Itachi Sitri

by Michael Shadow

After the edo tensei was undone, Itachi gets offered a second chance by a dark being, the next thing he knows he has a twin sister, an older sister and two new parents, and they are all devils. I don't own anything! No Chakra Itachi, Itachi x harem(small), more information in ch1. Rated M because it's DxD.

35. Childhood Friends and Rivals Clash!

Chapter 35: Childhood Friends/Rivals Clash!

The early morning sun, rose over the hills and shined onto Kuoh town. The light hitting the giant Sitri/Gremory mansion. Sitting within his room, Itachi sat on his bedside holding and inspecting the Leviathan Blade. Stroking his fingers across the blade, electricity sparked from the blade. Itachi then puts his finger against the sharp end of the blade, slowly dragging it down cutting himself.

Itachi inspected the cut on his finger, his red blood dripping onto the blade resting in his lap. 'A Divine weapon… yet I feel no particular pain from holding it.' Itachi thinks to himself, as all he felt was the normal stinging feeling of a cut. It should burn him, it should in theory turn his finger to ash, or at least make it numb. Yet it didn't.

Itachi looked at his wall, where he had mounted the Dual-Chained Hooks he claimed from Loki during their battle. The blades laying in cross, with the chains wrapped around and dangling downwards. Itachi dragged his bloody finger across the Leviathan Blade once more, the electricity sparking between the blade and his finger. Itachi clenched his hand into a fist, and when he opened it the cut on his finger had healed from that one spark of lightning. Flicking his fingers onto the blade, the blade itself rang in a clanging sound and electricity sparked from it. It was a Divine Weapon, yet to Itachi holding it, it felt no different from a normal weapon. All this left Itachi pondering on a single question. "What am I?" Itachi asks himself.

That was not the only thought on his mind, he also thought of Sona. The image of his own twin sister nearly getting cut open by Loki flashed before his mind. Itachi clenched his fists in anger, not towards Loki but himself. Itachi's first instinct when Sona was slashed by Loki, wasn't calling out her name. But rather the name of a brother he could no longer see anyway. Feeling a sense of frustration washing over him, Itachi sighs as he rubs the bridge of his nose. He loved Sona, he knew that. He loved her dearly. She was his beloved younger sister after all. In fact, Itachi would say he loved Sona equally to Sasuke. So why? Why was his first instinct to say his brother's name, when she was the one in danger?

Regret maybe? Regret that he wasn't there for Sasuke's life, and Sona reminded him so much of Sasuke that he couldn't help but compare them. Itachi sighs as he stands up from his bed, and walks towards the wall to mount the Leviathan Blade onto it as well right next to the Dual-Chained Hooks. Turning his back to the wall, Itachi leans the back of his head against it and slides his way down. Sitting on the floor, while leaning up against the wall. Literally having his back against the wall, alone with his own thoughts, Itachi found himself calling out. "Shisui… Any chance I can get a sign on what to do?" Itachi once again had found himself calling out to his dead older brother figure.

Only this time he was met with a humorous chuckle in response. Itachi lazily turned his head to the side, seeing a figure seated in a chair. "Man, you certainly have gotten yourself in quite the predicament. Itachi-kun." Haunting him like a ghost, there sat Shisui. Looking as he did when he died, missing his eyes with tears of blood running down from his empty eye sockets. "You shouldn't dwell too far into your thoughts, you know? They will lead you into a dark place." Shisui as if he looked at Itachi, with his empty eye sockets, smiling at Itachi like he always used to.

"You should embrace that darkness." A raspy voice of an old man came next. As walking before Itachi's field of vision, was a man with bloodied footprints. A bloodied gash running through his chest and back. He was also missing an arm, it was Danzo. Looking at Itachi, with one of Shisui's Sharingan eyes glaring at him. "Look at you, pathetic. Sitting here, in your self-doubt feeling sorry for yourself. You are a Shinobi, start acting like one."

"He is also a human being." Shisui called out from where he was sitting.

"Silence. Had you been more like Itachi, instead of being some optimistic fool that thought his visual prowess could save everyone. Neither of us would be in this situation." Danzo threw back at Shisui.

"We all know that is some bullshit." A third voice called out, in a booming voice. Itachi's eyes trailed over to the source. Sitting right before him, on their knees with bloodied slash wounds from a sword running across their backs. Were the parents of Itachi Uchiha, Fugaku and Mikoto Uchiha. "We both know you would have eradicated us Uchiha regardless Danzo. You who is too blinded in your own misguided interpretation of Lord Second's will of fire."

"I am not the blind one here, Fugaku. You Uchiha posed a danger to the village, so I had you eliminated. Your youngest son proved as much when he attacked the Five Kage Summit to claim my head." Danzo sounded bitter about the whole situation.

"Something which would not have happened, had you not accused us of a crime we did not commit." Mikoto Uchiha spoke up.

"Oh? Was it not an Uchiha who unleashed the Nine Tails? Madara was of your clan, thus the odds of another one of his kind rising from your bloodline was only a matter of time. And it happened, in the form of Sasuke Uchiha." Danzo argued.

"You forced our hand. You and Lord Third continued to push us, further away from our own village. How were we supposed to react?" Fugaku snarled at Danzo.

"Like a Shinobi. And realize the test and regain the trust of the village." Danzo snarled back at Fugaku. "Itachi is the only redeeming quality of your pitiful clan. Or I should say he was…" Danzo glared over to Itachi. "Just look at you now. You are a fall from grace. I had the utmost respect for you. A true Shinobi who understood his own darkness, and acted in the best interest of the Shinobi world. Just like me. The only mistake you made along the way, was sparring Sasuke Uchiha. He turned out to be your ultimate mistake. One that might have cost the village itself."

"… Sasuke fought with Naruto against Madara. He saved the village." Itachi mumbled back, recalling that the being who resurrected him told him that Sasuke returned to help Naruto win the war.

"You say that with such certainty. Foolishly believing the word of another you don't even know. Or is that just the result of wishful thinking on your part?" Danzo asked Itachi.

"Itachi, don't listen to him. You know what that being said is true. For you know Sasuke, and trust him." Mikoto assured her son.

"Well, speaking the truth here. We all know what Itachi knows, simply because we are in his head." Shisui said sounding carefree as he leaned further back into his chair.

"Look at you…" Danzo leaned down to Itachi, grabbing him by the chin. "A mere shell of your former self. You thought you nearly had escaped your past by being reincarnated, didn't you?"

"Yeah, he did. After all, he had no idea a being like Ophis could possibly know his past life." Shisui added.

"But no, Itachi… The moment Ophis called you clan killer. Your fear of the others learning about your past… We, your past at this rate will haunt you forever." Fugaku revealed, this time Mikoto laid dead on the floor, and Fugaku laid on top of her. Just as how their bodies had fallen when Sasuke found them during the massacre.

"Indeed, letting the darkness haunt you has made you weak." Danzo looked firmly disappointed in Itachi. "You used to be the perfect Shinobi. You were born and molded by darkness. It made you powerful. But looking at you now, you seem more occupied with a life of romance and love." Danzo yanks his hand back, stands up and walks out of Itachi's line of sight.

"And what's wrong with that?" Shisui asks, smiling warmly at Itachi. "You should continue pursue your new life, Itachi. It is like I have always said, you've always been good at fooling yourself. That is why you can't fully grasp your true feelings. And that is why you hesitate to act on them." Shisui's lecture resonated with Itachi, he knew Shisui was right. "The past is the past, and cannot be changed. This is your new life, grow old, get married, have kids. If you ask me, you have found a new source of strength that far surpasses the path of a Shinobi. The love you have for Sona, for Rias, Akeno, and everyone else in your life. Has made you far stronger than I ever was or ever could be. It has made you, far stronger than you ever could have been as a Shinobi."

"Itachi-kun…" A gentle sounding voice called out to him, and Itachi's eyes turned a bit misty as he looked at the young woman before him. Izumi Uchiha, looking peaceful as she did when she died to his Tsukuyomi. The hallucination of his parents, Danzo and Shisui were gone. "You've had a hard time, since I left…" Izumi gently wraps her hands, around his hands twirling her fingers between his and holding on tightly. "I always admired you, for your strength and resolve. I ended up falling for you. If there is a single advice, I can give you… trust in the love the others have for you. Trust, that their love for you is not so fragile that it will break apart if you open up. No matter what you have done… no matter what you do going forward." Izumi leans her forehead, resting it against Itachi's. "No matter what I will love you always."

Itachi looks on with misty eyes, his vision looking blurry as Izumi continues to call out his name. "Itachi… Itachi…" The voice then changes ever so slightly, and as his eyes readjusts. Itachi sees a concerned looking Rias in Izumi's place. "Itachi, are you okay?" Rias asks with concern, having leaned her forehead against his to check if maybe he had a fever.

Itachi blinks a few times. This was not a hallucination. Itachi smiles at Rias. "Yeah, I'm fine… I was just lost in my own mind there for a second. What are you doing here?"

Rias smiles back, and gives Itachi a quick kiss as a way to try and lighten up his mood. "I just wanted to see if you were feeling okay. You haven't really eaten much since the whole Loki thing. And I wanted to be sure you were feeling okay enough to come and watch my Rating Game against Sona this afternoon after school. I know we both want you there." Rias then gives a light mischievous giggle. "Besides, if you win against Sairaorg in your next match. You will be going up against one of us in the finals. Might be a good thing to come and watch so there are no unexpected surprises for you when you get your ass kicked." Rias' light taunt seemed to lighten up Itachi's mood as he cracked a smile.

"Getting kind of cocky now, aren't you?" Itachi chuckled.

"Maybe~" Rias smiled with a mischievous look in her eye.

"Hehe, alright, I will be down in a minuet. And don't worry, I wouldn't miss the chance at seeing Sona kick your ass." Itachi remarked to which Rias playfully gasped.

"Are you saying you will be rooting against your own girlfriend?" Rias said and Itachi rolled his eyes a bit.

"You saying you want me to beat you in the finals then?" Itachi retorted, and Rias once again kissed him. holding her hands around the back of Itachi's head, as she sat on his lap and softly placing her lips onto his.

"Who is getting cocky now?" Rias locked eyes with Itachi, and broke the kiss for a mere few moments before once again putting her soft lips onto Itachi's. Rias' fingers digging through Itachi's black hair, as she slipped her tongue into his mouth.

Itachi broke the kiss, both breathing a little heavy from that passionate kiss. Feeling Rias' hot breath against his face, sparked something awake in Itachi. He lightly coughed and lifted Rias off from his lap. "I will be sure to cheer for both of you. Best of luck." Itachi and Rias both stood up and locked eyes. Rias gave him a quick kiss on the cheek.

"Thank you. I better head downstairs. Have to brief my newest peerage member~" Rias quickly headed downstairs.

"You do that… I will be taking a cold shower to cool down." Itachi mumbled that last part to himself as he felt his pants getting a little tight.

Having finished his cold shower, and dressed into his school uniform. Itachi headed on down to the living room, where the echoing cries of Rossweisse were heard. Sitting in the living room, was the Valkyrie sobbing while dressed in borrowed pajamas from Akeno. "How dare that All Fucker leave me behind?! That old bastard knows I can't go back home to Asgard without him!"

"Sounds real troubling." Rias sympathized.

"And get this! When I called him about it all he had to say was…" Rossweisse sniffled as she went on her rant about Odin.

Flashback

Rossweisse sat on the phone, having called Odin and requested the chief God to come and bring her back to Asgard. "You stress me a lot Odin-sama! How could you just leave me like that?!"

"Ah, is that so." Odin so casually responded from the other line.

"Yes, it is!"

"Well, enjoy your vacation. Toddles~" Odin seemingly having taken Rossweisse's complaints of stress as a sign of wanting a vacation, quickly hung up on his Valkyrie. Rossweisse sat there with her mouth hanging wide open, and her skin turning rather pale. Something tells Itachi Odin knew exactly what Rossweisse meant, and straight up just abandoned her here.

Flashback end

"Waaaah! I hate that old geezer! Dragging me around at hostess clubs where a bunch of other old farts try and hit on me, thinking I am a hostess or a striper! That damn All Fucker! Next time I see him I am going to give him a piece of my mind! He already barely pays me above minimum wage! And has the gall to abandon me!" Rossweisse continued her rant.

"In that case, how about becoming a part of my peerage?" Rias so casually asked with a smile on her face. Making Itachi wonder if Rias had straight up just tuned out Rossweisse's rant just now.

"Huh? Become a devil?" Rossweisse stopped her crying. "I don't know… I don't think a Valkyrie should-"

"Here is a list of some financial benefits of being a devil~" Rias slipped a sheet of paper over to Rossweisse.

Rossweisse skimmed over the paper, and then with a straight face shook Rias' hand as if accepting a business deal. "I'm in." Rossweisse's eyes fully revealed her desire for the money, as her eyes were still glued onto the financial benefits. The allure of a higher paycheck being the most prominent thing on the Valkyrie's mind right now.

Itachi looked with a deadpan expression, as Rias fulfilled the requirements. Quickly reincarnating Rossweisse into being her new Rook. Itachi hummed as the red light of Rossweisse getting reincarnated shined on his face. 'Hold on… Is this, okay? Accepting it just like that?' Itachi thought to himself on benefit for Rossweisse, who without hesitation after seeing the financial benefits accepted her new job.

Meanwhile, in Asgard. All Father Odin within the lower basement of his home. Performed a few basics experiments, with the use of his Aesir magic and some blood samples taken from Muspelheim. "Yes, Thor?" Odin called out as coming crashing down in a bolt of thunder was his son.

"All Father… is that Surtr's blood?" Thor asked as he eyed the various glass containers, bubbling and emitting smoke.

"Some of it, yes. Rest was taken after the battle with Loki." Odin revealed, having gone to Muspelheim to gather the blood of Surtr, as well as the blood left after the Loki fight.

"What do you need it for?" Thor wondered. He wasn't sure if experimenting with Surtr's blood was such a good idea. If Odin thought he could maybe clone the fire giant, it may lead to catastrophe.

"Just running a few tests… comparing the blood of a Primordial to that of an unknown Devil… Shinto… Demigod. Ah screw it, I don't know what to call the kid other than an abnormality." Odin revealed as the other blood samples were specifically from Itachi.

"Huh…" Thor took a look around, he half expected Rossweisse to be here helping his father with his experiments. "Isn't Rossweisse back yet?"

"No, I decided to leave her." Odin revealed, sounding a bit tired discussing his nagging former attendant. "There are plenty of other maids to serve me for the casual things Rossweisse did for me. Besides, it's not my fault she decided to join the fight against Loki. If Hel ends up seeking retribution for her father's imprisonment, and the death of her mother. She would want to go after everyone that was involved. Best for us, to cut ties with Rossweisse so Hel stays away from Asgard. Besides, one day… if she's not dead, Rossweisse can serve as our inside woman. Give us some intel in regards to Itachi Sitri. I am certain I can tempt her easily enough, after all without my permission she cannot enter Asgard."

Thor nods his head, finding his father's reasoning to make sense. "Okay, so she would be allowed back here one day… right?" Thor asks and Odin sighs. Odin knew Thor most likely asked on behalf of his daughter Thrud, a Valkyrie who is good friends with Rossweisse.

"Why of course, Asgard is her home after all. I'm certain her grandmother would nag a lot if she wasn't allowed to come back home. For now, we'll say she is on a well-earned vacation." Odin chuckled and went back to his experiments.

"Okay…" Thor felt his father didn't wish to discuss the matter anymore, and just left.

At Kuoh Academy, within the Student Council chambers. Now that the school day was reaching its end, Sona had to begin to prepare her peerage for the upcoming Rating Game against Rias. Sona had gathered her peerage, all seated by a round table as they discussed strategy. "Our opponent, may be a dear comrade to us. But even so, I expect you to show no mercy on the battlefield. And expect our opponent to share the same mentality." Sona wanted to make it clear right away, that they all had to take this Rating Game seriously.

"Yes, ma'am." All of them responded with a firm nod.

"Good, now we should discuss strategy and plans. Rias and her peerage have a lot of heavy hitters. The most prominent being Issei Hyoudou with his Boosted Gear. We need to make sure Issei is taken out of the game early on. The longer he sticks around, the more power his Boosted Gear will have assimilated. And we would be of risk of him sharing that power with his teammates." Sona analyzed, clearly viewing Issei as the Gremory ace in this battle.

"Let me deal with Hyoudou, Kaichou." Saji was quick to volunteer, he and Issei sort of had this little rivalry going between them after all.

"Hmm, yes, Saji you would be a good counter to Hyoudou and his power. But you cannot go alone. Hyoudou like most men, seems to think more with his libido than anything else. So, you would require someone with feminine charm to accompany you to serve as a distraction." Sona was not only taking the opponents power into consideration, but also their personalities.

"Well, uh…" Saji felt slightly nervous for what he was about to say, being the only man in the room and all. "Hyoudou has a preference for big boobs, so maybe-" Saji felt a chill run down his spine as he noticed Sona's twitch her brow. "Or on second thought, that pervert would go for any breathing woman. So, anyone would do…" Saji shrank into his seat, feeling a lot of judgmental glares going in his direction.

"… You will take Ruruko with you. I have… plans for the others." Sona finished, and her strict glare made Saji only nod in agreement.

"Looking forward to working with you, Saji-senpai!" Ruruko smiled kindly at Saji. "But uh… Hyoudou won't do anything too weird, right?" Ruruko nervously held her arms around her own body.

"Well, other than his Dress Break… as long as he doesn't touch you, you should be fine." Saji added, but then bravely puffed his chest out. "Of course, you won't need to worry! Because I will send him flying!" Saji declared to which Ruruko faintly blushed.

"Thank you, senpai." From across the table Momo visibly pouted.

"Well, that settles it for Hyoudou." Sona was quick to change the subject. "There are still other heavy hitters such as Akeno Himejima, Koneko Toujou, Xenovia Quarta."

"Not to mention Kiba Yuuto, his Sword of Betrayer would be challenging." Tomoe added.

"Neither should prove to be much of an issue." Tsubaki quickly interjected, her cool demeanor carried and commanded respect. As the rest of the peerage stiffened and went mute when she spoke. "I alone will be more than enough to deal with Akeno Himejima and Xenovia Quarta. If needed, I will deal with the rest as well."

"Very well, I will leave Xenovia and Akeno to you then, Tsubaki." Sona cracked a smirk at seeing how eager Tsubaki was for this battle.

"The only other two of Rias' peerage that I am concerned about, would be Asia Argento, Gasper Vladi… and Rias' brand-new recruit Rossweisse." Sona clicked her tongue that Rias was such a sly one to swipe up Rossweisse before she herself had a chance at attempting to recruit the Valkyrie.

"Actually, I think we have the perfect counter for Gasper, and Asia." Reya spoke up with a sly grin on her face. "Just leave that to me and Momo, lady Sona."

"Very well… that leaves Kiba Yuuto and Koneko Toujou. I should trust you lot can divide amongst yourself who gets who." Sona already had a good idea, Tsubasa and Tomoe would be perfect counters to Kiba and Koneko. "As for Rias… you leave her to me." Sona rested her elbows on the table and twirled her fingers together, her violet eyes shining menacingly through her glasses.

