If I was to say what I was looking at to anyone from school, I'd be called the luckiest man on earth and possibly cried at depending on if I told boys, my fan-girls or the fujoshis of my school. The view in front of me was Rias, Akeno and Koneko all in their school gym uniforms which meant bloomers. The view was 2/3rds of the way to pleasant for me, I nearly had my own 'Angels'. The reason they were here was simple, training.
I sat down on a chair in the back garden with three papers on the table next to me in just a pair of long shorts and black mid sneakers. The three girls all looked at me in slight confusion and interest.
"Gin-kun, why are we with you and not Azazel?"
"I knew that I was dealing with Akeno and Koneko but not you Rias."
I took the three pieces of paper off the table and thought they were just a joke. Each paper had only two words in a large font. Akeno's and Koneko's both said 'Your Judgement' but Rias' went far and beyond, and it was just like Azazel to suggest that even if it was just for a joke. I then burnt the three pieces of paper quickly before 6 anklets.
"You girls have warmed up right?"
Three nods came my way and I responded by clicking my fingers. The clicking of my fingers sent an anklet to each of the 6 ankles in front of me meaning the girls had 2 each.
"Your first task is simple, run to the far wall and back."
The three girls dead-panned as they continued to look at me, I answered with just a crooked smile. Seeing that they started and the anklets took effect, a weird effect that is way too effective to be real. They are weights that Azazel made for his female fallen angels. They change their weight by themselves and at unpredictable times, somehow they also have small gravity fields built in so the pressure on their feet right now is immense. These anklets basically allow them to move easily under an intense pressure, it also allows them to be unaffected by fleeting things.
The reason for toying with them weight-wise is so their bodies or more precisely muscle, notice when the change is in effect. Gravity and weight style magic has its own unique code which are similar to each other but radically different to other magic. This training allows them to deal with it easier and quicker because the anklet's states are random. Additionally, it helps with their balance. Each leg has a different weight at each time, all in all this can make a short run into a long marathon.
They came back from their 200m run ten minutes later in a sense of stupor. They were utterly confused and extremely surprised. Their bodies were already starting to tire from the stress of dealing with the unpredictable.
"Akeno, you wanted me to train you 1-on-1. I would have given you this training but I would have added weak but precise attacks into the mix making it so much harder from the go. Not one of you three have full control over your body, you need to control your body before I will bother helping you out in other areas."
I clapped my hands twice before adorning an extremely sadistic looking grin.
"Let's do it again girls."
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My patience was starting to run out by the end of the 5th day. The training had been the same as the first day and only Koneko had got to the point where she could start dealing with attacks coming in. Rias and Akeno were both doing pretty poorly with Akeno fairing slightly better due to the rook part of her Queen piece.
The three girls were confused when I explained to them the ins and outs of gravity magic. I am unable to utilize gravity magic but I understand its workings. Gravity magic isn't like normal magic, it's more like a technique. I explained it to them in two ways which was ultimately one. If twins who were identical in every way became devils through the 'Evil Piece' system with one taking Bishop and the other taking rook, which one would deal with gravity magic better? I asked them that and they all said Bishop and they were wrong. The rook would deal with it better.
Gravity magic has no physical form whatsoever, other magic does. Even saying that, it doesn't tell you why Rooks deal with it better, the conclusion would still be bishop and you would probably be right in any other case. Gravity magic was created with one thought in mind, defeating an enemy using gravity. That explains it a little better but not completely, thunder/lightning magic was created to deal damage to an enemy but it can also be used for clearing things or maybe creating a ditch because of it's explosive power but that isn't the main intent towards lightning magic.
The reason rooks deal with it better is because gravity magic messes with the body and plays on your weaknesses to break you. An example can be racing in a car. Turn a tight corner at high speeds and your body will be put under a high amount of G's and can seriously hurt your body but you can train to be less affected by it. Going with the motion can decrease the effect. Jump off a building and land on your feet will probably break something but if you land into a roll and perform it, then it spreads the pain out. Rooks have better control over their physical body rather than the magical body that the bishops have control over.
At the start of the 6th day I decided to change it up and deal with their born abilities.
"If I was to comment on your magic Rias, I would say abysmal. Akeno if I was to comment on your lightning magic, I would say extremely lacking. Koneko if I was to comment on your agility, I would say sub-par. Both Akeno and Koneko have problems with trusting the blood that flows through their veins. Rias, on the other hand, is just stupid."
