was surprised by the fact that anyone besides Shirou would possess enough nerve to completely disregard the authority of his King.

Sona obviously didn't appreciate his tone and narrowed her eyes. "…Saito."

"You know, Sona." Rias spoke up, getting her attention before things escalated. "Why not let them do their thing."

"Sona stared back at her. "What?"

"It's obvious they won't budge on this, and clearly neither of them have any intention of following orders, so why not let them settle the outcome of this match." Rias suggested. "At this point, it might make for a better idea than just having us end in a tie again. And be honest, you're curious to see what would happen if they faced each other, like myself."

Sona just thought for a moment, trying to figure out the pros and cons of letting the game change like this, whether it was a good idea, and whether or not it would be the smarter decision to make. After a minute of thought, she simply sighed and turned around. "Saito, after talking to me like that, you won't be forgiven if you're defeated." Sona then stepped back from the court.

"Whatever." Saito brushed off.

Rias followed suit and distanced herself from Shirou. "It's all on you now."

"Then we've already won." Shirou replied confidently.

And with that settled, the court was now filled by one Devil from each side. The two delinquents were locked in a stare-down, both ready to go at any moment, radiating enough pressure that he could be felt by those who were just watching. Even though the was just a game they were acting as if this was no different from a fight or a high stakes battle. No one could look away.

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In an instant, the silence ended when Shirou made the first move. He gripped the ball and with a spin shot it across the field.

[BOOST!]

SWISH!

With the ball flying fast after Shirou's shot powered it up, it cut through the air like a bullet.

[DELETE!]

POW!

Once Saito activated his power the ball slowed down and once it was right in front of him, he punched it, sending it back.

Shirou glared at the ball be sent back and get ready to return the favour.

[BOOST!]

POW!

Shirou power up and punched the ball as well, shooting it back at Saito.

[DELETE!]

Saito suppressed the ball power again and killed the momentum.

SWISH!

He then held out his hand and used the strength behind the ball to spin himself in a 360-degree spin before shooting the ball at Shirou with increased speed.

Shirou saw how fast the ball was going and took a step forward, he lunged forward and clenched his fist.

[BOOST!]

BASH!

Once he powered himself up, Shirou raised his fist and punched it in a downward arch, knocking back while keeping it close to the floor.

Saito quickly ran back to reach the ball and slide himself on the ball while outstretching his arm in front of the path the ball was taking.

[DELETE!]

Once he erased the power around the ball he caught it in his hand, then used his other arm to push his whole body up a few feet in the air. While in mid-air Saito flipped himself around and threw the ball.

SWISH!

Shirou simply raised his arm and caught the ball as it was aimed at his head, he then lobbed it upwards and as it came back down he cocked back his arm.

[BOOST!]

POW!

As the ball came down in front of him, Shirou Boosted his power and hit it with a palm strike, firing it across the court.

[DELETE!]

BASH!

Saito deleted the power behind the ball once again and cocked back his fist, once the ball was close enough his punched it with a right cross and shot it at Shirou.

[BOOST!]

Shirou jumped up and grabbed the ball in his right hand, then powered up still mid-air and threw the ball back at his foe.

SWISH!

On the side-lines, everyone found themselves unable to tear their eyes away from what they were seeing. As the sparks flew from battle between the two aces, all those watching felt as if, rather than watching a Dodgeball game it was actually an all-out brawl. The way they kept hitting the ball back and forth like a game of Tennis, the way they could perfectly find the right method of catching to ball that could be followed by a counterattack and the fact that they seemed to be able to do this so effortlessly. One wrong move would cost them the win. The question was who would it be, who will slip up first? Everyone watched because they didn't want to miss the moment that question was answered.

The only ones who weren't completely absorbed into the match were Sona and Mika. The two of them were watching the two one the court carefully trying to figure out who would win based on what they could see about their performance. While watching the game progress they both realized something, something that gave one of the two a chance that would determine the outcome of who would win, provide that one could figure it out.

[BOOST!]

POW!

[DELETE!]

SWISH!

[BOOST!]

BANG!

[DELETE!]

POW!

[BOOST!]

SWISH!

[DELETE!]

BANG!

As the two of them continued the seemingly never-ending cycle of hitting the ball back at each other. Shirou began to think.

"This is starting to get old." Shirou thought. "I can keep returning the ball since my body is stronger now I can handle Boosting for a long time. But this won't get me anywhere. At this point, what we're doing is just an altered version of Ping-Pong. I need to hit him, but Saito's no amateur and he can clearly see the ball's speed and react in time to throw it back. Need to think."

Shirou thought back to what he knew about Saito, his abilities, strengths and Sacred Gear.

"He has the power to suppress his opponents magic and power-ups." Shirou thought about that. "Suppress, suppress, suppress…" He thought one that keyword until it came to him. "…Wait. That's right, he's not deactivating my Boosts. he just powering them down, that means his power has a weakness."

