(A/N: Hello my lovely readers it's been a while...almost three months...crap! But worry not because the show is back on with Issei taking the lead with the very first fight of the Rating Battle! Who would win and who would lose!? Let's find out and also at the end I will be giving a big update so please stay tuned till the end, thank you. Now sit back and enjoy!)
The fight has begun as both Issei and Mira charge at each other. Clashing head-on with Mira striking her burning long staff while Issei blocking it with his sacred gear.
"Hmph...do you really think that you guys will win this rating battle?" Mira asked as she pushes Issei only for the teen to hold his ground against the staff-wielding girl and pushes back using his boosted gear.
"Of course we will, we trained too much to just lose to you jerks," Issei answered as his boosted gear begins to charge.
BOOST!
"Ha! You think that you're the only ones that trained all week, We came here to win and Lord Riser will get what he desires most!" Mira said as she backs away from Issei making Issei lose his balance as Mira dash towards him unleashing a barrage of burning staff strikes.
"I even brought my special magic long staff for today's battle," Mira said as goes on the attack. Issei had little time to react as the strikes and blows hits and burns him repeatedly with the teen barely able to block or dodge most of them. Then Mira quickly swings her staff and hits Issei sending him flying and crashing against one of the arcade machines and slumps to the floor.
"Damn," Issei said feeling the pain of the blows as well as the burns.
"This is not looking good for Issei," Serafall said doing her job as a commentator.
"Hopefully he could recover from that assault," Kisuke said adding to the commentary.
Issei gets back on his feet using one of the arcade machines to support himself while rubbing off a bit of blood from his lower lip with his arm.
"My my aren't you a glutton for punishment," Mira said mockingly as she spins her burning staff ready to give Issei another beating if needed.
"Don't count me out just yet!" Issei declared as his boosted gear glows again.
BOOST!
"Then bring it, loser!" Mira shouts challenging Issei.
"Trust me! I will!" Issei said as he readies his boosted gear and runs towards Mira. The girl using her staff tries to hit Issei with her staff strikes only for the teen to dodge and move out of the way and once in point-blank range, he points it towards Mira.
"Crap! No Way!" Mira exclaimed not liking where this is going.
"Game Over!" Issei said with a grin.
"DRAGON!" But before Issei fire his attack a certain image appears in his mind.
"SHOT!" Issei shouts as he fires his attack only to miss Mira completely and destroys one of the arcade machines instead.
"Wha?" Issei said and before he could react Mira charges at him and hits him with another barrage of burning staff strikes sending him flying again against the machines and falls down on the floor.
"Hahahahahahahahaha….that's really all you got!? One super powerful shot and you just missed me at close range!? Hahahahahaha! This should be a lot easier than I thought it would be." Mira said in an arrogant tone while laughing at Issei's poor aim.
Issei finds himself face down on the floor already bloodied and beaten up by Mira with the girl herself spinning her flame covered staff. All the while, the blue-haired girl's body is surrounded by the flames.
"Wow and I thought Issei would get a hit with that attack, could have given him an edge in the fight!" Serafall said feeling a bit disappointed.
"Probably, if it wasn't for the miss. Maybe he got distracted for a split second?"
"You really think so Mr. Urahara?" Serafall asked
"Call it a hunch," Kisuke said
-Team Gremory Base-
"Argh...Come on Issei get it together!" Tatsuki shouts at the large screen with the rest watching from the homeroom.
"This doesn't look good," Uryu said as push up his glasses.
"Come on Issei, I know you can do it," Asia said as she prays for Issei only to get a small sharp pain in her head for doing so.
"I wonder what made Issei miss like that, especially in such close range?" Kiba asked watching the fight like the rest.
Ichigo remains silent and his arms crossed and keep his eyes on the fight.
Meanwhile, Rias while silent and watching the fight like Ichigo she couldn't help but bite her thumb worrying about Issei.
-Hatake Battle Arcade-
"Hmph...not so tough are you? Mira said arrogantly as she continues to spin her staff and standing over Issei.
