Touched by an Angel

by Atomiccaa

Life is never easy, sometimes it's painful. Issei learned this the hard way in life. Issei X Harem Fem Kiba

11. Chapter 11

Green grass for as far as could be seen was disturned but the sounds of screaming. His form of training had been brought down upon Rias and Sona's peerages and while he knew he had to hold back as they were far from strong enough to withstand full-on combat with him adequate force to make them feel pain was applied. "How is this training?" Saji yelled at him as he was one of the many who were on the ground trying to cope.

"No pain No gains!" Issei laughed at them "Your flabby bodies need to get used to taking damage so it's not so much of an issue if people do hit you. The likes of Shalba are far from what is to come and if you want to participate in the rating games then you are going to need to be able to take some hits. Because if you don't you are going to be eliminated quite fast. Durability and endurance is the key to winning fights you can't win via power. And if you want me to be honest the Sitri peerage is going to need that the most."

"That is far from fair Issei." Sona said looking at him.

"Your right it's not." He said as he pointed his right hand to his side extending out his index finger. They watched as energy formed a small dark red ball and he flicked it away. It soared through the air and detonated shaking everyone and everything as the shockwave and blast of air hit them. "Nothing is fair, something things are bullshit and you need to understand that. So you can readjust your thong, pull up your stockings, and get to work." There was some snickering from the girls as a ball of water came flying at Issei's face and splashed him in the face. "I'm having the weirdest hit of Dejavu right now." He had flashbacks to his training and times he fought with Serafall as she would throw water at him when he was down.

"Anyways," He said snapping back to reality "You girls have taken enough punishment for one day. But your exercises with be doubled starting tomorrow. Need to increase everything so your base levels are more acceptable. Now get out of here." It didn't take them long for some of them to leave leaving only Sona and Tsubaki.

"Do you think you can make my peerage stronger?"

"Should be simple, Azazel gave you the basics but we should step it up now that we don't have all the free time in the day." He waved his hand back and forth "Any increase is still an increase, most of your team is going to see additive increases. Rias' however some of those girls will see multiplicative upgrades as they are already at a much higher level."

Sona sighed hearing that "I feared that was going to be a thing."

"Yeah, that tends to happen when you have a peerage of people with special powers, compared to rather normal people by comparison. Outside of Saji, you don't have anything special, Tsubasa can punch things but has no sacred gear to back that up. Tsubaki here…" He slid next to her and put his arm on her shoulder "Your Sacred Gear requires a charge so that will always be an issue but talk to Azazel and how to train it you know aside from using it over and over. As for your naginata can't say I've seen many people use it as a weapon so I can't help you aside from swinging my swords around. Maybe Amatarasu knows somebody."

"Say she did what would that cost?" Sona asked thinking of the possibility

"Who knows, most likely a night in bed. Honestly, I can't tell you what it would be." He shrugged hearing that. "Anyways it's almost time for Rias' group so you two should get out of her."

"Very well" Sona said as a magic circle appeared under her as Tsubaki moved over with her. "Before we leave, what is your exact relationship with my sister?" Sona asked him as she didn't get a full answer out from her sister.

"AH Serafall, she is a wild ride."

Sona was not enthused to hear that "So you're referring to sex?"

"Oh she can be, but no. We have done some stupid stuff together over the time I have known her since I was around eight or maybe seven? Let's just say Gabriel isn't the most fun person to be around as she is mostly about religion and having that polar opposite has been a trip. What helped is that I don't mind the Magical girl genre." He pointed at them "Maybe you two could?"

"No" Sona said shaking her head as the two of them disappeared only to be replaced with a red light of Rias and her peerage.

"What are you pointing at?" Akeno asked him as he was smiling like an idiot when they came in.

Straightening himself out he looked at them "I think I just found a way to mess with Sona."

Rias shook her head hearing that. "Is it her sister?" Akeno asked him.

"Close."

"It's magical girls" Rias said knowing full well where this was going.

"No, it's her as a magical girl!" He said laughing.

"Even that's too much for me." Rias knew that was far too embarrassing for a normal girl let alone a devil girl.

"Is it the clothes or the panty flashes? Because you do that second part quite a bit."

"And it's only when you can…." She stopped to think about it for a moment and collected herself "Let's just get one with today's training."

"I think he led you into that one Rias." Akeno said as she had the momentary high ground on her King.

Issei turned around and made some distance between them, as he was walking away he waved his hand "You wear the same thing Akeno." He turned around "The see-through lace, It's like you want me to see." He watched as she put her hands behind her and covered the back of her skirt. "You girls are so fun to mess with. Anyways the Sitri group is behind you all in power and endurance and fortunately, you have the power part going for you and you have shown that you can use it. Now we need to refine those powers."

"So what do we do then Issei?" Katase looked at him unenthused.

"We fight to refine your skills." He held his hand out as a large black and gold blade appeared in his hands.

Yumi started the session as she rushed forward towards him as she summoned a blade making a horizontal slice at him. She was just the opening attack as everyone followed suit with whatever was possible for the melee group. And attempt to knick him with one of the Dragon blades or Xenovia swinging Durandal around causing everyone to give her swings a wide birth. Those wide births gave Akeno time to send her now fully functionally Holy Lightning down at him making him dodge even more are using the blade as a lightning rod.

Issei laughed at their attempts as it was obvious that they were still very green. He did a quick headcount as he felt a fist hit him on his right hip as he looked over and saw that it was Koneko. "You're going to need to hit me with some of that sage powers if you want me to take some damage." He put his hand on her hand and ruffled it up like she was a dog but knowing full well it was going to piss her off.

It did just that as he saw her tail hike up and she started punching him. He played along with her as he blocked her attacks with his hands. "Pattycake pattycake." He muttered to himself as he was blocking her attacks. Pushing her hands aside he reached behind her and pushed on the back of her head sending her falling to the ground.

Seeing that Koneko was on the ground Katase and Murayama held out their hands as magic circles appeared as fireballs spewed out. When they got in range he swatted them away as the flames were far from strong enough to harm him. Light flashed in the area as if it wasn't Akeno's lightning but more of a bright flash to blind him. When the flash disappeared Issei saw Xenovia flying through the air swinging her sword at him. He decided to match her as he swung the sword at her stopping her swing in its tracks. "What?" Xenovia looked at the blades to see how he was able to stop Durandal.

Katase and Murayama rushed him seeing he only had one hand free at the moment they moved to his free side swinging the blades down at him. His tail popped out from his back as it wrapped around Katase's hands binding them together as his hand grabbed Murayama and did the same thing. Looking over at Xenovia as she was still having a hard time with the blade struggle "Hold on Xenovia." He said to her as he let go of the blade. When it dropped it tipped over and pierced the ground with the handle sticking up. With his attention focused on the two Kendo girls "So what possessed you to attack my free side?" He asked them not waiting for an answer "Don't answer that." He spun Murayama around and with his free hand, he swung with an open palm down on her ass. Letting her go he did the same thing to Katase in a quick fashion as the two of them hit the ground at the same time grabbing their asses in pain.

He shifted his focus back to Xenovia as he saw that his sword was missing as Yumi was standing there along with Xenovia who was holding both Holy swords. "It seems as if you have misplaced your sword Issei." Yumi said she and Xenovia closed the gap on him.

Bring up a guard he got ready for an attack as she saw a little white blur out the corner of his eye as he was being punched by Koneko. Yumi and Xenovia took the opening as they took his sides and started swinging away. There was a mash of fists flying bodies flailing around dodging everything that could be dodged. What Issei didn't care for was the fact that Xenovia had acquired his sword and was now using it against him rather poorly. It showed that while she had a wealth of experience in dual-wielding combat of oversized blades she wasn't at the level needed to use it effectively on him. Yet Yumi was the opposite she was well versed in the use of a single blade just not quick or strong enough for it.

A thought came into his head as he needed to show his dominance over all of them and he knew just the way of going about it. Once he got out of the flurry of attacks he got behind Xenovia as his tail grabbed ahold of her left hand pulling his sword from her hands as he overpowered her with a little pressure on her wrists he forced her to drop Durandal leaving her open and with his free left hand he reached down and pulled her skirt aside just enough so he could reach her panties and pulled them down to her knees and pushed her forwarded so she fell over.

He put his foot down on her pinning her so she was out of the fight Koneko appeared in his face as he grabbed ahold of her and tossed her in the air towards Rias. Yumi however didn't know what to do as everything they had tried so far failed. Issei saw the next attack coming as his tail coiled and tossed the sword into the air as a lightning bolt that was coming down at them followed the metal and struck it as it fell to the ground and the energy discharged into the ground. "So should we get onto today's training now that this little warm-up lesson is over?"

Hearing that Rias and Akeno stopped the fight as they landed as Issei took his foot off Xenovia. He did get a look at her blue and white striped panties and only snickered at the fact. "Issei what the hell!" Rias said as she had grouped everyone up as Asia was healing people.

"Oh did you like that?"

"No!" She shouted at him "What was that all about?"

"It's about thinking outside of the box. You understand that I have an extra appendage that unlike Koneko's mine can be used." He saw that most of them were lost "Okay if you can have a single item from a kitchen and you have to fight them with it what is it?"

"A knife." Akeno was the first one to answer.

"Good choice but no."

