Rias looked at the gauntlets Ortho had given her. Apparently he had based them off a show he had seen recently. They were pitch black with red accents, and it had the ability to store energy so that she could blast people unexpectedly without having to wait ages for her own magic to reach the required point. She had seen the series he got the idea from, and agreed that Yang's special gauntlets did fit her natural fighting style rather well.

Akeno had an almost unhinged laugh when Ortho handed her a special whip, which was specifically designed to channel the lightning magic she inherited from her father. She had not been pleased when she found out that Baraquiel was handling her training, and the two had a very overdue talk about what happened. She still refused to acknowledge him, but at least she wasn't holding her powers back anymore.

That was a work in progress that would take a lot of therapy...something most of Rias' peerage needed honestly...before things could settle into an amicable relationship.

Issei was still surprised to be trained by an actual dragon, in between learning how to actually use that sword Micheal gave him.

A small dragon now sat on Issei's shoulder, and it was based heavily on all the historical images of Ddraig. Azazel had taken one look at the thing and had said it was like someone had cloned the blowhard.

Ortho may have had a bit too much fun leaving a ton of yaoi-based traps for Issei to find the second he learned that his new companion Akatsuki had access to the internet and could stream the entire porn library in Azazel's possession. Azazel's company pretty much ruled the supernatural porn industry (especially anything involving the Fallen) with damn near an iron fist...and he had a lot of content. So much so that it was unlikely Issei would see it all in a single lifetime.

Koneko had an amusing look at her new cat paw gauntlets. Ortho had taken inspiration from a different show called "Pandora Hearts". The gauntlets had a short-range teleport spell engraved in them, to allow her to make surprise attacks from any angle. Add in her quiet nature, and she was an almost perfect assassin.

Kiba had been given a proper set of armor, since he could create his own weapons. As a Knight piece, he specialized in speed so bulky armors would only hinder him. Which pretty much nixed most of the older armors like the samurai used to wear, as well as anything from the older European mindset. Instead, Ortho had gone with heavily reinforced cloth that was bolstered with a TON of spells on it, and was made from metal he got from making a few trades among the devil clans in exchange for tech support.

That had been a fun exercise, trying to recreate the chain mail shirt that Bilbo had gotten in Lord of the Rings, only to be used later by Frodo. The bonus being that Kiba could wear it around under his normal outfits and no one would suspect anything.

Made it a pain to swim with though.

For Asia, Ortho had plans to make a defense/buff type device. However he had yet to set on what form it could be, so he had put it on the back burner.

Rias was just glad to have a week's reprieve before they had to go back in for a day so they could get used to their new toys. They were so having an overdue and much needed spa day, Asia and Xenovia included.

In a high class spa...

"So Xenovia...how far have you and Ortho gone?" asked Rias.

They were all getting some much needed pampering, at her brother's expense of course. They had earned it.

Xenovia had a somewhat frustrated look on her face.

"While he's agreed to be intimate with me, he refuses to have children until we're both out of college at the very least," she replied.

That got Rias to sputter, just a bit.

"Why college?"

"He said that while intimacy was on the table, it's still too soon for me to think about children or marriage considering how sudden my departure from the church was. Much less the shocking revelation that went with it."

"Sensible," said Akeno.

"So he's not rejecting you, just telling you to wait first?" said Rias.

"Nii-san said that he won't have sex with her without protection until she's had at least two years of therapy first," said Asia.

Which had endeared Gabriel towards him rather strongly, as well as Xenovia's adopted mother/mentor. Most boys wouldn't have hesitated to fuck a pretty girl like Xenovia with or without protection and would have ignored the consequences until it bit them in the ass.

Ortho however was rather firm. While he would sleep with Xenovia, it had to be with protection and any talk about children would have to wait until she had graduated high school at the bare minimum...and that was on top of going through some much needed deprogramming and therapy.

The shock of learning God's death was still too fresh, on top of being tossed out of the only family and home she had ever known. Ortho was not going to add a child into that mess, because it wasn't the end-all solution people seemed to think it was.

The hormones alone would throw her for an even bigger loop, never mind the stress of having to actually raise a screaming infant who could care less about how tired or sleep-deprived their parents were. If anything it could cause even more damage long-term.

Rias could see why Serafall was attracted to Ortho. He was far more mature than most boys his age, and was fairly powerful in his own right. He could honestly care less about her position as the current Leviathan or her connections. Add in the fact he was very experienced in how to please a woman, and he was a very good catch indeed.

Hell, she suspected Sona was also interested in Ortho, even if it meant potentially sharing with her elder sister. She was happy for her friend if that was the case.

"I find it funny that Ortho seems to be gathering his own harem by accident, whereas Issei is actively trying to grow his own," said Akeno.

"Ortho-nii has commented on the same," admitted Asia. "Azazel still hasn't stopped laughing about it."

Ortho felt a shiver go down his spine, but he was well aware of the source so he ignored it.

"You okay?" asked Kiba.

"Someone's talking about my accidental harem again," said Ortho dismissively. "And stay still!"