"Saito's Delete Field has two weakness." Sona thought, watching the match continue. "The first is that he can only suppress power depending on how much he himself is capable of. If the power is too strong he can't suppress it and—"

"—The second is that; even if he can suppress the power, he only just weakens it to a lower level, in some cases, it's enough to completely nullify it." Mika thought, watching the match continue. "But since Big Bro's doubled power is so great he can't Delete it all the way, he can only lessen it and because of that whenever he catches or hits the ball back—"

"—It's moving faster and has more weight behind it than when he throws it back at Shirou." Sona thought. "Meaning Saito is actually taking damage to his arm whenever the ball is sent back at him and is having more trouble the longer this game goes one, so if Shirou keeps this up—"

"—I can win this by keeping up this pace until I break his hand." Shirou thought, thinking the same thing as the other two. "But winning like that will take to long, so instead I'll just it hit him with something so strong he won't be able to weaken it." He then smirked. "Good thing I have a new move I've been waiting to try out."

POW!

Saito hit the ball back at Shirou and Shirou himself prepared himself to end this.

[BOOST!]

[EXPLOSION!]

Shirou's aura flared up so much that it was visible to those in the gym.

"Explosion?" Rias looked surprised. "But why do that now?"

Mika smiled. "So he did figure it out, guess that settles it."

Saito narrowed his eyes. "Explosion is the one that lets him sustain his Boosts for a short time. But what difference will that make now? What's he planning?"

"Now for something courtesy of Ren." Shirou then power up and summoned his Touki, coating himself in his life energy that increased his strength by a wild margin, though his clear white Touki aura was almost camouflaged by the emerald green aura of the Boosted Gear, so not many could see or even notice it.

Shirou cocked his fist back when the ball got in close. "Try and stop this!"

BANG!

This time when Shirou punched the ball, it sailed through the court much faster than it had at any other time during this match, if before it was comparable to a speeding bullet, now it was a burning meteorite slicing through the sky, and the target it was aimed at was Saito.

Saito knew it was coming too fast from him to dodge, and even if he could he would never try to dodge in the first place since to him, that would be the same as admitting defeat. Thus he attempted to stop it.

[DELETE!]

PUSH!

"Grr…" Once the ball came into Saito's hand he immediately felt the pressure behind it, it was a struggle to stay on his feet, he was being pushed back a few inches, and the ball felt so strong he felt like he was trying to catch a cannonball. It was taking all his remaining either to stop the ball's advance. On top of that, he could feel his hand about to break. "Gugh! It's too much, I can't suppress it! Where did he get this much power!"

His thoughts were cut off when he looked in front of him and saw that in a flash, Shirou was now standing right in front of him looking confident. And since he was struck trying to stop the ball, Saito couldn't move.

"Looks like you're having trouble, so I guess I'll finish it."

[TRANSFER!]

Shirou clenched his fist and let all his power flow into his right hand. Soon his fist was covered in the same Crimson-Red energy that was used whenever he fired Dragon Blast, only this time instead of discharging it, he wrapped it around his fist making it into a blow that held power equal to the blast. With that added power of Touki behind it, increasing its destructive power.

"Saito, when will you learn." Shirou cocked his fist back and whispered. "I'm stronger than you."

"Grr…TSUKIHARU!" Saito roared.

DRAGON FORCE STRIKER!

"AAUUGGGHHH!" With a fierce strike Shirou unleashed his attack on Saito, the blow smashed into the ball and blow it and Saito away with a crushing force, knocking him off his feet and sending his flying away, and crashed into the wall behind him, before having him fall onto the floor. With that everyone could tell, the match was over.

[RESET!]

Music Off

Shirou's power returns to normal and he turns around. "That's win #158."

"Game over!" Momo announced. "Winner, Gremory Team!"

The Gremory team celebrated, while the Sitri team went over to Saito to see if he was alright.

Sona approached him. "Saito, you…" Sona stopped and looked at his hand with dismay. It was bruised black and clearly broken, two of his fingers were even bent. "…You need treatment."

Saito ignored her and tried to stand up.

Meanwhile, Shirou was walking away and Rias approached him with a satisfied expression. "Congratulations, you were impressive as always."

Shirou raised a brow. "What? You seriously think that was impressive. Then you must have low standards."

Rias seemed amused by that. "Somehow I had a feeling you'd say something like that."

"Wait!" Saito called out, Shirou stopped but didn't turn to face him. "Tsukiharu, I may have lost this time but this isn't over, the only reason I couldn't beat you was because I wasn't strong enough this time. But next time, it won't be some stupid match on a court, it'll be a real fight."

Shirou didn't respond. "You lost 'cause you weren't strong enough? Don't state the obvious, moron."

"Aren't you going to say something back to him?" Rias asked.

"Huh? I'll get pissed if you joke like that." Shirou said before walking away. "A winner has nothing to say to a loser."

And with that Shirou left, shorty after Saito left himself.

