So what, if I want to be a Harem Protagonist?

by FrancoGamerxz

An Eroge-induced epiphany leads Hyoudou Issei down a path of hard work, excellence and extreme degrees of trauma suppression. Add to that a grumpy old dragon, an overpowered sacred gear, a frisky succubus and munchkin-worthy tactics that put the capital P in "Power Creep", and you've got yourself a nice mess. Oh, and there's also devils, and angels, and stuff. (Cover by Yutaku)

13. Plots, Plans and Perversions

Come, come, one and all, and watch this humble writer make an absolute and total mess of the well-established universe of Highschool DxD that you all know and love!

Heh, make a mess of indeed. The amount of butterflies resulting from the last chapter is going to increase over time, so expect surprises aplenty my friends. But, before we can jump into the action, it's time for the honored tradition of responding to reviews given in the previous chapter of the story by the readers!

However, it has come to my attention that not everybody enjoys this part as much as I do, so if you're one of these people, do feel free to skip directly to the story.

As always, I will be answering to directly posed questions, or anything that can be interpertred as an ambiguous or open-ended statements asking for a response, so assertions and suggestions will not reliably gain responses in this segment of the chapter. With that out of the way, let us head into... REVIEW RESPONSE CORNER!

'Crimson Revenant' says: "I loved this book, specially with the many details about control and how Issei defied his own fate, but two things stood out for me:

1) How Shunpo was described.

2) The way Issei defied his fate.

Let's start with the first one. As a fan of Bleach, I seek as much knowledge as possible to not only make the theory make sense, but also to make it badass, but the way you described how Shunpo works sounded more akin to the description of Hirenkyaku, the speed technique of the Quincy. Whereas Shunpo is based on sporadic and controlled bursts per feet, depending on the concentration of Reiatsu and position, determining the distance per step, Hirenkyaku works the same way you described this Shunpo. Something which would make more sense, specially with Tantric Energy Reinforcement, would be to familiarize with Sonido, which reinforces the body's nerve system, almost overloading it and increasing the body's dexterity and consequentially, natural speed.

And as for the second one, most stories always have prophecies rule them or guide them, like how the Heavenly Dragon Emperors are destined to fight, or the biggest examples, how Naruto and Ash (From Pokémon), are meant to save the world. What you did with Issei was something which every Shounen Jump character should do, which is to forge their own paths freely without anyone controlling them. If they decide to be heroes, villains or just neutral is something they should've done, and that they're not meant for glory, only to live their lives to its fullest (I just hope it makes sense because I have the feeling it doesn't).

But my point is, Issei took the first step to his ending, whether will it be bad or good, is anyone's guess, but if there's something I wish, is that Issei will follow himself, and himself only, maybe like do a world exploration in the future, and who knows, maybe a sequel where he goes to different worlds and dimensions, and depending on which world it is he could help and fight against one side or the other.

Great chapter, hope to read more of this story."

A: Wow. This was a big one, but let's go through this one step by step. First, you spoke about the difference between my story's 'Shunpo' and the 'Shunpo' from bleach, and how it's more akin to 'Hirenkyaku' than anything else. My response to this is that my 'Shunpo' is not a direct pull from the Bleach franchise. The name was indeed a reference to bleach and it's most famous high speed movement technique, but the mechanics behind it came straight from my mind, with the intent of creating a movement technique that adheres to the rules of the energy that I introduced into the DxD universe, 'Tantric Energy', and it's properties. If the two are not alike, there is a reason, so no need to worry about inacurrate portrayals.

Second, the defiance of fate. Prophecies are something that, while sometimes satisfying in the way the pan out, are grating for me on a basis of concept. Putting the world on rails and trivializing the concept of free will, whether it be that all events will occur as the prophecy dictates, or whether literally all possible paths of action taken, no matter how divorced from the original prophecy, will ultimately lead to the same end result, is not very satisfying to me. Seeing characters defining their own fate in the world, that always makes me feel better, so this is what Issei is doing. Forging his own way in the world. I can't talk about the future in any specific manner for fear of spoiling the story and it's progression, but in general terms, Issei will keep blazing his own trails.

'AnimeA55Kicker' says: "So does this mean we can finally have the first lemon of this fic? Lilith is about to get wrecked."

A: Final answer? Yes, we can, and yes, she is. Not final answer? We already had some pretty intense stuff with Bernice and Lilith herself before her kidnapping. While it wasn't full-on sex, each occasion was pretty explicit. Do those not count as lemons?

'The Wolf of Mordor' says: "FINALLY, NOW WE MAY GET BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED OPPAI BAKA! JK. But in all seriousness glad to get back to Kuoh and see Issei get home for a small bit of normalcy... wonder how His parents will react to the fact Lilith is their daughter in law? Or for that matter, how will Rias react to the Crimson Sin Dragon Emporer as a student of her school and not in her peerage.

Well, Time for work, wolf out."

A: You posed two very good questions... Questions that you'll have to learn by reading on, rather than getting me to say it specifically. Sorry, friend.

'Kla Zark' says: "Lemon"

A: Pineapple.

'Scandalf' says: "Thank god this kidnapping arc has finally ended. It was great but it took waay too long for my liking tbh.

Although, I gotta say, the way Issei gained the body of a dragon was done better in your fic than any other DxD fic I've read. And the amount of power he currently possesses is well balanced as well, not weak but not OP either. It's just right.

I have a question though, is he at the succubus queens level now or is he a bit below it still?"

A: Can't speak for the length of the arc, as while some people have complained about it, others have shown great appreciation, so I'll have to abstain on this subject. I'm thankful that you feel I did something better than all other stories you have ever experienced of this fandom has, and I tried to deliberately give Issei a power level that makes him capable of being more than just a helpless jobber in the universe that always relies on others, without trivializing every single instance of conflict ever. As to your last question, no, he is not at Laveria's level yet. Heck, it's unlikely that he can reliably beat Xinthia, who is weaker than Laveria. This is all I'll say on the subject for now.

'Asurau' says: "Definitely looking forward to the shockwaves the Tantric Dragon of Thunderous Domination is going to cause once he arrives at Kuoh.

Lots of pretty butterflies to watch."

A: 'Tantric Dragon of Thunderous Domination' This is literally the best possible Epithet for this Issei, and I have now shamelessly stolen it. Plsnosue

'Gaim no Kaze' says: "Damn I loved this chapter. Nice job man, on a side note, when is Issei getting Balance Breaker? Will you give him extra weapons? Pardon my choices since I just watched Avengers Endgame, but how about Mjolnir or Captain America's shield?

On another note, can you make it so that Issei's Balance Breaker becomes similar to Iron Man's Nanotech Mk50 Armor?"

A: Thanks for the appreciation and compliments, my friend! About the balance breaker, Issei will be recieving it when he needs it. As was said before within the story itself, this version of Issei is not wholly dependent on the Boosted Gear's power, instead he has other, powerful, abilities. With other abilities, his need for his Balance Breaker is lesser. Plus, introducing Balance Breaker at this point in the story would completely break any illusion of gradual and organic power progression, which is a huge no-no. I do not intend to give Issei any extra weapons at this moment, and the specifics of the Balance Breaker will be known when it makes an appearance, and not before.

'geoslim21' says: "Ok, I'm going to be honest here. I never read the reply section of the chapter so I don't know if you have answered this or not but will Issei be joining a peerage? If not how will you deal with Riser? If so can you have him join Sona's peerage and just leave Saji out of the novel? Also please tell me you plan on explaining what he turned into in the next chapter. Right now he seems to be similar to a humanoid dragon like he became in the novel after his body was destroyed but more complete and without needing energy drained from the transformered part to undo his transformation but maybe (most likely probably) has to learn to control the transformation and such. (Ok that was longer then I wanted it to be.)"

A: Issei won't be joining a peerage, and the Riser is a bridge that will be crossed when it comes (In-universe, in real life I already have the entirety of the Riser arc finalized within my head). About Issei, more will be learnt about his situation as the story progresses.

'Firegfang099' says: "Errrrr wot? (This is my reaction throughout the whole fic lmao)"

A: I do hope it was a good sort of 'Errrr wot?'. Was it?

'zexzakaria' says: "When will he gain balance breaker? I mean all that fighting and coming back from the dead and no BB. What gives? He killed an ultimate class monster so please dont nerf him to be weaker than the devils in kuoh."

A: In the words of my good friend Goku, 'Power comes in a time of need'. Issei didn't need Balance Breaker, Balance Breaker didn't come. Simple as that. Also, making him weaker than the devils in Kuoh? PPPPPfffffffft. I'd have to give up on writing if I even considered doing this after the path that I've been giving Issei. He's strong, and Kuoh better learn to deal with it.

'adam' (a guest, no account connected) says: "es el mejor fics en ingles de dxd que ha salido este año, felicidades y sigue asi."

A: Now, I don't know if I mentioned it before in the review response corner of an earlier chapter, though I definitely feel like I did, but my primary language is actually portuguese, instead of english. Portuguese is a language that is very similar to spanish in many aspects, so while I can't truly speak in/write/understand spanish with the same level of depth and fluency as I do both Portuguese and English, I can do so at a basic level. What adam said basically amounts to 'This is the best DxD fic in English that has come out this year, congratulations and keep up your work'. To this I can only respond with 'Muchas gracias', which translates to 'Thank you very much', or, more specifically, 'Many thanks'.

'CodyJaaxs' says: "Good god this is an amazing fic! Its start is so far off canon that its amazing, BUT! It also still feels like dxd. You still get that feeling of Ise being the same true person, yes a pervert, but also a damn good person lol. I can't wait until you meander into cannon and see how he fucks shit up! I wonder if you will still keep in line with him becoming a devil spo he can stay with Lilith for life"

A: Nope. Issei isn't becoming a devil in this fanfiction. That's all I'm saying.

'DarkElucidator' says: "Kuoh cannot handle this Issei."

A: You're goddamned right.

'OoOXylionOoO' says: "Pretty good chapter. The thing I don't recall is, exactly why only Issei goes to save Lilith. I mean they have centuries-old succubus who could help him hum?"

A: Politics. That's literally the only reason Issei went alone before Jackie/Hylda were available as backup, faction politics.

'stevesgaming87' says: "was this dropped?"