"Crap….how did I end up like this?" Issei asked as the image of Ichigo and Rias appears only for the voice of his sacred gear to snap him back to reality.
"Issei, Focus!"
"What do you think I'm trying to do," Issei said to his sacred gear as he slowly gets back on his feet and shakes away the image in his head.
"Heh, and a few minutes ago you were all 'I'm gonna beat you and your stupid master.' Get real!" Mira said proudly as she spins her magic wooden staff and lets out a collection of fireballs at Issei only for the teen to evade and use one of the arcade machines for cover and once the fireballs stop Issei quickly goes back to the offensive and come at Mira and the two begin trading blows as well as some words.
"You can't win!"
"Shut up!"
"Loser!"
"Brat!"
"Scum!"
"B*tch!"
"D**chbag!"
"Prick!"
"Ass-
"Hey! Hey! Hey! Tone down the language you two this show is supposed to be Rated T! We could lose our ads over this !" Serafall said as she slams her hands on the table.
"Not to mention we can't censor that fast," Kisuke said looking over seeing Sona and Tsubaki trying to catch up and censor the language.
Eventually, both Mira and Issei stopped their assaults on each other and are breathing heavily while covered in bruises from their respective attacks.
"Geez, I can't believe you're still standing," Mira said still breathing heavily in between words.
"Same...to you," Issei said adding to their small talk.
"But just you wait, I might be strong right now thanks to the non-stop training we had. But compared to me the rest of my team are a lot stronger and don't get me started how strong Lord Riser is." Mira said in a boasting matter as she gets back to her fighting stance.
"Then please don't and let's quit this chat and finish this!" Issei said as he throws a punch with his booster gear at Mira only for the girl to evade and smacks Issei with her burning staff leaving a burnt mark on his cheek.
"Argh! Geez, that burns!" Issei said backing away only for Mira to quickly follow up with another smack with her staff.
"This fight does not look good for Issei," Serafall said watching
"From the start, this has not been easy for him, granted he's holding his own but let's see if he could pull through," Kisuke said while silently hoping that Issei would turn things around.
"Just give up already! Stupid Jerk!" Mira said swinging her staff to hit Issei only for the teen to catch the weapon with his boosted gear.
"Huh?" Mira said not expecting the teen to grab her weapon head on.
Issei then grabs onto his boosted gear while still holding on to the staff. "I won't give in, not when Rias's freedom is on the…" As Issei prepares to boost the image of Rias and Ichigo kissing suddenly appears in his mind again.
"NO!" Issei shouted as he shakes his head trying to forget about what happened in the process letting go of Mira's weapon.
"No?" Mira asked with a confused look on her face.
"It's nothing, just bring it!" Issei said trying to forget the image that's been appearing in his mind from the start as his boosted gear glows.
BOOST!
"Fine by me!" Mira quickly dashes towards Issei and with the end of her staff being coated with flames, she repeatedly strikes at Issei with the teen dodging and deflecting the attacks with his sacred gear but by doing so he would get burned by the flames but all the while continues to boost.
BOOST!
BOOST!
Issei eventually backs away from Mira's attack and aims his boosted gear at her. But before he would get the chance to use his dragon shot attack Mira quickly goes on the attack again not giving Issei a chance to use his technique.
"If you think I let you use your attack again, you're sadly mistaken," Mira said going on a relentless assault on Issei.
"Damn! I got to get an opening." Issei said as his boosted gear keeps boosting.
BOOST!
Issei quickly moves out of the way of Mira's attacks while trying to gain some distance between him and her.
'Damn, she won't let up!' Issei thought as his sacred gear begins to glow an emerald light.
"Issei, there is a way to defeat her."
"I'm all ears," Issei said willing to take any advice at the moment.
"Try to hit her head on again!"
"What!?"
"Come now, Dragon Shot isn't your only technique, I'm sure you can come up with another technique that would be more effective against her."
"Just remember to stay focused!"