Asia watched him leave and looked somewhat confused. "I don't get it. Shirou-san said he didn't care about getting a familiar, and Saito-san said the same thing. So why did they play so hard if they felt that way?"

"Oh Asia, you're so naïve." Mika told her in a patronizing tone. "Remember when I said Rias and Sona didn't care about who goes where and when anymore, all they care about now is beating each other in a contest. The same can be said for those two." She informed her. "Neither of them cared about the match, or familiars, or even their Kings, all they wanted was to beat each other. Once it came down to the two of them it became a fight for them, and when that happened all they could think of was how much they wanted to beat the other. That's what happens when men compete."

Asia looked confused. "I don't think I understand."

Mika patted her on the cheek. "You don't have to. It's something only those two or someone like them would understand."

While everyone else was talking, Koneko kept to herself and was deep in thought, thinking of what how Shirou had ended it and more importantly; what she had sensed from Shirou. That thought made her somewhat Afraid.

"…It couldn't be, there's no way that could have been Touki. Sempai doesn't know about Senjutsu and nobody could've taught him…I must have just imagined it." She tried to convince herself, for the sake of putting away her own personal worries.

As the court was being clear up, Sona went to talk to Rias.

"As much as I hate to lose." Sona said watching as her team made their way out of the gym, (Reya was now wearing a red tracksuit to replace her destroyed gym clothes) "I have to admit this was a lot of fun, especially the end. "But if this was a Rating Game instead of us just fooling around, there's no way you could have beaten me."

"You really think so?" Rias asked confidently. "The way I see it, so long as I have the Tsukiharu siblings I can't see my group losing to anyone."

"Don't be so sure, Rias. True they are a formidable duo, but. You never what could happen." Sona said before walking away.

[Victory!] The Devils of the Occult Research Club cheered simultaneously as they clinked their teacups together. Shirou just sat down and just enjoyed his drink.

"I'd like to tell each and every one of you that I appreciate you going out there and doing what was needed to be done to beat those Devils." Rias said to them as they stood around the table. "I hope you all feel proud. Especially you Shirou, our victory was thanks to you."

"She's right, you were great out there." Kiba praised him.

"I second that." Akeno agreed with her sweet smile.

Asia also smiled at him and Koneko nodded.

"Yes, I am indeed amazing." Shirou said with little care as he put down his cup and stood up. "But I don't see why you're all making such a big deal about it. I thought I already displayed my superiority over you guys awhile ago."

"There it is." Mika sat beside him. "You're not you unless you have the usual arrogance."

"I'm not being arrogant, it's my nature." Shirou corrected.

Rias then clapped her hands. "Now that everything has been settled, I'd say it's about time we find you three some familiars."

Knowing that was her cue, Akeno went over to active the teleportation circle.

"Wait you mean, we're getting them right now?" Asia asked.

"It's a full moon tonight, this is our best chance to see him." Rias explained.

"See who?" Mika asked.

"The Familiar Master."

Just as they were about to teleport. "This better be worth it." Shirou thought.

When the circle vanished they had been transported to what appeared to be a forest as far as one could tell. The reason it was hard to tell was because there weren't many forests that looked like this. The trees were all dead and devoid of any leaves, or life of any kind, and the dark red sky could be seen through the branches. There was no sign of any life nearby.

"…This place?" Shirou asked, unconvinced. "This is a dump."

"Well, this is the forest where all familiars live." Akeno said.

"That's right. This is where we all got ours, too." Kiba assured them, Koneko nodded.

"It's really freaky out here." Asia said clinging to Shirou's back with a frightened expression.

"You think so?" Mika asked, also clinging to Shirou's back.

"Mika-san? Are you afraid too?"

Mika shook her head. "No, I just wanted to cling to my Brother, too."

Shirou facepalmed. "Where is this 'Familiar Master' anyway?"

"Get daze!"

"Kyaa!"

A new loud voice suddenly spoke out and made Asia jump in surprise. The one who appeared in front of them was a young man standing atop a tree branch, he was wearing rough clothing's, blue shorts, a tank top, a grey shirt tied around his waist, fingerless gloves, a large backpack, and a cap he wore backwards.

"My name is Satooji of Madara Town! I'm a Devil in training, aiming to become the Familiar Master!" The now named Satooji proclaimed.

"Wow." Mika gapped. "It's Ash Ketchum!"

"Could you not right now!" Shirou said back at her.

"Satooji-san, I brought the ones I spoke of."

Rias introduced them to the so-called Familiar Master.

"Hee. A Silver-haired Bishounen and two Bishougo's, one Black-haired and the other blonde huh." Satooji inspected. "OK! Leave it to me! If it's me any Familiar immediately would be 'get daze'!"

"Seriously." Shirou turned to Rias. "You dragged me here just to meet this outdated rip-off. If I wanted to see that I would've just watched webster."

"I know he seems strange, but he is a professional in terms of familiars." Rias assured him. "Today we will catch familiars in this forest while receiving advice from him. Okay?"

"Yes."

Only Asia nodded and responded to Rias.

