Society tries to shame him into silence, and he continues to refuse such action and wears his pervert label with pride. Not the smartest action in the female dominated Kuoh Academy, but Issei "Hyoudou" not going to pretend that he's some story perfect prince charming to get the ladies.
When motivated he can become someone of reckoning, beating out the competition for the slowly expanding private school in his hometown. This can also be seen in his somewhat greater physical fitness in comparison to his other perverted friends when fleeing the angry females after some casual admiring (peeping) during post-sports meetings.
Totally not because of his rather amazing genetics.
So even though all the blood was rushing to the wrong head in his body, Issei had to stop Rias from taking off his pants in a rush to be deflowered. It took a bit of vocal gymnastics, and hiding his buttonhole worker from getting off his night job.
"I need your help to stop my engagement. The only way that I can think of, is if we have sex right now."
The Ambassador stood tall and ready to serve at the sound of that! Then Iseei got a good look at Rias. Scantily clad in black lingerie and bountiful bosom almost pressing against his chest as she had him beneath her on his bed. It was better than the best of his dreams! Even the make-up she had on made everything about her face pop.
Like the bags underneath her eyes, despite the heavy amount of eye shadow and the trembling in the sinfully smooth arms that surrounded his head. It made his Plum-Tree Shaker give up on his duties for the night.
It would not have mattered anyway when that maid teleported into his bedroom right on top his hidden porn stash. The glare she gave him was supposed to be bone-chilling, instead it was something along the lines of disheartened disappointment.
It was the same look his brother gave him any time he talked about having a harem.
When everything was finally explained the next day, Issei could understand Rias reasoning. The way he treats his Peerage and Rias however, it struck a deep cord within his very being. There was no adoration or true appreciation for women around him. Just a right smug bastard with nothing but greed in his heart and mindless groping.
Granted he was strong enough to make Buchou nervous and she outright erased people from existence. So, to see her terrified to the point of casual sex to break off the engagement made the whole situation foreboding. Issei really needed to be in the mood for that type of thing, she can't just expect him to get it up on vocal command damn it.
Then the was the rumours that the Underworld has been spreading about him since his reincarnation. Buchou and the other members of the ORC haven't said anything about it, but his own sources are very…descriptive about devil society's view of him compared to the rest of the peerage.
Even with Occult Research Club's training camp Issei is no where near what he could be as a fighter. Buchou and Akeno-senpai can't help him to become a better fighter. Though Asia's patience was a blessing in disguise, even his ultimate move won't be much help against a guy like Riser. How they play the game will reflect on Buchou and how she is seen among the devils without the Gremory House looming over her. He cannot let her become a joke. So that only left Issei with one option.
The Dimensional Door practically fell apart the moment he stepped through. The training camp was farther from Kuoh than he ever tried before, so its not completely his fault with his magical ineptitude, or his lack of interest in it anyway. It brings him back to familiar territory that he is still hoping is hidden from the other supernatural beings around town.
He is really hoping that his big brother can get him show him a few moves before the week is out. If Buchou and everyone else have to move into Riser's place in the Underworld, Issei might have to resort to kleptogamy just to get a harem. Much like a wimpy elephant seal.
That is not one of the kinks in his grand Harem Dream Plan, thank you very much.
He unlocked the door and slipped inside his family home, "Nii-san I'm home!"
It had been a few weeks since he dropped by the house, but eventually he was able to get to the reason for his visit. "Can you give me a few fighting pointers?" Not hearing a no, Issei pulls the door close behind him before asking, "Like how to throw a punch?"
When the Rating Game started, Issei never felt prouder of himself then in the first five minutes when he takes out nearly half of Riser's pawns. His knuckles ache from being in the most grueling fight of his life against the enemy peerage. Adrenaline continued to pump through his veins before heading to where Buchou was going to confront Riser herself. The pawn of Gremory cannot let her fight Riser on her own. She brought him back, she stopped Yuu-Raynare from finishing him off.
"The date was a bit of a lost, but whatever got the Grigori nervous about you wasn't worth wasting my time with you."
An explosion goes off on the roof of the school, almost halting the teen in his tracks, before running even faster towards the fight. He froze when Raynare killed him, froze again when Dohnaseek attacked him in the public. He even froze when he faced off with the Fallen Angels and exorcists at the old church. The battle in the abandoned church to rescue Asia- it was a struggle to face Raynare again.
