If it wasn't one thing it was another as Issei received a text message with the necessary information needed to make a magic circle and teleport to it. Once inside there was a well-decorated house somewhere in Japan as he heard a voice "I'm in here."
Issei followed it as he made his way down the hall and into what was the main living room area of the house. There was a TV mounted on the wall with a few couches and a table in the middle but a man was sitting down in black robes holding onto glass with a few ice cubes with a brown liquid in it. Considering the smell of it was easy to find out that it was alcohol. "Sorry about the trouble that went down."
Taking a seat Issei looked at the man "Don't sweat it Azazel. I had a feeling something stupid was bound to happen after the I dealt with the underworld."
"Yeah, we heard about that." Azazel chuckled as he put his glass down "Most of the big factions heard about that. So who was he working with?"
"Creuserey Asmodeus is what Grayfia said his name was."
"Interesting what did he want?" Azazel was now interested in what was happening.
"Something about how he was a true Satan and he was one of the rulers of the Supernatural world. I don't know he was trying to fill my head with useless junk when I was doing information gathering on some people."
"Would that by any chance be the Khaos Brigade?" Azazel asked as he got a rise out of Issei.
"Oh is that what they are called? The ones causing problems in the shadows as of recent. Where did you find out that name?"
"Kokabiel"
Issei understood exactly how he got that information. "Speaking of him. Did you get my request?"
"I did" Issei was looking at him waiting for something more. "I've poked and prodded around for some years now on that subject. But not much has come of it. We know who she is or was shall I say. But after that, we have yet to find anything of use. The problem may have been cleaned up by somebody else." That wasn't exactly what Issei wanted to hear but if that's all he could get then he would have to deal with it.
Azazel refilled his glass as he slid the drink down the table towards Issei. "You want some?"
Issei slid the glass back "No thanks I don't need lectures from people about that."
Azazel shrugged his shoulders "Suit yourself only more for me. It's not like your Dragon physiology has a problem dealing with it." He took a drink of the glass as he looked at Issei "Say what can you tell me about her."
"Tall big blue eyes, super silky perfectly blonde hair," Issei told Azael as he was waiting for even more. "A naive but cute face with the finest breasts I've ever seen."
"Tell me something I don't know about Gabriel." Azazel slammed his glass down onto the table wanting more.
He thought about it for a moment "I'm about 99% sure she is the only woman in the world with perfectly symmetrical breasts. Not a single gram off."
Azazel looked at him "That's a bold statement."
Issei got up as he was about to leave "Oh I know, but you can't disprove it even with all your science." He walked out the door leaving Azazel to ponder that statement. When Issei walked out of the front door he looked around and saw he was on the outskirts of the town.
He started to walk back home as he felt a vibration in his pocket. When he pulled out his phone he saw that Rias was calling. "Yeah?"
"You think you can be at the school in about 5 minutes?"
"I can be." He told her as there was some noise in the background.
"Perfect see you there."
True to his word he was there as he met up with them as they had bags in their hands. "Catch." Rias tossed one of them to him. He caught it and went to open it up as Rias stopped him. "Not yet just wait." He followed the girl into the back of the school as they opened up a gate and went into the sectioned-off area that had the pool in it. Rias looked at them "For all of our hard work Sona gave us access to the pool today, provided we clean it we get first use of the season." It didn't take long for the girls to make their way into the locker room to go get changed as he did the same.
After a few minutes Issei was waiting around near the pool as he didn't take long to change, but the girls were a whole other story. When he heard the door open to the girl's room open and looked back they were all coming out. Rias had on a white two-piece that had golden rings connecting areas such as the bra to its straps and the sides of the panties together. Akeno had a similar Red and blue crisscrossing design that was mainly red.
But when the eldest girls moved to the side to show off the others, Asia and Koneko were standing there. Asia had on a simple yellow two-piece that had frills on the tops of the panties and the bottom of the bra. Koneko was in a white but extremely basic two-piece that made sure to cover everything and wasn't as provocative as the others. Katase and Murayama had on matching designs sports bra-style tops with a window and bikini bottoms. Behind them Yumi had her hair tied up slightly as she had on a blue two-piece as well that was tighter than the others as it didn't show off her body it laid everything out as there was a familiar logo on the side of the competition swimwear bottoms.
"Do you like what you see Issei?" Akeno was in a flirtatious mood as she tried to show more of herself off to him.
Rias looked as if she was about to pop off at Akeno as Issei stuck the knuckle of his index finger in his mouth and bit down on it looking at them more. "Is this show and tell? Or will there a touching part as well."
Rias set her problem with Akeno's side for a moment as she looked over at the girls to gauge their reaction. "Do you want to make it a touching party?"
They all saw Issei crouched on the floor with a red tail swinging back and forth like a dog as he looked at them and nodded. Akeno started to laugh as she saw him "It must be torture for him right now." As they saw a bludge forming in a bright red speedo.
Katase and Murayama looked at Rias "We're not going to tell him no."
A sigh came from Rias "Fine, but you need to do something first. You can swim right?" Issei nodded "Good."
After cleaning out the pool and refilling it, Issei was holding Koneko's hands as he guided her up and down the pool. Her feet splashed back and forth in rhythm to his voice as he counted 1 and 2's as he swam backward as he was teaching Koneko how to swim. Koneko tried to keep her head above the water "Sorry… for making...you...do this."
