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It was surprisingly, not all that hard to regain his human form. Kaito thought that once he transformed into a full dragon and his power increased, it would be harder to control.
But no, rather it seemed to be the exact opposite. Despite the massive increase in power, it felt like his control increased multiple times over, and his overall abilities became like second nature to him.
As easy as breathing.
So within three hours of learning from Ddraig, Kaito found himself returned to human form.
Sans clothing.
Standing naked in the clearing he'd come to, walking over to a small body of water to check himself out, Kaito frowned as he looked himself over.
He looked mostly the same.
His face was the same, his hair was the same-
His eyes though were different. His pupils were slitted now, like a reptiles. And, if he wasn't mistaken, he was a little bit taller too, and his already prodigiously muscular build, had filled out even more.
And…
He looked down at his cock swinging between his legs, it seemed to have grown an inch or two as well.
…Lovely.
He sighed, and as he did, he noticed his teeth and blinked. Opening his mouth, he peered at his reflection in the waters surface, and yep his canine teeth were a little longer too.
'Well at least they aren't like the massive fangs I have in dragon form.' he thought, bemused. They were like the teeth of a saber tooth.
Still, despite the changes to his human form, he had to admit, the benefits far outweighed any cons.
And honestly…he felt a little calmer than before as well.
'You would do,' Ddraig spoke up, 'Because of you draining out the magic instead of fully transforming, your instincts would have been in constant flux between your human ones and your dragon instincts. Not to mention your instinct to dominate adding on to all that. Now that you've fully become a dragon, the instincts of a dragon are fully natural to you.'
Well, he supposed that made sense. And also, if he thought of it like an infection, because the instincts weren't natural to him, it was like his body's natural inclination to try and fight them off and get rid of them.
And now that he was a dragon, that wasn't the case anymore.
Heh.
That was so odd to think. He was a dragon.
"I'm a dragon." he smirked to himself.
'Yes you are.' Ddraig chuffed proudly, 'A pretty strong one at that. In pure magical power and physical ability, you are a decent bit stronger than that Satanael twit you fought with before as a dragon, and that isn't taking into account your various abilities and Sacred Gears.'
So definitive Ultimate Class then.
The realm of gods.
'Realm of dragons,' Ddraig corrected, 'Gods are lame wimps.'
Kaito snorted, "Didn't you end up like this because of a god?"
'Doesn't count, that guy was on a completely different level from the other wimpy gods,' Ddraig shot back, 'Besides, he had tons of help from the angels, fallen angels, devils and those loser Satans. And me and Albion were already pretty injured from fighting each other to begin with. One on one with me at full power? I'd smoke any god.'
Well, he'd give him that…mostly.
There were two outliers though, "Aren't Indra and Shiva supposed to be stronger than you?" he pointed out.
While he hadn't seen anything beyond the anime at the time before ending up like this, he'd seen that top ten list on the wiki and such, and it had Ddraig and Albion ranked at around fifth and sixth place.
Ddraig scoffed, 'Indra? Stronger than me? As if. I'll admit he has some decent power and strength, but he's around the level of God of the Bible, I'd smoke him too.'
Kaito raised a brow, "I notice you didn't say anything about Shiva though." he pointed out, though he personally didn't know all that much about Shiva himself either beyond some wiki diving.
'…Well personally I don't consider Shiva a wimpy god, he's more like destruction incarnate, completely different.' Ddraig replied after a moment.
That was some cope.
'Alright fine! If we fought, Shiva would win more often than not. But not that much, like six times out of ten, I can still take him if need be!' Ddraig reluctantly replied, '…Maybe seven times out of ten, but if I hadn't ended up in the Boosted Gear I'd have far surpassed him by now.'
'Honestly, Shiva is by far the strongest of the gods though, it's not like I'm the strongest dragon,' Ddraig continued and reluctantly admitted, 'He isn't a match for Great Red at all. So overall I'm not wrong, dragons are the strongest.'
Well, far be it for him to disagree, seeing as he was a dragon now.