A: Not at all, my friend! This, and my (current) primary story in the Naruto section, 'The Voice in my Head' are both somewhat delayed due to my ever more complicated life schedule. Between college, family, health and fitness, I have less and less time to write if I want to sleep enough hours to be a functioning human being.

So, that was all for the Review Response corner in this chapter. Now, onwards to the story!

-X-

A set of rhythmic sounds of clanking, shifting metal and bone on stone bounced and echoed throughout the entirety of the dank, moss-covered stone walls as a certain individual made his way down a cave. He eyed the glowing walls distastefully, seeing the various overgrown tangles of plants sprouting through cracks, even as fungi stuc to the parts furthest from the light that some of the plants naturally emitted, those which gave a green tint to everythng around him throughout the entirety of his journey.

He stopped for an instant in front of a massive pair of stone doors, analyzing them. He noticed the fact that, unlike the last time he saw them, the doors were showing various cracks and faults, with a few whole chunks missing.

Stretching out a hand, the figure pushed the doors inwards hard enough to cause them to slam into the walls within the room they opened into, revealing an unexpected sight.

Three different women, one of them a child with purple, back-length hair and white pupilless eyes, the second one an adult with brown, shoulder-length hair and similar looking eyes, and one which could only be described as an old hag, with stark-white hair in a pixie cut and eyes which were wholy black, could be seen quickly reaching out with their hands to catch various different pieces of thread that were jumping out of the dresses worn by the two first, before trying to forcefully weave them back into place, all the while keeping others from hopping away. Despite the fact that their activity was occuring blindingly fast, the face of neither woman showed a tiny bit of effort, or exhaustion.

Without changing the rate of their action, their emotionless looks, or even slightly shifting their eyes, the three women, the famed Moirai of the greek mythology, weavers of fate and holders of the thread of life of all beings simultaneously opened their mouths, an unnatural voice resounding from the cavern they were in.

"YOUR PRESENCE WAS EXPECTED."

The figure shifted in place, his head tilting sideways just the slightest amount before he spoke "Then you must know what it is I want."

"WE DO."

A pause occured between the two as the Moirai continued in their task of attempting to pull threads into place and wave them into specific patterns, no matter how much they seemed to struggle to escape. The figure could see that some threads, even those already re-woven into the dresses of the fates, keep fighting and struggling to escape. Seemingly ignoring this, the fates spoke again.

"YOU DESIRE THE ONE THAT HAS CAUSED ALL OF THIS. THE ONE THAT CREATED THIS CHAOS. THE ONE THAT HAS ESCAPED YOUR CLUTCHES. YOU DESIRE HYOUDOU ISSEI, DO YOU NOT... HADES?"

Yes, that is correct. The figure talking to the three fates at the moment was Hades, one of Olympus' Trinity gods, and the god of death of the greek mythology. His appearance was that of a skeleton clad in an overly-elaborate priest's attire, with splashes of gold of black spread throughout, and more than just a few armored parts. His head was covered by a white 'hat', and his eye sockets filled with naught but a malevolent blue light.

Hades snorted derisively, crossing both arms over his chest before speaking.

"Of course. Those who have died are supposed to stay dead. Hyoudou Issei has died, yet he walks amongst the living again. To so brazenly defy my power, my influence, and impudently return to life in a disturbance of the natural order... Unacceptable."

"YOU ALREADY HAVE A GOAL. WHY SEEK US OUT WHEN YOU COULD BE OUT THERE FIGHTING TO ACHIEVE IT?"

Hades' aura started manifesting itself visibly, a black-coloured thing that caused the feeling of death and despair to fill the room, an unnatural chill causing frost to spread around him as he spoke coldly.

"Do not act coy with me, you old hags! You know very well why I cannot go after the human! I am death, the final embrace, that which ultimately finds every living creature, just as I am one of the 10 strongest beings in the world! Do you understand the type of indignity that I would go through if people were to discover that a mere human has escaped my clutches after having been in them? Or worse, if I had to dispatch my agents to dispose of a human, the frailest of existences? And going there myself is out of the question!"

"THE ONLY THING STOPPING YOU FROM REACHING YOUR OBJECTIVE IS YOUR OWN PRIDE. NO ONE HAS FORBIDDEN YOU FROM DOING ANYTHING, NOR HAVE THEY ORDERED YOU TO DO ANYTHING ELSE. IF YOU MUST AIM YOUR ANGER AND FRUSTRATION AT SOMEONE, THEN DO IT TOWARDS YOURSELF."

"Tch." The god of death clicked his teeth, forcibly drawing his aura in and calming himself. Having regained his cool, he spoke.

"You seem to be very calm despite the fact that your plots and plans have been thrown into such disarray."

The fates would have scoffed if they felt the need to express emotion. Instead, they simply continued in their task as they spoke.

"THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME ONE HAS ATTEMPTED TO DEFY US, TO ESCAPE OUR DESIGNS. CRONOS ATTEMPTED TO AVERT HIS FATE OF BEING DEPOSED BY HIS CHILDREN, AS THETIS ATTEMPTED TO AVERT THE PROPHECIZED DEATH OF HER DARLING CHILD. BOTH FAILED, AS HAVE MANY MORE BEFORE THEM, AND AS WILL FAIL MANY MORE AFTER THEM. THIS IS NAUGHT BUT A TEMPORARY SITUATION, AND VERY SOON HYOUDOU ISSEI WILL FIND HIS END FOR DARING TO ATTEMPT TO DEFY HIS FATE, HAS WE HAVE ALREADY PROPHESIZED."

"Indeed? Then I ask but one thing of you fates. I wish to know when it is time for him to die, for I desire to claim him in person."

Having said that, Hades turned around before walking away from the fates, secure in the certainty of the boy's demise.

After all, no matter who, and no matter how long it takes, everyone will eventually embrace the cold, sweet embrace of death.

-X-

The flickering, wavering images of three individuals could be seen arrayed around a round table, each of them projected by a magical circle set upon a stone floor.

One of the holograms was that of a blond young man in a business suit of fine make, a strand of blonde hair crossing his face and a braid falling down the left side of his head starting on the temple, and stopping above his left shoulder. His eyes were blue, and his build was slim.

The second one was a handsome, somewhat beefy man dressed in black armor, a cape hung over his shoulders and down his back, with white fuzz over his shoulders. His hair was brown in color, long enough to reach his hips, and had a myriad of bangs covering his right eye, leaving only his left one to reveal it's greyish-brow color.

The third, and final, was a noticeably handsome young man with short black hair and blue eyes. He was clad in a combination of a Gakuran and a traditional, ancient chinese attire, with an outer cloak that, rather than covering him in it's entirety, was arrayed around his waist, with only the lower part being worn properly.

The three traded looks with one-another, before the third one spoke up.

"I expected Vali to be the one attending the meeting between Team Leaders, rather than yourself, Arthur. Did you finally act like the hero you are and decimate all of the monsters in your squad?"

The second figure sneered intensely at that, while the first figure let out a tired sigh, adjusting his glasses with his index and middle fingers before responding.

"I have told you more than enough times that I won't be falling for your rhetoric, nor am I going to join your group, Cao Cao. I am quite satisfied with my placement in Vali team."

Still sneering, the second figure spoke up in a tone dripping with disgust "How disgraceful, a devil of the lineage of Lucifer such as Vali allying himself with Humans, Youkai, Reincarnated Devils and the like. Such a disservice done to such powerful blood. Were it not for the fact that we are all members of the Khaos Brigade, I would have exterminated such a stain on the honor of devilkind myself."

"Hahahahaha!" The third figure, Cao Cao, laughed merrily, mirth still present in his tone as he looked the first one, Arthur, in the eye and spoke "See, Arthur! See how these things are barely more than animals, so willing to betray each other, and shed the blood of their equals! Even those who are of 'old and noble' blood, those such like Shalba Beelzebub here, are willing to kill eachother so easily! Are you truly willing to work with beings such as these without fearing a knife in your back?"

Arthur sighed, but before he could answer, the second figure, one Shalba Beelzebub, responded with noticeable hatred and disgust in his tone.

"If I recall collectly, you humans are still the ones who, despite your obvious weakness, keep killing eachother for the pettiest of reasons, creating enormous conflicts and wars, and commiting the greatest acts of betrayal. You have been as such even from as far back as the tale of the Garden of Eden!"

Shalba's words caused a light tightening of Arthur's eyes, while Cao Cao glared hatefully at him, filling the blood descendant of the original Beelzebub with a sense of giddiness and allowing him to regain his poise and control. Seeing the effect his words had on Cao Cao, Shalba continued.

"At least us Devils were born for evil, with malice running through our veins within our lifeblood, it is in our nature, and it is our natural task and duty in this world. What excuse do you humans have for commiting acts that make you, in your own views, as bad as monsters, devils and the like?"

Cao Cao's hateful glare increased, but before he could answer, Arthur spoke up.

"As... reveting... as this whole conversation is, I believe we are meeting for a reason? I'd really like to hurry this up, I have more things to do than be forced to pick up the slack for Vali while he goes off to fight whomever he wants to fight in this particular day." Neither Shalba nor Cao Cao missed the muttered 'Missing Teatime' from the young man, before he spoke up again.

"We are making efforts into allying with the Magician's Guild, though results are mixed for the moment. Their leadership is fractured on whether they would gain more were they to join or to stay away, as they have already, though we are in communications with a splinter cell that wishes to join us in exchange for the ability to study any magical tomes that our group can get into their hands."

Arthur seemed to be preparing to say more about the subject, but he was interrupted by Shalba who spoke with the utmost level of condescension.

"While I'm sure this is all riveting conversation material, I believe we met up here for a different reason, did we not? What do we know of the most recent spike of magic that occured in the Human World?"

Frowning in discontent at having been cut off and at the form of address, Arthur adjusted his glasses so that their glare would hide the anger in his eyes, before answering in a cold tone.

"None of the known beings or factions were behind that flar, as far as all of my sources and research say. The magic present there was not divine, nor demonic in nature, but it felt more like a mix of various different things, though what exactly said things were has been impossible to determine so far. The only way to truly know exactly what occured would be if the Magician's guild were to act, however, as I was saying before-" He shot a pointed look at Shalba, though it seemed to glide off of him like water off of a duck "-They are not yet sure on whether they will join us or not. It even that their academic curiosity has them focusing more on whomever the possible source of an unknown type of magic can be, and trying to learn more from them."