While having that conversation, Satooji asks them in a friendly manner.

"Now, what type of Familiar do you desire? Strong one? Fast one? Or one with poison?"

"What do you have that's good?" Shirou asked.

Satooji smiles at his question and gets out something that looks like a catalogue. The one he points at is a creature with a great ferocity that is drawn out on the whole page.

"This is what I would recommend! One of the Dragon-Kings! Chaos Karma Dragon, Tiamat! It's a legendary Dragon! It's also the only female among the Dragon-Kings! Even until now, there hasn't been a Devil who has caught her yet! That would be obvious! Since it's said to be as strong as a Satan!"

Shirou scratched his chin. "Hmm, sounds powerful, but how you even go about catching something like that?"

[I wouldn't recommend trying it.]

Upon hearing Ddraig's voice Shirou turned his attention to his arm.

"Why not, Ddraig?"

Shirou communicated with Ddraig telepathically.

[While it is true that Tiamat is the Strongest among the Dragon-Kings, she is also a great danger to you exclusively.]

"Why me? What did I do?"

[Nothing. The reason you'd be in danger is because you possess me. The fact of the matter is that due to reasons I will not get into, Tiamat Loathes and despises me and thus will do everything in her power to kill me, or in this case my possessor, in the form of proxy. Even in the past, there were times when those who possessed my Sacred Gear came into contact with Tiamat and were killed by her.]

"So basically, if I try and find her I'll get caught up in your mess. Fine, no Tiamat."

"That sounds good. It seems like they will get along since they are both legendary Dragons. Shirou." Rias turned to the Devil in question. "You are my adorable servant, so it might be acceptable if you can pull that off."

"First of all, don't call me that." Shirou said back to her, irritated. "Second, hate to break it to you but it's not happening." He lifted his left hand. "According to the big guy in my Gear, Tiamat Red Dragon Emperor = Death Match. And do any of you think that's a good idea?"

Rias thought for a second before letting out a defeated sigh. "I suppose not." She turned back to Satooji. "Is there anything else you can recommend?"

"Hahaha! I see, then how about this one? Hydra!"

This time Satooji showed them an illustration of a gigantic serpent with many heads. It has sharp eyes, sharp fangs and there is a poisonous mark of a skeleton on the illustration and there are actually skulls around the serpent in this illustration.

"This one is amazing! It has deadly poison! There are no Devils in this World which can endure its poison! On top of that, it is immortal! The worst creature in the World which even kills its master! See? Pretty useful right?"

Shirou remembered the last time he met something immortal and cringed. "I don't get along with things that are 'immortal', what else you got?"

"This boy sure has lots of requests. Then, what would you prefer?" Satooji asked.

"I don't really care what I get. I'll just look around until I see something I like."

Satooji makes a sound with his tongue with an unpleasant expression.

"That's why newbie's don't understand anything. Listen? You have to catch powerful familiars. And each one has different abilities. If you are trying to become a Familiar-Master then you have to catch the same one several times, and then pick the strongest male and female among them. You have the two breed and make them give birth to their baby with strong abilities. And also-Ouch!"

He was interrupted when Shirou throw a rock at him.

"I didn't come here to get a crash course on Pokemon!" Shirou yelled at him. He then looks at Asia and Mika. "Forget it, you two try asking."

"Okay." Mika stepped forward. "I want a familiar that's unique."

"I also want a cute familiar.

Asia said while still hiding behind Shirou.

"Okay, I understand."

Satooji immediately replied.

Later, the group of Devils were walking along the forest, following the Familiar Master who was acting as their guide.

"A Sprite Dragon?"

Satooji nods at Shirou's question.

"Yeah, the Sprite Dragon. Just like its name, it's a Dragon which uses blue lightning."

Apparently, right now there is a super rare Dragon which flew into the depth of this forest. Satooji suggested that maybe it would be good to catch that.

"But what kind of Dragon is a Sprite Dragon?" Mika asked.

When she asked that question, Satooji smiled.

"Apparently it is still a baby. If you are going to catch it, now is the time. You would definitely not be able to catch it once it matures. It won't be as strong as Dragon-Kings, but it's placed in the Top-tier classes for Dragons." Satooji explained

"A Top-tier Dragon huh?" Shirou thought, somewhat excited.

Mika saw his expression and almost laughed. "And of course, he wants to fight it."

"Owa!"

While they were thinking, Satooji made a loud sound. When the group looked to see what it is about, they saw a Dragon-looking creature which is about the size of an eagle is resting on a branch, with scales which were a glowing blue.

"Sprite Dragon! That is it!" Satooji said excited about it.

"That's the Dragon?" Shirou asked disappointed.

"It's so cute." Asia said in wonder.

"Cute, but dangerous too." Satooji warned. "It's still young, but it can shoot lightning when angered."

"This certainly is the first time I've ever seen one." Rias admired.

"If you want to claim it then do it now, once it's fully grown it can no longer be tamed." The Familiar Master informed them.

