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Haruki vs Riser!

The day of the Rating Game soon arrived, Haruki was finishing off his preparations within his bedroom, when the door casually opened, revealing Rias coming into the room. Her eyes displayed some worry and concern, but mostly belief.

"Ara, Rias-chan. What's going on?"

Rias took a few moments before she moved towards him.

When she reached him, she sat down on the bed beside him, and gave a calming look to her face. Yet, one that was full of gratitude.

"Before you go, I came to wish you luck."

"Thanks Rias-chan." Haruki gave a kind smile. "Don't worry, after today Riser wont be able to interfere within your life, and anyone else that tries is going to have a healthy dose of Holy Lightning directed towards them~"

Rias appreciated his kind tone and nice attitude towards her.

Showing how reliable he was, and how calm he was also.

"I'm sure that would be the case. Again...I just want to thank you, for everything you've been going through, just for me. Doing things for the Phenex as well as my family, and all of the other things that you have going on..."

"I wouldn't worry about it, it doesn't bother me. Riser will be dealt with, and then we can move on~ Got big things coming up soon, like me gaining the Evil Pieces, I even heard that the Underworld are going to be doing a few things in the future. I might be going on another meeting with Sera-tan in the near future...so many new and interesting things that will be going on~"

Rias, looking at Haruki right now, wouldn't imagine that he was about to go and fight the immortal Phenex. Yet, that was relieving to her. Showing that he still had a good attitude to life, and how he was going to go.

Rias bent towards him, and then allowed her lips to meet his own in a brief, yet memorable kiss between the two of them.

"I'll be waiting, for when you're finished."

"Right, next time you wont even need me Rias-chan. Remember, you've got the power inside of you, just show it. Let it go."

"Elsa isn't here, is she?"

Haruki chortled, as his ice doll revealed herself.

Rias watched as the ice doll casually pushed Rias away, and stepped between them.

"I was only kidding!"

"She doesn't like being compared to Elsa, the jokes got stale for her."

Haruki sweat dropped as Rias watched the air freezing thanks to the power of the ice doll.

Cringing at the sight, Rias pulled back as the ice doll continued to stare at her.

Soon, Rias murmured "Good luck!" and shot out of the room, all the while Haruki gave a bemused look.

"Well, once again my Princess, seems like we've got a fight to get on with. Ready?"

The ice doll raised her head, before placing one of her hands on the right hand side of Haruki's face.

The soothing feeling of the cold hand caused Haruki to lightly smile.

"I'll take that as a yes."

Haruki chuckled out, and stood up, swinging his arms side to side, then he cracked his neck, fully prepared for what was about to come.


Meanwhile, Riser sat down with his peerage, and was waiting for his time to head off to the Rating Game. His peerage seemed to be on high alert, knowing that this was something Riser was truly excited for.

At the same time, Riser was also nervous.

Though he was going to be with his peerage, he also was aware that Haruki wasn't a weakling.

He did have the power to destroy a good portion of any area he was in, if not the entire area.

He hadn't even seen Haruki's full power before.

Just as the time was passing, the door opened to reveal Ravel coming through.

"Ah Ravel, have you come to wish me luck?"

Ravel shook her head.

"Because I don't want you and Rias-sama to be together, I can't wish you luck for this game."

Riser face faulted.

"But you're my Imouto!"

"Yes, it is precisely that relationship is why I am here. I don't want this kind of match, but I am going to support Haruki-sama for this instance."

"So...you're supporting my enemy?"

"He is going to be my King in the next few days, so it isn't like I'm doing this to harm you Riser-nii-sama, I'm here to tell you that when the match is done, everything will be settled, one way or another, and whatever the outcome, you should learn from this experience."

"Are you that confident that he is going to beat me?"

Ravel didn't want to say.

She did judge Haruki's current power to be on a level that's different to Riser's and Riser didn't have the power to pack a devastating blow towards Haruki currently.

"I'm confident of the outcome of the match, but I am unsure of how you're going to respond Onii-sama. You are important to me, but Haruki-sama is also important to me, and I can't agree with having Rias-sama marry someone that she doesn't want to marry. I don't think you're a bad person Onii-sama, I do think that your minds being clouded with the past."

Ravel's words seemed to hit home on something that Riser had been thinking about.

But for the match to continue, he had to dispel them out of his mind.

"I've been training Ravel, the outcome might not be as one sided as you believe. Just wait and see what is going to happen next. The Devils need this to come to fruition."

Ravel could see that Riser wasn't going to listen to her, so she released a small breath.

"...Then I'll see you after the match."

Ravel bowed her head, and walked out.

Riser wasn't deterred, he was going to show his strongest side and make sure that he won against Haruki, no matter what.


When the time came near, Rias and the others saw Haruki off, who disappeared towards the Rating Games destination, Rias along with her peerage, Kuroka, Koneko, Ravel, Asia, and Serafall all went towards the viewing area of the Rating Game.

"So...is the entire Underworld watching this?"

Isane asked, seeing various higher up type looking people stationed around. She saw a man with red hair that was hyperactively waving towards Rias, but she seemed to ignore him. More and more people also filled her eyes, she saw another red haired man that was sat with a brunette Rias basically from what Isane could tell and they were sat with a woman that looked like Ravel, sat down next to who Isane believed to be Ravel's Father.

She presumed that the two with Ravels family were Rias' Father and Mother, from what Rias had explained to her on what her parents looked like. Though seeing Rias' Mother, she could easily be accused of being her sister.

When seeing her family, Ravel went over to them, and sat down beside them.

Rias also began walking towards her brother, with the others following her.

"I'm not sure about the entire Underworld, but I do know that there will be several people watching this match today, and seeing the future of both Phenex, and Haruki respectably."

"Seeing...their future?"

Isane questioned, as Rias sat down behind her brother.

Isane sat down on her right, and Akeno sat down on the left. The rest of the group followed suit, all sitting down beside Isane since Akeno sat at the end of the seats, so they naturally only could sit down beside Isane, with the group going Asia, Koneko, Kuroka and finally Yuuto beside Kuroka.

"Yes, it's to see where they're going to go. Haruki is going to become a High Class Devil, he is someone with a Longinus, the Underworld will be very curious as to what they're going to see from him, things of that nature."

"So this is like a study of him as well as a Rating Game for you Buchou?"

"I suppose it could be said to be like that."

As she replied, Sirzechs turned back, and grinned.

"Ria-tan! Isn't it lovely what you and Haruki have together?! What's the word I've heard you youngsters say...aah yes, I believe that you're very shippable!"

"Shippable…?"

Rias murmured, while understanding what she was hearing, also didn't understand why Sirzechs was all for it.

"Ararara, your Onii-sama ships you and Haruki-chan~"

Kuroka piped up, with Koneko looking towards Rias.

"...It's fine, she isn't a Loli."

