Hello, and welcome to the next chapter!
Justin D; Yeah, he did cheer her up, he would of course want to do that, because even if they haven't had the best of friendships, he still cares for her. We will indeed know in future chapters who that was. Well, Makoto won't be completely out of field, he'll have something to do in this chapter, a few things to do actually. Yet, maybe I will. That would be a pretty cool idea, maybe I could do something like that in the future, it does seem pretty cool anyway~ And sure yeah, sounds great! And thank you very much!
hellspam; If you loved her last chapter, then you'll be happy to know Ravel is indeed gonna stick around for the Excalibur arc, and such. Yeah, they did didn't they, it was a long time coming, but I always thought that right about now, would be for the best for them to have a heart to heart like that. Hehe, those scenarios would be funny, wouldn't it? Sirzechs would totally do that, and so would Rias. A fun type chapter, that will be happening, probably at the end of the Excalibur arc, I think that would be a good place to put it.
DocSlendy; Yup!
Kai x Kuroka; It was yeah, after all the fights, just a chapter for some good old fashioned bonding, even if it wasn't romantic. And thanks! Yeah, those two surely are at one another's throats. She's trying her best, but Mittelt isn't gonna be able to hide it forever, and as for Mira, it is gonna be interesting what comes of that later on. And thank you very much! Here's the next chapter!
Blue Eyes Pendulum Dragon; Thanks, here's the continuation~
Harem Master123; Aah, thanks very much! Future pervert, I think current pervert happens~ It does, but it will get better, but they'll always have that, kinda spark between them. Yeah, mostly, though there's gonna be bits that it isn't, and some further development as well, it is gonna be interesting. We probably will do yeah~ Cool suggestions!
Nivek Beldo; We did, but it always was gonna be the same, I find it more, poetic that Ise went through this for Rias, and such. He did, Ravel and Makoto have some good chemistry together, don't they? It seems so, though Makoto can't figure out why she did, it seems weird to him. Yeah, it did, and we got some more insight to Mittelt, and what she's feeling~ Kalawarner didn't wanna push her luck, as she said, she doesn't wanna be near Devils right now. Serafall's always thinking and yeah, she did send them out to meet and greet, at least a little bit anyway~ Surprising Makoto along the way. Elmen surely is pushing for it, she isn't going to back down from that idea, she wants it so she can have some fun with Makoto as well. We did, it shows the bond between them, then Sirzechs came in, trying to marry Millicas off to Makoto now, hehe~ We did yeah, Makoto did promise, and rarely does he ever let down a promise. Yeah, at the end, while they aren't best friends, he does care what happens to her, and thanks very much!
Mrgamerandwatcher; Ooh, it was? Happy birthday for last week, hope you had a good one!
ShadowUzumaki55; It was yeah, three weeks of fights, then we got a cooling chapter to ease back into such things, but just as important regardless. Yeah, but Makoto does care about Ise very much, and doesn't want to see him in such pain, he could barely stand it. Eeh, I wouldn't, after what he tried, and said and such. He surely is gonna need to be careful, you never know whats gonna happen, do you? Princess is always awesome, she's just cool, but yeah, who could that be~? It was the best time to do it now, it was the best place for it I believe. They did yeah, they danced with one another quite well I'd say.
dragonsayianblue; Thanks very much! Yup, he cares for big bro, and wants him to be safe. That would be funny if it happened like that huh. I suppose so yeah. Aah, they did have a cute dance together, didn't they? He is yeah, he's slowly maturing into a new Devil that is also a good Queen. I suppose they could be like that yeah~ Well, Serafall is like a Master of ice magic, so she could just teach him herself.
Primevere; Aah, thanks very much friend! Aah, just check from Tuesday's onwards, I update this story on that day, so just check then. Here's some more!
Anime PJ; It was yeah, more tamer than the last chapters huh. Aah, Makoto always follows through the best that he can do. Hehe, he isn't used to stuff like that, he was raised as an average human, so seeing people treating him like a hero or something is a very weird concept to the young boy. I know yeah, we might see it happening soon~ Well, let's just say the reaction is...hehehe, read for yourself~ I know, she's boss, she just does whatever she wants, that's Princess for you~ She'll take advantage of anything for a dance, feeding and such. Yeah, that's important, don't forget that~
Yoga Pratama; Having a Holy Sword huh, I suppose that he could do yeah. Yeah, it very well could be something like that, we'll have to wait, and see~ It would be I suppose.
Skull Flame; Princess is the Queen of twerking alright~ She is quite jealous to see the pair of them doing that. Elmen's...kinda like that for last chapter. It was, but I thought it was funny at least~ It did, and thanks very much!
UsagiAngelRabbit; He is, but he didn't have much to be embarrassed about last chapter. She's...something alright, let's leave her there for now, mysterious~ Yeah, she surely is~
Guest 1; I could see a lot of comedy moments happening through that, especially in a series of pretty much most are women with very big personalities, and quite sexual, that boy would probably die quickly if he had that. Sounds great to me, in the future I very well might do something like that.
Guest 2; A yandere huh...well, I wouldn't know who though.
Cf96; Thanks very much!
tyson113; Aah, thanks! While he's mostly a spectator, since Ise, and Riser is Ise's thing, Makoto still has a role this chapter as well.
Guest 3; I've not watched that yet, been planning too, just haven't done it yet. I'll get back to you on that.
Blade of Takeda; Thanks! Yeah, she is huh!
Tohka123; Thanks very much! Yeah, they had a little moment between the two of them huh~ Mira does seem to admire him yeah, more on that later~ She does, she just doesn't want to admit it either, and this chapter also shows that as well. Kalawarner seems to be quite good at planning things up, huh, maybe a hidden talent on her part. Millicas, and Makoto have such a cute relationship, don't they? Princess is always awesome, isn't she? Asia knows how to dress...when someone gives her tips. Makoto and Serafall dance together as King and Queen. He did yeah, though to be fair, Millicas doesn't really look much like Grayfia, though now he does know~ She does yeah, she really does have a good time with people being away. Hmmm, he hasn't met Rossweisse yet, but it is a character in the story, we'll find out who it is eventually. They cleared the air, so to speak. Aah, they are adorable together, aren't they? Yeah thank you very much!
Neonlight01; Yeah, he does seem to get much embarrassment from Ise, doesn't he? He is proud of Ise, and even with his techniques, and habits, it is going to be interesting. Yeah, and the fact that Grayfia and Millicas don't really act like one another, and they hadn't even said anything about it, it is quite understandable, he didn't have all of the info. He seems to ant to as well actually. They have indeed. Is there really mixed feelings? They had a heart to heart, and you could say that about Sona as well, yet he also forgave her. He isn't the type to hold long grudges...well, not with something like this anyway. He just moved on, and could see Rias was in an emotional state, and truly meant what she said.
Makoto; I didn't say there wasn't gonna be, I just said it hasn't presented itself in the story as of yet. Well, let's just say that Kokabiel's fight is gonna be, something, I won't spoil what's going to happen for that. Yeah, that sounds great, and I know what you mean, don't worry.
Guest 4; I could in the future, but I would have to catch up on many things before I did. I like doing fics when I am up to the recent material/have watched/read the entire series before. But yeah, that sounds great to me!
Guest 5; Let's see what happens then shall we hehe~
Well, with those reviews out of the way, time to finish the arc!
The ceremony part two!
"Ooh come on Ise, you baka! Wake up alright!"
Mittelt shook Ise as he laid on the bed, violently one might add.
But he didn't respond.
Even if she shook him a thousand times, he wouldn't respond to her. And she hated that he wasn't answering either. She had been by his bedside for a while now, she was trying her best to be strong, but it was failing.
"Seems like he isn't going to wake, Mittelt-sama."
Grayfia, who stood near the bed, tried to make her see sense. But Mittelt didn't see sense at all, and shouted with her eyes ragged with fresh tears, her heart trembling by the second, it felt like she was pouring her heart out.
"Don't be so stupid! I'm trying to make sure that he wakes up! Doesn't that woman, Rias need his help right now!? Even his Otouto asked me to look after him, I just can't leave him alone like this, I simply can't!"
Mittelt tried again to wake him up, but he wouldn't wake up.
At that time, Princess walked past the room.
Grayfia's eyes snapped towards the creature, and Princess, showed her claws. Grayfia widened her eyes a little, and she felt her heart taking over her, she didn't like the way Princess was looking at her right now, it made her feel sick.
Princess stared at Grayfia, and playfully swiped the air.
"My Maou-sama, what is wrong with this cat…? I don't sense anything from it, but it seems, almost like it is possessed or something. This cat, isn't normal at all. Is this really Makoto-sama's cat…? This isn't normal at all. Maybe Serafall-sama has made this cat…it's not normal."
Grayfia was…anxious.
She never thought that she would be, but the cat, wasn't normal.
Princess certainly wasn't normal at all.
It showed a very dangerous look to her, she showed a scary face, and a heart that couldn't be healed easily.
Grayfia walked towards the door, and shut it so she didn't have to look at the creature anymore, but before she did, she saw a very, terrifying stare that could even melt concrete, and certainly, Grayfia was going through many things in her life right now.
She, didn't like Princess. And she didn't like how Princess scratched at the door either. It felt like she was going to go out and discipline the cat. But, at the same time, if she did that, then she'd have to worry the cat would do something to her too.
When Mittelt wasn't getting through to Ise, she slammed a book down on top of him.
"Mittelt-sama that's-"
"Yeoooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!"
Ise shot up from the bed immediately, Grayfia blinking in surprise.
Mittelt herself smirked, and looked on as Ise looked to be pissed off.
"Don't do that Loli-sama!"
Ise didn't even look towards Mittelt to know it was her.
Mittelt glared.
"I was waking you up, Idiot-sama! And you should thank me too, you've been asleep for ages now! Now, that you're awake you can do something like, I don't know, save the idiot redhead that you're so fond of because of her stupid breasts!"
Ise was about to bite back, when he saw Grayfia shuffling closer to the bed, memories flooding back into him about what happened.
"Grayfia-san! The match? What happened to Buchou!?"
Ise speedily asked the maid, as she simply bowed her head.
"Riser-sama won the match. Ojou-sama resigned."