"Shirou-kun, since you possess the power of the Red Dragon Emperor, that Dragon might be a really good fit." Akeno suggested.

Shirou scratched his head. "I don't know, it's not really what I had in mind. I mean if it was bigger than—"

"KYYAA!"

He was cut off and recognizing the sound of Asia's scream, everyone turned their heads. Raining down on the blonde was what appeared to be a green slime-like, gooey substance that dropped from above. However, she wasn't the only one. To the left, Rias and Akeno also moaned as slime dropped onto them.

"O-Oh my!" Rias cried out as she and Asia made noises of discomfort, while Akeno had a pleasured smile.

"It's green slime!" Kiba exclaimed drawing his sword to attack but was cut off when some of it got on his face.

"It's burning away my clothes!" Rias said out loud as bits and pieces of her uniform was meeting away.

"How naughty~" Akeno moaned, as her clothes were eaten away by the slime, revealing her bra. "I'm so slimy and wet~"

"Ah, No!" Rias cried out, as her uniform was almost completely gone.

"Ahhn, my skirt!" Asia cried out, as the entire lower half of her uniform was gone.

Koneko just stood there looking uncomfortable as her clothes were also being eaten away.

Kiba kept trying to remove the slime on his face. "Dammit."

Shirou just went up to him and ripped it off. He then looked at him with half-lidded eyes. "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Knight who can't stop a slime."

"Sorry." Kiba responded apologetically.

"And you guys." Shirou turned to the girls, annoyed. "What are you even doing? just blast yourself free with magic."

The slimes then wrapped themselves around the girl's arms like tentacles, and while doing so even more of their clothes started to melt away, even the underwear, the moaning continued too.

"My hands are tied, I can't use my magic like this." Rias said, in discomfort.

"Me neither, how are we going to get of this mess!" Akeno cried out.

"Makes sense, it's normal for slimes to seal your powers." Mika stated. "It makes it harder to break free."

"Why aren't you caught in this!" Rias asked out, through her moans.

"Hehehe, because after years of watching some many different Anime, I know all there is to know about slimes." Mika proclaimed proudly. "And I always knew I'd face one someday, that's why I have a countermeasure. For example, when facing a slime always stand close to the Protagonist and you'll be safe, in this case, the Brotagonist."

She holds up her hand and gathers Demonic Power. "And, this is a spell I learned specifically to combat slimes, or any kind of weird monster really."

EXTERMINATION RAY!

A red magic-circle appeared in front of her hand and a white beam of light shot out, aimed at the female Devils before her, once it came in contact with them, they were completely consumed by a blinding light and before they knew it, the slimes were completely blown away, along with every remaining stitch of clothing on their bodies.

"Iyah!" Asia cried out.

The now Naked Devils covered their modesty (Expect for a shameless Akeno, who didn't seem to mind). While Mika looked satisfied.

"Success."

"What was that?" Rias asked.

"My new spell, it's something I recently came up with after facing that Chimera a little while ago, It's a spell that destroys any creature that doesn't have a human form." Mika explained. "I figured the perfect target to use it on was those slimes."

"Then, why are we Naked?" Akeno asked.

Mika shrugged. "I had to prioritize the destruction part, so even if the spell won't hurt you, you'll still feel the impact. In this case, enough impact to blow away your clothes. But since you barely had any left by that point, it's a moot point."

Shirou narrowed his eyes at her. "You know, something tells me you preferred it this way."

Mika responded with a tiny grin. "Oh, was it that obvious?"

"Well, in any case, I'm just relieved it's over." Rias decided, as she, Akeno, Koneko, and Asia walked forward to stand with the group, though Asia kept herself hidden behind Koneko to cover her shame.

"Wait, not yet!" Kiba said alarmed. "There's still some left."

He pointed to their right, and as he said there was still a small piece of slime left behind.

"I'll take care of this." Rias conjured a ball of Demonic Power in her hand. "Everyone, step back."

ZAP!

However, before she could, the slime was already hit by something else, it was burned to ash by a small bolt of blue lightning. Everyone looked up and saw the Sprite Dragon was responsible and currently flying around above them. He then came down and settled on Asia's shoulder.

"The Sprite Dragon?" Shirou wondered.

"Guess he likes Asia." Mika noted.

"I hear that Sprite Dragons open up to those with pure hearts. It seems like it really is attached to that girl." Satooji explained.

"Well isn't that convenient." Shirou noted dryly.

"U-Umm, can I make this Dragon my familiar?" Asia asked.

"Very well then." Rias said. "Let's begin the contract ceremony. Like I showed you."

Asia nodded and held out her hands. She opened a green magic-circle in front of the group. The Sprite Dragon is located in the middle of the magic circle, and the contract ceremony between Asia and the familiar was about to take place.

"In the name of A-Asia Argento, I order you! Y-You shall become my familiar and respond to my contract!"

With those words, the magic-circle vanished and the ceremony was successful.