Isane gave Koneko a strange look while Asia looked worried of Sirzechs, having heard about him from Haruki before, knowing he was the Maou Lucifer. Though she had been told that he was a good person so she was going to wait and see what was going to happen next.

"Onii-sama! You can't say such things here, when they're important people around!"

Rias let out an exasperated breath while Sirzechs laughed.

Rias was going as red as her hair while Akeno giggled.

"Now that Haruki and I have shown love, you can also Rias."

"A-Akeno! Don't you get involved also!"

"Hahaha! Even Akeno-san is agreeing!" Sirzechs said with a strong smile. "By the way Rias, is this your new Pawn?"

Directing towards Isane, Rias nods.

"Yes, this is my Pawn, her name is Isane Hyoudou, the holder of the Red Dragon."

Sirzechs held out his hand excitedly.

"My name is Sirzechs Lucifer, it's a pleasure to meet you Red Dragon-chan~"

"Lucifer..."

Rias nods to Isane's perplexity.

"Though I have the name Gremory, my Onii-sama took on the role of the Maou Lucifer, that's why he has that name. After the last war, we lost many Devils, and the original Maou's, so people like my Onii-sama stepped forward, and took that role. It's why I am inheriting my house instead of my Onii-sama, he forfeited the rights to it when he took on the position as Maou Lucifer. He is very strong, some say that he is the strongest Devil that exists within the Underworld."

"T-The strongest?! Really?!"

Sirzechs waved his hand.

"Don't be so concerned with that~"

Isane didn't know if she couldn't be concerned with it, it was still a huge deal to someone like her.

"Onii-sama, where is Millicas?"

"Millicas is with Grayfia right now."

"I understand, I'm sure Millicas is excited right now to see Haruki fighting. He always did have a soft spot for Haruki."

"Even more than me?!"

Rias chuckled awkwardly at her brothers frantic face.

"I never said that."

Sirzechs shook his head.

"Either way, this match is going to be quite entertaining, don't you think so Rias?"

"It is my life on the line, I do wish that I could do more."

"Don't worry about it, one day I'm sure that you'll repay what's being done here today, whether that be with love, or with saving his life, or something like that. It doesn't always have to be about doing everything on your own Rias."

Rias understood her brothers kind words, and took them to heart.

Serafall, who was looking around with her hands on her hips, caught the sight of Sona, and yelled "Found you!" who cringed, and received a hug from Serafall.

"O-Onee-sama! S-Shouldn't you be worrying about your Queen?"

"Worrying about my Queen?" Serafall echoed. "I don't think I need to worry about that. My Queen's got this, I believe in him that much!"

Sona was glad that Serafall at least showed such passion.

Though she could do without the hugging her part.

She then moved to sit beside Sona who let out a long drawn out sigh.


Isane soon saw that monitors before them were appearing, and being switched on.

What she saw was Haruki sat down within the Occult Research Clubroom, and Riser sat down in the Student Council room, the former was drinking tea and seemingly both were making last minute preparations for when the match was going to begin.

"That's...the Rating Game field, right Buchou?"

"Yes, that's exactly right. It is an artificial space where the two Devils and their groups would participate. I suppose right now though it is only Haruki and the ice doll, while Riser has his entire peerage. Fourteen girls and himself to make a conclusion of fifteen opponents all together."

"Nearly a full peerage..."

Isane mused, so Yuuto spoke up.

"Riser-san, is only missing a single Bishop. But yes, he does have a full peerage apart from that single one."

Isane looked over them, seeing the girls all sat around Riser.

"So...this is his harem?"

Rias nods without pause.

"Yes, that's his harem."

"Haruki's is better."

Kuroka raised her hand and high fived Isane.

"Damn straight~"

Akeno gave a bemused look as Grayfia's voice finally came on over the broadcast system.

[Hello everyone. I am Grayfia, a maid from the House of Gremory and today I will be the arbiter of the Rating match between Haruki-sama, and Riser-sama. In the name of my Master, Sirzechs Lucifer, I will be keeping my eye on this match. By using both Haruki-sama and Riser-sama's opinion, we created this battlefield which is a replica of the school, Kuoh Academy, which Haruki-sama attends to in the human world.]

"Even Riser agreed to this?"

Isane asked, Sirzechs nodded without pause.

"He didn't mind where he fought Haruki, he said that it would be a waste of time trying to trick him in any way with a landscape that he was unfamiliar with. Riser made it his conscious effort to also become acquainted with the layout of this school before the games begun. At least, that's what his parents told us."

Answering Isane's doubts, Isane was even more perplexed.

It seemed that this was going to be an intense match after all.

[The location where both teams were transported will be their base. Haruki-sama's base would be the Occult Research Cub's clubroom located in the old school building due to him representing Rias-sama. Riser-sama's base would be the Student Council's room located in the new building. For the Pawns to use promotion, please head to the enemy's base to do it.]

"That would only pertain to Riser-san, yes Buchou-san?"

"Yes, that's right. It wouldn't make a difference for Haruki since he is already a Queen."

Rias answered Asia who nodded with a smile.

[Now it's the time for the commencement of the battle. Also, this match will continue till dawn in the humans time. So, Game starts now.]

Grayfia announced, so Rias and the others watched Haruki and Riser's group making their moves.

"So this is it...Haruki-san, please be okay...don't get hurt..."

Asia cupped her hands together, and silently hoped that Haruki would be fine.

Rias saw the worry on Asia's face, so she placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Don't worry, he will be fine."

Asia hoped that would be the case.

They watched as Haruki calmly sat and drank some tea, before waving his hand towards the ice doll, who nodded and stepped outside.

No one knew what they were going to be doing.

Riser's side also seemed to be making preparations, traps and other things for Haruki to eventually come about.

Ravel took a look at what Haruki was doing, seeing that he had a map out, and was drawing X's or O's on different locations, and then he'd place a tick beside one or the other depending on which one needed it.

"I see, Haruki-sama's doing this to mark the most likely locations Onii-sama is going to attack from, the enemies advantage points being marked with the X symbol, and the O represents his advantage points. The ticks would be where Haruki-sama knows that he'd also be able to take over in a relatively short space of time, and he knows which path would be the best to go on. Very smart Haruki-sama, please show me why I've chosen you to be my King."

Ravel thought deep about what was going to be the eventual reality for everyone present.

Haruki took about five minutes to make his preparations before he set out.

The ice doll wasn't with him when he left either.

"He's leaving now...what's going to happen next? Haruki-kun's power is indeed above Riser-sans, but Riser-san is still a Phenex with control over fire, and wind, even his group have the capacity to use such a power."

Yuuto thought to himself, as Koneko looked between the different screens.

"Riser-san has attempted to form some plans to deal with Haru-senpai. But he uses piece sacrifice to gain what he wishes for, and in the end, it would make more sense to try and stick together as much as possible."

Koneko shared her thoughts, Kuroka leaned back with her hands resting behind her head.

