The sun was…annoying this morning.

His skin slightly prickled under the morning rays and Kaito resisted the urge to scratch at himself. He knew of course, devils were weakened under the sunlight initially and took a little bit to adapt to it.

…But he seemed to be a completely different case from what he remembered of Hyoudou. He was lethargic felt incredibly weak under the sun when he first reincarnated as a devil.

'Is it because I'm part dragon as well now?' he mused inwardly as he snapped out a quick one-two jab into an uppercut combo, followed by a rising kick aimed at an imaginary opponents neck.

There was a noticeable speed increase in his movements, and an even easier ease into his movements than usual. Not only had his physical abilities increased, the overall condition of his body had too. His senses had been enhanced even further, he was more flexible and limber, his reflexes increased.

If he gave a rough estimate, he'd say his overall abilities, including his magic had increased by an overall fifty percent.

That did not include the toughness of his body or his outright physical strength though. He wasn't quite sure how much he'd grown in that department, but at the very least, it was over five times.

Yes, the Rook piece was definitely the best choice for him.

Which brought his thoughts back to his new 'king' and just what happened last night.

Kaito was at a loss. When he reviewed his memories of last night, for the most part, it felt like he was an outside spectator in his body, running on instinct.

And it had been ever since he'd started having sex with Yanagi and Irina. Something…had risen up in him and put him on a high, so much so that he'd barely been fully cognate. Even when he was speaking to Rias and Serafall, and it had been him, it felt like…it was all overshadowed by the sheer desire, the sheer need to dominate them.

He shuddered as he remembered Yanagi moaning beneath him, Irina squealing in pleasure as he tugged on her twin tails and spanked her, Rias baring her body to him and welcoming him to take her, Serafall submissively presenting herself to him after he'd 'won' their little bet.

It had been all he could do to not just ignore when Sona called, it had taken all his willpower not to just grab the Satan Leviathan by her own twin tails and drive himself into her to the hilt.

…That wasn't him. He wasn't that kind of guy, to get so lost in his lust and feel the need to utterly dominate girls.

As it was, last night, things had ended on a rather awkward note between everyone. Serafall after reincarnating him and teleporting him back home, had barely stuck around for more than a minute to tell him she'd get in contact with him later and that for the moment, he should act as a member of Rias' peerage before rushing off.

Even Rias had noticed the awkwardness and excused herself after dressing, promising they'd talk after school.

…He hadn't slept at all since then. Couldn't actually. While Yanagi and Irina had pretty much collapsed in his futon when everything was all said and done, he'd been…full of energy.

So much so, he'd spent the night recalling the memories his other self had, of when Akeno Himejima taught Hyoudou and Asia Argento to draw upon and use their devil magic.

…It had been surprisingly simple to draw out and shape as raw energy. Possibly because he was used to the feel of his magic and had been actively using his dragon powers and touki for quite a while now.

'Could it have been because of that?' Kaito wondered idly, spinning in place as he brought his foot back and throwing out an elbow, transitioning into a swinging back fist, a sweep and just comboing his way through movements.

His self from that the other world, was a lot more lustful than he was initially and a lot more violent. But, while he liked to have rough sex with girls, influenced too much from his childhood and being introduced to that kind of thing at an early age, he didn't want to…dominate them in full.

At least not in the way he had wanted last night.

And it wasn't just that now that he was actively thinking on it.

He'd been subtly different in attitude lately. Not by much, but he was more prone to anger now. He was more easily riled by jealousy.

…He was more malicious to that he didn't like.

Like Hyoudou.

Two weeks ago when he ran into him exercising. While it was pathetic and insulting the way he went about it, he'd usually have just went on his way, or at most gave a single comment. Not, goad the older boy into a fight, crush him and do what he did.

It wasn't that he even regretted doing it either, Hyoudou was a cunt and he deserved that and more for the shit he'd pulled, but it still wasn't something he'd usually have done normally.

'Is it because I became part dragon?' he wondered. But, that didn't really make sense to be honest. From what he knew, Hyoudou didn't display any more aggressive character traits from when he did it.

In fact, from what he knew, Hyoudou became more pathetic after sacrificing his arm.

Unless becoming a dragon enhanced ones most negative emotional attributes, that didn't make sense either.

So it had to be something else.

'Is it just a part of who I am and never noticed before?' he wondered. Had he repressed these feelings for so long and they were just surging up and out of him now that he finally felt a bit free from his burdens?

A yawn drew him from his thoughts and he paused, looking over his shoulder towards Yanagi and Irina, sat atop a bench.