"Fork can make multiple stab holes." Koneko said as she was rubbing her head.

"Also a good choice but no. The real answer is to throw everything in the sink and then throw the sink at them."

"A shotgun approach."

"Heyyyyy Xenovia gets it." He watched as she was pulling her panties back up. "Nothing in this world is straightforward you need to throw ideas out there and see what can work." His tail came up and he held it back like it was a monster coming to get them. "Removing an opponent from the fight no matter what is a best-case option. How you go about it is what matters, let's take Koneko here. As a woman, she not going to want to show off her body to people. And on top of that, she's self-conscious about her smaller frame. So bam…" HE acted like his tail was going to strike as he held it back. "Remove her clothing and she's going to refrain from attacking and have to retreat or be eliminated."

"Tell me you can't do that." Katase asked him.

Issei thought about it for a moment. "While I've never none it should be easy in theory. Funnel some energy outward in a spiral pattern and when it contact with fabric it would rip it apart, or use a time-delayed spell."

"It sounds as if you have thought about this before." Akeno had a big smile on her face hearing that. "Maybe you could use it on me sometime."

"Akeno!" Rias cried out.

She only laughed at Rias "How did you divert my attack to the sword."

"It's uh metal, and while you have control over thunder your lightning attack needs work. So for now your attack acts as a dumb spell with little outside of point and boom. Once you get more time using it you can arc it, crank up the voltage and amperage or even shape it to something new."

"It's lightning what can you shape it into?" Murayama asked him.

He held out his hand as a flame appear like it came out from a lighter. "When you gain mastery over an element you find out what you can do with it. In Devil's case, it's what they can do with their bloodline skills. This flame can be shaped into whatever is needed." They saw the flame change into a stick then into a small log that hung over his hands as the log shrunk a small butterfly appeared and flapped its wings. "Is it practical? Hell who knows, but if you can reshape things you can add more to less or use it in different ways than the intended use. Fire can be spread from the mouth, or thrown from the hand. But what if you hid it or time-delayed it? It's all about what you think is necessary at the time." The fire dissipated with a flick of the wrist "Xenovia, Yumi take Katase and Murayama and start working on swordplay. Kendo is fine for discipline but in reality, you're going to need to freestyle. Rias, Akeno, Gasper, and Asia work on your magics. Koneko your with me today, I plan on teaching you how to punch above your weight."

They split apart into groups as they went in separate directions to train to leave Issei and Koneko there. "So what is going to happen?" She asked.

"Well, you have the act of combat down. The problem is you need to overcome your size and weight." Koneko was happy to hear him talk about that. "I can make short jokes all day but that is below me." She wasn't happy hearing that one at all but Issei laughed at it. "Jokes aside we need to increase your speed. And not how fast you can move your legs, how fast you can move your body in general. The faster you can move is the more force you bring behind your attacks. While I'm not too familiar with how the sage powers of your feline nature work so I can't help you with information only support."

"How do you plan on going about this?"

He smiled hearing that one "It's simple." He held his hand out as a magic circle appeared out of it there was a clang of metal and fabric.

"Are you serious?" She asked seeing what it was.

"Oh yes." He reached down and picked up the fabric as there were large ingots of metal attached to it. "It seems cliche but weight training can help you get started." He pulled off a small portion of it and attached it to her left arm. "We're gonna be starting with 200 kilos on your arms and legs and 250 around your waist. You have already shown that you can lift well beyond that with ease. So running around with this will get your body working and adapting the difference."

"What's next Gravity training?" Koneko asked as he was strapping weights onto her.

"I wish" He chucked hearing that "I bet some god out there has figured it out or Azazel. I need to ask around about that now." He stood up seeing that her arms were weighed down as she tried lifting them. "Were gonna start small and see how long you can run for with that stuff on. Get to work all your muscles and overall durability." He pointed off to his right "There's a track not far away from here let us start with 10km and see how well you're doing."

It took a while but Issei was floating in the air watching as she was running around in circles. [Do you think that will help her?]

"I mean it should."

[But]

"Yeah yeah, she has accepted partially what she is but that power is what is needed to make her succeed."

[She's not much different than you were.]

"Look you know just as well as I do that was a rough time. But I never said no to learning how to use your power."

[They never strapped weights to you to increase your power.]

"Didn't need to as you took care of that. Turns out that having a body of a dragon as a six-year-old kinda skips the power-building issues. That and we also know that this is a mental issue with her right now."

[That's an evil placebo.]

"Is it really?" He asked as he saw that Koneko was having a harder time running the distance than she normally would. "Either it's working or she has a mental block somewhere that's not letting her progress."

[I think that Leviathan rattled your brain one too many times]

Issei laughed hearing that from Ddraig of all beings."We both know that damage was done long beforehand. But Sera probably didn't help with it" He sighed tho "I guess I should stop here before she gets hurt." Before he descended he looked around to see how the others were doing. Left to their own devices they seem to understand how to push themselves. "I get the feeling that Yumi is going to be the breadwinner out of all of this." He shrugged his shoulders thinking about it as he descended to the track and waited for her to finish her lap.

When she came around she stopped next to him "What now?" She asked breathing heavily from the run.

"It looks as if it's working. You're having to use more energy to produce the same results." A snap of his fingers and she felt her body get light as the weights disappeared. "Breaking you on the first day isn't the intended idea." He thought about that with a smile on his face. "There are other methods to do that."

"Pervert."

"Now that you bring that up, It could be done like that. That's more of Akeno's thing." Koneko reluctantly agreed with the last part. Reaching down he picked her up and put her on his shoulder as the two of them made their way around and gathered the rest of the group up as it had been a considerable amount of time in here training.

After a bath and food, everyone gathered down in the basement of the mansion as even Azazel was there with snacks ready. They were watching a TV broadcast that was most interesting for them. They saw what appeared to be Issei in his armor pointing at a man and talking to him as he was dressed over the top and villain-like. What they were watching was the recording of a new TV series called Oppai Dragon in the underworld, apparently a children's tv show. "It got super popular right after it aired. I heard they reaired the first episode a few times already." Koneko said as she was sitting on Issei's lap watching the show.

"I'm more surprised that the armor looks so perfect and it talks the same way as well." Yumi said as the details were striking.

"Why Oppai dragon?" Katase asked him.

"Uhhh you see." Issei scratched his head "Remember that first rating game with Sona? I was on the announcer's mic for a bit after you girls had that clothes destruction fit."

"Oh hell." Katase knew where this was going.

"Yeah and I kinda mentioned that you girls ruined a lot of bras, also that we could see some uncensored titty."

"Oppai Dragon im over here!" They saw a woman in a red dress that was a dead ringer for Rias even if it was through the magic of CGI. Soon after they watched as the Oppai dragon called out for his Switch Princess and touched her breasts and receive a boost of power.

Azazel was nearly on the floor laughing at that as Rias also became one with the couch wanting to disappear from this world. "I can no longer go out in the underworld anymore."

"The Oppai dragon gets a power-up from the Switch princess by touching her breasts." Azazel said wiping the tears from his eyes. "You can make this up but it's great!"

Issei smiled thing about that as it was all over his face "Sometimes when you have a breast in your hand you do feel like you get a power-up."

"Somehow I doubt that." Yumi said seeing Issei think about it.

"Try it out sometime?" He said as he felt a giant paper fan come across his head and smack him "Ouch" his head flinched from the impact.

[Borring has to be the last word I would use when it comes to your life.] Ddraig said for everyone to hear.

"It's an interesting way for you to get famous." Irina said thinking about it "The kids are going to love seeing you. But now that I think about it Issei and I watched shows like this all the time as a kid."

"Just think that's one of the few things I do remember." Issei flicked his thumb in her direction "I use to think that she was a boy and we use to watch shows like this as a kid. Now she a good looking girl."

"No" Irina said with her hands on her face covering it up as it was beet red. "Seduction like this will cause me to fall." While her wings were stored away and her halo was not visible everyone knew that they were blinking.

"I welcome all fallen." Azazel said taunting her "Got a VIP seat warmed up for you as you are a direct subordinate of Michael."

"SAVE ME!" Irina shouted as she put her hands together praying with some tears coming out.

Xenovia and Asia looked like they were having a good time watching the show. "So if Issei gets famous off this, will that get us famous by association?" Xenovia asked as she pulled out some popcorn from the bowel.

"Sure can" Akeno said as she reached over to Issei "But first you need to hold up your end of the bargain. Also just don't make Irina fall from seducing her it would cause problems."

He thought about it for a moment "Yes but"

"No buts, and not before the date." Akeno's words turned all eyes towards him as if daggers were being driven into his skin slowly.

Akeno smiled seeing the reaction of the others "Oh yes, I get a date with Issei before anyone else." She grabbed hold of his arm and held onto it as tight as she could watching the jealousy rise from Rias with nothing but a smile on her face."

The following day during lunch people were discussing what was to come with the impending days. "Hey, Issei!" Motohama called out to him as Issei looked over at him. "Would you and Asia join our group for the trip?"

Issei looked over at Issei wondering what she wanted to do. "We can do that" Asia answered for him.

He pointed his chopsticks at the two boys "You heard the girl just don't do anything stupid."

"They already did!" They heard Katase from across the room.