"Normally the Sprite Dragon is a Dragon who won't pledge to a Devil, but it seems that girl has a very pure heart. Something like this has never happened before, but it seems like the contract ceremony will finish safely." Satooji told them.

Kiba then looked to the Tsukiharu siblings. "Are you two okay? In the end, we never found familiars for the two of you."

Shirou shrugged. "I was never really into all this."

"And I got to try out my spell, so I'm satisfied." Mika agreed.

When everything was settled the baby Dragon flew to Asia and started to play with her.

"Ufufu. You are tickling me. Byakurai-kun." Asia scolded.

"Byakurai?" Shirou questioned.

"Yes. He is a Dragon which uses Pale Lightning so I gave him the name Byakurai." Asia said shyly. "…Would it trouble you?"

Shirou brushed it off. "What do I care, he's your familiar."

Just as he said that the Sprite Dragon flew out of Asia's arms and made his way over to Shirou. He then landed on his shoulder.

"Aww~ He likes you." Akeno noted.

"Which is odd." Satooji looked confused. "Sprite Dragon's are supposed to hate the males of any species. Never seen one take a looking to a guy before."

"Your still here?" Shirou looked as though he just remembered the Familiar Master's presence.

While they were talking, Mika went over to Asia and whispered to her. "Let me guess, you actually named him Byakurai because it can also mean 'White Lightning', the Lightning meaning Rai, and the White being Shirou because you wanted to name him after Big Bro."

Having heard that, Asia blushed up which confirmed Mika's suspicion.

"I knew it." Mika whispered. "Just be happy on the fact that he doesn't seem to notice."

After they were done, Byakurai flew off Shirou's shoulder and bite into his sleeve, while trying to fly in the direction behind him. He seemed almost frantic.

"What's wrong with him?" Akeno asked.

"Looks like he wants you to follow him." Satooji guessed.

Shirou stared at the desperate baby Dragon and thought about it. "All right, let's go. But first." Shirou looked back at the rest of the group. "Put some clothes on."

He pointed out the state of dress (Or lack thereof) most of the girls were in, and it almost seemed like they just remembered themselves that they were nude. An awkward silence soon came after.

After walking deeper and deeper into the forest, with a Sprite Dragon as their guide this time, the Gremory curious to see what he wanted to show them continued their hike. The girls' were now dressed again and Satooji decided to go with them to see what was in store. Soon they got their answer in the form of a large rocky cave.

"In there?" Shirou asked Byakurai.

The Sprite Dragon gestured yes and flew off inside.

"Wait!" Asia went after him and the rest followed.

Once they were inside the cave, what they saw was something that none of them were expecting. Resting on a small rock was Byakurai, and next to him was something that looked like a Sword-hilt that was half-buried.

"Is that a Sword?" Kiba asked.

"Why would he want to lead us to a Sword?" Asia asked.

Rias turned to Satooji. "What is that?"

"Beats me." Satooji responded. "I'm a Familiar Master, not a Sword Master."

"Then get lost, we're done with you." Shirou told him.

Satooji looked shocked at hearing that, then walking away in a pout.

"That wasn't very nice, Shirou."

"Oh Shut up." Shirou brushed off Rias' attempt to scold him and went closer to the buried Sword. "I get the feeling this isn't an ordinary Sword.

It was something that was almost instinctual, Shirou could feel the Sword calling out to him like there was something familiar about it, more specifically like it was something he had been separated from for a long amount of time and was finally reunited with. At the same time, he knew he had never seen it before yet was still drawn to it.

As he stopped right in front of it, Shirou placed his hand on the hilt and pulled the Sword out of the ground. When he lifted it up the Sword was revealed. The blade was a beautiful and four feet long, the grip of the blade was a pure white, while the pommel was in the shape of a red Dragon claw with a green gem in its grasp. The hilt of the Sword was the same dark red as the Dragon claw pommel but the design was that of two Dragon wings with a Dragon head that looked very much like Ddraig in the centre. The Sheath of the Sword was pitch-black.

Shirou didn't know why, but he felt like he knew the name of this Sword.

[Incredible, I almost thought I'd never see it again.]

Shirou blinked, surprised when he heard Ddraig.

"What do you mean? You know what this Sword is."

[Yes, That Sword is Dyrnwyn: The Sword of the Red Dragon.]

"… Sword of the Red Dragon? You mean this is your Sword?"

[Close but no. This Sword was created a long time ago, back when The Three Factions were still at war. During that age there was a Great power that stood before me, even though he didn't have to power to defeat me, his true objective was to crave off some of my scales, and when he succeeded he brought them to the Legendary Blacksmith: Wayland Smith.]

"Wayland Smith, He existed?… Hold on. If he brought scales from you to a Blacksmith, then does that mean he used them to forge a Sword? This Sword?"

[You catch on quick. That's right, Dyrnwyn is that Sword, and it is currently in your hands.]

"Then why is such an important Sword in a dump like this?"