Well, Yanagi was, a faint glow emanating from behind her bangs while Irina was slumped over, snoring away.

…He'd accidentally woken them up when he lost control of his new magic power for a moment. And there was no point going back to sleep.

Well, for him and Yanagi at least, they had school. Irina had decided to join them to get some fresh air, or so she said.

"Are you done getting a feel for your upgrades yet?" Yanagi asked, reaching up to rub her eyes under her bangs.

"More or less." he shrugged, relaxing and making his way over to her. As he did, she released her hold on her sacred gear and the oppressive force of gravity that he'd been training under, faded away.

"…Awesome," Yanagi commented, before leaning back, head tilting over the back of the bench with a sigh, "I can't be bothered with school today. I can't feel my legs you big dicked bastard."

He couldn't decide if he should smile smugly or apologise for that. So, he decided of a meeting in the middle.

"That sounds like a you problem," he shrugged, "You did ask for it." he pointed out.

"Damn right I did," Yanagi gave him a smug toothy grin, "I did say before didn't I? This is where my babies are coming from." she reached over and pat him on the crotch.

He snorted, but thinking on it, Yanagi was a little different lately herself. She had always been blunt and teasing, but ever since they started dating, she'd been a lot more aggressive both with him, and others. Last night she was literally trying to threaten Rias with his cock and wanted him to make Serafall squeal.

"Hey…why were you so accepting of Rias last night? And even Serafall?" he asked.

She tilted her head and he saw her pretty blue eyes glance at him from under her bangs, "…I dunno to be honest?" she replied, "Like, I felt for her and all, but I really do find these devil girls really annoying. And like, they seem so entitled and arrogant without even realising it, always bothering you…us. I just couldn't help but think seeing them under you, squealing like sluts and putting them in their place and show them they're not so great, would be fitting."

…Something clicked for him.

"You wanted to see me dominate them and make them submit?" he asked.

"Yeah, I did," she snorted, her toothy grin re-appearing, "The beautiful stacked rich noble duke girl and a literal leader of supernatural creatures right out of mythology, hell the bible in this case. I'd love to to see those stupid bitches get theirs and brought low just like any human girl would when it came to you and show them they're not better than us in any way."

Was it…dragon aura? Was his power as a dragon, influencing her? Had it been influencing them all? But…was it really so powerful it could even influence Serafall Leviathan, who by her own words had beaten the crap out of gods and may as well take up the name 'Bully Leviathan' and coined the catch phrase 'I'm gonna put some ice in your eye'.

That didn't seem possible. But at the same time, he felt like he was on to something. It was just something deep inside him that was telling him he was on the right track.

Another yawn broke him from his thoughts and altered him to Irina waking up. The older girl sleepily rubbed at her eyes and sat up, giving him a bleary look, "Are…we done yet?" she asked.

Yanagi snorted, "You haven't even done anything."

"Wrong," Irina stuck her tongue out at the other girl, "I provided emotional support."

"The only support you provided is showing off that lewd body of yours," Yanagi scoffed, "Some former church girl you turned out to be."

"You're just jealous because I'm tougher than you and lasted longer with Kaito-kun last night." Irina beamed happily and smugly at the grey haired girl.

"I'm gonna throw you to the moon." Yanagi threatened.

"You're not fast enough," Irina denied her, then looked to him, "So, are we done?"

He'd needed both of them. Yanagi for the gravity to get a feel for his new capabilities and Irina to set up a barrier so nobody could sense what was going on.

"Almost." he chuckled, "There's one more thing I need to do." He summoned his sacred gear, and pulled on one of the items contained inside.

A familiar box, containing a familiar set of evil pieces. Sixteen pieces to be exact. The one his eyes were on specifically, was an ominously glowing crimson red, king piece.

"Can you strengthen your barrier?" he asked her.

"Mmm, kay!" Irina nodded, leaning over to pick him on the lips, before hopping onto her feet and skipping over to the edges of her barrier.

"…We're gonna be here even longer now aren't we?" Yanagi sighed.

"Probably." he grinned.

If this worked out the way he hoped after all…his strength was going to rise through the roof.

Standing back up, he stored the other evil pieces away again in his sacred gear before focusing on it, drawing upon his magic power.

'I wonder if this will change again?' he idly wondered, his other hand coming up to toy with the Sacred Bead upon his ear. Last night, when he'd been reincarnated as a Rook, it had shifted to a golden colour.

He funnelled it into it and grinned as he saw the chess piece beginning to glow even brighter, so bright it began to cast the area of the local park they were in.

If he was right….then-

He brought the glowing king piece towards his chest and shuddered as it sank deep inside of his body, joining the rook piece within him.