"Yeah! I got it!" Issei said only for the image to show up again only for him to quickly shake it off his mind while getting tired of it popping up.
Issei would look at his sacred gear and thought of what the dragon told him. Can he come up with a new technique on the spot? He already boosted up 4 times now and already the sacred gear is reaching its limit. As he thinks up a new attack Mira is once again on top of him with Issei quickly dodging her attacks once again and then an idea came to him.
"What? Are you just going to avoid me for the rest of the fight!?" Mira said getting agitated of Issei's constant dodging and evading.
"Just wait I have a new attack made especially for you! Issei said as his sacred gear glows brightly. "Let's just hope it works."
BOOST!
"Well instead of avoiding me and talking come and face me!" Mira said as she goes directly at Issei with the brown-haired teen staying where he is as readies his boosted gear.
"Come and get some," Issei shouts as Mira swings her burning staff against Issei only for him to duck under the swing and was now directly in front of her.
"This is for Rias and screw anyone who messes with her!" Issei shouted but on that very moment, the image of Ichigo and Rias kissing comes back full force. Getting very tired of it and getting angry over it Issei once again tries to push that awful image away while unknowingly adding another boost overloading the gear.
BOOST! Without thinking of the consequence of his attack as he tries to clear out his mind Issei unleashes his attack.
"Dragon! EXPLOSION!"
"Issei wait!" said the red dragon's voice but it was too late. In slow motion Issei would slams his boosted gear fist against Mira only for the girl in a split second blocks the attack with her long staff and in the process with all the stored up energy of his sacred gear it caused an explosion breaking Mira's weapon completely while at the same time the blowback of the blast hits Issei hard.
The entire room is caught in the explosion causing smoke and debris to block the cameras around them from view.
"WOW! Unbelievable! After charging as long as he did, Issei hits Mira with that bang of an attack!" Serafall said in her usual magical girl act.
"But I wonder if that very explosion could be a double-edged sword for him?" Kisuke said in a concerned tone.
"What do you mean, Mr. Urahara?" Serafall asked looking over to her co-host.
"I mean that the explosion while obviously would deal some damage to his opponent, but I fear it could do the same for Issei or worse," Kisuke said in a serious tone.
"Oh, I see," Serafall said as both waits for the smoke to clear.
"Issei! No!" Rias cries out worried for her pawn seeing the explosion happen.
"Issei!" Asia said hoping that Issei isn't hurt too much.
"The hell is he thinking pulling something like that?" Ichigo said slamming his fist against a table.
"Unleashing all of that power at once? I don't believe he would be walking that off anytime soon." Kiba feeling concern for Issei.
"Do you think Issei won?" Asia asked hoping that Issei would come out on top.
"It's hard to tell with the smoke in the way," Akeno said with her eyes open and with a serious look on her face.
Meanwhile, Rias is having a hard time keeping her cool, seeing Issei going so far for her and yet being reckless while doing so. Maybe he wasn't ready after all.
The smoke clears and Issei is the first to appear slumped against a broken arcade machine after crashing into it with blood coming down from the side of his head as well as covered in dust and debris from the explosion. The teen is heavily injured with his outfit completely scorched by his own attack as well as his sacred gear arm being severely burnt.
"Argh….damn it!...last time I'm….doing…..that," Issei said as he slowly gets up only to fall on the floor as his body aching all over and seeing that the entirety of his right sleeve of his outfit is burnt off completely while his arm shows burns right down to his sacred gear.
"Ah….cough...damn….that was…..one heck….of a blast," Issei said as he tries to get up but has little energy to do so.
"Well, what did you expect? After boosting six times and turning the gear into a bomb." It's a miracle that your arm didn't get blown off completely."
"Wait….six times?" Issei said confused about what the dragon said.
"Yes six, while you were pushing back that memory you unknowingly added another boost to the gear, overloading it in the process."
"Damn…..well at least it...worked," Issei said as he tries to get back on his feet only to fall to the floor again.
"For your sake it better, that girl used her weapon to block the attack but from the looks of it she's nowhere to be seen."