"Perhaps you're right Shirone. Riser is probably thinking about how to make his peerage dwindle down Haruki-chan's strength, then go for the killing shot himself. It would make the most sense. Even the traps that he has laid down indicate this to be fact. Like the explosive traps of his Queen for instance, he knows that they aren't enough for Haruki-chan."

Serafall quietly listened to what was being said, and still had every confidence within her Queen for this fight to end with his vicorty, even if Riser was trying to do that, she still believed Haruki took that into account and wouldn't fall for all of his traps as Riser was intending for him to do so.


Haruki walked out of his base, and deeper into the school grounds.

Moving through the forest that occupied the area near the Occult Research Club, when he came out of it, he immediately felt an enemy close by.

He didn't even make a move as he quietly closed his eyes.

Isane watched with perplexity.

"What's going on Buchou? He's closed his eyes..."

Rias hummed as a response.

"If I have to venture a guess, then I'd say that he's detected a presence. Though I can't see anyone, maybe it is someone-"

"Yeah, someone's trying to hide nyaa. It isn't a bad idea, but it isn't going to work with Haruki-chan nyaaa~"

Kuroka cut off Rias, who intently watched the fight.

Haruki inhaled and exhaled slowly, before he moved his hand right, and released some lightning.

It shot through the forest like a whip, and then latched onto something.

The next moment, a young girl with blue hair appeared at the end of Haruki's hand, his clenched hand grabbing her kimono top. Isane was baffled, while Yuuto was quite stunned that Haruki managed to see that so clearly.

"H-Hey! What's the big idea?!"

She complained so Haruki smiled towards her.

"Trying to be like a Ninja huh? Next time, maybe try and be a bit more sneaky, you left several indicators that you had been around. Like the shoe print in the dirt, the sound of rustling leaves despite there being not enough wind to generate such a movement, and this being a Rating Game setting, wouldn't allow natural animals to make those noises either."

The girl grit her teeth angrily.

"W-Well, I'll still show you!"

The girls stick that she carried was brought up to try and hit Haruki in the torso, but he chortled and released some of his aura from his upper body. The auras power was so that the staff crumbled as the aura ran across it, shattering within her hand.

"Mira is it?"

Mira scowled.

"So what?"

"I guess you're the distraction for the other one that's trying to launch a sneak attack on me."

Isane was astonished as Haruki directed his hand left, just in time for a woman with a large sword came down towards him. The wind bent around the blade, and she swung the large sword down, releasing a strong intense burst of air pressure for Haruki's body.

Without batting an eyelid, Haruki coated his hand in Holy Lightning, and as if he was grabbing the very air, his hand clenched together, which in turn caused the lightning to focus into a single point around Haruki's hand, before he released it towards the incoming attack.

The lightning hit the air pressure, and without much struggle, if any at all, the air pressure was obliterated out of existence, as the lightning hit the young woman's body.

"Aaaaaaah~!"

The young woman named Sirius moaned as the electricity wrapped around her, shocking her to the point that she couldn't sustain herself on the field anymore, and she disappeared in a flash of lights, with Grayfia making her first announcement.

[Riser-sama's one Knight, retired.]

As that was said, Haruki turned back to Mira who was giggling nervously.

"S-So, you wouldn't happen to want me to go now, would you?"

"Yes, I do want you to go. Away from this field, and out of the game."

When he said it, Mira became panicked, and tried to escape, but Haruki released a burst of lightning from his hand. Because he was still holding her, it travelled towards her body instantly.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah~!"

Like Sirius, the lightning gave a pleasurable sensation as she was washed over with lights, disappearing from the match soon afterwards.

[Riser-sama's one Pawn, retired.]

With that, Riser's peerage had lost two members, with Akeno's cheeks turning red by how Haruki had taken them out. With pleasure and not the pain of it, which she thought was rather kind and yet also exciting for her at least as she watched, making her think back to their own private time together.

"S-So, he took them out quickly..."

"You could have taken them out." Kuroka replied to Isane. "They aren't that strong from what I have judged. I'd say Riser's group range from Low Class, to Middle Class at the highest for some like his Rooks and perhaps other Knight. The only High Class would be his Queen, and Riser himself who is a bit stronger than her."

"I-I see..."

Isane murmured as Haruki looked towards the right hand side.

Seeing the gym standing there, he felt an odd presence from it, and then after thinking about it, he casually raised his hand up.

"That needs to go~"

From his extended hand, Haruki unleashed a strong burst of Holy Lightning that eclipsed the entire building.

The light shined through the windows, with two of Riser's peerage being inside.

Two maid type girls at that.

"What's that light?"

One asked the other, who giggled awkwardly.

"Eh..."

When they dared to look out of the windows, they saw a flash of lightning shooting for them.

They both went "Ooh shit!" as they tried to raise a barrier.

But it was too late.

Since it was the gym, it wasn't the biggest building the school had to offer, but it still was big enough to hold a good number of people inside, well over fifty people and still have lots of room.

Isane watched it vanish from sight.

Being blown away by a single attack, nothing remained of the gym, looking beyond it Haruki could see the main school building more clearly now. Not even a spec of the building remained, Akeno saw that as the girls were vanishing, they also had red cheeks and felt the pleasure from the lightning despite being Devils and having a usual weakness to such an attack thanks to its holy aspect.

[Riser-sama's two Pawns, retired.]

"Holy shit!" Isane screeched out. "He wiped out that building like it was nothing!"

Rias wasn't surprised, while Akeno smacked her lips together as such a sight.

"Yes, it seems that his power is..."

"So hot~"

"...s-so hot?"

Rias finished after Kuroka interjected, glancing at the neko who was busy smacking her lips together.

"That guys gonna be my babies Otou-chan~ Sadistic kittens that can kick major ass~"

Isane looked bewildered, while Koneko sighed.

Ravel was enjoyed to see Haruki doing things for the sake of a plan, she understood right away why he chose to sacrifice that building as with only him being on the field, it would do little to no benefits for his side, while it would benefit Riser's side immensely to have it, not only for sneak attacks, but she could think of a number of reasons why that building was important to have.

Serafall grinned, and could hear the Devils speaking about her Queen. They sounded positive from what she could hear, hearing how he was making some tactically strong decisions, which she could understand.

"Because the gym was what connected the paths between the school and the Occult Research Club, it was an important base, one that Riser would take advantage of." Sona spoke aloud, grabbing the attention of some others. "However, I think Haruki-kun made the best decision, there would be little point trying to keep the building as a safe location, and it can't hide Riser's group anymore behind it either, or as we've seen, inside of it so he can't be sneak attacked. All in all, he made a very tactically sound plan."

Sona showed her impressed side, while Rias gave an acknowledging nod in agreement.


Riser, who was watching on, saw the destructive power that had been unleashed by Haruki.

His eyes could see the young man bringing his hand back, and twitching it left to right, before rotating his shoulder.