Meanwhile, the Occult Research Club was having their own strategy meeting, and brief welcome party for Rossweisse. "Now everyone, as you all know we're fighting against the Student Council later today in a Rating Game. Sona and her group do pose a threat to us. In particular Tsubaki Shinra and Saji Genshirou. Both of their Sacred Gears will prove problematic. But, knowing Sona she is probably thinking who of her servants would serve as a perfect counter against each of us."

"Buchou! I am good and ready to take on Saji! I will send him flying with a Dragon Shot!" Issei confidently declared, standing on the table with his arm raised in the air.

"That's all well and good. In fact, you might be his target as well. And seeing as you are likely a high-level target for Sona to take down, I want you and Koneko to work as a pair in this game. Her Senjutsu sensory skills will prove quite useful to avoid any form of ambush." Rias strategized.

"What about me? I can serve as a strong backup for Issei." Xenovia volunteered.

"And I can be around to heal them." Asia also quickly volunteered, both seemingly wanting to be with Issei.

"Now, now, we can't have all of us going in one big group." Rias calmed them down, and showed on her chess board how she had planned this out. "Both Sona and I have already agreed on an arena. A local shopping mall she, Akeno, Kuroka, Tsubaki and I often visit. Xenovia, Yuuto, I want the two of you to secure the rear through the mall's parking garage. Gasper, I want you to scout ahead using your bats to detect any approaching enemies. Rossweisse is our tank, and together with arial support from Akeno will push up from the front. While Issei and Koneko flank the right side. Asia, will stick with me and flank the left side, and Gasper after you are done with your recon you will regroup with me and Asia."

"Y-Yes understood…" Gasper mumbled out from his little box.

"We won't fail you, but what of Tsubaki Shinra? Do we have any plan in dealing with her?" Kiba asked, with a light nervous feeling at mentioning Sona's Queen. He, like the rest had witnessed Sona's Rating Game against Raiser. And they all saw how Tsubaki easily took out Yubelluna, as well as how effective she was in Sona's tag team against the Phenex siblings.

"… If I am honest. Best idea I can come up with, is if whoever of you are left gang up on her. Tsubaki with her Mirror Alice makes for a troublesome opponent for magic users like Akeno and myself. Perhaps if Issei and you work together Yuuto. Or maybe with Gasper to stop her time, would be more effective. But, to quote a certain Storm God we recently fought alongside with. Things never go according to plan. A new complication we weren't prepared for will arise during the battle. When the situation arises for us to fight Sona and Tsubaki, we'll work according to the situation and the means at our disposal." Such were the facts of the matter. They needed to learn and adapt mid battle. Most likely, Sona wasn't going to send her right hand Tsubaki out directly into a battle, and keep her on hold until Tsubaki was needed.

The sound of the school bell rang, signaling the end of a school day. "Now then…" Rias and Sona both rose from their seats in their individual meetings. "Time for a Rating Game!" Both combatants declared with a burning passion in their eyes.

With Itachi, he and the Sins had gathered ready to go to the arena in the Underworld to spectate the Rating Game between Rias and Sona. "Alright, let's go everyone. Raven, ready a teleportation spell."

"Hold up!" Azazel called from across the room, and accompanying him were Aika Kiryuu, Matsuda, Motohama, Murayama and Katase.

Itachi looked caught off guard at seeing their fellow students with Azazel. "What is this?" Itachi asked in reference to why these human students were with Azazel.

"Oh, didn't I tell you? They are coming with us to watch the Rating Game, isn't that exciting?" Azazel grinned from ear to ear.

"… Okay, why?" Itachi was clearly not satisfied by that answer.

"We want to support our friends, prince charming. Now let us through." Aika said sounding very demanding, although this earned her the attention of Kuroka.

"Oi, who do you think you are talking to, pipsqueak?" Kuroka had a dangerous look in her eye as she loomed over Aika, who had dared speak so disrespectfully to her man. Matsuda, Motohama, Murayama and Katase flinched a bit in fright of Kuroka's glare. But Aika didn't back down.

"Kuroka, that's enough." Itachi halted his queen, by putting his hand onto her shoulder.

Kuroka looked to Itachi with a pouty face. "But captain… she disrespected you."

"It's fine." Itachi assured, lightly scratching Kuroka underneath her chin which seemed to please her. Itachi looked to the humans, he really had thought after the whole Diodora thing they would have been traumatized. "Very well, you can come along. Just, don't draw any unwanted attention. The Devil higherups may recently have allowed Angels, Fallen Angels and Gods spectate the Rating Games… but humans are a different story." Itachi gave them a brief warning, and the humans just eagerly nodded. They were really curious how a Rating Game usually plays out. In particular Aika, she wanted to be sure if Asia wasn't constantly getting herself in danger. The Diodora incident originally started off as a Rating Game after all.

Raven gave light sigh. Seems she wasn't all that keen on bringing their fellow human students along. "Ho? Not keen on humans either? I feel ya." Eto whispered with a sly smirk.

"Shut up… More like I don't want them dragged into this life we live." Raven retorted back with a quick glare to shut Eto up, who only smiled back while showing a peace sign. "Gather around, everyone." Raven lazily called out, as the Sins, Itachi, Azazel and the five human students all gathered around closely. Waves of darkness emerged from the ground around them, and fully enveloped the entire group as they all sank underneath the solid ground.

Holding nervously onto each other, Murayama and Katase squealed a bit in fear at the sudden chilling darkness around them. Matsuda and Motohama gulped down a nervous feeling they had in their throats. While Aika remained level headed. The darkness then cleared, and they were sitting front seats in an ancient looking roman coliseum. With several screens projected around them. "What are these screens for?" Matsuda whispered to Azazel.

"To watch the game of course." Azazel replied.

"Are they not going to fight in the ring?" Motohama asked looking rather confused.

"And risk collateral damage to the audience?" Azazel chuckled and leaned back into his seat. "The Rating Game takes place within a small pocket dimension. Where our contestants are free to rampage to their hearts content. This coliseum, is just for show." Azazel explained.

More Devils, Angels, Fallen Angels appeared around the stands in the arena through teleportation magic circles. And higher up in the V.I.P section, sat the Four Maou in one booth, important High-Class Devils such as Malphas Sitri, Zeoticus Gremory and Marco Bael along with the elder devils. And in their own private booths, were Gods from various pantheons.

"So many people…" Motohama shrank away.

"Relax bro, just play it cool." Matsuda calmed down his friend, and they both quietly leaned into their seats. Trying to look as casual as possible and blend in, which ironically made them stand out even more. They looked like a couple of young kids that have snuck into an R-Rated movie.

"A-Are all these people devils?" Murayama and Katase were trying their best not to freak out. As their only experience with other devils besides their friends, were with Diodora and Shalba Beelzebub.

"No, some are Angels, some are Fallen Angels, and up there you have various Gods." Azazel calmly explained, although the mention of Gods even being present had all five humans look shook.

"Gods?" Aika mumbled and looked up at the private V.I.P booths, seeing various beings who mostly appeared as normal looking people. Dressed in strange clothing from their own pantheon and culture.

"Huh, I don't see that Shinto Storm God from when we fought Loki?" Eto said as she looked around trying to find the booth for the Shinto pantheon.

"Wait, you guys fought alongside a God?" Aika had to be careful not to raise her voice too high at the risk of drawing attention.

"Yeah, two days ago this Evil Norse God Loki came around… trying to start the end of the world. And we were called in to stop him, the Storm Shinto God Susano'o accompanied us and helped us take Loki down." Eto didn't seem to mind sharing their recent adventure, she enjoyed seeing the humans look rather blue in their faces.

Itachi lightly groaned. "Let's not discuss this here."

"Itachi!" A voice called out, as coming running towards them was none other than Sairaorg with his arms up in the air.

"Sairaorg." Itachi said sounding less enthusiastic compared to Sairaorg, but he still also lifted his arms up into the air. Both rivals ran to each other, and started slapping their palms against each other creating small shockwaves.

"What…" Matsuda and Motohama began.

"The…" Murayama and Katase continued.

"Hell?" Aika finished, all five humans looking bewildered and caught off guard. That the notorious stoic prince of Kuoh Academy, Itachi was acting like this.

"Hahaha! Itachi!" Sairaorg cackled laughing and thew a heavy punch at Itachi. Itachi caught the heavy fist of Sairaorg, Itachi's knees lightly twitching under the pressure. And the shockwave of Sairaorg's punch blasted a gust of wind onto the Sins, Azazel and the humans. The humans looked flabbergasted as their hair blew in the wind from the force of a mere punch.

"Sairaorg." Itachi jumped at Sairaorg, grabbing him in a chokehold while ruffling Sairaorg's hair, all while having his casual stoic facial expression. After all, Itachi did this just to make his best friend/rival Sairaorg happy, as Itachi had reluctantly agreed to have a special greeting with Sairaorg.

"Ah, I missed you rival!" Sairaorg broke free from the hold, and bawled out laughing as he wrapped his arm around Itachi's shoulder.

"It hasn't been that long since we've seen each other." Itachi pointed out.

"Yeah, but still. I've missed you. I've been counting down the days for when it is our turn to have a Rating Game."

"Uh, who is that?" Aika looked to the Sins for answers.

"Sairaorg Bael. Rias Gremory's cousin, and Itachi's best friend and rival. He is also a semifinalist for this Rating Game tournament, and is scheduled to have a match with Itachi in two weeks." Raven casually informed. The humans looked in awe, they had heard a little of Sairaorg from Issei and Asia before. But seeing him in person was something else.

"He looks so fucking hot…" Murayama blushed, eyeing Sairaorg's pecs and the rest of his glorious muscular body.

"He's ripped… Almost as much as this guy." Matsuda and Motohama looked at Bob, who in his 10-hour state looked a bit more muscular than Sairaorg.

"Names Bob." Bob offered his fist in a friendly fist bump to greet Issei's two friends. Who both awkwardly responded with a fist bump to the muscular giant.

"I brought popcorn~" Kuroka came hoping in, instantly forcing herself to be seated next to Itachi. "I got you a drink captain~" Kuroka acted all cutesy as she nuzzled her head against Itachi's shoulder, while handing him a soda. "And a popcorn to share~" Kuroka put the popcorn container on her lap.

"Oh, thank you." Itachi didn't seem bothered by Kuroka, and happily let her sit next to him while cuddling up to him. This of course, caused Matsuda and Motohama both to cry tears of blood from jealousy.

"Bastard!" Both perverts' bit into their own shirts while glaring daggers at Itachi.

"Oh, yummy~" Azazel tried to reach for Kuroka's popcorn. Although before he could even attempt it, Kuroka snapped at him with a glare and a hiss. "… Sheesh." Azazel retracted his hand, not keen on losing it. And thus, Kuroka instantly went back to lovey-dovey mode, while cuddling up to Itachi.

"Sairaorg-sama…" Kuisha, Sairaorg's queen came to sit next to her master, seeming to have followed Kuroka's method and brought snacks and drinks. "Would you like a drink?" Kuisha looked slightly flustered as she held out a bottle of green tea.

"Ah, thanks Kuisha. Come, sit with me." Sairaorg patted on the spot next to him, to which Kuisha looked ecstatic and quickly sat down. "By the way, Itachi. What's with these humans being here?" Sairaorg bluntly asked, having noticed they were humans from the very start. And the sudden question made the humans look in panic.

"They are students of Kuoh Academy. And friends with some of Rias' peerage members. They wanted to watch the game and support their friends." Itachi calmly replied knowing Sairaorg wouldn't make a big deal out of it. "But could you keep quiet about it?"

"Ha! Ha! Ha! I see, supporting one's comrades is a wonderful thing! Hey there, I am Sairaorg Bael! Nice to meet you all!" Sairaorg greeted the humans with a friendly bright shining smile. One that made both Katase and Murayama's legs turn to jelly, and their faces turned as red as a pair of tomatoes.

"Aika Kiryuu. Likewise…" Aika looked to be on full guard. Even though she didn't hold much trust in Devils. But she could tell Sairaorg was more like Itachi, Rias and Sona which was a good thing.

The lights died down around the arena, and a lone spotlight shined onto the center of the arena. The arena floor split open, and out from it rose a platform. The sight they were about to see, left the unknown humans awestruck and pale. On the platform were various naked men on their knees, blindfolded with ball gags in their mouths and nipple clamps on their sore red-looking nipples. Behind them, sitting on a throne was Esdeath, using a blindfolded naked ball gaged woman as a footstool. While another woman wearing only black panties with a fake horse tail sticking out from the rear. The way it was standing clearly indicated it was stuck in a certain hole. She stood next to Esdeath holding a tray of drinks. Her breasts also had a few lipstick marks, matching those on Esdeath's lips and a few bitemarks. Esdeath herself wore a latex BDSM outfit, and held a whip that she whipped the men with and they squealed like pigs. "Ladies! And gentlemen! Welcome to the first round of the semifinals of the Rating Game tournament!" Esdeath spoke through the mic.

"What the fuck is going on?!" Murayama, Katase and Aika all gasped in shock.

"M-Mommy…" Matsuda and Motohama on the other hand seemed far more focused on Esdeath than anything else.

"That is General Esdeath… my older sister's Queen piece." Itachi sighed. He was numb to Esdeath's tastes by now. But he perfectly understood why others who see it firsthand for the very first time would have this kind of a reaction.

"Ah, I love my job~" Esdeath smirked and whipped the men before her once more. "In today's matchup! We have the sisters of two of the Four Maou! The younger sister of my own master, Serafall Leviathan, here we have Sona Sitri!" The screens showed an image of a shopping mall, as well as the image of Sona and her peerage members. "And then we have the Princess of Ruin, the younger sister of Sirzechs Lucifer himself, Rias Gremory!" The screens now showed the image of Rias and her peerage members. "Before we begin, let me start by announcing the rules of today's Rating Game. Today, we have your classic warfare battle! Both have free reign over their battle location, whoever is the last King standing is declared the winner! If no winner is declared before the time limit 30 minutes have been reached however, whoever has the most peerage members left standing is declared the winner! And one special rule has also been added! In light of Rias Gremory's Bishop Asia Argento possessing the Sacred Gear Twilight Healing. Sona Sitri's peerage have been granted one bottle of Pheonix tears for this match!"

"Uh, what is Pheonix tears?" Matsuda whispered to Motohama.

"How am I supposed to know that?" Motohama questioned.

"They are the tears of the firebird Pheonix. Capable of healing any injury, and even reattach lost limbs. Asia's Sacred Gear is capable of healing people of injuries, so the judges in order to even the playing field gave a bottle to Sona." Azazel explained the matter to the humans.

"I see…"

Behind them, other Devils began to whisper. "They don't know about Pheonix tears?"

"Yeah, and what is with those strange clothes they have? Are they just lower-level scum who got lucky to get tickets or something?" The two male Devils behind them snickered and mocked the humans. Causing a ticked off Aika Kiryuu to stand up and pour her drink onto them.

"Oops, my hand slipped." Aika said in a monotone tone of voice, as she glared at the devils.

"The hell?! You little!" Before the two Devils could do anything, Sairaorg stood up between them and Aika like a wall.

"Problem?" Sairaorg asked with a knowing smirk, as they looked frightened at seeing him.

"N-Nah, man… let's get outta here." The other Devil bailed, and his comrade shortly followed. Practically running away from Sairaorg.

"You were supposed to not draw any attention to yourself." Itachi pointed out, and Aika only huffed in responds. And now, several Devils had their eyes on them. Although they all quickly looked away as Itachi and Sairaorg both gave them a look. "Well, I suppose they had it coming." Itachi commented, to which Aika looked a bit surprised. Itachi followed up by summoning a new drink for Aika. "Make sure not to waste this one on some nobodies."

"Heh, will do, prince charming~" Aika smirked and leaned back in her seat.

"Ah, they've started!" Matsuda pointed out as both teams were on the move. Seems they had gone over basic formation and strategy prior to the game.

Within the Rating Game dimension, the flapping sound of batwings echoed around the shopping mall. "Wah, no sign of anyone from the Student Council… They really make the produce of the grocery store realistic… I can smell the garlic from here." Gasper sounded like he was cringing, and the bats eyes were all misty with tears. With this strong scent of garlic, Gasper couldn't smell anything else. Although he could tell the smell of garlic grew stronger. Cannon fire of garlic cloves were launched into the air like rockets, and blasted into the flying bats. And Gasper cried out, as all the bats formed back into his regular form. Gasper was crying while holding onto his nose. "Waah! I hate garlic!"

"Sorry, Gasper-kun." The silver haired Bishop of Sona, Momo flew in and blasted Gasper directly with magic bullet. Gasper couldn't even see it coming, due to all the tears he was crying from the strong garlic smell. A loud boom echoed from the grocery store on the second floor of the mall.

"Rias Gremory, one Bishop retired." Esdeath announced.

"What the hell?" In the stands, many of the audience seem to feel a bit sorry for Gasper having his natural weakness exploited like that. Others just found it down right pathetic however.

"Well… he is a Vampire after all." Aika sweat dropped, she thought it was a lame way to get taken out. And a cheap shot from the Student Council.

"Gasper with his Sacred Gear would be quite problematic for Sona. So, it makes sense she would take him out this early on." Itachi analyzed, he had to agree on Sona's strategy. But he also felt bad for Gasper, it looked like he was getting bullied.

In the Rating Game dimension, Issei looked shocked just like everyone else. "No way, Gasper got taken out that quickly?!" Issei was beyond surprised, he thought Gasper would be able to avoid the enemy's attacks with his Sacred Gear. Guess they found a way to sneak up on him.

Koneko ran ahead of Issei, her white cat ears acting as a sensor to detect any nearby enemies trying to ambush them. Koneko's ears stand up, and Koneko looks up. "Above! Issei-senpai!" Koneko warned and jumped back, and Issei quickly followed as coming smashing down from the ceiling was a line. The line cracked up the ground, sending floor tiles flying into the air.

"Hyoudou! The first attack is ours!" Saji and Ruruko came jumping down from the second floor, with their Sacred Gears out and ready. Ruruko used Saji's back as a spring board, and jumped at Issei with her armored leg raised up to deliver an axe kick. Issei quickly lifted up his arm holding it out to the side, using the sturdy armor of his Boosted Gear gauntlet to block the kick from Ruruko. But the sheer force of the kick, caused Issei's feet to sink into the floor as they made a small crater. "Yo, Hyoudou." Saji greeted with a cheeky grin on his face.

"Saji…" Issei gave a cheeky grin of his own.

"Senpai." Koneko pointed out, seeing a line of sorts had attached itself to Issei's arm, wrapped itself around his gauntlet. Issei for a moment panicked thinking Saji had trapped him with his line, but on closer inspection. Issei saw the line attached to his arm, was not linked with Saji's Sacred Gear. Rather it stretched far away, possibly to the Sitri base.

"Heh, like it? A new technique I managed to develop through intensive training. And that's not all…" Saji pulled his arm up forward, revealing several other lines connected to the second floor of the mall. And with a mighty yank, Saji pulled down various furniture from a store above. Entire cabinets fell down towards Issei and Koneko. Koneko punched through the falling cabinets, breaking them with ease using her Rook strength. And Issei blasted a falling cabinet with a magic bullet.

"Oh yeah?! Well, I spent the entire summer training with Tannin! And I've trained with Damian-senpai! This is nothing!" Issei declared as he boosted up his power.