"Speaking….of which….where is she? Issei looks around the arcade as much as he could with many of its machines either out of order or completely destroyed. Then looking over to the prize corner that's when he saw her.
When the explosion happened it sent Mira straight into the prize corner and was completely buried in a large collection of plushies of several animals of different sizes cushioning the impact she would have received if it was anywhere else in the arcade. While getting herself out she didn't escape the blast completely with most of her outfit being damaged while she herself being covered in cuts and bruises but she was standing just barely.
"Bu...but….how?" Issei asked in dismay.
"You could say….it was luck….with the plushies….but at the same time…You…..hesitated for a...moment and that's…..all I needed…Like I said…my staff is made of very strong wood and…..empowered…..by….magic..so….it….took most of the blast and it may be destroyed but thanks to that…..I manage to back away a little in the nick of time….and just so happens…..to have a cushy landing…..unlike you." Mira said keeping herself standing by using one of the busted machines as her support.
"Damn….it," Issei said trying to get up only to fall on his back and slowly goes unconscious.
"Rias…...everyone…..I'm sorry."
FIGHT OVER! MIRA OF PHENEX HOUSE WINS!
-Team Gremory Base-
"What!? No!" Renji exclaimed with a surprised look on his face with the rest of the team being shocked by the announcement of Issei's loss as well as their first defeat.
"Damn it!" Tatsuki and exclaimed in anger.
Ichigo grit his teeth in frustration he had faith that Issei would pull through while Uryu remains silent but not happy with the result of the fight.
"Crap," Koneko said simply
"Well, that blew up in his face, literally," Yoruichi said with a disappointed look on her face.
Rias was at a loss for words of what she has witnessed and what she has heard. Issei lost and he's severely hurt by his own power as well.
"Oh Issei," Asia said sadden by Issei's loss and then the teleport circle glows and coming out of it is an unconscious Issei.
"Issei!" Asia cried quickly going to the wounded teen's side.
Quickly snapping out of her shock thanks to Asia, Rias is quick to take command of her team. "Orihime please help Asia with Issei," Rias said looking over to Orihime.
"Yes of course," Orihime said as she goes to Issei with Asia asking Chad to move him to a better spot with the large teen agreeing and helps to move him to the other side of the room where there is more space.
-Team Phenex Base-
"Hmph so much for the sacred gear twerp," Riser said with a smirk as the portal circle opens and Mira stepping out looking worse for wear but she stands and yet she would limp.
"Nicely done Mira!" Riser said congratulating his pawn Mira.
"Thank you Lord Riser, but my staff is destroyed," Mira said being happy that her king praises her for the victory but at the same time a little sad that her weapon got destroyed in the process.
"No matter. A small price to pay for our first victory with many more coming our way, I'm sure." Riser said with a smirk.
"Agreed, here Mira have this," Ravel said giving the heavily damaged Mira a potion.
"Thank you, milady," Mira said as she takes the potion and drinks it and under a minute she's fully healed.
-Visored's Warehouse-
"Ah Damn it! I lost, stupid dumb luck!" Shinji shouts in frustration having lost the bet with Hiyori quickly taking his money.
"Ha! Called it!" Hiyori said with a mean looking smirk as she counts her winnings
"Damn it and I was cheering for the kid too!" Shinji said being
"Please that kid was off the minute the fight started," said Kensai as he polishes his zanpakuto while sitting on the arm of the large couch.
"You really think so?" Mashiro asked Kensai
"Yeah, I kinda noticed it too but I guess everybody has their off days just sucks for them that it has to be today of all days." Love said
"I would have to agree," Rose said as he takes some snacks from the fridge to restock for the next fight.
"To be honest it is also worth noting that this Issei fellow was more or less distracted," Hachi said as he takes a sip of his tea.
"You noticed that too? Thought it was just me." Lisa said as she sits right in the middle of the couch with Mashiro and Love.
-Studio Room-
"Well there you have it, folks, that last fight was quite the bag wasn't it Mr. Urahara?"