I paced a little back and forth as I spoke earning me solemn expressions from the girls although Rias' was different. She was confused and a little angry.
"I don't understand why you think mine is so bad?"
I turn my head to look at Rias while showing her an expression that completely eluded her. I was surprised that she didn't see it and I felt like laughing because of it.
"Rias, you truly are the outcome of having an overprotective, doting father and brother combo. Your magic is actually pretty damn good, your internal reserves are higher than Akeno's and your ability to manipulate demonic energy at basic level is much greater than most devils. That though, is where the praise ends. Anything other than basic is either too hard for you or you mistake it's true worth. Answer me this Rias, What is the 'Power of Destruction'?"
"Destruction, isn't that obvious? It's magic to destroy anything in it's path."
"Correct Rias, so why do you focus so much on it's power? When you cast it you focus so much on it's power that it's process is slow and your next strike is extremely lacking. Even when we fought Raiser, you were at the point where you could beat him if you simply knew how your own magic worked. Azazel has given me multiple documents on it so I can help you at a basic to borderline intermediate level. If you want an advanced lesson from me then i'll need to take you through a process to let me understand it. If you want a master's level then ask your mother or brother but if you still want me to teach you then i'll need whatever knowledge they have and to put them through the process or just a bit of their blood."
"The process...?"
The process is not something I want to do with her but I don't wanna lie at this point, she'd probably know i'm lying and force Azazel to tell her.
"A similar process to when we regenerated my arms. You, naked, in a magic circle with magic flaring and your wrists pierced by my teeth. Are you willing to go through this process?"
I was answered by a childish nod of her head, I internally sighed before turning to Akeno.
"Let's talk about Akeno now. I understand your viewpoint on your father, I understand it completely. What I don't understand is why you locked your fallen powers away completely? Similar to Rias, you should have defeated Raiser's queen and not giving me the chance to kill her. I'm not talking about 'Holy Lightning', i'm talking about 'Holy'. You have free diversity over other magic and you have skill for others. You are even pretty decent with ice magic. So why not go elsewhere? I don't want you to answer me because I am just talking at you and I know why you don't use your fallen powers. Knowing why kinda defeats the whole point of what I said though."
To be honest, right now is just a drunken rambling without being drunk so … just a rambling.
"I'll get to my point. You are still reluctant to use your powers as a fallen because you affiliate it with your father, so why not try it elsewhere? I've already given you hints to where."
Akeno looked genuinely confused for a few seconds before lifting up her hand and pointing at me to which I nodded happily.
"Yes, me. I'm an ice user so I will be a 'Holy Ice' user. There is no point in me teaching you 'Holy Lightning' until you reconcile with Barakiel so I will teach you what I know and what I can do. Teaching you 'Holy Lightning' would possibly even bring up bad memories of him again and i'm trying to get you through it easily plus, I have a feeling that Barakiel wants to teach his own daughter his power rather than having someone else do it. Also Akeno, you are an elementalist yet you don't incorporate it to your body and still use magic circles for your attacks, why? The only time I have ever used magic circles for attacks was when I went crazy and ripped off Barakiel's arms. That was just for multiple directions and because I lacked total control over my 'Holy' power to which I now understand so i'll be training with it as you will."
I then stopped and turned to Rias briefly.
"You need to do the same, if will help you in control and technique. Armour of destruction sounds weird but it works well."
Finishing on the magic side of things I turned to Koneko and brought out my ears and tails.
"Finally is our little white kitten, Shirone."
The name rang true in her ears as she looked visibly shaken by the uttering of her old name.
"You are scared of what you know and not Senjutsuu itself. All you had seen of Senjutsuu before you decided to lock yours away was one bad spot from your older sister. I've read the complete reports and they are doctored at all and are completely true so … why did your sister gain enough malice in the matter of seconds to kill her master? There is only one way, something was going to happen to her adorable little sister Shirone."
I let it sink in to her, she knows I wouldn't and couldn't lie about it. The subject means as much to me as it does her. We have both been badly affected by it, I was possibly even worse.
"I've looked into the clan who was your sister's master. They were quite a knowledgeable family and know for enhancement experiments. What would a family who specialised in that do with a rare Nekoshou that was enough to make your sister angry? Perform experiments on your body with nothing reserve and would end up in your death. Azazel told me that anybody who isn't a Youkai will only fully understand a Youkai by looking at a fresh and sustained corpse. Your sister got angry because her master was going to sacrifice your life so he could have a better understanding of the Youkai race and our power. Your sister killed him out of pure frustration and to save your life before taking you to the Gremory territory because she knew how to keep you safe. The Gremory clan was the only devil clan that would hold a chance of keeping you alive and the only ones willing to keep you alive."
