"Hurry up Dad, Aunty! we have to go! We wasted enough time here already, let's go have some fun!" Kunou shouted as she dragged the couple by their hands.
"Alright alright, we're coming" Issei said while Irina giggled.
"Kunou is super excited today I see" Irina giggled.
"Of course! That's because you're finally here!" Kunou replied before Issei picked her up and put her on his shoulders.
"Well, where do you want to go first?" Issei asked.
"How about we go shopping!" Kunou answered with excitement.
"Great idea Kunou, I agree" Irina agreed as she looked at Issei with stars in her eyes.
" 'Sigh' Let's go then" Issei said before they left.
They arrived to a shopping mall. Issei didn't buy anything for himself but Kunou and Irina bought a bunch of clothes.
"Even young girls suck your money out of your pocket for some clothes" Issei said as he carried a bunch of bags filled with the said clothes.
Kunou and Irina giggled in response as they were walking in front of him.
"Is the big red dragon angry? Maybe I can satisfy him tonight~" Irina teased with a sway of her hips.
"Hoh? I see where you're going with that my ero-angel" Whispered Issei to her ear before licking her earlobe sending shivers of pleasure down her spine.
Kunou watched their interaction with a side eye in interest for a moment "Where to now?" Kunou asked, but before they could answer they noticed that there were no people around them, everything has lost its color and the feeling was familiar to Issei, but he couldn't remember no matter how hard he tired until he noticed the purple mist.
'Dimension lost' Issei suddenly remembered. it's exactly the same feeling when they were forcefully sent to an alternate dimension.
"Kunou, stand still and don't go anywhere" Issei ordered as he created the most powerful dome-like barrier that he learned from Vritra around Kunou, while Irina stood next to Issei with two pairs of pure white angel wings on her back and a golden halo above her head, ready for combat to protect Kunou.
"Well, we meet again Red Dragon Emperor" A familiar voice spoke from a distance.
From the purple mist came out a handsome young man with short black hair and blue eyes. He wore a combination of a Japanese school uniform, but he wasn't alone as three other people followed behind him who were Heracles, Georg, and Jeanne, but something seemed off with her.
"What do you want Cao Cao" Issei snarled.
"Oh nothing, I just came to kill you" Cao Cao said.
"Ha! like you have a chance" Issei mocked.
"Oh, I'll enjoy crushing your bones kid" Spoke Heracles.
"Where's Valarie" Issei asked in a threatening manner.
"Oh her? She's in our HQ, we will use her to unseal Trihexa, she does have the right gear to do so, but you already know about that don't you" Cao Cao said not trying to hide his goals.
"Tell me where she is exactly"
"And why would I do that?" Cao Cao scoffed.
"You'll die soon by my hands anyway" Heracles said as he cracked his knuckles.
"And for good measure you'll have a taste of this" Cao Cao said as he showed a vial with some black liquid.
"Here, you see I have a really powerful curse, I believe your dragon can already tell?" Cao Cao said with a grin.
"Partner, it's Samael's blood...If even a drop ends up inside you it will kill you painfully and destroy not only the both of us, but every soul in you" Ddraig warned.
"And why would you do that?" Issei asked.
"Hmm, Because I was ordered to by Rizevim of course"
Issei instantly felt extreme rage grow when he heard the bastard's name.
"That bastard...He killed Gasper!"
"...Hahahaha! actually it was me who killed the useless damphir" Cao Cao laughed before revealing the truth.
Everything slowed down for Issei, Gaspers killer.
His little brother's killer.
Was.
Right.
In.
front.
Of.
Him.
"I'll kill you" Issei said quietly without any emotion but Cao Cao could feel the killing intent coming from Issei in huge waves.
Issei's eyes become that of a predator as he whispered something that caused his power to skyrocket.
"Balance Breaker"
[Welsh Dragon balance breaker!]
Issei was now in his standard red dragon armor.
"Hoh? so we will play now?" Cao Cao joked.
Issei didn't waste any time and activated jet to fly toward Cao Cao.
"Jeanne, take care of the angel, Georg take the princess" Cao Cao ordered.
Cao Cao got ready to block the attack but at the last second, he sidestepped because he felt what kind of power was behind that punch.
"Wow, I see you improved" Cao Cao said but Issei didn't answer as he kicked Cao Cao to the side and sent him flying into a wall.
He was about to follow up with another attack but before he could fly towards Cao Cao, Heracles grabbed Issei by his leg as a golden aura glowed around him and slammed him on the ground, shattering it in the process before throwing him into a building with a loud explosion.