Shalba clicked his tongue at that, while Cao Cao spoke up.

"So, the source of this disturbance, whomever they might be, is not only an Ultimate-class being that has evaded the sight of every single faction so far, but they are also attracting the attention of the Magician's guild? Something like this has the potential to either aid greatly in our efforts, or to delay them."

This time it was the devil that interjected "Indeed. Though I may desire to slaughter you lot, I understand the fact that you have not yet outlived your usefulness. This other party could be in the same situation. If they are to be useful to the purposes of the group, then they should be brought in, whomever they might be. If not... Well, there are many ways to ensure that they are no trouble."

Arthur stiffened slightly at the 'usefulness' comment, while Cao Cao focused seriously on Shalba at the slaughter part, but the two of them nodded in (grudging) agreement with the Devil's last words. Noticing this, Shalba spoke again.

"Now that we know what we can and are in agreement over this entire situation - the reason behind this meeting - I believe that we have no more to discuss."

Not waiting for a response, Shalba's hologram flickered out. Cao Cao and Arthur's gazes met, with the first one speaking "Remember that we will always have a spot open for you, Pendragon." Having said that, Cao Cao allowed his hologram to fade, leaving behind an impassive looking Arthur.

As soon as Cao Cao vanished, Arthur allowed the irritation he felt at the mention of his surname emerge in the form of a scowl, a final, jerky adjustment of his glasses being his final action before his own hologram vanished.

-x-

In a different meeting room, surrounding a different table, were four individuals of great fame and reputation.

The first one of them was a handsome man seemingly in his early 20's, his hair being of a crimson red color, and his eyes were of a greenish-blue hue. He was moderately tall, with a slim-ish build, and he was clad in a purple-hued cloak with golden accents. He was Sirzerchs Lucifer, formerly Gremory, the current leader of the Devils and the head of the current Four Great Satans, tasked with the maintenance of Domestic Affairs of the underworld.

The second one was a beautiful looking girl seemingly in her late teens, her hair being black in color and held in twintails reaching all the way down to her waist, and her eyes being blue in color. She was clad in a pink magical girl outfit composed of a midriff-baring sleeveless top that did nothing to hide just how well-endowed she was, a short, pink skirt, with white frills bearing pink accents, which was just barely long enough to cover her panties, though the smallest motion would likely cause them to be displayed, pink and black striped thigh-length socks, black elbow-length fingerless gloves and black shoes. This was Serafall Leviathan, formerly Sitri, the strongest woman in the underworld, and the one in charge of Foreign Affairs for the Devil faction.

The third one was a young man seemingly in his twenties, his appearance very striking both in it's attractiveness and uniqueness, as he had blue colored eyes, and slicked-back green hair which reached down to the back of his neck. His garbs were hidden underneath the plethora of shining magical circles that covered the entirety of his torso, a situation that seemed usual enough that none of the others commented on it, and simply took it in stride. He was Ajuka Beelzebub, formerly Astaroth, and the head of the underworld's Technology Department.

The fourth person was a tall, bald man, his build slightly thinner than that of both Ajuka and Sirzechs due to his increased height. His face was adorned by a goatee, and his eyes were brown in color. He was clad in a combination breastplate and pauldrons, both grey with red accents, with some spikes jutting out at certain points, also red in color, while his legs were clad in a pair of loose grey slacks of fine make. A purple cape hung from his back, connected to the pauldrons. This was Falbium Asmodeus, formerly Glasya-Labolas, and the head of the underworld's Military Affairs.

Though not sat at the table with the first four, there was a fifth person present in the room. This person was a woman seemingly in her early twenties with back-length silver hair, a pair of thick, big braids going down from the back of her head to her back, while a pair of smaller ones went down from her temples to her chest, all of them adorned with blue bows near the tip, and silver eyes. She was clad in a blue and white maid outfit that, while covering her body from her neck to her ankles, did nothing to hide the fact that she possessed a heavily voluptuous figure. This was Grayfia Lucifuge, the wife and queen of Sirzechs Lucifer, as well as the head maid of the Gremory family, the unnoficially considered fith Great Satan, and the only woman powerful enough to rival Serafall's claim to the title of the strongest female devil.

Clearing his throat to get the attention of all others in the room, Sirzechs spoke up "I am sure you are aware of the reason as to why I called for this meeting." He waved his hand, causing a magical circle to emerge at the center of the table that generated a holographic projection of the Earth. This pojection shifted slightly, zooming in on the southernmost part of the north american continent, a red circle appearing in an area somewhere in Mexico.

"A short while ago, a massive discharge of power easily ranking in Ultimate-tier was fired off from there. The fact that the region of the continent still exists signifies that it met with a target of great resistance which ended up exhausting some, if not most of the power during it's destruction.

The fact that a battle between two beings or individuals of this estimated power level managed to occur without any one group or faction noticing it, or the build up to it is concerning. Serafall was the one to have brought this subject to my attention, so any further information can only be given by herself."

Having said that, Sirzechs sat back down, having said his piece and waiting for others to do the same.

Serafall stood up after allowing herself and the others time to digest Sirzechs' words, her usually smiling face as serious as her tone while she spoke.

"It is as Sirzechs spoke. A great confrontation between two strong beings that, as far as my sources are concerned, are unnatached to any factions. This thought is supported by the fact that most, if not all of the major factions are as confused as we are, all of them asking questions and wanting to know more. Unfortunately most efforts in gaining information on this event are being blocked because of faction pollitics. Since the conquistadors were the ones to travel to Mexico in the days of old, the Catholic branch of the church is trying to claim the entire territory under their authority, a claim supported by the protestants, who were the first european settlers on what is now known as the United States of America.

The Coalition of the Shamanistic Arts, a recent group comprised of users of magic of Native American descent of both North and South America contests this claim, saying that the territory falls under their own authority, and they're being backed by the Magician faction, likely under the assumption that this support will give them certain allowances in the studying of the peculiar magics in the area.

Various other factions have shown interest in the area, and are alternatively showing their willingness to offer support to one or the other side of the equation, based on their feelings towards either the Church, or the Magician's Guild, meaning that this is becoming a bigger and bigger mess of tangled pollitics and strained relations. By the time any conclusion is reached - if one ever is - the evidence that everyone so dearly wishes to examine will have likely faded already, meaning that this avenue of research is a total bust."

Ajuka, whose attention had been perked up by the entire thing, seemed to deflate at Serafall's last words, while Serafall sat back down, and Sizerchs spoke up.

"Thank you for the intervention, Serafall. Does anyone else have anything to add?"

"If the possibility is ever posed, I'd like it very much if I were given the ability to study this supposedly new form of Magical Power." The one to speak was Ajuka, to which Sirzechs and Serafall responded with a single nod, before Sirzechs spoke up once more.

"If that is all, then I believe this meeting is adj-"

Sirzech's words were interrupted when the door into the meeting room was swung out of the way hard enough to bang against the wall, the one to have done so being a non-descript buttler whose clothes were ruffled and out of place, his hair matted to his forehead with sweat, and his chest heaving with deep breaths. Said buttler opened his mouth to speak, only to be cut off by Grayfia.

"Your clothes are messy, your hair a mess, and your presentation overall is unseemly, and unbecoming of a servant of the Gremory family, not to mention the fact that you seemingly forgot how to properly utilize doors, and interrupted a meeting between the four Satans. I hope you have very good reasons for this, Zanshuo, otherwise I will have to retrain you, to ensure that one of the Gremory family's buttlers do not sully it's good name."

Grayfia's frigid tone backed by a promise of 'training' caused the poor buttler, Zanshuo, to blanch, even as the four satans in the room cringed hard, all of them scooting away from Grayfia.

Gulping heavily, Zanshuo showed the results of his instruction as a buttler in the first place by composing himself somewhat, allowing his breathing to stabilize and taking a tall and straight posture, his voice strong and stable despite his obviously shaking knees and pale face.

"An urgent matter has come up that requires the attention of the Four Great Satans, Serafall Leviathan-sama more specifically."

This managed to reduce the intensity of Grayfia's look that had been placed on the poor buttler, allowing him to inwardly let out a sigh of relief even as some semblance of color returne to his face. Noticing that Grayfia had seemingly stopped doing the scary look, Serafall spoke up.

"What would that urgent matter be?"

Bowing slightly towards the Leviathan, Zanshuo spoke again.

"A diplomatic envoy from another faction has come here seeking an audience with whomever is in charge of the Foreign Affairs of the Devil faction. Said envoy claims to have been sent by the Succubus faction, with a missive from the Succubus Empress herself."

Shock pervaded the five Satan-class devils within the room, all of which had heard various tales of the Succubus faction and yet had to ever knowingly be in the same room as one. Meeting the gazes of a still serious Serafall, an attentive and engaged Ajuka and a fully awake Falbium, Sirzechs nodded after interpreting their looks, before turning towards Zanshuo and speaking.

"Lead them to this room, please. We shall be ready to recieve them."

The buttler bowed respectfully, pulling the door closed behind him as he made the journey back towards the waiting room that the succubi had been placed in.

Cutting the silence that had engulfed the room off, Sirzechs spoke up.

"At the same time as a new and unexplained type of magic was detected as a result of a great conflict that no one heard or saw nothing about, one of the most secretive factions in the world makes contact with an outsider for the first time in who knows how many centuries. It might be unrelated, coincidental events, but... My instinct tells me that there's something else there."

The others nodded in agreement, before each of them took their places with as much composure as they could as they felt Zanshuo's energy signature returning, alongside three unkown signatures that felt... Odd... to their senses, unlike anything they had ever felt before.

Zanshuo once more opened the door into the room, yet this time he did it in a fully dignified manner, Grayfia noticing with a small burst of appreciation the fact that the buttler had managed to, in the time between going back from having given the announcement and collecting the guests, fully recompose himself.

Then, Zanshuo spoke in an officious tone.

"Presenting to the Four Great Satans, the Diplomatic Envoy from the Sovereign Nation of Luxuria."

Three Succubi walked into the room at this announcement, one of them walking at the front, with the other two walking slightly behind and to the sides of her. The ones in the back moved with a certain degree of military precision, an image that was added to by the fact that they were covered in a set of armor that completely hid their appearance, closed helmets included, while the one at the frount held herself with a regal air that was easily appreciated by those in the room.