Issei paid no attention to any of it as he kept moving back "It's not a problem that you don't know how to swim. I understand and have no issue with teaching you." He reached the end of the pool as Koneko collided with him as her face ran up his chest and she developed a blush on her face.
"Your surprisingly gentle for being a dragon." Koneko said as her head rested on Issei.
Issei patted her on the head as he reached down and gently grabbed ahold of her legs lifting her up and out of the pool. "I don't have a reason to be rough with you." He tapped her with his index finger on the nose. "It's Asia's turn now." He said as she sat down next to Koneko and dipped her feet into the water.
"Looks like your next Asia." Koneko said to her as she stood up. While Asia moved into the water Issei looked around and saw the other girls having fun. His focus split back to the hear and now as he focused on Asia lesson.
Not even twenty minutes in the water Asia was asleep on one of the chairs next to the pool as she was tired from her lesson. Koneko was no different as she was next to Asia and Issei was watching the other girls. When he looked over he saw Rias curling her index finger calling him over to her. He made his way to the other side of the pool as Rias was laying down on a towel holding bottle in her hand. "Here" She tossed the bottle at him and rolled onto her stomach "Back then front we devils burn easily in the sunlight."
Issei reached over and unhooked her bra as she pulled it off, no longer in need of it. Issei got right to work as he poured the oil all over her and rubbed it into her skin as much as he could. When her top half was done he lathered her legs up but left one place for fun. Getting his hands covered in oil he slid his hands down the back of her bikini and rubbed the oil into his heart's content playing with her ass as if it was a ball of dough. "Ise!" Rias moaned out as she knew she made a mistake and now it's going to come back at her.
Akeno saw what was happening as she made her way over to them she looked down at Issei and smiled at him "I see that your hands are full are you by any chance in need of some help?"
"You know I could use some help here." Issei told her as Akeno reached down and grabbed the smaller edge of the Rias's bikini and pulled it down. "Oh no keep going" Issei said as Akeno kept pulling as stripped them clean off. She saw as Issei's hands had her ass spread apart and well oiled up as he was going even further beyond.
First, it was a finger as they heard Rias moan and complain but deep down she was enjoying it. Then it turned to two fingers as Akeno watched as Issei's fingers were sawing in out of her as he was shoving his fingers up to the spine side as he was picking up the face. Looking at her she was a mess who was leaking everything she had on the towel. It wasn't long before Akeno saw it for the first time as Rias had a shaking leg and heavy breathing resulting in the orgasm. Rias was in no condition to do anything aside from lay there.
"So priestess what would you like?" Issei looked Akeno in the eyes as she didn't have much of an answer for him. Getting off Rias he sat down next to her as he pulled Akeno over to him as he sat her down on his right leg making sure not to do anything as crazy to her. All he did was wrap his arms around her waist and rest his chin on her shoulder "Let me rephrase that, is there anything you want to say?"
Akeno didn't know what to say as she was wrapped in his embrace. With his right hand, he reached behind her and grabbed ahold of the back of her bra. "How about this may I?" She nodded as Issei disconnected the bra and discarded it as he reached up for them and held onto them. "You have very nice breasts." The two of them sat in silence as he gently played with her breasts. The silence between them was uncomfortable "I'll right fight let's cut the chase. I don't mind that your part fallen." He felt Akeno clam up as he continued talking "I'm aware of your story and honestly I don't care what you are. All you need to do is be yourself and that's all that you can do."
The two of them sat in silence as they watched the other girls swim around for a while. It got to the point where they wanted to get out of the water and relax for a while. Yumi was the first one to leave as Katase and Murayama followed. But when she saw the mess that was around as Rias was asleep naked and Akeno sitting on Issei's lap. Katase and Murayama stood next to Yumi as they looked at Issei "You had some fun."
Issei looked over at Rias as everyone else watched his tail slink over and lay or Rias. "Well, it was only Rias who had the fun." The Kendo girls knew all too well who had the fun was. "Say do you think you two could disassemble the next piece?" Issei asked them as he moved Akeno onto the towel next to them.
Katase and Murayama looked at Yumi as Katase grabbed her top as Murayama grabbed her bikini. "What what are you two." Yumi tried to break free as they pulled on their respective clothing pulling it partially off. The bikini was left around her knees as the top was pulled right off as she was spun around as they pushed her towards Issei. Yumi however didn't have much balance left as she toppled over and into Issei's lap.
"Look at you." Issei said, looking down at her a knight falling into the way of a dragon.
"This isn't what it seems." Her face was almost as red as Rias's hair.
"Uh-huh," Issei nodded as he looked down, seeing the full frontal. "You know I haven't given you your punishment yet."
"Nooooo anything but that." Yumi tried to get away once again as Issei held her there.
"Don't overreact." He told her as his hands grabbed her breasts "Unless that's your kink, but I get the feeling that would be more of an Akeno thing. I do have a question for you, however."
"Yes." She looked up at him.
"Have you ever masturbated?" He asked as her face was just one shade away from Rias.
"Yumi is to clean cut." They heard from Rias as her voice was muffled in the towel.
"Realy?" Issei's right hand was rubbing her stomach as his left hand was playing with her nipples.
"Hey, Issei are you going to finger her?" Katase asked as she was watching him.