As soon as he heard that, Ise felt very conflicting feelings.
Even his eyes felt like tears were coming. Mittelt couldn't stand to see Ise like that, so offered him a tissue to make him stop crying. Even that helped a little bit, but not enough for him to stop either. She, didn't know what to do.
Fortunately, Grayfia had an idea.
"Currently, the engagement party for Ojou-sama and Riser-sama is taking place. It's at the assembly hall in the Underworld that was prepared by the House of Gremory."
"…Where are the others?"
"They went to escort Ojou-sama, with Serafall-sama, and her group also attending. The only ones who aren't at the hall who are related to them is Issei-sama. Mittelt-sama stayed behind to take care of you…though, it seems she has a very special, way of doing it."
Mittelt huffed, and turned to the side.
"Grayfia-sama, aren't you going to express your thoughts to the idiot here?"
Ise wore a question mark above his head, he didn't know what he was talking about.
But Grayfia nodded, clearing her throat.
"…Can't you come to agree with this?"
"Yes. Even if the battle is over, I can't come to accept it."
"You do know that Rias-ojou-sama obeyed the family's decision?"
She argued, but Ise was firm.
"I understand that! I know that! Even so I…"
He didn't know how to finish. He knew that he was jealous that Riser had Rias, and that he couldn't win. He also felt let down that he couldn't win either, due to the fact that Makoto, and them won their game, and Rias and her group didn't.
"Fufufu." Suddenly, Grayfia laughs quietly. Mittelt looked surprised, as did Ise, it was weird hearing her laugh. "You are a very interesting person, just like your Otouto. For a long time I have seen many Devils, however it is my first time seeing someone like you who shows what you are thinking with your face, and acts accordingly to what you believes in. My Master, Sirzechs-sama, was watching your effort in the battle from another place and said that you were "interesting" you know?"
Ise didn't expect that a Maou would think Ise was "interesting" when he didn't think he was so like that.
"Wow, such praise. Even though you've got disgusting techniques Ise-kun."
Ise held content for the young girl, and looked disgusted right with her.
Grayfia takes out a single paper. There is a magic circle written on it.
"This magic circle allows you teleport to the hall of the engagement party of the House of Gremory and House of Phenex."
"W-Why do you have something like this for me!?"
Ise couldn't express it and looked on with a worried face.
"I have a message from Sirzechs-sama for you." She pauses for a second, and then speaks with a serious face. ""If you want to save my Imouto, barge into the hall." That's what he said. There is also another magic circle on the back of the paper. Please use it when you take back Ojou-sama. I am definitely sure that it will be useful to you."
Grayfia leaves the paper with magic circle in his hand, and she then stands up and tries to leave his room.
But then she stops, and looks towards him.
"When you were sleeping, I felt a very enormous power within you, Issei-sama. The Dragon is the only being that didn't form an alliance with either God, the Devils, or the Fallen Angels. If it's that dreadful power, then…"
Grayfia stops there and left his room.
Once she was gone, Mittelt looked towards Ise, and sighs sadly.
"You're going to go and fight him then aren't you?"
Ise looked determined, as he stared into her eyes.
"Of course, Buchou is worried, and is in a situation she shouldn't be in. Besides, Makoto got his girl off from her problems, I've gotta do the same thing, or else I'd look really weak, wouldn't I?"
"Geez, what is it like between you people that you've got to always show macho crap that no one cares about? Honestly, I don't know what to think about you sometimes. You're such an idiot, so I might as well go with you."
Ise obviously was stunned by the sudden action of Mittelt.
"Mittelt, obviously I'm surprised but you can't go."
"What? Why?!"
She demanded strongly, showing a dirty look on her face.
"Because you can't go, I've got to go, and save her myself. You stay here, and when I get back, I'll return with Buchou, and the others. Definitely, I'll come back with them. You don't have to worry Mittelt."
Mittelt growled under her breath, feeling like she was going to murder someone or something.
"Fine, whatever. Go, on your own. Be a fucking hero or whatever. But, have you even thought about how you're going to defeat a Phenex? They are immortal, you know? They'll just take out all of your attacks, with their bodies, and then kill you. Is that what you want to happen to you? Is it?"
"Well…I have an idea…shit, Asia isn't here, is she?"
"No, she isn't. She went to the Underworld too…but, maybe someone else thought of that too. Check the draw."
Ise blinks, but Mittelt just points to the draw on the side.
Curiously, he went into the draw to find holy water, and a cross being there.
"Mittelt, this is…"
He was left speechless, he didn't know what to say.
What he wanted, was right there.
Everything that he thought of, was left right there for him.
"Brothers think alike." She expressed with a sigh. "He knew you'd wake up, and told Kalawarner, who told me to tell you, that he left them there for you, and to also, kick Riser's ass for what he did to you. He'd do it himself, but he can't because of Serafall-sama. Even then, he was thinking about you the whole time, calling frequently. Honestly, frightening your Otouto, what has the world come too?"
Behind her cold words, a smile appeared on her lips.
"Mittelt, you know…I really do worry him sometimes, don't I?"
"It's apart of the brother thing, that's how it goes."
"Sounds like you're speaking from experience."
Ise couldn't help but note, but she shook her head.
"I don't have any siblings, but I guess I have one with Kalawarner, somewhat. We act like that sometimes."
"I-I see…well, I guess, I'll be going then."
Mittelt rolled her eyes, then nodded her head.
"Get going then."
Ise nodded, he knew by now what he needed to do, and what he was going to do as well.
Once the dance was done, the pair looked into one another's eyes as claps surrounded them.
But it was like they were lost in their own world right now.
Like nothing but them existed on the planet right now. They couldn't stop staring at one another's eyes, they couldn't even stop the looks between them.
Ravel felt her hair being wavered by his breath, it smelt nice too. She couldn't get over the fact that they were this close. She didn't even think it would be possible with such things. The way that his hands held onto her, she felt, comforted, safe.
Even though she didn't have a reason to feel embarrassed, or scared, she just felt, content right now, no matter what else. She didn't even think about anything else right now, she just enjoyed the fact that she was with Makoto like this.
From worrying about his status, to dancing with him, she had been on a hell of a journey, and she didn't want to see it end yet. She had already seen how brave he could be, and how kind, and slowly, without even realizing, her cheeks were turning redder by the second.
Makoto himself also enjoyed the dance.
He wasn't one for dancing, but he couldn't deny that the dance they shared was nice, it felt good, and it felt like they truly did connect in a different way than he had with the others, even if Koneko looked like she wanted to murder Ravel.
"Makoto-sama, I-"
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"BUCHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!"
Makoto, and the others in the room gasped, and looked towards the door…to see that Ise had come into the room. Makoto's eyes opened with new resolute feelings, finally Ise had shown up, Makoto smiled and knew that Ise had some kind of plan. He must do.
Everyone in the room looked towards Ise, Makoto did as well.
He felt relieved that Ise was okay, and then he looked towards Serafall.
Serafall smiled down towards Makoto, and then did a thumbs up towards him.
He didn't know what else was going to happen, but something clearly was, and he knew she had an involvement with it.
"Ravel-san, I think we should leave the middle of the dancing floor."
Makoto advised, Ravel turning questioningly towards the young boy.
"Makoto-sama, what's going to happen now?"
"That's a good question, I don't know right now. However, I do know something is about to go down, and I presume that neither you nor I want to be caught up in it, I don't want to make you feel worried either. So, let's go."
Gently, he took the young girl by the shoulders, leading off Ravel to the side, Ise taking a big step forward and took a big gulp of air from his lungs.
"To all the High Class Devils here! And Buchou's Onii-sama, Maou-sama! My name is Hyoudou Issei from Kuoh Academy! I have arrived to take back Buchou, Rias Gremory-sama!"
The hall becomes even noisier.
"What utter foolishness."
Ravel murmured, as Asia went to Makoto's side.
"Makoto-san, is Ise-san going to be fighting now?"
"I think so." He replied honestly. "It's just, we have to keep our own side safe, let's stay here for now." Elmen also walked closer. "Elmen-chan, take care of Asia-chan, okay? If it is you, then I know that you can do it."
"Right…are you going to be getting involved?"
Makoto looked upwards towards his King. He was in a place where he could see her face.
The look on her face told him that she was okay with anything Makoto was going to do. He didn't want to get Serafall in trouble, but he didn't want to have his brother to be in trouble either, it wouldn't be right at all.
He then looked back to Elmen questioning face.
"I don't know yet. But, I'm not going to allow Onii-chan to be hurt if I can help it. That's how it is Elmen-chan. Keep Asia-chan out of the fight for now, I think it would be alright if we did it this way. Besides, I wouldn't want Asia-chan to become worried."
As he said that, he saw that Ise walked closer towards Buchou and Riser.
"Hey, you! Do you know where this-"
A person who seems to be a guard comes to stop Ise.
However, there are those who comes in to stop the guards as well.
"Ise-kun! Leave this to us!"
Yumi was the one who shot off first, using her swords to slice up the guards weapons, and protected Ise.
"…You are late."
Koneko, in her cute dress, smacked the guards away with her strength, saving the young boy.
"Ara ara, so you finally showed up."
Akeno who is wearing an expensive looking kimono is also present.
All of them are stopping those who are trying to get in Ise's way. Makoto was so happy to see that they came to defend his brother. Each of them didn't have to, but they did, and he was glad, Millicas walking closer, noticing that Riser's peerage, some of them anyway.
"Thank you."
Ise thanked them quietly and went towards Riser confidently.
"I won't let you walk any closer!"
However, another guard came from the left hand side, wielding a sword.
"Grrr! Damn it!"
Ise went to defend, but a blast of strong but unrefined demonic power smashed against him, and caused his body to go through the wall, knocking him out.
Everyone looked around for the source of the attack, Makoto whistling innocently.
When eyes went towards him, Makoto chuckled awkwardly, then looked towards Millicas.
"Millicas-san, that was kind of you to protect my Onii-chan~"
"W-What…?"
Millicas didn't know what to say, and just kept her head down as the others had questions.
Ise looked towards Makoto, and smiled. Makoto looked back, and smiled as well.
An exchange between brothers didn't have to be worded. All that mattered was Makoto and Ise understood the other. They understood what they had to say right now, even if no one else said anything about it.