His right eyebrow raised hearing that "Did you two girls beat them this morning?"

"You bet!" Murayama answered it for him.

Matsuda and Motohama didn't have much to say as they heard that. "Jesus fucking christ" Issei muttered to himself. "At this rate, you two are gonna be virgins for life."

"How cruel Issei." Kiryuu walked over to them and put her hands on the table pushing down on it. "Going to let Asia into that environment. And of course, they are gonna be virgins for life."

He chuckled hearing that "And you're better? If you had your way with her I think her innocence would be gone and dusted."

"I think I will have to come along with you to protect Asia from that environment."

Xenovia and Irina made moved over to Issei as Irina latched on Issei hugging him "Everything is better with Issei." Irina said smiling as Xenovia nodded her head as they were going to join in.

"Why are you so popular? God must be cruel to deliver this fate on us." Matsuda whined at the sight of Issei.

Issei waved his hand back and forth "Irina's god nor would Amatarasu save you."

He felt Irina smack him on the head. "You have too many flags going for you. Give us some of them!"

Kiryuu pushed up her glasses "So it's decided the seven of us will see the sights of Kyoto!" Maybe this isn't going to be a bad decision, after all, only time would tell for them.

After school in the clubroom was another thing. Azazel was late as he had to travel back and forth to the underworld while he was still a teacher he was more importantly the leader of the fallen angels. Rias was thinking about the upcoming school trip "The trip we took last year was fun." Rias said thinking back to her trip.

"Where did you go?" Asia asked as she set her cup down.

"Kyoto" Akeno told her.

"How did four devils get into Kyoto?" Issei asked Rias knowing the reputation of the city.

"We went to all the shrines…." Rias snapped out of her trip on memory lane. "Oh, we were issued passes for the duration of the trip. They let us in and we had our four nights there. You should plan out your trip now so you don't lose track of time."

"I suggest you take that advice." Akeno said to them "Rias got swept up in the awe of being there and we had to scramble to get around when we needed to be at places. That and she got mad that she lost track of time and we had to wait at the train station."

"Akeno! They didn't need to hear that."

"But you can just teleport around." Murayama said as they had learned rather quickly how to teleport.

"You can't just do that in Kyoto. There are rules that we have to abide by. Speaking of that I'll have to apply for passes for the trip. Speaking of that Issei do you need a pass for the trip."

He shook his head "No I have a pass signed by Amaterasu to get into Takamagahara, so I can go wherever I need." Inbetween his fingers there was a black slate that he was showing off.

"You can get into Shinto heaven that easy?" Irina asked him.

"I can also get into yours as well as the Greeks as well. Perks of doing work for people, thanks for asking."

"Good to know then, less paperwork to fill out. While the trip is important we have a matter of the school festival coming up right after the trip." Rias picked up a paper that was on her desk "We need to decide what the theme is going to be and prepare what we can when you are off on the trip."

"This sounds so fun!" Asia smiled looking forward to anything new in life.

"The Sports festival was fun. So the next one has me looking forwards to it." Xenovia was no different as she destroyed all the events she entered in.

"Last year you had a haunted house right?" Katase asked Rias.

"Ohh that sounds like so much fun!" Irina was gitty to hear that.

"That's right, we did use real ghosts to make it super scary." Rias told them as Issei laughed hearing that. "I requested a few Youkai who wouldn't harm humans to assist us in scaring people. They needed a job so it was perfect for us."

"Until Sona got mad that we use real ghosts and scolded us for days." Akeno had to fill in the unknown gaps.

"Let's show off our Vampire in a box then. That should be more than enough for most of the girls."

"Nooooooo that's mean" Gasper cried out from his box.

"It's not that mea…" Issei was cut off as all of the devil's phones started ringing at the same time.

"It's time" Rias stood up as she answered the phone getting orders from the top.

Once they got the orders they headed out to the target location. It was already getting dark as they arrived at one of the run-down abandoned warehouses on the outskirts of town. They could feel the hostility coming from targets that were somewhere in the building.

"So the Gremory Group is here and in record time." They heard a male voice as the matching figure appeared the man was dressed in a black suit that was made of shadows.

"I take it your from the Hero Faction?" Rias asked him "I am Rias Gremory the High-Class Devil in control of this town."

They could see a smile form from the shadows "Oh I know full well who you are Sister of Maou. We plan on purifying the town of creatures like you." Two more men appeared next to him one dressed in a black suit and sunglasses and the other wearing a colorful Chinese outfit.

Holding his hand out the Boosted gear appeared on his hand as Ascalon was ejected from the Gear. He tossed it over to Xenovia as everyone prepared themselves for battle. Getting into formation Xenovia and Yumi took the front lines as they were to plow through the front lines. Irina, Koneko, Katase, and Murayama took the middle protecting Gasper and taking down enemies that slipped through the front lines. In the back of it, were Rias Akeno and Asia. Rias and Akeno were providing any supporting fire along with protecting Asia who was healing anybody she could. Her healing abilities had progressed to the point where she didn't need to make contact to heal them but it was at a diminished rate.

"It seems as if we have more Sacred Gear users" Yumi said seeing them as the last few battles had turned out the same way.

"Yes, this seems to be a recurring problem with this so-called Hero faction. Gasper if you could please." Rias said to the small boy.

Xenovia and Yumi dashed into battle swinging their swords around like mad women. "If we fuck this up the Red Dragon Emperor will kill us. Fall back inside for cover." And just like that the three of them dipped back into the building as they followed. Inside the two of them searched around as Yumi was the first to find a target. She found the user that was covered in shadows as she slashed her holy demonic sword at him but the shadow at the blade and broke it leaving her with a part of a sword. "We have a defensive shadow user here. The shadows destroyed one of my swords." She informed everyone as they hear her over the radio.

They all felt the air in the area get heavy as the shadows had a wavey pattern to them. A small hole opened up and out of it, the destroyed blade tip was sent flying towards the back lines. Issei moved over slightly and stuck his left hand out with the Boosted Gear visible in front of Asia as he caught the blade in his. He crushed the blade as it turned into small fragments of metal that fell to the floor. "That's one if you are dumb enough and get to three before they beat you. You might experience the wrath of a Dragon."

The color blue lit up the area as the man in the Chinese outfit holding a bow with the source of the light attached to it as an arrow let loose. "I got it!" Irina shouted as the arrow split off from its original course and moved around freely. She held out a spear of white light and threw it slicing the arrow in half with her angelic powers. Once the threat of any possible forms of light was gone Ice spears rained down on the opposing sacred gear users as the shadows formed a wall blocking out all light and all attacks.

"Gasper!" Rias called out to the boy.

"The Data just came in." He said as he was looking at a tablet "The Shadow one is called Night Reflection it's a defensive counter type. The Bow is called Staring Blue using light-based attacks. And the other one is Flame shake."

Issei scratched his chin hearing that. "You might want to drink some of that blood I gave you for this fight. This group sounds like all sorts of fun."

"Y-yes." He shuddered as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a small vial of blood. Azazel had requested that Issei graciously donate some of his blood to Gasper to have the highest comparatively with his sacred gear. Combo that with the fact that he could split into a flock of bats and use his sacred gear it was a killer combo. Koneko even assisted with searching duty now that she was getting used to using Senjutsu. The two of them could find and lock down an area if needed.

"I hate that you been right about this Issei. The strong we get the stronger they get."

He only laughed at Yumi's comment. "I told you. This is the way."

Rias held out her hand "Yumi deal with the shadow user. Xenovia makes a path through the grunts. Murayama shut down the flame user. Everyone else takes out these grunts once inside."

"Right!" There was a collective shout as Xenovia began making a clear path for them as Yumi and Murayama got to work.

With a reinforced blade in hand, Yumi began slicing away at the shadow user. Murayama sent ice flying toward the flame user in an attempt to neutralize any incoming fire. Some of the ice was grabbed by the shadow and it disappeared. "He ate my ice!" Murayama shouted warning everyone of the possible attack of ice. She kept swinging her sword around hurling Ice and occasionally some fire at the shadows as it ate all of her attacks.

"You're never going to hit my allies at this rate." They heard the Shadow user taunting them.

"YUMI!" Rias shouted at the girl "Cut the Shadows! Maybe they are connected."

"Right!" She started slashing away as shadows had to have a power limit of how much damage the tangible presence could take or how much power it took to use the form.

"Ah, shit!" They heard as the shadows disappeared as ice-covered part of his right arm and all the ice was sent flying into the ceiling.

While the assault was a resounding success at removing the user from his defensive state. There was a green-colored arrow that flew past them and exploded into a flash of green light.

Covering their eyes from the attack Rias spoke out again "It seems as if the shadows were hiding a fourth user. Koneko finds the user Katase, and Irina takes them down."

"Just Die already!" They heard one of the men shouting as they watched Murayama dodging flames that he was throwing around.

Murayama was a little cocky as she was able to dodge the fire while closing the gap between them. "I can make the fire hotter than that." She held out her sword and swung it around as the flames on the blade followed her slashes.

"Watch out!" Yumi shouted out as she saw the shadow user was extending out his shadows as a magic circle was glowing underneath his location. With a flash of blue and green light from the two bow user as the magic circle activated sending the four of them away.