"That's a reward. She needs punishment for her actions." Issei told them as they saw Yumi's face getting brighter red.
"So what do you planned?" Katase asked again.
"I don't know" He leaned back with Yumi as he propped up her legs. His right hand slid down and rubbed her clit as her breathing was getting heavier.
"Please…" They heard Yumi ask.
"Naw" Issei pulled his hands away from her, surprising the others around leaving Yumi frustrated. "Its punishment not rewards." He lifted Yumi as he saw the wetness between her legs as she stood up. "She's plenty frustrated now, so you can give her swimsuit back. But you need to get dressed here."
Yumi was quick to take her swimsuit back as she put the bottoms on covering her shame. "Here I thought you were going to have sex with her." Akeno said as she watched everything.
"Do you want to?" Yumi asked, needing to know how it might have been.
"Sure." He said as she got somewhat excited to hear that. "But I need to deal with Asia first. After she has been dealt with I'm open to anything."
"Threesome? Foursome? Maybe even a gangbang? Murayama asked as ideas were flowing.
"Sure, maybe even a poolside romp." Issei said as he got the ideas flowing. "Has anyone seen Xenovia?" He asked as he stood up looking around for her.
"Did she even come out?" Akeno asked as Issei wandered off to see where she was.
It took a bit as he searched the rooms around the pool as he found Xenovia in one of the storage rooms. "Oh Issei Hyoudou." She called out as she saw him enter the room.
"Did you not think it was best to change in the girl's locker room?" He asked her as he saw everything on the floor.
"This is my first swimsuit and it took me awhile to get accustomed to it." She had on a green and gold two-piece as the golden thin straps held together just enough of the green fabric to cover everything.
"You wear a skin-tight battle suit that implies much more than what that swimsuit is showing." Issei shook his head as it wasn't getting past her "You look good in that." He figured the compliment would go further.
She reached up and pulled on the straps as jiggled her tits "Fighting seems to be a normal thing. My future has changed but I want to try to experience something for girls." Issei scratched his chin hearing that she wasn't the best person to explain what she wanted. "Say Issei let's make children."
That perked Issei up real quick hearing that "You need to slow down. You just left the church and wanting to have a child this fast is in neither of our best interests."
Xenovia approached him as she reached back unhooking her bra letting her breasts hang out "They say intercourse can be fun for both of us."
Issei backed away as she started to slide down her panties "Hey Ise…." He turned around and saw Rias with the girls behind him. They only saw Xenoiva stripping down and now what came before. Rias grabbed ahold of him as did the other girls as they dragged him out of the storage room as screaming was heard outside. Xenovia however was left there with her goal now missing."
A few days passed as they were all settling into the new flow of life as they headed to school for a new day. As they came near the front gates of the school there was a man with darker silver hair leaning on the wall waiting. When he looked up he saw the group coming towards the air around them shimmered as it looked as if they were in a separate space. "This school is kind of nice."
Issei forces a smile "For the likes of you it is."
"Who are you?" Rias asked as she had never seen a person like this.
"My name is Vali, The White Dragon Emperor… Vanishing Dragon. But we meet again Welsh Dragon. What would happen if we were to fight right here?" Vali said as everyone saw two flashes of light as not a second later Xenovia and Yumi had thrust their blades up to his neck.
"Your threats are far from funny." "There will be no fighting here." Yumi and Xenovia said as their hands were shaking.
Vali's eyes looked down at the swords seeing their hands "Your hands are shaking yet you are going to stop me? Kokabiel was your first real fight and you failed in that."
"Enough Vali." Issei said as he looked at the two girls "You two that's enough as well you would be casualties if you fought him."
The two of them backed away from Vali and Issei "She is watching and waiting." Vali said as he walked past them. The girls turned around to see Vali fade away as he walked away.
"What is he talking about?" Rias asked as she turned to look at Issei.
"Alice fell down the rabbit hole because she had questions. That hole is not something I want to fall into for questioning it right now." That was a hole to dive into after school before it was the worst possible time to think of it.
But today was far from the day Issei wanted to deal with school at all. It was parent's day. Issei's one day a year he wanted nothing to do with school. In the classroom, everyone noticed as there was an open seat next to the windows. It wasn't exactly the last row of desks but it was near the back however everyone knew who it was that was missing. "Why is Hyoudou missing? I saw him this morning." Chattering across the class was heard as they waited for the teacher to come into the class.
Katase and Murayama had an idea where he could have been and why he was gone. "Come to think of it, he ditched last year as well." They heard Motohama say as that piqued everyone's interest.
"Alright everyone" They heard the door open as the teacher entered the class. He looked over the class as he saw one open chair and plenty of parents lined up on the back watching their children. "Today I want to see something from you." He reached over and pulled a lid off a bucket and pulled out some clay. "Show me your talents."
Meanwhile, Issei was sitting on the roof watching the sun move through its phases. "I thought I would find you here." Issei heard an all too familiar voice.
"Yep, tell me does she know you are here yet?" Issei turned his head around and saw the pink magical girl of Serafall behind him.
"Not yet, but what about you?"
"You know me well enough Sera, I don't do these things." Issei told her as he turned his attention forward once again.
"Fine, then let's talk business." She moved over next to him. "What do you think of all of this?"
"It's going to get messy." He looked over at her "Nothing like this has been done at this scale and it's only going to get messy with the outsiders."