As he walked, Ise spoke words, horrifying.
"Buchou…Rias Gremory-sama's virginity belongs to me!"
"…!"
Riser makes a face that you can't explain with words.
Makoto was...speechless.
He, couldn't say anything, he was horrified, and felt very embarrassed right now.
"For all of the things to say...Onii-chan you pervert."
Ise felt that sting, it wasn't the words, but more like the intent behind them which stung the most.
"Sick…he's truly sick."
Elmen made a dirty comment, while Asia's face went red.
"Asia-chan, please sit down."
Makoto caught the girl as she was about to faint, placing her on the chair. She didn't have words, she just held a huge blush on her face, she couldn't stop the blush that was on her face right now, it was just too hard.
Millicas on the other hand slapped herself in the head.
"This is why he's called a pervert…saying this out in the open…Makoto-san, you're not going to say it so outrageously, right?"
"N-No, of course I wouldn't say that at all."
Makoto denied it, as Ravel looked like she was going to scream.
He placed his hands on her shoulder, guided her towards the chairs, and sat her down.
"Please endure a little longer Ravel-san."
"Haaauuuu…really, I'm glad you aren't really related to him Makoto-sama, he's the embodiment of sexual desire that shouldn't be happening at all."
Makoto couldn't disagree with that, and really looked grossed out too. Even Serafall, who usually didn't seem to care all that much, really looked like she was going to die right now from such a thing, and it made Makoto feel complex.
"It's an event that I organised."
The person who came forward, was Sirzechs himself.
"Onii-sama."
Rias looked surprised that her elder brother was helping her out like this, even though he truly did love Rias, it should be possible to understand that he would do this for her, even if it didn't seem like it would happen.
"I wanted to see the power of the Dragon, so I asked Grayfia."
"S-Sirzechs-sama!? You can't do something irresponsible like this!"
From the looks of it, Ravel's Father came forward, and spat out towards Sirzechs, but he didn't look happy right now.
"It should be fine. The Rating Game from last time was very entertaining. But it was a bit disadvantage for my Imouto who had no game experience to face off against Riser-kun who is a prodigy from the House of Phenex."
"…So Sirzechs-sama, you are saying that the last game wasn't fair? Even during your own daughters game, it seemed like you were trying to do something, that you shouldn't be doing either. Helping her with the games…though, that was a very entertaining game."
"No, no, not at all. If a Maou such as myself says such thing, then I would be making the old nobles look bad. The connection between the High Class Devils is important after all. And as for my daughter, she managed to get out of her own situation as well as she could, she did very well and I wouldn't take away from that."
Sirzechs smiled, as Makoto watched on, and knew that in his own way, he couldn't help but do it, help out his sister, and daughter. Even Serafall told Makoto of this plan, he just didn't believe that he would do this.
"Then, Sirzechs. What do you want to do about it?"
Makoto looked, and Millicas nodded her head.
He knew that this person was Rias' Father, and Millicas' Grandfather.
"Otou-sama. I want to make my cute little sister's engagement party into a flashy one. Dragon versus Phenex. Don't you think it's the ultimate event? To stir up the party by having a battle between legendary creatures. There aren't any entertainment which can surpass this."
Everyone in the hall becomes silent with Maou-sama's words.
Sirzechs then looked towards Ise.
"Dragon user-kun. You have our permission. Riser, can you show your power once more right in front of Rias and I? Since your Otouto has displayed his power for Millicas, wouldn't it be right for you to display yours for Rias?"
Hearing Sirzechs wish, Riser makes a fearless smile.
"Very well. There is no way I can decline if Sirzechs-sama asks me. This Riser will show his last performance before getting married!"
Makoto noticed that Riser was a little too eager for this to happen. Probably, he wanted to defeat Ise once more, and crush Rias. Makoto just hoped that Ise had the gifts that he left behind.
"Dragon user-kun, what prize do you want when you win the match?"
"Sirzechs-sama!?"
"What are you saying!?"
The relatives starts criticising at Sirzechs' offer.
"So, he's going to get whatever he wants then? Damn, we should've done this way."
Ravel made a comment that Makoto couldn't really argue against.
However, Sirzechs didn't care.
"He's a Devil, so we need to give him something fitting for it since we are asking him to do something for us. Now then. I can give you anything. A peerage? Or the most beautiful woman?"
"Ooh Onii-chan, please make the smart choice…"
Elmen snickered, and nodded.
"I was thinking the same thing."
They all looked on as Ise had made his decision.
"I ask you to give me Rias Gremory-sama back."
Makoto wiped his brow, as Asia smiled happily.
"Awww, he really likes Buchou-san, doesn't he?"
"Seems so, Asia-chan."
Makoto answered, thanking whatever force made Ise say that after the whole
"Very well. If you win, you may take Rias with you."
With this conversation, it's decided that the battle between Riser and Ise will commence in this hall. Makoto however, noticed that Riser's peerage weren't happy about it. Though he could see that Mira was gushing over Ise, and rolled his eyes.
"Thank you very much."
Ise bows his head to Sirzechs who went back to the end of the hall. Serafall jumped off the balcony so she could join the others. Makoto noticed Yumi and the others had gone to Rias' side, were they currently weren't.
"Ma-tan, seems like Ise-chan has come to fight huh."
"As long as he doesn't get hurt, then I am okay with this."
He answered truthfully, but Makoto saw that Serafall had something else on her mind.
"Ma-tan, I don't like the way that some of them Riser's peerage are looking."
"You don't think that they are going to become involved, do you?"
"I don't know Ma-tan, but I can't see it ending happily. Either way, let's keep our eyes on the opponents, just in case they decide to make a move. You never know with people like them, do you my cute Ma-tan~?"
"People like them…?"
Makoto tried to understand what she was saying, but he didn't know.
"Don't worry my cute Ma-tan, we'll just keep our eyes on him."
Makoto merely nodded his head.
The centre of the hall was cleared in a hurry.
The Devils in the hall are standing around the space, watching with keen eyes. The club members are sitting in the same place as Buchou. Sirzechs is also next to Buchou. Serafall, and the others stand to the side.
And Riser and Ise are confronting each other at the centre of the space. So this must be a Devil's ring then. Ise already has his Boosted Gear on his left arm. Riser has a confident face.
"Please start!"
The Devil male who is in charge of the battle gave a call for the start of the match. Makoto looks between them, and hoping that Ise had something to pull out a victory, if he didn't, then he didn't know what he was going to do.
Riser who has his fire wings out points at Ise's gauntlet.
"All of your ability is already cracked. A Sacred Gear that keeps on doubling the power of the user, the Boosted Gear. Also it seems like you gained a new ability that can transfer the multiplied power into an object or your allies."
"Well, it does seem that he paid attention during the game."
Makoto murmured, Ravel nodding.
"In many ways, the Boosted Gear is frightening in team battles. But, this is one on one. And Onii-sama isn't going to allow him to suddenly just wait to boost, I remember seeing it during the game. It takes time, and right now, your Onii-sama simply isn't strong enough."
"Maybe, maybe not."
Makoto had every confidence in Ise, and wished him good luck deep within his heart.
"What do you mean Makoto-sama? He couldn't of levelled up that much during this time, could he?"
Ravel didn't believe in Ise, but she didn't have the unwavering confidence that Makoto had in Ise.
Ise himself looked towards Rias confidently.
"Buchou. I will finish it in 10 seconds."
"…Ise?"
Buchou makes a doubtful face. Even Makoto made a doubtful face.
"How would he finish it in ten seconds?"
Ravel asked towards Makoto, the boy not having an answer for her.
"I honestly don't know Ravel-san, I guess he has some kind of plan up his sleeve."
He wished that the idea he had, was the idea shared by Ise. It would make the most sense. But ten seconds, it just seemed weird for Ise to make it that specific, and the way that Riser looked right now, made it seem doubtful.
"You sure talk big for saying that you will finish it in 10 seconds. Then I will finish you off in 5 seconds. It won't be like last time, Rias' Pawn!"
"Buchou! Please allow me to use "Promotion" here!" Rias nods at Ise's request. "Promotion! Queen!"
He then promoted to the ultimate piece, Makoto felt the wave of power that came from him. Ise's Queen shouldn't be inferior to the Queen power he has now. But, Makoto could tell that something was…off about Ise.
He didn't know what it was, but looking closer, and closer, he could see that there was something about Ise that was off.
"Buchou!" Ise shout towards Rias. "I don't have talent for swords like Kiba! I'm not a genius like Akeno-san at using demonic power! I don't have a crazy strength like Koneko-chan, nor do I have brains like Makoto! Even still, I will become the "Strongest Pawn"! For you, I will even beat God! With this Boosted Gear! My only weapon! I will make sure that I will protect you!"
"You know, that would be more romantic…if he didn't shout about the taking her virginity thing before."
Elmen made a comment as Ise looked over, like he heard her. Elmen whined, hiding behind Makoto as did Asia. Ise grunted, then turned back to Riser.
"Shiiiiiine! Over Boost!"
[Welsh Dragon over booster!]
The jewel in the gauntlet releases a red light.
The red light shines throughout the entire hall. A deep crimson colour aura covers Ise, and it changes to an armour. Makoto's eyes lit up with surprise, and yet, he seemed to be alright at the same time, but he couldn't help but shake his body.
"It's a Gundam Onii-chan! How did you do that!? I mean, look at that brilliant red armour! That's so cool! I wish I had that! But, ooh maybe I could wear armour in the future too?! That would be cool Onii-chan! Tell me how you did it!"
Makoto didn't know why, but he just loved the armour before him, it seemed so cool, especially with Ise in it. He found it very enjoyable to see Ise in such a thing, and wondered if he could have the same thing in the future too.
"Ma-tan! Look at that! He's kinda like a robot! How amazing! Oooh, could this be the Balance Breaker of his Sacred Gear? No, it seems different, but he's wearing the power of the naughty Sekiryuutei isn't he!? Damn, that's pretty cool!"
Makoto looked surprised towards Serafall.
"Wearing the power? You mean someone can actually do that? But Balance Breaker, I've read that in a book Sona-senpai has given me, is this really the Balance Breaker…Sera-tan? The power to achieve a new state…how did Onii-chan awaken that?"