Dust covered the building, but before it could settle, Heracles was hit by a powerful dragon shot that sent him to an opposite building with much more force.
"Well, I think it's time to get serious" Cao Cao said before shocking Issei.
"Balance break" And suddenly seven orbs appeared behind Cao Cao.
"Here is my sub-species balance breaker, I call these orbs seven treasures as they have their own special abilities. Of course, I won't tell what they can do. You'll have to find it out for yourself" Cao Cao explained.
Issei then proceeded to punch Cao Cao but he dodged his punch by saying something.
"Assaratana" Cao Cao said right before the punch could hit his face, he teleported behind Issei and used his spear to destroy issei's armor.
Issei immediately backed away.
"You see? my first ability lets me teleport anywhere I want and anywho I want" Cao Cao explained.
"Balance breaker! Ascalon!"
[Welsh Dragon balance breaker!] [Blade!]
Meanwhile Issei was occupied with Cao Cao and Hracles, Irina was doing everything in her power to protect Kunou from the two attackers and honestly, she was having a tough time against Georg, he truly was talented magician, but something was wrong with Jeanne, she wasn't attacking as hard compared to last time, nor was she as talkative, it was as if she was controlled and looking at her dull eyes that could be counted as a confirmation.
Irina was clashing with Jeanne while occasionally throwing light spears at Georg who simply blocked them or evaded them.
But it suddenly got harder for her as elemental attacks started to fly towards her forcing her to evade them, Georg has decided it was enough of playtime and went straight to the barrier where Kunou was while Irina was distracted.
"Aunty!" Kunou suddenly ahouted.
Irina blocked another strike from Jeanne and pushed her away before turning around to see Georg trying to dispell the barrier.
"Get away from her!" Irina shouted as she launched a couple of light-spears at Georg who blocked them with magic circles.
"Not bad for a low-ranked Ace, but unfortunately for you, it's not enough to even scratch me" Spoke Georg as he summoned a bunch of different kinds of magic circles behind himself, like norse, fallen angel, and demonic and launched them all at once straight at Irina.
Irina watched as different attacks approached her at high speed, but what surprised Georg for a moment was that she was unfazed by the number of the attacks, she just leaned forward a little and held her light-sword behind her ready to strike.
But what surprised him more was Irina's speed and sword skills. She cut straight through all of the attacks with her light-sword with the impressive speed.
But Irina didn't get to catch her breath as she barely blocked a downward slah from Jeanne.
"Well that was surprising, but you are still no match" Georg said as he walked back to the barrier.
"I'm not done!" Irina shouted as she stabbed Jeanne's shoulder and slashed at her left side before kicking her in the legs and knocking her over.
She was about to get up but Irina hit the back of her head and knocked her unconscious.
Georg was quite impressed by the angel's skills but didn't worry as he was about to crack the barrier open.
But before that could happen.
"Aunty, please save me! I'm scared!" Kunou cried, Irina could see the tears and pure and utter fear in Kunou's eyes. The litle kid was scared like never before...
Then something just snapped inside Irina.
"HAAAAAAAAA!" Irina let out a cry as a golden holy aura manifested and surrounded her whole body, her eyes were consumed by the same golden glow same with her long golden hair and something really unexpected happened, four more wings sprung from Irina's back and her power increased exponentially.
With a flick of her fingers hundreds of light-spears were summoned behind and around Irina, the spears themselves were diffrent, they were more powerful, potent and the were thinner, they were releasing a ton of holy energy.
George watched in awe as this was the first time he saw a lower-class angel just grow in strenth in the middle of battle and summon so many spears, only someone like the great Seraphs could do something like that.
But that pure golden glow in her eyes sockets was something totally new.
Georg was too distracted to notice the hundreds of spears approaching him but he reacted just in time as in response he summoned hundreds of barriers in front but was surpriesed to see that some of the spears ignored the barriers and pierced right through like they were nothing.
"What a crazy power up" Georg muttered as he prepared for real combat, finally taking this seriously.
As Irina's attack finished a golden glow from the sky landed on Irina, Georg continued to watch in interest but that was his fatal mistake
The light disappeared and revealed the angel warrior standing now in a golden armor with silver accents with runes and held a golden greatsword with a silver hilt in her right hand and a big golden shield with a large silver cross and silver wings on the sides, but that was not it, her wings were now only two but they were large silver wings just like the ones on the shield, they almost looked like blades themselves.
"N-no way, how did you manage to get this!? It's said to be locked away by heaven itself! Not even Michael has access to heaven's last armor of judgement!" Georg suddenly erupted in anger and fear, he knew a lot about heaven and he certainly knew of the armor and the weapons.