I dropped down to Koneko height and placed a hand on her head infusing her body with Senjutsuu forcing out her cat features. She fidgeted nervously but didn't attempt to stop me.
"Do you understand what happened now? Are you willing to move forwards?"
"..Yes."
A weak but cute agreement made me release her head from my grasp and I stood up again.
"Alright then, you lot it's back to basics for today. Rias, focus on your control of magic by creating a type of armour with your destruction and make sure to do it in an empty area for safety. Akeno, you'll need to get used to ice magic and make it at least as strong as your thunder. Dual spells is always nice. Koneko, you'll be training with me because we need to get you used to your agility as a Nekoshou and it will make up for your speed which isn't necessary right now. We will train till dinner and then after dinner we will go through the process Rias."
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I went out into the wilderness with Koneko as a private lesson but it didn't turn out that way. The Gremory were always under the public eye in one way or another and now with the Young Devils Rating Games in bound this meant they could have footage of Rias Gremory and also me, the head of a new Extra Clan and also famous person known as the MC in 'Silver Moon' which was the number one manga in the Underworld and rivalled traditional novels in sales and publicity. This meant my training with Koneko was anything but private.
Azazel had told me that soon after the peace treaty he published a chapter with my transformation and it somewhat shook the Underworld flipping the interest. Older devils change from maternal instinct to genuine attraction and the younger devils went from genuine attraction to forbidden love which Azazel called it Incest with their older brother. The forums that had threads about the manga soon created posts about whether I actually went through the information so it became big news on whether the transformation was true rather than me myself.
Despite the slight interference Koneko did rather well with slight sluggishness and we returned to be welcomed by exquisite food that would be very rewarding for the three girls that worked hard today because of my training. Only Asia and Gasper were still here, everyone else had gone elsewhere for their training. Issei was off with the Ex-Dragon King Tannin and Azazel was lucky enough to get a selection of dragon apples for me to give to Tiamat when I chose to go fight her which would be soon. I think i'll take Koneko with me when I do, it'll allow her to see a fight again but this time she can actually focus on how Senjutsuu is being used.
The 6th day came to a close with me gaining knowledge of the 'Power of Destruction' and as I had expected it was more of a hassle than it should have been. Cue to us both having to be naked, Rias' attention was placed elsewhere so it took a while for me to fully extract her hereditary knowledge.
The 7th day as a whole was a relaxing day for me but a slightly stressful one for my 3 students. I had allocated this particular day as a research day, while slow I found it fun unlike the three girls who found it a little tedious but they all needed to rework through the basics to which I was gifted money for. It turned out that Lady Gremory and Lucifer were slightly worried about how my training would go and it turned out to be much better than expected. The money was for going the extra mile to learn about the 'Power of Destruction' to further help Rias out, I decided to leave out the fact that my real reason was just to learn it for myself. I know I would never be able to use it myself but learning the magic meant I could combat it myself easier. I have to cover all my bases. And actually, the money they gave to me was substantial and would easily help my clan a great deal.
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The quarter mark of the training has just been passed so now I have another quarter to deal with the three of them as a group before I give them individual training. A month of training actually meant 30 days so 15 was back to basics for them and making them understand that their worries are now for naught. The next 15 days would be split into 3 sets of 5 days where I would personally train each one of them privately while the other two do basic training.
I had used the 7th day to plan their 5 days with me while going through my knowledge of their plans and in the process destroyed a forests worth of paper as I would doodle from time to time unconsciously. Though I found out that the 15th day would be spent relaxing and preparing for a Maou-sponsored party for the youths which is probably just for the old ones can drink while basking in our youthful presence. Kiba and I will probably be sexually harassed in one way or another.
Here is the start to the training portion but next chapter will be about Tiamat and the Youth Party which will experience my spin on it.
Then the training after that will be a chapter for each girl, i'm thinking of doing it from each girl's PoV but i highly doubt it just yet.
I might get one done in the future but not right now. The next chapter has already been started so i might be able to get it up soon.
Lastly is Gin's knowledge, most of it comes from Azazel which Gin asked for in his early days at Grigori.
Until then, Ciao-nya.