And then he felt it. A spark igniting within his very core, rushing through his very soul, spreading through his body.

Liquid power ignited his very being.

"…This is amazing." Kaito looked down at his hands in awe, clenching and unclenching them, feeling the sheer strength in him now.

"You've been saying that every ten minutes, for over six hours." Yanagi who was walking beside him, deadpanned.

"Ah, sorry," he apologised to his girlfriend, "But I can't help it, this is…just amazing."

It wasn't just the strength of his body either-

"Glad you're so happy, while I feel bloated," Yanagi huffed with a grimace, "It took us literally over an hour to siphon off your excess power this morning."

Yes, his magic had massively increased as well. And to be blunt? It had grown a hundred times over.

According to Irina, his power had grown so massively, it even eclipsed both Gremory and Sitri's.

Right now, he felt like if he fought Satanael again, he could have defeated him in his base form, without using his touki or sacred gears.

Hell, he felt like in his base stat right now, he could defeat the him of this morning prior to using the King Piece, while that version of him used everything he had.

It was no wonder Satanael wanted the King piece so badly. This increase in strength, was quite simply insane.

If not for Yanagi and Irina's help draining his magic this morning, he'd have lost control pretty quickly and his full body would have inadvertently became a dragons.

Which made it all the more insane, that even with how powerful he'd grown, from what he sensed from Serafall last night…his magic power was literally still only 1/100 of hers at best, if that.

He still had a long way to go until he was in the true big leagues.

But right now? He was satisfied, more than satisfied even with his increase in strength and power.

Especially since, once he finally got around to transforming the rest of his body into that of a dragons, he would most likely gain another substantial increase in power as well.

"Ugh…once I go home, I'm gonna let loose and then go to sleep," Yanagi huffed, then grinned, "And I'll leave sucking your magic dragon jizz out to Irina alone tomorrow, that'll teach her."

"She did most of it today anyway." he snorted at her idea of petty little revenge.

"Yeah, well now she can get the full batch," she shrugged, both of them coming to a stop as they reached the entrance of Kuoh Academy, where they'd be parting ways for the moment, "You're heading off to see Gremory right?"

"Yeah." Kaito nodded. If he was right, and he was pretty sure he was, Rise Phenex would be making his appearance today and the whole rating game thing would be set in motion.

"Try not to kill Hyoudou honey-bun," she laughed and reached up to grab him by the collar and pull his head down so she could peck his lips with her own, "And if you end up banging Gremory, make sure to tell her I said 'get wrekt scrub'."

He rolled his eyes, "Sure, I'll get right on that, but what if I bang them all?" he teased, not meaning it at all.

"Then take a picture to show it to Hyoudou, do you need me to think of everything you dumb himbo?" Yanagi took it on the chin easily, "Well, you can feel free to bang them all but that stupid white haired midget."

"Hate to break it to you love, but I already banged you." he teased again, pecking her on the lips this time.

"Hardy har har, I meant the flat one." Yanagi snorted, before drawing him into a full on tongue wrestling make out session right there in the middle of the school building.

"Die you damn normie!" he heard perverted glasses shout at him, and caught sight of him and his bald buddy glaring angrily at him.

They were not the only ones mind you, a bunch of guys were giving him angry, jealous looks. They just weren't stupid enough to voice it.

He drew back from Yanagi to reply, but she growled and snapped before he could, "Sorry, Kaito doesn't speak virgin you losers, clear out." she shouted at them, brandishing her fist.

They got the message real quick and darted out of the entrance and disappeared amongst the crowd of students.

Yanagi nodded, pleased. Then she slapped him on the ass, "I'll see you later sweet cheeks." she bid him goodbye.

Honestly, that girl.

To think Fujio thought she was an innocent girl. She was a massively perverted degenerate.

…And he'd probably only made that worse.

Shaking his head, Kaito left the entrance himself, but instead of heading towards the school gates, he made his way to the side and walked his way to Occult Research Club building.

As he entered the gothic mansion-like building, Kaito made his way upstairs to where he knew Rias' office of sorts and the meeting place of her peerage was.

"-Akeno-san is buchou's right hand, so naturally if something is going on around her, she'll know."

He heard a male voice state as he rounded the corridor to where the office was located and found himself looking at an odd trio. A pervert, a blonde pretty boy, and a pretty blonde nun.

Honestly, it sounded like the start to a weird joke.

They noticed him at the same time and the pervert of the trio froze mid-step, eyes widening lightly, "E-Evander!" Hyoudou stuttered, one hand coming up to point at him, while the other two gave him curious looks.