When the light faded away they saw that nobody was around them as Koneko looked around trying to find them. They gathered up so Asia could patch up any wounds that needed to be dealt with as everyone was fine and took the rest of the cannon fodder in for questioning something Azazel was bound to have fun with. Issei clapped for then "that's four this month like this. And you're getting quite good at this." He told them.

"You could help you know that?" Katase said trying to give him sass.

"Your right I could" He nodded in agreement "But then where's the fun in all of that. It robs you of all of the real combat experience that you need."

"Unfortunately for us he's right" They heard Rias say as she came over to them with Akeno as they finished teleporting the prisoners off to be dealt with. "Right now we need all the combat experience we can get our hands-on. The next match will be coming up soon, and between training and this anything is better than nothing."

"I get the feeling that the flame user didn't want to fight me." Murayama mentioned as she was pulling the ties out of her hair.

"Flame user wants to fight another flame user?" Irina looked over towards Issei wondering if he had an idea.

He shrugged his shoulders "Maybe, who knows. Everybody wants to fight me."

"But if we don't hold back in these fights then who knows what kind of damage we would cause."

Katase looked at Yumi in surprise hearing that "Wait your holding back?"

"Yeah" She nodded "If I didn't Xenovia and I would have been able to kill them quite easily." Saying that she got a nod from Xenovia as well. "It seems that the rating game with Sona prepared us for an idea of high power in a fragile city."

"Azazel did say there are many unknown with sacred gears." Koneko said out loud.

"Oh!" Irina had a thought hearing that "That reminds me. They never tried to defend against the attacks only reflect the powers that were used at them."

"And?" Rias asked her

"I think they're trying to research the sacred gears wondering how far they could push them before they had to retreat."

"Yeah, that would make sense." Xenovia agreed with her hearing it. "If they were trying to fight us then they would have any semblance of strategy. But everything so far has just been run at us like we are a brick wall."

"So they are experimenting on us?" Akeno asked hearing their thought process.

Irina shook her head "No the other way around. On the sacred gear users. It feels as if they are looking for something and this town has it, mainly us. Strong forces on standby ready to fight whenever is convenient for them."

"Huh, Balance breaker research then." They all stopped and looked at Issei hearing that and thinking of the possibilities. "Looking for the easiest way to reach a Balance breaker by fighting strong opponents is not an unknown thing. It was used on me, and the same goes for the three of you."

"We don't have our Balance breakers tho."

He pointed at Katase" You two don't, Yumi and I do. And she just needs refinement. Along with the Holy Sword Durandal and the Power of Destruction. This is a perfect testing ground for something of that level." He looked over at Irina "You might want to tell Azazel about this."

"Why me?"

"It was your idea, you can present it to him." Issei could only smile at her.

There wasn't any more of a reason for them to be hanging around a dingy warehouse so they headed back to the dark abode of the club room. When they got back the one that changed was Akeno as she was in a more upbeat mood now that the job was done. "Did you have fun Akeno?"

"Not exactly, but tomorrow is when I get to have all the fun. With Issei on that date." Akeno said with the biggest smile on her face.

The rest of the girls turn and looked at him with a murderous glare almost as if they were shrinking him down. "I'm in danger." He said with a small chuckle knowing they weren't actually going to kill him but he played along.

The following afternoon Issei did as he was requested and once he was ready he headed down to the convenience store and waited around till the appointed time. "I'm sorry did I make you wait too long?" He looked over and saw Akeno not far away from him as she had her hair let down and her purple short dress on with matching stockings.

He smiled seeing her in something besides the school uniform "I've waited much longer for less, but you look great." He pointed down at her feet "Boots are a new one can't say I expected that one."

She reached out and grabbed his hand holding onto it "Can I call you Ise for the day as your my boyfriend." Looking at him she had different look in her eyes than she normally would with the lusty attitude she normally had.

"Sure, you can do that every day if you wanted to."

"Thank You, Ise!" She pulled on his arm as she dragged him down the street. As he turned around to walk with her he could swear he saw that unforgettable crimson color watching from afar. They were walking down the street she was holding onto his hand "It seems as if you are having an affair with me. There are too many people watching us."

Issei lifted his right hand and waved as the two of them walked down the street. They heard a crack that sounded like something expensive broke. "We should leave before she knocks out power to the city." And just like that the two of them headed off into the city to avoid any more property damage.

Hours passed as Akeno had dragged Issei all around town, into clothing stores asking his opinion on what she thought looked great. It was odd as he didn't have much of a fashion sense but she was acting like a normal girl and that's all that mattered. From jewelry stores to lingerie it didn't matter as she was having a blast.

The two of them sat down for lunch as there were standout looks in the crowd. "It seems as if we're still being watched." Issei said while eating as they could see Rias wearing a hat and doing nothing to hide that hair, Asia had her hair rolled up and wearing sunglasses. Koneko was no better and Yumi was more or less their chaperone.

"Where should we go next?"

He thought about it for a moment "Have you ever been to the Aquarium in town? I've never been there before."

"Ohhhhhh, that sounds like fun." The two of them had a plan for what was next on the route. And just like that, they had made their way into the aquarium. Akeno was holding onto his hand as they looked at all the fish pointing and laughing at the fish that they found was funny. On the outside, the two of them looked like a pair of goofballs that were having a date beyond everything. When they left the aquarium Akeno caught a glimpse of Rias and company lurking behind them. "Say Ise" She squeezed onto his hand a pulled him along as she started running "Let's ditch them"

"Alright, I'm down" The two of them took off like a bat out of hell as the others tried following them. They went down every alley known to man trying to lose the gang. It took a fair bit of running but they eventually lost them. The thing is they got disoriented in where they were in the city as they looked around and saw a sign out in front of the building that had two prices on it. "You know I think Rias might try to kill me if she finds us here." He told her as she was holding on to his arm.

"I'm fine with this." She smiled at him as her large purple eyes pierced his soul.

"Oh?"

"Yeah, if you wanna go inside I'm okay with this." Akeno was far too pure with her desires for this world and Issei loved that about her.

He thought about it for a moment. "To think the Red Dragon would be out with a woman in the middle of the day no less." And just like that, the choice was made as they looked to see an Old man with a long white beard and a monocle.

"Oh hey Odin, what are you doing here? It's kinda far from your lands to be here."

"Lord Odin!" They hear a woman call out to him as she rounded the corner wearing a Grey suit and pink tie with a matching ribbon in her hair holding back her long silver locks. "You need to act properly as a God, you can just be wandering around."

Odin stopped her "Your a Valkyrie so places like this are important to heroes you need on-site job training Rossweisse."

"I have no appeal!" She shouted at Odin before turning to Issei and Akeno "And you two, your both High school students, you should be at home studying."

Issei's boner had thoroughly killed as Rossweisse was chewing the two of them out for being outside on the weekend. She was ranting on about how education was important for them. As she was going on Akeno saw a large imposing figure "You're" She blurted out seeing the tall man with short black hair and a large square forehead.

"Akeno what are you doing here?" He shouted at her.

"That's none of your business! Why are you even here." The pissing match started as the cute Akeno disappeared.

"None of that concerns you. This place is no place for a person of your age." He grabbed onto Akeno's arm and pulled her away.

Issei wasn't having any of this as he grabbed onto the man's arm and clamped down "It would be best if you let her go."

"I am Odin's escort for the day and this is my daughter." He tried to reason with her.

"Yeah no shit Barakiel, I take it Azazel was busy enough not to take Odin to the strip club? Because up until now I was having a great day and you ruined the one day I get with a girl." Issei was fully aware of who he was but never had yet to interact with him.

It took some time to defuse the situation but their date was canceled and unfortunately, they returned to the house as Odin and Rossewise were in the top floor VIP room of the mansion. Rias had just served tea to Odin as the smile that Akeno once had quickly drained away. "Oh, this is far too kind of you. It's a huge and huge thing." Odin said with a smile on his face as his eyes bounced between Rias and Akeno.

"Lord Odin you cant be ogling them. That's Lucifer's Sister who is much younger than you. Show some basic decency." She whipped out a large fan and smacked him over the head.

"Oh, don't be so hard-headed. She's famous for her beauty and glamorous body. I can help but want to stare at her. Oh, right this is my escort Valkyrie."

She sighed "My name is Rossweisse, thank you for taking care of us."

"Oh right, she is also a virgin who hasn't had a boyfriend for as many years as she is as old."

Rossweisse sank to her knees hearing Odin blurting that out as she started to panic. "It wasn't my choice to not find a boyfriend, it wasn't my choice to be a virgin."

Odin patted her on the back "Well the business of Valkyrie is not in the best state and not everyone is a looker. The lack of heroes has decreased and Valkyrie squads are down to compensate along with funding. So she got stuck being my escort."

"So is that why her hair is grey?" Issei asked not knowing.

"It's natural" Rossweisse cried out hearing that.

He shrugged his shoulder "Eh still looks good."

The door opened up as Azazel entered the room with Barakiel behind him. "Right so you kids have already met Odin. During the old geezer's time, he will be in Japan it's been decided that you will be his guards. Barakiel" Azazel hitched a thumb over to his subordinate "He will be a backup support member from the fallen. I would do this myself but things have been hectic lately and your latest run-ins with sacred gear users aren't helping any."

Barakiel nodded "Good to be working with you."