"Partner, I do not trust this line. I would advise you not to boost up your power, you may end up only fueling the enemy's strength. Best course of action would be to blow away the line by entering Balance Breaker." Ddraig advised causing Issei to cringe, as he had just boosted his power.

"Could have maybe said something sooner…" Issei mumbled.

"I thought it seemed obvious. Forgive me partner, I had for a brief moment forgotten how much of a dunch you are." Ddraig somehow managed to both apologize, and insult Issei all at once.

"Rotten red scaled good for nothing-" Issei cursed under his breath for a short moment. "Alright then, start the countdown…" Issei put his fists up, he would need to fight Saji with just his current power while his Boosted Gear counted down for Issei to enter Balance Breaker.

Saji shot a line out from his gauntlet, the blue shining sticky line attached itself to the ceiling. And Saji swung himself like Tarzan and dropped kicked Issei in the abdomen. Saji couldn't help but smile with confidence, he had Issei right where he wanted him. Saji shot a second line from his Sacred Gear, this time it latched onto an electric light in the ceiling. "Now!" Saji instructed to Ruruko, as the two of them put on sunglasses, as well as earplugs whilst Saji sent a surge of his energy through the line. The light intensified and blew up as a flashbang.

The blast of light blinded Issei and Koneko, as well as unleashing a sound vibration that stunned their hearing. Everything sounded muffled to Issei, he couldn't even hear his own voice. Ruruko jumped at Issei, with the aim to dropkick him upside the head. But blind, and her hearing slightly deafened. Koneko perfectly countered Ruruko's kick, and yanked Issei back by his collar to avoid Saji's line coated in electricity.

"I smell you." Koneko kneed Ruruko straight to the chin, the Sitri pawn feeling her jawbone dislocating as a trace of blood emerge from her busted lip. Koneko put her hand onto the concreate ground, sinking her fingers into the concreate and pulling up a boulder sized piece of the ground to use as a shield to block Saji's line. Feeling the slight thug of the line, Koneko threw the boulder sized piece of concreate straight at Saji.

"Shit!" Saji punched the concreate piece, shattering it with the might of his fist. Only to be blindsided by Koneko who was on the other side, her eyes closed as she threw an upper cut punch to Saji's chest. Saji groaned as he felt one of his rib bones groan and break from Koneko's destructive fist. Saji was launched crashing into the platform to the second floor, going straight through the platform and straight to the second-floor balcony.

"Kaichou was right after all… Koneko Toujou's senjutsu sensory skills are indeed a problem." Ruruko groaned as she picked herself up, putting her jaw back in place.

"Go! Go! Shirone! Onee-chan is cheering for you!" Kuroka proudly cheered for Koneko from the stands. "Did you see captain?! Did you see?! Shirone is awesome!" Kuroka hugged onto Itachi, beaming with pride for her younger sister.

"Yes, I saw…" Itachi looked happy seeing Kuroka being this proud of her little sister. Even as Kuroka hugged his face in-between her chest, Itachi let her have this moment and didn't protest to it. Despite being in public. What he did do, was make sure the box of popcorn was covering the tent his pants were pitching. With his head in Kuroka's warm bosom, Itachi couldn't help but be reminded of the night in the bath a few days ago. He could feel his devil instincts screaming at him, telling him to respond to the girls showing of affection lately. The same instincts had been far more active than they have been for the past few years. And Itachi felt like he was close to breaking, and his genuine like and interest of the girls only fueled the fire.

With his vision returning, as with his hearing, Issei chuckled at seeing how Koneko handled the situation. "Heh, where is that confidence now, Saji?" Saji jumped down from the second floor, his eyes twitching in slight pain.

"Shit, you punch fucking hard, Koneko-chan." Saji winched in pain.

Koneko with her vision and hearing returning as well, got into a boxer stance. Moving her legs back and forth while keeping her tiny fists up. "Suck it." Koneko threw a straight jab at Saji, only to be countered by Ruruko's high kick.

"Promotion! Rook!" Ruruko's body glowed, and her strength tripled as she held Koneko's fist at bay. Saji went around them, and went straight for Issei throwing an upper cut punch to Issei's jaw. Issei recoiled back in pain, his teeth rattling from the force of Saji's punch.

"Not bad…!" Issei threw a heavy punch at Saji, hitting him straight in the cheek. Saji groaned as Issei's fist dug into Saji's cheekbone, yet Saji fought back and hardly budged. Saji countered with a punch straight to the bridge of Issei's nose. Issei countered with a headbutt that sent Saji back a few steps.

"Heh…" Saji smirked as a line had wrapped itself around Issei's body, binding him in restraints.

"What the?!" Amidst the short exchange of blows, Saji had laid a trap for Issei. With his arms bound to his body, Issei couldn't punch, so he attempted to kick Saji in the chest. Saji however merely had to yank his arm backwards in order to make Issei fall onto his back. Saji began spinning around, and pulled Issei off the ground and smashed him straight through a stone pillar. Saji continued to ragdoll Issei around, sending him crashing straight through a window to a shop. Saji stepped through the broken glass, and loomed over Issei.

"Later, Hyoudou." Saji pointed his arm towards Issei, charging up a magic bullet.

"Countdown: Complete. Welsh Dragon Balance Breaker!" Issei's body exploded with an aura of sheer power, red and green mixed together in flashing lights as the sudden transformation created a shockwave that annihilated the entire shop. The mannequins in the store, along with the clothes, changing room and the counter were all turned to dust and blown away, leaving nothing but a crater.

Saji groaned, having barely been able to remain standing from the sheer force of Issei's aura. 'Of course, I should have expected such from Hyoudou. In the battle against Loki, I got to witness your true power firsthand. You are strong. But still, I shall be the one to defeat you today!' Saji grinded his teeth together, his own aura exploding in a dark poisonous color that countered Issei's raging red green aura. Saji's right eye turned black, with his pupil turning light purple. Black flames emerged around Saji, dancing and flickering around him like a wall. "Let's settle this, Hyoudou."

"Yeah, Saji." Issei took a step forward. In his Balance Breaker armor, he towered a bit over Saji in height by a head. "Koneko-chan, do me a favor. And do not interfere, this is between me and Saji." Issei requested.

"Same goes for you, Ruruko." Saji also requested for his teammate to stand back from this fight.

"… Very well, good luck. Senpai." Koneko sighed at the foolish manly pride these two had. But Koneko supposed she would let Issei have this one. 'Itachi-senpai would never have requested such a thing. He would have simply annihilated the enemy the most effective way possible. If Issei-senpai ends up slipping, I will use Senjutsu to attack Saji-senpai from within. What is more, that line…' Koneko couldn't help but notice the line that got attached to Issei's left arm at the very start, wasn't blown away when Issei entered Balance Breaker. '… it must hold some significance. I better keep an eye out with my senses, to detect if Issei-senpai has his energy sucked out from him.'

"Well, I suppose it is you and me then." Ruruko was jumping up and down, warming up her legs. The armor around her legs, Ruruko's Sacred Gear, was glowing in a light blue color. Koneko could sense Ruruko was building up energy within those armored legs of hers. Getting hit directly a few times by Ruruko's kicks would be a bad idea, Koneko quickly deduced. Koneko's golden eyes glowed, her black pupil turned slit like that of a cat.

"Yeah… I will make it quick." Koneko had blue fire dance around her like a wall of aura.

Issei and Saji come to a clash, Saji swinging around the line of his Sacred Gear like a whip. The line moving swiftly around Saji like a dome, whilst also spreading the black fire. Issei ignites the ignition boosters of his Balance Breaker, and rockets at Saji clashing into the spinning dome of lines. Saji and Issei go crashing straight through solid walls, and tear apart entire stores midst their clash.

"Blaze Black Flare!" Saji controls the black curse flames of his Sacred Gear, having them form into spears that lodge themselves into Issei's armor. Issei responds with a full burst of his aura, that held back the fire.

"Flame Blaze!" Issei breathed out fire from the helm of his armor, the flames clash with Saji's black fire. But as expected, Saji's black fire burns away Issei's dragon fire. Saji blitzes Issei and throws a haymaker straight to Issei's face. Black flames trickled across Issei's back, burning into his armor.

"Damn Saji, you are not playing around!" Issei threw a heavy upper cut to Saji's chest, hoisting his entire body up into the air. Saji's mouth was gaping in pain, yet the Sitri pawn steadied himself and grabbed onto Issei's wrist. Saji rotated his body around and threw Issei rolling onto the ceiling of the store.

"Neither are you!" Saji holds his hand out, as he unleashes a bombardment of magic bullets onto Issei.

"Too naïve!" Issei ignites his boosters, and soars at Saji with the magic bullets bouncing off in the face of Issei's Dragon aura. "Dragon Shot!" Throwing his arm back Issei punches a red energy beam soaring straight at Saji.

Saji pulls his arm back, revealing multiple lines hidden within the rubble of the store that attached themselves to Issei. "Delete Field!" Saji spawned an energy field around them, and the effects of the field made Issei's Dragon Shot shrink until it completely vanished.

"Partner, he is absorbing your power. If you boost like this, you will only end up fueling him." Ddraig warned once again. with all these lines attached to Issei's armor, he felt them drain his energy. Yet the line on his left arm wasn't absorbing any energy, weird.

"I got it!" Issei unleashed a war cry as his Dragon aura exploded around him, the force of the aura blew away the various lines Saji had attached to him, except for the one on Issei's left arm. Issei ignited his boosters, and charged at Saji kneeing the Sitri pawn in the chest as they ran like a freight train through a series of walls. Issei grabs Saji by the neck, and slams Saji's body to the ground.

"You call that an attack?! Promotion Rook!" Saji groaned as he unleashed his own aura to push Issei off him, and make Issei let go of Saji's neck. Saji spun around and kicked Issei across the face, with his strength now enhanced Issei actually recoiled backwards. Saji continued his assault, throwing heavy hits into the center of Issei's armor, cracking the armor with the mere weight of his fists.

Both Saji and Issei, were smiling, as Issei pushed Saji's next punch aside and responded with a right hook to Saji's face. The two of them continued to exchange punch after punch, rocking the entire mall with the shockwaves of their battle. "I will not yield! I will defeat you Hyoudou! So that Kaichou's dream can become a reality! We will today take a step towards that dream!" Saji's motivation touched Issei greatly, he truly understood Saji's desire to help his master with her dream.

"Saji! I fully agree! You support your master's dream! As I will support mine! We will win, and Buchou will become a Rating Game champion! And I in return, will take a step closer towards my own dream! I will become Harem King!" Issei declared as he and Saji throw a flurry of punches at each other.

In the stands, Matsuda and Motohama shed manly tears at hearing both of these fine young men's aspirations. But Murayama and Katase recoiled in slight disgust at that last declaration from Issei. "Harem King… what a perv."

"Heh, interesting." Aika on the other hand smiled with intrigue.

"Hehe, well for High-Class Devils having a harem is quite common actually. To help us fix our population issue." Sairaorg looked at the battle of fists between he two Pawns with great respect towards both of them. Their fiery determination was mirrored in their fists. "Itachi's even got one." Sairaorg revealed with a sly grin.

"Since when did I have a harem?" Itachi threw Sairaorg a look.

"Really? Rias, Akeno, Kuroka, Koneko, Raven, and possibly Eto here." Damian snickered sitting behind Itachi, as he counted the various women Itachi seemed to hold an interest towards.

"Ha, he got you there." Bob even laughed with Damian on that one.

Murayama, Katase, Matsuda, Motohama and Aika even looked in slight disbelief at Itachi. "I wouldn't mind you know? Being a part of your harem." Kuroka spoke up, blushing a bit as she looked at Itachi. "We've already shared a hot and steamy moment of intimacy after all, nya~" Kuroka looked bashful as she wiggled her body around a bit just from the memory. At this, everyone looked with wide eyes of shock as this was news.

"Ho?" Azazel gave a cheeky grin, and elbowed Itachi. "Oh, you dog you. I am so proud."

"No comment…" Itachi twitched his brow slightly. Especially as it dawned on him, he officially had two girlfriends in the form of Rias and Akeno. 'Holy shit, I have a harem…' Itachi groaned internally as he lowered his head in defeat.

Raven hid her blushing face under her hood, trying to control her emotions. Eto on the other hand seemed to enjoy the misery of Itachi and Raven. "Well, if I ever have a scratch that needs to be itched, I will come knocking at your door, Itachi~" Itachi teased which made Itachi lightly groan. "And I will gladly play around with witch girl here~" Eto hugged Raven, further piling on the misery and embarrassment onto Raven.

"Kill me…" Raven mumbled.

Issei and Saji's relentless rain of punches had tore through the mall, reducing various shops to rubble. Both were breathing rather heavily, but neither showed any sign of falling down. "Today, Hyoudou… I will defeat you! I swear it!"

"Bring it, Saji! I won't let you beat me that easily!" Issei challenged, and Saji flung a line cloaked in black fire around like a whip. The entire area was coated in the black fire of Saji's Sacred Gear.

Koneko jumped back, doing some acrobatic moves as she dodged Ruruko's kicks. Each kick tore up the ground. Koneko focused on her Senjutsu powers, feeling the ki flow within Ruruko's body. Koneko detecting the ki flows within Ruruko, charges up blue fire around her palm. And swiftly Koneko deals a strike to Ruruko's right thigh. "Ugh!" Ruruko felt a light tingling, numbing sensation in her leg. Ruruko spun kick at Koneko, but the nimble little hell cat jumped over the kick. Koneko then followed by jabbing her fire coated palms into Ruruko's left shoulder, and her center core.

"My body… feels numb." Ruruko's body was shaking like a leaf, she felt like she was exerting herself making even the simplest of moves.

"You are done." Koneko ended it with a straight punch to the face that knocked Ruruko onto her back.

"My body… I can't move my arm or my leg. What did you do?" Ruruko trembled.

"I disrupted your ki, and your blood flow. You cannot use any magic, or move your limbs. You should be back to normal after a good night's rest or two." Koneko said as she threw one last punch into Ruruko's gut. The force of the punch itself created a crater that caused the pillars holding the second floor to collapse. And thus, the balcony of the second floor fell as well.

"Sona Sitri, one Pawn retired." Esdeath announced as Ruruko vanished before Koneko's eyes.

"Ruruko?!" Saji gasped in shock that his teammate was taken out this quickly. Saji had no time to think on it however, as he was far too busy fighting Issei. Saji manipulated the black fire, dividing the flames into a series of huge fireballs that he launched towards Issei.

"Partner, remember you cannot let too much of those flames to hit you. Even your Dragon Aura can only fend off a small amount of it. If either of those fireballs hit, they will continue to burn through your armor long after the fight is over." Ddraig coached Issei through this entire fight. The Gremory pawn ignited the boosters of his Scale Mail armor, and took off like a rocket. The fireballs took chase however, even as Issei went down narrow pathways to get rid of some of the fireballs. Saji manipulated the black flames, making them thinner in mass, and make them able to navigate through these narrow spaces.

"Dammit, at this rate I have to use my special reserve!" Issei at this speed couldn't escape the black flames. What is more, as Issei turned around a corner, he was met with a wall of black fire. Saji had forced him into a corner, the flames chasing hot on his trail, plus this wall of black fire now blocking his path.

"I got you now, Hyoudou! Shadow Prison!" The black fire spread apart into hundreds of lines. The burning black fire lines circled around Issei, fully boxing him in.

"Promotion Knight! Welsh Sonic Boost Knight!" The very mass of Issei's Scale Mail armor changes its shape and form, his armor looks thinner and lighter.

"What's this?!" Saji gasped in shock, he had no idea Issei had a form like this.

Issei zoomed around the various fire lines, moving like a red blur. Saji could only gasp in shock as Issei made it over the fire wall, and was now right over him. Issei zoomed over to Saji, elbowing him in the gut. Issei moved at super speed, unleashing a series of a hundred jabs to Saji's abdomen all in the blink of an eye.

Saji collapsed to his knees, his face twitching in pain. "When did you… learn this?" Saji could tell as much, that Issei had somehow taken the principles of a Pawn promotion to alter the power and properties of his Scale Mail armor.

"Through training with old man Tannin to better connect with Ddraig's power. And training with Damian-senpai to better understand how my Sacred Gear works. My Boosted Gear responds to my emotions! In my quest to become Harem King, and be strong enough to protect Asia and serve Buchou! I unlocked this new power!" Issei declared passionately, and Saji just had to chuckle.

"Amazing, you really are just like me Hyoudou. Our motivation, our desires and emotions. Serve to fuel our power. But still, I cannot lose here!" Saji attached a line onto Issei, holding him in place. "Let us settle this!" Saji raised his fist and started pummeling it into Issei's face. The sheer weight of Saji's fist, caused the helm of the Scale Mail armor to crack revealing Issei's face behind it.

"Yeah, bring it!" Issei groaned but steadied himself by grabbing a hold of Saji's wrist with his left hand, as he began pummeling Saji's face with punches of his right hand. Both Pawns unleashed a mighty battle cry, as they punched each other in the face over, and over again.

Koneko watched from the sidelines, with her hearing she could hear the sound of Saji and Issei's flesh and bones groaning. Drops of blood spilled out from their busted lips, and bloodied gashes on their faces. Yet neither of them backed down, they held firmly onto each other and unleashed the full force of their punches. Saji was draining Issei's energy, but Issei made up for it as he punched faster than Saji. Issei's new form had increased his speed to that of a Knight, without fully taking away the destructive power of a dragon's fists. Issei's punches carried as much of a weight as Saji's, but Issei was able to land several more hits into Saji with his increased speed.

Saji roared as black flames came to life around them, and Issei responded with unleashing his own dragon fire mixed with the green aura of his Boosted Gear. Their auras moved like whirlwinds around them, as they continued to punch the hell out of each other.

Then suddenly it all came to an end, both throwing one final punch into the other's face. The shockwave of their punch, blew away their auras and fire. Issei was the first to collapse onto his butt. "Senpai!" Koneko rushed in to Issei's aid, stepping between Issei and Saji.

Saji stood still as a statue, with his fist raised. "It's over… Koneko-chan." Issei said in between breaths. "We settled it… but the bastard just won't go down." Issei chuckled as he looked on the form of Saji with great admiration.

"He's, already lost consciousness." Koneko lowered her fists, as Saji's body began glowing in a blue light. Neither Issei nor Koneko took their eyes off him, until he was truly retired. Issei did so, not just to honor Saji's struggle. But also, because Issei felt if he looked away, Saji might somehow revive himself.

"Sona Sitri's Pawn, retired." Esdeath announced as Saji's body vanished in a flashing blue light.

Issei shakingly tried to stand up, but he felt so lightheaded he nearly passed out. Issei would have fallen over again, had Koneko not supported him up. "Thank you, Koneko-chan." Issei's Scale Mail armor vanished, yet he still felt heavily fatigued. What is more, even with Saji retired the line on his left arm had not vanished. It must lead to Sona's base.

"Senpai, wait…" Koneko analyzed the line, true it wasn't sucking Issei's energy. She could tell as much using her Senjutsu skills. But what was it meant to do then? Koneko knew Sona well enough, to know she didn't do something without a reason behind it. Sona was much like Itachi in that regard. This line may be a part of some grander scheme. Koneko grabbed tightly onto the line, trying to rip it off from Issei's arm. But it was stuck, even with her Rook strength Koneko could not rip off this line.