There was a palpable aura of…not quite fear, but trepidation suddenly emanating from the older boy.

He'd done a number on his confidence before, huh?

Well, Asia Argento looked confused, while Yuuto Kiba narrowed his eyes ever so slightly, inspecting him suspiciously.

Hands in his pockets, Kaito continued his way down the corridor, stopping right outside the building, "Sup?" he greeted them, eyes briefly flickering to Asia and inspecting her, before going back to Hyoudou.

Hyoudou swallowed heavily, before shaking his head and biting out, "What the hell are you doing here?" he demanded.

Hmm, interestingly, out of the three here, by his estimates, Asia had the most magic power, granted not by much. It made sense he supposed, she had a sacred gear she'd used since she was young and was reincarnated using a bishop piece.

Overall though, she and Kiba both, had a little less than half of the magic power Irina had. And Hyoudou…Kaito couldn't sense his magic power at all.

He knew he had a miniscule amount canonically, but seriously? So little he couldn't even sense it?

…Though perhaps he shouldn't be speaking as if he was an authority on power. He could feel it. A stupidly powerful presence in the room next over alongside the Rias and two others, most likely Akeno Himejima and Koneko Toujou.

It wasn't on Serafall's level, but it was by far the second most powerful presence he'd ever felt. Easily ten times that of what Satanael had to offer.

So that was Grayfia Lucifuge, huh?

He put her out of mind for the moment and smirked at Hyoudou. Instead of saying anything at all, he focused on a still somewhat foreign feeling deep within his back and with a thought-

Two large pitch black bat like wings erupted from his back.

Three sets of eyes widened.

"No….." Hyoudou literally moaned, a pure sound of defeat, though Kiba to his credit didn't let his surprise show for long.

"I see, so buchou managed to entice you to join the peerage, Evander-san?" the pretty boy knight inquired.

"I suppose," Kaito shrugged, "Though, it's more like I'm a loaner right now. The one I joined is a bit higher on the food chain than Gremory."

"What? Higher than buchou?" Hyoudou looked completely lost.

Not that he had any intention of explaining to him.

"I see." was all Kiba said in reply, brows furrowing.

"Um…" Asia looked between him and her companions, looking quite confused, before enquiring, "Have you joined buchou's peerage as well erm, Evander-san?" she asked.

"More or less, it's nice to meet you Asia." he gave her a warm smile and didn't bother using any honorifics with her, while he stowed his devil wings away.

Honestly, they weren't all that useful to him. Anything they could do, his second sacred gear could do better.

Perhaps if he summoned his sacred gear over them, it would reinforce the sacred gear a bit more?

"Umu, you too?" she nodded back happily.

She was cute, very cute. And the innocence in her eyes…he could see it from a mile away. She was as pure as pure can be.

No wonder that shit heel Dildodora wanted to taint her so much.

"Oi, oi, stay away from Asia, I've not forgotten what you wanted to join the peerage muscle brain!" Hyoudou finally found his balls and growled at him.

His heckles rose and he found his lips pulling back almost instinctively to bare his teeth at the older boy, but instead bit his lip briefly and forced himself not to.

"Don't get your panties in a twist Hyoudou, I only said that to annoy you," Kaito replied, even as his hands curled into fists in his pocket and he resisted the urge to smash his face in, "Unlike you I don't actually need something like that and would just do it the normal way if I were so inclined."

"…What?" Hyoudou blinked, his meaning flying completely over his head.

Kaito resisted the urge to face palm.

Honestly, was it really any wonder his 'harem' had so many problems in the other timeline? This clown hadn't even been able to notice how hurt Rias had been when he kept referring to her as buchou and never by name.

Hmm…he was calling her Rias in his head now and not Gremory he noticed. God he was a sap.

"Now now, let's calm down guys, for the minute at least it seems we're on the same si-" Kiba walked forward raising his hands placatingly between them both, but as he did, he froze and his head whipped around to stare at the entrance to Rias' office, "…I didn't detect this presence until right now, how is that possible?"

He stared wide eyed and shocked at the door.

Yeah…how did he miss Grayfia? Sure, she wasn't exactly broadcasting her presence, but with that monstrous power, she didn't need to.

"Kiba?" Hyoudou blinked, giving him another confused look.

Honestly, confused seemed to be this guys default mode beyond horny for tits.

Kiba sighed, "…This will be troublesome." he said, and stopped playing referee to make his way into the office, which was cue enough for them to drop the little pissing contest and follow him in.