Azazel focused on Odin "Your here early old man, your arrival isn't scheduled for a few more days. Michael, Sirzechs, and I are still scheduled to be your middlemen in the discussion."

"About that… There's been a troublemaker within the ranks about this plan. So I had to move the timetable forward. That and the Shinto seem to be unsociable."

"Never was a problem for me." Issei got a look from Odin.

"I don't exactly have a connection with a lot of the younger gods."

"Issei shut up" Azazel looked at Odin wondering what he was referring to. "What's happening? Is it the subgroups complaining again?"

"The Vanir complain about everything that it's to the point that nobody cares what they have to say anymore. I will say that I've heard some rumors that the Khaos Brigade is increasing the number of users who can access it." There was some shock among the Devils as it seems as Irina's theory was spot on.

"It's supposed to be rare not a dime a dozen. But it seems as whoever the idiot in charge seems to be taking the quick and dirty route and forcing the phenomenon."

Katase looked at Azazel "So what is the method they are using?"

"Abduction, brainwash then fight strong opponents till your near death. Rinse and repeat till they reach the Balance Breaker. Once the breakthrough happens call them back with a forceful summoning. Then you have enough data for the next round of test subjects. The thing is no Faction is dumb enough to even try it."

There were some looks toward Issei "What? I had to bust my ass to get mine. I hate that these scrubs are getting the bargain bin deal." He pointed at Yumi "Look what she had to do to get hers."

"What about us then?" Katase asked Azazel "Was not our time training the same thing?"

"Your devils now, your body can handle it. That and you were never in any real danger. Unlike how these kids are. Anyways it seems as if the Hero faction is gathering Legendary heroes" He air quoted that last part "Their bodies are a bit more durable but also don't have problems with the Angel or Devil powers. Rumor is the heroes also have obtained their balance breakers and they have a Longinus in their ranks as well. Information also says that they are staying away from Ophis snake, how noble of them."

Odin set down his cup "Yes that does sound like a problem."

"Enough about this right now, Old man any place you want to go while you're in Japan?"

A smile crept on the old face of his "Titty bar."

"Hot damn!" Azazel said smacking the table "Grab your shit and let's go I know the best place around. Plenty of Young girls from my organization just opened up shop in town. And we can get in with the VIP treatment.

"Yes! As expected of you Azazel. Show me a girl with the biggest tittys." Odin was excited at the prospect.

"Oi!" Issei shouted out to them.

They didn't bother listening to him they left. "Wait I'm coming as well." Rossweisse was quick to follow them.

"You can stay here, these kids are around your age."

"No, I'm coming along."

"Suit yourself, don't complain when you see things you don't want to see then." They heard Odin telling her as everyone left.

Issei went into the kitchen to find something to munch on as the chase earlier warranted a snack. As he made his way back up to the top floor he could hear voices from a room not far away from the VIP room. "Akeno I would like to speak to you."

"Don't act so familiar with me." They could hear Akeno snap at him.

"What is the meaning of earlier, are you seeing the Red Dragon Emperor." Of course, it was about Issei, there's nothing that simple that it wasn't about him. The better question is was he eavesdropping at this point, even tho he could hear them four floors away.

"Why do you care? This is my life not like you cared anyway."

"I've heard rumors about him" Issei rolled his eyes hearing that from Barakiel "He eats women's breasts and uses them as a power source."

[Why do you have to torture me with such ideas. That TV show is bad enough.]

Issei laughed at the thought 'Ddraig he has to be an idiot, why would you want to eat a boob? Like Seriously that makes no sense.'

"You're judging him off rumors? You are the worst, shows you know nothing about him."

"I'm trying to help you."

"What like my Father?" She dug deep with that line "You weren't there for mother when she died and you never came back for me." The door swung open with a loud thud as Akeno stormed out of the room as saw Issei walking towards the room.

"Ise.. you were listening?" She asked him as there were tears in her eyes.

"The whole house could hear you two." Rias no doubt was explaining some things to the others during all this.

"How shameless of a man to be eavesdropping. It seems the rumors were…"

Issei held his hand up stopping Barakiel. "I'm going to stop you right now. One learn the difference between a silencing spell and a magnification spell. Two your an idiot for thinking I would eat breasts. Who comes up with dumb ideas like that, sounds like something Azazel would say."

He raised his hand as it sparkled "I will not allow such monstrosities to see my daughter."

Akeno stepped in front of Issei "I will not let you harm him! He's all I have left!" She yelled out from the top of her lungs.

Barakiel lowered his hand and turned around as his shoulders sank "sorry" He quietly said as he walked away

Akeno turned around and grabbed ahold of Issei wrapping her arms around him her head lay on his chest "Please just don't say anything… Just not now." He shrugged hearing that as he patted her on the back keeping his mouth shut. Something happened quite long ago and Issei could fill that much in but he knew enough to keep his mouth shut.

It was a long night but the following day was a whole new experience as they were in the underworld at an event sponsored by the Gremory group. Issei and Rias were sitting at a table with a sea of people in front of them as they were shaking hands and signing autographs. "Thank you Oppai Dragon!" There were smiles wide as miles from the children as they got to see their new TV hero.

Rias was no different as her line was mostly younger girls but in front of her was a young boy poking at her breasts trying to hold back from making any noises. "You having fun there?" Issei asked mainly Rias to see how she was doing.

"It's fine… No need to get jealous."

"Jealous?" He asked, "Oppai Dragon has more than enough energy for what is in front of us." He said to the crowd putting on some bravado for the children in front of him.

Rias was more than popular with all the kids, but Yumi was another story. There were plenty of women wanting to see the swordswoman. A villain who was good looking helped her popularity by miles. Koneko wasn't as lucky, she had plenty of fans but they drew in the least desirable crowd of degenerates. She was able to handle them with a reasonable level of professionalism so it wasn't something they needed to worry about but it was still creepy.

A few more hours passed as there was plenty of autographs and photos that were taken. But when they were done they were escorted into a room for them to relax. They happened to be greeted by a blonde girl with two large curls of hair holding towels and water for them. "Here you go."

"Thanks" Issei took one of the bottles of water from her as he crouched down and stuck a finger into the bottom of her hair drills and twirled it around. "Hehe, drills for hair."

Issei felt a multitude of hands come across the back of his head for that single act. "This happens to be part of the training I am going through." Ravel said with a smile on her face and a slight blush as well.

"Training?" He asked not knowing what she was up to.

"It's not like I'm doing it for you or Rias. I'm helping the children of the underworld."

He nodded hearing that as he patted her on the head "Keep your secrets then magic bird." He didn't understand what her game was but he was going to let her keep playing it. Walking past her to go sit down he could feel that Ravel was watching him and analyzing the way he operated.

"Unfourtantly we can't stay here too long." Rias said to everyone "We have Guard detail with Odin for a short time."

There was a collective hatred for what was to come. Odin did whatever he felt like and Azazel just let it happen. Nobody wanted to do that job that was forced upon them. "If that's the case then I will be taking my leave then Rias." Ravel bowed her head.

"Thank you, Ravel." Rias could see the redness on Ravel's face.

And to no one's surprise, it took some hours but they had to escort Odin around the city so he could hope around the strip clubs. Fortunately for them, they finally got some peace when they were released and they went off to train for the day. Issei and Yumi were moving at a high speed as the two of them were swinging swords around and Issei punching at her trying to increase her base speed. The two of them had their swords bouncing off each other as out of all the sword users Yumi was the only one able to counter him in close range as she could come up with ideas to make him back away. She was prone to making another sword and smacking him in the face with the pommel.

The thing is Yumi has more than one sword in her arsenal and she understood that. Once she made sufficient distance between her swords disappeared as new ones reappeared in her hands. She swung her left hand as Ice covered the grass. Simply moving his feet made the ice shatter and then it reformed showing that she could reform it by recasting it.

Issei jumped up and extended his wings sending them into the air. That's when she swung her second sword down to the ground as if nothing happened. He saw this as he tossed his sword aside it was soon followed but a flash as the blade was struck by the thunder. Tucking his wings in he fell to the ground as he rolled into a dive "Your open!" He shouted at her as he ripped through the air and crashed into her pinning her to the ground. "And now you have lost this little match."

She didn't have much of a choice in the position she was in. Both of her wrists were pinned down so she wasn't able to flex them for an attack. Her right leg was pinned by his leg and that left her vulnerable to attacks from his right leg.

"Just fuck already!" They heard from Murayama as the two of them looked over to see everybody watching their little sparing match.

"I'm down for it if you are." He told her as he got off her and helped her up. Issei looked over at the crowd "Any suggestions on where?"

"Issei you're a pervert." Irina said as she was trying to look away.

He retrieved his sword and met up with the girls that were watching the fight. "Yes, I am."

Saying that he heard the giggling from the girls "Did you get to see her panties?" Akeno had to tease Yumi about what just happened. He was just close enough to Akeno as he lifted his Ascalon lifting the tip of her skirt. She was quick to push it down "Hey!"

"It's no secret what you wear." Issei felt a fist jammed into his stomach as he grabbed onto it. "Of course, Koneko is the one who hurts me."

"Your guard was down." She said to him. The thing everyone noticed was that Koneko of all people was able to hurt him. His guard wasn't up around the girls as they figured this out quickly.