"Putting that aside," Kaito said, "Is there any reason why I'm having a much easier time now controlling my magic power? Is it just because my power isn't in flux anymore like my instincts?"
'Partly, but mostly it's because you've become a full on Zwei Dragon now instead of just part,' Ddraig replied, 'They're all about instinctual magic talent and esoteric abilities. Using magic, and even creating spells and such will come a lot easier to you now. In fact, this is probably a really good thing, it should help as well with controlling the principles of domination.'
So it was just thanks to the type of dragon he became. It was kind of weird he became a different type of dragon from Ddraig, but honestly he wasn't going to complain.
'It is definitely a good thing, you're already absurdly powerful even as a dragon for how young you are,' Ddraig agreed, 'And it will be perfect for you to overcome the big mistake I and the White One made.'
"And what's that?" Kaito asked, crossing his arms.
'As dragons, we don't die normally. Even if our bodies are destroyed, as long as our soul remains, we can regenerate our bodies over time,' Ddraig explained, 'And that's the same for you now. But, I had never even considered protecting my soul back then in that case, and that's how I ended up in this position. You should look into creating a spell or ability to guard your soul in case your body is ever destroyed, so you don't end up with your soul stuffed in a container like me.'
Huh, now that he thought about it. That was incredibly bullshit. Even if a dragon was killed, they'd just revive in time if their soul wasn't dealt with.
…The problem was he had no idea how to even go about that, he only knew the very basics of devil magic he'd learned from Akeno last night.
He'd definitely need to look into it though.
Later down the line once he had more grounding in magic, so for now he'd put a pin in it for now.
And as for right this moment-
He may as well check in back at the villa for now before Rias and her peerage got antsy from not being able to sense him behind his barrier.
Summoning his gauntlets, Kaito grabbed a pair of pants from his storage space and put them on. Then clicked his fingers and dispelled the barrier around the clearing.
When he made his way back to the villa, he was somewhat surprised to sense only three presences within the opulent vacation home.
Issei and Asia were still there from when he took them back earlier, and the third was Rias. Kiba, Koneko and Akeno must have been out training then.
'Huh.' he blinked as he paused in front of the villa, surprised in spite of himself at how easily he sensed them. He'd have had to concentrate to sense them earlier, but now it was almost second nature.
Another benefit of being a dragon? Or a Zwei Dragon?
Both?
Either way, he was quite satisfied, his sensory abilities were one thing he'd totally lacked talent in.
Dragon race for the win.
'Hm!' Ddraig chuffed proudly.
"So are you just gonna hang around me constantly now?" Kaito rolled his eyes in amusement.
'Unless that idiot needs for me something, yes.' Ddraig replied with a complete lack of shame.
'Well alright then.' Kaito shrugged. It was going to take some getting used to, having one of the Heavenly Dragons watching his every move and giving running commentary.
He made his way into the villa, pausing as he walked passed the main sitting room where he found Rias sitting on a massive couch in front of an absolutely gargantuan television.
It had to be literally a hundred inches in length if not more.
'I want that.' Kaito thought absently.
Seriously, once he started getting paid in earnest by Serafall he was going to buy himself a massive mansion, and get one of those.
No he'd get an even bigger one.
He raised an eyebrow as he saw Riser Phenex appear on the screen, fighting against another young devil, flaming wings burning from his back as he completely ignored a lance of bright red energy piercing his chest and flew forward unleashing a huge stream of fire at his opponent.
Seemed Rias was studying his rating games he supposed.
"You don't need to study how he fights you know," Kaito commented as he walked in, "I'll be able to handle him and his immortality without much issue."
For as amazing as the Phenex Regeneration was, it had one massive massive weakness. Holy light energy.
Which he could use freely now
Rias looked away from the huge television, over her shoulder at him, and he noticed then she was wearing glasses and had a large notebook on her lap with a pen in hand, "Maybe," she smiled at him, "But, even if I'm relying on you for this single fight, I'll have to face him and others of his family someday when I take part in Rating games officially, so I figured I may as well look more into how he fights now and see if I can come up with something."