"Eh…who's that?" Hyoudou stopped and stared as they entered, his eyes going straight to a beautiful silver haired, voluptuous beauty dressed in a blue maid outfit.

Predictably, his eyes zeroed in on her tits.

"Grayfia Lucifuge, the queen and wife of Sirzechs Lucifer, Rias' older brother." Kaito quickly got the point and explained. If he let anyone else do it, they would probably go the reach around way and be all dramatic.

Not that they needed something like that for drama right about now. The moment he entered the room he could feel the tension in it.

"Ehh, so buchou's sister in law came for a visit?" Hyoudou asked.

She wishes.

Yawning, Kaito made his way over to sit down on one of the couches in the middle of the room, nodding to Rias who was sat at her desk, bags under her eyes.

"Kaito-kun, thanks for coming." she shot him a brief, grateful smile.

"Just fulfilling my end of things," he shrugged, sitting down next to the tiny white haired form of Koneko, "Sup." he greeted her.

She shrugged.

"Cool." he nodded and looked around the room.

As he did, he noticed Grayfia giving him a thoughtful frown. But, wasn't able to ponder on it much.

"Ara, ara," Akeno mused, cupping her cheek as she made her way over to stand behind the couch, and him, "I was honestly doubting the day would come when you would be part of this peerage, however briefly you know? I almost expected Yanagi-chan to be attached to your hip and growling at us to warn us away from her man."

Ah right, she had tried to approach him a few times over the last month. Every time though, Yanagi was there to blow her off.

"Tch." Koneko clicked her tongue in annoyance at the mention of one of his two girlfriends.

"Nah, she's passed that now, in fact she told me to go ham with you all if you offered," he pointed out with a snort, before jabbing his thumb at Koneko, "Well, except Tojou here, something about you gets her pissed."

"The feelings mutual," Koneko scoffed, and gave him a dead yellow stare, "Erase the memories you have of me from before."

…Was she talking about when Yanagi flipped her skirt?

"No can do," he shrugged, "I've not learned any of the hypnosis tricks you guys have yet, I only became a devil last night. Besides, I quite like those memories." Yanagi had been getting a bit too gung ho about things lately and a bit too, well domineering wasn't the word, but demanding fit a bit.

Some banter with the white cat girl, would serve to deflate that ego a bit he was sure.

"Perv." Koneko rolled her eyes.

"Says the girl who flashed me." he shot back.

"You know it was your stupid cow chested girlfriend that did that," she retorted drily, "Did you ask her for it?" she tried to put him on the backfoot.

"Nah, though I won't deny it was a nice sight." he shrugged.

She looked him in the eyes blankly, before turning and looking away out of the window.

Victory was his.

"My, my, it looks like you two get along well," Akeno tittered with a demure smile, "It almost makes me jealous."

"Buchou, what the heck is going on here?" Hyoudou who had been silent up until this point finally broke out, drawing attention to him, "Why is Evander here, why is he part of the peerage all of a sudden? And what is-"

He never got to finish as a large blazing orange magical crest appeared at the side of the room, igniting into flames and rising up.

"That's…the Phenex crest!?" Kiba gasped.

The flames swelled into the middle of the magic crest, a shadowy figure appearing within the middle of it. And then the flames burst apart, falling in a rain of glimmering embers to reveal a tall, slim blonde man with pure blonde hair and dark blue eyes dressed in a maroon suit, left open at the top, the white shirt underneath having three buttons undone to show off a toned chest.

"Ah…it's been a long time since I came to the human world," Riser Phenex mused, his dark blue eyes sweeping right across the room to meet those of the beautiful redhead sitting behind her desk, "My lovely Rias, I've come to see you."

Hmm.

'Eight out of ten.' Kaito mused inwardly, resisting the urge to give a small clap. That was quite the flashy entrance, stylish too.

Perhaps he should look into something like that once he got his own teleportation circle?

And we're back I guess with chapter 19, yay, I guess?

Honestly, not really got the motivation to go into a breakdown of this or anything like I usually do. Peeps who saw what I posted on Onwards yesterday I think or the day before, will probably understand why. But yeah, I'm gonna post a few updates today, then probably won't be posting anything for a few weeks except on my Pa-atreon. I need to get a backlog for there done anyway.

Don't feel pressured to join my Pa-atreon cuz of that though, eventually all the shit will come up here regardless at some point.

Anyway, shameless Pa-atreon plug. I've got one, go by the same username on there, easy to find and all that jazz. Support me if you want, it'd be swell, but don't feel pressured lads and ladies, I'll be uploading my stuff outside it regardless and not keeping it all behind a paywall or anything like that.