"Indeed, but I believe it's time we go to the next fight."
"You're right and the next fight will be once again one on one."
"Now both teams please choose your next player."
-Team Gremory Base-
"So who wants to go?" Rias asked her group as both Orihime and Asia are busy tending to Issei's injuries.
Ichigo looks over to Issei and wondered what made the younger teen go that far with his powers.
Just as Tatsuki and Renji were about to volunteer Chad quickly beats them to it.
"I'll go," Chad said standing up with everyone looks over and sees him volunteering to be in the next fight.
"Are you sure, Chad?" Rias asked
"Yeah, I'm sure." Chad answered looking at Rias with his silent determination.
"Very well, but just be careful out there since it's now clear that we're weren't the only ones that spent the last week training and apparently they brought their new toys as well." Rias said to Chad.
"I'll be fine, I've been through worse over the years." Chad said as he walks over to the teleportation circle.
"Good luck Chad." Ichigo said to his longtime friend while Tatsuki adds her five cents.
"And make sure you win this one!" Tatsuki said to the large teen as Chad disappears into the circle and into the next fight.
Rukia then looks over at Rias. "Are you alright, Rias?" Rukia asked
"To be honest no, I really didn't expect this to happen. I just hope that Chad would give us a win." Rias said hoping that things would go their way this time.
"Don't worry he will." Ichigo said with Rias looking at him and becomes captivated by his unshaken nature and his belief in his friend.
-Team Phenex Base-
"Go Isabela and bring us another victory!" Riser said with a grin as he sits on the mayor's seat inside the large office as he orders his rook piece into battle.
"As you wish my lord." Isabela said as she goes towards the teleportation circle and vanishes.
-Stage Location: Karakura Alleyways-
In the alleyways of Karakura, Chad walks out of the teleportation circle and begins walking around looking for his opponent. After Issei's loss the rather tall teen knew that he has to win this fight to make up for the bad start.
As Chad continues to walk something catches the corner of his eye and a kick appears out of the corner and strikes at the large teen only for Chad to block the kick with his Brazo Derecha de Gigante.
The one behind the kick is a woman with short, light brown hair and grey eyes. Her hair has three red highlights across. She wears a plain white mask which covers the right side of her face. Wearing a black jacket and matching jeans. The jacket has wide shoulders and a wide collar with leather straps on both her arms. It is also slightly open and it is cut off at her midriff. The right side of her jeans has a section cut off, revealing some of her thighs and rear end while also having leather straps on her calves just below the ankles. Two extra straps are on her right pant leg to keep it in place. Lastly, she wears black fighting gloves and boots for hand to hand combat and like with Mira's staff they looked enhanced with stronger material and magic.
"I am Isabela of The House of Phenex, nice arm you got there can't wait to tear it off your socket." Isabela said ruthlessly
"My name is Yasutora Sado but my friends call me Chad." Chad said introducing himself while remaining calm and his Brazo Derecha de Gigante is still active.
"Hmph...well aren't you the quiet one, and you know what they say about the quiet ones…...they get wrecked." Isabela said slamming her fist into her open palm.
"I don't think it goes like that." Chad said getting into his fighting stance.
"Whatever, enough talk let's go!" Isabela said as she dashed towards Chad while the large teen keeps his grounds.
THIS ONE IS FOR THE BOOKS! GO FOR BROKE! FIGHT!
When Isabela threw a punch Chad counters with his own with both fist impacting against each other causing a small shockwave.
Isabela quickly pulls back her punch while Chad pulls back as well remaining in his spot and hasn't broken a sweat yet.
"Hmph….I think we're going to have a good ol' time, Chad." Isabela said with a smirk as she dashed towards Chad and throws a punch at him only for the large teen blocking it with his right arm.
Then using his immense strength Chad pushes Isabela back and fires at her.
"EL DIRECTO!" Chad shouted as the end of the extension on Sado's shoulder opens up and charges up spiritual energy he then releases a huge blast of spiritual energy heading straight towards Isabela.
