Chapter 10: encounters.
"Hmm walking up here feels nice," Gin commented as he walked up with his sandals clanking with every step.
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"How long is this trip of ours Miss Rias?" Issei asked.
"We will be up there for 13 days, and the last day will be our day for preparation," she said.
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"I wonder when will they be there, I hope they aren't too much trouble for me," Gin thought out to himself, "but if they are is it justifiable to do some soft torture on them??? Hmmmm we'll see," he said as he silently chuckled to himself, "hmmm," he sounded out as he got on top of the stairs, "I guess I'll wait for them here," he said after walking around until he found a stump that he dusted off and sat down on.
"How much longer?" Issei asked.
"It's close," a blond boy said with a smile.
"Its just over the hill from here," a small white haired girl said.
"Man, this was some good warm up," Issei said as he adjusted a backpack 5 times his size in both height and weight, just slightly smaller than Koneko's.
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"Wonder if I should tell them how it works or make them put it on before telling them," Gin said to himself as he placed his chin in his hand thinking how this would or should go.
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"We're almost there guys," Rias said.
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"Ahh, you guys are here,"
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"We've arrived,"
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"How do you guys do,"
"Welcome to the training base," both sounded out at the same time.
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"Tch, so you're going to be our guardian huh, I doubt a human could be that strong," a woman's voice sounded out.
"Careful, if he sent him to guard us that means he is good," a man's voice sounded out.
"Given what happened last time, its best to be careful," a little girl sounded out.
"I doubt that he would be weak," a woman with a deeper voice sounded out.
The group of four sounded out, "Oh don't be like that, plus I won't bite," I said as I rested my chin on the back of my hand, and my legs crossed, "You know for workers you seem very lippy, but I guess I can't really talk much, Azazel did do this for punishment," I said with a grin.
"What did you say you, lowlife," the first woman said with gritted teeth.
"Calm down, don't antagonize him," the male sounded out.
"You know, you should listen to him, plus knowing you, you probably won't do much," I said with a confident grin.
"Why you!!" The first woman was angry enough that she summoned her light spear, which illuminated all of them with its pink light.
"Raynare, please," a tall woman with blue hair in a red tight suit with an open front and a leather mini skirt said.
"Alright," I said with a clap, "you three are under my jurisdiction," I said then I disappeared and reappeared to the side of them which shocked them, "I will strengthen you," another me appeared in front of them, "I will break you," and two me's appeared on both sides boxing them in, "and I will rebuild you, stronger, faster, better, and overall more," I said.
"W-w-whats going on?!?!?" All of them sounded out.
"Worry not little ones, I just wanted to give you a gift," I said as in an instant all of them vanished and hands appeared around all of their necks, some freeze's but one of them tossed her hand behind her, but seeing that it was an illusion she didn't hit anything except the face of her blue haired teammate, "hmmm strong hit there," I said as who's name I heard as Raynare only looked at me and looked back at her friend, she then faces me and tried to strike me, and she did it again, and again, and again until she made up her mind to try and throw her spear at me.
"Ohh my," I said out as instead of piercing my soft, smooth, and squishy body, I just dissipated in thin air, "looks like someone's energetic," I said to her ear, but before she could hit me, my little present had something to tell her, and that was it tightening, it tightened enough that it made her instinctually stop and start scratching at her neck.
"What did you do to her!!!," the blond girl said.
"Its best to stop now," the fedora wearing man said.
"Go any further and you're dead," the busty bluenette said.
"My, brave aren't we," I said my eyes closed and my smile going from ear to ear as all of them began to choke, soon they fell on their knees and began scratching their necks, "alright, everyone got their murderous tendencies crushed? If not let me show you what that little trinket does," I said as I pulled out another one and a smooth pillar, "now you see this?" He said as he lifted the pillar, "This is a dragon bone, If you try to be too silly this will be what happens to your neck," I said as I strapped the band around the dragon bone, tossed it into a barrier and proceeded to watch as seemingly nothing happened, but sooner than later it began to give in, small hair thin cracks appeared and after that, it began to break, and as the bone shattered into dust what was left was a small band tightened to a ball, "now, after seeing that, would you like to test your luck?" I asked with a smile, but everyone just shook their heads and even the feistiest one of them didn't dare to try anything.
