Having to write these parts at the beginning is slightly annoying.
I don't see why they had to change it from before -.-

Anyway, onto the story.

[Welsh Dragon Balance Breaker]

My condensing aura of Emerald light spikes and explodes before shaking like a bad transmission and reverting like an implosion onto my body clashing against the new Crimson aura that was beginning to radiate from my body. Crimson scale mail took form around my body giving me the look of a humanoid dragon. Each scale branched off with a golden spike at each side, the two dragon wings flutter about before breaking apart allowing my 6 angel wings to break through the back of my armour and the remnants of the dragon wings latched onto my 6 angel wings forming a crimson ridge atop each wing and the odd crimson scale taking the place of some of my white feathers.

I slowly dropped down to the ground as our auras started to fight before we did showing that I had the upper-hand due to my genes as an Angel and Dragon. It seemed that Vali hadn't given up a part of his body to the dragon to become stronger, I had and it was eating away my human half day by day. I was already at 35% for my dragon side leaving my human side at 15%.

My aura rained down on the area surrounding me in a destructive fashion as the ground was starting to be worn away by it's ferocity. I had no time to waste here, I had to finish this fast and then get away before Grayfia can catch me if she is going to.

[Boost]

A single boost caused the Emerald aura to intensify greatly and set fire to the ground around me.

'Ddraig, full body transfer of Ascalon.'

['You got it Aibou'] [Transfer]

As a new layer of aura that was golden enraptured my body, I took to the skies and flew straight towards Vali. I had the distinct advantage but from the look of my rival, he liked that fact. To be the underdog can be good thing but an Underdog who is a battle maniac, who knows what could result from it.

Upon approach I feinted as Vali had started to come towards me, I flapped my three left wings once while using my 3 right wings as a guide to tilt my body out of Vali's way. As Vali steamed past, I followed through and kicked into his back further increasing his speed breaking apart the back part of his armour and send him towards the ground. Vali corrected himself before his body hit the ground bringing him into a slight spin forcing him crash slightly softer than expected on his backside kicking up some dust.

The dust blew away as a gust of wind formed with Vali in the centre of it coming straight at that he was coming straight for the punch I brought my arms up across my body like an 'X' and brought all over Ascalon's aura to my front to take the brunt of the damage and transfer it over to him naturally before I could do so myself. As Vali was only metres away from me I broke my arms apart and pushed my right side forward making my right hand take the hit and thrusted my left fist forward narrowly grazing the white helmet, I carried on briefly and caught onto his wings.

'Do it Ddraig!'

[Ascalon Transfer]

Ascalon's golden aura raged in disgust in the split second it had before being transferred over into Vali. The power in itself was massive and too much for Vali's balance breaker to take and was trying to exert it but with my hand still on his wings it couldn't do it effectively allowing the dragon slayer properties to mercilessly attack Vali.

As soon as I heard the crack I released my grip ever so slightly allowing my body to freely move, bringing my lower half up I planted both of my boots straight into his chest as I let go of his wings sending our bodies away from each other and completely blowing away his balance breaker. This time he completely crashes into the ground without support from his scale mail and kicks up even more dust than before.

I start to descend down to the ground as I deactivate the helmet on my armour. A bright white light shoots out from the dust destroying it and shoots up into the sky passing straight through my barrier which slowly starts to corrode away.

[We'll meet again white-one.]

I allow my own balance breaker to disappear away bringing me back to my normal clothes albeit with all 6 of my wings still out on show. I turned to my right and took a single step before freezing on the spot. I had a dilemma. There was a dark, almost angry pressure behind me but in front I could feel a presence that I didn't want to see right now. Slowly tilting my head upwards I saw the one person in my life who gave love unconditionally but I seemed to be given it on another level.

Right at this minute I don't know whether I want to wait for the incoming presence or to turn around and give myself up to Grayfia. Hopefully she is just looking for an apology or could live with that.

"ISE-KUN!"