"Office team, can you hear me? We're now advancing onto the enemy base." Rias contacted Issei and Koneko through the commlink.

"We read, on our way." Issei responded. He didn't have time to worry about this line. He needed to get to the others and support Buchou. "Let's go, Koneko-chan."

"Yeah." Whatever the line was, Koneko couldn't remove it from Issei's arm. Their best bet was following it to the enemy base, and see if they could find a way to get rid of it there. And so, they went on the move.

Meanwhile, Xenovia and Kiba were running through a multi-story parking lot. Trying to secure the area so Sona's peerage could not exploit it. Although, both knights flinched and halted their advance as they came before a lone silhouette. Xenovia and Kiba both sweated a bit, and quickly readied themselves with their swords. "… Tsubaki Shinra-senpai." Kiba acknowledged the long black-haired beauty, with her ice-cold glare hidden beneath her glasses.

"I didn't think we would run into her this soon." Xenovia held Durandal up, ready and prepared should Tsubaki attempt to strike. Tsubaki however, did not even acknowledge them. Her eyes looking to the floor, and not even meeting their gaze, her naginata was even pointed downwards as she stood in silence and unmoving like a doll.

'I can't be fooled… this is how she got Raiser's Queen Yubelluna. Tsubaki-senpai makes us only think she's underestimating us. When in reality, she is just waiting for us to get within her range in order to attack.' Kiba stretched his foot back, ready to attack Kiba held his blade pointed to the ground. 'I need to hit her with a long-ranged attack.'

In the stands with the audience, Matsuda and Motohama were intently watching the screen showing Kiba and Xenovia standing before Tsubaki. "Hey, pretty boy Kiba is going up against the Ice Queen."

"Oh, yeah. I lowkey hope she kicks his ass. But other than that, I am rooting for Xenovia-chan." Matsuda revealed.

"Kiba-kun won't lose! Just you watch!" Murayama and Katase both defended Kiba.

"Why do you call Tsubaki-senpai for Ice Queen anyway?" Aika questioned the two members of the perverted trio.

"You haven't heard? Tsubaki Shinra is known as one of the top 4 beauties of the third-year students. Her cool demeanor and killer icy glare, and the fact that she has ruthlessly turned down anyone who confessed to her. Boy or girl. They say she holds no love for anyone in her heart, hence the nickname Ice Queen. She is without a doubt one of the most admired, and most feared women in Kuoh Academy." Matsuda and Motohama revealed, both shivered as they remembered the scolding they got after having been caught peeping the girls changing room. Tsubaki was the one who disciplined them, and both perverts went for days without sleep due to nightmares of Tsubaki as a result.

Itachi hearing this couldn't help but crack a smile and give a light chuckle. 'Tsubaki holds no love for anyone… anyone but Sona that is.' Itachi thought to himself, he was very aware how much Tsubaki loved and admired his younger sister. Not in a romantic sense of course.

Kiba was sweating, and Xenovia looked anxious and ready to rush in for the attack. Xenovia wasn't the type to just stand by and do nothing, but the sheer presence of Tsubaki made even the likes of Xenovia stand back for a moment. "Xenovia… be ready when I give the signal." Kiba instructed.

"Signal? What signal?" Xenovia questioned.

"You will know when you see it." Kiba simply replied as he stabbed his sword into the ground. "Sword Birth!" Several swords rose up from underneath the ground, their sharp blades moving like a tsunami wave towards Tsubaki Shinra. 'Mirror Alice won't work on physical attacks like this. You have to dodge it, and when you do Xenovia will attack from above!' Kiba noticed Xenovia having already jumped, as she took the hint.

Tsubaki exhaled her breath, and merely raised her naginata, with a mighty swing of the naginata Tsubaki unleashed a shockwave that tore all of Kiba's blades apart and sent them flying back towards Kiba himself. Kiba looked flabbergasted, seeing all the hundreds of swords looking like they had been cut in half from another blade. Xenovia still exploiting the opening, swung down her Durandal at Tsubaki. Only for a mirror to get in-between the holy sword and Tsubaki. As a result, the destructive power of Durandal shattered Mirror Alice, and its destructive power reflected right back in Xenovia's face with double the impact.

Xenovia let out a pained cry, as she was launched crashing through pillars and into a row of cars from the blast. "Xenovia!" Kiba having taken his eyes off Tsubaki just for a moment, suddenly felt a cold chill run down his spine. Tsubaki was right behind him, and about to thrust her naginata through his back. However, coming to Kiba's rescue was the flying sword of Durandal that Xenovia had thrown at Tsubaki.

The blade unleashed a destructive blast once it connected with Tsubaki's naginata. And Tsubaki skidded backwards a bit before coming to a halt. Xenovia despite some burns and a few broken bones rushed over to Kiba. "You okay, Kiba Yuuto?" Xenovia picked up Durandal, a trickle of blood running down across her right eye from a cut on her forehead.

"Yeah…" Kiba's back was drenched in sweat. In that split moment, he had felt the killer intent. Kiba was now under the impression Tsubaki really tried to kill him, after all this was a Rating Game. Quickest way to get someone to retire, was put them in a near to death state.

"It is like Rias said. We need to tag team Tsubaki-senpai if we want any hope of winning." Xenovia's eyes were twitching in pain, her femur bone in her left leg was broken. Xenovia felt sick, lightheaded, her ears were ringing to the point where she could barely make out what Kiba was saying.

"Seeing as you are injured, I think I should attack from the front and do the heavy lifting. You cover my rear and try to strike whenever you see an opening." Kiba readied his Sword of Betrayer, and prepared to rush right at Tsubaki. Xenovia however, hadn't managed to catch Kiba's plan. Her body was going into shock, yet Xenovia endured the pain and stood up with Durandal ready.

Kiba rushed in at Tsubaki, his blade ready to slash at Tsubaki's abdomen. "No can do!" A new voice called out as jumping down from the ceiling, was Tomoe Meguri, water swinging with her sword as she clashed with Kiba. Tomoe delivered a swift spin kick to Kiba's chin sending him back a few steps. "I'm your opponent. Meguri-clan, form three, Water Cannon!" With a thrust of her blade, Tomoe unleashed a water cannon blast right at Kiba.

Kiba summoned forth an ice sword, and slashed it into the water cannon freezing it into solid ice. "Dammit!" Kiba cursed that now they were forced to take on both Tomoe and Tsubaki at once. Kiba ran on the frozen ice cannon, and rushed at Tomoe. Using Sword Birth Kiba changed into a sword of fire that he slashed at Tomoe.

"Meguri-clan, form two, Water Current!" Swinging her katana Tomoe created slash waves of water to counter Kiba's fire sword. And thus created a cloud of steam around them.

Xenovia was breathing heavily within the steam cloud. Her eyes twitching in pain as her gaze fell upon the silhouette of Tsubaki Shinra standing before her. "Dammit!" With nothing to lose, Xenovia swung her Durandal once more at Tsubaki. Only for Tsubaki's naginata to bypass Xenovia's guard and pierce the Gremory knight straight through the abdomen. Xenovia's eyes shot wide open, dropping her Durandal as she was hoisted high up into the air. Xenovia coughs up blood, causing a blood spray to fall onto Tsubaki's right cheek. Tsubaki's eyes looking on with a steel ice cold glare.

Without as much as uttering a single word, Tsubaki swings her naginata behind her and launches Xenovia off from the blade and straight into a row of cars. The force of Xenovia clashing with the cars flattened and totaled them. "Kiba Yuuto… run…" Xenovia collapsed, and vanished in a bright flashing blue light.

"Rias Gremory, one Knight retired." Esdeath announced.

"Xenovia!" Kiba called out midst his exchange of blows with Tomoe Meguri. As did Aika Kiryuu from the stands of the audience around the arena.

"Is that bitch of a Vice-Student Council President crazy?! She could have killed Xenovia!" Aika was outraged, and Matsuda and Motohama sat in silence with their mouths gaping. While Murayama and Katase looked blue in the face.

"Xenovia will be fine. That kind of injury is easily treatable." Itachi assured, the doctors in the Underworld had far better technology and magic to aid in the healing of patients. "Even an accidental death in a Rating Game is extremely rare."

"So… Xenovia-chan will be just fine despite that?" Matsuda and Motohama looked in particular concerned for their female classmate. Who like Asia were one of the only few girls who didn't loathe them for being perverts.

"Yes, she will be just fine." Itachi once again assured, while watching the game continuing to unfold.

Kiba didn't have time to waste, he needed to escape from here. And preferably possibly take out Tomoe while at it. Kiba easily parried every single move Tomoe threw at him, her movements to Kiba appeared slow and sluggish. It wasn't that Tomoe was slow, it was just that Kiba was faster. "Meguri-clan, final twelfth form-" Before Tomoe could perform her grand finisher, Kiba ducked underneath the range of her blade and slashed her stomach.

"Sorry, Meguri-chan. But I need to end this quickly." Kiba slashed once more for good measure, slashing Tomoe across her back as she collapsed and vanished in a blue light. The holy element of Kiba's Holy Demonic Sword without a doubt being too much for Tomoe's body to handle.

"Sona Sitri, Knight retired." Esdeath announced.

"Now there was just us…" Kiba looked towards Tsubaki who walked out from the now fading steam cloud. Seeing Tsubaki standing still, merely awaiting Kiba to make the first move. Kiba saw no other way out, and thus followed Xenovia's final advice. Kiba bolted, and ran in the other direction of Tsubaki. Sona's Queen, stood still for a few moments. Tsubaki let out a sigh, and then ran after Kiba. Kiba looked over his shoulder, seeing Tsubaki hot on his trail. Even with his max speed, Tsubaki was closing in on him. 'I got no choice. My best bet is to lead Tsubaki-senpai to where the others are. If Issei-kun is still standing, we can manage to tag team Tsubaki-senpai and bypass her defenses.' Kiba put his finger to the commlink in his ear. "This is Garage team, I'm on my own. Headed to your location now tank squad, requesting backup."

"Garage team, this is Ruin squad. Change of plans, all teams head for the center of the mall. We have located the enemy base." Rias spoke through the commlink.

"Roger that, coming in hot with the enemy in hot pursuit." Kiba gave them all a heads up, as he altered his course a little bit moving towards the center of the mall.

In the center of the mall, the first to arrive were Issei and Koneko. The line attached to Issei's left arm having led them straight to the base of the enemy. "Welcome, Hyoudou Issei, Toujou Koneko." Sona greeted them, sounding composed as she sat comfortably within a barrier held up by her two Bishops. With also the line on Issei's arm being connected to Sona's Bishop Reya. Was that their play? To power up the barrier by taking Issei's power to do so? "Well then, shall we get to the main event?" Sona said sounding calm and composed as she eyed Rias coming in behind Issei and Koneko with Asia.

"You are quite bold Sona, hiding in the open like this." Rias stepped before the barrier, analyzing it and trying to figure out if she could break through.

"Haven't you as King strayed too far from base yourself?" Sona retorted.

"Indeed, but seeing as we are at the final stage. I see no point in hiding." Rias created a soft ball sized destruction sphere, ready to test out how durable this barrier exactly was.

"Heh, I suppose it is time. Reya." Sona looked to her bishop who gave a mere nod.

"Huh?" Issei staggered in his steps, and suddenly collapsed onto his knees. "What the?"

"Issei-san." Asia was quick to get to Issei's side, enveloping his body with the green light of her Twilight Healing.

"Issei?" Rias looked perplexed, that is when she eyed the line on Issei's arm, and noticed it was linked to Reya. "What did you do?" Rias gave Sona a dangerous look.

"Me? I did nothing. This was all possible thanks to the efforts of Saji and Ruruko." Sona smirked at seeing Rias look confused by the whole situation. "Twilight Healing won't work this time around I am afraid. Neither would Pheonix tears if you had them. After having watched the countless battles, you have fought. And most recently against Loki where we saw for ourselves. Hyoudou Issei with his Balance Breaker is quite durable. Possibly only Tsubaki and Saji amongst my peerage could ever outlast Hyoudou in a contest of endurance. So, in order not to risk too much of a sacrifice to take down Hyoudou. We had to go with a different method."

As Sona said that, Reya took out a back which was connected to the line. The contents of the bag were indeed blood, red thick blood that had nearly filled the entire bag. "For someone like Issei who was originally a human. It is lethal to lose more than half the blood coursing through his body. And with the rules of the Rating Game, once Hyoudou reaches that state of critical condition, he will be forced to retire and be taken to the medical room."

'Saji… this is what you were aiming for from the start?!' It dawned on Issei, the fight with Saji was just a way to distract Issei. And with the constant movement throughout the battle, more of Issei's blood was pumped out from his body.

As such Rias blasted the line, and erased a part of it from existence. Thick red blood ran out from the severed line. "It is too late. He's already lost too much blood." Sona confirmed with a victories smile.

"… Heh, quite the unorthodox method you pulled there, Sona." Rias' body was quaking with anger that her servants had been had in such a way. "Issei, make sure to rest… We'll take it from here." Rias declared as her aura flared up causing the entire mall to tremble.

"Before you retire, Hyoudou Issei. Know this, the one who defeated you today. Was Genshirou Saji. Your fellow Pawn, Dragon Sacred Gear wielder, and rival." Sona declared as she looked down on Issei, who was too weak to even stand.

"Hang in there, Issei-san!" Despite having been told her efforts were useless, Asia continued to try and heal Issei.

"Asia, stop it… I'm done." Issei smiled at Asia, yet he was cussing himself out. "Damn Saji… you really are amazing. Shit, I messed up."

"Momo." Sona instructed her second Bishop to go through the second phase of their plan.

"Yes." Holding her arms out, Momo focused her gaze onto the Twilight Healing rings of Asia. "Reverse!" The glowing green light Asia's rings were emitting suddenly intensified, and then the light turned red. And suddenly Asia vomited out a puddle of blood, and began coughing violently as she fell over next to Issei.

"Asia…" Issei groaned and collapsed with his arm around Asia.

"Asia! Issei!" Rias looked in panic as she called for her servants.

"Rias, what are you willing to bet on in this battle?" Sona's voice drew Rias' full attention as she glared at her childhood friend and rival. "I'm willing to risk my dream. My dream is a very difficult one. If I don't destroy the obstacles one by one, I can't cut open the path to the solution. Rias, I will destroy your pride."

With the use of Reverse, Momo had changed the healing properties of Asia's Sacred Gear, making it deal damage to the user instead. "Rias Gremory, Bishop retired. Pawn retired." Esdeath announced.

Aika looked to be fuming at the stands of the arena. "Asia…" Seeing Asia vomit out blood like that, looking hurt really seemed to tick off Aika.

"Issei…" Matsuda and Motohama saluted the efforts of their fellow pervert.

"As expected of your own sister, captain." Eto praised Sona's tactic so far in this battle. And Itachi had to agree, it may have been unorthodox but it was quite effective.

Rias stared at the puddle of blood left by Issei and Asia. "I have to give it to you, Sona. You outplayed me. But it is not over yet. You are willing to bet your dream on this battle? Well so am I. Crush my pride? Take a look in the mirror, for it is your pride that will be squashed today." Rias gave a dangerous glare as her destruction aura broke through the barrier surrounding Sona and her two Bishops.

"Heh, such bold claims like always. Very well, this time I might just take your word for it." Sona smirked, although her very form began to flicker in and out of existence.

"Rias Buchou, it is a hologram." Koneko revealed, with the barrier gone, Koneko could fully sense the presence of Sona. And it was nearby, just not here. "Above!" Koneko looked up and so did Rias, seeing Sona standing on the roof, looking down at them from the ceiling window. Rias' blue eyes locked with Sona's violet eyes.

"We won't let you!" Reya and Momo prepared to fire magic bullets, but as they did a firm hand grabbed onto the back of their heads. And suddenly Reya and Momo were hoisted into the air, before getting body slammed to the ground. Magic circles formed beneath them, and exploded in a pillar of destructive energy.

"Rossweisse, glad you could make it." Rias greeted her newest Rook, who came in with Akeno.

"Sona Sitri, two Bishops retired." Esdeath announced.

"Now all there is left, is Sona, her Rook Tsubasa and Tsubaki." Rias revealed, currently having the advantage with superior numbers.

Golden Yo-Yo's came flying in, wrapping themselves around Rias and Rossweisse keeping them restrained. Tsubasa came jumping down from the second floor, and landed by the water fountain. "It won't be that easy." Tsubasa declared as a surge of electricity ran through the yo-yo strings and electrocuted Rias and Rossweisse.

A bolt of thunder rained down cutting through the yo-yo strings and made Tsubasa fall back. "It's unwise to face the enemy by yourself. Also, it is unwise to try and compete against my thunder~" Akeno licked her lips as she floated before Tsubasa, with one Fallen Angel wing and a Devil bat wing out.

"Who said I was by myself?" Tsubasa smiled, as Kiba was suddenly flung through a wall, and straight into the crowd groaning in pain.

"Yuuto!" Rias gasped as she saw her Knight appearing slightly injured.

"Yuuto-senpai." Koneko rushed to her friend's side, although found herself quickly blitzed by Tsubaki who slashed her back with her naginata. Koneko yelped in pain, and tried to retaliate with a Senjutsu infused spin kick, but was then elbowed in the back by Tsubaki and crashed to the ground. Tsubaki without hesitation stabbed Koneko with her naginata.

"Koneko-chan…" Kiba groaned from the floor.

"Rias Gremory, one Rook, retired." Esdeath announced as Koneko vanished in a blue light.

"Tsubaki Shinra…" Rias greeted the Queen of Sona, the ice-cold glare of Tsubaki showed exactly where her mindset was. In this Rating Game, she was playing to win and didn't have time to hesitate.

"Rias, we got these two. You go and deal with Sona Sitri." Rossweisse assured, and Rias had to agree. The quickest way to end this was taking out Sona. As Rias was about to rush for the roof, Tsubaki cut her off. But before Tsubaki could even attempt to attack, she was tackled by Rossweisse. "I'm your opponent!" Rossweisse declared.

Rias could have flown for the glass ceiling, but she figured Sona probably had traps prepared. It would be for best to take the stairs up to the roof. Rias went for the staircase, trusting her servants capable of dealing with Tsubaki and Tsubasa. "Everyone, good luck." Rias wished her dearest peerage members as she rushed up the stairs.

"Shirone…" Kuroka sniffed at seeing her sister ending up retired from the game. "Tsubaki Shinra! If Sona wins this game! I will crush her in the finals!" Kuroka went on a rant.

"Now, the battle enters its final stage." Itachi said, and everyone was at the edge of their seats.

Rossweisse pushed Tsubaki into close quarters combat. Rossweisse threw heavy punches that Tsubaki relentlessly blocked and held off with her naginata. Despite being pushed by the weight of Rossweisse's fist, Tsubaki remained calm and composed. "You are trapped!" Rossweisse elbow slammed into the handle of Tsubaki's naginata, pinning Tsubaki down. It was clear that Rossweisse was overwhelming Tsubaki in close quarter combat.

Tsubaki however slips out underneath between Rossweisse's legs, and takes a few leaps back as Rossweisse jumps after her. The intense kicks of Rossweisse split open a good portion of the floor of the mall. Rossweisse's physical strength was too great for Tsubaki to take head on, so Sona's Queen remained on the defensive and fell back as she defended against Rossweisse's punches.