Serafall looked on and didn't say anything, but she felt like she knew what had happened, and she didn't like it, at least for Makoto anyway, since she knew how much he cared about Ise, if he learned the truth, she didn't know what he would think about it.
"An armour!? You made the power of Sekiryuutei shape into a physical form!?"
Riser is shocked. His comment is acute.
Serafall lowers her brows.
"Ma-tan, it seems like it isn't going to last that long."
Makoto didn't know what she was talking about, but pointed to his arm. Makoto looked, and in the jewel, it looked like a timer was there. By the second, it was going down. It was on ten right now, but by the time that he blinked, it changed to nine.
"Sera-tan, that power…what do you mean by it won't last long…the timer…is that what you're talking about?"
"Yes, that's right, my cute Ma-tan. Because of this, I think that he had to give something up for him to have this power."
"Give something up…?"
Makoto couldn't comprehend what he would've had to give up for this to happen.
Ise lifts a little gap between his hands while bringing them close, and then created a mass of demonic-power between his hands.
"That kind of power is…"
Ravel didn't know what to say about it, she didn't think that she'd come across something like that. But Makoto remembered it from the game that happened just the other day and he loved the fact that Ise did have a plan…but the words Serafall said lingered on his mind.
"Dragon Shot…"
Makoto muttered, he guessed, and saw the power increasing. Ise then fired it off between his hands, towards Riser. The demonic-power created from the palm of my hand got enormous and went towards Riser harder.
"It's enormous!'
Since it was so big that it betrayed Riser's prediction, he chooses to evade it instead of taking it.
However, the evasion wasn't good for the others, and it came towards Serafall and the others.
"Iyaaaaaa!"
Asia let out a cute cry, and just before Serafall was going to stop it, Makoto on instincts, wanting to protect Asia, made a sphere of demonic power in his hand, and concentrated on the Bishop's power increasing the power.
"Haaah!"
Makoto shot the sphere out, and while it wasn't as big as Ise's, it didn't need to be, managing to crash against the attack before it could touch them, and made it explode, saving the lives of people such as Asia, and the others.
"Makoto-san saved me…like a wife being saved by a husband…"
Makoto rolled his eyes, then petted her head.
"Of course I'd always protect Asia-chan."
Asia smiled.
But Makoto then looked towards Ise sternly.
"Onii-chan! Watch where your attacks are going!"
"Sorry!"
He yelled back as he lunged forward towards the place Riser probably was going to go to, the propeller located on the back of the armour releases a demonic power. That instant, it releases an explosive speed.
"Honestly, Onii-chan."
Makoto made a sigh, and put his hand to his forehead, but secretly was very proud of the power Ise had obtained, somehow.
Since Ise's coming towards the place he ran to in an insane speed, Riser puts on a shocked face, and he makes a stance while not having any counter measure for it.
However, Ise suddenly seemed to have less control than before, and because of that, he couldn't stop, and ended up embedding himself into the wall.
When Ise crashed, he guarded with both his arms so he didn't have any damages. However, there is a huge hole in the wall.
"Good thing he was in that armour, or it could've hurt."
Millicas spoke with a slightly worried expression for Ise.
"Don't worry Millicas-san, Onii-chan isn't going to be beaten yet. I know that he can do it."
Ravel didn't share such optimism that he shared.
Ise got up and shook off the fragments of the wall and confronted Riser again. Makoto noticed that the counter on his arm had gone down to eight now, and he presumed that meant eight seconds left for the fight to be finished.
"Come on Onii-chan! Finish Riser off now!"
Makoto cheered from the side, Ise nodding and went stronger at Riser.
Riser becomes more vigilant than before after seeing Ise's attacks. His body starts to get covered in a rainbow colour aura. Despite Riser being quite the pompous person, the power that he had wasn't a joke. It wasn't Millicas' level of power, but it was stronger than Rias, even Makoto could tell that.
"Shitty Sekiryuutei brat! Sorry but I won't hold back! I don't want to admit it, but right now you are a monster! In front of your Master, Rias, peeeeeerish!"
A giant pair of wings of fire appears on Riser's back who was howling. There's a whirlwind of fire surrounding him and the hall is surrounded by an intense fire.
It's so strong that even the Devils who are within this hall starts to create a barrier to protect themselves. It must mean that there won't be a bone left if you get hit by that.
"Here we go Ma-tan, let's keep us safe now."
Serafall used her power to raise the barrier, so she could protect the people she cared about.
"But Sera-tan, can Onii-chan survive such an attack? It feels very powerful from even here."
"I understand Ma-tans concern, but you don't have to worry Ma-tan, Ise-chan has chosen this path for himself. All we can do is support him, like how Ma-tan wanted to save Millicas-chan here. If you were him, you'd do the same."
"Even then…I don't want him to be hurt because of this."
Makoto put on a worried face, Elmenhilde hugging onto his arm, and wouldn't let go.
Riser, covered in flames, rushes Ise really fast, even more faster than he did during the games. But, Yumi, Makoto, and some others could keep track of him and his movements. Ise, who wasn't used to it however, couldn't.
"Fire bird and Fenghuang! The hell fire of our clan that was praised as being that of a Phoenix! Taste it with your own body and turn into ashes!"
Riser had to mock him as he went forward, not stopping for even a second.
"There's no way that I will perish from a crappy fire like yours!"
Ise run towards him while shouting. The propeller on his back releases fires made up of demonic power.
When both of their fists hit each other's face, it shakes the whole hall because of the impact created from our powers clashing. At the centre of the hall, Riser and Ise started exchanging punches.
Then a hot flame attacks Ise, and forced him backwards. Makoto could feel the heat, even with the barriers. But, if Ise was in there, then he'd be able to feel it as well, no matter the armour that he has on. Even if it was protecting him, it could only take it so far…
But then, Makoto noticed it, in Ise's eyes.
The eyes that Ise had right now…
Makoto knew that Ise was afraid right now.
Even if he tried to hide it, Makoto could see the fear that danced between his eyes.
Maybe he realized Ise's feeling scared, so Riser smirks.
"Are you scared!? Are you afraid of me!? Of course! You are merely a trash if you didn't have a Boosted Gear! If you didn't have that armour, then you would have perished before my fist reached you! That's right! If you take that gauntlet off, then you have no value!"
"Don't you bad mouth Onii-chan!" Makoto shouted from the side. "Onii-chan! Beat him back! I know that you can do it!"
"You got it Otouto! Leave it to me!"
Ise pulls out a certain thing that he was hiding in a section of his gauntlet.
His fist hit right into Riser's face with a cross-counter. Riser bends back.
"That won't work on-gwaaaah!"
There are a lot of blood coming out from Riser's mouth. His hit was critical against Riser.
Makoto looked on, and smirked, glad that Ise finally used it.
Dangling from Ise's hand, was a cross. Ravel's eyes widened when she realized how Ise was able to damage Riser.
"A cross!? You have a cross!?"
Riser is shocked. More screams came from the Devils inside this hall in rejection.
"It's because he's a Devil." Makoto spoke, seeing the disbelieving look on Ravel's face. "Rather, I'm sure you knew it before. Ravel-san, I don't want my Onii-chan nor your own to be hurt…but, you can't deny that a cross, being powered by the power of the Dragon there, it is going to be very damaging to the Phenex."
Ravel couldn't deny it, and looked on worried for the elder brother that was vomiting blood.
"I punched you while increasing the effect of the cross with my Sacred Gear. A holy attack that has increased drastically can even be used against High-class Devils. It's thanks to Makoto for asking Kalawarner to leave these in my room for me. Seems like he came up with the idea as well, though he's smart. Even if you are the immortal bird Phoenix, you won't be able to heal this attack that easily, right?"
Riser didn't want to believe it at all.
"Absurd! Crosses bring intense suffering to Devils! Even if you wear a Dragon's armour, touching it is absolutely foolish..." Riser looked towards Ise's arm, and then his eyes widen considerably, noticing something you'd only notice if you're up close. "…Did you give your…left arm to the Dragon residing in the gauntlet…? So that's the reason for your insane powers…!"
Makoto heard what Riser said, and looked towards Serafall for confirmation, said girl giving it straight away.
"Sorry Ma-tan, but that's how it is. He gave up the arm for power. He did it to save Rias-chan, seems like he really likes her, huh."
"Yeah, but…c-can he change it back?"
Serafall looked down, Makoto not liking that she was like that.
"Ma-tan, the thing is…if I'm right, then he's given the arm up to the Dragon, and he can't change it back, Ma-tan. I'm sorry, it seems like he's made his choice though, and we'll have to respect that kind of choice."
Makoto couldn't accept it, he didn't see it as fair that Ise gave up his arm for Rias, in such a manner. He didn't blame Rias, nor Ise, he just blamed the situation that was going on, it didn't seem right at all.
"Buchou will come back just with one arm of someone like me, you know? It's a pretty cheap deal, don't you think?"
Riser's eyes changes after hearing what Ise just said.
"You are crazy… So that's why you can hit punches without any hesitation… You are scary. I have become scared of you for real, for the first time. And for that!" Both of Riser's wings turns into a bigger flame. "I'm going to beat you with everything I have!"
He rushes towards Ise while the surroundings are engulfed by fire.
"Uoooooooooooooooo!"
Ise put all his power to the cross he's holding on to. He didn't even have to wait long, as their fists clashed with one another's, sending powers around his body, and around Riser's body.
The clash between two incredible powers. A flash created from the collision blinds most people's eyes. Even Makoto felt his eyes being blinded, and when it came about that he wasn't blind anymore, what he saw, wasn't something that he wanted to see either.
The armour that Ise was wearing, disappears all together, Makoto gasps in shock horror as he saw the burn marks appearing on Ise's body. His normal body wasn't be protected now, and he received the attack right at him, the cross dropped down right beside him.
"W-We have to stop the match Sera-tan! H-He can't fight like that! He'd die!"
Makoto panicked, and went to rush in, but Serafall grabbed him by the shoulder, and pulled him backwards.
"Ma-tan, you have to believe in your Onii-chan now."