"Fair enough," Kaito hopped over the couch and landed sitting beside her, cocking his head at her, "Do you even need those glasses?"
"Not really," Rias shrugged, her smile widening a bit, "They help me focus a bit though. A little habit I picked up from Sona. Don't tell her I told you this, but she doesn't need hers either, she just wears them as a fashion statement."
Hmph, as expected of annoying Sona Sitri.
His nose wrinkled.
Rias laughed, "You really aren't happy with her huh?"
"She constantly got on my case, it was annoying." Kaito shrugged himself.
"Well, I get that. Though, playing advocate for a little bit, silly as it was she thought doing that would be helpful for you, she's not much of a people person our Sona," Rias shook her head in amusement, before raising her brows suddenly, "Wait, have you got even stronger since I last saw you earlier? Your magic power has increased twice over." she gaped.
"Yes." Kaito replied simply.
Rias stared at him for a second, before shaking his head, "You're really absurd you know that? It's like every time you leave my eye sight you turn up again more powerful than before," the gorgeous redhead said, "I don't suppose this is something I could replicate?"
He smirked, "Depends, do you want to become a dragon?" he replied.
Rias blinked, before sighing and rolling her eyes in amusement, "Unfortunately I think my parents would blow a gasket," she replied, "So you went through with it then? And became a full dragon? I thought you said earlier that you hadn't done that because you weren't sure how long it would take you to return to human form."
"Yeah, I thought it would take way longer," he replied, "Apparently not. I got some advice from Ddraig when I was helping out Hyoudou."
Her eyes widened minutely, "You spoke to the Heavenly Dragon?" she gasped, "…Well I suppose if anyone could help you go through such a process so quickly, it would be him."
"Mmmm," Kaito nodded, "Speaking of, I've done everything needed with Hyoudo."
She blinked again, "Already?"
"Yeah, I've helped him unlock his balance breaker , and guided him through the same process I went through. He'll be quite a bit stronger now at his base even without the Boosted Gear and should be able to breathe Dragon Fire," Kaito explained, "What he needs now is just physical and magical conditioning and combat experience. Put him through the ringer until he becomes more in tune with the Boosted Gear and has the physical ability to use it properly."
"That's…quite the progress for just a few hours." Rias commented, staring at him wide eyed.
"I'm a bit of an expert when it comes to the Boosted Gear, and just had him copy me a bit," Kaito shrugged, his eyes drifting back to the screen as Riser finally managed to outlast his opponent and was declared the winner of the Rating Game, "He really does rely on that immortality huh? He's not really a good fighter at all."
"He's never needed to be," Rias sighed, "The Phenex regeneration truly is that absurdly powerful. I've no idea how to overcome it beyond somehow draining him of all his power, but I'd exhaust myself far before him if I tried that while fighting him personally."
"So it's reliant on his magic energy?" Kaito raised a brow.
"Mmhmm," Rias nodded, "The problem is, while Riser may not have trained much as a fighter, he was born with a great amount of magical power, and it has only grown over time naturally and because of how often he uses it."
Kaito nodded simply, eyeing Riser on the screen, "Then what you need is a way to make him continuously drain his power faster than you if you fought him," he said, before looking back at Rias, "Can you control your Power of Destruction remotely after firing it off."
"Not yet," Rias admitted, "That's quite an advanced skill with it that I'm still working on currently. Why?"
"Then there's your answer, master that and you can deal with Riser," Kaito said, making both her eyebrows rise up in confusion, "Once you do that, make a big orb of it, fire it into his chest and keep it in his body. He'll have to regenerate around it constantly and waste all his energy because it'll continuously destroy his body, simple."
Rias stared at him wide eyed, "…It can't be that simple to overcome such a power."
"It kind of is," Kaito snorted, "You said it yourself. It relies on his energy, so you just need to make him exhaust that power. And what better way than forcing him to continuously regenerate? And somehow I doubt Riser is skilled enough to deal with your power and regenerate at the same time."