"Alright, now let's get started with our mission," I said as I began to walk toward the temple as I stored the broken dragon bone.
"Wh-what is our mission?" The small blond one asked.
"Well, didn't think of this situation, well I guess i'll have to explain then huh," I said mostly to myself but they still heard it.
"What do these missions always entail?" The man with the fedora hat asked.
"Hmm, its generally menial tasks, objectives such as elimination, clean up, gathering, and mostly annoying," I said, when I got in front of the shrine, I shook the rope, bow twice, clapped twice, "Oh whoever owns this shrine send your messenger, cause I need to end this quickly, also if you don't I will proceed with my other jobs cause I don't got time for delaying bullshit, you got that? Cool? Cool," I said as I got off the plain platform and sat down on the first step.
"Are you sure disrespecting gods is a good thing?" The blue haired woman said.
"Its either that or they stall for dramatic effect, so trust me, I know what i'm doing, plus with traditional gods like these its best to be direct with your intentions, cause if not they will try something," I said as I pulled out a notebook and proceeded to draw runes on each page.
"So… ugh, can we ask why we're here?" The blond one asked.
"Didn't he already answer that one Mittelt," the fedora man asked.
"I know that, what i'm asking is the missions Dohnaseek," the blond one now known as Mittelt said with puffed out cheeks.
"Oh yeah, almost forgot about that, thanks little one," I said.
"Hmm, see," she said smugly.
"And our mission for this day is……..," I then pulled out a smartphone and 3D projected an image, "these," I said as the first mission said eliminate stray devil, free and befriend Kyoto with a chibi Azazel doing the peace sign.
"Eliminating a stray devil huh," Dohnaseek said.
"Well isn't this… a bit underwhelming?" the blue haired one said.
"Yeah, totally," Mittelt said.
"Why would the faction of Kyoto ask for something so, simple?" The black haired woman asked.
"Welp, no matter, a job is a job, also don't let your guard down, despite how easy this sounds due to, you know,"
"What?"
"Your advantages, since light magic and all that,"
"How come?"
"Because if I get this correctly, the faction needs help with this one, you know the faction that has a leader equivalent to strength with a god in her territory," I said while spreading my hands out to emphasize the fact, "and the fact that despite their seemingly unconnected side still basically has traces of holy magic in their spells, and now think about it, a species that has trace holy magic in there attacks ask for help with a demon, now this demon either has immunity to holy or is strong enough to shrug attacks like that off," I said to which got them to start contemplating the current situation.
"T-then w-w-why are we here?" A quivering voice of a small blond sounded out.
"So, I guess we're still aimed for death huh, tch typical," the black haired one said.
"Hmm, fate has a funny way of giving us hope huh," Dohnaseek said as he fell to his ass.
"I guess this is better than dying in a lab," the blue haired one just accepted their situation.
"The fuck you guys talking about," I said bashing the gloomy mood like an angered woman to a pervert.
"Do you see, this is a suicide mission, something like that would mean it's at least a satan class if it could face off against the leader of Kyoto," the black haired one said in despair.
"Look," I said while squatting due to her position, "who the fuck told you it was equal to a satan class?" I said which got them to have hope in their eyes, "The leader might not have finished it off and that trace of light magic might not hurt it, but despite that, you still have holy magic, and the best part is despite its corrupted nature its way purer than the yokai's so don't fucking give up now," I said now standing up, "cause if you give up, i'm guessing a little pussy like you couldn't get stronger," I said with an annoying grin.
She glared at me and I just laughed at her, afterwards we just continued to chat, well me mostly since all of them were basically silent but people did say that when i'm nervous I can speak for a dozen people, and this continued until I began to sense a presence walking up towards Us.
"Well, it seems like our informant is here," I said then began to spin around to face our informant, what was there was somewhat expected, a woman with creamy green hair, and modest curves, covered by what I think was called a kimono, it was colored white with beautiful green flames flowing from the ends.