"Riser-sama, it seems that our first plan has to be dismissed now, doesn't it?"

"Yes...but, we still have a number of others." He retorted to the Queen of his peerage. "Ni, Li, and Marion, go to the base of Haruki's and promote. For you two are some of my most capable Pawn's, and the power boost would be good, and Marion, your power will come in handy to support them."

The two cat girls, and a maid all bowed their heads strongly.

[Yes Riser-sama!]

"While they're doing that, the traps have still been laid down, so Xuelan, you're going next together with Ile and Nel."

"Yes Riser-sama."

Xuelan, a chinese dress wearing girl bowed her head, two green haired girls brought out some chainsaws, seemingly looking ready.

"Finally, Yubelluna, take Mihae, Isabela and Karlamine to fight in the sports field. You'll make a stand there, and I'll be preparing my strongest attacks for Haruki, and finishing off the traps here to give me the edge. He might have Holy Lightning. But we are immortal, we are Phenex, and we will rain down fiery powers onto them!"

Trying to inspire his group, the group did in fact cheer, and cheered loudly.


Isane who was watching on, felt unsure of what was going to come next, Asia was worried since she didn't know what the full capabilities of Riser were, the others in the group all held serious faces as they simply did what was needed.

While Haruki had destroyed the building, he cracked his neck side to side, before moving onto a different location.

"Seems like this is going to be the best way...though I sense that Riser and his group are making a move. Most likely I disrupted their plans with destroying that building, so they're going with a different plan. Intriguing, very intriguing~"

Haruki was glad that Riser wasn't just being reckless.

He was actually thinking and planning, which made Haruki excited to see the fruits of Riser's tactics, even though he himself didn't really like the idea of him

However, when he was going to run for the school building, he saw a number of barriers forming before him, something he no doubt believed that the Queen put up in place due to the power of then, trying to ward him off it seemed.

He didn't even stop and his fist sailed before him, smashing the barriers one by one, with brute strength and Holy Lightning added to his strikes, and the barriers shattered one by one, but using that, Xuelan came shooting down towards him.

Her fist was coated in flames, and it went for Haruki's face.

"The Rook has come this time, has she? Are you related to Chun-Li by chance?"

Haruki got excited to fight the Rook, reeling his fist back and met with the incoming fist of Xuelan.

Xuelan blinked at the identity that Haruki gave.

"You think I've not heard that joke before!?"

"Fufu, I'm sure you have~"

Xuelan's fist clashed together with Haruki's own, creating a wave of pressure that dented the ground.

Xuelan's fist tried to break through Haruki's own, but it held up against her fist.

Ile and Nel used this chance to bring out flaming chainsaws, and came at Haruki from behind.

His eyes glanced back, before casually waving to them.

"Hello Loli twins~"

When he addressed them, Koneko raised an eyebrow.

"Hello Onii-chan!"

"Nii-chan's looking so cuddly~"

Koneko's eyes showed her anger for the Loli twins, Asia became worried, and hugged Isane while Isane herself shivered.

Kuroka giggled awkwardly, and tightened her hands together.

"...Those Loli twins are not in the harem, it is fine..."

"I heard they're joining..." Kuroka tried to joke, but she saw Koneko's sharp eyes, so she took it back. "Kidding, just kidding Loli-sama~"

"...That's a good response Onee-sama."

Kuroka and some others cringed.

Even Sirzechs cringed when he saw the dangerous eyes of Koneko.

""Time to be sliced down!""

The twins charged Haruki with their strongest strikes. The flaming chainsaws came close to both sides of Haruki's form, ready to slice his body down, but the moment the chainsaw blades came close, Haruki flexed his aura, and shot it around his body like a protective suit of armour, which was strong enough to blast away the twins in a burst of Holy Lightning which was added to the aura.

Wrapping around them, a euphoric "Aaaaaaaah Onii-chan~!" escaped their lips as the retirement light caused them to disappear.

Koneko murmured "Good they're gone, lets move on." causing Akeno to grin at the sight of a cute jealous Koneko.

[Riser-sama's two Pawns, retired.]

Xuelan was stunned by how he did it without really moving and then hearing what Grayfia said along with the fact that she could tell that he was still holding her back.

"Don't you underestimate me!"

Xuelan tried to pull back, only for Haruki to open his palm as she was retracting her hand, grabbing her wrist.

Her face turned towards Haruki.

But by the time she did, Haruki had already launched her up into the air.

She went so high that she could see the entire battlefield.

She could see her comrades going towards the sports field, and she could see that the others were heading for the Occult Research Club, and despite knowing what was going to come next, she accepted it without worry and allowed Haruki's Holy Lightning coming from up above, shooting like an arrow, and wrapped around her form.

She felt an intense pleasure mixed together with her being taken out of the Rating Game system due to suffering some injuries yet like the others, she didn't even feel the pain, not really, until she was completely gone.

[Riser-sama's one Rook, retired.]

With that, Haruki had taken down quite a good number of Riser's forces.

His eyes went towards the school building, then towards the field when he felt some presences going there. Though nowhere near the level of those like Kuroka and Koneko, he still could feel the power of his enemies, partly thanks to his years of training and when he had been hunted.

He also felt some powers going towards his base.

"It seems that the ones heading for the base are the weaker ones, so that will be easy enough for Absolute Demise to take care of, though I could go for Riser right now, the others might be trying to do a sneak attack, or perhaps some kind of teleportation spell so they'd leave me in a dangerous situation and transport Riser away. Though the most likely conclusion is that they're simple distractions while Riser prepares to fight me...even if that's the case, it doesn't matter. I'll go and deal with them on the off chance that something unexpected happens."

Deciding deep within himself, Haruki took off running towards the field.

Isane and the others watched on, wondering what was going to happen next.


Meanwhile Ni and Li along with Marion made their way to Haruki's base.

When they got to the small row of trees before the Occult building, and saw that an eerie fog was beginning to surround them.

"Nya..."

"I don't like this..."

The twin cat girls let out cute meowing sound, while Marion folded her arms.

"It's just a simple illusion, I wouldn't even worry about it."

Marion declared, as they continued on.

However, as they did, it was becoming increasingly cold.

More and more they walked, the more they felt cold.

"I'm freezing!"

"Why's it so chilly?"

The twins asked, Marion once more denied their worries.

"It's probably just a trick, I wouldn't worry about it. We need to make it towards the Master after promoting."

Marion didn't sound convincing.

But they did go forward as fast as they could.

When they thought they had gotten close, they tried to run…

Only to feel that there was something below them.

Stopping them.

"W-What the hell?!"

"N-No! This ice is..."

"The Queen of Ice!"

The trio yelled, as they heard foot steps.

Becoming increasingly worried, the girls turned their eyes towards the left hand side.

Stepping out from behind the trees, was the ice doll herself.

Her hands were in front of her, and she looked like a maiden as she moved forward.