'If what Rias said is correct. This one has a Sacred Gear that allows her to reflect destructive attacks back at her opponent with double the impact. And that she can only use it twice a day. According to Kiba Yuuto, she has already used Mirror Alice once against Xenovia. Which means she has one more use of it for today.' Rossweisse analyzed as she continued to push on the offensive. Gripping her hand through the ground, Rossweisse ripped out a giant piece that she hurled at Tsubaki.

Tsubaki slashed her naginata at the boulder piece of concreate, and cut it in half. Tsubaki then proceeded to thrust her naginata unleashing a mighty air cannon that blasted into Rossweisse. Rossweisse groaned as she skidded backwards, her Valkyrie armor slightly cracked. 'What attack power… what speed.' Rossweisse was amazed as Tsubaki blitzed her and thrusted the naginata once more. Rossweisse narrowly dodged it by tilting her head to the side.

Before Rossweisse could grab onto the handle, Tsubaki had pulled the naginata back and the blade lightly cut Rossweisse's shoulder. Rossweisse unleashed a magic blast, and Tsubaki responded by smacking the magic bullet aside with her naginata. 'She is reserving the usage of her Mirror Alice for greater attacks without a doubt.'

Neither warrior exchanged a single word, as Rossweisse rushed at Tsubaki. The ex-Valkyrie jumped over Tsubaki, and tried to attack her from behind with a roundhouse kick. Rossweisse's leg met with a defense magic circle, Tsubaki was fast with her spells as well. Tsubaki jumped back, as Rossweisse's leg broke through the defense magic circle like it was made of glass. 'The way she dodges and counters my moves. What skill, what training must someone this young, have had to undergo to be on par with a Valkyrie?'

Tsubaki's eyes shot wide open, as suddenly her speed doubled as she thrusted her naginata at rapid speed creating hundreds of afterimages. Rossweisse slammed her palms together, and formed a wall of defense magic circles. The magic circles vibrated as the lethal thrusts of what appeared as a hundred naginatas rained into the wall.

"Now then… time to finish this." Rossweisse declared as all around her she created hundreds of magic circles. Tsubaki widened her eyes in shock, seeing all the various different types of magic circles. Carrying various types of spells. "Full Burst!" Rossweisse lowered her wall of defense magic circles, and unleashed a bombardment of multicolored and elemental based magic attacks.

"Mirror Alice." Tsubaki brought forth a giant ornament mirror. The mirror absorbed all of Rossweisse's spells. The intense vibrations from Rossweisse's spells shook the very space around them. As every last spell was absorbed into the mirror, the mirror shattered and reflected back all the spells with double the intensity and impact.

Rossweisse crossed her arms, and surrounded her entire body in magic circles. Rossweisse grunts under the pressure of the bombardment of spells, her defense barrier of magic circles began to crack. All the collective spells exploded into multicolored explosions.

Tsubaki stared at the multicolored smoke cloud of explosions, and exhaled. Tsubaki's face looked twisted with pain, as Rossweisse soared out from the smoke and elbowed Tsubaki in the gut. Rossweisse's armor was lightly burnt, and her silver hair had black stains of ashes. Rossweisse was covered in light bruises, but she smiled as she delivered a right hook straight to Tsubaki's face. "With that, you cannot use your Sacred Gear anymore for today, right? I held back in that barrage, because I knew you would just reflect it back. But not this time." Rossweisse doubled the number of magic circles around her.

Tsubaki groaned as she picked herself up, blood dripping from her lip. Rossweisse unleashed the bombardment of spells, and Tsubaki narrowed her eyes at the incoming blast wave of multicolored spells. "Mirror Alice." A giant ornament mirror absorbed all of the collective spells in the blink of an eye.

Rossweisse looked in shock. "Eh?" The mirror broke and reflected right back at Rossweisse all of those collective spells, double in magnitude and power. Rossweisse cried out in pain as she was enveloped by all the spells. The spells blasted straight through the mall, and soared out into the empty void of the Rating Game pocket dimension.

Rossweisse's defenses were shattered, and thus Tsubaki rushed in and thrusted her naginata through Rossweisse's abdomen. "Too bad for you, recently through training I've doubled the number of times I can use Mirror Alice. If this Rating Game was a week ago, your strategy would have worked." Tsubaki for the first time since their battle started, spoke to Rossweisse. And it was to reveal, Tsubaki could now use Mirror Alice four times a day, instead of two.

"Rias Gremory, Rook retired." Esdeath announced as Rossweisse glowed and vanished away into the blue light.

Within the stands of the audience, Azazel hummed as the rest looked in awe. "Wow, the Ice Queen is frightening." Matsuda and Motohama collectively trembled in fear of Tsubaki.

"Even though that silver haired woman had so much power." Aika pointed out, as the mall now had a giant hole in it.

"Rossweisse is stronger than Tsubaki, by all means. In terms of brute strength and magical power there is no question. She was a former Valkyrie after all. It's just that Tsubaki Shinra's Sacred Gear, is the worst possible matchup for a magical destructive type like Rossweisse." Azazel tried to explain it to the humans, that Tsubaki's Sacred Gear was just too great of a counter to magic typed opponents. And now, both sides of the Rating Game had three people left standing. Rias, Akeno and Kiba were the last ones standing of team Gremory. While Sona, Tsubaki and Tsubasa were the last ones of team Sitri.

Tsubasa spins around her yo-yo, which generates intense waves of fire and lightning mixed together. Akeno swiftly forms defense magic circles, warding off the flames, and absorbs the lightning of Tsubasa's attack. Akeno then redirects the absorbed lightning back at Tsubasa, who quickly forms a golden barrier around herself to tank the lightning.

Kiba having mostly recovered parried off the second pair of yo-yos from Tsubasa using his sword, the rolling energy-based yo-yo's created sparks as they spun against the metal of Kiba's sword. Both Akeno and Kiba took a leap back as Tsubaki jumped next to Tsubasa.

With their master Rias Gremory, taking off to fight against Sona Sitri to decide the outcome of this Rating Game. Kiba Yuuto, and Akeno Himejima were the last ones standing of Rias' peerage, faced off against Tsubaki Shinra and Tsubasa Yura the last of Sona's peerage.

Akeno and Kiba both vigilantly remained on guard, although Akeno looked with a bitter glare. As it felt silly to be on constant guard, while Tsubaki stood there fully open. The blade of her naginata pointing downwards, her gaze not even meeting theirs. No, Kiba knew full well from witnessing Sona's Rating Game against Raiser Phenex, and seeing the battle between Tsubaki and Yubelluna, that this relaxed posture was Tsubaki's battle stance. She would lure her enemy into a false sense of security, having them attack her only for her to blitz their field of vision and stab them with her blade. And Xenovia, despite having witnessed the same battle as Kiba, easily fell to Tsubaki's crushing might.

'No other way out of it… Akeno-san with her magical abilities would be a bad match up against Shinra-senpai's Mirror Alice Sacred Gear. Just like Rossweisse-san was. I'm the only one who can handle her… With Issei-kun out of the game, I have to act as Buchou's support!' Kiba stepped in front of Akeno, holding his sword firmly in his hands.

"Kiba-kun?" Akeno looked a bit confused, as the Queen of the group she should face off against Tsubaki. And not Kiba who was a knight.

"Akeno-san, please… Let me deal with Shinra-senpai. You take care of Yura-san." To this, the Rook of Sona, Tsubasa went into a battle stance with her fists held up.

It took a few seconds before what Kiba was trying to do had sunken into Akeno's mind. Smiling at the valiant brave knight, Akeno gave a nod of acknowledgment. "Mm, very well… Your power is the best counter against Tsubaki's Sacred Gear." Akeno quickly blasted waves of lightning onto Tsubasa, who shielded herself by using her yo-yo as a spinning golden shield of energy.

Akeno quickly took chase after Tsubasa, leaving Kiba and Tsubaki to stand alone at the center of the mall. Kiba took a couple of deep breaths, trying to get a feel out of the situation. Carefully analyzing the posture, and any tiny hint of movement from Tsubaki. Tsubaki remained in her casual relaxed stance, her gaze not even lifted up to faze Kiba's. "Yosh!" Kiba braced himself, and sprang into action. Aiming to thrust the sharp tip of his sword straight through Tsubaki's defenses.

Kiba however widened his eyes, as in a split second the blade of Tsubaki's naginata had penetrated straight through his torso, hoisting him up into the air like a hanging piece of meat. Kiba gasped, his eyes shooting wide open. Kiba hadn't moved, and neither had Tsubaki. Kiba was sweating, as the battle between him and Tsubaki in his head had ended just like Yubelluna's battle against Tsubaki. "No good, charging right in like that will only mean defeat…"

Sweat dripped down Kiba's face, as in his head he analyzed every angle he could possibly take and every way he could attack Tsubaki. Yet, all routes ended with Tsubaki giving him a lethal wound. Kiba chuckles, as the cold sweat runs down his back from feeling Tsubaki's frightening aura. "So, this is the power of a Queen?" Kiba thinks, as this is the first time, he has engaged a Queen piece in a battle. 'Tsubaki Shinra… what a frightening aura… Her posture, her cool demeanor…' Kiba sweats as he sees a menacing towering Tsubaki standing before him in his head, with the naginata blade pointed downwards towards him. 'No matter which way I look at it, I'm bound to lose this, huh?' Kiba lowers his guard, much to the shock and confusion of the audience.

"What is he doing?!" Issei questions from the medical bay, as he, Xenovia, Asia, Gasper and Koneko all look at the screen of Kiba and Tsubaki.

Tsubaki doesn't even react, or move to attack Kiba. Kiba stands in silence, and thinks to himself. 'The fact that she's not attacking me… must mean she knows she won't get past me that easily to aid Kaichou in her battle against Buchou. That, or she is so confident in Kaichou's skills and tactic that she doesn't think her help is needed.' Kiba replays the battle of Tsubaki and Yubelluna over and over in his head. Remembering how fast it was, how fast Tsubaki was able to thrust her naginata despite its weight. How smooth Tsubaki's movements were, her stance appeared to be casual, but was actually the perfect counter.

Kiba let out a deep sigh, he had to act sooner or later. He couldn't just stand here and do nothing, not while everyone else have worked so hard for them to get to this point. He couldn't let his comrades down, not again. Kiba summoned forth a sword of fire, raising the blade over his head. The intense blazing flames spreading across the mall.

Kiba leaps at Tsubaki and slashes his flame sword down at her. Tsubaki effortlessly dodges the strike by stepping aside. Kiba halts in his steps, feeling the cold nervous sweat running down his face. This had to work. The flames from his sword spread, but Tsubaki merely needed to adjust her posture slightly to avoid any damage. Tsubaki moves in for the killer blow, pointing the blade of her naginata down towards Kiba. However, before Kiba's blade hits the ground he manages to halt the heavy blade. The flames vanishing from the blade, revealing it to be Kiba's Sword of Betrayer in disguise. In quick motion, Kiba flings the sword upwards.

Tsubaki in order to avoid getting slashed by the Holy Demonic Sword had to halt her attack, and quickly tilt her upper body backwards. The blade slashes up mere inches from her face. Black hair strays from Tsubaki rained down between them, as Kiba's sword had cut Tsubaki's bangs making them uneven.

"Yosh! Nice one pretty boy!" Issei cheered at the sight.

"Incredible, halting the strike of such a heavy blade at the last second, must have required a lot of upper body strength." Xenovia looked in amazement at seeing the skill of her fellow Gremory Knight.

Kiba let out a deep sigh, it nearly worked. He had at least avoided getting stabbed in his back, although Kiba feared he had only succeeded in pissing Tsubaki off. Tsubaki narrowed her cold eyes into a steel gaze, meeting Kiba's eyes at last. Kiba smirked, having finally been acknowledged as a worthy opponent by Tsubaki. 'Now, the real fight begins…' Kiba readied himself.

Tsubaki looked stoic, while she glared at Kiba. Then, for the first time in this whole game. Tsubaki began advancing on Kiba. Saji from the medical bay of the Sitri group gasped along with the fellow members of Sona's peerage. "Prince charming has done it now… He made Tsubaki-senpai get serious, a mistake he will regret." Saji swallowed a nervous lump in his throat, Tsubaki had been in charge of their whole groups training regiments. Those were some of the most brutal battles Saji had ever witnessed.

Kiba shakingly held his blade up, as Tsubaki's footsteps echoed around him, with the added sound of his own heart beating in his own ears. Kiba gulped down this nervous feeling he got from Tsubaki's aura. Once she was close enough, Tsubaki dragged her right leg as far back as she could. Her chest heaving as she took a deep exhale emptying her lungs of air. Then in a split second her eyes shot wide open, and she sprang into action. Thrusting her naginata at such speed, she created five blurring images of her naginata. It was as if five blades were flying towards Kiba's direction.

Kiba however, with his Knight speed weaves and dodges everything, taking small advancements to get close enough to strike. However, as Kiba gets closer, Tsubaki rushes in and thrusts her naginata once more. Falling back, Kiba narrowly dodges the blade of the naginata, the sheer thrust of Tsubaki's strike unleashing an air cannon. Kiba had narrowly avoided the blast by using his blade to push against the top handle of the naginata, pushing Tsubaki's weapon slightly to the side. The unleashed air cannon totaled and leveled a clothing store. Entire mannequin body parts and rubble came flying out from the store.

Kiba locked eyes with the steel deadly glare of Tsubaki, he couldn't help but smile, feeling the adrenaline rushing through his body. Kiba couldn't remember the last time he fought such a skilled opponent. Confidence clearly built in him from this short exchange of blows with Tsubaki. Thus, Tsubaki smirked at seeing how much more confident Kiba now looked. Kiba took a quick leap backwards, and readied himself with his sword. Then, something that caught Kiba completely off guard, Tsubaki began to whistle?

Her tunes were in perfect harmony, and this strange act had completely made Kiba let his guard down. Kiba barely had time to react, were it not for him seeing the smirk of excitement on Tsubaki's face at the last second, he would have been done for. Tsubaki rushed in, at greater speed than before, Kiba barely had time to react and make an attempt to dodge and suffered for it. Tsubaki's naginata had slashed the valiant knight on his side. Kiba narrowly avoided the blade, so the cut wasn't too deep. By taking a quick sideways jump, and attempting to counter the naginata with his arms up high and his sword pointing downwards. Tsubaki's naginata had slid across the sharp end of Kiba's blade, with the edge of the spear's blade slashing at his side.

"Kiba-kun!" Murayama and Katase gasp from the audience at seeing their academy's prince charming get slashed.

Matsuda and Motohama looked like they had their breath taken away. Coming into this game, they kind of had hoped to see Kiba get a little beat up. He was the popular boy after all, and the two had to admit their jealousy for him was overwhelming. But in this moment, both Matsuda and Motohama had to admit. Kiba was a badass fighter.

Kiba grunts in pain, as he skids back and takes a short leap to make some distance. Holding his hand over his bleeding slash wound, Kiba trembles. Tsubaki however, smiles and for the first time since their fight began, she spoke to Kiba. "Oi, what's wrong?" Tsubaki swings her naginata spraying Kiba's blood onto the floor. "I thought you were capable… of reading my moves." Kiba shakingly looked up to face Tsubaki, feeling a great sense of intimidation that made his blood run cold. "Kiba Yuuto-kun~" In a rarity, Tsubaki, the ice Queen of Kuoh Academy, smiles from ear to ear in excitement.

"Heh…" Sona looks down from the roof, having a good view of her Queen's battle against Kiba Yuuto. "Looks like she slipped from her mask just a bit…" Tsubaki had always held a deep admiration towards Sona. And thus, Tsubaki had always acted like Sona. Wanting to be serious and cool like Sona. 'The feeling of blood and adrenaline pumping through her body from this battle against Kiba-kun, has made her true self slip out a bit.' Sona lets out an inner sigh. 'I wish she would do that more often. Tsubaki due to her instinct to seek any challenge life throws at her. Be it combat, academics or otherwise. Tsubaki always ends up giving it her all. If she had been like this more often, she would improve so much faster.'

Kiba steadies himself, and regains his stance. Taking a couple of deep breaths, and ignoring the stinging pain on his side. Tsubaki smirks, and leaps into the air not allowing Kiba a moment of rest. Tsubaki delivers a rain of blows from above. Increasing her speed to it appears as if ten different naginata blades are thrusted down onto Kiba.

Kiba grunts and summons forth a second sword, duel wielding he attempts to block and avoid the thrusts. Yet, Tsubaki's speed even overwhelms his Knight speed, and slips past his defenses every now and then. Cuts appearing on his uniform, some reaching his skin, some not. By the end, Kiba was left with several bloodied cuts on his body. "Interesting, you are quite skilled Yuuto-kun… Let's see how far you are willing to go." Tsubaki increases the speed, and the number of blades double.

Kiba's second blade is knocked right out from his hand, and without anytime to summon any more. Kiba relies on his Sword of Betrayer to hold off the raging storm of attacks. Kiba holds his blade up, trying to block a hammer strike from Tsubaki, then to his surprise, his sword. His Balance Breaker, shattered as if it was made of glass. Kiba was left with a look of absolute shock and horror on his face, and Tsubaki's face returned to be cool and stoic. The head of Kiba's sword flung over him and lodged itself into the floor behind him. "You made the mistake of assuming my Sacred Gear was the best part about me. I am well equipped to handle all sorts of opponents. Admittedly my Sacred Gear works better on magic types, rather than stealth speed types like you. But I make up for it with my skills." Tsubaki swings her naginata upwards after dealing that hammer strike, and this time her blade slashed into Kiba's shoulder.

Kiba is knocked backwards, as his shoulder is slashed with a gaping flesh wound. Kiba grips onto his bleeding shoulder, glaring back at Tsubaki. Tsubaki looked ready to end him with a swift strike. The excitement in Tsubaki's eyes had died down, was she perhaps disappointed that this was it for Kiba? Tsubaki readied to end the battle in a final thrust strike to Kiba's abdomen. "And you… made a mistake as well." Kiba's words managed to draw some form of interest from Tsubaki, who hesitated for a moment. "In underestimating my skills!" Kiba grabs onto the handle of his broken sword, and his very being explodes with an aura of power causing Tsubaki to gasp at how much power Kiba still had left.

Kiba surprises everyone, as not only does he restore his Sword of Betrayer, but he also summoned forth Durandal. Tsubaki looks bewildered, Xenovia had tried to use that sword on her, and it ended badly. "Are you insane? With Durandal's destructive power, my Mirror Alice will become your worst enemy."

Kiba however, smiles and snickers. "How much are you willing to bet on it?" Kiba changes his stance, and charges at Tsubaki who is left surprised at the sudden change of posture and tactic. 'That was!' Tsubaki widens her eyes, as a cut appears on her left cheek drawing blood.

"That was Irina-san…" Kiba replies, having slashed his sword of betrayer down at Tsubaki midair.

Xenovia can't help but to gasp from the infirmary, Kiba had perfectly mimicked her former partners stance, and now the Ace of Arch Angel Michael.