Serafall nodded hearing that "Nobody is expecting this to go smoothly."
"Azazel told me the names of the troublemakers."
"Oh?" She looked down at him
"It's a peace deal, I'm not going to spoil his chips."
"You're no fun Issei." She stomped her foot down as if she was mad.
"I know. The White dragon came to us this morning." Hearing that piqued her interest once again. "He told me that she is watching and waiting."
"That's cryptic. Do you know who it's about?"
"I don't know many she's. The ones I do know are forward about their requests."
"Then who is it?"
"It's just as I told Rias this morning." He looked up at Serafall. "Alice's rabbit hole isn't something I wish to travel."
"Yes, that is quite understandable." Sera kneeled down next to him "How about we change the subject. How are you?"
"Aside from today? I'm fine…"
Serafall wasn't an expert on the human mind let alone a dragon but she could tell that he wasn't completely truthful. "That's good to hear." She poked him on his left cheek "I trust you will be around during lunch?" He nodded, getting a smile from Serafall "Good boy, I'll see you later then." She walked away from him as she turned into nothing but sparkles leaving him alone.
It took a few hours but Issei was true to his word for him to make his way off the roof. When he did he followed the chaos of students heading towards the gym. When he entered he saw many male students and a good amount of female students crowding around the stage as cameras were flashing as he saw Serafall posing for everyone on stage in her magical girl outfit. "It's a magical girl!"
He saw Rias and company standing off to the side watching everything. "Nice to see you have joined us." Akeno said, only getting a nod from him.
"I trust you didn't expect Serafall to come here dressed normally?" He asked them.
Rias shook her head "No, she's always like this."
"Break it up, everyone!" They heard Saji come into the Gym as he started to break up the crowd "Today is a day of display and you're causing trouble." His efforts worked as the crowd started to break up. But his focus soon turned to Serafall "And you… why would you wear a costume like that here? Are you a parent because if you are we do have minimum standards."
"But this is my Uniform." Serafall said as she struck a pose.
That alone was starting to drive Saji crazy until he saw Rias and every one next to him. "Oh Rias perfect timing, I was guiding Lord Satan and company around."
"Saji, I told you to deal with this…" Sona's voice echoed through the gym.
Issei watched as Serafall's eyes sparkled as she ran over to Sona. "Sona I found you." She latched onto Sona as she was rubbing her face on Sona.
"I feel like we are missing something." Katase said not exactly sure what was happening.
"Wait for it." Issei said knowing something was going to happen.
"Serafall, good to see you are here as well." They heard that behind Sona came another group of people with Red hair just like Rias.
Sona had almost shut down at this point as Serafall dragged her over to where everyone else was "It's good to see you Serafall." Rias said to her.
"Fun times all around today, because I get to see my Sona."
"Did you visit Sona's class yet?" Rias asked her.
She nodded "Yep, Sona is so mean about it though as she didn't tell me. I almost wanted to attack Heaven because of it."
"Please don't." Murayama said as she was in awe of what she was hearing.
"Sera don't do something stupid. Gabby or I don't want to deal with something like that."
"You're not fun Issei!" Sera made a pouty face as she looked at the new girls in Rias's group "I'm Serafall Leviathan, one of the four Satans. But call me Levi-tan." She made another pose with a peace sign.
Issei looked over at them, "She's the lead actress from the Miracle Levia-tan."
They didn't have much of a response as they saw the two red-headed men approach them. "I see you have another weird uniform."
Serafall turned around seeing the man next to Sirzechs "But uncle it's fashionable in this country."
"She's not wrong, but that's more of a Harajuku thing and not Japan overall."
"Right…" He looked over at Issei "You are Hyoudou Issei the Red Dragon Emperor correct?"
"I am, and You are?" Issei asked not aware of who this man was.
"Ah forgive me, my name is Zectous Gremory, head of the Gremory household." The new man introduced himself.
"I see the pleasure to make your acquaintance."
Zeoticus nodded "The same, My wife, however, would like to meet with you sometime. Unfortunately, she was unable to make it here today."
"Very well then, do you know what it is about?"
"A personal matter between you and her." Hearing that, Issei raised his eyebrow wondering what it could be.
"Issei you can't go around having one-night stands with devil women." Serafall joked around while everyone else took it somewhat seriously.
"I've never met Rias's mother Sera." Issei said to her as the two males took note of that.
"I see Serafall is still a joker after all these years." Zeoticus tried to defuse the situation "But she does wish to speak with you. Maybe during your summer break?"
"Provided I don't have any work to deal with then that is acceptable."
Sona's brain had begun to reboot at this time "Sister this is my school. And even if you are a close relative your behavior and outfit is not something I can't approve of."
"No Sona don't be sad. I can wipe away all of your sadness with my sparkles."
"Your sparkles can destroy a country multiple times."
Serafall pointed over at Issei "But he likes my sparkles."
"This is too much." Sona shouted as her eyes had water in them as she ran away.
"SONA!" Serafall shouted as she was chasing after her.
Sirzechs had a small laugh seeing Sona and Serafall "I guess our families are not so far off don't you think Ria?"
Rias's face turned red "Don't remind me of that brother." There was a flash of light followed by the sound of a camera shutter.
"Big Brother Big Brother. I miss those times when you would follow me around." Sirzechs threw around some friendly banter.