Isabela quickly dodges the large ball of energy and quickly goes into Chad's space and delivers several rapid jabs and kicks against Chad while he's taking and enduring the blows and eventually forcing him to back away and throws a right hook towards the masked woman only for Isabela to dodge the punch and having it land against a wall of one of the many buildings in the area leaving an imprint of his fist on it.
"Wow, if that were to land on me I would have been in trouble." Isabela said being kinda impressed with Chad….kinda.
"Probably." Chad said being one of little words.
"Hmm….I don't get it, why do all of this for a girl you barely know? Not only that you're not a devil, just a normal human with spiritual powers and a weird arm."
"It's true that I don't know Rias Gremory all that well, but if Ichigo is willing to help her out then I'll do everything in my power to help as well. Even if It's an pointless endevour to you and your leader. But it is more than enough reason for me." Chad said giving his reasons.
"Alright then, but enough with the chatter. Last I check this is supposed to be a fight!" Isabela dash towards Chad and throws another barrage of punches and kicks.
Chad takes the blows head on and counters back with several punches of his own hitting Isabel and her fists. This keeps on with both sides not letting up or giving in, eventually seeing an opening Chad attacks.
"EL DIRECTO!" Chad shouts launching another blast of spiritual power and hitting Isabela sending her out of the alleyways and onto the next street which leads to.
-Stage Location: Shopping District-
Isabela lands on a stand of cabbages crashing into it and for some reason a faraway voice could be heard saying "My cabbages!" Isabela was quick to recover as she sees Chad running towards her and fires another El Director directly at her only for the masked woman to quickly move out of the way and lets the attack hit the rest of the vegetable stand.
Isabela quickly goes into Chad's space and delivers a sharp uppercut hitting Chad square in the chin. Chad quickly responds by punching Isabela into her stomach making her lose her breath and quickly knees her in the face with her mask taking most of the hit as she falls on her back.
Chad then grabs Isabela by her leg and throws her into a furniture store and fires another El Directo into the store causing an explosion. But out of the smoke several furnitures are thrown towards Chad with the large teen barely dodging them and would destroy some of them with his Brazo Derecha de Gigante and some El Directos.
"Wow that's a lot of furniture!" Serafall said enjoying the fight so far.
"Yes and hey most of them are half off!" Kisuke said with a smile.
But once the last pieces of furniture are thrown Isabela flies out of the store and plants both her feet against Chad's face and sends him backward and into a one yen store. But Chad quickly jumps out of the store and fires another El Directo at Isabela only for the woman to duck under the attack and dash towards Chad again and throws another uppercut but Chad evades and counters with a left hook hitting the mask side of Isabela's face and knocks it off.
Chad's eyes open wide of what he sees what was under the half mask but Isabela quickly covers the right side of her face and quickly finds her mask and puts it back on and goes on to her fighting stance.
"What happened?" Chad asked a bit surprised of what he saw just now.
"It's none of your business!" Isabela exclaimed as she throws a kick only for Chad to block it and push it away only for Isabela to run into Chad and throws several punches knocking him left to right and then finish her combo with a high kick sending Chad mid air of a moment before landing on the ground.
"If you know what's good for you, stay down and don't get up." Isabela said in a threatening tone as she begins to walk away thinking that she won this fight. But she stops halfway and hears Chad getting back on his feet and resumes his fighting stance.
"Sorry but I won't give up that easily." Chad said as Isabela turns around and faces the large teen.
"You know, you should have stayed down and saved yourself a visit to the hospital. But now when I'm done with you, you'll be visiting the morgue." Isabela said as she turns around and fires up with both fists and her feet setting them on fire.
"That won't happen and I won't go down without giving it my all." Chad said as his left arm transforms and becomes similar to his right arm only with the colors being white with a red stripe running down the length of the center and a spike protrudes from his left shoulder as two more extend over his chest.
"Brazo Izquierdo del Diablo." Chad said
"I take it that this is you at your best?" Isabela asked readying her fists.