The one at the lead of the procession, a woman of fair-toned skin, light blue hair arranged into a stern bun with not one strand out of the place, slim body with a narrow waist and breasts on the smaller side of the scale clad in a formal dress bowed her head lightly towards the four Satans, a bow not of deference to a superior, nor that used to address an inferior, but rather a bow suited for a polite introduction between strangers, something which gave her a few points with Grayfia already, before speaking up.

"Greetings, Satan-dono. My name is Angelique Antoniette, and I have come here by order of the empress of Luxuria and the succubus faction with a missive for your eyes only, the contents of which I am not privvy to. I was instructed to wait for your answer for up to a period of three days, after which I am to return to Luxuria, whether a response has been given or not."

Having said that, Angelique removed a perfectly sealed letter from... somewhere on her person, placing it on top of the table before sliding it towards the midway point between herself and the four great satans. Grayfia, as the maid of the Satan Lucifer, moved forward and picked up the letter, placing it in front of Serafall first, as she was the one in charge of Foreign Affairs for their faction.

Serafall rapidly read through the letter, her powerful mind allowing her to retain enough information out of that cursory reading for her to give it to the next in line, which was Ajuka. After Ajuka finished reading the letter, it was given to Sirzechs, with Grayfia reading it from her position over his shoulder, and then the letter was passed to Falbium, who took the longest to read the letter to it's completion.

Having finished reading the letter, the four satans looked at one-another, before Serafall, as the one in charge of inter-faction relations and politics, spoke.

"Miss Angelique, we should have a response for this missive penned within the 3 days that you have been given to wait. Until then, we will have you hosted at one of the best hotels in the whole underworld, with a guide assigned to allow you to enjoy the sights and air here in our nation. Zanshuo, direct miss Angelique and her friends towards the Crimson Star and explain this situation to whomever is at the desk. A message from here should be enough to clear things up."

Angelique nodded thankfully at that, before she and her guards allowed themselves to be escorted away by Zanshuo, the door closing behind them.

As soon as the visitors were outside of sensory range of the individuals within the room, Sirzechs spoke up.

"Serafall, what do you think of the terms given?"

The magical girl devil seemed to think long and hard, biting into her fingernail, before she spoke haltingly.

"Well, it might certainly... However... But perhaps..."

Sirzechs, too, was thinking deeply about what had been written in the letter, as were Ajuka and Falbium. Then, breaking the silence, Grayfia spoke.

"Sirzechs-sama... I believe that you should consider accepting those terms, as should Leviathan-sama."

Seeing the uncertainty on the faces of the two shifting into denials, Grayfia struck fast in order to get them thinking before they stubbornly set themselves to a specific path of action out of an impulse.

"It has already been said in this same room, the emergence of the succubus faction and this latest supernatural battle are likely to be related, so mantaining good relations would be a good way to find the Devil faction given a priviledged view of the events, so to speak. Plus, an alliance with a wholly new faction of unknown yet highly estimated power seems to have a higher likelyhood of ending up in a positive note for us, rather than a negative one."

"Yes, Grayfia, Serafall and I understand that, but the other terms..."

"Give us a certain level of leeway that would not be noticeable at a first glance."

Everyone turned towards Serafall who had the entire letter in front of her, her eyes focused on a specific line of text, reading and re-reading it repeatedly, before speaking up.

"Whomever wrote this document was very, very smart, and much more tactful than most others would be in their position. While at a first look this might seem like the standard overly-rigid missive from a powerful nation trying to assert itself, the smaller script allows us, if understood properly, to have a certain amount of wiggle room to let ourselves be in a more comfortable position.

And believe me when I say this, but I would not likely ever give a stranger this level of freedom in interactions."

Sighing resignedly, Sirzechs spoke once again.

"What are you saying, Serafall?"

The Leviathan Satan bit her lip nervously for an instant, an image of her sweet and dear Sona going through her mind, before she steeled herself and spoke in a powerful tone beffiting of her station.

"I believe that we should take the deal, with a few extra clauses added in, of course."

The Lucifer Satan nodded lightly at that, before the four Satans crowded together around a shief of parchment summoned by Grayfia as they started penning their response.

-x-

Events similar to those that occured in the underworld were developing throughout the world, a few select factions recieving diplomatic envoys from the Succubus faction, each of them bearing a letter written solely for the eyes of the head or heads of the faction.

Responses were penned, choices were made, and the world changed once again.

-x-

"Wh-what... happened...?"

Lilith found herself waking up slowly, a certain degree of grogginess and fuzz affecting her mind as she tried to make sense of her surroundings beyond the massively bright light invading her eyes. Her body felt stiff, as if she hadn't moved for a good while, and her mouth felt dry and cottony.

She smacked her lips together in an attempt to moisten her mouth, only to feel a straw being slid between her lips. She sucked on it haltingly, feeling cool water slide down her throat and alleviating her dehydration, allowing her to regain more of her wits.

As she regained control of her body and her eyes recovered from the brutal assault of light from when she first opened her eyes, Lilith turned her head to the side to face the person who had been giving her water, a sense of immense warmth blooming in her chest at seeing Issei looking at her with a massive smile.

"You... Came for me..."

His smile dimished slightly in size, though it did not dimish in emotion as he spoke soothingly.

"Of course I did. Was there any doubt?"

"He... Travis... Said that you wouldn't come. That... you were... dead..."

Lilith's eyes gained an almost inner fire as she spoke, her tone steadier than before.

"I never believed him. I knew that there was no way that someone like him could take down someone like you. I knew that you would show up and defeat him. I knew... That you wouldn't abandon me, Issei."

The brunette shuffled closer towards Lilith, leaning his forehead on hers as he spoke in the same low, soothing tone.

"Of course I wouldn't. I'll never abandon one of my precious people."

Their gazes locked together, Lilith scrunched up her nose before she breathed in deeply, a blush staining her cheeks as she spoke.

"Issei... I love you."

Even as they were, forehead to forehead and nose to nose, Lilith still allowed her eyes to drift to the side in embarassment, while Issei's face was locked in a gobsmacked expression.

Lilith, her embarassment overcoming her, started leaning away from Issei, only for his hand to softly grasp her chin, before gently turning her face so that their gazes met.

"I love you , Lilith."

Lilith's eyes widened to the extreme at that declaration, tears welling up within them as she felt those four words soothing over years and years of being called undesirable by her various cousins, of looking at her own reflection and finding it wanting, of wondering if she would ever find someone to love her fully.

She allowed the tears to overflow and run down her face, years of pain, sorrow and doubt being completely washed away, only for her to smirk lightly at seeing Issei's panicking, wide-eyed look.

The brunette hopped back from Lilith, simultaneously stretching out his hands to try to make sure she was alright, and pulling them back in his desire to not accidentally hurt her, as he spoke in a rushed tone.

"What's wrong? Why are you crying? Are you in pain? Do you need me to call a medic? MED-" she interrupted him by placing one of her hands on his chest, causing him to go quiet for a bit as she spoke.

"I'm not in pain, Issei."

And indeed she was not. Now that she was more aware of her surroundings, she could feel the air of Luxuria, rich in Tantric Energy, flowing all around her, revitalizing her bit by bit.

"IF you're not in pain... Then was it something that I said? I didn't mean to make you cry, I mean it! Tell me what it-"

Issei was interrupted mid-speech when Lilith pulled hard on the front of his shirt, pulling his face down to her level, and, their eyes wide open and peering deeply into one-anoter, she pulled him into a deep kiss.

The second their lips touched, the two of them felt as if firecrackers started detonating within their stomachs as someone tried to make them feel the butterflies, except they had no sense of scale and made the feeling many times more intense.

The two parted no more than 10 seconds after the kiss, with Issei being staring at Lilith with a gobsmacked look on his face, while Lilith blushed even deeper, licking her lips before she spoke, her voice now strong and steady.

"Those tears... Issei... They were tears of happiness. What you said... When you told me you love me... You made me so happy..."

Issei responded to Lilith's words by placing his hand on her right cheek, leaning in for another kiss, allowing her to slowly do the same. The instant their lips met, the firecrackers made a repeat performance within them.

Issei knew, from previous sessions of kissing her, that Lilith's leps were very soft, but never before did they feel as tasty as they did now, nor did they make him... feel as intensely, for a lack of a better description.

Lilith, too, felt a myriad of new sensations. Issei's lips were firm, hard, and every second that she touched them with her own she could feel a warmth within her increasing more and more in size, in a manner that their previous kissing sessions never did before. Without thinking about it, Lilith opened her mouth and pushed her tongue out, allowing it to softly flick Issei's lips, requesting entrance.

The brunette's eyes widened at that, before he opened his mouth, allowing Lilith's tongue to enter his. He felt her slick, pink muscle flick softly against the tip of his own, almost as if she were inviting him for a dance, and Issei, not being one to disappoint, responded in kind, letting his tongue push against her own, before the two started a slow, sensuous dance. Their senses were on fire, and through their tongues alone they felt as if they were locked in a full-body embrace.

They leaned back after a full five minutes of french kissing, the two of them licking their lips as their minds tried to fully process the feelings behind their kiss. Lilith's eyelids lowered slightly, her lips stretching out into a tempting, provoking smile as he wings manifested behind her, her eyes gaining a purple glow as she spoke.

"Issei... I'm hungry~"

The brunette nodded lightly, their foreheads still connected to one another, before responding almost absent-mindedly, still reeling from the sensorial overload.

"S-should I call for one of the cooks?"

In response Lilith giggled impishly, a sound that caused various different sensations to pass through Issei's body before she responded in a flighty tone.

"No, you silly..."

Lilith's horns and tail too manifested, as did a light aura around herself, before she spoke in a completely sensuous tone.

"I want to eat you up~"

-Lemon Start-

A shiver shot up Issei's spine at that declaration, his pants tightening further than they already had as he leaned further into Lilith, giving her a burst of soft kisses even as he slowly made his way into the bed with her, shedding his shoes on his way up.

The succubus leaned back and moaned in pleasure as she felt Issei's kisses go lower, first down her jaw, then her neck, before he lightly bit into her collarbone, drawing an even louder, longer moan.