"And this…!" Kiba changes into another familiar stance, and goes in for a power strike with Durandal, which was a perfect mimic of Xenovia's fighting style. "Xenovia-san!" Kiba slashes Durandal on the ground, making the floorboards blow up in Tsubaki's face gathering up a giant a smoke screen from the exploding dust. Tsubaki summons forth Mirror Alice, however Kiba leaps over the mirror and spins his body, and a cut appears on Tsubaki's right shoulder and her back. "Jack-chan!" Tsubaki clicks her tongue, and turns around to face Kiba.

Before Tsubaki can react, Kiba changes stance once again and with a heavy thrust of his Sword of Betrayer, he mimicked a perfect strike from Eto. "Eto-san!" Tsubaki attempts to block with her naginata, but is pushed back by the intense heavy blow as Kiba breaks through her guard sending Tsubaki skidding backwards right through her own Mirror Alice. "Tomoe-chan!" Moving swiftly like Sona's knight Tomoe, Kiba delivers an intense series of slashes with fire moving along with his blade in place of Tomoe's water. The fire slashes into Tsubaki, burning slash marks appear on her uniform. With thin bloodied cuts visible underneath on her skin.

Saji, and the rest of Sona's retired peerage members look from the sickbay in disbelief. "I don't believe it… That Tsubaki Shinra-senpai's body… is riddled in wounds." Saji gasps seeing the image of Tsubaki standing tall with her body covered in bloodied cuts.

Tsubaki looks astonished, Kiba has perfectly mimicked the stances of his fellow Gremory Knight Xenovia, the former Exorcist now Angel Irina, Sona's own knight Tomoe, and Itachi Sitri's two knights Jack and Eto as well. "Impressive… to learn their moves without receiving direct training from them. But it's not enough to merely copy them!" Tsubaki swings her naginata in a downwards swing, and this time Kiba blocks it with the Durandal, and with his other arm holding Durandal up underneath the blades flat end, as support making it sturdier. His stance mimicking the way Issei would use his Sacred Gear gauntlet to block Kiba's sword during training. "I have trained for months with Xenovia-san and Issei-kun! And I am still evolving as we speak, by reading your moves." Kiba smiles, and Tsubaki responds with a chuckle.

"We shall see." Tsubaki, although covered in wounds, remained as cool and composed as always. "No more holding back!" Tsubaki's body erupts in a blue fiery aura, and then she vanishes from Kiba's field of vision. Kiba gasps seeing Tsubaki running circles around him, moving so fast she creates multiple afterimages of herself, and each thrusting their naginata at him. "Maximum Speed: Sitri Flood!" Tsubaki's endless blows rained down around Kiba, appearing as a dome of naginata thrust strikes. Tsubaki smiles to herself, her eyes drifting to the screens showing the reaction of the audience. Her gaze landing onto the image of her master's older brother. 'Take a good look, Itachi Sitri… Sona-ojousama had me develop this move in hopes to keep your Sharingan distracted. It took months to perfect it.'

Kiba is unable to avoid all the strikes of Tsubaki, and results in slashing his swords around like a mad man, trying to block any lethal strike. Kiba grunted in pain, feeling himself getting cut over and over again. He couldn't keep up, Tsubaki's strength was too deep for him, he had no room to even breathe. Kiba started to fall into despair. 'I can't reach her… Buchou, everyone… I failed you.' Kiba's knees are about to nearly buckle under the intense pressure.

"Don't you lose you damn pretty boy!" Kiba is brought out from his despair, at the sound of Issei's cry. Looking at the screens showing the audience and the sickbays, he saw Issei, Xenovia, Asia, Rossweisse, Koneko and Gasper all cheering for him.

"Go! Kiba-kun!" Asia cheers.

"Don't let us down! Kiba Yuuto!" Xenovia aggressively cheers.

"You got this! Kiba-senpai!" The nervous blushing Gasper cheered as well, despite his fear of people looking his way.

"If you lose… I will beat you." Koneko gave her words of encouragement.

'Everyone…' Kiba looks in awe, and starts to power through. 'I have to go deeper! I have to analyze her movements deeper!' Kiba started getting more effective in blocking Tsubaki's strikes, his eyes trailing her movements around him. 'For my comrades! For Rias Buchou!' The determination to fight for his master, the one who saved his life, and his dear comrades brought Kiba back into the zone. He was now blocking every strike Tsubaki threw at him.

Itachi from the stands, could perfectly see Kiba's every movement with his sharingan. Tsubaki on the other hand, Itachi's sharingan struggled to detect a few small moves here and there, it was like she was moving in multiple places at once, from what Itachi could tell and calculate from, Tsubaki was making at least a thousand moves in the span of a single second. However, Itachi could tell Tsubaki's movements were predictable. At least to him, Itachi could clear as day see a certain attack pattern Tsubaki seems to be following. And from that alone Itachi can predict where she would strike. Question is, could Kiba? Certainly, they were both fast, and had both grown strong. Stronger than the average High-class devil. 'Tsubaki deserves some credit, she's fast. And with this move she boxes Kiba in a tight space. For a knight, with such little limited room to move is a death sentence. But Kiba seems to study Tsubaki's movements, if he can predict exactly where she is going to attack from next. He might have a winning chance. It all comes down, to who is more determined to win.'

In order to strengthen his own determination to win, Kiba also had to remember the determination of his opponent. He could tell, despite Tsubaki's calm demeanor, having heard the High-Class devils laugh at her master's dream, had pissed her off. "Sona Kaichou has a noble dream… And I support it. But… We want to win too!" Kiba passionately declares, and Tsubaki looks stunned and shocked as Kiba nearly knocks her naginata out of her grip with an upwards swing of his sword. The sound of their blades connecting resonating and echoing in a ringing noise like that from a bell.

Tsubaki smirks, and begins thrusting her naginata towards Kiba. However, this time Kiba effortlessly dodges each of her attacks. "I have already seen that move…" Kiba this time, was straight up in Tsubaki's face, who glared down at him. "I made it this far, Shinra-senpai."

Tsubaki smirks. "Do you have the stomach, to do what needs to be done?!" Tsubaki thrusts her naginata forward, aiming for Kiba's chest. Kiba looks on with a steel gaze of determination, and leans backwards and swings his Sword of Betrayer upwards. Cutting not only through the naginata, but also cutting off Tsubaki's right forearm.

Tsubaki shows no reaction, and grabs her severed hand holding onto the end with the blade of her naginata. Crushing her own severed hand in her iron grip and aims to stab Kiba in the head. Kiba looks apologetic, as he swings his sword up and cuts off Tsubaki's second forearm. Thinking this was it, Kiba could only look in awe at seeing Tsubaki's determination. As Tsubaki bites her teeth down onto the severed half of her naginata. Swinging her body back, she flings herself forward, aiming the blade towards Kiba's neck.

Kiba's determination was strong as well, as he moves both the Sword of Betrayer and the Durandal in a swift double slice on Tsubaki's stomach. The holy energy finally seeming to have an effect on her devil body, as Tsubaki had reached her limit. Tsubaki drops the naginata from her mouth, and shakingly backs away. She looks on Kiba, with a smile. "Heh, seems… Hyoudou Issei wasn't the only one we needed to look out for… Seems, you are the true Gremory ace… Yuuto-kun…" Tsubaki acknowledges as she collapses onto her back in a loud thud. Tsubaki's body begins to glow, as she vanishes from Kiba's sight and is teleported to the medical bay.

"Sona Sitri's Queen, retired!" Was announced on the speaker system by Esdeath.

Kiba stands tall, and with a swing of his blades, sprays Tsubaki's blood across the floor. Kiba lets out a tired sigh, he was exhausted. His entire uniform nearly torn to shreds, revealing his upper body and his muscles, covered in cuts. "That… was too close…" Kiba shakingly falls backwards, although is caught by Akeno.

"Sona Sitri, one Rook retired!"

"You did well, Kiba-kun." Akeno smiled and congratulated Kiba on his victory against Tsubaki. As in the background, we saw Tsubasa fading away in a blue light with a broken golden barrier around her, as she had been fried to a burnt crisp by Akeno's Holy Lightning.

"Yeah, now… we should go see if Buchou requires support." Akeno carries the exhausted Kiba over to where Rias and Sona are fighting.

Meanwhile, in the infirmary of the Sitri group. Tsubaki's arms are reattached with the use of Pheonix tears. With all her injuries healed Tsubaki quickly sits up from her bed. And looks around at the astonished faces of her comrades, all shocked that she lost. Then her eyes drift towards the screen showing the Rating Game, seeing the injured Kiba being carried by Akeno. Seeing Kiba's sturdy body all bruised up, made something click in Tsubaki. Her face turned into a deep shade of red, as she blushed.

With all her peerage members beaten, Sona stood alone awaiting at the rooftop of the shopping mall. Her arms crossed, and a smirk plastered on her face. She looked down from the glass ceiling, seeing the limping Kiba Yuuto being supported by Akeno. "To think Tsubaki actually lost to Yuuto-kun… I would never have expected such an outcome. Oh well, time for the main event." With a flick of her fingers, Sona manipulated the water from the fountain within the mall next to Akeno and Kiba. The two Gremory peerage members looked in shock as the water enveloped them both within water spheres.

Kiba gargled underneath the water, already feeling his lungs filling in with water. His chest grew hot as he couldn't breathe. Akeno seemed to try and hold her breath, unable to even move her body underneath all this water to attempt a spell to break free. Sona squeezed her hand, and the water prison bubbles tightened and the water began to boil. With a snap of her fingers, the boiling water exploded. "Rias Gremory, Knight retired, Queen retired." It was announced, now it was down to the two King's to battle it out.

In the audience Itachi looked at the disappearing forms of Kiba and Akeno on screen. "Well, Kiba-kun was pretty much done for anyway after his battle against Tsubaki." Sairaorg commented next to him.

"True, Akeno still had some fight left in her after her battle with Yura-san however. Well, now it is anyone's guess on who is going to win." Itachi leaned back in his seat, looking at the screen with anticipation.

"So, now it's down to just Kaichou and Rias-senpai…" Matsuda and Motohama were still in complete awe, feeling like they were privileged to be allowed to witness a fight like this Rating Game.

"Kiba-kun…" Murayama and Katase sniffed a bit, having cheered on Kiba this whole time. And just when Kiba pulled off a stunning victory against near impossible odds, he was taken out.

At the mall rooftop, Sona heard the sound of echoing footsteps making its way up the staircase. Sona lazily drifted her gaze onto the approaching figure of Rias. Her childhood friend, and rival, was smiling so casually like nothing was wrong, while emitting a rumbling destructive red aura. Sona cracked a smirk as well, as she responded with her calm blue fiery aura. "Just you and me left…" Sona casually greeted Rias.

"Yep, and this suits me just fine. No one to interrupt us, as we have our long-awaited one-on-one match." Rias gave a gentle smile followed by a light hearted giggle, she was rather excited about this.

"Yes, I do believe this is the first time we've ever fought against each other like this." Sona turns around to fully face Rias, with her rapier sword drawn and pointed at the Gremory heiress.

"Indeed, usually we settle things by playing a game of chess." Rias steps closer to Sona, without any fear as her destructive aura screamed of confidence.

"And like a game of chess, it will end in my victory." Sona declared, showing an equal amount of confidence in her chances to win this fight.

Despite the rapier sword, Rias stepped right up with the tip pointing mere inches from her chest. "I wouldn't be so sure about that." Rias stared down at Sona with her cool blue eyes, while Sona glared up at Rias with her piercing violet eyes. Both their faces darkened from the shades of their bangs, and their eyes glowing showing just how excited these female devils were. Rias folds her arms under her chest, pushing up her large breasts right into Sona's face. Unintentionally taunting Sona, who's brow twitched in annoyance.

Sona in her rage, slashes Rias with a whip of water. The sudden blow of the water whip sent Rias flying a few feet over the ground. Sona glares up at Rias, and slashes her rapier sword down and the water whip gathers into a sphere, then fires itself off like a cannon into Rias sending her crashing through the sky window of the mall, and straight into the fountain in a loud rumbling crash.

The statue of the fountain had crumbled to dust, and the rubble had fallen onto Rias. The Gremory heiress lays in the water of the fountain, her uniform drenched and a trickle of blood dripping down from her lip. Rias cracks a smile, even as the surrounding water surrounds Rias like a pit filled with water snakes, binding Rias body like it was bondage play. Rias twitched her hands as the water restraints tightened onto her like ropes.

"Oh! Oh!" Matsuda and Motohama look with excited glances, seeing Rias' body restrained by the water like if it was a BDSM AV. Katase and Murayama loomed over the boys with a look of disgust, and violently hit the back of their heads. "Ouch!" Both perverts cried out. As they were about to cuss out the two kendo girls, they froze as their eyes met Itachi's. Itachi looked at them with his arms crossed, and his brow raised giving off a dangerous looking vibe. "Sorry…" Both of them apologized at once.

"I haven't even said anything…" Itachi lightly added. Not too happy with the fact that many likeminded perverts as Matsuda and Motohama probably ogled Rias in her current situation as well. "Did they have to zoom in on that image…" Itachi quietly mumbled to himself. Letting out a light groan as he looked off slightly to the side.

Sairaorg looked at Itachi with a knowing smirk and a raised brow. 'Heh, if only Rias could see you now… Wonder how she would react to you getting upset over such things.' Sairaorg thought and lightly chuckled to himself.

"What's so funny?" Itachi looked at his rival and best friend.

"Nothing~" Sairaorg sang in a light teasing tone that caused Itachi to grunt a little. Meanwhile, nearly all of Itachi's peerage were currently struggling not to laugh, or even smile. Damian and Bob biting their lips, looking near tears trying their best to keep it together. Even stoic Raven looked to be lightly shaking. Harry hid his expression behind his hand, as he shakingly looked away. Eto beamed smiling and quickly snapped a picture of Itachi. Kuroka hid her face as well behind her hands, letting out light snorts and giggles. Jack looked clueless as she rested her chin on Itachi's head, while latched onto his back like a monkey.

Back to the Rating Game, Sona wasted no time, and unleashed a series of water eagle shaped projectiles soaring down towards the restrained Rias. Rias looked relaxed as she laid there bound, and with a clench of her fists Rias' destruction aura blew up around her, pushing away the water and the restraints. The aura expands into a roaring red eclipse of destructive aura that canceled out all of Sona's attacks. Sona shielded her eyes from the blinding red light.

The red light then soars right behind Sona. Who is quick to realize and turns around to block a spin kick from Rias with her forearm. Sona grunts as she is launched several feet away. Her feet skidding backwards from the intense force of the kick. Sona groans, seeing her arm bruised and turning slightly purple. "Oh dear, you bruise like a peach. Had you said something I would have given you a lighter love tap~" Rias taunted Sona with a friendly looking smile, although Rias' voice sounded like she was teasing Sona.

"Heh, as usual you tend to brag at small victories. And overlook the rest of the board~" Sona taunted back, as giant tentacles of water shot up behind Rias. The tentacles swung down and Rias jumped out of the way, weaving and dodging midflight. Crossing her arms, Rias created two huge destruction spheres, that scattered into dozens of softball sized spheres. The spheres were spinning around her, almost like Rias had her own gravitational field. Rias' destruction spheres blocked off Sona's water tentacles, and even ate away at the water. Not evaporating it, but erasing the water completely from existence.

'A new defense?' Sona clicked her tongue, and took a small jump backwards to create some distance. Sona spun her body completely around whilst dragging the tip of her blade against the roof, drawing up a blue circle. Water emerged from the circle, and formed itself as a protective bubble around Sona.

'This is new…' Rias closely observed Sona, who seemed to have performed a reverse water prison technique. What is more, Sona seemed to have no trouble breathing within the water bubble, and even floated in it.

"Here I come." Sona smirked, and her voice was heard loud and clear despite the water surrounding her. Sona rushed at Rias, as the water bubble raced across the rooftop at super speed. Rias flinched and quickly tossed two destruction softball sized spheres at Sona. The spheres of destruction drilled into the water bubble, making the water spray around a bit. But suddenly the destruction spheres bounced off Sona, as if they slipped right off the surface of the bubble and continued to spin towards an air vent on the rooftop that quickly wound up erased.

Rias gasped, with this water bubble Sona had not only increased her level of defense but also her speed. Rias crossed her arms, as the spinning rings of destruction spheres moved in an x-formation before her. Sona's water bubble clashed into Rias' spinning destruction rings. The clash generating mighty shockwaves, that tore up the entire roof of the mall causing it to collapse around them. Floating above in the air, Rias and Sona were locked in a standoff. Like two clashing spinning chainsaws, their clashing attacks let out a series of sparks flying between them. 'It will come down to who has the greater level of defense then!' Rias gritted her teeth, and the spinning of her destruction rings intensified. Rias was confident in a contest of endurance and durability she had Sona beat. Just as Sona was confident enough that she could outplay Rias.

The clashes of their attacks caused Sona's water bubble to spray drops of water around Rias. "Just like I had hoped." Sona with a twirl of her wrist, formed the spraying water drops into sharp needles and had them all surround Rias. 'Rias, in the long run in a contest of the durability of each of our defenses, you would have me beat. Which is why I need to exploit a different method. Even though you can move those spinning rings of destruction around your body. It is still not an omnidirectional defense, and leaves a lot of gaps for me to exploit.' With a snap of her fingers, Sona unleashed her barrage fire of water needles.

Rias gasped as she felt a hot trickle of blood drip down from a cut on her cheek. Sona had bypassed her defense. Rias shielded her face with her arms, as the water needle barrage was relentless and got in between the gap of Rias defense rings of destruction. Water needles stabbed into Rias' back, her arms, legs and abdomen. Rias amidst this barrage, smiled. "I wouldn't expect anything less from you, Sona. But you are going to need more than needles to beat me!" Rias unleashed the full force of her aura, which pushed back the barrage of water needles.

Sona was pushed back, as the surrounding space of the Rating Game Dimension around them were dyed red from Rias' sheer aura. The Gremory heiress' hair was shooting straight up, and the water needles lodged into her body were erased before her aura. Rias yanked out a water needle from her shoulder, the solid needle of water turned to ash within Rias' hand, and the ash itself was erased.

Amongst the audience, everyone cheered in awe. The humans however, although in awe were truly confused. "What kind of power does Rias-senpai have?" Murayama silently whispered. It was as if they could feel the intensity of the Gremory heiress aura through the screens.

"Destruction." Sairaorg revealed, looking with admiration for his cousin. Not even a hint of jealousy lingering in his gaze for Rias having been born with the power of his family, when he wasn't. "Rias is known as the "Ruin Princess" in the Underworld. Her mother comes from my family, the Bael. Who are known for their mighty Demonic power of Destruction. In the hands of a true master, they are capable of erasing anything from existence."

"Will Kaichou be okay then? Facing someone like that?" Aika asked, looking with intrigue as she learned of the secrets the Underworld had to offer.

"The Sitri family are known for the ability to control water, in any shape or form. If used correctly, Sona would be able to overwhelm Rias and put her under the pressure of an entire ocean." Itachi explained, there were ways for both Rias and Sona to win this battle. If this was a year ago, Itachi would estimate that the odds were fifty-fifty for both of them to win this. But with all the secret training and progress from both Rias and Sona, Itachi wasn't quite sure. Which is why, Itachi was curious to see to what lengths both had improved.

Watching further up amongst the elders, Lord Bael sat on his throne and looked pleased as he watched the screen. "It would seem Lady Rias is performing exceptionally well." An elder commented.