[The one who asked for the Sword to be made had miscalculated the aspects of the Sword. Dyrnwyn is not a Sword that can be wielded by just anyone. For starters, it can only be wielded by one who possesses my Sacred Gear. In this case, you. And on top of that, it is also a Holy Sword.]

"Holy Sword? What difference does that make? I mean I get the whole needing the Boosted Gear though."

[Actually it matters greatly, you see Holy Sword are extremely powerful but can't be used by just anyone. Being able to wield one is a trait you have to be born with, either you can or you can't. So that fact that you must be a Holy Sword wielder, as well as the Red Dragon Emperor, meant the number of people able to use Dyrnwyn was incredibly small. The number of people who did end up wielding is a number you could count with one hand.]

"Oh, it's one of those kinds of Swords. Guess the guy who asked for it should have been clearer on what type he wanted."

[Indeed. Truth is I haven't seen it in centuries. A few of my former partners could wield it, but after a while it became lost. I'm surprised that it would be here.]

Shirou looked at it for a moment and wondered. "Do you think I can wield it?"

[Who knows, since you are the Red Dragon Emperor you can hold the Sword at least if you weren't the Holy element of the Sword would already be burning you. As for whether or not you can wield it, you'll have to find out for yourself. If you draw the Sword and its aura flares that means you can.]

"So I just need to draw it."

With that information, Shirou placed his other hand on the Sheath of the Sword and unsheathed it. Upon doing so a bright-red blade was revealed and once it was a Golden-light aura started to emanate from the Sword, surrounding it.

[What a surprise. It seems you can indeed wield Dynrwyn.]

"Not bad." Shirou examined the Sword and felt both impressed by its power and satisfied by the fact that he could use it.

"Shirou?" The voice of Rias broke Shirou out of his internal conversation with Ddraig and he turned to see the shocked faces of all the others standing next to him, though they soon take a few steps back, considering that as Devils the Holy energy was giving them chills. They had the expression of as if they had seen a ghost, although Mika just looked curious and Kiba seemed almost like he was frozen with shock.

Shirou blinked. "What?"

"What?!" Rias repeated, not knowing how to respond to this situation. "What is that Sword, and how are you holding a Holy Sword without dying?!"

"Oh, that. Let me explain."

One Explanation Later...

"And that's basically it." Shirou finished.

"I see." Rias said, still feeling a little shock. "A Sword made from the Red Dragon, for the Red Dragon Emperor."

"Yeah, it was literally made for me." Shirou proclaimed. "Can you believe my luck, finding here of all places."

"That must of been why Byakurai-kun brought you here." Asia suggested, before turning to her familiar. "Right?"

The Sprite Dragon nodded.

"Well how about that." Mika noted. "So instead of getting a familiar, you get a weapon, are you glad you came now, Broboa?"

"You bet I am, who cares about getting some pet when I got a Badass Sword like this." Shirou exclaimed gladly.

[It's more than just that.]

Ddraig informed Shirou, which made him curious. "More, what do you mean?"

After asking the Dragon sealed inside his arm, he heard an answer.

[Dynrwyn isn't just a weapon for you to use, it's also made from parts of my original body, being in contact with it will likely increase your power, even only slightly.]

Shirou was surprised at that. "I can get stronger just by having the Sword?"

[Not can, you already have. You may not have noticed yet but your combat abilities have already increased a bit.]

Ddraig corrected him. Shirou took in this new revelation and it just seemed to satisfy him more. "Yes… More power, I never get tired of hearing that."

"Still, this is completely unexpected, I never once would've thought that you would turn out to be a Holy Sword user." Rias said amazed. "And a natural one at that."

"Natural?" Shirou said confused, not familiar with the concept.

"Ara, Ara, a Devil who can use a Holy Sword, that'll give you a major advantage when facing other Devils." Akeno noted. "It seems you just keep getting stronger by the day."

Shirou lowered Dynrwyn and sheathed it. "Yeah but, it just dawned on me that I don't really have much experience in Sword fighting. I mean I know how to use one, but I've never fought some else with one." Shirou then remembered the group had someone who used Swords, exclusively. "Hey Kiba, do you—"

Shirou paused when he noticed the look on the blonde's face and it was not a friendly one. In stark contrast to his usual friendly, sparkling, almost Prince-like smile, Kiba had an expression of pure hatred, his face was dark, eyes that were glaring daggers, a gaze that could freeze the soul, and his whole body was seething with rage. He liked like he wanted blood like he wanted to kill someone.

Shirou wasn't unused to seeing this expression, he had seen it all the time on his enemies and it never bothered him. But this time Shirou was at a loss, for two reasons; the first being the obvious fact that it was Kiba of all people who was giving him this look when, until now he had never seen Kiba so much as scowl. And two, the weird thing was, Kiba's gaze wasn't actually aimed at Shirou himself, but at the Sword he was holding.

"Kiba… What's wrong?" Shirou asked, confused.