"But….that's so simple." she refuted weakly, "I've been puzzling for ages over a strategy to over come his immortality, for it to be that simple…"
"Simple doesn't bad you know, and it also doesn't mean easy either," Kaito shrugged, "I mean you said it yourself, the ability to do it would require an advanced skill you haven't gotten down yet."
"So you're saying I've just been overthinking it huh?" Rias mused.
"Pretty much," Kaito laughed, "Honestly, aren't you some big weeb? You'd think with how much anime I heard you watch, you'd have come across a method like that for dealing with regeneration."
"Life isn't an anime," Rias refuted, before narrowing her eyes, "How do you even know that? You can't be seriously telling me the information you got on me and Sona and our peerages included our hobbies as well."
He just smirked at her and didn't say a thing in reply.
Huffing, Rias slumped back against the couch, "Lovely, some group I have no idea about has collected information on me right down to my hobbies, that's so creepy," she said, "Who even are these people? You said they tried to recruit you before right?"
Well, he'd already told Koneko about them, no reason why he couldn't tell Rias either.
"One part of them," he shrugged, "It's a massive organization made up of loads of smaller groups from various pantheons. There's devils from the old Satan Faction, Fallen Angel splinter groups, and the one that specifically tried to recruit me is a human only group made up of sacred gear wielders, and descendants of heroes and gods. They're pretty much human supremacists."
Rias blinked slowly, "…Lovely," she said, "I can't even tell which one would be worse out of those three to have that kind of information on me."
"Well, there's more than just those three," Kaito replied, "Like one specifically lead by the White Dragon Emperor of this generation. And in his group he has the descendant of Sun Wukong, the descendant of King Arthur and even Koneko's older sister Kuroka."
Rias' eyes flew wide open, "Kuroka?!"
"Yeah, I told Koneko about her earlier by the way," Kaito mentioned off handidly, "Gave her a bit of a pep talk and a kick in the ass to get her head out of her ass and to start using her natural abilities as a nekoshou as well. She's way stronger when she isn't holding those back I've gotta admit."
Rias' mouth opened and closed wordlessly for a few seconds, "…How…just how?" she stared at him in disbelief, "I've been trying for years to help both Akeno and Koneko overcome their pasts and accept themselves, with no luck at all. And you've done it with with both of them in the span of two days?"
Rias bit her lip, taking off her glasses and staring up at the ceiling, "Just…what have I been doing all this time?" she sighed in defeat, "They've been with me for years and I've not been able to help them at all. I must be a complete failure as a king for them."
Kaito stared at her for a second before smiling, "Nah," he denied, "This would never have worked if they weren't already in such a good place already."
She wordlessly looked back at him.
"They're already happy and living good lives," he told her simply, "That's thanks to you. If it weren't for you, they'd either be dead right now, or much more angry and bitter. All I did was simply highlight that and rub their faces in the fact that they have nothing to complain about, and they'd lose the lives they love so much with you, if they didn't pull their heads outta their asses."
Her lips quirked a little, "Except saying it that simply means I could have said that to them any time as well."
"You really couldn't," Kaito shook his head, "Because you loved them that much. You looked after them, made sure they were happy and got them to this point already. The fact you took in these bunch of angsty spastics and got them to the point where a simple blunt pep talk from me let them get over their issues, is more credit to you than it ever will be me."
Her mouth dropped open a little, before she erupting into a gasping giggle, "You're…really something you know that?" Rias smiled widely, almost giddily.
"I'm just bull headed to a massive point." he shrugged.
"That I can agree with, you're not gentle about it at all," she replied, shaking her head in amusement, and to his surprise, she reached out and cupped his cheek, "It really is such a shame that I couldn't reincarnate you."
Despite himself he leaned into the gentle touch, "A bit." he agreed.
Rias really was a good woman. Putting aside her raw beauty. She was strong willed, gentle, warm, caring and whole lot more.