"Hello, I assume you are sir Gin Hazama," the woman said in a gentle bow, showing her little horns on her wild yet beautiful hair.
"I'm guessing you're our informant," I said with a simple bow.
"You would be correct mr Hazama,"
"Just call me Gin,"
"As you wish sir Hazama,"
"Man, this is why I hate the Far East, so stiff,"
"My apologies sir Hazama,"
(Sigh) "Just tell us the info,"
"As you wish," she said as she gestured for us to follow her.
As we followed we were told the information that we already, or at least I already know, a strong devil had unknowingly anchored itself in Kyoto, it was strong enough to dissuade people knowledgeable in the supernatural, and was strong enough to push Yasaka and escape, and for reasons she can't disclose Yasaka herself cant go and hunt it again.
"And that is why we implored the help from the other faction with a price," she said as she stopped in front of a popular nightclub.
"Ahhhh shit," "I said as I looked at the nightclub.
"Why are we here?" The young blond said.
"Lady Mittelt, this is where the stray is," she said.
"I might have to phone a friend," I said.
"Why? You thinking of something?" Raynare said with a seductive smile.
"Nah, plus if i'm correct I know why this one could have gotten stronger," I said as I pulled out an iPhone and dialed a number, "hello, yes its me… ow you know me… yeah its work related… oh don't give me that shit, you and I know both well you do nothing when I don't give you a mission… ok… in a bit?… yeah… sure just make sure to be here early… ok… bye…," I said as throughout the phone call I just got these weird looks from the four fallen as the green haired reindeer left.
"Who was that?" She asked.
"Oh just a simple work colleague, also before we go have these," I said as I pulled out four paper tags, "if you are in any danger or in a fight too big for you to handle just pour your magic in the tag it will take you to a safe place," I said while handing all of them a tag each.
"Aren't we supposed to not enter the fight directly?" Mittelt asked as she examined her tag.
"Yeah, but if what i'm thinking is true it means that you might not be out of the fight," I said as I sat down on a box.
"How long will we have to wait?" Kalawarner asked.
"Its not that long," I said.
"Want some?" Dohnaseek said as he presented some dried mangoes.
"Hmmm, sure, why not," I said as I took a piece and at the same time a portal opened up behind me.
"And he's here," I said as I bit down on the dried fruit.
As a man walked out of the portal, everyone was expecting someone muscular or someone with an intimidating aura or someone with power, "what do you want now," and everyone was surprised as what came out wasn't that strong looking, since the one that came out was a boy with ear length brown hair, and a super skinny form as if he hasn't lifted any weights in his life, he wasn't skinny enough to see bones but still skinny enough.
"Hello ryu, welcome to the mission, before you ask yes I will pay you, and your expertise might be needed for this mission," I said as I tossed him a black cup with amethyst gems and highlights.
Catching the cup, he looked at it and a drop of sweat rolled over his face, "Don't tell me," he said as he looked at the building and finally heard the music, "Oh come on, isn't Dante better for this types of mission?"
"True, but Dante is currently on a mission, plus," I said as I pulled out a red revolver with a red rose design, "Its not like Dante is our only option for these types of missions," I then flashed him with a confident grin.
Ryu just looked at me and his brow twitched until he just sighed and gave up, "Fine, but I swear if I get dragged into the fight I will make it your problem," he said as he walked out and dragged his finger across the wall.
"He isn't what I thought," Dohnaseek said.
"He's pretty unassuming right," I then stood up.
"Whats so special about him anyway," Mittelt said.
"Well it's the fact that he is one of the special types of humans," I replied while looking for something.
"What does that mean?" Raynare asked.
"Well it's the fact that he's one of the rare ones touched by magic, or cursed by the world," I said which got them to open their eyes a little wider, "People like Ryu are rare since they from the beginning of there birth exude a large amount of magic, there basically a giant beacon for the supernatural, and so they don't live long," I then stepped on something that sounded metallic, lifting the metal lid I jumped down, landing I followed the sewer's path, "this might not surprise you but even humans hunt those people down, for devils power is everything, so getting there hands on someone like that would be like humans getting a pound of gold, since due to the peerage thing rare humans are always being hunted down, demons could gain a large sum of power by eating them, humans for those wicked could use him for materials, newly born and touched by magic means everything is saturated, for those of a calmer nature, they begin to teach him their knowing it would be in their best interest seeing as people like that are are basically walking talent boxes just waiting to burst open, and as they grow in popularity they drag their names with him, preserving and increasing their fame,"
"Humans are truly scum," Mittelt said.