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He refuses to let his mind wander instead he focuses on the Rating Game. He took stock of what he knew, all that was left in the game:
Issei, Asia and Buchou vs. Yuebelluna, Ravel and Riser
Since Ravel's not going to fight, that meant they had the advantage. Issei could see explosions going off on the roof of the school.
With a promotion on lips, Issei stops at the door to the rooftop when he hears Buchou's voice. "My Bishop resigns." Promotion forgotten, rushed out the door and into the open without thinking.
Asia's disagreement is lost as she is teleported away, and her status announced to the world. Riser and his Queen fly above the rooftop, the condescending smirk practically plastered across his face.
After not seeing the prick for almost two weeks, Issei can't help but feel some sort of distant kinship with the pure-blooded devil. That any male that reaches the ultimate goal of having a harem in the modern age is a sign of respect and (current) superiority over Issei. If he met Riser Phenex on the street, or had him as the MC in a game, he would proudly salute the man.
Riser Phenex looked him over, disgust etched across his face. "Such a waste of pawns Rias. You usually have much better taste."
In this case, all Issei wanted to do was jump up and punch him into the face, but him and Queen were too high in the air, and recently reincarnated devil still could not fly right. He needed to even the odds for his king, and the best way to do that was with a surprise attack. His eyes locked onto the two flying devils. He just needed to wait until they were just low enough to be within reach.
"Really Rias?" Even the way he says Buchou's name makes Issei's fists clench tightly. "Weren't you the one saying that your peerage would refuse to lose?"
Buchou's face twists unpleasantly, probably smelling his overpriced cologne, even with a dozen feet of space between them. "Asia is not a fighter, and I refuse to allow you or your queen to toy with her."
"Such a caring King you are, but you are far too soft on your servants." Riser sighs with an animated shrug. "Yulbelluna and I can find another one of your peerage to toy with though, there is still one more left." He snaps his fingers.
A dart of flame spears through the air toward Issei's face. His memory flashed back to the tireless nights of training, of crossbow bolts constantly testing his flexibility. He had no way to dodge the attack, but he could track it with his eyes as it came closer. Straining his focus onto the flaming projectile, Issei moves his hand in one motion. Abruptly slamming the fireball harmlessly against the rooftop.
Both sides were stunned into silence by the action.
"That was fire magic casted by a true scion of flame! How can you bat it away like that?" Riser questioned; his ire forgotten in his surprise.
"For half a decade, " Issei face and tone gained ages of wisdom. The male spirit shined through his eyes; "-my hands have been furiously trained for various techniques to strengthen my constitution for the true trials to achieve my ultimate goal." He raises his right hand into the air before making a fist. "Your flames are nothing compared to my determination!"
Being the manliest speech that he has ever made in his life, Issei heard Buchou groan behind him.
Despite the small distraction, the smug bastard found his ego again. "I'm surprised that you lasted this long in the game, despite all those rumors surrounding him."
"Riser-" Buchou sounded as if saying his name was a way to kill him.
Addressing the rather evident hate from his fiancée, "Come now my dear, do you know what many of pure-bloods are saying after your rather mishandling of the Fallen of your territory, not to mention one of your latest acquisitions." He paused only gesture to Issei on the ground. "Over eights pawns to reincarnate and not even a Sacred Gear to show for it. With the exception of today, I thought he was nothing but a fool to keep your peerage entertained as they went through the motions of school in the human world."
His words did sting, but Issei refused to allow them to hurt. He was not like the rest of the humans in the world. Buchou brought him back, she gave him something beyond the normalcy his parents and older siblings tried so hard to push on to him.
"With how mouthy he has been in my presence," Riser said disdainfully. "I may take some small pleasure seeing your defeat with my own eyes."
"My king-" The Queen said the title with such reverence, "-please do not waste your energy on such a trifle." The sole pawn left in the game could hear the magic circle being charged in the air, only to be dispel itself a second later.
Riser laughed, as if they were talking about swatting away summer bugs. "That is quite true my dear Yulbelluna." Unbelievable. Even in the middle of the Rating Game, the bastard is groping his queen's body, all while never letting his eyes move from Rias on the other side of the roof.