A woman's voice shouted down on us from above, her body getting closer and closer by the second. All 12 of her beautiful, pristinely white wings flapped elegantly as she approached me at a blistering speed. I felt my body turn slightly upon instinct to run but before I could actually make myself follow through the angel hit me, more literally than I would of liked.

With her speed forcing me backwards, I tumbled slightly and shot my 6 wings into the ground to keep my body up and steady albeit at a 90 degree angle with a woman who was slightly taller than me hugging onto me with her voluptuous breasts firmly pressed against my chest passing her lovely warmth onto my own body. I was engulfed into something that was very nearly a hug briefly before she got off of me and allowed me to stand back up straight although she didn't give me much breathing room.

"Are you okay Ise-kun? I felt the Vanishing Dragon's presence, what happened?"

'She came here just for that?'

['Aibou, i've told you before that Gabriel is more appropriate.']

'More appropriate? For what?'

['…Nothing Aibou. I need a nap']

I felt Ddraig's presence weaken before the sound of loud snoring reached my ears. I wonder what Ddraig meant though.

"I'm fine Gabriel-nee. Thanks to Ascalon I didn't need to push myself."

Confirming my safety caused Gabriel to light up in happiness and a beautiful smile to adorn her face. No ulterior motive behind the smile. One of few people who treat me as a person rather than an asset, one of few people who is genuinely happy that i'm safe and for good reasons. She can be pretty overbearing but when I think about being able to have her breasts pressed against me, I can feel myself not caring any more.

She then looked passed me and her expression changed, unlike other Angels or Exorcists she didn't scowl at the number of devils there. Gabriel just let her smile drop slightly showing her displeasure but giving them the benefit of the doubt due to me still being perfectly fine. She then turned on her heel allowing her 12 wings to disappear back into her back and grabbed a hold of my wrist forcing her own energy into me forcing my wings away and started to drag me away from the school grounds.

…

I was dragged across the most part of town before coming to a stop at the apartment complex which Gabriel had a room at. Gabriel doesn't use it that much herself as she is typically in Heaven doing whatever the Archangels do so she has near enough given it to me as my place to stay when I come to this region of Japan for jobs, not that I had ever been here for a job before. The only other time I had been here was when I lived here.

What confused me was that she didn't stay. She doesn't treat me like an asset but her leaving after getting me to a safe place makes it look like she is and she gave no reason for leaving, she just did. Whether she had broke away from something in heaven to make sure I was safe is unknown to me but I felt happy nonetheless even with the lack of reasoning for her just upping and leaving.

This left me alone by myself as both Irina and Xenovia were still out acquiring food and liquid for our stay here to complete our objective. I found myself lying down on the impossibly comfortable sofa leaving the single double bed here for the two girls to use, as much as I'd like to join them I cannot. With the whole apartment as quiet as it could be I summoned a small voice recorder from my inner magic and pressed the play button like I did every single night.

"Forever keep yourself in check My Son. When I am gone you'll find yourself as the Angel of Temperance and you'll achieve many a great thing. I knew you for five days My Son but I am with you all the way. Prove to the world that you are great and watch over it for me. With the loss of Our Lord the world will fall apart and only time will tell."

The recorder stopped with a click as the recording finished. The voice held a soft fatherly tone to it, it was kind and caring. This voice was only something I have heard and not seen the face of the owner, even without seeing his face I could tell who it was from the first word at my first time hearing it. It was a voice that resonated with my whole being, a voice that felt like my own. The recording was also rather mysterious due to it always being the last thing I hear each and everyday. It somehow has the power to force me to sleep, no matter how awake and active I feel I will always fall asleep after listening to it and this time was just like every other. My consciousness wavered as my eyelids started to flutter trying to keep myself awake but like every other night I had no chance and drifted into a blissful sleep.