If the armor suddenly presented itself that means heaven chose a suitable host for it.
Irina lifted her new sword and pointed it at Georg who flinched.
And without a warning the angel took off at blinding speed ready for round two.
-With Issei-
Issei sprinted towards Cao Cao with Ascalon in his hand with an intent to end the bastard's life but.
"Cakkaratana" Cao Cao said and Ascalon shattered before it could even connect with its target much to Issei's surprise and Cao Cao without wasting any time destroyed Issei's armor once more.
"Hatthiratana" Cao Cao said and one of the orbs flew towards Issei and lifted him from the ground before slamming him back again and again and again.
"You see! you can't defeat me you weakling!" Cao Cao mocked.
"You can't even protect anyone! I killed the useless damphir! And soon you'll die too, but before that I might let you see as I kill your angel" Cao Cao said while a glowing Heracles approached Issei.
Issei got up to run towards him but Heracles punched Issei and an explosion sent him to a wall of another building followed by some kind of numerous missile-like objects which exploded upon reaching the building Issei was in.
Cao Cao laughed at Issei's misery and weakness.
"Now it's time to end this" Cao Cao said as he took the vial in his hand, but before he could take another step a high pressure of aura made Cao Cao and Heracles drop to their knees.
"W-what is this power!?" Cao Cao questioned.
He then looked only to see Issei approaching and saw his eyes glowing red.
It was too much for Cao Cao as he could barely breathe and dropped the vial on the ground.
"I agree, time to end this" Issei said.
He was about to use his teleportation magic but Issei stopped the time.
Issei got to Cao Cao and grabbed the vial in one hand and grabbed him by his hair with the other and resumed the time flow.
Cao Cao looked terrified as he saw Issei hold him, luckily for him, before Issei could do whatever he planned Heracles tackled Issei and exploded launching Issei and Cao Cao apart from each other.
Heracles was badly hurt now but was still able to stand, he turned towards Cao Cao.
"We shou-" But before he could finish, black chains of shadows suddenly wrapped around him and dragged Heracles towards Issei who then stomped on Heracles chest while he was still down.
"...Pathetic" Issei whispered before forming a small ball of energy and vaporizing Heracles out of existence.
"J-just how is this possible!?" Cao Cao screamed.
"...Have you not noticed that I was just playing with you? I didn't even boost once, I was just giving false hope, false sense of control of the situation" Issei revealed as he walked slowly towards Cao Cao.
'...Wait, that's right, I didn't hear a single boost...Just what kind of monster has he become?' Cao Cao Pondered.
He tried to come up with a plan, any kind of plan but got nothing that is until he noticed Irina in her powered-up state and an almost dead Georg on the ground who had missing arms and a leg, he was bleeding a lot, he didn't have a lot of time left.
Cao Cao stood up and shouted "Assaratana" And disappeared from Issei's sight momentarily until he saw him in front of Irina.
"Itthiratana" Cao Cao said as he pointed the tip of the spear at Irina who prepared to block the attack but instead of an attack, Irina's armor and weapons disappeared and her strength left her body as she fell on all fours panting for air before collapsing completely.
Cao Cao saw Issei run towards him but he was faster to grab Irina and point the spear to her back making Issei stop.
"..."
"..."
Both stared at each other in silence, no words were needed as both knew what to do.
Either Issei lets Cao Cao leave, or he takes Irina with him to an afterlife.
But what Cao Cao didn't notice was his shadow moving slightly despite him standing still.
After a few more moments of standing Cao Cao made his move and was about to stab Irina but black chains sprung from his own shadow and just in time wrapped around his arm and pulled him back violently forcing him to release Irina.
Issei rushed to Irina's side and quickly grabbed her before moving away from an attack.
"...I have to admit, you certainly surprised me... Both you and the angel, to beat Georg like that... But I ain't going down so easily" Cao Cao said before pointing his spear at Issei who teleported Irina back to Yasaka.
"Parinayakaratana" Cao Cao whispered but suddenly pointed at the barrier where Kunou was.
Issei could feel the power that the spear emitted and knew that the barrier wouldn't last as it was weakened by Georg already.
The only option Issei has was to become a shield for Kunou.
In an instant the attack was released from the spear and Issei appeared in front of the barrier just in time with the help of his balor's wiev to block a very destructive attack straight to his back.
"GAHHCK!"
"Dad!" Kunou shouted in worry as she watched Issei take a massively destructive attack to his bare back.
As the attack finished it revealed a large and deep crater with Issei in it holding Kunou who soon passed out from stress.