"Can't judge you there, Since I basically hunt your race as much as you hunt mine,"
"Why are we even down here," Kalawarner said as she pinched her nose.
"Its simple, clubs this huge means drugs are involved, and as you know drugs aren't too liked by the government especially here in Japan, but humans will always be humans, and a back door will always be used," and as we turn to a corner a blue door could be seen.
"Very sneaky," Mittelt said.
Walking forward I placed my ear on the door listening through, and what I heard was silence, "alright, now I want you guys to go up and use your hypnosis or something to force everyone to leave," I said as I opened the door and across was two stairs, one moving up and one going down.
"What? Why cant we join your little fight," Raynare said.
"That's simple," I said as I looked behind them, "I don't want to pay for collateral, plus having more dead people would make more people question, more question more problem, but a collapsed building, well that would be another thing, only the construction would be questioned, so, get to work," I then turned back and walked down.
"Ugh, the nerve of that guy," Raynare said.
"Lets not question it," Kalawarner said.
"Yeah, plus if we disobey him too much he might send us back to Azazel," Dohnaseek said as he began to walk.
"Come on, at least we aren't going to die," he said as she hopped forward.
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As Gin began to descend the stairs "Lets hope this bitch isn't a scrapper," as Gin began to pull out weapons from his storage, "ohh boy that smells," I exclaimed as a sudden whiff of rotting corpse, blood, and something demonic wafted through my nose
"Hmm?" Something in the basement sounded out.
Walking down I finally reached the bottom, "Hello there, room service, i'm here to exterminate a bug," I then began to prepare my trigger finger.
"Ohh, what a surprise, I didn't expect someone so young to come after me," a feminine voice said out as sounds of heels hitting cement echoed around.
"Well, I guess i'm here for escort," I said
"Oh my, well will you grant this fine maiden your hand for a little dance," she replied.
"Well, I guess this will be your final dance," I said to which she grinned.
As if a cue was sent out I pulled up my gun and launched two bullets from my double barrels revolver, one from the bottom and one from the top, she then jumped, dodging my bullets and jumped again rocketing towards me.
I jumped back to dodged the impact and create distance. "Oh my, has no one ever told you that," she then rushed forward making the bullets bounce off of her skin, "bullets don't work on devils," she then swiped her claws over my head, I however dodged by bending my back.
"Well, has anyone told you that us demon hunters are never normal," I said as I placed the revolver's barrel directly over her stomach, and let the bullets fly, it didn't pierce her skin but the shockwave was clearly strong enough to stun her, as she was stunned I placed my gun over her face, "he, bang," as this time the bullets weren't normal as it pierced straight through her skull, "well, I thought this would have been tougher," I then paused, "isn-," I was cut off as I got hit by something.
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"That should be the last of them," Kalawarner said.
"Should we help him now?" Mittelt asked.
"I wouldn't recommend that," Ryu's voice sounded out from their left while crouching and writing something on the floor.
"What makes you say that human," Raynare said.
"I'm assuming he told you the details of the missions, and the fact that he pushed you out of the danger means he isn't confident of you four joining him," he then stood up, "Gin is strong and direct, but he isn't heartless, now help me with the privacy barrier," he said as he began to write on the walls.
"Ugh, this is so frustrating, he treats us like fragile glassware," Mittelt stomped in anger.
"This is for the best," Kalawarner said as she lowered herself, to hug her.
"Better than being sent to our deaths," Dohnaseek said.
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"Son of a bitch, at least warn me before you pound me from behind," I said as I managed to block the brunt of the damage.
"UGHHH, DIE!!!!!" The giant blob sounded out as whips were sent his way.