Though Issei was not the wisest, he was decently intelligent in most areas, but naturally has a few areas of expertise. His knowledge about all things eroge is beyond that of most mortal kin. He was not the sharpest tool in shed, but Riser is more than what Issei is now. It's the middle of a winter, and Riser Phenex is a snowblower while Issei can reluctantly admit that he is more akin to a gardening hand spade. Yet, Riser's actions though sadly expected, had caused a reaction from his opponents.
He could hear Buchou's evident disgust, but Issei could feel his heart pounding in his chest. The constant fighting, running, and sprinting across the mock schoolgrounds has driven Issei to a point of near exhaustion. Despite the pounding in his ears, he could feel the burning in his legs threatening to collapse him here and now. Except all he can see in his eyes was the detachment that Riser held while fondling his queen, and the bland acceptance on her face.
The female form should be treated with near lavish adoration, for it was the true religion that has fallen to the wayside of the known pantheons. Not the casual pawing domination showcase because some bastard wanted a trophy wife. Such treatment in Issei's eyes sparked something deep inside of his very soul.
Phenex tilts his head mockingly as if in thought, "You know Rias," he drawled her name as if it was a simple treat to taste on his tongue. "If you surrender now, I promise that I will not harm your peerage once we are married. Who knows? Maybe after seeing how well you fare under my personal treatment, they'll beg for the same thing."
He dares! The words bubble from the dark corners of his mind. The fury he tries so hard to hide refuses to be shackled.
"Your queen, the little rook, even your newly reincarnated bishop." At this, Issei stops thinking.
"What is her name? Such an adorable thing dressed as a nun. The fun we could have." Issei already failed Asia once, the terrifying feeling of life leaving your body, the light that left her eyes while he held her in his arms.
"What was her name?" He snaps his fingers, "Asia was it?"
Her name left Riser's lips, and Issei felt chest implode, a vast emptiness became apparent as his grew to unbridled heights. "You won't touch Asia!" Issei roars to the heavens, the entire dimension shudders once as golden sparks are pulled into the teenager's body. His heart pounding in his chest. "You won't touch any of them!
"Not Asia!"
The magical spell casted to hide his appearance started to flicker.
"Not Koneko-chan!"
"Not Akeno-senpai!"
"And especially not my king!"
The illusion that had been casted over his body to make him appear more human, gave away. The daily spell unable to contain the vibrant change on his body.
He could feel his exhaustion disappear as the void in his soul fills to the brim with overwhelming power. His devil-body, once superior to his original mortal frame, struggled to contain the forces that coursed through it. Power to break free from the shackles this world places upon those as seen beneath the supernatural, beyond the scope of might seen by the Biblical factions. Buchou asked her peerage to free her from her clan's machinations. To find and capture love with her own two hands, and not the thoughts and wishes from everyone else but her own. She is crying out for freedom! With the ideal now chosen, power coalesced inside his soul. The shaking of the dimension subsided, while Issei's senses tuned into the world around him once more.
"-did you really beg to have Lucifer interfere with the Rating Game!? I thought you have more pride than that Rias!" Riser shouted. Rias refused the allegations with such fierce determination, that Riser was practically cowed into commission as he should be. Her body was shaking with rage, or maybe she got something more.
Only moments before, the devil's presence infuriated him as he stated that he would seduce Buchou's peerage after the marriage. It all seemed rather quaint now, like a chicken screeching from inside's its coop as wolf makes its way inside. Baseless yelling while the predator creeps closer for the kill. Riser will be crushed. With his regeneration, the destruction of his will is the first step to his end.
30 seconds.
Any longer, and the mythic power boost would end, and the flaming peacock might be able to win the game. Issei punched his fist to the sky, "Instrument of Freedom!" Issei will end it in 15.
A sparkling ray of gold, leaves weaving around it in a non-existant wind exploded forth from his outstretch arm. Yubelluna shoved Riser out of the way of the attack, only for her to take it head on. Her cry of pain silenced as she disappeared.
"Riser Phenex Queen, retired."