"But Sera-tan! Th-This isn't right! He can't fight like that! He's going to-"
"Don't you believe in Ise-chan Ma-tan?"
That question, had profound affects.
Did he care for Ise?
Of course he cared.
He cared very much for Ise.
But he couldn't see Ise die like this, could he? He couldn't see it happening. He didn't want Ise to be killed. He wanted to protect Ise…
But then he got what it truly meant.
What Serafall wasn't saying, and what it meant to Ise, a man.
"Pride…right Sera-tan?"
"That's right my cute Ma-tan, pride. He's also a man fighting for his woman. It would be like you fighting for Asia-chan here, or whoever. He's got his pride. He might be a naughty boy, but he's still a prideful young man. And you're his Otouto, even if he's screaming in pain, you have to support him in all that he does. I know that you can do it my cute Ma-tan. Just believe in him."
Makoto knew that she was right.
He didn't want to upset Ise by getting involved.
If he did, it would damage his pride.
Just like if Ise got involved if he was protecting Asia with such a thing on the line. If it was him, and if he didn't ask for help, then he wouldn't want it either. Makoto just had to begrudgingly accept what this is.
Ise was grabbed strongly by his collar by Riser. He got lifted up from the ground while having his neck choked. Makoto didn't know if he could endure this for much longer, he felt like he was going to scream.
Riser chokes Ise strongly while smirking.
Makoto could barely look at this, but he didn't look away.
Looking away wouldn't be supporting Ise, it would be the opposite.
"I praise you for doing this well for a Pawn. You really did well. To be honest, I didn't expect you to do this well. The power of the Dragon user, I was able to taste that with my own body. If you had a year, no six months for you to get used to your Dragon's power I would have lost."
He doesn't seem to be joking. He has a serious face.
Riser's clothes and body are worn. His wings were smaller, and the others could see it as well, how weak he looked right now. Even Ise could, and it made Makoto feel complicated about this right now, he wanted to help, but he couldn't. But if Ise could use this to his advantage, then he'd be able to win, somehow.
"Seems like his regeneration is…slower because of the cross…" Makoto thought to himself, looking at Ise, tears ragging his eyes. "Onii-chan, I know that you can do it, I just know that you can. I don't know how, but Sera-tans right, I'll believe in you…just don't die Onii-chan, please don't die…"
That's all Makoto could do now, and hope that his elder brother was going to pull off a victory.
"There's nothing you should feel ashamed about. I will train you after I become Rias' groom. You will become a strong Devil."
"Shut up! That's none of your business!"
Ise spat out right away, showing a discontent for the person before him.
"Now, it's about time I put you to sleep. You will lose consciousness for a short while. By the time you wake up, the ceremony would have finished safely. You don't want to suffer any more than this, right? I'm not a sadist, so I will end this right away."
Riser puts on a face that he has confirmed his victory.
Ise couldn't do it though, he couldn't have it happen. He couldn't lose the fight, but he didn't know what…no, he did know what to do, he just had to reach downwards…
"What are you reaching for?"
Riser noticed as Ise noticed that Makoto was watching him.
Makoto, fought his hardest for Asia, and Millicas. He'd have to do the same in order to live up to being a big brother. He had to at least try his hardest to show Makoto that he was doing his best, Makoto needed to see it too in his eyes. He saw how strong Makoto got, so he wanted to show how strong he was too.
Ise takes out a small object from my pocket.
"To extinguish fire you need water, right!?"
The thing he's holding on to is a small bottle that contains holy water. It was the same one Makoto asked Kalawarner left for him, and Makoto smiled brightly, seeing that Ise truly did have a good plan to fight off a Phenex.
Riser's face turns more pale than before, he didn't look like he was going to live for much longer.
"Damn it!"
Riser's hand that is choking Ise becomes even stronger. He opened the lid and sprinkled the holy water on Riser. He then multiplied the effect of the holy water.
"Boosted Gear Gift!"
[Transfer!]
The multiplied power flows from Ise's gauntlet to the holy water on Riser's body.
"Cra-"
It was too late by the time Riser realised Ise's attack. The transferred power multiplied the effects of the holy water on Riser's body.
The sound of the water vaporising from fire echoes throughout the whole hall. Riser's wings of fire starts to look weird because he can't maintain its form. The holy water burns Riser's body insanely. There is smoke coming out of his whole body.
"That's it Onii-chan! Get him! Beat him!"
Makoto cheered from the side, as the others looked on with a smile. Though, Ravel frowned
Ise got out from his grip and took a good distance while holding onto his throat.
"Ugaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
Riser starts to writhe with the effect of the holy water.
"Onii-sama…" Ravel wanted to go and interfere, but Ravel then felt Makoto's hand on her shoulder. "Makoto-sama, why?"
"I know it looks bad, but he's not going to die. Ravel-san, I'm sorry that you had to see your Onii-sama going through this, but…maybe this will be a turning point for Riser, showing that he can't only rely on his regeneration."
Serafall nodded with a proud smile.
"That's right my cute Ma-tan! Good boy!"
Makoto smiled at the praise, and didn't know how else to say it in other ways, and just enjoyed the fact that he got to spend time with the others. But, he did feel regret that either one of them had to feel pain like this.
The smoke that is coming out from Riser's body weakens. What's left is Riser who has a worn out body and clothes.
Ise pick up the cross from the ground with his Dragon arm. I hold it tight and put my power in it. Ise also sprinkled the second holy water he was hiding in his hand.
"Makoto gave me these, from Asia, and I was also told this. That Devils are weak against the cross and the holy water. So increasing the ability of both of them at the same time would give enormous damage to Devils, right?"
"Ku…"
Riser who is suffering from the effect of the holy water makes a scared face after seeing his next move.
"Kiba told me this. To widen my line of sight and look towards the enemy and its surroundings."
Ise gathers all of the demonic power in his body at one point. He then changed it to a Dragon's power, and transfer it to the holy water and cross.
[Transfer!]
With this, the holy attack gained incredible powers.
"Akeno-san told me this. To gather the demonic power that flows throughout your whole body. To concentrate and feel the wave of the demonic power. Yeah, even an idiot like me can feel it, Akeno-san."
Riser looked freaked out, as Makoto noticed Akeno waving over towards him.
He waved over awkwardly back, not sure why she was waving.
Ise then changed his stance so he can hit my opponent.
"Koneko-chan told me this. When you hit someone, aim at the middle of the body and nail it deep into their body accurately!"
When he aimed his fist at Riser, he starts to panic.
"H-Hold on! Do you even know what you are doing!? This engagement is important and necessary for the future of Devils! It's not something a Devil brat like you can butt into!"
"I don't know anything complicated. But there's something I remember vaguely when I lost against you and became unconscious. Buchou was crying. She was crying! And she was also crying before! That reason is enough for me to beat the shit out of you!"
Makoto looked towards Millicas, and could relate.
Everything that Ise said, Makoto remembered when he was seeing Millicas cry.
When he did the Rating Game, he saw Millicas cry, being sad, and hated it. So, right now, he could understand why Ise was being like this. He could understand Ise's rage, and anger all in one, because he remembered feeling like that with Millicas.
Ise's fist that has the cross and the effects of the holy water nails deeply and accurately into his stomach...or rather, they would have, but Makoto stopped him, having crossed the distance, and got between them. Ise's fist nearly connected with Makoto, but he made a quick barrier of ice, quickly summoning his Sacred Gear, stopping Ise's fist.
"M-Makoto, what are you..."
"He's done Onii-chan, there's no point causing him to suffer now. You're better than that."
Ise looked towards Riser, and saw in fact, that he was very close to unconsciousness, blood spewing from him..
He nodded, and he put Riser down onto the ground.
"You're right, as Riser said before, he's not apparently a sadist, and I'm truly not."
Makoto looked at the ground where Riser was, then smiled gently.
Though he didn't like to see it, he knew there would be no point.
Ravel looks over, and then Makoto pats her on the shoulders once walking over to her.
"Go, and help your Onii-sama." Makoto looks towards Asia. "Asia-chan, would you go and heal Riser to the best that you can, please?"
"O-Of course Makoto-san!"
Ravel, and Asia rush over towards Riser. Though Riser would be okay anyway, Makoto thought it would be nice if Asia healed him, and that's what she did. She activated her power, the green energy washing over the man, Ise looking surprised.
But Makoto shrugged his shoulders, as he walked towards him.
"Riser-sama, noooooooooo!"
Yubelluna, the Queen of Riser, became angry, and summoned her staff.
She flew at Ise, and gathered magic at the tip of her staff. Because she was a fire expert, Ise looked shocked. He was already drained because of the fight from Riser, and if he had to fight the Queen of Riser as well, then he wouldn't be able to do it.
Makoto looked towards Serafall.
"Can I get involved now?"
Serafall didn't seem to mind either way, shrugging her shoulders.
"Ise-chan's personal Demon has been slain, I don't see why not."
"Okay then!"
Makoto rushed forward and activated his Sacred Gear. The large bird appeared, flying off towards Ise as the woman released her power. The birds wings extended, and wrapped around Ise's body, an explosion going off.
When the smoke died down, the bird was intact, and Makoto stood there, using the speed of the Knight to get in front of Ise, the bird coming to his side, and used his ability to change shape, to grow smaller, and landed on Makoto's shoulder.
"Makoto…"
Ise strode forward on shaky feet.
Makoto looked behind him, and smiled.
"Don't worry Onii-chan, I'm gonna make sure that you're okay now. You've done your part, allow me to make sure that you're safe now…but, really? Giving up your arm Onii-chan…why would you…no, I mean, don't you think about how you'll not be able to change it back?"
Ise cracked a smile.
"I know, it doesn't matter."
Those words, seemed to resonate with Makoto, as he probably would've done the same in Ise's place.
He then turned to Yubelluna.
"You're attacking my Onii-chan, why exactly?"
"He beat my Master. Of course I have to get retribution for that!"
Yubelluna was pissed, and the only peerage member to actually do anything. The others just watched on, they couldn't even speak, they just saw their Master lose. No matter how to think about it, it just seems, shocking that Riser could lose, and Yubelluna couldn't stand it.
"Okay, retribution is to basically…screw it, I'm not going to explain."
Yubelluna's eyebrows twitched.