"Too bad big guy," I then dodged around, "I like living," and a rain of bullets began to fall, as Gin had no need to reload thanks to his storage system he could easily replaced the empty bullets inside with fresh ones.
"URHAAA," the giant demon sounded out as his tentacles launched out in an omnidirectional way, stabbing anything and lighting a fire showing me his ugly mug, and ugly it was, as a man whose body was basically made out of tentacles leaving only his face to be seen.
"Well, I guess this is going to be tough," I then prepared my katana.
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"You feel that?" Ryu said as he felt the ground shaking.
"Whats that?" Mittelt asked.
"I see the fight has begun," Dohnaseek said.
"Will we be alright if he dies?" Kalawarner asked.
"I doubt that, Gin may be human but he survived more damage than any average supernatural creature out there," Ryu said as he finished the seal and placed the cup on a circle a box of nauseating colors flashed and disappeared covering the nightclub.
"What do we do now?" Raynare asked Ryu.
"We wait and hope," he replied without skipping a beat as he sat down.
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"COME AT ME UGLY!!!" I taunted as I ran around every surface while firing red rose constantly, the bullets entered as easily as how a hot knife would through softened butter and to top it off it even exploded, The problem was that every damage I managed to deal simply healed, using holy bullets to slow down its regeneration but it simply just cut off the part that the bullets entered and regrew them.
"HoW dRAIiR YOU!!!!!" It said out in a gargling voice as its attack became more violent.
Dodging a tentacle I rushed up using its skin tentacle as a ramp, but as I was scaling it something grabbed my ankles stopping me where I stood, looking down it looked like my feet sunk into them preventing me from moving, and all around me, the tentacle creature prepared a blast of demonic magic from the tip of each tentacle.
"Fuck," was the words I said out as I fiddled haphazardly on what looked like scales on my gauntlet, and as the blasts grew larger and brighter they blasted, and seemingly vaporizing the human trapped in its tentacle, as the smoking tentacle was severed and smoking due to the blast the monster felt victorious and turned its back on Gin.
"strike Shinso," I said out as a beam of blue light extended from the smoke, "too bad, I don't die that easy," gins voice came out of the smoke showing a crumbling green barrier around him, and the back fist of his gauntlets glowed having runes written in them, left had a rune that translates to barrier, wall, shield, and protect, while the right had a rune that translates to multiple, many, and layers.
'Hmm I say that, but if it wasn't for Alex using the holy energy he had to slow down the blast I couldn't have the time to changed the runes in time leading to a nasty wound even if I had used Hierro and blut Vienna I would have still suffered a significant amount of damage, well enough thinking and time to end this,' I thought as I pulled up the blade splitting the thing in two, but it simply reattached itself with its tentacles and ridiculous healing capability.
After pulling the extended blade up I retracted it and poured a ton of magic into shaping a blade, the moment it began to destabilize I swung it at the giant thing releasing a giant arc of energy at it directly hitting it, it tried to block it but the force of the slash being dragged it along due to the force behind the attack, but before it could get the strength to possibly push it back I let out another one but this time horizontally making a cross, after the blast connected they combined and ripped the thing into four pieces, it didn't die however seeing as it used all the severed pieces to independently attack me.
"ALEX!!!! SLAUGHTER!!!" I yelled out as the coat i'm wearing covered me in a sphere, and there sharp blades were produced outside and began to spin violently in place shredding the in coming tentacles like a super blender, "can you hold out for me buddy, I need to replenish for a bit," I said as I pulled out some crystals.
"Blub,"
"Don't be like that, I know I can throw 6 more but throwing them is still a bitch on my magic tank," and crunching sounds could be heard as Gin began to eat the magic crystals.
"Blunb?"
"I don't want to use those, plus one is practically incomplete," I said as I looked at my right arm, "I know its my fault for fucking up but still, it sucks that I can't fully use my right arm, I mean thanks to the band its gotten better, I can move it around and grab things, but gripping into something it sucks, swinging my sword with it just leads to the blade flying off and using my gun just launches the gun back, so I cant go all out like usual," I said with a sigh.
"Blub,"
"Outside clear? Good," I then prepared myself to strike, "where is he at?" And Alex pointed out in the bubble, "alright, let me at him," and a second later the ball disappeared as it became a black coat once again.