"So," He said as he removed her fist from his gut. "You girls are getting stronger every day. So that's nice." Pointing his finger over to Irina "Hell she even has another set of wings already."

"Oh, so you know about that already?" Irina asked as she had kept quiet for some time.

He smiled at that "I'm not oblivious as to how things work. I've seen the process of being officially recognized as a new power level."

Out of her back popped out her wings they saw not two but four white wings. "Wait do we get more wings for getting stronger?" Murayama asked as they had yet to be told about more wings.

"No, that's not a thing for devils." Rias answered her.

"But that one guy who fought Issei had multiple wings." Katase was quick to point out as she remembered seeing the wings.

"He's different." Rias once again "The house of Lucifer, Leviathan, Beelzebub and Asmodeus our original Satans had multiple wings. However that feature was not transferred to the rest of the pillars, so we only get one set."

"Do You get more wings Issei?" Murayama just had to know if there were any other possibilities.

"No?" He asked her as he wasn't even sure "I don't think any dragon has more than one set of wings."

"That sucks, Irina's wings look so cute." Murayama was holding Katase back as she wanted to touch the wings.

"Hey, Issei" Rias called out to him getting his attention "How is Sona's peerage coming along?"

He had to tread softly here as who knows how this could go. "They are progressing if that's what you want to know. But Training can only save them so much." He looked at her wondering what she wanted to know.

"Are they doing better than we are?" She asked refining her question.

"Better is a subjective word there." He scratched his head thinking of it. "Everyone is progressing if that's what you want to know. But everyone here has the advantage of some form of power or sacred gear." He pointed at them and waved his finger back and forth "So uh you all done for the day?"

"Let's go" Koneko tugged on his shirt seeing as she most likely wanted to eat as he had been pushing them as hard as he could without breaking them. There was no arguing with the one who could pack food away like it was nothing.

When they returned home they found one Fallen Angel Azazel waiting for them as he was sitting on the couch watching TV. "Perfect timing of you to get here."

"So what brings you here?" Rias asked knowing that something has to be happening.

"Me? Nothing much, long day plenty of problems to solve watched over the training for a bit." He waved his hand around "Just to make sure your training regime isn't going awry. Helped the Sitri team, almost burned down a Lab with an experiment. Just things that happen in my days."

"He's been drinking again." Irina saw the glass in his hand.

"I'm surprised he hasn't been drinking at school." Issei said as he pointed at the glass "I also don't have much alcohol around here."

"And that's why I have plenty of mine!" He shook his glass as the ice rattled around before setting it down on the table. "Unfortunately I need to speak with you Issei…" He looked at him "Alone"

"Alright fine." He lead Azazel to a room not far away from where the two of them could speak. When they got in and Azazel shut the door he wondered what this was going to be all about. "So?"

"Here catch." Azazel said as he tossed something toward Issei. He looked at it and saw it was a little action figure of himself in his balance breaker.

Issei looked over all the details of the figure seeing as it was posable and durable. "Oppai Dragon is having a promotional event with a fast food joint in the underworld. And this is one of the figures that is being given out.

Issei smiled hearing that as he was playing with it making it punch things "This is so cool."

"It gets better," Azazel said getting his full attention as Issei saw that he was holding onto the matching Rias figure. "The Switch Princess here self is in it as well." He gave Issei the figure "Your's has voice lines from the show. And her's well if you poke the breasts."

He did it as a voice clip of Rias moaning. "No way, this is so cool." He looked on in awe as he wanted to play with the toys.

"Right, this is going to be a hit product. So much that Sirzechs thinks it is going to in his words be World Shaking."

"So when does this promotion begin?" Issei asked as he was focused on posing the toys of the two of them.

"Ads are starting tomorrow." Azazel said but his tone changed. "I think there's something else you need to hear about what happened earlier." Issei snapped out of his fun with the toys to pay attention to what hearing. "I take it you now know that Akeno hates Barakiel."

He nodded "I was wondering what that was all about. Most of the story is missing from the argument."

"Me telling you that story is somewhat skewed. I'm the Governor of the fallen angels so I would come off in support of the fallen. If you asked Akeno you would also get a skewed answer of hatred. If you want the true story Sirzechs could answer it. But in the end, it was my fault and I tried to make amends for it as best I could. Unfortunately, I was only able to do so much to correct the hand of fate. I'm sure you have noticed how she acts by putting up a barrier because she is emotionally weak. She acts cool calm and collected for a girl her age, but in reality, she is a wreck. And so far you're the only person she has opened up to."

"I've seen that much. I guess thanks for the heads up on the story if I get some time I'll ask around to see what they will tell me." With that Azazel left him to think of what was to come.

Days and Nights passed as they were once again back on guard duty just this time in the back of a large carriage being towed by a large eight-legged horse monstrosity of Sleipnir. Outside of the carriage Yumi, Xenovia, Irina, and Barakiel were on guard for the current leg of the trip as they had gone to almost everything they could go to amusement parks, strip clubs, and even sushi. Odin was more than happy as he was babbling to himself about the fun he had with the women around. The thing is he didn't seem to understand that he was wearing out everyone else, Asia was slumped over onto Issei asleep, and Katase and Murayama were not doing much better when it came to energy levels. Akeno was the only one not paying attention as her mind was focused on something else, most likely who was outside.

"Lord Odin you need to focus." Rossweisse scolded him "Your meeting with the Shinto is drawing near, your vacation mindset needs to go. I don't need you getting yelled at by the other gods when we return to the homeland."

"Woman you need to lighten up, relax, or something. This is why you don't have a man."

"This has nothing to do with a boyfriend. I don't want to be single forever." And the waterworks went flying as she was crying from the mention of one magical word.

There was some disapproving head-shaking from the girls from how he treated the poor girl. But that didn't matter too much as they came to an abrupt stop and things went flying around inside the carriage. "What's happening?" Rossweisse asked as she saw Issei stick his head out the window.

The outside team was already in a defensive formation waiting for something to happen. What they saw was in front of them was a tall man with long blueish silver hair and a black robe blocking the path. When Rossweisse and Azazel looked out the window and saw who was blocking it they knew who it was immediately. Issei looked over at the two of them "Who is this reject?"

There was no need for them to answer him as the man spoke up for himself "Hello everyone, I am the Evil god of the North, Loki."

Hearing his name was more than enough confirmation as everyone bailed out of the carriage to confront the intruder. Azazel was floating in front of them and spoke up "Loki what brings you to a place such as this? DO you have something for your head god Odin? Or are you doing something naughty?"

Loki crossed his arms and scoffed at Azazel "Our head god left to speak with the other filthy factions."

"That screams evil." Issei heard Katase talking in the back

"You know that's quite a statement to say in presence of others." Azazel was well aware of where this was going already and nobody was surprised that something wrong was going to happen.

"Ah if it isn't the Governor of the Fallen Angels Azazel. I guess I can't help it see you here, not like I want to speak to you or the devils. But You will receive punishment alongside Odin and those filthy devils."

Azazel was curious about seeing Loki here of all things. "Is it okay for you to contact others but not Odin? Seems odd that you think you have all the power in a faction."

Loki smiled at that "You see I don't have to agree to peace because that's why I'm an Evil God. I don't care for your religion which destroyed ours. So your opinion doesn't matter much to me."

"Oh well, that's perfect. I fell long before Europe was conquered by Christianity so you need to take your beef up with the dead old man or Michael that's his MO now."

"Uhh Azazel" Issei spoke up, "I think he would rather kill you than talk to Michael."

"I will not have Ragnarok avoided just so he can speak to the Shinto. We already know that he's planning on trading information about Yggdrasil."

"I am so lost." Katase said looking for answers from the others.

"How about this Loki. Are your actions affiliated with the Khaos Brigade?"

Loki was dumbfounded to hear Azazel ask about that. "It's utterly disgusting that you would lump me in with the likes of them. I'm here for my reasons."

Hearing that Odin came out of the carriage with Rossweisse in toe. "Then it seems we have an internal strife within the Norse."

"Yes, it seems so." They watched as he walked toward them. "To think that there are fools like this in this day and age." Odin stroked his beard thinking of what was to come of all this.

"Loki your actions here are most inappropriate. This is an egregious violation of authority nearing treason."

He looked over at Rossweisse who was now in her battle armor rather than her suit. "A Battle maiden lecturing me? It's best you keep quiet and know your position in this world, we are gods for a reason and you are not."

"You know Loki there's a reason why we ignored you. Talking to you has never been productive why do you think I went to speak to Sirzechs or even Azazel here. But you know what just to spite you the Shinto has an interest in Yggdrasil. And once we make peace I'm going to do everything to piss you off like having a culture exchange or even let me do tests on Yggdrasil."

"Perfect" Loki released a pressure that was aimed at Odin. All the devils had chills from the energy as Odin didn't care what was happening.

"I take it this is your declaration of battle then?"

Loki smiled hearing "You can make it whatever you would like it to be."

Issei watched a wave of holy energy pass by him at zipped towards Loki and collide with him. "Victory goes to the one who makes the first move." Xenovia said as she was lifting Durandal up as the smoke was fading away. It was made apparent that Loki was still standing as if nothing happened. "I guess that didn't work, that should be expected from a Norse god."