"Marrying you would have definitely been a massive relief for me," she smiled a little wider, stroking his cheek, "You're not like the likes of Riser and the other devil heirs that'll try to be my suitors even after this. I'm proud to be a Gremory, but that's all any of them will ever see. The Gremory name, never just Rias. Even though I know it's highly unlikely, I want to marry someone that will love me for me, not just my name and influence."
"Well, you don't need to take my word for it since I was gonna accept your proposal because of the benefits it came with," Kaito reached up and grasped the hand cupping his chin and smiled back at her, "But, it'd be so incredibly easy to fall in love with you."
Honestly, it would be easy to love any of the girls in her peerage. They were all just simply great and amazing girls like that.
Rias blinked at his words, her lips parting slightly as a faint blush crept across her cheeks. For a moment, she looked almost vulnerable-
Before a massive smile spread across her face, "My, you really are something aren't you?" she mused softly, "So dangerous, it's no wonder Yanagi-chan was guarding you so jealously. The second she took her eyes off you, you'd be sweeping up more girls."
"Hey now, that's just not true," Kaito protested pulling back a bit, "It wasn't like I've been trying to pick up girls or anything like Hyoudou wanted."
Rias snorted, "Says the boy who's condition for joining my peerage was bedding me and the other girls in my peerage."
"That was fake, I just said that cuz Hyoudou was pissing me off and wanted to rile him up." he denied.
"And yet you have two girlfriends, three if you include Akeno and would have been getting married to me as well if not for me not being powerful enough to reincarnate you," Rias smugly countered, and surprised him by pulling him forward, until his face was resting between her huge, soft breasts and wrapped in her embrace, "You womanizer you."
"Tch." was all he said in reply, and even then it was muffled by her soft cushiony chest.
He couldn't really deny that after all.
A hand found its way to his hair, and Kaito relaxed into her embrace, "You've trained hard today, not only yourself, but even helped Issei power up a ton and helped both Koneko and Akeno," she said softly, "How about you relax here with me for a bit, maybe watch a movie with me?"
He looked up at her from between her cleavage as she stroked his hair and met her eyes, "Fine with me," Kaito replied, "That tv is amazing. Honestly, this whole villa is amazing, I want to get one like this in the future."
"It is quite nice isn't it? Nice and quiet, private and away from the general noise of the city," Rias hummed, smiling down at him, "Do you want it?"
Kaito blinked, "Huh?"
"If you like it, you can have it, I'll transfer the property to you even," Rias nodded, confirming what she said, "Or if not this, I can have you one built if you want?"
His jaw dropped, "Just like that?"
"Just like that," Rias laughed, "It's a simple matter. You've went above and beyond what I asked for even, and in just a day too. So if you want a place like this, or this one as I said, just tell me and it's yours."
…Wow.
"You wanna be my sugar mommy?" he snorted in amusement.
Rias burst into giggles, "I don't think you'll need one. Thanks to Serafall-sama you're a high class devil now, so you'll be getting your own territory in the underworld, and Serafall-sama will be paying you quite a bit once you actively start working for her," she said, before grinning impishly, "But I suppose until then I wouldn't mind spoiling you like that. Just call me Sugar Momma Rias."
"As long as you don't start wearing some ugly pearl necklace." Kaito guffawed, "Fine, I'll take this villa then, no take backsies." He really did like this place after all.
Her impish grin just got wider, "That's fine, it's yours. And I think it's you actually that's supposed to give me a pearl necklace." she outright purred, and surprised him as she leaned down and pressed her lips against his.
It was a simple, sweet press of her lips against his, nothing deep or wanton about it. A gentle kiss that had warmth sweeping through his body and butterflies fluttering in his stomach.
Warm, sweet and full of promise.
Just like Rias herself really.
After a few seconds, she pulled back, and he could taste her on his lips. He grinned back up at her, meeting her own grin with his own, "Alright then, so what should we watch then sugar momma Rias?"