After Alex became my coat again I rushed out of there like a rat escaping his little hole and following my dash I sent a flurry of slashes dicing him up in bits, but that wasn't enough as he then began to congregate and repair himself, but seeing how he healed I got to see what he was concentrating on, I couldn't see it clearly due to the mist of blood but it looked like a red sphere, "well, looks like I know what to aim for," and I saw his head form around it.
"Welp, I guess its time to say goodnight," I said as I came rushing in sword on hand prepared to slice.
But contrary to my expectation my sword did not slice but instead got jammed into something, looking at him now he formed a humanoid shape just more noodly in a sense as he had compressed his tentacles to form a humanoid shape, but compressing didn't only give him increased defense as a fist suddenly came rocketing from my side, connecting I was then launched to a wall before he could fall on me I send a crescent sword beam upward where he had jumped at me, "fuuuuuuck," were the only words I could say out as my little attack made rubble fall on me.
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"W-whats going on," all four of the fallen said as for the past few seconds giant earthquakes sounds were the only thing that could be heard.
"Fight has clearly started," Ryu said as he began to walk on the sky to prevent feeling the constant earthquake.
Seconds after Ryu and the fallen got into the sky the building soon collapsed as a giant noodle creature got pushed out stretching the giant barrier that Ryu made, while having giant monster screaming and pushing against the barrier as an energy slash was pushing it, but with a mighty roar the beast shattered the energy slash, and soon it began to fall, and fall it did, it fell with a red aura surrounding it prepared to smash Gin that had just pushed himself out of the rubble.
And to everyone the giant successfully killed Gin, they were silent, and they were hopeless, but it was for not, as below Gin managed to survive as the last of his green barrier fell, soon after that Gin's body began to glow an orange glow, it began from his back, to a circle over his shoulder, fell down to his elbow, and stopped at the back of his palm, soon the strong glow solidified and his sword began to glow brighter, and he launched the creature all the way to the opposite wall from him.
Gin started to what looked like to be yelling angrily at the beast, they didn't know what he was saying but it was clear that Gin was pissed, soon he shoved his hand in his portal thing again, but this time he pulled out a sword of gold and silver, the fallen angels could undoubtedly feel the holy energy coming from the blade, and it only got stronger, soon it began to crack and at that moment he dashed in at inhuman speeds, making contact with the monster a large explosion occurred, and everyone was blinded.
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On the middle of the night, it was dark and shadowy only being lit by the moonlight, sounds of something sharply thrusting through the wind could be heard.
"Hmp, hmp, hmp," Issei sounded out as he perform his kata's in the middle of the night only being accompanied by the moon and his utterly focused face.
One might wonder why such a young man would train so vigorously with the look of a man that was forced to shoulder the burden of the world, well that can easily be answered.
[earlier that day]
"So~~~, what will we be doing today?" Issei asked Kiba while he began changing into his white shirt.
"I'm guessing lady Rias would have us assessed for today," Kiba replied.
"Wait, does that mean——,"
"Yes, only you and Asia will be the only ones being assessed," he said with a smile.
After that both of them changed quickly and walked outside.
"Alright that's everyone," Rias said with a small clap, "for today we will be seeing what you are capable of, seeing as for the event we will be attending requires you to be in better shape," she said with a smile.
"Whats todays objective ma'am?" Issei asked.
"Well Asia will be training her magic, but for you Issei we shall see your affinities," she said.
"What?"
"She means your magic element," Koneko said to a confused Issei.
"Ohhhhhh, you mean my magic element and what not," he said finally getting it.
"Glad to see you got that, now if you would kindly follow me inside," Akeno said as she walked in the house.
There inside the kitchen they saw there elemental affinities, for Asia it was obvious, she had healing as her biggest affinity, following that was water, earth, wind, and a smallest spark of lightning and equally small fire.
"Wow that awesome asia," Issei said as he looked at the elements slowly bobbing and spinning like a magical display.
"Thank you Issei," she said with a bright smile.
"Its now your turn Issei," Akeno said.