She squirmed in pleasure as she felt a rough, somewhat calloused hand take hold of one of her large breasts, and she let out a breathless moan as she felt said hand groping her somewhat harshly, though not enough to bruise. Biting her lip, Lilith stretched her foot out and allowed it to rub against Issei's thigh, causing him to groan out loud as he tried to change postions to ensure that she rubbed his member directly, though Lilith purposefully followed Issei's motions with her own foot, limiting herself to rubbing his thigh.

Issei felt a burst of... Something... coming from within his chest. Something animalistic, primal. A growl emerged from his throat, prompting Lilith to look at his face and see the wild look in his eye, a look which caused a shiver of simultaneous excitement and trepidation. She watched in surprise as Issei's left hand bunched up the front of the thick, woolen sweater she was wearing, likely having been dressed in her unconsciousness by either her mother or one of the maids, before he tugged hard.

He grunted in insatisfaction, however, as he watched the shirt stretching until it had no more give, only for a set of magical formulas and lines in a glowing purple to show up throughout the entirety of her outfit.

Lilith was ready to just throw her clothes aside on her own, but she watched as Issei glared at her shirt as if it had personally offended him, before he raised his left hand, a green glow revealing his Boosted Gear, the presence of which simultaneously caused her arousal to increase as the smell of power that Issei exuded multiplied severalfold, and confused her somewhat, as she had no idea what he intended to do.

Issei, too, had no set idea about what he intended to do with his Boosted Gear, following instead a gut feeling he had, the feel of his instincts telling him something.

Placing his gauntleted hand squarely on the middle of Lilith's chest, in the space between her breasts, Issei felt an upswell of power before a pair of words appeared at the forefront of his mind. Letting his instincts guide him, he growled out the two words.

"DRESS BREAK!"

A burst of power and green light filled the room, before all of Lilith's garments were instantly shredded, leaving her fully exposed to both the elements, and, more dangerous, to a hungry, hungry Issei.

Dismissing his sacred gear, the brunette did not hesitate before mauling Lilith's breasts with his hands, squeezing, groping and tweaking them with a high level of intensity that drew continuous moans and whimpers from the succubus.

Said succubus, not willing to be the only one fully exposed, allowed her feet to reach Issei's trousers and, showing a level of dexterity and nimbleness that would leave most stunned, procceeded to unbutton and slide down the zipper with her toes, before sliding them down Issei's legs.

Issei bit her neck just hard enough to bruise, his hands sliding down from her breasts, gliding lightly over her belly as they kept going further and further down. His hands reached her hips, lightly digging into the soft flesh before going further down to the outer side of her thighs, gripping and groping them intensely.

Lilith, meanwhile, had not idled either. She had tried to remove Issei's shirt the normal way, only for the postion of his arms to keep her from doing so. Instead, she allowed her fingernails to grow a couple of inches before tearing Issei's shirt down the middle, revealing his thoroughly toned, Adonis-like build almost in it's entirety.

Her eyes were drawn to a new addition to his body, a vertical, elliptical scar on the left side of his chest, the size of which suggested that the attack causing it would have completely obliterated his heart, and taken quite a bit of lung with it.

Seeing what was almost definitely the result of Issei's quest to save her, Lilith felt herself fall even more deeply in love with the young man, while the more animalistic side of her almost salivated at the display of his durability, the fact that he managed to survive such an injury, causing her to subconsciously part her legs for him, an act which pleased him tremendously.

Issei's hands went further down, falling directly on top of Lilith's moist center, drawing a hiss of pleasure from her at the contact of Issei's fingers with her burning hot core, her fluids spraying out at that moment and covering Issei's hand.

The brunette paused at that, slowly raising his hand to the level of his face, stopping it right at eye height before he splayed his fingers open, both watching and feeling the sticky juices adhering to his fingers. Drawing said fingers closer to his face, Issei placed it right in front of his nose and then took a deep, long whiff, his eyes closing reflexively in pleasure as he lightly shook in pleasure. Then, right in front of Lilith's eyes, Issei pushed the slick fingers into his mouth one at a time, loudly and obscenely sucking and slurping the juices with an extreme level of relish, as if he were tasting the world's tastiest elixir.

When his eyes finally opened, they were no longer the usual brown.

A pair of green irises, with thick, vertical slits for pupils met Lilith's own purple-hued eyes, causing her to all but melt under Issei's possessive, nigh-monstrous look. Any form of restraint that Issei had left fled him completely, causing his Presence to blast outwards in it's entirety, blanketing the room with his excitment and arousal.

This feeling fed into Lilith's own, causing her to sink deeper into her own arousal, which lead to her using her feet to push Issei's underpants down hard, revealing his long, hard member to her gaze, a sight which caused her center to quiver.

Lightly pushing Issei up by the chest, she felt the young man, still mantaining a certain degree of animalistic 'care', raise himself off of her, which allowed her to spread her legs into the air, her knees folded in a butterfly-like fashion, before placing each of her hands on a side of her drooling quim, spreading it open and revealing it's slick hole to her man.

"Take me, Issei. Make me yours, now and forever."

The brunette's nostrils flared before he placed himself between Lilith's legs, slowly lowering his body until the tip of his appendage lightly touched her blood-filled, reddish-pink flesh. Lilith allowed one of her hands to move towards Issei's member, lining him up with her hole properly, before she whispered in his ear.

"Do it."

Grunting loudly, Issei sheathed the entirety of his length into Lilith's virgin hole, something which would have hurt a normal woman, or even another succubus, were it not for the fact that the arousal of the two kept continuously feeding into one-another, the Tantric Energy giving their bodies certain allowances.

This was the only reason as to why instead of screaming, or at least grunting, in pain with the first thrust of Issei's sizeable tool, Lilith instead let out a banshee-like shriek of pleasure as her body seized up for an instant, all of her nerve endings flaring at once in pleasure, delivering to her what felt like a series of constantly-occuring orgasms to every single part of her body.

Despite the fact that Lilith was already locked within a single, massive orgasm, Issei didn't stop. Steadying her body to the mattress with one of his hands placed on top of her lower abdomen, Issei slowly drew back, allowing his length to leave her hole almost completely with the exception of the tip, said action causing a loud, wet slurping sound to fill the room, before he cocked his hips, and then thrust in all at once, allowing his length to once again fill her completely, the flesh of his thighs and hips meeting Lilith's soft buttocks.

This renewed the already firing nerves of Lilith's body, renewing the wave of orgasms she was subjected to, leaving her as an incoherent, drooling mess.

He repeated this action, again and again, each time his thrusts getting faster, harder, deeper.

Lilith could do little more than let out a series of moans interspersed with whimpers as her body registered the height of pleasure again and again, her insides being hammered by Issei's member until it's shape slowly shifted to accomodate him and him specifically, the tightness and depth of her canal adapting so that it fit Issei's cock like a glove, making it so that each bump and ridge on his metal-hard pole was always in contact with flesh of her own, in order to deliver the utmost in mutual pleasure.

However, despite his notable durability and endurance for combat and day to day activities, Issei's stamina started waning due to the fact that this was literally his first time having sexual relations proper.

He felt a churning in his testes that signified his impending release, which caused him to wrap his arms around Lilith's shoulders almost smotheringly in an act that spoke of nothing less than utter possessiveness, all the while his thrusts increased in speed and urgency, causing the bed they were on to creak and groan as it slammed repeatedly into the wall, before, once again following his instincts, Issei bit into Lilith's collarbone hard enough to score her flesh.

Having marked her as his own, Issei reared his head back and roared as he unloaded within her, rope after rope of his jism coating her insides, and covering her in his scent to anyone with the nose sensitive enough to tell.

-Lemon End-

At that moment, a massive pair of red, draconic wings burst forth from Issei's back, as did a tail, while a small cloud of smoke trailed from his nostrils.

Feeling the last of his seed exit his body, Issei allowed himself to relax, lowering himself down to Lilith's level and allowing his forked, long tongue to glide along her torso, neck and face, before he hugged her tightly to himself, his wings wrapping around the two of them protectively as he fell asleep, the aura that he had been exerting finally vanishing.

That was how they were found by the dishevelled, sex-smelling Laveria.

'I could feel them fucking from my room! Issei's aura... Absolutely overwhelming! Just the thought of sleeping with him...'

The head of the succubus nation shivered in pleasure at that thought, licking her lips involuntarily as well. Regaining control, Laveria finally processed the image in it's entirety, a somewhat doubtful look appearing on her face at the presence of the wings and tail on Issei's body.

'This will have to be discussed, but until then...'

The woman withdrew a camera from... somewhere... snapping a picture of the aftermath of her baby girl's first time so that she could simultaneously embarass her and brag about her son in law in family meetings. Having done one of her primary tasks as a mother, Laveria took her leave from Lilith's room, ignoring the sounds of writhing, moaning and groaning that sounded throughout the entire castle as the other people within had not yet overcome the effects of Issei's aura.

-X-

Within her room, Jackie looked at her own - extremely sticky - hands with a sense of extreme mortification, which was mixed with the afterglow of a good orgasm.

-Lime Starts-

Some time before, shortly after she had woken up and before she had gone for her morning shower, Jackie felt as if a shockwave of some sort passed through her room, the energy suffusing the entirety of her body's cells and causing a massive itch on her nethers that she had never felt before in her life. She tried scratching that itch, only to feel something amazing as her fingers passed over the topmost part of her gash, directly onto the button-like protrusion that she knew to be called a clitoris, and that she knew the function of in theory, yet had never put thought into practice.

A brief thought of 'Was that pleasure?' flickered through her mind, before a second wave of energy passed through her room, causing the itch on her nethers - pussy, Hylda helpfully supplied from within their sacred gear - to progress into a full-blown fire.

Her hands, in an attempt to quench said fire, went to work at a frenetic pace, rubbing at any point that felt even slightly good, small moans and whimpers escaping her lips as she did. Unbidden, images and thoughts of Issei started passing through the forefront of her mind, causing both her fire, and the pleasure she derived from touching herself, increase exponentially.

She felt something building up from right above her pussy, on the lower part of her abdomen, something which forced her hands to turn into a blur of motion. A few seconds after her hands blurred, she felt moreso than heard a massive roar travelling throughout the entire castle, a roar that she knew, deep within her heart, came from Issei.