"Oh, so you won't explain it to me!?"
"No, because there's no point. You attack a man, who fought your King, in a fight that he wanted to fight in in the first place, so attacking him now is just nonsensical, you know? But, if you want to have a fight with him, you're going to have to get through me, you know?"
Yubelluna didn't have a problem with that, and showed a menacing smile.
"Fine, let's get going then you brat!"
At the tip of her staff, fire came to her, and it was powerful. The mass of demonic power was great, only second to Riser himself. Makoto remembered how she managed to defeat Akeno, Yumi and Koneko with her attacks in the end, and he wasn't pleased.
In fact, he was kind of pissed off, so this gave him the perfect opportunity to battle her, and beat her back. The Devils of old, looked on at the spectacle, not expecting Serafall's Queen to become involved in the fight like this.
She fired off a large sphere of demonic fire towards the boys body. He watched carefully, then activated his Sacred Gear's power. He didn't even have to speak verbally, as the creature opened its mouth, and released a beam of ice.
"Cold!"
Ise commented from behind Makoto, as the sphere was frozen. The ice had wrapped around the sphere, and froze it completely. Yubelluna was surprised, shocked, and looked hatefully towards Makoto himself.
"H-How dare you?!"
Yubelluna watched as the ice ball fell down to the ground, shattering into pieces. Makoto cleared his throat.
"We're both Queen's, you don't have any advantage to me right now. I've seen how you fight, you're a magician based person. So, you're weak in Rook, and Knight strengths, but that's fine for me, because I'm actually strongest with my Knight's speed. I can evade, or freeze your attacks. It helps that the Bishop's power is added to my Sacred Gear, huh."
Yubelluna didn't like that at all, and gathered demonic power at the tip of her staff.
"You cheeky brat. Just because you're the Queen of a Maou-sama, doesn't mean that I'm not going to beat you at all. I will have to kill you if you get in my way, understand me you little bastard!? I'm someone you cannot hope to trifle with!"
Makoto didn't show even a hint of fear as he walked forward.
"I'm not scared of you, give me your best shot."
Yubelluna's eyes changed, and she shot off a blast so fast Ise couldn't see it.
"Makoto!"
An explosion erupted in front of him, where he didn't see Makoto move…
However, to the side, Makoto stood there, having avoided the blast with great speed, even nearly on a Yumi level. The girl herself was impressed with the speed that Makoto displayed, showing how serious he did put himself into training.
"You missed me."
"Fucking die!"
With reckless abandon, Yubelluna fired off several explosive blasts.
Makoto avoided all of them while running closer. She couldn't keep up with his speed, and now wished that she actually did use the Knight's speed more often. She was better at catching people off guard, and using a one hit kill move. But one on one like this, with a Queen that was more physical than magical, it was hard for her to deal with.
"Damn, why aren't you staying still!?"
Yubelluna upped the attack, catching Makoto by surprise.
Serafall looked on, worried for her Queen.
But, to her surprise, he showed a good speed, and continued avoiding the attacks that came for him. He avoided them so precisely, she could see where her efforts with his training paid off. Yubelluna's attacks were slower than the ones she launched at Makoto, so it allowed him to avoid them better.
"No way! This isn't fair!"
"Life's not fair!"
Makoto jumped, so Yubelluna took this chance to fire off a point blank range attack.
"Makoto-san! P-Please…"
Millicas worried for nothing, as Makoto commanded the bird to freeze the attack, which it did. If it had been significantly more powerful than Makoto, then he wouldn't of been able to freeze it, but this one was easy enough.
Coming out the other side, was Makoto, and by using his bird to grip his shoulder, and fly him, he could put his strength into his fist, Yubelluna shocked by how fast he covered the distance, she didn't even have time to attack, so she raised barriers.
"This is for attacking Koneko-chan, and hurting her when she tried so hard damn you!"
Koneko's face turned a bit pink at that, hearing how he was doing it for her too.
Makoto launched his fist forward Yubelluna looking worried, frightened. But then remembered her barriers, and smirked.
"You can't even get through my-"
FREEZE!
Makoto's bird Sacred Gear used its ice powers to freeze the barriers, making them breakable. Makoto's fist went through the barriers one by one, Yubelluna panicking, and tried to put distance, though she couldn't ecaspe, and received a strong fist right to the centre of her body.
"Gwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
Yubelluna spat out blood, and came hurdling down to the ground. Her body smashed into the ground harshly, and Makoto turned the Sacred Gear into a sword, floating down towards the ground, to get her.
Though Yubelluna felt immense pain, she got up onto her knees, staring right out towards the incoming Makoto. She coughed up a bit more blood, drenching her chin in the red liquid, then pointed her staff upwards.
"You think you've gotten me, have you!? Take this! And this!"
Without a care in the world, she fired up multiple blasts of power towards the descending boy.
Ise looked on, and wanted to help…
But remembered how Makoto chose to not interfere with Riser, and was grateful, it being about pride. The elder could follow the actions of the younger, and allow Makoto to deal with the Queen, after all he dealt with the King.
"Slice! Haaah!"
Using his sword skills, he cleaved through the attacks, using his Sacred Gear's power to freeze the explosions at the same time, so they didn't hurt him. Ise was very impressed, as was the crowd that had gathered to watch.
No one was more impressed with his displays with a sword, than Yumi, his skills showing up right now. It just showed that they truly did get one another, and could learn from one another.
When Makoto came to the ground, he changed the sword into a hammer, a large hammer, but he used his Rook's strength to lift it easily.
"This is for Yumi-senpai who you blasted when she wasn't even looking! Simply unforgivable!"
Just hearing that, brought a new and good respect for Makoto from Yumi, and deepened the affection that she held for the boy.
Makoto slammed the hammer against Yubelluna's body, forcing her body to fly across the room. Yubelluna cushioned the impact the best that she could with a barrier, but she took the brunt of the attack head on.
"Damn, that was awesome Ma-tan~ Get her Ma-tan~"
Serafall understood why he was more, showing his wild side this time, because of what happened with Ise, and the others. It was hard watching Ise being in pain, and the others, and he wasn't able to do anything. This, was his time to release that pent up anger.
Yubelluna wasn't fairing well. She thought that she'd be able to do away with the Queen of Leviathan. But, he proved to be a little more challenging than she thought that he was.
She felt her body being in pain, and she was bleeding from where the large hammer hit her. She even felt cold, due to the fact that the hammer was made of ice.
"Yubelluna-san, please give up now, I don't want to fight you anymore."
Makoto spoke, trying to deter her from fighting.
But Yubelluna saw that as insulting, getting up on shaky legs. Her legs wobbled, her eyes were hazy. But she wasn't going to give up now, watching as Makoto turned the hammer, into the bird, landing on his shoulder.
"T-That's it! I'm not going to lose now!"
She came up with a stronger attack. She concentrated the demonic power in her staff, the demonic power swirled around dangerously. She was putting her all into this, she didn't have the strength to fight for much longer.
Makoto furrowed his eyebrows, and then summoned the birds powers, concentrating the Bishop pieces power into the bird.
The aura around the bird increased, larger, and larger. It surrounded Makoto, and the air around him became cooler, colder. Even the entire room could feel how cold the air was even if they were far away, Ravel, and some of the others were intrigued by how hard he was fighting.
In Makoto's hand, a fire swirled with his demonic power. Akeno recognized the technique, and knew that he was going for the end game now. Since this attack took much power, he couldn't fire them off like they were going out of fashion.
In his hands, the aura of the bird compressed, and formed a sphere. Half ice, half fire. The attack was perfection, or at least the blend of powers was. Since he hadn't been fighting that day, Makoto could display the full power of the attack.
Yubelluna wasn't deterred though, putting more power into her attack.
"Finish off and die!"
Yubelluna, in her last ditch effort, fired off a wave of demonic power that covered half of the hall.
"And this, is for Akeno-senpai for hurting her! No one gets to hurt a fellow Queen, especially in front of me!"
Makoto at the same time, fired off his attack, Akeno's face blushing when she heard her name being mentioned.
The attacks were fired off, and met in the middle.
"Makoto-san! T-That's…"
Millicas was impressed by the display before her, watching how the powers clashed together.
They danced in a sea of demonic power, using the powers that they had. It was a brilliant display of powers, no one could say anything different. Yubelluna's power was good, and on par with Akeno's own. And Makoto's new attack, took aspects from fire, and ice. So, the ice froze Yubelluna's attacks the best that it could, and the fire blasted away the frozen part, making it all the more deadly.
"Take this!"
With a thrust of his hands, Makoto poured more power in, and overwhelmed Yubelluna's attack.
"Shit…"
Yubelluna raised as many barriers as she could, but it didn't save her in the end.
The power attack broke through the barriers, crushing them under it's iron grip, smashing them apart, and then brought them down to the ground with nothing left going on. Yubelluna's body was covered and when the light died down…
"…"
Yubelluna laid on the ground, unconscious. Her top had been torn off, exposing her breasts. Ise very much loved that little treat to the eyes, saving it into his mind…but then felt a cold chill, and it wasn't coming from Makoto.
He remembered Princess, and he felt his insides freezing over.
Makoto stopped the attack, taking in a breath.
"That's what you get for attempting to attack my Onii-chan as well."
Makoto looked over Yubelluna, knowing she wasn't going to die, he made sure he didn't deliver a killing blow.
Once Makoto finished off Yubelluna, Ise smiled as he walked closer.
"Thanks for the defend bro, don't think I could've taken her on right now. Riser surely was enough, even if she is a beauty, my body couldn't handle her. I'm already at my limit, never mind fighting off someone else."
Makoto waved his hand at him as he truly didn't mind at all, but then looked towards Ise's Dragon arm.
"That arm Onii-chan, was it really worth it?"
"Yeah, it was."
After hearing that, Makoto could only smile and allowed him passage.
"Then, finish the job, and take Buchou away. She is your girl, right?"
"Right. She's my girl."
Ise walked past Makoto, and went towards the woman with red hair.
Once getting there, he offered his hand towards her.
"Buchou, let's go home."
"…Ise."
Rias was disbelieving that he did this for her, and couldn't even think right. But, at the same time, she enjoyed the fact that he could, become complete like this now, for her. He came for her, and she felt, completely amazing.