His back was severely burned from the massive heat and power but was able to avoid any fatal wounds, even Cao Cao was surprised to see Issei still breathing but wasted no time and tried to escape but was too slow.
"You'll die here" Issei said as he instantly appeared in front of a scared Cao Cao, very angry.
Issei Grabbed Cao Cao by his throat and squeezed it tightly. Cao Cao tried to remove his hands but nothing worked as he just managed to drop his spear, until his left eye turned to that of reptilian which confused Issei until he understood what was going on as he noticed his skin turn to stone but slowly.
Issei then with his free hand grabbed the vial that Cao Cao brought himself, from the pocket and opened it.
"You did this to yourself" Issei said and poured the contents of the vial onto Cao Cao's eye making him want to scream out of agony but Issei was still holding him by the throat.
This was happening for a few seconds before he finally stopped moving, and for good measures Issei snapped Cao Cao's head backwards and slowly burned his remains.
"...I avenged you, lil bro"
"Issei, grab the spear it will be the key for your quest" Ddraig said.
"Really?"
"What he's saying is true, grab it before it disappears to find another host" Al warned.
"Right" Issei replied as he grabbed the spear which glowed golden for a few moments before returning to normal.
"You successfully obtained The true Longinus partner" Vritra informed.
Issei then looked around and saw an unconscious Jeanne and almost dead Georg but a small amount of mist was on Georg's chest.
"Is that?" Issei asked.
"Yes, that's Dimension lost, you should be able to get it too before it disappears" Said Vritra.
Issei walked up to Georg and grabbed the mist which felt weird to do.
"Will you absorb it?" Ddraig asked.
"...No, Irina deserves to have it" Issei Replied.
He then turned the other way and walked up to Jeanne, he started at her before deciding to take her with him, she might have valuable information.
The dimension was starting to shake meaning he was about to return to the real world but before that he burned Georg's remains and teleported so that no ordinary humans could see him.
"Issei, you're finally back! What happened out there!?" Yasaka asked with worry.
"We had problems with the brigade, Cao Cao attacked, can you treat this girl?" Issei asked at the end as he showed Jeanne to Yasaka.
"Certainly, bring her to one of the free rooms, I'll call for medical professionals" Yasaka said but once Issei walked by her she saw his whole back painted red from his blood and a lot of wounds still bleeding.
"Oh my Issei! Your back!"
Issei stopped for a moment " First the girls then me" Issei said simply before walking off.
-Time skip-
"Seems they will make a move soon if they are trying to get rid of me. How's it going with the chant?" Issei asked.
"It's finished. But from now on you have to stop training until the fight. If not you'll die from exhaustion after the usage of our powers" Ddraig warned.
"Alright noted"
After a few moments Issei left the room to meet up with Irina and upon entering her room he found her still asleep, he was grateful that Yasaka did everything in her power to heal Irina, she didn't suffer any dangerous wounds, only slight internal damage but there was nothing that phenex tears couldn't heal but Yasaka said Irina should rest a few days after waking up.
"...I'm sorry for letting this happen... I just felt that you were about to break through your limit, and you surely did my amazing angel" Issei said before taking out the same purple mist but it was smaller than before, it was disappearing.
He then placed the mist on Irina's chest and let it merge which happened in a few seconds.
"This is yours, now rest my sweetheart" Issei said before giving her a kiss on the forehead.
'Time skip-
The next day Issei brought Irina back home and let the girls take care of her in one of the girl's rooms, they of course bombarded him with questions which Issei had to answer.
A few days later of nothing eventful Issei was getting bored, he wanted to at least train but Ddraig and the rest protested against it.
Right now he was sitting in his bedroom alone as he mediated but suddenly someone entered the room.
"Issei..." a voice called out.
As he opened his eyes he saw Momo standing there with a blush.
"Please don't die when you'll go fight the beast" Momo asked.
"...I can't promise that, sorry" Issei said honestly because anything could happen.
"I Um" Tried to say something Momo but couldn't.
Issei came up to her and brought her into a hug.
"What is it sweetheart" Asked Issei.
She didn't say anything but instead kissed Issei and of course he replied to the kiss.
They made out for a couple of minutes until Momo started to undress him.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Issei asked.
She just smiled and continued what she was doing.
"This will be as good luck" Momo said before kissing him again.
That's the reason why they didn't sleep almost all night, The good thing is that Issei cast a sound barrier, otherwise, the neighbours would've been very angry.
In the morning he noticed that he was alone in bed. As he got up he took fresh clothes and went to the bathroom.
After a quick shower, he came to the kitchen and found Momo and Valerica talking while cooking breakfast.