Marion raised her hand, but saw the ice growing across her skin, and freezing her in place.

"N-No!"

Marion tried to release demonic power, but it still froze as did the woman's body. The twins tried to use their own powers to escape, but they couldn't in the end. Whatever they tried, their movements were restricted with the ice.

Fear came over them as they were frozen solid.


Soon afterwards, as Haruki made his way to the sports ground, he heard from Grayfia.

[Riser-sama's three Pawn's, retired.]

He smiled to himself, as he pulled closer towards the sports field.

"Good going my adorable Sacred Gear-chan~"

As he said it, Isane looked at the screen where the ice doll was. Seeing that she was freely moving around, it seemed she truly could do whatever her Master desired, even when they weren't right next to each other, something Isane had been told, but hadn't seen until this point.

"Now the game moves to the end portion."

Rias said to Isane who gave a serious nod.

"Do you think Riser can do this?"

"I think Riser is at least being smarter than his usual self. He is trying, though I'm not happy about that since I don't want Riser to win for obvious reasons. At least this has had him think about strategies, something I know Ravel would want for him."

Isane looked towards Ravel who looked on without any emotion on her face.

Serafall on the other hand…

"Ooh yeah! Get them you adorable Queen of Ice! Next to your King of Holy Lightning! Hahahaha! That's my Queen! Kick some ass my adorable Queen! I love you! You're the best! Yahooooooooooooo!"

Sona felt so embarrassed by her elder sister that she slunk down in her chair, and placed a covering over her head so she wouldn't be noticed with her.

Serafall didn't mind though, she was showing her love and adorning feelings for the Queen that she cared for immensely.

Sirzechs gave bemused eyes, and then cheered "That's Rias' future husband! Welcome to the family Haruki-kun!" which embarrassed Rias so much that she mimicked Sona and placed a covering over her head so she couldn't be seen.

Sirzechs laughed to himself, he always found it cute to see Rias acting shy.


Haruki soon arrived at the sports field, and saw the four girls stood there.

Making no effort to hide themselves.

Along the way, Haruki disabled the traps that they had put down to hinder and stop him. He had to admit that he liked Riser was setting traps, and was trying to wear him down, though he still wasn't sure about sacrificing his peerage to do so, but he could understand why Riser was doing it the way that he was doing it, though he did think of a few ways that Riser could improve, he kept them to himself for the moment, facing down his enemies.

The Queen, remaining Rook, and Knight, along with their only Bishop, they all took up stances against Haruki.

"Hello everyone, Bomb Queen Yubelluna-san, Isabela-san, Karlamine-san and Mihae-san."

"Saying Bomb Queen is a bitter thing, I detest that nickname."

Yubelluna called out, Haruki shrugged.

"I thought that the name was flattering."

"Either way, it doesn't matter. You wont be making it out of here alive."

"Geez, are you going to kill me?"

Yubelluna's bottom lip trembled while Isabela stepped forward. Cracking her arms left and right, she got into a fighting position.

"I am happy that I get to face such an honourable opponent. Though my chances of victory are on the low end of the spectrum, I still appreciate this chance to fight a man that has the capability of taking on many people."

As Isabela said it, Karlamine also stepped forward. Showing her sword, it burst into flames, surrounding the blade with such a violent flame that even Haruki was happy to see it, showing that the pair weren't going to hold back.

"I am of the same opinion. Fighting the Maou-sama's Queen, it is a very big honour. Even though you're not a Knight, I can see the Knight's honour burning inside of your body and waiting to be released. So please show us the determination that we've heard about."

Upon hearing that, Haruki quite liked these two for their words, and how they held themselves in their thoughts.

"I like your honesty, Isabela-san, Karlamine-san. And it is also very strong of you both to stand on this battlefield knowing your disadvantage. I will respect your opinions and show you my strength, I'd like to see the full capabilities of you both."

Haruki got into a fighting stance while the magicians pulled back.

Mihae surrounded herself in an aura, and she transferred that aura to her comrades, seemingly boosting their capabilities. Karlamine and Isabela both began to be surrounded with her aura, while Yubelluna did also.

Isabela went forward fist, her strike created a shockwave in the air that was sent towards Haruki.

Using his aura, he dispelled it as Karlamine shot for his right hand side, bringing her sword covered in flames for his body, Haruki stuck out his hand, creating a mass of Holy Lightning, and blocked the strike with his own power.

"Ooh! Haru-chan's having so much fun right now!"

Serafall giggled out, seeing that rather than destroy them in a single attack, he wanted to see what their capabilities was and was enjoying himself as he did.

Yubelluna used this chance to create her explosive power above her body, before she shot it towards Haruki in a strong burst.

Karlamine dodged as Haruki stomped on the ground, releasing more of his aura to combat the woman's attack.

Haruki smiled, feeling that indeed they had increased their power a good deal.

Yubelluna's power was something that he did find to be a good deal impressive.

Isabela tightened her hand, jumping up and like before, she sent a shockwave from her thrusting fist, blasting it into the flames to cause them to explode, and the power went towards Haruki, he also saw that Yubelluna was attempting to cast a sealing spell on him.

Before she could complete it, Haruki shot forward, cutting through the explosive power with his arm swinging out several times.

"You wont get the chance to continue on!"

Karlamine shot towards him, swinging her blade for him which he blocked with an aura covered arm, before she pulled back, and then swung several times towards him, moving faster and faster as she did so.

Isabela also got in on the action, crossing the distance, sending a barrage of punches and kicks for Haruki's form.

Coming in from both sides, Haruki brandished his body with a thick layer of aura, acting as an armour, as he collided with their attacks, moving so fast thanks to tapping into the speed of the Knight from his Queen piece, he was able to block the pairs attacks.

Yubelluna was baffled by how he was keeping up with them.

But she also understood that the enemy before her had many years of training, and wasn't the Queen of a Maou for nothing.

Right now, she was seeing why he was such a person and held a position that only very few have.

Haruki, while blocking, grabbed Karlamine's weapon, clutching it in his hand and broke it with extreme force, using the Rook's strength to do so, and due to the power he used, the shockwave of his fist clenching with the incredible aura he had, blew back Karlamine and Isabela a good deal.

"One day, you'll truly be a strong Rook."

Isabela took that as praise as she felt Haruki's Holy Lightning wash over her.

"Aaaaah~!"

Like the others, she felt pleasure as she was erased from the Rating Game.

[Riser-sama's one Rook, retired.]

Haruki turned back towards Karlamine, and saw her bringing out a knife.

Before she could, Haruki shot it with a finger blast, his lightning breaking it apart, and forced Karlamine down.

"Not bad, Knight of Riser, your speed is pretty good. Keep it up, maybe we'll get to fight one day again."

Karlamine laughed as his Holy Lightning came for her body, soon wrapping around her form.

"Aaah~!"

As with Isabela, the Holy Lightning washed over and caused her to moan until she disappeared from the arena.