"Ok," Issei said as he got closer, "What do I do again?" He asked.
"Fufufufu, that's simple," she said as she got behind him and then snaked her hands over from his biceps to his elbow, forearm, wrists, and finally hands, "you let your magic flow through you just like my hands did," she whispered breathily on his ear, "and when you focus, focus it through one spot, and when it reaches its apex you let it out," she said pushing his hands on the piece of paper on the table, but what was pressing wasn't only his hands but her breasts as well on his back, Asia on the side was pouting in jealousy.
But unknown to both the girls Issei had not payed attention to Akeno's little games, but when she said focus he instantly went to the training he had as a child.
"Listen ise my boy, when in a fight you must lose all inhibitions, in a fight you cant focus on other things because at that moment the only thing you should focus on is yourself and the enemy before you, for not doing so is the utmost disrespect, for in a fight you must abandon your fear, face forward and advance no matter what, retreat and you will perish in the unforgiving desert of time and be forgotten, be afraid and you will crumble to dust, so stand tall, and fight," he said and at that moment Issei let out his magic and there it shone.
"Oh my, your quite talented in this aren't you," Akeno said as she examined the elements.
"Wow, look, look Asia," Issei said excitedly like a kid showing off a particularly horrible drawing that he is proud of.
"Wow," Asia said as she had sparkles on her eyes looking at the elements.
Issei's elements were simple one could even call it average, since he had all the basic elements such as, wind, fire, earth, water, and lightning, and all at a very normal level, but what caught there eyes were not the size of them but the color of them, Issei's earth, lightning, wind, and fire were different, his lightning looked more violent in a way not in the normal electrifying way but it looked like a violent explosion of blood lightning, his earth not a normal light brown but looked gray as if it was cement, his wind instead of the clear pale white that wind is associated with it looked gray as if a storm was brewing, what surprised them out of all the elements was his fire, it wasn't a red and orange combo like normal fire, it was colored crimson almost like a shade of blood, it looked dangerous and deadly but stunningly beautiful at the same time.
"Guys look," Issei pointed at the crimson flame, "that one looks so cool," he said as his eyes sparkled.
"My, looks like Issei's sacred gear influenced him a lot," Akeno said while licking her lips.
"What do you mean by that miss Akeno?" Asia asked.
"Well you see, sacred gears influence their respected wielders, Kiba gained a high affinity for earth and fire due to the nature of forging steel, yours influenced you through your rings which heals," Akeno said.
"Wait Kiba has a sacred gear?" Issei asked.
"Oh yes, we forgot to in form both of you, Kiba has the sacred gear sword birth which allows him to create swords at will and with any effect, only his imagination limits him," she said with a smile.
"Wow, that sound super dope," Issei said.
"Yes it does, now Issei if you would kindly return to the field I have to train Asia in magic now," Akeno said.
To which Issei agreed with leaving Asia with Akeno with a smile and a wave, upon arriving at the training ground he got to see everyone training, Kiba working on his footwork and Koneko practicing her punches, Issei grew curious about this situation seeing that they are training separately, Issei knew the value of training separately but seeing them not train there weaknesses was alarming, but it could just be them doing some assessment, since he is new and its only bin the first day he went along with it, he was told to do the usual, such as running and sparring.
Sparring with Kiba was kind of strange, Kiba is fast but its clear that his speed is more of a weakness instead of a strength, though he is fast on his feet his slow when it comes to attacking, case and point.
Kiba dashed towards Issei, faster than most would expect but he suddenly slowed down to pull out his blade for a strike, and in that split moment it gave Issei enough time to not only see his movements but stop him in his tracks, because midway he kicked his shin giving him a reflective action to pull his leg back which left his face wide open for a clean hook.
We had a simple laugh about it and even got a complement for his skills, Issei even told him to call if ever he needs help in improving.
Koneko was the very same, since when in a fight Koneko just punches straight, while yes she uses the surroundings its not to what someone would expect, examples are Issei using a tree to disappear behind it, since cutting off vision with an opponent is an easy way to trick them since the brain naturally thinks of the opponent to appear on the other side, and when I don't appear on the other side the brain panics which leave a massive opening to attack, falling down from the top of the tree I managed to give her a good kick and after landing I delivered a spinning back kick.