"Morning"
"Oh! good morning Issei" Valerica replied.
"Morning" Momo replied with a smile.
"Want some breakfast?" Momo asked.
"Not now, I have to go. I need to get ready for the big fight" Issei said.
Both of the girl's moods went down a little. Not because he won't eat but because he was willing to fight an extremely dangerous fight.
"Valerica, I need you and the rest to gather in an hour. We will have to attend a meeting. This time we won't wait until they'll be ready to attack. Because we will be the ones attacking them" Explained Issei.
Valerica only nodded as Issei left via magic circle.
"So it will happen pretty soon huh?" Momo said.
"Yes, it will"
"Will you come with us or go with Sona?" Valerica asked.
"As much as I want to go with you I have to go with Sona because if I won't listen to her orders I'll be punished or counted as a stray" Replied Momo.
"Alright then, see you in the meeting" Valerica said.
"Yeah, see you later" Momo said as she teleported to Sona.
Valerica created a magic circle next to her ear.
"Alright girls, get ready, we will have a faction meeting in thirty minutes so hurry up" Valerica ordered before the magic circle disappeared.
-The meeting-
Around the table were seated each faction representatives but this time Odin attended the meeting too.
Behind them stood Tannin, Grayfia, Gabriel, Penemue, and Thor.
With Issei came his girls, with Sirzechs ORC, Student council, with Michael Brave saints excluding Irina because she was still recovering, with Azazel team slash dog, and with Odin his best Valkyries including Rossweisse's sister.
"Alright, we can start the meeting" Issei said.
"So does anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with the brigade?" Michael asked.
"We should send our men to deal with brigade members. Two evil dragons are siding with the brigade so Thor Tannin and Dulio should take care of them. Valerica's team will be support for Thor, Dulio and Tannin. Valerica and I will deal with Rizevim and rescue Valerie" Explained Issei.
"Alright, and you will take the beast?" Odin asked knowing the answer.
"If they manage to release the beast then yes I'll deal with it" Said Issei.
"You mentioned two evil dragons, Who are those dragons exactly?" Sirzechs asked.
"It's Grendel and Aži Dahāka" Issei replied.
"That's not good" Michael said.
"If they won't be able to defeat them, I and Valerica will help after we kill Rizevim and rescue Valerie, but I believe Thor and Tannin will be enough" Issei explained.
"Alright, Devil faction agrees to participate"
"Fallen angel Faction agrees to participate"
"Northern pantheon agrees to participate"
"Angels agree to participate"
"Great, this meeting is officially over. We believe that Rizevim is in Romania so get ready" Said Issei.
The leaders nodded before teleporting away only Odin stayed.
"Here boy, the soul you asked for" Odin said as he gave Issei a greyish green orb.
"Thank you old man" Issei thanked before grabbing the orb.
"Haha, no problem just return it afterwards, it wasn't easy getting it from that lazy dragon" Odin said with a chuckle.
"Sure thing" Issei replied before Odin teleported back to Asgard.
Issei did the same with his girls and Tannin.
They teleported to Dragon Faction territory.
"Tannin, I need you to prepare our warriors for tomorrow and inform everyone. Before we leave tomorrow we will cast a powerful barrier that only dragons or people with our permission can cross around our territory" Issei ordered.
"Understood, leave it to me" Tannin said before turning into his full form and flying away.
Issei then teleported everyone back home and he immediately slumped onto the couch.
" 'Sigh' that was tiring" Issei said with a sigh.
"Want some tea?" Ingvild asked.
"Sure hime"
Everyone sat with Issei while Ingvild made tea for everyone.
"Rest for today, as tomorrow we will have a looong day" Issei said as he closed his eyes.
The girls nodded and got even closer to Issei.
After a minute a magic circle appeared and Momo came out of it and saw how everyone was clinging to Issei.
"That's not fair" Said Momo with a pout.
"Then come here" Issei said with a chuckle as he pointed to his lap.
She immediately sat down and rested her head on his shoulder.
"Better?" Asked Issei.
"Yep" Answered Momo happily. After some time ingvild came back to them with some tea and right at that moment Irina arrived from her room, but she was a little different, her hair was much longer and her height in general increased quite a lot, she had more curves and even a larger bust, her face was sharper and even the look in her eyes was different, she wasn't a girl anymore but a real woman and that was starting to arouse Issei.
"I wanna join too" Irina declared.
"Alright alright, let's go to the bedroom then and just cuddle together" Issei said.
Everyone got up from the couch and went to the bedroom where they cuddled for the rest of the day...
(To be continued)