[Riser-sama's one Knight, retired.]

With that, it only left Yubelluna and Mihae. With the people that were watching, the higher ups were amazed to see someone like Riser, who for all his ways, was still someone that had fought and won a majority of his Rating Games, was losing to Haruki right now, while people such as Serafall and Akeno were very thankful for what was going on and how they handled the situation until now, it was good for them and the others to watch this kind of battle going on.

Mihae turned all of her power towards Yubelluna and strengthened her as much as she could do.

Yubelluna, aura flowing around her, stuck out her hand.

"So it comes down to us."

"Seems so. Ready Yubelluna-san?"

Yubelluna raised her aura, and nodded.

"Have thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis!"

Unleashing her strongest violent burst of power, Haruki unleashed his own as a response.

Clashing together, Haruki felt her power exploding against his own, and he had to admit that she wasn't that bad. She was pretty strong, and her power placed her on a level that he would compare to Riser right now, and that was a compliment in Haruki's mind as Yubelluna with the help of Mihae matched his kind of power.

It was clear that Yubelluna was doing all she could, so he responded by doing the same thing.

He pushed his power further, and his Holy Lightning broke through Yubelluna's attack.

Yubelluna worried as she raised a barrier to block off the attacks, but the barriers shattered, and then wrapped around the opponents bodies, the girls let out cute moans before they disappeared from the battlefield.

[Riser-sama's Bishop and Queen, retired.]

"With that, only one left."

Rias murmured, Isane nodding slowly.

Sirzechs was quite impressed, seeing how Haruki had been handling himself until now, showing that he had a good mind, and the power to back up his actions, yet he wasn't being reckless either, and was doing things that he'd expect someone that a High Class, even Ultimate Class Devil would be capable of thinking of.

All in all, Sirzechs was proud to see Haruki's actions, and was even more excited to see what he was going to see in the future.

Haruki turned his eyes to the school building before making his way there.


When getting there, Haruki stepped into the school building, and silently walked forward.

As he did, he saw several spells on the walls, Riser had made a good effort to hide them as well which Haruki mentally praised.

"Here we go..."

As Haruki murmured that, the walls began to explode in a force that was tearing the walls asunder along with the area that it was in, even causing the building to begin shaking, so Haruki spread his Fallen Angel wings, and shot through the structure.

"Geez! Riser's trying to explode him!"

Isane exclaimed, with Ravel bowing her head.

"It isn't a bad tactic, but I'm sure Haruki-sama wouldn't fall for simple explosives like this."

Ravel's words did bring some ease to Isane's heart.

But Asia was still worried, seeing someone she cared for was caught in such a massive wave of power.

The walls, and floors exploded with enough force that a Low Class would easily be killed by such an attack, it would wound even a High Class if they stayed in the catastrophic area that was the spells that Riser had set up.

Shooting through the area, Haruki outpaced the fast moving explosions, and then flew upwards, with the explosions following him.

As he got near the roof, he saw that the spells at the top were already being set off, so they'd explode him as he got there, but rather than have that, Haruki waved his hand forward, and blasted through the roof, taking half of the roof out with a single attack, escaping the explosions.

Flying out to the top of the building, a flamethrower of intense fire was coming for him, so he stuck out his hand and dispelled the attack with his own power.

With the fire dispelled, Riser was revealed.

His eyes met with Haruki's own as the former Fallen Angel landed before Riser.

"So you finally arrive. Not looking as bad as I'd like, but it will do."

Haruki gave a bemused smile.

"I'm sorry I couldn't get roughed up a bit more, but I had to come and meet you. It was a date I simply couldn't miss~"

Hearing that, Riser wore a frown.

"I've been training, and been waiting for the day to fight you."

"Is that so?"

"Of course! I've wanted to have a fight with you for a good long time! Now it's time for me to finally beat you!"

Riser's hand lit up with the intense flames of the Phenex. Spreading further and further, the flames became so hot that Haruki could even feel the heat on his skin and he was a good distance away from Riser, showing the passions that Riser had deep inside of him.

Directing his hand forward, he released the burst of fire that shot like a missile.

"Fufu, now here comes the fire! Lets see how you burn Riser!"

Haruki cupped his own hands, and formed his own attack. It looked like a needle of electricity at first. But it was much bigger than a regular needle to the point that it could even be classed to be the size of a house and looked more like a spear than anything at the current size of it.

Haruki grabbed it with one hand and swung it for the flames coming for him.

"Shit..."

Like a knife cutting butter, the flames were split in half, and the lightning shocked the flames to the point that they didn't exist anymore, Riser's eyes widening in shock to see his attack being dispelled like it was.

But Riser wasn't going to be deterred, allowing his flames to grow around him, concentrating on his back. The flames spread out like wings, creating a massive flaming phoenix like wings behind him, the heat around his body was more than enough to cause Low Class Devils to pass out, Haruki could see that Riser had indeed trained, as he didn't remember Riser's flames being this hot before, which he was happy about.

"Ara ara, look at you Riser. Your wings of fire, and your determined state is causing me to feel the thrill of a battle coming on. Fufu, it is going to be quite the fight, do you think? Fighting a Phenex that is this serious, and you can regenerate also, lets see if your regeneration can handle my kind of power~"

"S-Shut up! I'm not going to go down because of you!"

The flames shot forward in a strong flamethrower like attack.

But compared to before, the flames were so strong and big that Haruki surmised that the flames easily would cover a four to five story house, and it could obliterate a good portion of a town with how much power he was releasing.

"Not bad, not bad at all."

Haruki then twirled his giant spear like lightning attack, and spun it like a propeller blade, spinning it so fast that it created a field before it, made of the lightning from the large spear of lightning, which formed a large barrier as the flames clashed against it.

"Geez, these kind of attacks are quite powerful..."

Isane noted, seeing how much power Haruki and Riser were releasing.

But compared to Riser's concentrated face, Haruki held a small smile and looked to still be relatively relaxed, which was something that caused Isane to wonder how much Haruki still had, plus he had his Sacred Gear which could turn the tide if something was going to happen next.

"I also have to admit that Riser's attacks were stronger than I've seen in his previous Rating Games."

Rias added.

"It is because of the drive to fight Haruki-kun, Riser has been training a good deal."

Sirzechs spoke up, Sona nodding in agreement.

"Still, since it is only a recent thing compared to the years that Haruki-kun has with fighting experience, Riser does still have to keep training to truly harness the power. But to see that he is still pushing a good deal, I suppose that Haruki-kun's influence on Riser has been positive..."

"Like your influence on Rias-chan~" Sona shot a look to Kuroka who stuck out her tongue and whistled innocently. "Either way, I hope it is a cool fight~"

Kuroka sang out as Riser's Father turned to his Mother.

"I haven't seen Riser this good before..."

Riser's Father admitted, as his Mother nodded slowly.