"Don't you find the Satan's families a little too much in common?" Akeno whispered in Issei's ear as she was smiling.
"If you don't mind me asking Issei who is your legal guardian?" Zeoticus inquired.
"The Archangel Gabriel to my knowledge."
"I see thank you for that information."
Issei looked over at Asia "Don't worry about it, if everything goes well I'll make sure you can meet her." She had stars in her eyes as Sirzechs left with Akeno and Rias.
During dinner at Issei's house that night Sirzechs brought up something that none of them were expecting "It's time to release your other bishop."
Hearing that Rias was somewhat shocked "But"
"No buts Rias you are more than strong enough," Sirzechs told her as he was setting down his silverware.
That was last night however the following day after school all the members of the occult research club were standing in front of a large double door with chains over it. It seemed as if all the older members knew what was about to happen while everyone else was in for a ride. Rias, however, reached for the chains as she tugged on them but not hard enough to destroy them "My other bishop is in here, the chains lower at night so he can leave but he refuses to do even that much."
"A shut-in?" Murayama asked as Rias pulled on the chains, shattering them.
"Out of all of the devils, he makes the most amount of money." Akeno said as she was formulating a spell.
"How does he do that if he doesn't leave?" Katase asked as nothing was adding up
"Via computer. He makes contracts with humans who don't want to meet up. He's able to think outside of the box and make contracts with others at a level that would rival some of the highest levels." Akeno stuck her hand forward and rotated it shattering the last magical barrier.
"I'm coming in." Rias said as she pushed open the door.
"Nooooooooooooooooo!" A high-pitched scream was blasted in their face as she opened the door all the way. Rias and Akeno were less than enthused to hear that.
They pressed forward into the room "Nice to see that you're so energetic."
"Why!?" They saw the voice of a small person most likely a girl but also possibly a young male.
"The seal is gone, you can go free. We can all go outside together." Akeno said in a calm voice as she was trying to reach out to the person with her words.
"Nooooooo. This place is nice, I don't want to go outside. I don't want to meet peopleeeeeeeeee." They heard more ear-piercing screeches.
Issei looked at the girls seeing as Asia tilted her head not knowing where to go with this. Yumi and Koneko were almost used to it at this point as they expected this outcome. Katase and Murayama were somewhat questioning if this was even the right decision to bring a person like this out.
As they got deeper into the room they saw that it was completely dark as the curtains were closed as if it made it appear as if there was no window at all. The rest of the room was decorated in a girly manner as there were stuffed animals and dolls spread across the room. In the corner of the room, there was something that wasn't quite right "Is that what I think it is." Murayama asked.
"Yeah," Issei said, looking at the back coffin in the corner. In front of it sitting on the floor was a small silvery blonde hair girl wearing the schoolgirl uniform. She however was shaking like she didn't want to be there. "So you have another girl in your peerage? Did you plan on making an all-girls harem?"
Rias shook her head no "From the looks of it this child it is a girl but it's a boy."
"He has a hobby of dressing in ladies' clothes." Akeno said.
"Okay" Issei shrugged his shoulders "That's not the weirdest thing I have seen."
"I'm not going to kink shame." Katase said, "I understand why, to be honest."
"So you have a boy who looks like a girl dressing in women's clothes. Usually, these kinds of things are to show off but you're a shut-in." Issei said to the young boy.
"But they're super cute!" He raised his hand and pointed at everyone "W-w-w-who are they?"
"These are my new servants. Katase and Murayama are pawns Xenovia is a knight and like you, Asia is a bishop." Each one of them waved as they were called out "And this is Issei, he's not a member."
"H-hi nice to meet you…. There are a lot of members now." He seemed scared of everything, even the fact that a fly could hurt him.
"Can we please go outside? You are no longer sealed in here anymore."
"Noooooo. Outside is impossible and scary. I'll only cause trouble for otherssss" More of the ear piercing screeches were heard.
Xenovia moved over to him as she went to grab him as they heard another scream. Issei watched as the boy ran away from Xenovia as if she was frozen in place. Issei looked around seeing that everyone was frozen so he moved over behind Akeno and lifted her hair up as it stood still floating in place. Moments later Xenovia's hands moved once again as she wanted to grab the kid but he was missing. "What was that?"
Akeno felt her hair fall as Katase and Murayama looked at each other "Was Issei standing there." They asked each other.
"Don't be angry! Please don't hit me." They heard him screaming out from the corner of the room.
"He possesses a sacred gear that when he is excited everything in his field of view is stopped in time." Akeno explained filling them in.
"That explains why nothing was moving." Issei said as if it was nothing.
"Because of his lack of sacred gear control, he was sealed away by the leaders." Akeno continued on explaining.
"This is Gasper Vladi, he's my bishop as well as a first-year here. Before I reincarnated him he was… half... Vampire." Rias words slowed down at the end "Ise did you say you saw us frozen." His words finally dawned on her. Issei nodded as her eyes went wide as dinner plates "I understand now."
"What's his sacred gear?"
"Forbidden Balor View."
"Interesting...I'm not familiar with it, however. It must be powerful if it can stop localized time. " Issei said to them. "It does break some rules."
"And how is that different from yours?" Yumi asked him.