"What in Satan's name was that?" Riser cried out. His bravado shaken by the simplistic dispatch of his last peerage member. Issei wanted to curse Riser's luck, but it didn't matter in the end. He will not last long enough for the sacrifice to be worth it.
When the cock turns his attention back to Issei, his face had wrenches into a fit of rage. "You," the flaming wings on his back grew to greater heights as the edges twirl and twist with grand fervor. "I don't know what magic you used, but you will pay for this." With a slap beat of his wings, Riser was diving towards him fist alight with fire trailing down the entirety of his arm. The fist ploughs into Issei face but compared to all the fights that he has been in till this moment; it was like a love tap.
He did not care to be touched by this bastard. There was no heat, or Issei felt no heat coming off Phenex's knuckles in his cheek. Issei reaches up and pulls the alight fist away from his face much like how a parent chastises a child for hitting. The way Riser's eyes widen as he struggles to free his arm to no avail. The look on his face when he can't break free was satisfying.
24 seconds.
When Issei pulls back his free arm to throw a punch, and despite all his talk about his invulnerability, Riser struggles even harder to free himself before he gets hit in the face. Issei felt the older boy crumple into the hit. Phenex's body falling to the forces of physics as he rockets back 10 feet, his body tumbling across the ground. The buffet of force from the blow gave him more time in the air.
Issei did not wait for his response as he strides after Riser, who shakily rises to his feet his face marred by a deep purple bruise across his face. The shock on his face was evident on the unharmed side, "It hurts-why does it hurt so much?" He questioned, no longer looking at his opponent approaching him.
"Screw your immortality, these fists don't care what you are-" The pawn of Gremory raises his arm in the air above Riser, like the anger of a vengeful god about to strike down an interloper. "Cause I'm Brutality Incarnate!"
The cement below Riser cracks from the force of the hit as it traveled through Riser's chest and into the rooftop.
18 seconds.
"Issei!"
He turns his attention over to Buchou who was watching him with amazement. Already Issei can feel how proud she will be once she tenderizes some turkey-
"The eyes of the underworld nobility will be on this Rating Game, and where Rias stands among them."
Grayfia's words just prior to this game starting echoed in his mind. Issei could finish this fight here and now, but Buchou wants to be seen for who she is, not as just the heir to the Gremory family, or as the little sister to Lucifer.
"Buchou!" His call reached out to the stunned woman. "Its time for you to finish this!"
The confusion on her face worried Issei, she was probably thinking back over the fact that none of her attacks affected Riser earlier. She met his eyes and they hardened into a determined glint. She trusted him and his words. Now Issei needed to make this look good for the entire underworld.
Seeing the destruction magic building in her open palm, Issei poured everything he had into one final move. He shot his hand towards Buchou as Instrument of Freedom glided through the air towards her. Like the last of his energy leaving his body, Issei struggled to keep his eyes open as his legs buckle and his arms fell to his sides.
12 seconds.
Even after seeing what happened to Yulbelluna, Rias showed no fear before the beam struck her head on. The way her step faltered from the hit shown that it was effective as the sphere of Destruction grew dense in her hand. The glyph with the seal of Gremory shined beneath her feet as her aura flowed around her form with the colour of crimson. Despite the growing darkness in his eyes, Issei kept his eyes on Buchou.
With the last remanent of his consciousness Issei shouts, "You can-do…it…Rias." Only to tamper off into unconsciousness only feeling the world rushing forward.
Waking up back home was a bit of a start, but the feeling of a naked Buchou sleeping next to him made everything feel alright. It also felt amazing to feel breasts against his side, but he did not want to ruin this feeling like he did the first time he woke up next to her.
Unfortunately, all great and wonderful things must come to an end. Rias eyes flutter open and seeing Issei staring unabashedly at their blanket-covered bodies, she smiled. "Thank you," she said. "Now close your eyes." She whispered coyly.
Excitement practically sprang up inside of Issei body. He felt the weight on the bed shift as Rias left, but the blanket stayed. A few seconds later Rias said, "You can open them now."
With his mind and body ready for the beautiful sight that would be a naked Buchou, he opens them to only see her back in her school uniform.