They seem to have never fought a real battle before, as if they didn't have a chance to fight an opponent who isn't maddened by power, Kiba stopping when ever he turned, Koneko using her gifted strength and durability only to absorb and punch back, and to top it all off.
"Issei you will be our ace in the hole," was the words lady Rias said at our dinner.
'Her words were full of finality as if it was the correct choice, I don't doubt her thoughts due to me having one of the sacred gears told to have the potential to kill god, but having so much weight placed upon me feels so wrong, from the very beginning no one has ever placed so much expectation on me, not my parents, not my master, and certainly no one, but for the first time i've been given a responsibility and I'm afraid of failing, her future that she happily placed into my hands, i- I just cant help but think what if i'm not enough, what if I loose, what if I won't be strong enough, what if I cant win,' while imagining the anguish and pain they would direct at him for failing, those were the thoughts that passed by the boy as he honed his skill with the company of the cold winds and moonlight.
"I will try my best," he said while looking at the moon, not noticing the red haired woman's approving look.
Chapter end.
[Omake]
A young Issei could be seen, he seemed to be around 8 or 10 years old at the time, it was the middle of the day and he sported a massive grin, Issei jumped up a tree to scout out his prey, finding the coast to be clear he jumped on top of the wall, and then jumped down into the backyard of his neighbor.
There the fun began, he went to where people hanged there clothing and took people's underwear, he took panties, bra's, and even male underwear wasn't safe, then he jumped over to the other neighbors backyard and did the same, but he replaced the batch he took with the ones he took from the first one.
He continued this until he heard someone opening there backdoor, he soon jumped out and rushed back to the first neighbor he stole from and noticed that they still hadn't checked so he entered and placed the underwear he stole from one of the neighbors and left, leaving them to find there own underwear for days to come.
[omake end]
[Alternative way of enter]
Gin pushed the ladies inside a dressing room and tossed them a pile of clothing, then he pulled Dohnaseek to another dresser.
(A little bit of an hour later)
the ladies walked out.
Raynare walked out, he hair was cascading down her back covering her rear, she wore a black ankle length sparkly skin tight suit, she had black feathers adorning the deep v cut collar, the v cut was deep enough to show the top of her abdomen.
Speaking of deep v cuts Kalawarner walked out with a blood red dress, her dress was shoulder less, tied behind her neck showing her back all the way down her hips, with her folded upwards ponytail allowing all to see her back in full display, additional to that was the v cut on the front that reached all the way to the upper portion of her crotch showing nothing but suggesting everything.
Mittelt then came out, she was more modest seeing as it was practically her usual gothic dress but longer.
But surprising of all was the boys.
Gin walked out with a green tight dress, but it wasn't the dress or the long hair of the boy, it was the fact that he had breasts, "whats wrong? Did I mess up the make up? Is the dress to tight? Does it shoe my dick," Gin said as he opened the dressing room giving them a slight view of Dohnaseek, "the fuck are you still doing here, get your ass out," Gin said as he pushed a embarrassed Dohnaseek.
When Dohnaseek was out his trench coat was no more along with his hat, his a once angular face was now softened and smaller, his muscular physique was no where to be found as he was dressed in an overly sized kimono hiding more most of his muscular feature, his kimono was colored gray adorned with black feathers falling over a moon slightly covered by spider webs giving the illusion of a shattered moon.
All the girls after looking at them looked at each other and decided to change seeing as their feminine pride was being challenged.
"Alright ready to go," but when be walked out he saw no one their but a Dohnaseek trying to breath in as much air as he could seeing as he couldn't due to how tight the obi was on his torso, "you think the tits were a bit to much?" Gin asked as he began to grope and fonder before pushing them up and down, "how are breasts supposed to work?" Gin asked as he pushed them up and down tying to get them on a spot that wouldn't look to unnatural.
[Alternative entry way end]
Thanks for reading and have a good day night or afternoon.
Question of the day: if there was an apocalypse would you fight back or accept our new zombie overlord?
Fish out.