"Though he might see Haruki-kun as someone he must defeat, he has inspired Riser to train, and harness the power within him. So in a way, this fight is also going to help Riser see a future where it would be good to train and use his powers."

Ravel wondered if this was one of the things that Haruki had spoken about when he said that it would benefit Phenex, and if it was, then she understood that, which made her feel as if Haruki truly was doing Phenex a good service to have Riser see that he does have potential and that he shouldn't just rely on talent alone, and never train.

"Haruki! Taste my flames!"

The large fire spread around the barrier, trying to take it down, so Haruki pushed some more power into the barrier, and caused a large explosion, which Riser used to send several balls of fire through the explosion smoke.

Haruki praised Riser's attacks, but allowed his spear to thrust forward very fast. Each one pierced the fireball, and caused it to break down as he released a burst of electricity through it, the fact that he moved the weapon so fast, and with how heavy it must be due to the size, Isane was still astonished by what he was doing.

Riser panted as the smoke cleared, seeing Haruki was still standing there with a smile on his face.

Gritting his teeth, he went to move when Haruki took his weapon, tapping the ground with it.

The entire roof within seconds lit up like a Christmas tree with the electricity spreading all across it. Riser felt his feet being electrocuted so he shot off into the sky with his large phoenix wings, only to see that Haruki caused the spear of electricity to disappear.

But the lightning surrounded him like an armour, and then he shot off into the air at speeds Riser didn't even see.

Then Haruki delivered a blow to Riser's stomach, the force of the impact caused his body to be broken apart. Thanks in part to the regeneration ability he had, Riser's body did indeed heal, but he also spat out bile.

Haruki didn't use Holy Lightning, otherwise the punch could have killed Riser, something he didn't want to do.

Riser flew backwards, locking eyes with Haruki.

"Screw you! I'll show you the power of Phenex!"

Riser amped up his fire, and charged for Haruki.

Swinging out his fists, he made several attempts to attack Haruki directly.

But each one were stopped with Haruki matching his fists blow for blow, their connecting fists blew apart the remaining school building,. The flames and electricity that were left throughout the school also disappeared as their aerial battle continued on.

"Ara, you have gotten better. But your fighting style could use a bit of work."

"Grr! I don't need a lecture from you!"

"Not lecturing, merely making an observation, that's all."

Haruki responded as he allowed one of Riser's fists to slide by his left hand side, before Haruki twirled in the air, delivering a devastating kick towards his side.

"Gwaaaah!"

The force of the kick forced blood out of Riser's mouth, and sent him flying like an arrow down to the ground.

Tearing through the ground, Riser's body bounced on the ground a few times, before stopping, Riser coughed up blood though his healing still kicked in and allowed his body to regenerate once more, though he did know that as soon as Haruki showed his Holy Lightning then he'd be in trouble.

"This...This fight...it wont...it wont be enough for me! I will show you my full power Haruki Himejima!"

"Fufu, I'm excited Riser. Please show me your full power, and I'll respond with my own~"

Pulling himself to his feet, Riser shot his fire towards Haruki in a strong blast, only for it to be dispelled when Haruki released his electricity around him, Riser grit his teeth, before he charged for him once more.

Crossing the distance, he came at Haruki with a flurry of attacks once more, Haruki once more blocked the strikes with his own, before moving behind Riser. Riser didn't even see his movements before he felt a sharp blast to his back, blasting him down to the ground.

When hitting the ground, Riser was met with Haruki stood there, and embedding his fist into Riser's body, driving his body into the ground, with a pressure wind storm erupting around the pair that blew away the debris.

Digging his body into the ground, Haruki could see that the damage Riser suffered was slowly healing, indicating that his powers of regeneration weren't as they were beforehand, Haruki presumed it due to Riser being at full power, and receiving damage from Haruki.

Pulling away from Riser, Haruki got into a fighting position once more.

"Have this!"

Riser, coating his hand in fire, thrusted it towards Haruki who blocked it with his arm.

Haruki could feel the heat on his arm, and he had to admit that Riser wasn't doing so bad, he was doing a good job in fighting him and not giving up either, so Haruki wanted to show Riser a warriors fight, and delivered a strike so hard that Riser was flung away from Haruki, smashing towards the sports field a good distance away.

Haruki flew after him, and when he got there, he saw Riser kneeling on the ground, sweat pouring off of him.

He could see that Riser wouldn't be able to last much longer than he was currently.

"You've done well Riser, you shouldn't feel bad about losing this fight."

Riser's eyes shot for Haruki, and glared hard.

"This wasn't supposed to be like this...I was supposed to win over you..."

"Why is that?"

"I...I trained for this...I planned for this..."

"And that's a good thing Riser, but you also must have realized...so did I."

Riser blinked at what he said.

"...What?"

"Did you think I spent the week laying around and doing nothing? I also was planning Riser. I also trained. This was a serious matter, Rias-chan's future was on the line, so I knew I had to come with my best so I didn't fail her. Though I do respect you for training and coming up with plans to defeat me along with how your peerage were determined to fight for your ideals, I can't agree with anyone forcing someone else to marry someone else. Robbing that freedom away from someone who's made their intentions known. I don't think you're a horrible person, Riser. I think the choices you've made and try to force upon others are misguided."

Riser was surprised.

Haruki wasn't belittling him.

He wasn't lording over him with the fact that Riser hadn't managed to cause any significant damage.

He was showing Riser, his actions and how he didn't agree with what Riser wished for, and spoke from his heart.

Serafall was glad that Haruki was doing this, it showed that he wasn't someone that acted cocky or was stupid, he was what one would expect a Maou's Queen to be, reasonable, strong, guiding others into different situations and helping those around, along with a number of things.

Riser tightened his eyes, his mind being split on what he was supposed to think.

Though the more he remembered the words of Ravel, the words of Haruki just now, and what Rias had said…

It caused something to stir in him that he didn't expect to feel.

And that was guilt.

Staring into the eyes of Haruki, he understood many things, and realized what had been said before now...and how it pertained to him.

"...So, it seems that I'm not going to win this fight, doesn't it?"

"One day Riser...it will be a good fight. Until then...keep training. I want to fight you again when you've tapped into the potential you have, and also stop pressuring people and all. I really like how you care and love Ravel-chan, I promised her that I'd make this beneficial to both Phenex and Gremory, and I intend to keep that promise. So stand up, show me your last fire, and I'll answer it with my power."

Riser actually began to feel inspired.

Though he knew that he was going to lose, he wanted to go down in a blaze of glory.

Pulling himself forcefully to his feet, he summoned his fire.

He allowed his flames to swirl around him, increasing his power more and more, before directing his hands towards Haruki's form.

"This is it...my final attack."

Riser forced his powers to as high as they could be, and shot them towards Haruki. The burst of fire was so powerful that the backlash of the power broke through the area with just the sheer shockwave of the power being released.