"Your holy sword's power is impressive, but yet for the likes of me it is nothing but dust in the wind."

"You know Xenovia, that saying isn't exactly a great idea." Issei said to her ignoring Loki for the moment.

"Don't you dare bring up more Sun Tzu. Now is not the time!" Rias said to him trying to deter him from a lecture.

Yumi and Irina were next as they charged in with swords in hand. Loki laughed at the gesture "A Devil and little Angel attacking me, how futile." He held his hand up as there was a pressure coming from Loki

"Oh, hell" Issei saw that an attack was nearing as he turned into a red streak across the sky. [WELSH DRAGON BALANCE BREAKER] was heard as Issei closed the gap and swung at Loki.

He turned his body slightly as Issei's fist passed by his face. "Oh yes, the Red Dragon is here. I forgot that you had been making your…"

[Boost!] Loki was drowned out as a boost call was heard followed by a detonation of energy. It was lucky for them that they had been traveling in a large area that was covered by a barrier.

"As I was saying it's far from a time when you can challenge gods."

"Is it now?" Issei asked him seeing as Loki had put some distance between the two of them "Or are you just further away from me when that blast detonated. It no it can't be…" He feigned surprise "Maybe I am worthy?"

Loki laughed at him "You are powerful but still far from it." He held his hand up as a magic circle covered it but they saw that the palm of his hand was red from deflecting the blast away.

"Well then if that's the case then." Issei reached behind him and motioned for Rias and Akeno to come closer. Two of them did just that as they stood next to him "Loki I can see that your hand is in some pain. Looks like we might amputate it before something bad happens. Luckily for you, I have just the thing to block the pain and destroy the infection." He slid back slightly putting the two girls in the spotlight as he put a hand on their shoulders.

Their hair fluttered as an aura appeared around them as they were ready for a fight. Loki saw the crimson aura around Rias along with the matching red hair "That hair makes you a member of the Gremory House, blood relative to the current Maou. Somewhat overboard of a guard for two fallen angels and angel gaggle of devils and the dragon emperor and all for Odin nonetheless."

"Turns out it was suited as you came here. Never hurts to be prepared." Azazel said to him.

Loki couldn't disagree with his statement "Very well then." They heard a snap of his fingers as the space around him distorted. Out of the distortion came out a large grey wolf that was larger than any of them. "My Adorable son."

[Oh now that is dangerous] Everyone heard Ddraig speak as Issei pulled Rias and Akeno back behind him.

"This is bad everyone stay away from that wolf" Azazel was quick to shout at the kids. "Fenrir can kill you with ease."

"Kill her," Loki said pointing at Rias.

A howl echoed as he pushed the girls even further back as dark red flames covered his fists as he rushed him. "Hey wait!" Rias called out as he swung his fist striking the side of the Fenrir's snout as swiped at him slashing part of his armor drawing blood.

Azazel and Barakiel followed up as Azazel threw a spear of light and Barakiel his holy lighting at Loki. He raised his hand up as the two attacks were negated as a barrier pushed outwards from him "Two fallen angels don't stand a chance against me."

"Of course, Norse magic would negate that." Azazel sneered at the idea of it.

"Fine, then I can use the same" Rossweise activated a wall of small magic circles as she fired off a wall of colors. Every single attack slammed into his barrier disrupting her attacks with ease.

Issei was having a wrestling match with the giant wolf as they could smell the burning fur. But his vision was distorting as Fenrir was pulled from his grasp and trapped into a cube trying to crush him. {Half Dimension}

A sliver light descended next to Issei as he watched Fenrir trying to tear his way out. "Issei Hyoudou are you okay?" It was Vali of all people.

Issei wiped some of the blood off his arm "Outside of the arm wound I'm doing fine."

"Wait wait the Oppai Dragon is wounded" Issei looked back to see Bikou sitting on a golden cloud coming towards them "I don't know know if you are weak or strong now."

Issei was puzzled to hear that name "Wait you watch that show?"

"Well if it isn't the White Dragon Emperor." Loki smiled seeing the new opponent on the battlefield.

"Evil God Loki, I am The White Dragon Emperor Vali. And I have come here tonight to kill you." Vali was proud to say something.

"Pfft yeah, good luck with that. The Valkyre already probed his defenses and showed there on point. I doubt physical attacks can break the barrier and Fenrir is still a factor."

"Well if that's the case, having the Two Heavenly dragons on the field is not something I would like to deal with right now." He snapped his fingers as Fenrir disappeared and Loki started fading away. "But know this, one the day of the meeting I will tear Odin's throat from his body." he declared to them as he faded away like a heatwave into the rift.

With Loki gone and the situation defused Rias looked at his arm as she pulled his hand "Come on let's get Asia to heal that."

"Don't pull on it!" He shouted as everyone could see the ripped skin and that he was in clear pain from it.

When she got him back to the carriage they worked on cleaning up the blood as Asia got to work mending his wound as Koneko was using her Ki to assist. "I'm surprised the damage isn't much worse." Azazel said as he watched the girls tend his wounds.

"Ddraig shifted some power into my arm at the last second to make it stronger."

"Forget about that for right now." Vali spoke up as he got their attention "If you want to make Odin's meeting successful you have to take down Loki. And with the possibility of the Hero faction and chaos all around your forces alone aren't going to be able to defeat him or be reinforced." Issei looked as he saw that behind Vali was Bikou along with Arthur and Kuroka as they had gathered in a quick time.

"What you wanna beat him?" Issei asked wondering what he was going to do.

Vali shrugged his shoulders "I can't beat Loki and Fenrir at the same time."

"Killing Fenrir is an easy task, burn it to a crisp." He held up his hand as a light red flame appeared as it started shifting through the shades of red then it turned to Black.

"Or hear me out here. We could join forces and take him down." There was a surprise all around here that as of all people to work together the Dragon Emperors is not something expected in history. "Just for this battle, I would be willing to work with you.'

The following afternoon everyone gathered down in the large open basement. There was some tension as Sona's group Azazel, Barakiel, and Vali's team were all in there. Azazel informed them that Sirzechs gave Vali's plan the go-ahead and is allowing this temporary truce. Odin and Rossweisse were off contacting their Homeland wondering what could be done about Loki. However, Azazel wanted some answers "What's the reason why you're cooperating with us Vali?"

The million-dollar question everyone wanted to know was now out in the open. Vali only shrugged his shoulders and grinned hearing that "I already told you, I want to fight Loki and Fenrir. Everyone else agreed to it yet you don't seem satisfied."

Azazel still wasn't happy about this. "No, I'm not satisfied. Were in a position right now because of the Hero faction and your team. Considering there no way you would cooperate with the Hero faction as they don't gel with your style still leads to issues."

"We try not to get involved with them, can't even tell you the last time I saw them. But I was planning on fighting Loki one way or another even if you didn't cooperate you would have been dragged in anyways."

They all could hear a threat that simple. "Sirzechs was expecting this but said he can't turn down an offer from a descendant of an Old Maou. He's naive when it comes to his job but cooperation is better where we can watch you rather than letting you roam free."

"There are other issues as well." Rias said as Sona nodded as well. While the two of them were the heads of this region there was no going against the orders of the Maou.

Azazel shook his head "I know you are planning something stupid. But we need to focus on dealing with Loki. I plan on asking for a countermeasure from somebody who knows Loki quite well."

There were puzzled looks all around not knowing who it would be. "I need a refresher course on Norse mythos, Outside of Thor who could it be?" Issei asked him.

"The Sleeping Dragon Midgardsormr is one of the five dragon kings."

"Ohhhhhhh right." The name hit him like a brick as it made since who it was now.

"An obvious choice but will he even answer you?" Vali knew better when it came to dragons at this point, not everything was clear-cut.

"With the help of two dragon emperors Fafnir, Vritra, and Tannin we can just summon his consciousness here. Leave the real body sleeping in the depths and probe his brain for information."

"Uhhhh" Saji raised his hand "Am I included in this or something else?"

"Yeah, your Vritra, Issei, and Vali will do most of the heavy lifting in the summoning as will Tannin. But I need to speak to Tannin and Shemhazai and come up with some things. So until then just chill out for a while till I get back." He looked towards Barakiel "Come with me."

"Right" He answered as he followed Azazel out of the room.

Once the two of them left there was an awkward silence between everyone. Breaking it Bikou raised his hand "Yo Red Dragon." Issei looked over at him as he pointed up at the roof "You got a pool upstairs, mind if I use it?"

"HEY!" Rias shouted at Bikou while pointing her finger at him "This house belongs to be me as well, and I will not let you do whatever you please."

Issei looked at her with a raised eyebrow wondering how far she was going to go with this. "Come now Switch Princess what's the worst that can come of it? It's just a harmless pool."

There was a swift smack as Rias hit him over the head "Stop calling me those weird names. I get enough of that in the underworld."

"I'll make you switch into my princess." Issei said quietly to himself.

But the supernatural hearing was another story as Rias snapped her head to him. "I heard that"

"And?" He asked as they could see Rias was getting some tears in her eyes. "Bikou why do I get the feeling you came up with the names for that show?" He smiled and a big thumbs up came from him only for Issei to shake his head. "All because a bunch of girls got into a fight and broke some bras."