"Well for one I can't stop time on people who are weaker than me. Second I…" Issei held up his hand up as the boosted gear appeared as claws and all were there "Have a Longinus, A known level of power. My base abilities are known to many across the supernatural world due to them being based on Ddriag using them. A sacred gear can evolve to the users will Yumi has already shown you that a low-level gear can obtain higher levels of power." Issei turned to look at Gasper "But starting with the basic ability to stop time is a high ceiling. And what's with that name of Balor. The God Balor has been dead before all the gears were finished. Better yet.." He looked at Rias. "How did you reincarnate him? It took you 4 pawns to get the dragon blades. Was your bishop a mutation piece?"
"Whats a mutation piece?"
"It's a powered-up version of a regular piece. A rare phenomenon that occurs for about 1 out of ten devils when we are given our evil pieces." Rias told them.
"And before you ask, that's part of the reason why she can't reincarnate me."
"You said he was part vampire right?" Xenovia asked getting everything back on track.
"Yes, he is what they call a daywalker."
They watched as Gasper ran over to the corner of the room and hopped into a cardboard box "Noo outside is my enemy! Let me live in the cardboard box.
"Is he at least taking in blood?" Issei asked Rias.
"He only needs it every 10 days but he never liked drinking it."
"I hate bloooooooood. Fish and Liver are gross." Gasper complained even more. Katase and Murayama were starting to get the feeling that there was no way to change him.
"Good for nothing vampire." Koneko said.
Gasper started to cry hearing that "Koneko is a meanie"
"Gasper you need to get used to going outside and seeing the world." Akeno said as she got close to the cardboard box.
Issei thought about it for a moment "Don't worry about it Rias. I see where this is going so I can deal with him."
"Realy?" She perked up as if she felt a weight lifted off her shoulders.
"Yeah Yeah." Issei waved her off "You probably have other things to deal with."
Rias and Akeno went over to him "I'll make sure to repay you for this." Rias she as she made her way out of the room.
Issei snapped his fingers as he looked over at Xenovia "Do it." In her hand materialized Durandal as she made her way over to Gasper.
"I don't want to fight against a holy sword user…. I'll beeeeeee destroyed."
"Sounds like you best start running then."
"Shall I prepare a cross and holy water? Maybe some garlic?"
Xenovia's threats worked as Gasper got out of his box and started running away. "Anything but Garlic."
"That was evil Issei." Murayama said as the screaming faded.
"It could be much worse." Issei said as they left Gasper's room. "But you notice he isn't in the room."
They made it outside as they watched Gasper being chased by Xenovia. "I thought there was going to be more to him" Asia said as Issei rests his hand on her head.
"Can't argue with you there," Issei said as he watches Koneko walk over to Gasper as he was gasping for air.
"Here Gaspy. If you eat garlic you will become strong."
"Noooooooo!"
"What is all this screaming?" They looked over and saw Saji walking towards them as he had a small shovel in his hand.
"Oh, Saji. It's just Xenovia chasing Gasper around."
"She swinging around a holy sword at a small blonde girl?" Saji seemed happy seeing that Gasper looked like a girl.
"Dude looks like a lady!"
Saji deflated immediately hearing that "You're kidding me… that's not even fair."
"Pure evil I know. Better yet, what are you doing?"
"Oh, Sona has us maintaining the grounds." He raised the shovel and wiggled it back and forth. "Due to the peace meeting we are making sure everything looks good before everything goes down."
Issei looked over at the bushes as if something didn't feel right,"Shovel please." He asked Saji as he handed it over. Issei took a step forward and threw it into the bushes like a dart.
"Why did you do that?" Saji yelled out.
Right after they heard the metal bounce off something as they heard something fall over. "Dick move." They waited a moment as a messy-looking man came out of the bushes wearing a black yukata. He tossed the shovel at Saji as he fumbled it before getting a grip on it.
"Didn't take you for a creep in the bushes Azazel. But now that I think about it I guess that's a fair assessment." Issei said as he came over to them.
Azazel feigned taking pain from his words "Do you really think so low of me?"
"I'm not gonna argue with Penemue." Issei had a blank face as he told Azazel that.
Saji was looking at Azazel as he was getting ready to fight. "When you say Azazel do you mean…"
"Yes, that Azazel leader of the Fallen Angel factions." Issei looked over at Saji "You'll be alright, he's not an idiot."
"Fighting isn't fun to me like others see it." Azazel pointed at Saji "but your posture is more rigid than a frozen turkey, loosen up. Bullying children isn't why I came here." He looked at Issei "Speaking of is the holy demonic sword wielder here? I want to see that sword."
Issei looked around as he thought Yumi was with them. "Where did she go?"
"She left with Rias and Akeno." Asia said, getting Issei's attention.
"Oh, I guess I missed that. Yeah, she's not here. Can I get your name and number and a good call back time?"
"I'm starting to understand why she likes you." Azazel said unenthused as he looked around "That vampire that's running around screaming is the possessor of Forbidden Balor View?"
Gasper heard him being talked about as he kept screaming "That's what I've been informed about 10 or so minutes ago."
"You thought about giving him some of your blood? Should be potent enough to stabilize the gear for a time due to how dangerous it is."
"Yeah, he's a shut-in vampire that doesn't like blood apparently." Issei informed him.
"Strange… I guess Durandal will work for now. He looks out of shape." Azazel's focus turned to Saji as he saw a black thing on top of his hand. "Absorption line? That's perfect draining the vampire boy's power to bleed off the excess power. It should curb some of the problems."