…

The night passes by like any other for me, it was as silent as it could get. I'm not necessarily a heavy sleeper but I do not wake up for at least five hours after hearing the message, regardless of the noise around me. Those 5 hours of sleep was all I needed for an active day and I wouldn't feel tired in the slightest and I would always wake up rejuvenated. The problem there being that I'd usually wake up when everyone else was asleep. Back at the Vatican everyone was asleep before the clock reset and everyone would start rising at 7, this forced me into a training habit. I would fall asleep around 10 and wake up at 3 giving me four hours to train and shower ready to cook food for when Xenovia would wake up. The food that was cooked was never anything great but it was and still is always better than whatever Xenovia conjures because what she brings never looks like food and has a taste to go along with it.

The food in the Church and even the Vatican itself was not anything special at all, basic food so your body could get the vitamins it needed for the day and that was it really. Very, very basic. That was one part which made me strive to be the best exorcist if you could really call me one while being Half Angel. From becoming one of the top exorcist we got our own section consisting of training areas, a separate library and kitchen which was stocked with food. The food wasn't even 3-star level but it was still better than the rest of the church and luckily it held bacon, the only food a man really needs.

Because of that luck of good food, Xenovia always goes all out when buying our food on our missions. What she bought was just like normal, she had bought an abundance of food because she could. After all, she can only carry so much by herself but this time she had Irina to tag along. This arrangement was not in a sexist manner at all sending her to gather the food and me to acquire Intel, this was because she lacks finesse. She powers her way through anything, I have seen her get hostile with little old ladies when it comes to special offers or items that are very limited. She would be a great mother … maybe.

…

Our first day here ran rather slowly just like each of my missions really, I'm not like the others who like to do a job as quickly as possible so they can return, get recognition and go on another as soon as they can. I like to take my time, feel the wind against my skin as I idly walk through town or the city getting a feel for the place. This town was a very relaxed one, it showed no sign of actual supernatural activity, given you stayed away from Kuoh Academy of course. There were ever so faint traces but you honestly get that everywhere.

For today I had sent the two girls to look around the town with their cloaks on hoping they'd catch attention, which they obviously did but unluckily for me it wasn't the correct one. What they attracted was just the usual we get from our missions, the strange looks from the locals. I attracted different attention, I had attracted the Strongest Queen during my day but that was more of a fleeting feeling. While hers was a one-of-a-kind presence, I never once saw her when I felt it properly. As I had expected since seeing her, they were going to be keeping tabs on me and luckily not us. I don't even want to know what may happen if they find out that Xenovia holds Durandal.

I only had one stop for this day and it was to see the little Gremory girl alone, which I had to wait till night of course, to do.

…

Thanks to being an Angel disguising my presence is very simple but to make myself invisible in this type of place, their stronghold and in the exact same room as the supposed strongest? Nah, I shouldn't be able to do that even if she isn't mature enough to participate in Rating Games plus there is the fact that i'm younger than her. It's strange to say the least really. It took her five whole minutes to realise that I was sitting on the sofa in front of her, whether that was her abilities failing her or she was just too wrapped up in dealing with paperwork. I noted the sudden surprise on her face and the jolt of her body upon realising my presence.

She was quick to calm herself down from that and put on an annoyed but maybe just irritated front.

"Hyoudou-san, what brings you here?"

"I just wanted to talk. Coming here when everyone else was here probably would have been problematic, you by yourself is completely different. That's something I can thank your blood for, you aren't so quick to judge. I like that."

Her eyebrows narrowed and upon seeing that I showed a crooked smile.

"What would you like to talk about, Hyoudou-san?"

"You and your peerage really. I don't doubt that you are looking after Asia well but I just want to know about the others so I can put my heart at ease. You saw me yesterday, you know my power and who I am to the church. Seeing her face yesterday brought it all back for me, that hopelessness I felt when I couldn't save her. I was glad she didn't know who I was, she was one of three friends I had even if the time I spent with her was incredibly brief."

"Everyone here likes her and treat her one of the family, I, myself see her as a younger sister."

Looking at Rias Gremory as she spoke I could see no hint at lies, she showed no signs of going to lie at all. Honestly, she showed no ill will towards me at all despite my reputation and blood.