"I will take back Buchou, Rias Gremory-sama. I'm very sorry for my actions. But I will be taking Buchou with me."
Rias' Father doesn't say anything and closes his eyes.
Ise then takes out the magic circle that Grayfia gave him. He remembered that when he got her, he was supposed to turn it over, so that's what he did, and there was a glow. But then the glowing becomes more intense, and soon, something new appears.
What appears from the magic circle is a four legged beast with wings, and then Makoto inches closer, very surprised by what he was seeing right now.
"Griffon…"
"That's a Griffon? How do you know?"
Ise turned to the dazzled looking Makoto.
"Maou-sama's Queen, I have to learn as much as I possibly can Onii-chan. Sona-senpai gave me a book on magical creatures, and I remember this thing is a Griffon. It's quite beautiful, isn't it? I wonder, where did you get it?"
"Ah, Grayfia-san gave it to me. She said use it after I win, or if I win, eeh, I was kinda having it out with Mittelt when she was speaking but she said I can use this."
"I see…then, enjoy it Onii-chan~ Also, a girls first kiss is special, you know~?"
Ise made a clueless face, but Makoto already could tell what Rias was planning. He didn't have to be a mind reader, he already was aware of what was going on, Rias even held a scarlet blush on her cheeks, so that the obvious was quite obvious.
Griffon makes a roar and then starts to move towards the hole Ise made earlier. Ise turned towards Makoto and the others that had gathered.
"I'll be waiting at the club room!"
With his words, everyone waves their hands at me with a smile. And the Griffon flies up to the sky of the Underworld while carrying Ise and Buchou.
"Ara, seems like the lovebirds are about to get it on. How sweet."
Makoto couldn't tell if Akeno was being kind or cruel there, or a mixture of both. Yet, it seemed like she was, somewhat longing in her looks. And soon that look turned towards Makoto, but he was still staring into the sky.
"Ooh, as long as they don't have to show it to us, I don't really care." Elmen commented, as she strode closer to Makoto. "So, Makoto-kun, seems like you, and Senpai up their saved your red headed Princess'."
Millicas looked on shyly, as Makoto just smiled.
"Seems like we've done this saga off right. Well, it has finished, I wonder what's going to happen next?"
"Besides the obvious, you mean."
Yumi wrapped her arms around Makoto's waist, pushing her bust into his back. Makoto felt his cheeks heat up slightly. No matter how many times, he always felt a little complicated when it came to her doing this.
"Yeah, I mean besides Senpai, and Ise-nii kissing."
"…I don't want to watch that." Koneko butted in. "…It would be like watching Ravel-san…just watching her do anything disturbs me."
"I heard that!"
Ravel commented as she tended to her elder brother. Koneko's face held a slightly sinister look to it, and made a cute face like she was the victor, of whatever was going on in her head right now.
"Ooh Maou-sama, they're doing it."
Elmen pointed upwards, to see that Rias, and Ise were kissing. They didn't even need their enhanced eyesight to see that, but it really did make everything feel, bad up to this point now. Not because they weren't pleased for Rias, and Ise, but because they had to see it. Then again, if situations were reversed, Ise, and Rias probably wouldn't want to see Makoto kissing a member of his harem either.
"Aah, I'm happy for Onii-chan. He's liked Buchou for a while now, and she's his type."
"Big breasts, and a weird sense of humour?"
Elmen guessed, Makoto snickering.
"I guess so."
All of them watched on, they couldn't take their eyes off Ise, and Rias, as they flew around. Some found it romantic, some looked towards Makoto to see if he had any ideas on what they could be doing now. And some just enjoyed the spectacle that was the day.
"Ma-tan! Ma-tan!" Serafall came bouncing over, landing in front of him. "Ma-tan, I just got word that I'm going to have to be punished~"
"W-What!? Why!?"
He panicked, he didn't want Serafall to be punished.
"Because you butted in and stopped Yubelluna-chan there. I've been deemed unfit as a Master, and my status, as a Maou has been stripped~ I've even been called a bad thing and that's a Gabriel sympathizer~"
For the people who knew Gabriel, and her connection to Serafall, they face palmed. As for Makoto, he didn't know about it, but he didn't care about that, he genuinely believed that she had just been stripped of her title as a Maou.
"SERA-TAN! I'M SORRY! I'LL GO AND TELL THEM THAT I ACTED OUT OF CONDUCT! I DON'T WANT YOU TO BE PUNISHED! SERA-TAN PLEASE! I'M VERY SORRY! PLEASE FORGIVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Serafall began giggling, then kissed Makoto on the lips.
"Sorry Ma-tan, you've been worrying for so long, just wanted to see what would happen~"
Makoto's colour drained from his face.
"THAT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY! THAT'S IT, YOU'RE NOT STAYING IN MY BED FOR A MONTH!"
"M-MAA-TAN! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! YOU CAN'T! MA-TAN PLEASE!"
Makoto turned away from her, crossing his arms across his chest.
But that served to make Serafall even more upset, her bottom lip trembling.
"MA-TAN! PLEASE DON'T IGNORE ME Ma-TAN! I DIDN'T MEAN TO MAKE YOU FEEL UPSET! MA-TAN! PLEASE! I LOVE MY CUTE MA-TAN! I WOULDN'T BE PUNISHED! MA-TAN IS PUNISHING ME RIGHT NOW! I CAN'T HAVE IT MA-TAN! PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME CRY!"
"Sorry, but that's how it is."
Some wouldn't guess by the relationship that they were supposed to be Master, and servant. Sometimes, it truly did seem the other way around, with Makoto's more mature personality, and Serafall's childish antics. But, they truly did fit well together, no one could deny that.
When Makoto, Yumi and Asia returned home, they went immediately to Makoto's room, so they could get some sleep. The Devils Serafall, and Millicas had things to take care of, so they couldn't return right away, and Ravel...said some odd things to Makoto, cryptically saying that she would see him sometime later on.
However, when they opened the door, they were surprised to see Princess, and she was eating some food, chicken from KFC apparently, that had been scattered around the room. Music blared in the background, and the room looked to be a little bit messy, but it wasn't too bad.
While Makoto and Asia were pretty much used to Princess' weird habits, but Yumi was bewildered.
"What's wrong with your cat Makoto-kun? That's not normal...how did she order KFC..." Yumi noticed that it was also named 'Ravel and Riser special' on the side, written in black marker. "Okay, how does that happened? Does she...write things like that?"
Princess looked towards Makoto, and the others, then nudged the chicken closer with her head.
"Nyaaaa?"
Makoto bent down, and took some chicken, as Yumi looked at him oddly.
"This is good chicken Yumi-senpai, try some."
Asia didn't waste any time in taking any chicken either, and began eating it.
"He's right Kiba-senpai, this is really good."
Asia declared happily.
Yumi looked on as Princess held a twisted smile on her lips, that actually frightened her.
Makoto went towards his drawer, and opened it so he could put something away...
When he saw a white rose.
Seeing that he immediately knew what the white rose was about, he just knew what it was about.
He just smiled at the rose, and then saw a note below it, so he looked at the note itself, reading it to himself curiously...
A few days later, Makoto and Asia watched as Ise, and Rias brought in boxes. Clearly, they were boxes meant for moving. But, he couldn't remember if there was a room that was spare in the house, since Asia took the last remaining spare bedroom. Unless he wasn't remembering right, and that didn't seem likely either.
Mittelt, and Kalawarner were currently preparing lunch for the gang. Since it was around mid-day, and neither of Makoto's parents were around right now. He did have to wonder, if Rias got permission to actually move in and didn't just use her magic crap again.
"So…you're moving in here then?"
Makoto couldn't help but be shocked by the outcome, he didn't even think there would be enough room honestly.
"That's right, you don't mind, right?"
Makoto shrugged his shoulders, showing an uncaring face.
"As long as Onii-chan is happy I guess. But if you decide to play with my Onii-chan's feelings and make him feel sad then I'll have to throw the book at you."
Ise smiled towards his younger brother, watching as Rias placed a box down on the ground.
But he had a question that couldn't be ignored either.
"So, where are you going to be sleeping anyway? I mean, unless you've created a magical room somewhere, then I don't see where you're going to be sleeping."
"Well, actually…"
Rias looked awkwardly towards Asia who poked her fingers together shyly.
"Makoto-san…erm…"
Asia tried to say it, but she fell flat, and couldn't speak about, something. Makoto didn't know what that something was, but he definitely was curious about it, he wanted to know what was going on now. Though it seemed Ise was aware as well.
"What's wrong Asia-chan? Has something happened?"
Asia's eyes flew open, not sure how she was going to break the news, she didn't know if Makoto was going to love it or not.
"N-No! Nothing has happened at all, Makoto-san. It's just, Makoto-san…Rias-senpai, Buchou-san that is…she and I talked, and Millicas-san too…"
"Millicas-san? Where is she? Shouldn't she be here? I know she said she was coming today, but I can't see her, did something go wrong?"
He also noticed that Serafall wasn't around either. But, he knew that she came and went at her own leisure, and when she wanted too. Truthfully, he did wish that Yumi was the one that was moving in, and not Rias. But, if Ise was happy with Rias, then he would have to be happy for him too. It was only fair, since Asia lived there too.
As if on cue, Millicas came through the door as well, carrying a box.
"Phew, hard work, moving in."
Millicas wiped her brow, even though she didn't look flushed or anything.
Makoto's mind was working, and now, he knew what was going on…or at least, he knew that something was very much off.
"Moving in…Millicas-san is moving in as well? Okay, now I know there aren't enough rooms. Are you going to do something like, I don't know, renovate or something? Because I know there aren't enough rooms now. Even if you three shared, it would be quite cramp."
Rias strode closer towards Makoto, placing a hand on his shoulder.
"You see, my…Makoto, you see. I talked with Asia, and explained the situation, and she proposed "I am going to become Makoto-sans wife, so we could s-share a bed~" and that's how it went down, you know?"
"So…you're kicking Asia-chan out of her room!?"
"No!" Rias denied it, placing a hand on Asia's shoulder. "Asia, offered her room up. She said, that husbands, and wives also share rooms, and to be a good wife, she'll be sharing a room. Millicas, and I will preoccupy her old room, though I doubt we'll be using it all that much, if you catch my drift."