And a roar that caused her first orgasm to be intense enough to cause her body to first seize, then shake as if she were having a seizure, a low, keening wail escaping her mouth and building up in a crescendo into a shriek of pleasure, even as starts exploded from the back of her eyelids.

By the time she was over her body was covered in sweat, her hair matted to her forehead, and both her hands and bed were completely covered in her juices. These things only managed to drive a specific thought home to both Jackie and Hylda.

-Lime End-

'I'm in love with Hyoudou Issei.'

This thought, as well as the emotions associated to them, confused and scared both Jackie and Hylda. The only time they felt something that could be described as love was nothing like they were feeling at the moment, just the thought of doing what she had done while thinking of Issei with that person in mind felt absolutely wrong, and almost enough to make her retch, and despite it not being as intense an emotion as she was feeling at the moment, in the end it still led to pain, and disappointment.

What guarantee did she have that this wouldn't end up the same, or even worse?

Pushing these thoughts aside, Jackie extricated herself from her bed - ignoring the sticky feeling on the back of her thighs - and made her way to the bathroom, intent on washing the sweat and stickiness off of herself.

If she happened to spend a longer amount of time washing herself with a higher intensity, all with thoughts of a certain brunette in mind, well no one could certainly say, could they?

-X-

"So, Lilith... How did having sex with Issei feel?"

Said question, having been casually asked at the dinner table by a calm Laveria had caught Issei completely by surprise, causing him to choke on his food for a few instants. Ignoring the choking brunette, a swooning and all but glowing Lillith spoke inbetween giggles.

"It was... Intense. When he put his hands on me, it felt like my body was on fire~"

Every single person at the table other than Issei was hanging onto every single one of Lilith's words, including Jackie, who was blushing to the extreme, her breaths shallow and her hands gripping onto the edge of the table to keep them from heading elsewhere, despite the fact that she rubbed her thighs together with a certain degree of urgency.

Not even noticing any of these things, the giddy young woman kept speaking.

"He has this way of grabbing you, each touch of his fingers lights a fire on your skin, when he kisses you it feels..." She ended the sentence with a loverstruck sigh, her gaze turning towards Issei, a purple glow in her eyes causing him to swallow hard as he fought to keep himself from growing aroused. Uncaring of this, and with her gaze still meeting Issei's, Lilith kept speaking.

"It's as if every time he touches you, a new erogenous zone appears. He tried ripping my clothes off, and when it didn't work, he literally made them shred from the inside-out! The way his body pinned me down into the bed..."

By this point even the guards and maids stationed around the room were hanging onto each and every one of Lilith's words, while every sucubus other than Laveria had a hand underneath the table, their breaths quickening. This display caused Issei's blood boil lightly, though he managed to reduce it to a bare simmer.

"Then, when he entered me... He was an animal. His first thrust made me cum hard, and every thrust after that just made it worse."

Jackie, her left iris and the left side of her hair having turned a blood red, asked in a dual layered tone of voice.

"Y-You're not exaggerating or anything?"

"I had 15 consecutive minutes of back-to-back, full body orgasms."

It seems that more than one succubus came undone as soon as that was said, moans and sighs filling the dining room. Before anything more could be said, the sound of a chair scraping on the floor had everyone looking at Issei.

The brunette's nostrils were flaring, his eyes locked straight onto Lilith's. The girl shivered in excitment, moving closer towards the young man, with the two of them seemingly forgetting about the audience they had.

-Lemon Start-

Before anyone could say a thing to break the moment, Issei had picked Lilith up by wrapping his left arm around her waist, his right arm sweeping everything pertaining to dinner off of the table before he placed the girl down. Placing his hand on top of her shirt, a brief thought of 'Dress Break' had her clothes all but vanish into a cloud of shredded cloth, before he withdrew his hard member from within his pants, devouring Lilith's mouth with his own as he thrust into her, causing her to moan into his mouth.

The various succubi around them could only stare at their brazenness at first with stupefaction, and then with growing arousal as they watched the animallistic way with which the young man claimed Lilith's body, the table underneath them shaking. The girl wrapped her legs around Issei's waist and her arms around his neck, shoving her own face into the crook of his neck and taking a deep whiff of the smell that she could only describe as 'Issei', her lips planting soft kisses along his jawline and neck which just inflamed the young man further.

Using his hands to untangle Lilith's legs from his waist, Issei lifted both of her legs over his shoulders before driving into her deeper than before, causing her body to tremble as she recieved her second orgasm of the moment - the first one having been when she smelled him - before he felt his own end coming. This time, more aware of what he was doing than before, Issei withdrew himself from Lilith's quim, his release covering her from head to thighs in his thick, plentiful jism.

Issei let out a sigh of pleasure, the haze receding from his mind as his lust abated. As his rational thought returned, so did his awareness of the situation. He had just picked Lilith up and fucked her during dinner, on top of the table, in front of her mother and a whole lot of other women. He was deader than dead.

His gaze seeking out Laveria where he felt her presence, Issei's jaw dropped almost to the ground in shock at the sight of the Luxurian queen openly masturbating at the sight of him fucking her only child, her dress hiked up to display her massive, pink-tipped breasts, one of which she fondled without hesitation, and her moist centered, which was topped by a neatly-trimmed triangle of pink fuzz that revealed that yes, the carpets do match the drapes.

The empress, noticing the attention of the young man on her, licked her lips suggestively before lifting her breast up, slipping her nipple into her own mouth and sucking hard enough for her cheeks to hollow out, even as the pace of her hand on her wet center increased. He half-lidded eyes just screamed 'FUCK ME!' at Issei, causing the brunette to swallow any sort of trepidation, the animalistic haze creeping back into his mind as his arousal increased.

He flexed his muscles once, causing the entirety of his clothes to outright explode away from him, which caused Laveria to let out another groan of arousal, before he walked towards her. Reaching Laveria, Issei placed his right hand above the one she had rubbing her gash and added to her motions with those of his own, while his other hand found her free breast, lifting it into his own mouth. He allowed the tip of his tongue to glide around the areola, completely avoiding the nipple proper and causing Laveria to groan at that.

The woman released her breast, allowing it to fall out of her mouth and onto Issei's face, a state of affairs that more than pleased him, before she placed that hand on the back of Issei's head and pushed him further into her chest. Taking this as his prompt, Issei finally allowed his tongue to lambast Laveria's nipple, before he sucked on the breast almost hard enough to make the nipple sore. Just as he was about to cross the line from 'intense' into 'uncomfortable', a flash of awareness had him release that nipple. As he did, he nipped the pale flesh of her breast, leaving behind some light bruises, before he took the opposite breast into his mouth and, without any delays, sucked hard on the nipple.

This time, rather than simply suck on the nipple, Issei allowed his teeth to just barely graze the sensitive flesh, before actually nibbling lightly on it, causing goosebumps to rise all over Laveria's body.

Another flash of inspiration had Issei gathering the massive amounts of moistness flowing from Laveria's quim, covering his fingers in it before slowly and softly pushing his index and middle finger into her hole, drawing a long moan from the woman.

Pushing in and out, Issei slowly picked up the pace with his fingers, while his mouth left the breast and headed for Laveria's face. He licked her cheek, then did so again to the corner of her mouth, before licking her lips. The pinkette succubus opened her mouth wide, sticking her tongue out in wanton lust only for Issei to take her tongue into his mouth and suck hard.

The woman groaned in arousal at that, pushing Issei away from her by the chest before calling out.

"Get over here and Fuck me!"

The haze started falling over the brunette again as he lined himself up with Laveria, his left hand grabbing her thigh while his right one took hold of her waist, however, before he could enter into her, Laveria's voice filled his ears.

"Control yourself, Issei! I want to fuck the young man that said to my face that he'd fight me to the death to save his girlfriend after feeling some of my presence, not the animal that returned from the battle with Travis!"

These words acted like a switch in Issei's mind, causing the animalistic haze to pull away completely, though the lustful one still remained. Before he could say a thing, Laveria pulled him down into a kiss, her leg wrapping around his behing and pulling him inside her opening, causing the two to groan into the kiss.

His hips reflexively thrusting, the brunette spoke up.

"W-what the hell was that?"

Not taking a beak in her undulations, her waist moving sinuously in a manner reminiscent of a snake, Laveria still somehow had the awareness to speak coherently.

"Yo-hnng-you were... huff... different. Changed."

The two of them let out a long groan as Issei performed a particularly deep stroke, before Laveria spoke up again.

"You weren't in- hah - control of yourself. Every time you... hnng, huff... got aroused, you lost control of yourself."

Grunting as he sped up his thrusts, Issei responded.

"Hah... Huff... That's... bad... I can't... just lose it... every time I... get aroused!"

"Don't worry... hng... Issei! You gained con-aaaaah-trol of yourself once, you can -hah- do it again! All it requires is training!"

Feeling his end coming, Issei placed both hands on top of Laveria's hips and sped up his thrusts further, jackhammering into Laveria, causing the succubus empress to moan incoherently, her hands gripping Issei's hair tightly as she whispered right into his ear.

"Cum! Inside of me! Fill me up! Mark me with your scent!"

Despite the fact that 'the animal' was safely kept away, the last setence caused Issei to lose himself and simply unload within Laveria, which triggered a massive orgasm for the empress, the feeling of the Tantric Energy-rich seed painting her insides being matched by only one other.

The brunette withdrew himself from Laveria, watching as the empress spread her hole open, scooping up a few fingers' worth of his come and taking it into her mouth, swallowing it as if it were the most delicious of treats, which caused him to groan at that, his member twitching lightly as his arousal and his sexual exhaustion fought one another.

He was suprised, once again, when a pair of arms wrapped around his neck, before Xinthia's voice sounded in his ear.

"Forgetting about me, Issei?"

The brunette shivered at the tone, before speaking up.

"As much as I'd love to give you some of my... attention... and believe me, after the way you beat me down day after that, that desire is not at all small... I'm dry. The mind is willing, but the flesh is spongy, and bruised."

Xinthia took Issei's member into her hand, marveling at the size, weight and sheer girth of the thing, before she stroked it lightly, noticing Issei's wincing even as his member twitched lightly. She frowned for an instant, before a sight from the corner of her eye had her smirking. Stroking him slowly in order not to hurt him, she whispered into his ear.