"Well of course, my niece is blessed with the Bael power of Destruction. It is only natural that she will prevail in this battle." Marco Bael smirked as he twirled around a glass of wine in his hand.

"Of course! Yes, that must be it!" Several of the elders, were quick to kiss Lord Bael's ass, continuing to boost up his ego.

"Tch! Bunch of brown nosers, all of ya!" Malphas Sitri scoffed at the elders who all flinched. "Granted Rias-chan is amazing! But nothing beats the cuteness of my Sona-chan!" Malphas stood from his seat, and tore up his coat revealing a special made t-shirt underneath bearing a picture of an embarrassed looking Sona. Whose cheeks were flushed as in the photo, she looked like she was running away from whoever the cameraman was. "Go! Go! Sona-chan! Daddy is right here rooting for ya!" Malphas waved around a big flag decorated with the same picture of Sona. "Yosh! Everyone! Cheer loudly now!" Malphas declared as all of his butlers and maids all raised their own flags within the audience and began cheering.

"Yosh! Everyone! Let's not let the Sitri family show us up!" Zeoticus Gremory came charging in, launching up fireworks, that when they blew up the sparking flares took the shape of Rias' face. "Go! Go! Go! Rias-chan! Win daddy this bet between him and Lord Sitri! Show everyone you are the cutest! Rias-chan!" All the Gremory maids and butlers cheered with their master, as they waved around flags decorated with a picture of a younger smiling version of Rias.

Marco Bael sweat dropped at seeing Lord Sitri and his brother-in-law getting all riled up like this. 'They shamelessly don't even hide that they made bets?' Marco Bael continued to remain bewildered at their behavior.

Itachi sweat dropped as he looked on with an awkward smile. "Well… let's hope this doesn't distract them too much." Itachi had been given two small flags, one of Sona and one of Rias. A maid from the Sitri family, and one from the Gremory family continuing to pile merchandise onto him.

Both Sona and Rias were shaking, their faces a bit red as they could see the audience through the hovering screens above them, and they could hear the loud cheers of their families.

"L-Let's just continue, Sona." Rias decided to try and ignore the cheering sounds of her father and his servants.

"Y-Yes, let's." Sona caught on quickly and followed Rias' lead. From within her water barrier bubble, Sona unleashed a series of water whips at Rias. Rias dodged and weaved the water whips, and jumps a few feet into the air. While midair Rias twirls her body around and unleashes a machine gun fire of destruction spheres.

The spheres all slip straight off from Sona's water bubbles surface. However, Rias with a twirl of her hand forms a cage of magic circles surrounding Sona. Sona gasped within her water bubble, as the previous unleashed destruction spheres bounced off from the walls of magic circles, and bombarded into Sona's water bubble. "Let's see how long you can keep up your defenses." Rias added more spheres into the mix, with destruction sphere clobbering into the water bubble from every corner. They began shaving away at the water bubbles surface.

Eventually the sound of the water bubble popping echoed like a gun shot. The water from the bubble exploded and broke through Rias' magic circle cage. Rias had broken through Sona's defenses. "Shall we wrap this up?" Rias with a twirl of her wrists unleashed the destruction sphere bombardment onto Sona. Sona widened her eyes, and the destruction spheres exploded all around her. When the dust cleared, it revealed a mangled destroyed looking water dragon that had protected Sona. Sona panted, feeling slight out of breath as her water dragon collapsed around her.

Sona drenched in water, looks at Rias with a stoic face and quickly starts by running to her right, dragging her rapier sword across the ground creating multiple magic circles. Sona rushes to flank Rias, by unleashing a series of water dragons. Rias is quick to respond, with an equal amount of softball sized destruction spheres that she unleashes like machine gun fire. The destruction spheres clashes with the water dragons, and erases them on the spot.

Rias rushes at Sona, who is quick to create a series of defense magic circles around herself as a barrier. Rias jumps at Sona's barrier, and smashes through it with destruction enhanced kick. Sona spins her body around to dodge Rias' kick, and pushes Rias' leg aside, while in a swift motion, thrusts her rapier sword at Rias. Rias tilts her head sideways, so the rapier sword barely scratches her cheek.

Sona creates a new wall of defense magic circles, and Rias smashes through it once more with a destruction sphere. Holding it in the palm of her hand, Rias thrusts the destruction sphere into the wall of magic circles and they shatter like glass. Sona bends her upper body backwards, avoiding the thrusting strike of Rias' sphere. Sona slaps Rias on the butt causing the Gremory heiress to let out a surprised squeal. "The hell was that?" Rias' cheeks were a little red.

"You can't catch me~" Sona sang tauntingly causing Rias to twitch her brow.

"What are you? Five?" Rias rushes at Sona, and once more breaks her defenses. But Sona continues to outmaneuver Rias, and dodge and weave her destructive attacks.

In the med bay for Rias' peerage, Akeno pouted as she saw the fight play out on the screen. Issei seeing Akeno pout, assumed she was upset because she wasn't able to be there and support Rias. "D-Don't worry Akeno-san! Buchou will certainly pull off a victory!"

"Mm…" Akeno pouted, puffing her cheeks as she looked with jealousy. "I want to slap Rias on the butt too…" At hearing their Queen say something so outrages, the Gremory peerage all sweat dropped.

Rias smashes once again through Sona's defenses, Sona's defense magic circle sounding like shattering glass. "It's finally ready…" Sona smirks as she quickly takes a giant leap backwards.

"What do you mean?" Rias is caught off guard, at suddenly discovering multiple magic circles emitting around her body. Each time Rias broke Sona's defenses, Sona planted a trap onto Rias' body. And now, the trap was sprung. Water emitted from the magic circles, and enveloped completely around Rias' body.

"Great Beast of Leviathan." The water around Rias continues to expand into a monstrous size, taking on the form of a gigantic dragon like beast. Rias groaned within the Leviathan Water Dragon, the intense pressure felt like being deep under the ocean, nearly crushing Rias. "I've won." Sona declared confidently.

Rias is unable to breathe, what is more she feels that the water dragon is absorbing her demonic power from her body. Rias intensifies her destruction aura, lighting up the insides of the great water beast in a bright crimson light show. But the light began dying down, as the power of Rias' aura was absorbed by the water dragon. "It's no use, Rias. My Leviathan Water Dragon has the power to completely deplete even Maou level combatants of their Demonic Power. The more you struggle, the stronger it becomes." Sona tried to make Rias admit defeat, but the Gremory heiress was stubborn.

Even after hearing Sona's words, Rias did no yield. The insides of the Leviathan Water Dragon began to boil, as Rias' destruction aura continued to expand around her. It would not give up, it continued to expand making the entire giant water dragon look red in color from Rias crimson destruction aura.

In the audience, even Aika was at the edge of her seat. "This is what you meant… when you said your family had the power of oceans?" Aika mumbled at Itachi.

"Yes, in a sense. Sona's attack is big enough to fill an entire lake. But the pressure within it, is the same as the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. What is more, it seems Sona has worked on it. Seeing as it is now absorbing Rias demonic power. She must have done some adjustments after her battle with Raiser." Itachi recalled seeing Sona use this move in her Rating Game against Raiser. Where Raiser and Ravel managed to break free from this monster with their fire. Seems Sona found a way to solve that weakness. 'Yet despite that fact… Sona herself unintentionally revealed another weakness of the monster.' Itachi thought to himself.

Rias' demonic power continued to expand, the sheer force of her aura causing the very foundation of the Rating Game pocket dimension to tremble. "Amazing… I had no idea you had this much Demonic Power in your Rias. Either way, in the end things will still go my way." Sona continued her focus onto the beast, not letting her mind slip for even a second as Sona's main goal was to keep the Leviathan Water Dragon intact for as long as she could. After all, even if Rias should happen to overload it with her Demonic Power, it would still have consumed quite a deal from Rias to the point where Sona should be able to overwhelm her.

In the Maou stands, Serafall was intently cheering for her sister. While Sirzechs sat there looking calm and collected. 'It would seem you need to show off the results of your training with me, Rias.' Sirzechs smirked.

Rias had air bubbles explode from around her, as her destruction aura flared up like a giant wall of flames. Rias' demonic power, was far too much for the Leviathan Water Dragon to devour, it began puffing itself up like a balloon, looking like it was about to burst. Itachi and Sairaorg got up from their seats, as Rias' destruction aura blasted through Sona's Leviathan Water Dragon. Rias unleashing her war cry as her aura continued to burn strongly around her and with great intensity.

On the screen Rias was shining like a bright crimson star of pure power. The arena itself was beginning to tremble slightly. Itachi and Sairaorg exchanged a knowing glance, with the demonic power Rias currently unleashed. Puts her on a level higher than the likes of Serafall Leviathan, and Shalba Beelzebub through the sheer amount of Demonic Power alone. 'What kind of training did she undergo?' Itachi found himself asking, although he had a pretty good guess. Itachi's eyes trailed over to the Maou stands, seeing Serafall gasping with shock. And then there was Sirzechs, who looked at the battle with a calm and collected expression. Almost like he knew this would happen. 'Heh, well I will be damned.' Itachi couldn't help but smile with pride over how strong Rias and Sona had become. "Guess whichever of us goes to the finals, won't have an easy time. Right, Sairaorg?"

"Heh, looks like it." Sairaorg smirked, of course neither he nor Itachi were worried. They both could tell. They were both stronger than Rias and Sona. But still, both Rias and Sona each presented a few challenging abilities.

Once she was freed from the belly of the giant water dragon, Rias calmed down her aura letting it lower itself around her.Sona looked on in awe, the water left from her destroyed Leviathan Water Dragon rained down all around her. Drenching the entire mall, and nearly flooding it. Sona however, did take notice that Rias was out of breath. 'Seems the Water Dragon absorbed a great deal of her Demonic power. Just like I had planned. Sorry Rias, but in a contest of raw power. I have to admit you are superior to me in that field. So, I have to come up with other methods.' Sona smiled as she thrusted her rapier blade forward, unleashing a water cannon blast attack.

Rias grunted and held her arms up to shield her face, as her entire body was enveloped by the blast. Then suddenly, the water cannon blast began parting away, as Rias came soaring down like a bullet of destruction. Sona gasped and quickly flew backwards, while still facing Rias who was taking chase after her. "You may be stronger… but I am faster." Sona declared, while Rias created two softball sized spheres, one in each hand. Rias flew a bit up, and attempted a dive attack at Sona whilst thrusting her destruction spheres forward. Sona however, at the last second bolted up into the air like a rocket avoiding the blast, as Rias hit the flooded interior of the mall.

Rias shot herself out from the flooded mall like a red rocket of destruction, and soared after Sona. Sona was ready for her, and blitzed Rias' field of vision as she slashed the Gremory heiress on her thigh and shoulder. Rias hissed in pain, and glared at Sona who now behind her, readied a water dragon to blast at Rias. However, pulling one of her hands out Rias revealed she still held onto one of the destruction softballs from earlier. And the sphere increased a hundred times in size in the blink of an eye. Rias quickly flung the massive destruction sphere into Sona.

Sona gasped as the water dragon she prepared collapsed around her, and the destruction sphere from Rias sent Sona plummeting straight into the remnants of the mall. The sphere carrying Sona detonated in a bright flashing red explosion of power, that reduced the shopping mall into a pile of rubble.

Rias huffed, feeling her lungs were on fire as she was out of breath. Still feeling the effects of Sona's Leviathan Water Dragon attack. Rias flew down to the burning rubble left of the mall, knowing the battle wasn't over as it was yet to be announced. Rias smiles as she sees Sona walk out from the burning fire. Sona had burns running across her arms and thighs, the bow of her unform had burnt away and one could see her light blue frilly bra as the left upper area of her uniform was torn.

Sona holds out an empty bottle of Pheonix tears, having taken the tears as she exited the burning rubble. And now her burns and injuries were fully healed. "I would have saved that, if I were you." Rias created a second destruction sphere.

Sona was quick to thrust her blade forward, unleashing a giant roaring water dragon at Rias, having created it in the blink of an eye. The Water dragon clashed into Rias, but the Gremory heiress would not fall or buckle under the pressure. Rias' unform got a bit torn, revealing her red bra strap on her right shoulder, and tore up her knee socks. Rias expanded the destruction sphere, eating away the water Dragon. Although the damage was already done, as the water dragon had formed a giant puddle of water beneath Rias.

"Water prison!" Sona creates a giant bubble of water from the puddle, swallowing up Rias and her destruction sphere. The Gremory heiress groaned as it got harder to breathe, a series of air bubbles emerged from her lips as Rias felt water fill her lungs already. As a result, Rias' destruction sphere shrank in size.

Sona held her rapier sword steady, using it like a magic wand to increase her concentration onto the water prison bubble. "You are finished, Rias. With my water prison, which I picked up from watching onii-sama, and having perfected it in my own way, by controlling the water sending it directly down into your lungs. Your body is left immobile and you cannot break free even with your destruction ability. You understand the situation, surely? I have won, Rias." Sona declared confidently as she intensified the pressure within the water bubble, forcing Rias onto her knees.

"Rias…" Akeno gasped from within the medical ward, as she and the rest looked in disbelief.

"Rias onee-sama…" Asia gasped in fright.

"Buchou!" Issei clenched his fists, if only he could have lasted longer in the game he could have been more of a help. Rias had used up so much of her demonic power just to deal with Sona's Leviathan Dragon.

Rias lowered her head, air bubbles coming from her slightly open lips as her body limps down almost lifeless. Everyone looked at the screen in awe, Sairaorg looked a bit saddened that this seemed to be the end of his cousin.

"Is it over this time?" Aika asked as there had already been a close call earlier with the Leviathan Beast attack, and Rias flinging the destruction blast at Sona. While next to Aika, Matsuda and Motohama both looked in anticipation, both so anxious that they were biting the collar of their shirts.

Itachi looked at the screen feeling a pit in his stomach. He would be happy if Sona won, sure. But Itachi would also have been happy if Rias had won. Despite those facts, Itachi still found himself mumbling. "Come on Rias…"

Rias within the water bubble, seemed to lift her lips up into a smile. As suddenly the crystal-clear blue water surrounding her dyed itself in a slight shade of red. The water bubble began to boil from within, bubbles violently erupting all around it. "What?" Sona flinched as suddenly her uniform ended up getting further torn from a wave of aura coming from Rias. Like it had been slashed by the claws of a wild beast.

Flashback

A mere day prior to the Rating Game, Rias had sought out guidance from the previous contender Seekvaria. "Seek-chan~" Rias called out to her friend, who lightly groaned at the nickname.

"Rias… To what do I owe the pleasure?" Seekvaria asked.

"Hey, in your game with Itachi… you managed to break free from his Water Prison using your tech." Rias pointed out, as she vividly remembered Itachi's Rating Game with Seekvaria. Seeing Seekvaria manage to break free from the water prison, by making the water heat up and then unleashed some form of sonic boom to break free. "Mind walking me through how you did that?"

"Huh? Oh, well… by heating up the water using the ignition boosters. I also simultaneously changed the frequency of the water, to alter its form of gravity that I assumed was used to keep it sustained in a floating bubble form. By doing that, the water prison simply imploded." Seekvaria explained and Rias seemed really intrigued.

"Very interesting, you think there is a chance to adapt that method into my demonic power maybe?" Rias asked with a friendly smile.

Flashback end.

The water bubble's shape began looking distorted, as it suddenly imploded before the might of Rias' destruction aura. "My destruction power is restrained by your water?" Rias' aura had perfectly mimicked the same frequency Seekvaria's tech had done against Itachi's water prison, with exceptional results. The destruction sphere in Rias' hand continued to expand in size. The surrounding water all got erased before this intense aura of destruction, leaving not behind a single drop. "Last time I checked, you don't decide my limits, Sona." Rias' destruction sphere doubled in size once more, and now looked like a glowing red sun. "I do." Rias finished, her glowing blue eyes glaring at Sona.

"What's going on? She shouldn't be able to do anything… Her demonic power should be nearly depleted after dealing with my Leviathan Dragon, it absorbed so much of her power… how can she have this much left? I made the calculations… the Leviathan Dragon spell should be enough to deplete a Maou level combatant of their Demonic Power… don't tell me. Rias' demonic power is greater than that of a Maou?!" Sona sweats in fright, her legs unable to move and stuck in place trembling before this intense aura from Rias. 'Her power keeps growing more and more! What the hell is this?! Is this the result of Hyoudou boosting up her power? No, Saji took down Issei… then this is her own power?!'

As Sona is stuck in her own thoughts, Rias glares down at her and flings the miniature red sun of destruction at Sona. The entire Rating Game Dimension dyed in the color of crimson. The massive sphere flew at Sona, who clicked her teeth as she formed a defensive wall of water trying to hold back the sphere. As the sphere clashed into the wall, the shockwave erased the entire replicated shopping mall.

"Sona…" Itachi reached his hand toward the screen, seeing his struggling sister Itachi felt a sensation of pride. "Sona… Rias… you have both gotten so strong." Itachi smiled.

The wall of water before Sona is erased and the sphere clashes into her. The destruction sphere carries away Sona further into the Rating Game Dimension. Sona groans, unable to escape as the destruction sphere takes off at super speed. "I've lost…" Sona bitterly accepts defeat, and is thus retired.

"Sona Sitri, has retired. Winner of the first round of the semifinals, Rias Gremory." Rias smiled and turned her back to the still soaring destruction sphere, and with a snap of her fingers the sphere detonated. Rias was quickly teleported away, as the blast of the explosion effortlessly erased the entire Rating Game Dimension. As a result of the snowy screens in the arena everyone was left bewildered. "It… would seem the final attack of Rias Gremory completely erased the Rating Game dimension."

As Esdeath announced it, even Itachi and Sairaorg flinched a bit. Which was nothing compared to the gaping humans. "Did they just say… Rias-senpai erased an entire dimension?" Motohama whispered, both his and Matsuda's faces glowing in admiration of such a display of power.

"And seemingly so effortlessly…" Aika commented, having a slight cold nervous sweat.

"To erase a pocket dimension… is quite impressive." Sairaorg admitted, and like Itachi he could tell Rias was hiding more secrets. "Heh, now I am excited to fight Rias in the finals." Sairaorg cracked his knuckles.

"You sure seem confident you are going to win our match." Itachi noted, not taking it as a form of mockery. More like Sairaorg hinting he had something special up his sleeve for their battle.

"Hahaha! Well, we'll find out in what? A week and a half from now?" Sairaorg asked.

"I think it's two weeks actually." Itachi said and Sairaorg looked a little slumped.

"Damn, well… I can hardly wait." Sairaorg held his fist out to Itachi, encouraging them to bump fists. Itachi smiled slightly and bumped his fist into Sairaorg's.

"May the best man win." Itachi, as well as his peerage members all seemed to glow up with intense auras.

"I was about to say the same." Sairaorg smirked, as he and his peerage responded with their own intense auras. Their intense auras caused some parts of the stands to crack underneath all the pressure.

"Scary…" Matsuda and Motohama shrunk away in slight fear.

"Itachi-senpai and Sairaorg-kun look so cool…" Murayama and Katase both hid their blushing faces as they eyed the two young devils.

In the special booth for the Maou, Sirzechs smiled brightly at seeing Rias' victory. Sirzechs turned to the sulking Serafall. "It was a great match." Sirzechs tried to cheer Serafall up a bit.