"Yeah" Chad answered as he walks towards Isabela
"Good." Isabela said as she and Chad then run towards each other and both throws a punch simultaneously and strike one another squarely on each others' fists signaling that their second round starts now!
To be Continued!
Ending Theme - Roundabout by Yes
(A/N: So yeah Issei lost the first fight and before everybody picks up their torches and pitchforks and calling for my head! Issei will get another chance later on so no worries. But man this fight with Isabela and Chad was fun to write especially when listening to the first half of The Mars Volta's Cygnus Vismund Cygnus.
But of course time for the update and what happened in the last few months. Well, first off in July I had a slump aka writer's block and even with most of the fights already planned out I was stuck with the block so I took some time off from writing and concentrated on other things like real life, video games and so on. Then August comes around and my writer's block was gone finally but then my laptop died...again and this time it was my own fault. To make a long story short I was playing Ygopro online and went up against an opponent with a stun deck. Basically, I raged because my opponent was stunning and negating my plays and then I went HULK SMASH! on the keyboard of my laptop and underneath the keyboard so happens to be where the hard drive is. Apparently, one good fist slam is enough to kill a hard drive completely because the next thing I knew the message Hard Drive is not installed pops up on screen and nothing worked. So once again I went over to Best Buy to have Geeksquad look at it, I explained it to the attendant of what happened and we both agreed that the hard drive was good as dead. Thankfully nothing was lost since most of my stuff I keep in an external hard drive from my old laptop which was good but now comes the bad part.
They told m that they would have to ship my laptop to the states since I live in Puerto Rico and it would take 2 to 3 weeks. I cringed when they said that to me, so I quickly asked if it just replaces the hard drive how come they couldn't replace it with a new one from the store and all I got for an answer is "Sorry company policy." Crap! So left it with them and be stuck with my android as a replacement but not by much. Then when two weeks pass by I get a call from Geek squad telling me that my laptop has arrived...BUT apparently the volume button is broken and they have to send it back. They never told me how did that happen but my guess is probably some UPS jerkoff threw my packaged laptop around like a frisbee. So another 2 weeks passed by and in turn costing me the month. But by early September laptop finally comes back and after a week's worth of reinstalling and updating I was set. And here we are, so I apologize for making you guys wait for so long.
Now for the review responds and apparently, the last person left me with a very 'nice' message and from the looks of it has a hard time finishing the first chapter to the latest one.
Murcielago: Here you go, buddy!
Meech: Before anything, I will say I won't be bashing you my man and thank you for giving me a very detailed review much appreciated. Yes, most fics would pull the whole harem thing with some that worked while others just don't. The humor is mostly how I would envision it or how I would see it in the show but yeah I understand what you mean one of my regular critics has pointed this out mostly with the dinner scene with Ichigo's dad.
With Ichigo and Rias yeah they are different in many ways especially with one working to earn his powers while the other was simply born with it, which to me has always been interesting and it's something I've been wanting to see for a while.
As for Issei, I won't lie before watching Highschool DxD anime and just watching the videos and clips that are around Youtube to go by I hated Issei for being such giant perv and as a character as a whole I thought he was just irredeemable. But when I finally came around to it I sat down and watched DxD season 1 completely and my opinion of him has changed big time and it's mostly what happened between him and Asia. Even though yeah the kid has some major moral issues and his perv nature can get annoying, he does show some good just not much. But here I'm trying to make him relatable and be likable but to the point of being out of character.
Lastly and I can't keep any promises but I'll try not to rush things but then again I was writing the chaps under a deadline but not anymore.
Another thing my lovely readers my former editor Ashton Mesmer is working on a project on Youtube called The Last Lamia the story is great with 4 episodes so far. Check it out and give him some love, and tells him that Alpha sent you.
So next time we continue with the ChadvsIsabela fight and see who's going to fight in the next fight! I know but I won't tell HA! As always please leave a review and if you like this story and you're new give this story a fav and follow to keep getting more of the good stuff. I'm Alpha Espada and till next time! Later!)
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