"Are you sure you're dry? Absolutely done? That nothing else will manage to get it up?"

"At this moment, I'm barely even feeling it attached to me."

"Mhm, are you sure? Even if I showed you something like this?"

Having said that, Xinthia turned Issei around, making his gaze fall on a scene from some of his most erotic dreams.

Lilith, whose body he had covered in his jism, was being licked dry by the various succubi around her, with the occasional fight breaking out between two or three different succubi over a specific strand of his semen, which resulted in the forcibly kissing eachother in order to suck his seed out of the other's mouth.

Kneeling in front of Lilith was another succubus, a greenette, who was simultaneously sucking as much of his seed from her quim as possible, and stimulating her with her tongue and lips, bringing the near-catatonic gear into another set of orgasms.

This sight was enough to give Issei's flagging stamina one last push, causing his weary soldier to regain a last burst of energy and eagerly salute Xinthia, the influx of Tantric Energy dulling any soreness.

The trainer increased the speed of her stroking, enjoying the simultaneously hard and soft feeling of the pole of flesh, even as she nipped Issei's neck.

Being taken care of like this by someone who beat him up on an almost daily basis under the guise of training, however, grated on Issei's nerves. He felt the 'haze' coming, forcing him to focus on pushing it back, a task which was not made any easier by the light stroking of his member, yet he managed to do it, if just barely. However, he did not push it back in it's entirety. He pushed away the part which would have made him a thoughtless animal because he disliked the loss of control over his own actions, yet his outer self agreed with the 'animal' in his desire to utterly dominate Xinthia.

This desire came to bear when Issei grabbed Xinthia's wrist, pulling her hand away from his member and turning around within her personal space, lifting her by the waist and carrying her to a wall, pinning her there.

The auburn-haired warrior succubus was about to try to dominate Issei again, only for her eyes to widen as her legs involuntarily wrapped around his waist.

"DRESS BREAK!"

Issei's snarled technique caused Xinthia's clothes to be reduced into little more than cloth dust, before he forcefully cupped her mound, his teeth nipping at her neck and drawing moans from her. He roughly pushed his middle and ring fingers into her already wet hole, feeling it moisten further and quiver at the invasion. Following another cue from his instinct, Issei curled his fingers towards the roof of Xinthia's hole and made a 'come hither' motion, causing Xinthia to gasp breathlesslty as if she had a large weight settled onto her chest, her back arching away from the wall, while Issei's other hand roughly grasped onto her buttock, kneading it hard.

Xinthia felt herself getting closer and closer, however her unwillingness to submit made her forcefully push herself away from the wall, causing Issei to fall onto the ground on his back with her straddling his torso. The woman rubbed her gash on top of Issei's chest, covering him in her juices, before planting her quim directly on top of Issei's mouth.

Despite allowing his tongue to spear into Xinthia's hole, he did not allow her to keep the full initiative. He forcefully flipped her around while still on top of his face, before wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her down, causing her to fall over him in a classic 69 position, with his flesh pole poking her cheek.

Xinthia, feeling curious about it, allowed herself a close look, her hand turning it this way and that, allowing her to spot every detail of the member. Taking a deep whiff of it, Xinthia felt a different sort of hunger awaken within her, allowing her tongue to flick out of her mouth for an instant and take a small lick of the purplish-looking head. She smacked her lips, neither liking nor disliking the taste, buth rather feeling more and more curious about it.

That is, until her tongue dabbed at the tiny slit at the center of the head, gathering a small bead of a salty, slimy/sticky substance.

"Hahhhhhhh~"

Xinthia's eyes gained a familiar purple hue, her horns manifesting physically as she licked and dabbed at the slit again and again, trying to gather more of the divine-tasting substance on her tongue. Before long she had Issei grunting unhappily at the teasing pace, causing the brunette to grip the back of her head, lining her mouth up with his pole...

And shoving her down.

She felt the entirety of Issei's meat pole violating her mouth and throat, yet she did not feel whatever gag reflex she should have trigger, and instead she felt her throat distending, shifting and writhing to both accomodate this invader, and to milk it for all it's worth.

Having trapped Xinthia's head in place, Issei thrust upwards into her throat again and again, causing it to bulge obscenely. After a lifetime of structures, order, authority and control, feeling this sort of thing... Having her ability to choose and her control just completely taken away from her by someone that she wouldn't hesitate to say she trusted with her life... This was the first time Xinthia felt such bliss. In wanting to keep feeling it, she flexed her throat, swallowing in rhythm with every single one of Issei's thrusts and causing the brunette to grit his teeth at the surprising sensation.

He felt a churning in his balls that for an instant made him consider just unloading within Xinthia's throat, yet he managed to curb his enthusiasm, pulling Xinthia up by the hair and releasing his pole from her body, revealing the fact that it was covered in a slick, clear-colored fluid, twitching as Issei forcefully pushed down on his impending orgasm, even as Xinthia stared at the pole longingly.

Issei lifted Xinthia off of his body, taking a deep breath as he pulled himself back from the brink of an orgasm, before he called out to Xinthia.

"On all fours."

The headstrong, proud succubus with a naturally dominating nature assumed the position Issei ordered - not told, nor suggested, but ordered - her to with not a peep of reluctance, and instead a level of willingness shown in both her eyes, her face, and the drooling, trembling slit between her legs.

Issei got up onto his knees and moved towards Xinthia, lining himself up with her opening, only for her unusually reserved voice, it's tone nothing if not submissive, to interrupt him.

"Ummm... This is the first time I've taken a man... Please... Take it easy on me..."

These words caused everything in Issei's awareness to gain a purple tint for an instant, before he thrust into Xinthia with the same level of reservation that he gave to Lilith during their first time, which was none.

Xinthia's pussy was the tightest one he had felt so far. While Lilith's was initially of a natural shape close to the shape of his own cock, and then eventually shifted to fit him and him alone, and Laveria was both somewhat naturally wider than Lilith, and already had given birth to a child, Xinthia's was so tight around Issei's cock that he felt almost as if she were trying to crush him, however this tightness also affected her, causing her to howl out in pleasure. However, a question went through Issei's mind, and he did not hesitate in asking Xinthia in her present state.

"Xinthia, you told me that this was your first time with a man, yet I did not feel your hymen... Did you tear it in training?"

"...No, master. While this is indeed my first time with a man, I have had many female lovers before, and we have made use of various toys - hnng - but none were ever as big as you, nor did they fill me up as you do!"

Hearing everything that he needed to hear, Issei started stroking hard into Xinthia's body, fighting against the almost crushing grip of her quim to repeatedly retreat from her, only to slam back in fully, up to the point where she was accomodating enough to allow him a little more give, some more movement space.

Leaning forward over Xinthia's back, Issei grabbed her hair hard with his right hand, pulling back on it harshly enough to cause some discomfort, yet not hard enough to take her away from the pleasure, rather, this tugging caused her to gush all over Issei's thighs in a mini orgasm, causing him to finally put the pieces together.

'She's a total masochist!'

This conclusion had Issei tugging on her hair again as he withdrew from her warm pocket, but, simultaneously with his thrust, he used his free hand to lay a hard smack onto one of her buttocks.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Xinthia's orgasm was intense and drawn out, her walls constantly writhing around Issei's pole with a grip alternating between the tightness of a vise, and a moderately intense massage, which caused Issei's orgasm to draw closer. Feeling himself close to cumming, Issei pretty much forgot the meaning of limits, alternating between tugging on Xinthia's hair as hard and as often as his instinct allowed him to get away with before giving him a warning, and delivering alternating spanks to her buttocks, with a few smacks to her thighs and the sides of her breasts for variety, each of which caused her to squirt in another mini orgasm.

Feeling himself on the edge of unloading within Xinthia, Issei decided to go for a grand finale. Gathering as many of Xinthia's juices as he could on his right index finger, Issei keep up with his thrusts, however, just as he was about to cum, he used his left hand to lay a smack on Xinthia's left buttock, before gripping it, spreading it open... And inserting his slick finger into her smooth, pink-colored Anus.

The succubus seized up entirely, her body freezing like a machine that had just been turned off, the tightness of her quim increasing so much that Issei felt himself get trapped within her, not that it made much difference as his orgasm struck him like a sledgehammer to the back of the head.

Stars invaded his vision even as he felt like his soul was being drained through his balls - figuratively, of course - causing him to lose all strength in his limbs and to fall backwards onto the floor as soon as Xinthia's depths unclenched, something which coincided with the masochistic woman's sudden, shuddering intake of air, her brain finally managing to reset after the orgasm that had struck her, the sheer amount and intensity of pleasure signals flooding her forcing her brain into temporarily shutting down. Despite the fact that she couldn't do anything during that time period, both her body and mind had registered the sensation, and saved it amongst the most precious types of information possible, while the aftershocks of such an intense orgasm forced the strength away from her limbs, causing her to fall on top of Issei before falling asleep altogether.

-Lemon End-

He felt more bodies surrounding him, looking towards his right to see Lilith cuddling into him, breathing his scent in deeply before allowing herself to doze off as well, before looking towards his left, only to meet the gaze of a grinning Laveria.

"Who would've thought that 'The demon of the Arena' Xinthia would secretly be a masochist, ne?"

Blushing lightly at the question, Issei shrugged - as much as he could without displacing either Lilith or Laveria - before answering.

"I have no idea either. I'll just chalk it up to the usual craziness of my life."

This caused Laveria's face to turn serious, before she spoke.

"Speaking of craziness..."

Issei interrupted her in a similarly serious tone.

"Yeah. After you warned me about it, I started feeling it every time I was about to lose control."

"Do you have any idea about what's causing this?"

Thinking somewhat intensely, Issei tried to recall as many of his recent memories as possible, before something was shaken loose within his mind. It was the memory of Travis' last moments, however, instead of the slightly dreamlike feeling that this memory always gave him, with te addition of a white 'mist' after the death of the incubus, he got the memory in it's entirety, including the unusual sensations he felt, his physical changed, and his last words after he had reached Luxuria, before falling unconscious.

"I... I think I turned into a dragon. At least, somewhat."

Seeing Laveria's curious look, Issei explained the entirety of the story, from his death, all the way to falling unconscious in Luxuria. The succubus leader took it all in with calm and poise, before speaking.