Serafall stopped sulking, her pouty face vanishing as she looked serious for a moment. "That was your move, wasn't it Sirzechs-chan?" Serafall's sudden serious tone made Sirzechs feel like he was being interrogated.

"My, would you look at that? It was, wasn't it? What a coincidence." Sirzechs decided to pretend to act clueless. Even though internally he was cheering that Rias used the move he taught her to win.

Serafall didn't look like she was having it, and steps before his throne preventing him from escaping. By putting her hands firmly onto his armrests as she leans closer to Sirzechs' face. "Yes, a coincidence. Coincidence that Rias-chan suddenly knows your erasure move that you used to kill Bidleid Bashalun Beelzebub during the end of the Civil War." Sirzechs had to say, Serafall didn't appear to be angry. He could tell she was curious as to how strong Rias has grown, if she could perfectly replicate Sirzechs' erasure move. "Ne, Sirzechs-chan! Why didn't you give me a heads up?! I would have started to train So-tan early on too!" Serafall started pouting over having missed a chance to train her beloved younger sister. Knowing Sona would be more compliant if she knew Sirzechs was training Rias.

"Hush now, I promised Ria-tan to keep it a secret from Itachi-kun. So, don't you go and blab and ruin my reputation as her onii-chan." Sirzechs warned. However, seeing how desperate he looked caused Serafall to smile devilishly, looking all smug.

"Eh, I don't know~ It may slip out one of these days while Rias-chan is in the room~" There was no doubt, Serafall was currently trying to blackmail her friend.

Shakingly, Sirzechs lowered his head. "What's it going to take for you to keep your mouth shut?"

Serafall playfully hums like she is trying to think of something. "You and Grayfia-chan guest starring on my show Miracle Levi-tan. And a photo session with you and Grayfia-chan in cosplay~ Ah, feel free to bring Millicas-chan and make it a family outing~"

At this request, Sirzechs sweat drops. "I… don't think Grayfia will agree to it even if I beg." Serafall sees Sirzechs' point, after all Esdeath herself outright refuses such requests from Serafall. Unless they are private that is.

"Family cosplay session, advertise my show, and take some load of my work. How's that?" Serafall asks and Sirzechs drops his head and sighs.

"I will see what I can do…" Sirzechs gives in, to which Serafall is happily clapping her hands.

As Sirzechs was in the process of getting blackmailed, Rias was meeting up with her latest opponent. Rias and her peerage had gone to meet up with Sona and her peerage. Sona sat on the side of a bed, having her burn injuries treated, while surrounded by her own peerage. Saji spoke up with everyone else sharing the same apologetic look on their faces. "Sorry, Kaichou… we failed you."

"No need to apologize. We did the best we could. Getting hung up over something like this is pointless." Sona sighed, was she bummed out over losing? Sure, it was a natural feeling after all. But her servants had performed to the best of their abilities, and so had she. In the end that was all Sona could ask of them.

"You seem to be taking your loss better than I had thought." Rias walked into the room accompanied by her own peerage.

"Come to gloat?" Sona playfully smiled with a raised brow.

"You really think I would do that?" Rias acted like she sounded a bit hurt at Sona's comment, both childhood friends joining one another in a light chuckle. "It was a splendid match." Rias held out her hand to Sona, who accepted and shook Rias' hand.

"Next time I will beat you, count on it." Sona smiled confidently.

"Looking forward to it." Rias welcomed the challenge with a smile.

Saji and Issei were also busy bumping their forearms together. "Bastard, that was some sneaky trick you pulled!" Issei grinned from ear to ear, even if Saji retired first from the game. Issei had to admit, he had lost to Saji.

"I'm surprised you didn't figure something was wrong sooner." Saji lightly taunted, as it should have been obvious something was up when the line on Issei's arm didn't disappear even after Saji was retired.

"Heh, well next time I will send you flying in one shot!" Issei boldly declared.

"One shot?! Yeah right, next time I won't even need the line to suck at your blood to beat you!" Saji retorted.

Kiba stepped before Tsubaki, who looked slightly flustered at Kiba's sudden approach. "Wh-What is it?" Tsubaki looked with a raised brow, and her facial expression turned into one of shock as Kiba went on his knees and prostrated himself to Tsubaki.

"I'm so sorry for being so brutal in our battle!" Kiba with his face far down into the floor shouted wholeheartedly.

"E-Eh?!" Tsubaki's cheeks turned into a light shade of pink. Tsubaki quickly composed herself, crossing her arms and looking onto Kiba with a smile. "Why apologize? This is what a Rating Game is, you know?" Tsubaki's flustered look had the rest of the Sitri group look dumbfounded.

"No, still! For a gentleman like me to do that to a lady such as yourself-" Upon hearing Kiba calling her a lady, Tsubaki's face turned into the shade of a tomato.

"It's fine!" Tsubaki shouted to shut Kiba up. Even Sona now looked amazed at seeing her flustered Queen.

"I've never seen Tsubaki act flustered before…" Sona quietly mumbled to herself.

"Aw, she looks so cute." Rias lightheartedly commented.

Kiba was still on his knees, prostrating himself while asking for forgiveness. While the red faced Tsubaki, the ice Queen of Kuoh Academy, continued to demand that Kiba got off the floor already. Even as she backed away, Kiba crawled ever so closer asking for forgiveness. "You are forgiven! You are forgiven! Just get up already!" Tsubaki hid her blushing face behind her hands.

"I cannot accept forgiveness that easily!" Kiba looked up, but not wanting the knight to see her blushing face, Tsubaki stomped onto the back of Kiba's head so he would not get a look at her current state.

As this spectacle was taking place, the audience in the Rating Game arena were starting to look empty. As more people began leaving. Itachi, Sairaorg, Azazel, the Sins and Sairaorg's peerage stayed behind with the five humans. Waiting for Rias, Sona and their peerage members to meet up with them. "What's taking so long? Are they really that injured?" Aika was under the impression that with Devil technology they could heal Asia and the others instantly.

"Well… Tsubaki Shinra did lose her arms. Maybe they need some time to reattach them?" Murayama whispered to Aika.

"Using Pheonix tears, reattaching an arm would only take a few seconds." Azazel revealed, like a responsible sensei Azazel had to assure his students. "No need to worry, they are a tough bunch. Besides, the Underworld's best healers work in the medical bay. Healing a few burns, scrapes and bruises is easy."

"So, how ya kids like the Rating Game?" Damian sat between Matsuda and Motohama, seeing potential in teaching two other heathens about the true art of culture.

"It was fucking epic! Are they all like this?!" Matsuda and Motohama looked very hyped at having their eyes witness such a series of supernatural battles. Even though they had seen a lot during the Diodora incident, they were also busy worrying for their life in that moment.

"It was like watching a movie." Murayama and Katase also seemed quite excited.

"Well, it was fun… just a little ticked the Student Council did that to Asia and Xenovia." Aika silently grumbled looking like she was about to curse someone.

"Haha, well at least one can say they have found a true friend in you." Azazel lightly patted Aika on the back. "If it helps, Devils like Fallen Angels are quite durable. Asia could take a bullet from a human gun to the face, and it wouldn't make a dent. Well, unless they are holy bullets like Exorcists use. And Xenovia, an explosion of that size probably just knocked her out and caused a few bruises and burns, maybe a broken bone or two. But even that is easy to heal." Azazel's words didn't seem to help, Aika didn't like it one bit that Asia risked danger in battle like this. Sure, this one was just a competition, but Asia and her group still faced dangerous opponents outside of that. Diodora Astaroth and Shalba Beelzebub in particular still fresh in her mind.

"Everyone!" Issei's voice called out, as he and the others appeared in the stands through a magic circle. Matsuda and Motohama quickly went over to their friend, lightly taunting him on how he lamely lost to Saji. Murayama and Katase both fawned over Kiba, although backed up as they felt a chilling aura coming from behind Kiba Yuuto. Tsubaki stood there with her icy glare, causing the two girls to nervously back away.

Itachi stood before Rias and Sona. The latter whom looked a bit embarrassed over having to face Itachi after her loss. "You both fought brilliantly. I am proud over how far you've grown, Sona." Itachi said as he put his hand onto Sona's hand, lightly patting her.

"Onii-sama…" Sona's face turned a bit red as she pouted. She felt embarrassed over her brother dotting on her like this in front of everyone. But Sona also looked extremely happy over hearing her brother say how proud he was.

"No words for me?" Rias playfully pouted while poking Itachi's cheek.

"…" Itachi waved his hands for Rias to come closer, and when she did, Itachi flicked her on the forehead like he used to do with Sasuke. "That's for hurting Sona~" Itachi lightly chuckled.

Rias pouted as she now had a red mark on her forehead. "Meanie~"

Watching the gang from afar, in the V.I.P God section of the arena. The Norse Watcher God, Heimdall. Heimdall's purple glowing eyes narrowed as he glared at Itachi. Every time he saw Itachi's mouth move, he saw Asgard burning, he saw Gods falling to his blade, he saw Ragnarök personified into one mere entity. Heimdall grabbed onto the handle of his sword, about to rush Itachi and slay him. However, a firm hand stopped him. "Stop it." Thor glared down at his half-brother.

"Here to lecture me?" Heimdall shook free from Thor's grip.

"All Father told us to do nothing." Thor loomed menacingly over Heimdall.

"I am the guardian of Asgard's walls. And that kid, that abomination of a devil. Is a threat to our home." Heimdall pointed his finger into Thor's pecs, pointing his blade at Itachi. "We can end it now. You and me. Just like with Surtr."

"No." Thor declined, and Heimdall scoffed.

"Fine, I will do it myself." Heimdall didn't need Thor, or so he had convinced himself.

"What will you do, when Ophis threatens our walls?" Thor asked and as a result Heimdall froze. The Dragon God of Infinity making the Watcher God's face turn pale. The prophecy of the Norns, foretold should Itachi die, the Dragon God would seek retribution for the death of her priced champion.

"Ophis won't know it was us. We'll be fine." Heimdall assured. He didn't care what the Norns predicted. The last prophecy they had heard from Groa was a lie. How were they to trust the Norns?

"If you go and attack that kid, you won't like how this ends." Thor threatened as he held onto Mjolnir. "All Father will think of a solution. Think for once about the consequences." Thor's lecture was enough to make Heimdall laugh.

"You, of all people. Are trying to lecture me about thinking? Is that another delusion your wife taught you? You don't think, remember? You kill whoever father tells you to kill." Heimdall challenged, and Thor frowned as he pulled out Mjolnir ready to strike Heimdall.

"All Father's orders… We. Do. Nothing." Thor gave one final threat, and finally Heimdall backed down.

"Very well. When the kid comes to Asgard to kill us all. I will have the pleasure of telling you, I told you so." Heimdall arrogantly huffed as he left through a dimensional rift back to Asgard.

Thor paused, casting one look onto Itachi from the corner of his eye. His greenish eyes glowing as he eyed the Sitri heir, sensing the divine energies within his devil body. Still laying dormant. "Peh, "Ragnarök Personified", yeah right." Thor didn't see what the big deal was and scoffed as he went through the dimensional rift himself.

Hidden within the shadows of the arena, the hooded entity that brought Itachi back to life in the first place, hummed at what he saw. "Things seem to have taken… an unexpected turn. So, Odin is aware of the prophecy as well? Either the child brings the end for all Gods, or all Devils. Heh, the wheels of fate are in motion. Itachi Sitri, what choice will you make when the time comes, I wonder?" The hooded entity vanished in the blink of an eye. Like his whole presence had been erased on the spot, with no trace left of him. "Either way, I will help you down the right path." Even though gone, his voice left in a silent whisper of the wind.

That's the end for now!

With the first round of the semifinals in the Rating Game tournament concluded. We now move onto the Hero Faction arc, in which the second-year students of Kuoh Academy have their field trip to Kyoto. Some may wonder, how Itachi a third-year student will play a part in this arc? Well, it is quite simple really. Of Itachi's peerage amongst the second-year students we have Kuroka and Raven. Now, when the Hero Faction starts wreaking havoc the odds of them calling Itachi for backup are considerably high. I am also not quite sure when the next update is going to be, I have an exam next week and an assignment to work on throughout the month of May and early June. I make no promises, but if I can find the free time to work on my stories it is possible, I can manage maybe one update somewhere between the month of May and June.

With that being said, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Do tell me your thoughts and favorite moments in the reviews, also if you have any questions in regards to the chapter. If you have some issues with the chapter, feel free to mention them as well. I will accept any form of constructive criticism in order to help me become a better writer.

One more thing, some of you may have noticed I stated Rias had surpassed Serafall in terms of Demonic Power. Which is true, Rias with her latent potential which I have planned for to be greater than that of Sirzechs. Through sheer level of Demonic Power, Rias has surpassed various Satan level combatants. However, there are many more categories where Serafall surpasses Rias like speed, battle experience etc. Rias at this point by no means would ever beat Serafall in a 1v1 fight. Serafall is still the strongest female devil. With the only other female devil that you could argue surpasses Serafall, being Raven when she loses control over the side of herself that her father Trigon holds influence over. In her rage state, I have stated Raven in the past to be on the level of a Super Devil during the Sins battle against Shalba Beelzebub where Raven lost control.

Also, someone sent me a PM asking about the effects of Divine Weapons. Now, a Divine Weapon much like a Holy Sword are poisonous to Devils. But a Divine Weapon has another power that would be useful in fighting/killing a God. As shown with Loki in the previous chapter, he was able to regenerate and regrow lost limbs, until the very moment where he lost three of his fingers to Susano'o, who like all Gods uses a Divine Weapon. And since Loki's fingers were cut with a Divine Weapon, it dampened Loki's regenerative powers, slowing them down significantly and prevented Loki from regrowing his lost fingers for the rest of the fight. And which is why, Itachi was able to heavily injure Loki as well using the Leviathan Blade, which is a Divine Weapon. And Itachi's Leviathan Blade even held an effect on Fenrir, when Harry's Flame Sword of Pride didn't have much of an effect.

Anyway, leave a review!

-Later!

(Responds to reviews):

moose master5543: Itachi will get his Eternal Mangekyou in the very next arc, the Hero Faction arc.

Guest: I am going to be honest here, 6 Paths Naruto and 6 Paths Madara, wouldn't scale to the Top 10. Susano'o moved so fast it appeared as if time itself was frozen to him, and in his battle with Fenrir nearly destroyed an entire realm. If I were to scale 6 Paths Naruto and Madara, they would be in the Top 30. Itachi himself at the moment might not even scale up to the Top 50, neither would Hashirama.

kylecraig94: Thanks! And yes, Itachi will meet up with the second-year students in someway during their Kyoto field trip when the Hero Faction arrive.

SolSparda369: Many are bound to either be curious of Itachi's power, or fear it. Which is bound to create complications later on.

Zane214252: You are welcome!

velniar341: Thanks! And yes, Harry probably can use the other forms of Haki. But with only a piece, he won't be able to reach awakening devil fruit. Loki is more of a mid-tier God than anything, or at least high low-tier. And yes, the last bit with Odin, Thor and Heimdall was a GoW reference.

merendinoemiliano: Thank you!

Dasgun: 00

RED3YES: Heimdall, yes. Thor's appearance is based of Record of Ragnarök, his personality is more like God of War Ragnarök, same with Odin's personality.

Mr. Haziq: Imagine, Tannin dies and Itachi condenses his soul into a crystal and attaches it to the blade. But no, the original Leviathan is not in the sword. The sword is just made up out of her lost tooth, which holds some of her natural powers. Bob was both worthy, and he forced it to work XD. That is a pretty accurate description of Susano'o if I must say.

andresskorskiruiz: Thanks, glad you liked it. Imagine if the only reason Eto hasn't snuck a bite from Itachi, was because she was waiting for him to be "seasoned" with more power XD. As for a spicy scene with Eto… although we may be getting close to that. I'm not quite sure she is going to be next.

Poharan: Thanks!

TehStorm: Thanks! And yes, the pervy old man persona Odin showed was nothing more than a façade.

fallendemon248: I can't really say much, but it will be quite the journey for Itachi in the next arc.

izica1: Glad you liked it!

VzLucifer: Itachi will simply be limited to the Mangekyou abilities he has always had. Itachi will have Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu, Susano'o, Izanagi and Izanami.

phillyitalian: Yeah, well what can I say, sorry no Oppai Goddess from another universe appeared XD

Wabbayack22: I can see why that would be frustrating. Although personally I don't feel like I dumbed Itachi down too much in certain moments. True I made him sort of clueless in the very beginning when it came to feelings the girls had for him, but he also realized their feelings a few chapters later. Anyway, Itachi has always had issues understanding his own true feelings. That is sort of a part of his character in Naruto. Shisui himself lectured Itachi about it in the LN.

Guest: Well, it probably gave Eto Angrboda's power which was mainly to control monsters.

Jackrabbit55: What can I say, sometimes a flashback is needed for character motivation/growth/development etc.

NaruCrazy: I did send you a PM going over each of the issues. But I will also quickly address them here. Yes, Fenrir and Susano'o are evenly matched but each surpass the other in certain areas. For Fenrir it is brute strength, and for Susano'o it is speed. During their fight we can tell Susano'o is holding back his full speed, as not only is he trying to talk sense into Fenrir. But back when Susano'o moved so fast that time appeared to be slowing down for him, that means that even Fenrir moved so slow for Susano'o it appeared as if he was frozen in place. With Harry against Fenrir, Harry is simply durable enough to hold off Fenrir. And also, in the fight Vali did divide Fenrir's power, which was when Harry started fighting back more effectively. When Bob punched Fenrir it had no effect, all Bob did was show he could lift Fenrir and suplex him. Now for Itachi, Itachi has been stated before to be stronger than Serafall, and to be faster than the speed of light. And Fenrir was simply fast enough to keep up with Itachi, and even catch up to him. With Sairaorg, he is stronger than before I just haven't gotten a chance to show off his abilities yet. And yes, even though Odin knows Itachi is special, he also knows Itachi hasn't unlocked the divine godly powers yet, and yet Itachi beat Loki which is what worries Odin. And Fenrir's fangs don't have poison, they are just freakishly sharp that they can tear through realms and reality. The one with poison fangs would be Midgardsormr or the World serpent. Anyway, the word count for the previous chapter was 47,331. Hope I answered all your questions.

cyrusg1421: Thank you for the kind words, and the support. Hope you continue to enjoy my story.

Chris4939h: I'm happy to hear that you have grown to enjoy this story. And yeah, looking back on it I will admit having the characters be that young, in particular Rias when she started feeling funny feelings for Itachi, might have been a bit of a stretch. And I do imagine that when Itachi marries Rias, he will marry into the Gremory family, and let Sona take over as head of the Sitri family. Simply because I think Itachi would rather want to avoid the political side of being clan head, seeing how his history with the Uchiha went. I imagine Itachi would also let Rias mainly handle the political business of the Gremory family when they are married, while Itachi gets a regular job in the human world. Like maybe become a part of the Kuoh Police force, kind of come full circle seeing as how the Uchiha used to be the police force.

ali sad yarandi: I don't upload on Wattpad, I don't have a Wattpad account. The guy who posted on Wattpad Elite-Ninja something, stole my stories and posted them on Wattpad without permission and pretended to be me. Some of my readers notified me about this, so I requested him to take the stories down which now they have been.