"Accidental harem?" said Issei.

"Azazel made a joke about it when Serafall dragged me off to the bedroom with Kuroka and Xenovia in tow," said Ortho. "He only laughed harder when Sona joined an hour later."

Issei sputtered at that.

"Wait...You're dating both Sona and Serafall?" said Kiba in shock.

Ortho poked him briefly with the item he was using to adjust the fit on Kiba's new armor. Kiba went silent.

"Tsubaki is still waiting for you to take her on a proper date, and has asked me to give you a list of videos so that you knew her kinks beforehand," said Ortho absently.

Issei made a face.

"This is almost as bad as the fact you know entirely too much about my parent's sex lives."

"Your dad still hasn't stopped thanking me for that by the way. Their sex life hasn't been so active since shortly after your fifth birthday," said Ortho. Issei gagged openly. "Coincidentally, you mom favors the..."

Issei all but bolted out the door. Kiba couldn't stop snickering for several minutes.

"So...that list?" he asked.

"Yes please," said Kiba.

"Just remember, sheathe your member if you do decide to do her," said Ortho. "I highly doubt Rias or Sona want to deal with an unexpected pregnancy, especially since you're all still technically in school."

Kiba took it under advisement. Tsubaki would later thank him profusely, as Kiba finally got off his ass to ask her out.

~*~*~*~

Ortho had been in such a good mood that when he first heard what Rias and Sona had to say, he almost thought he misheard them.

Then, he saw red.

"Are you telling me that the Devil who got Asia excommunicated is still after her?" he snarled.

Rias and Sona could feel the magic rising in Ortho.

"Right now Asia is secluded with Irina and Xenovia, however he has a reputation regarding holy maidens. Specifically, he'll target them and force them to join his peerage out of desperation after being kicked out," said Rias.

"What's this bastard's name?" said Ortho.

"Diodara Asteroth, the current heir of the Asteroth clan of pure blood devils," said Sona promptly.

Ortho was already scrolling through the information network. After helping Micheal fix his computer problems (and streamlining Heaven's very glitchy information network), certain members of the Three factions had pooled their connections into one hub that those with the right access could use to get information.

Ortho, being the one who did a good chunk of the work (with Azazel's help), had access. Mostly so he could debug any programs.

The second he entered the name into the database, the Devil-side of the network kicked in...and he was pissed.

It was pretty clear that Diodara had not given up on Asia, and the thought of him going anywhere near his little sister made him sick. While he couldn't turn her into a Devil, he could still make her Fall, and that would hurt her more than anything at this point. Even though Ortho knew perfectly well that if Asia did fall, Azazel would simply swoop in and reclaim her anyway. He just didn't want his baby sister to suffer from that sort of heartache.

Ortho closed his search engine, and had a livid expression on his face.

"I am not going to let that arrogant ass inflict that sort of trauma on Asia or anyone else," said Ortho firmly.

Fortunately Devils had a way to challenge each other without having to go through too much red tape.

Azazel had an unusually serious expression when Ortho explained the situation. Asia was one of his, even though she had recently been converted to Angel and was under Gabriel.

However when he heard Ortho's plan he began smirking wickedly.

This would be the perfect time to unveil the Brave Saints graph to the Moonlit World and let everyone know that the Heavenly faction had cracked the ability to reincarnate humans the same way the Devil faction had.

Not only that, but it would make it abundantly clear to the arrogant little prick that Asia was permanently out of his reach. Besides, Micheal would very much like to have a...word...with the brat who kept tempting and corrupting so many Holy Maidens when they had enough trouble keeping true believers.

Asia's face lit up when she saw the new outfit Ortho had for her, and the ornament that went with it.

"You actually made them?"

"Well, far be it for me to discourage you cosplaying as your favorite game character. Besides, this gives us an excuse to join you," said Ortho cheerfully.

The character in question being Colette Brunel from Tales of Symphonia. Asia had fallen in love with her almost immediately while playing the game.

She had even trained under Gabriel so that her light attacks took the form of chakram instead of the same basic spear. Though that had involved a lot of practice with hula hoops of all things, and learning how to catch them properly. She was now able to send rings of healing, as well as arrows towards her allies with her sacred gear to heal others from a distance, though it wasn't as effective.

Ortho was so proud of his little sister.

Asia waited patiently as Ortho placed the copy of Colette's necklace on. She looked at Ortho expectantly, mostly waiting to hear it's name.

"Symphony, activate new user registry."

"Stand by ready, Set Up."

Asia had seen Ortho help the others set up their Devices, so she quickly went through the checklist. It took less than twenty minutes to get everything set up, though she kept her browser mode under a safe search.

Just because she had gotten used to seeing and hearing porn did not mean she wanted to stumble across it just yet. She could only tolerate horror movies because IDIA loved them so much and Ortho had assured her they were most certainly fake.

Ortho had a dark smile on his face. It was past time to teach that arrogant ass who had caused so much pain in Asia's life to learn a very overdue lesson.

He was going to enjoy this.