Haruki was impressed to see Riser had been taking training seriously.

But, he still knew that Riser had a good way to go before tapping into the full potential he had.

Haruki pulled out his Holy Lightning, showing it to Riser who was looking at the lightning with worry.

The power swarmed around him like a never ending stream, before concentrating it within his hands. The electricity formed a single sphere. A sphere of swirling electricity that could break through many things.

Serafall saw the power, and smiled gently.

"Seems like Haru-chan is going to end it so Riser doesn't have to worry and neither does Rias-chan anymore. Good show Haru-chan, as I thought, you've done your best for everyone involved. Because of this, Rias-chan gets to live a free life, and free from those burdens, and Phenex get to see Riser trying harder, and being taught a lesson to not be arrogant, along with what you're gonna do for both clans. Hehe, I'm glad you're my adorable Queen~"

With Serafall stopping her thoughts, Haruki unleashed his devastating power.

Clashing with the power of fires, it created a huge clash that shook the entire area.

Riser felt the incredible pressure from the meeting of the attacks, Riser's eyes broadening at the sight before him as he watched his attack crumble away with the incredible power that Haruki was releasing.

Rather than be mad...he was accepting of the end results.

Seeing his end at the hands of Haruki, the match was won by Haruki, with the Holy Lightning landing upon Riser's body.

Rather than be painful, Riser was taken away from the field as he fell unconscious with the Holy Lightning stopping his regeneration due to the holy aspect of it, then caused the lightning to spread through his body to the point the Retiring System had no choice but to take him off the field.

[Riser-sama's retirement has been confirmed. The winner of the match is Haruki Himejima-sama.]

As soon as it was announced, people like Serafall, Kuroka, Isane and some others cheered loudly. Rias smiled and whispered "Thank you, Haruki." while Sirzechs thought something similar to what Rias had said aloud.

The others were happy with the result, even Riser's parents and Ravel herself was happy with the result in the end of it all.


Sometime afterwards, Haruki met up with the others. Rias, Akeno, Yuuto, Isane, Asia, Kuroka, Koneko, Serafall, Sona, and Ravel as well.

Seeing his friends, and lovers, he was quite happy. His first Rating Game had become a success, and now he got to relax for a short time. Also seeing Rias' happy grin on her face only made him want to smile even more, since she truly was free now to do as she wished, something that he had seen on many people he had helped, but on Rias...it was more than fulfilling, it was something more than that.

When Haruki saw Ravel moving closer, his eyebrow raised.

"Ravel-chan, why are you here?"

"I came here to congratulate you of course. Where else would I be?"

Ravel seemed to be perplexed, so Haruki explained the best that he could do.

"I thought you'd be with Riser right now."

Ravel bashfully moved her hands left and right.

"As your future peerage member, I thought that it would make more sense that I'd come to congratulate you..."

"Well, now you have~ And as you can see, I'm quite fine~" Haruki patted her head. "Go and see your Onii-sama….hmm, think of it as a request from your future King~ Check on Riser's condition for me, would you?"

He could see on Ravel's face how badly she wanted to go and see Riser.

So he thought that this would be the best way to go about it.

Ravel's face grew and she nodded strongly.

"Yes Haruki-sama! I shall go and find the details on Onii-sama right away!"

Ravel bowed her head, and shot off down the corridor.

Kuroka smiled at Ravel's departure.

"She's so adorable, acting all formal. During all of your match, she held a serious face. But I'm glad that it was over with for her now. She doesn't have to worry anymore, she saw Riser grow in that match. We all did."

"You're right Kuroka-san, she can relax now, and Riser...I hope he does take some stuff away from our fight." His eyes went towards Rias. "Speaking of relax...it's done. No more marriage now. Anyone else tries it...well, I'll have something's to say about it."

Rias gave a humble smile.

All he had done for her, she couldn't think of anything other than the kindness that he had shown her.

It wasn't his problem, yet he got involved to help her out.

That alone was one of the most beautiful things she had ever seen before.

One of the most kindest things that had ever happened to her before.

"Yes...thank you, Haruki. Next time, watch me...I'll become a strong Gremory."

"I don't doubt it Rias-chan."

"Fufu, the heart of Rias-chan has been successfully locked in Haruki~"

Akeno giggled out, while Rias gave an embarrassed face.

Isane took out a pad that had 'Haruki's Harem' written on the front, something Kuroka noticed, and saw how Isane had written quite a lot, like a log, or a journal on what was going on.

Kuroka smirked at it, and whispered "Can I read that? I'll give you the scoop on more intimate details of the harem." something Isane enthusiastically agreed with immediately.

Serafall grinned, and jumped Haruki.

"Haru-chan! You should've seen the faces of those old dudes and dames~"

"Dudes and dames huh?"

Sona murmured, Serafall grinned.

"Naturally Sona-chan! My Haru-chan cleaned house! The old dudes and dames were so stunned by my Haru-chan's performance! Speaking about the handling of the situation, they are all more for you now than they were before! Plus, we've got a ceremony soon, you're gaining your Evil Pieces! Waah, Koneko-chan! You'll be leaving my side, and joining Haru-chan now! His Loli Rook!"

"...Yes, I can't wait to become his Rook, thank you until now Serafall-sama for allowing me to be by his side. I will serve him well."

"I don't doubt it my adorable Rook, serve Haru-chan well and support him as he supports you and eventually, he'll...you know Koneko-chan~"

Koneko flushed at the thought of what Serafall was implying.

Haruki couldn't deny that he was rather happy.

With the Riser incident behind them, everything seemed to be looking up now.

Though he didn't realize soon things were going to get complicated again.


End chapter!

So the Rating Game happened this chapter! Riser stepped up more, impressing even his family and showed how he took training seriously. Though with Haruki's skills through years of training, he didn't quite make it. Rias and Haruki also had a moment between the two of them. Ravel and Haruki also had a small moment between them with him assuring Ravel. Even Riser and Haruki had a moment of respect between them, showing Riser growing from arrogant to acknowledging someone who he previously wouldn't do. And thanks to Haruki's efforts, officially breaking off the engagement, and showing the Underworld some of what he can do, even gaining some respect from Devils that weren't necessarily on his side before by acting proper.

Next time, Haruki finally gains his Evil Pieces!

Lastly, thanks to everyone who voted on the poll, the story that won will be out next week from the posting of this chapter!

So until next time, thanks for reading!

Haruki's peerage

Queen; Vali.

Rooks; Koneko, Xenovia.

Bishops; Ravel, Asia.

Knights; Lint, Meredith.

Pawns; Elmenhilde (two pieces), Kuroka (three pieces), Le Fay (three pieces).

Haruki; Serafall, Sona, Ravel, Koneko, Kuroka, Gabriel, Akeno, Vali (fem), Isane, Xenovia, Rias, Irina, Asia, Rossweisse, Le Fay, Meredith, Elmenhilde, Lint,