His dejection at her state of dress must have been hilarious for her, because Buchou chuckled at the look on his face. "That is part of your punishment Issei." She reaches up and playfully flicks Issei's ear, right on the pointed tip that he has been hiding since going to school. "You've been keeping secrets." She lost the teasing tone, "We are going to have a conversation after school today. Best not to be late."
Issei looked over at his clock, only to see that his first class was starting in 20 minutes. He bites back a curse as he tried to untangle himself from his sheets to get dressed. As he struggles to puts on his uniform pants, only for Buchou to grab hold of Issei's head and kiss him.
The young man freezes in movement, she deepens the kiss and Issei felt happier than any eroge or porno could give him. The kiss ended, but Rias's palms linger on his cheeks. "Thank you, Issei. For everything."
With that said, Buchou teleports away.
"Ise are you up yet? We need to head to school." Asia opens the door to the bedroom and flusters at the sight of him being half-naked with a bald-pate friar ready for morning prayer.
It gave him something to focus on instead trying to figure out how to explain to the peerage that his parents are demigods?
"So you're a half-elf?" Kiba stated after a rather tedious explanation, though both him and Koneko could not stop staring at Issei's pointed ears.
"A half-elf from-" Issei hunches forward gestures with his hands, "space." He said with seriousness. "With mythical powers that can pass a fraction of on to those that I deem as personal allies."
Akeno-senpai's eyes alight with terrifying delight that sends a shiver down his spine. "So, its because of you my lightning hits with an extra bit of zing."
"Anyway," Issei continues, "My folks moved to Kuoh before I was born." Issei shrugged with nonchalance, "They were looking someplace quiet so my little brother and I could grow up to be safe."
Granted living with Issei alone in his two-bedroom apartment did raise a few questions against his moral integrity. Asia trusted him completely and he still was not used to that from a girl. "So your parents are an elf and a human?" Asia asks.
His parents being a half-elf turned into a Azata and an ascended succubus. "Sort of, ancestries can get really weird where they're from."
Koneko and Kiba shared a look. "Still, hard to believe that your family has been in Kuoh for all these years without anybody noticing."
"My parents got really good at making hideouts over the years. They made a few enemies back on Golarion and they know how to hide really well." Issei sounded especially proud that he was able to know something the devils don't. "My folks don't really want to deal with the other supernatural factions here," Issei then ponders something. "Though my grandmother might be doing some work for a few of them though."
Speaking of the other factions, an unsettling thought crossed his mind. "So the Rating Game was only broadcasted in the Underworld right?" Issei questioned hopefully, sadly knowing the answer.
"Technically yes-" Rias looks away, "but my brother has told me that some of the other factions do tend to use the Rating Games to spy on devils. While showcasing our power amongst ourselves, it also shows our abilities to our enemies."
That made Issei very nervous. Swallowing down the lump in his throat he asks, "Like the Youki faction?"
"Definitely." Koneko stated with finality while munching on a box of cookies.
Issei collapses onto a chair, his back to the window facing the schoolyard. "Crap."
Koneko looks outside the clubhouse and freezes with a cookie halfway to her mouth. "What is that?"
"What is wh-" Rias was interrupted when the ORC house shook.
A dragon smashes against the clubhouse, knocking the peerage off their feet and out of their seats. The dragon rears its head and breathes sound, shattering the windows of the clubhouse and thrusting the peerage away from the dragon and the unharmed Issei.
"DON'T WORRY ISSEI!" The dragon reaches into the building and grabs hold of Issei, who tries his best to look apologetic towards Buchou and the rest of the peerage members. "AUNTIE AIVU IS HERE FOR THE RESCUE!" With Issei in hand, Aivu takes off into the sky while the Rias watches him disappear into the sky.
Issei really hopes that they will not be too angry with him when he comes back to school tomorrow. He just needs to explain everything to Auntie Aivu first.
A/N:
So this past couple weeks I really gotten into reading Highschool DxD again, the few of you who seen my other stories can note the time when I made another crossover involving Persona 5/Highschool DxD/Bayonetta.
Anyway, after nearly 3 months straight playing Wrath of the Righteous, I really wanted to do a little thing with that stuff plus this. Though I may continue this into a collection involving Issei's mythically powered siblings and other characters from DxD.
We will see how this goes, maybe if I get real interested I might continue this in a separate story, but that might be after I try reading some of the light novels.