Kiba turned around and faced away from the group. "It's nothing." He spoke in an unusually cold tone. "I just agree with the Chief, it really is a surprise that you can wield a Holy Sword."

"Yuuto." Rias said his name, both her tone and her expression was very quiet and filled with sympathy, it was as if she was witnessing something upsetting. Whatever it was, Koneko and Akeno seemed to be aware of it as well, since they also had a similar expression.

The Knight in question started to walk away, still not facing the others. "Things like this happen, huh. To think I'd see it in an unexpected place. And to think you of all people could wield it, Shirou-kun… I wonder, is this simply fate."

And with that, Kiba had left the cave. Leaving the others still inside, while Shirou, Mika, and Asia were still left out of the loop on whatever reason he had for reacting in such a manner was.

"What the hell was that all about?" Shirou questioned.

Rias turned to him still upset. "…It's complicated."

Unbeknownst to the Devils of Kuoh was that the old abandon Church that was used as a base by the now-deceased Fallen Angel Raynare was about to have two new visitors enter it. As the sky began to rain heavily, two cloaked figures walked inside. The two were wearing White cloaks with Gold and Blue accents. However, one of them had what seemed like a large Sword that was wrapped completely in White cloth. Their heads and most of their faces were hidden by the cloak's hoods.

After walking down the aisle, the figures stopped in front of the broken cross at the back of the sanctuary. "I'd say that utter ruins describes it." Said the one with the large Sword. Their voice indicated that she was a woman.

"Rumor has it that there was a disturbance here recently." Said the other one, who also sounded like a young woman. "Caused by a Fallen Angel and a Devil."

"It's getting late." The first girl said, before taking her hood off with a hand that was covered with a black fingerless glove that extended to her biceps. Revealing herself a beautiful young woman with chin-length dark blue hair with a dyed green fringe on the right side and hazel-yellow eyes. "And you're certain this is it? We're supposed to be meeting him here right?"

"Oh please, like I would be wrong." The other girl said with a cheerful smile, after taking off her hood. She was a beautiful young woman with chestnut-brown hair, tied into twintails, each held by a blue scrunchy, and violet eyes. "On top of that, I lived in this city with my parents as a kid." The girl said as she held up a photograph. "Give me a little credit okay."

The photo she was holding showed a picture of two young children sitting together outside a small house, next to a tree, during a bright sunny day. One looked happy and cheerful, while the other just closed his eyes and looked away from the camera like he was huffing.

The cheerful one resembled the girl holding the picture so it was obviously her. Surprising though, the other child in the picture had a strong resemblance to the Devil who was once human known as Shirou Tsukiharu, he even had Shirou's unmistakeable Silver-hair.

Things were about to get hectic again.

And that's the chapter, and let me start off by saying yes Shirou and Mika train a lot, but I want them to be strong characters and I prefer characters who are powerful because they train, not just because of Plot-armor.

Also as you can see, Shirou already has the desire to become a High-Class Devil, but even though it takes a while for him to be one because annoying reasons like society and the Purist in the government, trust me when I say Shirou will Rank-up much faster than Issei did in the canon. And being a High-Class Devil won't be his all-time goal, he'll have a bigger one later.

Now as you can see, Saito is back. I had always planned on having Saito be a member of the Sitri Peerage, like how I had Shirou replace Issei, I decided to replace Saji as well, why because I didn't like either of them that much. Saji was too whiny and annoying, always Sona this and Sona that, without any real goals or aspirations of his own, besides being a Servant the rest of his life. So I chose to replace him with someone I think will be better.

For those of you who don't know, Delete Field is a Sacred Gear that belongs to the Prison Dragon, like the Absorption Line that Saji had, I just decided to give him a different one because I thought Delete Field would be a good one to have, he'll still end up getting all four of them later on though, so don't worry. Plus when it came to the Dodgeball match I wanted to use it as another chance to have them fight again, since it's been a while and I wanted to demonstrate how the abilities as Devils match up.

Moving on, Shirou is still training with Ren and he can now use Touki, I always planned and Shirou having the power of Touki and he will soon be very adept with it, he will also gain the power of Senjutsu but that'll come later down the road. And even though Ren told him the dangers of Senjutsu he still wanted to learn it, because Shirou can't say no to more power. But there's a certain someone from the Gremory group who won't react well once she finds out.

Finally, to address the ending, yes I made Shirou a True-Holy Sword wielder, the reason being that Shirou is a natural-born prodigy when it comes to battle so I wanted him to have a weapon he could use, and since there will be a lot of Swords in the next Arc I figured he should have one too. And for those of you who don't know, Dynrwyn isn't my idea, I borrowed the idea for a different fanfic called the Maverick Emperor by FenrisFlitiarn, go check it out it's good. The fact is though, even though he introduced the Sword, after a while, it just faded off into the background, which I felt was a waste so I decided to use the concept myself. Though how it was introduced was different.

Anyways thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed, if you want more leave a review, if you like the story click the follow/favorite, and as always have an awesome day.