As she winked at him, Princess looked down from the top of the stairs.
Princess held herself strongly, hearing what was going on…and she wasn't pleased.
To say the least that was, Princess wasn't pleased in the slightest.
"Oh…so, when was anyone going to tell me any of this?"
"We're saying it now, aren't we?"
Makoto bit his bottom lip so he didn't say anything else that could be shown as bad. But, he truly felt like screaming at Rias right now, it just seemed to be for the best that he didn't end up doing that honestly.
"Either way, Asia-chan and I sharing a room is…"
"You sleep with Serafall-sama, Yumi, and Millicas all the time, right? This is just a formality, Asia would love to share a room with you, Makoto~ Don't worry though, Asia said she'd love taking care of you in your room~"
"Don't you push your dirty thoughts onto Asia-chan."
Rias stuck out her tongue, as Asia looked genuinely sorry.
"Makoto-san…I should've asked first…I'm s-sorry that I have…"
Makoto couldn't take seeing Asia looking so sad, so he hugged her tightly, giving her back a comforting pet.
"Ooh Asia-chan, I'd love to share a room with you. My room, is your room. Come on, I'll help you move your stuff into my room. It's not like you have much stuff anyway, we should be able to fit everything in."
"Ooh thank you Makoto-san!"
Asia hugged Makoto tighter than she had done before, even giving his cheek a kiss. She wasn't quite ready for the lips yet, but a kiss on the cheek was enough to make his face turn a cute pink colour, no one could deny that at all.
"Asia-chan that was…"
"Makoto-san, it was…"
The pair stared at one another for a little while, ignoring the world around him, and Asia doing the same.
Later on, Millicas, and Rias were packing stuff away in their new room together.
"Aah, seems good Millicas."
Rias put her stuff on her bed, as Millicas finished.
For now, it was only a temporary thing.
They'd get the house done eventually, so they wouldn't have to share a room. But for now, this was what they had to do. Serafall still needed to get back to them on that.
"Onee-sama, I'm going to go and get a drink, want anything?"
Rias shook her head, folding her clothes up.
"No, I'm okay thanks."
Millicas accepted that, then left the door open as she walked out.
Rias smiled to herself, glad that she lived with Ise now.
Even if she didn't share a room with him right now, this was more than enough.
She thought about the kiss, the tingling on her lips, and felt amazing inside of her body.
CLOSE!
The door closed rather violently.
"Oh, that was quick Millicas…" She looked, and saw that it was Princess stood there, on her hind legs. "…Princess."
Rias' voice failed her, she was very frightened right now.
Princess raised her head, then thrusted her paw to the right towards the bed.
Rias hesitantly followed suit with her eyes, then she saw the words "You're my bitch now!" written on the wall, presumably with her claws, it wasn't there before, Rias almost fainting on the spot, turning back to Princess with moist eyes.
"W-WHAT ARE YOU, CRAZY PUSSY!? HOW ARE YOU DOING THAT!? I DON'T SENSE ANY POWER FROM YOU, YET YOU'RE NOT NORMAL! YO-YOU'RE FUCKED UP, YOU ARE! STAY AWAY FROM ME PLEASE CRAZY PUSSY!"
Rias couldn't figure out why the cat hated her.
Why it was going to kill her.
What she had ever done to piss Princess off…
She couldn't think of anything.
That only made it more scary and surreal.
Princess' eyes changed, and her body twitched around.
"NYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Princess lunged for Rias, jumping higher than a normal cat should.
Rias cried, firing demonic blasts at her, but she avoided them in the air, and made it to Rias. Rias tried to hit Princess with her hand, but Princess twirled around, slamming her foot right into the side of the girls face, forcing her head down onto the bed.
Rias groaned in pain as Princess landed on the ground, then jumped up.
"SOMEONE! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!"
Princess forced Rias' head down onto the bed, so she couldn't scream, her cries being muffled.
Rias could see out of the corner of her eye that Princess was staring into her eyes, her face.
"MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!"
Rias let out a muffled cry, but Princess showed her claws.
"Nyaaaaa..."
That sounded very threatening to Rias.
Rias' eyes blazed, trying to fight Princess off, but she couldn't…
However, the sound of footsteps could be on the stairs, Rias' body pleaded with it to come in here, whoever it was.
The door opened, with Millicas coming through.
Rias felt the pressure leave her head, so she shot up, and looked for Princess, but she seemingly disappeared.
"Rias-nee-sama, I am back…"
"Millicas!" Rias rushed to Millicas, and hid behind her. "S-She's in here somewhere! Don't let her hurt me Millicas! She's fucking dangerous! She hates me for some reason! I haven't done anything to her, I promise you this!"
Millicas looked around, but couldn't see what she was talking about.
She turned around, and hugged Rias so she didn't have to be worried.
"Onee-sama, whatever you saw is gone."
Rias felt her heart quickening, like she was going to lose her life.
But then, she saw it, outside of the window, Princess was there.
Princess ran a claw across her own neck, then pointed towards Rias, Rias shedding some tears.
"HOLY SHIT! MILLICAS PLEASE! LOOK!"
By the time that she turned around, Princess had already disappeared, Millicas thought that Rias was just going mad.
"No one's here Rias-nee, are you sure..."
Rias locked the door, and the windows, and every place she could think of, she wasn't going to be defeated by a cat, even if it is was very strong.
Meanwhile, Makoto finished helping Asia with the moving in process, and collapsed onto the bed. It was more exhausting putting stuff in, than it was fighting a battle. At least there, he could run wild. But, with this, it took a different talent that Asia had more than he did.
"Wow, what a tiresome day. Didn't think it would take so long."
Makoto breathed out, trying to catch his breath.
"Makoto-san, I'm sorry to impose on you like this."
Though Asia wanted to live in Makoto's room, she felt bad that she had taken his room as well, since this was supposed to be his room, and now she lived in it as well. She just felt bad that he might want alone time.
"Oh Asia-chan, you don't have to worry about something like that. I already said it was fine, right?"
Asia still wasn't sure if he was just being kind or not.
"…Even then, I feel…"
Makoto saw the worried look on Asia's face, so he jumped off the bed, and moved closer to her. His hand went to her own hand, and held it tightly. Makoto noticed that she was still wearing the engagement ring on her finger, and gently smiled.
"Asia-chan, I'd rather share a room with you than Rias-senpai. Besides, knowing Rias-senpai, she would've found a way to live here anyway. I don't want anything unsuspected to happen. Though knowing our lives, it's always going to be-"
"Ma-tan!"
"-unsuspecting."
Makoto finished as Serafall came bouncing into the room.
Asia and Makoto looked on as Serafall took in a deep breath.
"Hey there my cute peerage members!"
"S-Serafall-sama, good day…or goodnight I think?"
Asia didn't know which one she would have to say.
"Ooh yes! Hey Asia-chan! You and my cute Ma-tan getting along?"
"Y-Yes! We have just moved in together!"
She said happily, Serafall being confused.
"You've always lived here Asia-chan~ At least, since you became my adorable Bishop~"
Asia flushed, as she thought about living in the same room as Makoto himself. The boy didn't want any part of it, so he stayed out of it.
"Y-Yes, but now, Serafall-sama. Buchou-san has moved in next door, and I share this room with Makoto-san. Even Millicas-san is next door too. They both live here now, and I live in this room with Makoto-san."
Serafall blinked, then giggled.
"Like a true married couple~"
Makoto wished Serafall didn't implant ideas into Asia's young mind, it always made it seem worse.
"Sera-tan, where have you been all day anyway?"
"Ooh. That's right Ma-tan! You see, I've been having a discussion with the naughty God's from the Norse~"
"Naughty God's…"
"…From the Norse?"
Asia finished off after Makoto, Serafall nodding.
"Well, Odin-chan more than anything! But, it seems that Odin-chan wants something, and we have said something, and wishes to do trades. Since I am the Maou for affairs such as these, I've had to oversee it all, and soon, they'll be coming to a meeting place that is neither here nor there, either. It's going to be on mutual grounds."
"O-Oh, so what are you trading for?"
Makoto was genuinely intrigued, even Asia seemed to be intrigued as well.
"Just something that we found a while ago. It's useless to us Devils, but the Norse wish to trade for it. They have said that they want to trade for a bit of information that the Bishop of Sirzechs-chan has broken through with. So, I'll be going to go and deal with that soon enough~"
"Oh right…so, we won't see one another, for a little while?"
"Nope! Ma-tan, and Asia-chan are going to accompany me with a surprising guest as well~"
"Surprising guest?"
Serafall didn't reveal anything else.
But, Makoto and Asia definitely were intrigued by what they were going to be doing.
Meeting a God…
Meeting a genuine God.
Asia wished it was her God secretly, but meeting a God of any form was going to be amazing.
And thus, their new adventure was going to be going on. But both wondered who the surprising guest was.
End chapter!
So, that's the end of the Riser/Zephyrdor arc, and we're moving closer to the chapter where we start the holy sword arc, where Yumi and Makoto will be the main focus there, though Irina joins as well, there will be a plot with her and Makoto too. While this chapter was majority focused on Ise, Makoto also got his chance to deal some punishment for Yubelluna for, various things done to the peerage of Rias, people he cared about. The Gremory girls have moved in, and Asia and Makoto now share a room together like a 'married couple' would do, Asia surely is pleased!
But next chapter, we're going to be seeing Odin, and you can all guess who's going to be with him, so we'll be meeting her too! And that shall play a role later on as well! There's even going to be something of a new antagonist being introduced to Makoto next time, someone that could be tied to him, more mysteries are going to be unfolded!
Well, until next time! Thanks for reading!
Issei; Rias, Yura, Aika, Bennia, Jeanne, Walburga, Xenovia, Mittelt, Reya, Mira, Katase, Murayama. (WIP)
Makoto; Serafall, Yumi, Millicas (fem), Irina, Gabriel, Asia, Koneko, Kuroka, Rossweisse, Kalawarner, Ravel, Kunou, Tiamat, Akeno, Vali (fem), Sona, Le Fay, Elmenhilde. (WIP)