"Wait, it can absorb the power of sacred gears?" Saji was surprised to hear that there were more features. "I thought it only drained opponents' powers."
Azazel shook his head "Plenty of new sacred gear users don't know about the powers of their gears. The absorption line is part of the powers of Vritra the Prison Dragon, one of the former Five Dragon kings. With it, you can take and send power."
Saji was looking at the black gauntlet-like object on his hand "So I can drain power from one and give somebody else that power at the same time."
"Provided you can make more than one line and balance the power." Azazel told him. "You can also use it to absorb more power all at once." Azazel looked at Issei "What about the two girls?"
"They have the dragon blades."
"Realy?" Azazel was now intrigued as Issei motioned for them to summon their blades. In their hands, he saw a golden and silver katana's "Well now, Sacred Gears must be in the water. You don't see something like this that often…. Or at all. Interesting how the blades have changed their forms to suit the users without a Balance breaker."
"Xenovia!" Issei shouted out "Bring him over here."
It took a couple of seconds as Gasper was trying to break free and getaway. Issei pointed at Gasper "You heard the man Saji take some of that power."
A black vine came out of the gauntlet "Any place in particular?"
"Huh." Azazel looked away from the swords "Attach it to the temple and slowly drain some power. That should be most effective for Visual-based Sacred gears."
Azazel went back to looking at the blades as Saji got to work draining Gasper's power. "Have the leaders all gathered?"
"For the most part." Azazel said as he was looking at the swords as much as he could.
"Ami show up?"
"Nope, voice only. She'll be here on that day."
"Ahhhh yessss." The girls saw that Issei was happier to hear that she would be here.
"Anyways I have other things I need to deal with. Gotta find that holy demonic sword." He told them as he took off going back to the school as if he was a man on a mission.
"Should we…" Katase pointed at Azazel
"Naw dont sweat it. Let's see how this new information works." He looked at Saji "Drain off some of that power."
Saji sent the line to Gasper's head and started to drain his power away. It took a little bit but slow and steady was the best way to win the race when nobody was familiar with all of their powers. To see if he drained enough power away they ended up getting some balls and throwing them at Gasper to see if he could freeze the balls in the air but not everyone else. It took some fine-tuning of draining away his power before Saji got it down to an acceptable level. Once it was down to an acceptable level the training went on for a couple of hours of trying to get him to hold one ball at first but it moved onto more and holding them for longer.
After a few hours of training, Rias came out alone with plenty of sandwiches for everyone "So how is training going?"
"Slow," He told her as he reached for one of the sandwiches "Not unsurprising not everyone can hit the ground running." He took a bite in his sandwich. "Spicy mustard good choice."
"I heard that Azazel has vast knowledge on Sacred gears. Maybe it's possible that he could give us some advice."
"I need to finish work on the flower bed." Saji said as Rias was thinking about the possibilities that could be unlocked with Azazel's advice.
"Thanks for helping with Gasper, Saji." Rias snapped out of it as responded to him while they watched him walk wave shoving food in his mouth.
As they were eating, Issei looked at Gasper. "Are you afraid of your powers?" He asked.
"Yes, I stop time and scare everyone. I don't like it, I don't want to do that to what little I have left." Gasper responded as the girls listened.
"Then get stronger." Issei was blunt about it.
"It's not that easy."
"Gasper when I was five I came close to death. When I awoke I lost a year of my life from a coma. I had no clue where I was, no family, trapped in a strange world with a new body. I knew nobody and had nothing. I hated it because I was scared of it. Everything around me was clean and orderly. But one woman took me in and showed me that not everything was as scary as it looked. She helped me get over everything and adjust to this new world." He pointed at Gasper "You make of the world what you want, but if you never try you will always be weak, your fears will overtake you and you will succumb to everything and fail before you start. It is nothing but a coward's way out because only you can control your powers."
"What would you do with my sacred gear?" Gasper asked Issei getting him to think about it.
"Time stopping powers." They waited to see what his answer was going to be. "I don't think I would be a respectable pervert anymore."
"Is it bad that I can see that you would do something like that?" Katase asked knowing full well how Issei could be.
"Yeah probably" His focus turned back to Gasper "You need to decide if you're going to hide in your room and be scared of what you were given or how you're going to conquer it." He reached for another sandwich "Just like how I'm going to conquer more of this food." Gasper's choice was not going to be as easy as his training.
The following day after school Issei was walking up a mountain of stairs that were carved into a hillside surrounded by trees. When he got to the top he saw a reasonably large plot of land with a house not far away from the stairs. "Welcome, Issei." He heard Akeno as he saw her wearing a red and white shrine maiden outfit.
"Was not expecting the Shinto treatment."
"Sorry about that. This was a sudden addition." She told him.
"Don't worry about it. Rias said she would be coming later. And I have already finished my work." He motioned to the house in front of them. "This your place?"
"Yes." The two of them headed off towards the house "Rias acquired this place for me after the last priest passed on."
As they got near the house they heard another voice "Good to see that you have arrived Issei." Issei knew the voice as a bright golden light appeared. Once it faded away there was a man with a golden halo and some of the finest white robes.
"Michael." Issei said as the newly introduced man touched down on the ground.
Akeno however was at the doorway to her home "Please come inside."