"This... Might be a secondary effect of this 'acceptance of powers' that you did. The Boosted Gear, being your sacred gear, was already connected to your soul in an almost inextricable manner. By submerging yourself in all of your powers, and with the presence of Tantric Energy, and it's property of togetherness, you might have been affected by some sort of contamination from the energy of the Gear itself, or from the Welsh Dragon that is sealed within it."

Issei nodded lightly at that, before a massive yawn emerged from him, prompting Laveria to chuckle before speaking up again.

"Well, I don't think it's much of a reason to worry, since it's something coming from within you, rather than an intrusion into your powers. Plus, from what you've shown here, you can likely keep this under control. Since you leave for home soon enough, I'm sure Lilith and Xinthia have plans to keep you almost constantly within themselves, and I, too, have various plans with your delicious, sexy body. I'm sure that between the three of us, and whichever other maid or guard of the castle that manages to go a round with you, you'll have everything under strict control before you leave."

Nodding lightly at that, Issei yawned one last time before his eyes slowly closed, with him falling asleep in 5 seconds flat. Chuckling at that, Laveria pulled the boy's head between her breasts, allowing him to use them as a pillow, before going to sleep herself, lulled by the comfortable body warmth of the young man.

-x-

"Man, I can't believe that it's already time for me to head back home! I mean, I miss my parents and my friends and all, but... I'm also going to miss it here!"

Laveria smirked slightly at Issei, speaking up in a teasing tone.

"I'm sure that it has nothing to do with the fact that you've had two straight weeks of no-barrels-held sex, wherenever and wherever the mood struck you and the other side of the equation."

Blushing lightly and scratching his cheek sheepishly, Issei spoke.

"Well, that too. I'm sure that were it not for magic, my penis would have to stay in a cast for a few months at least, and I'd be the father of enough children to field a few soccer teams."

"We're in germany, Issei, we call it football here."

"I'm japanese. Soccer."

Chuckling lightly, Laveria allowed her gaze to turn towards Lilith, who was trying her best not to cry at the premise of being apart from the man to whom she had given her heart, while Xinthia kept her distance in order to avoid any of the teasing that she had started engaging in whenever her and Issei were within the same room.

Despite her utter masochistic submission in the bedroom whenever Issei came into the mix, Xinthia was still a dominating, imposing individual in her day to day life, and a complete task master in the training grounds. Ever since the discovery of her 'other' side, she seemed to get more and more harsh with Issei as far as training went. Most people watching believed it to be a way to discharge her embarassment at the situation, but she knew better.

She had noticed that whenever Xinthia went particularly hard at Issei during training, Issei responded in kind in the bedroom, something which was a win-win as Issei kept progressing at a faster and faster pace, and Laveria could notice that the relationship between Xinthia and Issei was more than likely to eventually progress into full fledged BDSM. Kinky.

Not that she was one to talk about kinkyness, of course. After her initial romp with Issei, and with training his dragon-like reactions and instincts as one of the reasons, she had initiated the young man into the world of role-and-costume play. Cheerleader, cowgirl, schoolgirl, alien, nun, Issei had already fucked Laveria in each of these costumes, and roles. She noticed that he was particularly fond of the schoolgirl and nun attires, information which she gave Lilith to do with as she wished.

"Well, despite the fact that I'll be back in Japan, at least I'll have a magical circle that allows me to travel back here whenever I wish, right? Perhaps a weekend or another, or during holidays or breaks I could leave Kuoh and pop to Luxuria for a quick visit, no?"

Smirking lightly, possessing knowledge that she knew Issei did not, Laveria spoke airily.

"I wouldn't worry much about that, Issei. I'm sure that we'll be seeing eachother plenty in the recent future. Now shoo, go say goodbye to the others before they try to sneak into your suitcase."

Sweatdropping at that, Issei scratched the back of his head before heading towards Lilith, pulling her into a hug and lightly stroking her hair even as he cooed soothing words into her ear, causing her to eventually stop sobbing, instead only keeping her arms wrapped around his waist in a death grip.

Chuckling lightly, Issei spoke.

"Lilith, love, as much as I'd like to stay here for a while longer with all of you, you know that I can't, but I'll do my best to swing around as often as possible!"

Wiping her eyes on her sleeve, the purplette mumbled into Issei's chest.

"Promise?"

"I promise."

Lilith reluctantly released Issei's waist, regaining her bearings and walking towards her mother, while Issei moved towards Xinthia, a somewhat awkward look on his face.

Before he could speak, Xinthia did so first.

"I'm not going to cry for you or beg you to stay if that's what you're hoping for, you idiot."

Chuckling, the brunette scratched the back of his head before speaking.

"I didn't expect you to. I know you better than that. I just want to say... That I'll miss your company. Even without all of the sexy stuff, just the regular stuff, when you ran me into the ground in training, tortured me under the guise of teaching, and constantly laughed at my minor misfortune... Wow, saying it like this makes it sound really bad. Well, whatever. I'll miss you anyway, Xinthia."

Blushing lightly, the woman looked away from Issei as she responded.

"I'll miss you too... Master."

A massive grin blossomed on Issei's face at that, causing Xinthia's blush to further intensify as she studiously avoided looking anywhere near either him or Laveria.

Finally, Issei made his way towards Jackie, who seemed to have felt down these last few weeks that he had in Luxuria. Issei spoke up.

"Jackie, and Hylda... First of all, I've gotta thank the two of you for helping me save Lilith."

Jackie interjected at that moment.

"But... If it wasn't for us, Travis wouldn't-" "Wrong. Travis already had plans for the Seed, and likely for Lilith. With or without you, he would have likely found a way to try to make them progress. Luckily for me it was you, someone who was actually a good person, rather than a complete bitch/bastard of a person. If it weren't for you, I'd likely have died either back in the castle hideout, in the snowy forest, or at the temple, against the Trogre. I owe you my life, the two of you."

Jackie blushed at that, while a blood-red glow overcame her right iris and the right side of her hair, her right breast decreasing slightly in size. Jackie/Hylda now spoke in a two-layered tone, as the two of them wished to say the same thing.

"I'm the one that should be thanking you, Hyoudou Issei. You showed me kindness and compassion when others would have condemned or abandoned me, and you gave me an honest chance at redemption, trusting me not to stab you in the back at any moment..."

The 'though I ultimately did' was not said aloud, yet Issei understood it all the same, frowning lightly at that. Taking the girls' hands into his own, Issei looked them in the eye as he spoke.

"I don't blame you for what happened. You were being possessed by a god of blood, using a cursed artifact of great power, to which your sacred gear made you even more susceptible. A couple of weeks before this, after the accepting of my powers, I couldn't even keep myself separate from the impulses of my - literal - reptile brain, so I really would have no shame in trying to hold you guilty for that, would I?"

Tears welled in Jackie/Hylda's eyes at those words, a massive weight on their chest becoming ever so slightly lighter. A small beeping sound from his watch had Issei cursing under his breath as he was forced to let go of Jackie/Hylda's hands, stepping back onto the magical circle that would deposit him back in his hotel room in Amsterdam in time for him to get his things together to board his flight back to Japan. A purple glow emerged as the circle activated, Issei's body gradually disappearing from the feet up as the magic got into effect. However, before he vanished, he had a few things to say.

Pointing at Jackie/Hylda, he spoke up.

"I decided! I'll fight to conquer your hearts next, Jackie and Hylda, and I'll show you the happiness that I feel with Lilith, and Laveria, and Xinthia! That's a promise!"

As his neck vanished, and before his jaw started to fade, Issei smirked smugly as he spoke to all of the present women.

"Love you all!"

He then disappeared before anything else could be done, leaving behind a sniffling Lilith, a heavily blushing Xinthia, a stunned frozen pair of Jackie and Hylda, and a chuckling Laveria. Before Lilith could break out into further crying, Laveria wrapped an arm around her shoulders and spoke softly.

"Don't worry about being away from Issei, baby. After all..."

She then procceeded to whisper something into the girl's ear, somethin which caused her previous sadness to shift completely, her sniffles turning into a massive smile as she wrapped her arms around the waist of her mother.

"Thank you, mother."

Laveria responded by stroking Lilith's hair, before speaking up towards the others present.

"It's time to go home now."

Jackie/hylda stiffened for a second, before speaking up, Hylda taking over completely.

"I guess it's time I leave, then... I'm sure I'll manage to find myself-"

She was cut off by a chop from Laveria which had her clutching her head in pain, tears in the corners of her eyes at the pain, before Laveria spoke up.

"Nonsense. I won't allow one of the saviours of my baby girl's life to live around like some sort of vagrant. Plus, I'm sure Issei wouldn't forgive us if we let you just disappear before he could conquer your heart."

The pain of her skull distracting her somewhat, Hylda was unable to hold back her latest words.

"He already has our heart."

Noticing that she had said it out loud, Hylda covered her mouth with both hands, expecting angry looks from the others, only to see amused looks all around. The one to speak up after that was Lilith.

"Oh, we know that. It was easy to see - and to smell - every time you got close to him. He,however, does not. Until he finds out, you're staying with us. And after he finds out, you're staying too. Keeping his women as close as possible for maximum convenience, in the vein of a true harem."

Lilith's last few words were only said half-jokingly, as she knew about Issei's dream, and she could honestly say that she had no problem with it. Aside from the fact that she trusted him to not simply add whichever girl showed a whiff of interest in him to his harem, and instead add girls he knew to be trustworthy and capable of fitting into the arrangement, and also the fact that she believed herself unable to singlehandedly manage Issei's libido - honestly, the more he fucked the better and more dangerous he got at it - Lilith knew that Issei's heart had much love to give, much more than she could give back.

It would be unfair to keep others from enjoying this same love that she did, just as it would be unfair to limit the amount of love Issei got because even if she gave him all of her love, it would still not equal the love that he gave her. However, if various women gave him all of their love at the same time, then perhaps they could possibly equal the love he was willing to give?

A few minutes of reflecting on the Issei and the nature of his dream late, the women present made their way back to Luxuria, each of them bearing specific thoughts of their own.

-Chapter, End!-

The lemon was requested, the lemon was delivered. This chapter was pretty much setup for the future, Issei getting what he deserves, and Issei finally leaving Luxuria, with the next chapter starting right with Issei, and going into Kuoh.

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