The room was turning a shade of red as Rias' anger was boiling "Get out of my sight!" She popped and pointed at the door.

"So does that mean I can?"

"Yes go!" She popped as Bikou scurried away.

As Rias was venting the other girls were around Arthur looking at his sword collection of two. "Ooooohhh so that's what the last Excalibur looks like, it looks so cool!" Irina was ogling the blade for as long as she could. She was a weird one who could get along with anyone at the snap of a finger and it seemed that Arthur was one of them.

"Vali found some information and passed it along to me. After that, we found it in a secret vault."

Asia came over to Issei and sat on his lap as they watched everyone. "Nya?" That was what caught their attention as they watched Kuroka watching Koneko.

"Koneko your sister is nice looking but scary." Gasper said as he was hiding behind Koneko shaking seeing the tall and well endowed woman.

"You can't have her." Isse said getting Kuroa's attention off Koneko.

"Nya?" She said tilting her head while walking towards Issei. "Is it because you want me?" Kuroka grabbed the top of her Kimono and pulled it to reveal more of her breasts.

Asia tried covering his eyes but it didn't matter he had already seen them "Eh I give that two points on some globes."

Kuroka leaned over and got close to his face "Say can I ask you for a favor?" She asked as he looked at her wondering what was going to happen. "Want to make a baby with me." Issei was outright surprised to hear that from her as it was an outlandish proposition. "A strong child from a dragon. I asked Vali but…" She held up two fingers making a V "I think he's a V card for life. But you are a human dragon hybrid. And that is valuable genetics."

Issei smiled hearing that "I know my worth and have chosen it carefully. I'll think about it if you do one thing for me. Since you don't wear a bra…"

"I wear one" She snapped back at him.

"Right and Asia here also wear the same cup size as you do." He twirled his finger around "Turn around and show me your panties."

"Nya?" She was confused hearing that as it wasn't what she was expecting to hear.

Koneko ran over to them and grabbed ahold of his free arm "mine" was the first of many things she mumbled out that audible. Issei looked at the new development as something new for her to claim it was her she only ever implied it.

"Issei must you hit on every woman you see?" He heard Sona call out to him looking somewhat disappointed as he was harassing Kuroka even tho she was an enemy.

"Can I hit on you then?"

"No" She was quick to answer that.

"What about Tsubaki then? Maybe Tsubasa?"

Sona shook her head hearing that "I don't understand how you hooked up with my sister."

"Because after we tore up a training dimension we found out we were horny as hell!" Issei knew that Sona didn't want to hear anything about her sister in general let alone how they shacked up. But it was always funny to torture the pure-blooded devil girls.

When Azazel did return after a few hours he took Issei, Saji, and Vali through a magic circle to a large white room with a magic circle that was drawn out already on the floor that spanned the whole room. A large purple dragon was standing on the edge of the circle "Yo Tannin!" Issei called out to him.

"Well, it looks as if our paths have crossed once again." Tannin look at the group and saw Saji "So this is the one who is host to Vritra?"

"Dragon King, and Ultimate class devil." Saji looked at Tannin seeing that he was this close to the dragon.

"Chill out man, he's not going to eat you."

"You fool!" Saji said to Issei "This is an Ultimate class Devil. Currently in the top ten of the Rating Games. Some respect needs to be shown to him. Not acting so casually around him."

"Bova wants a rematch."

Issei nodded hearing that "Tell him I said no. I already get my kicks of picking on the kids around me."

"Right" Tannin looked over towards Vali "As for you White do anything stupid and I'll kill you myself." Vall only smiled hearing that. "Azazel will he even come? I spoke to him a few thousand years ago but even then it wasn't for long."

"With all of us, I doubt he will have a choice to respond to us. How difficult is he to deal with?"

"He's been asleep for thousands of years. That last time he surfaced he was mostly asleep then went back to the center of the earth after that he said he wasn't going to come out till the world ended."

"Right, so it's a crapshoot then." Azazel pointed to points around the circle as everyone spread out. He pulled out his golden scepter as they started.

The magic circle glowed as each one of the Dragon Gates matching the respective dragons appeared layering over each other and underneath the caster. Red for Issei, White for Vali, Black underneath Saji, and Gold for Fafnir as Azazel was the catalyst.

There was that eerie silence for a moment before a gray gate opened up as a massive eastern-style dragon the body just kept coming and coming. The thing was it wasn't the real thing as it was a projection with a blue outline around the body. What they heard surprised them as it went from silence to snoring at a rock concert instantly.

"I told you he would be sleeping." Tannin said before he called out to him. "Wake up Midgardsormr!"

There was grumbling from the projection as it shook around "Oh Tannin… I thought something felt familiar." He looked around seeing the people around him "The end of the world came? Ddraig, Albion, and even Fafnir and Vritra are here. Where's Tiamat and Yu-Long?'

"The end of the world has yet to come. We summoned your consciousness here to ask you some questions." Tannin asked and as soon as he finished they could hear the snoring once again. "WAKE UP! I can't stand that lazy attitude of yours and Yu-Long."

"Calm down oh angry one. What do you want to know?"

"We need information on your father and brother."

Saji was confused hearing that "Uh Sir I thought we were asking about Loki and Fenrir?"

"Loki created Midgardsormr and Fenrir. And Midgardsormr was no use to Loki due to his size so he sleeps waiting for the end of the world." Azazel filled Saji in on the finer details.

"Oh, Dad and that dog. That's simple, I don't care about them so whatever. But something first them Tannin."

"What is it?"

"Ddraig and Albion are here why are they not fighting?" The large eyes peered at the two of them watching them.

"Loki is a larger issue at the moment and the two of them are going to take him down."

"Interesting, that is a deterrent. Anyways the Dog is more dangerous than dad is. His fangs will tear you apart. But he does have a weakness, get Gleipnir from Dwarves. With that, you can trap him and seal his movements."

"We already got word from Odin that method doesn't work, that's why we summoned you here." Azazel was quick to inform him.

"The dog has been enhanced then, okay seek out the dark elves of Norse. Their elder knows a way to enhance dwarven creations. I can show whoever wants it get the knowledge. What Dragon emperor wants it?"

Azazel and Issei pointed to Vali "I'm not magical inclined. So your better off giving it to him."

Hearing that Midgardsormr's eyes flashed. "Okay, I know where they are at."

"That quick?" Azazel asked as he pulled out his phone as a map appeared and Vali pointed at the location of the camp.

"So how do we deal with Loki then?" Tannin asked as Vali planned out how he was going to travel

"Just use Mjolnir on him"

"Right so just hit him with the hammer of the Thunder God. How are we even going to convince Thor to lend us it? That's even considering Odin can convince Thor to give it to us." Azazel thought about what was coming.

"Don't count on Thor letting us borrow it, That's a weapon of the gods." Vali told him.

"Go to the Dwarves and Dark Elves, there is a replica of Mjolnir that they store given to them by Odin."

"Now that is a better one, Thank you for this Midgardsormr."

He nodded his head as his eyes closed. "Have fun, see you at the end." He said as his voice faded away along with the vision.

The following day nobody went to school as they had the devil familiars act in their place not to cause suspicion. Once again they were gathered in the basement after breakfast as everyone was working on the plan for the battle that was to come. Sona however was the most jittery out of everyone as she wasn't at the school so it didn't feel right to her.

"I come bearing presents!" Azazel said as he walked into the room "Okay well it comes from Odin." He said as he held up a silver square hammer. "I didn't expect Odin to be hiding a replica away let alone Midgardsormr knowing about it."

"So how good is it compared to the real thing?" Issei asked seeing the hammer.

"The Real deal."

"Lord Odin said he will lend you this replica of Mjolnir." Rossweisee said to Issei "As you are the only one who could realistically wield it. Azazel handed him the hammer as it felt as light as a paper. "Now send some of your aura into the weapon."

Issei did so as it lit up and turned into a massive hammer the size of a greatsword. His left hand changed from normal to fully armored to hold it up from crashing into the ground "Why is this thing so heavy?" He asked her as he tried hoisting it over his shoulders.

"That's way too much power." Azazel said laughing at him. "Tone it back slightly."

"I barely put anything into it." He said as cut off the power supply returning it to its handheld form.

"Well, it is a weapon of the gods even if it's a replica. I had to get Barakiel to help me make it so anyone could use it. After seeing that you might have to hold back or you could destroy too much with a single swing. You know Vali you could beg Odin for some assistance in this battle."

Vali was quick to decline Azazel's offer "I would rather master the power of the Heavenly Dragon. So I have no need for extra weapons, I want something else."

"Suit yourself" Issei said as he walked away twirling the hammer around and ogling it like a kid in a candy store.

"Bikou I have a message for you since you are here."

"Huh?" He looked at Azazel.

"It says I will punish you when I find you." Azazel watched as Bikou's face dropped knowing what it was. "Yeah seems as if He is with Yulong looking for you."

"So he knows about all of this then." Bikou was sweating bullets hearing the unfortunate news.

"We should go to your homeland sometime. It would be interesting to meet the First Generation Sun Wukong and Yu-Long."

"Noooooo." Bikou's eyes almost bulged out hearing that from Vali "That is a bad idea. The old man may be retired but he is a monster. With his use of Senjutsu, Youjutsu, and raw strength he will beat with ease.