"That's …. That's very good, I'm happy for her. One final question before I change to my final topic and leave. Your knight, I know I said I won't kill him but from what I felt yesterday I have a feeling he might get in my way. It's not fair of me to ask for specifics Gremory-san but please answer me this, Where is his hate focused? Is it the whole or something or someone specific?"

She looked quite shocked that I was rather reserved in my question. I've learnt that you have to be careful with words with just about anyone but you have to be careful and exact with your enemies because they wont answer how you want them to do if you give them wiggle room.

"It's a something."

Her answer came in a hushed tone after a few seconds of deliberation. The way I asked the question was kind but what I asked wasn't, I gave a general question but with why i'm here and who I am her simple answer becomes absolutely everything I needed to know.

That something would be the Excalibur or more importantly would be the 'Holy Sword Project'. A rather insane attempt to get Holy Sword users in our ranks. One that was recorded as a failure to those involved but a success to everyone outside of it. It was a success yet everyone died who was being tested there? That's way too fishy without their being an explicit point in the documents for it saying that something went wrong.

I can sympathize for him but i'll never understand his pain, there is one thing though that i'll have to slightly disagree on. Rias Gremory's answer should not have been something but someone, the person who was behind the whole thing.

"Something huh? How wrong can your knight be, especially when he himself uses a sword?"

"Wrong? What do you mean?"

Rias' voice now held an inquisitive tone. She was now interested in my side, something that I had hoped for.

"You don't have to be a blade practitioner to know that swords and the like do not have a minds of their own. But for someone who is one to not understand that is impossible."

"What are you getting at Hyoudou-san?"

Rias spoke to me with an irritated voice and a slight sigh at the end. It seems i'm encroaching on not being wanted here now, I best be quick and finish my point before i'm attacked.

"My point is Gremory-san that your Knight is too surrounded in his own hate to realise what … rather who he should be angry at? A sword can not do as it pleases, a sword can't be blamed for the crime but the one who wielded it can be."

"You are saying that Yuuto should be angry at someone instead?"

"Exactly, and that someone is Valper Galilei, the Genocide Archbishop. He was excommunicated after the Church finally looked at the things I had found. The 'Holy Sword' project happened around the same time as Asia-chan's incident so it obviously took my attention despite my young age. It was only a year ago that it was dealt with. The whole experiments have been scrapped due to it so your knight can take a little peace from that. Fortunately there have been rumours that Valper Galilei is working with Kokabiel so he could very well be here."

I stood up from the chair and walked over to the window and opened it completely. Bringing my right foot upon onto the windowsill so I could jump out I turned to look at Rias who was looking a little taken back by the news.

"Gremory-san, you tell your Knight all this and that his hate is misdirected. If he takes that to heart and see right from wrong, tell him to find me or my girls and explain to them. Then I will allow him to enact his revenge and keep his involvement out of my report. Is that alright with you, Gremory-san? Remember from yesterday, that this will only come to him if he stays out of our way for the rest of it and only getting in the way to tell us that he now understands. Just so you know, I will use magic against him to tell whether he is using the truth or lies."

I turned away from Rias and placed my hands on the wall getting ready to propel myself out of the room.

"Good day to you Gremory-san, hopefully for your sake that this will be the last time we meet."

This chapter was never going to be fighting heavy.
I always enjoy writing chapters that are full with information but at times they can be hard to do.
That shows given how long it has taken me for uploading chapters of late.
I have so many other things to do of late that it's been weird for me and i still don't feel like i'm back in the zone when it actually comes to writing a chapter.
Nevertheless i'm getting chapters done at least.

Issei is rather Tsundere about his father, whether it comes off Tsundere or not is another thing.
I'm not too sure whether i wrote it well enough to come off that way, hopefully i have.
His father won't really be much of a plot point in the story towards the Angel side of things at least but his words have weight to Issei himself.
That will definitely become apparent during the Peace Treaty when i get around to that.

Well, I hoped you enjoyed this chapter. Ciao.