They made their way inside as Issei didn't feel right as he entered the house. His body tingled as if something was telling him something wasn't right. And there it was floating above a table a large golden sword with 4 golden spikes surrounding the blade. "We have decided that Ascalon would be best in your possession." Michael said as he saw the boosted gear appear on his hand.
[What did you do this time?] Ddraig spoke as his voice sounded groggy as if he just woke up.
"For once I dont know." Issei answered as he shifted focus to Michael "What gives? I already have a…" He made air quotes at the end "Holy sword"
"It's been decided that it's better that you are prepared for the worse."
"What's the catch?" Issei asked as he was looking at the Dragonslayer sword. "Nothing is ever this simple. If it was, my life would be just a bit better."
"This is a gift for the neutral party, even if you aren't exactly neutral and have dealings with all factions at the table. That and we wish to know if the blade can be integrated into the Boosted Gear." Issei was still somewhat skeptical about all of this but if they were going to give him a dragon-slaying blade that was one less tool he had to worry about being used against him if things went south. He reached for the sword and grabbed ahold of it as Michael spoke again. "Ascalon is a temperamental sword and for that, we did some adjustments so anyone can wield it."
His right hand gripped the handle as he looked down at the Boosted gear "So Ddraig how does one integrate the blade into the gear? This isn't exactly my area of knowledge."
[Just focus on the sword and the Boosted Gear. Pour some power into the blade.] Issei closed his eyes and followed Ddraigs instructions as the blade began to glow, letting off harmless light. He felt as the sword crept up his arm and fading away.
As the light died out, poking out above Issei's hand from the Boosted Gear was the blade of Ascalon. "Hidden blade interesting."
Michael watched as the sword retracted into the gauntlet. "With that done I have other things to take care of today. Next time we see each other will be on the conference night." Michael told them as in a flash of light filled the room as he left Issei and Akeno alone.
Akeno began making tea as the two of them were in the room together. "Did you work on making Ascalon usable?" He took a seat at the table as she placed cups and the teapot on the table.
"Yes, we used this shrine to house the ritual for Ascalon" She informed him as she poured his drink.
"Can I ask you something personal then?" He picked up the cup and took a drink getting a bitter taste from the tea. She nodded her head as she set the teapot down and took a seat across the table from him. "Your father is Barakiel correct?'
Issei watched as her shoulders slumped a bit but not enough for it to be noticeable "I am the creation between a fallen angel and a human." She stared at Issei "I have the power of the fallen angel Barakiel. My mother was a shrine maiden who saved him from injuries." Out from her back wings came out. On her left side, a singular fallen angel wing appeared and on her right, a devil wing appeared. She reached back and grabbed the fallen feathers "These dirty wings of mine. I met Rias and became a devil but I could never get rid of this wing. A vile creature like me was born with feathers then given devil wings." Issei noticed some things in the way she spoke that tipped off that she was missing her mother somehow but he let her continue. "Do you hate fallen angels? They killed Asia and Kokabiel wanted to destroy this city. It's easy to hold a grudge with them."
"Hate is such a strong word." He told her. "I hate some of the jobs I've had to do over the years. Especially the ones Azazel gave me. But the Fallen are far from being worthy of hate." He stood up and moved behind her as he placed his hand on the leading edge of her wing and ran his fingers down it. He watched as she shivered from somebody else touching it. "I can't hate you because your part fallen as I kinda like you."
Her head snapped around to look at him, surprised to hear that "But I'm the worst kind of woman."
"Worst?" He asked hearing that "You are far from what you perceive of being the worst. Misguided with hatred yes but the worst far from. I've run into sex slavers mass murders and all-around psychopaths. Being half-fallen is far from the worst."
He heard some sniffing and a faint whimpering as he got down next to her. Akeno turned towards him as she grabbed onto him, hugging him. "You're too kind, Issei." She rubbed her face on his chest wiping what tears were there away. "You know…" She leaned on him causing him to topple over taking her with him. "I don't mind being down the list." Akeno looked up at him as he was flat on his back.
Issei looked down at her "Oh?"
Akeno crawled up and pressed her chest into his as their faces were extremely close together. "To think that Rias gets to do this."
The sliding door was flung open as they looked over and saw Rias standing there not looking happy at what she was seeing. "And just what are you doing Issei?"
"Nothing." Issei said as he was pinned down by Akeno.
"Where is Michael?"
"Gone."
"Did you get the sword?" Rias asked as he held up his hand as Ascalon slid out of Boosted Gear. It retracted as he laid his hand down.
Akeno got up off Issei "Don't be so jealous Rias. We can always share."
Rias' lid popped hearing that as she went over to them and grabbed Issei's arm and dragged him to his feet and escorted him out of Akeno's home. Issei looked back as Akeno was waving goodbye as they walked down the steps. They got about halfway down before Rias said anything. "Issei what am I to you."
"You sleep naked in my bed. What do you think? " She looked over at him "Asia doesn't even do that but I understand why she doesn't. IF I didn't care even a sliver for you I would have thrown you out. But I haven't…" He reached up and grabbed ahold of her face and leaned in kissing her as her eyes went wide as she felt his tongue invade her mouth. Rias was more than weak-willed in her attempts of love but bold enough to get what she wanted. When Issei pulled back Rias tried to get more but Issei held off for now. "I hope that solves that."