-Sirzechs-

After Rias and Grayfia left, Ajuka and I just stood there in silence for a while.

He put a hand on my shoulder "Are you ok?"

"...I'm fine. I'm not hurt but…"

"Yes, not being used to having to fight your precious little sister huh?" He says in a joking tone to try to lighten the mood.

"Yeah…" I appreciate it. But I'm really worried about what he discovered. If it was just her new powers that she can turn on and off it would be an absolute delight, she would have more strength to protect herself and be safer but… it's clearly not just that.

Her desire to learn magic it's similar to when she first started, with the exception of her… "phrasing" of course. Maybe she will get bored eventually. But with the little talks we had since after the rating game anybody could notice that she is acting differently. It could be just her being shy at first, but me, Grayfia, mother and father could realize that it was also something else. She changed

I continued to ponder for a while until I felt Grayfia coming back.

"...How was she?" I asked.

She joined by my side and hesitantly said "She seemed fine physically but… it seemed that she was also worried"

I guess we wouldn't be the only ones worried about all of this. It's all new to her as well. The best option for now would be for her to just stay at home and forget about school in japan, we would teach her everything that she forgot and she can take some lessons for the hell school at home.

Maybe we could even end up making a deal with Sera's little sister to do something about her school in japan as well. With everything that happened everyone would end up agreeing, even Grayfia would. But the Problem now is if Rias will accept. But what if she—

"Can I start?" Ajuka suddenly says " I can see that the both of you will just keep worrying about Your little sister and going nowhere. It's better to know all of what we learn of her for now"

…

He is right. Overthinking will end up getting nowhere. "Sorry Ajuka. What else you can tell about her"

"Well" He starts "I know it was never a doubt to you but I confirmed that yes, She is the same Rias. It is the same Soul as I have met in the past, that is, you little sister."

"Thank you. We could see that she still has some similar behavior from before" Like the fact that even without remembering she still got the same adorable blush when we talked about her childhood pictures to her. "But it's nice to be 100% sure."

I can feel Grayfia's grip on my hand lessened because she is also relieved. But then she asks "What exactly happened that caused her memory loss?"

Ajuka frowns "That… there isn't really a way we could confirm. It could be because the trauma of losing her pawn like that was so intense and traumatic that made her lose her memories and also happened to trigger the curse to activate or the traumatic experience made her trigger the curse and the curse itself was so intense that, combined with the intense situation, it became too much for her and caused her memory loss."

For a second I consider going back to the phoenix family and killing Riser myself. But I managed to rein myself in. My family, Sera and Ajuka already talked to me before I even said anything. I completely agree with them that Riser doesn't deserve… But sometimes the desire to end him is still there.

Better to not think much about her fight. I opened my mouth to ask " But what about her curse itself? Has someone put it on her?" Because if it did then I have to prepare for a possible war against whatever being thought it can just simply do this to MY SISTER.

"It seems unlikely. From my understanding the curse it's a part of her. It's very integrated into her destruction power. From what I could understand, instead of a curse that she acquired it's more of a mutation in her destruction power.

The possibility of some entity putting this curse on her is not zero but very unlikely. Since it would only trigger when in time of extreme stress or need and that doesn't really make any sense unless she met a god or goddess that could do this to her without anyone noticing and was trying to help her somehow."

"If she had met such a being she would have reported" Grayfia asks "Assuming she was born with it, how come we never saw something like this in her?"
"Well. Since she never needed it, it was just a part of her that never seemed different. If she didn't have her mutated power activated or if I didn't know what to look for I probably wouldn't be able to say that she had a mutated power."

I created a chair for me and Grayfia and we slump on it and lean on each other. Okay one less stress to deal with. It's a shame the loss of her memories but she is still our family so none of us would think of abandoning her. Now the only worries are for her to learn her powers, to relearn devil education and devil manners… Wait a minute.

"We didn't receive any damage but how strong exactly was she? I was worried more about not hurting her"

"I wasn't really concerned about the damage but I think her strongest attack in her red eye black sclera state was around early …ultimate… class." Grayfia said

As she said that we both looked at each other in shock and looked at Ajuka.

"Yes." he said "It's an absurd growth in power. Although it's not the level of boost that her pawn could give in the future, her strongest form could be said to grow her strength like a balance breaker from a sacred gear. Having a boost that brings a high class to ultimate class is something never seen in a pureblooded devil before."

We stood in silence to absorb the information. My baby sister has enough talent to one day become a super devil.

(next day)

-Grayfia-

"Are you sure that it's not too soon?" Sirzechs asks.

"Maybe, considering the circumstances, but the sooner we deal with this the better" Mother said "Also i know that it's an abnormal circumstance but shouldn't you go back to work as satan? We already have Grayfia to taking care of Rias if she needs"

"...I Will.. but i stayed today as well because i'm telling Rias about her peerage."

"Everything? Even about Koneko 's circumstances?"
"... Almost Everything, but yes, more than she knew before"

"Why now?"

"Because it was never necessary. Before Rias wanted only to coddle her peerage. Now she seems to genuinely want her and her peerage to grow."

"That is fine," Father said "but we still need to patch things up with the Phenex and to deal with how we are going to answer the other devils."

Indeed. We have been receiving all kinds of messages from other devils to know what happened and what is the state of Rias.

"Have you decided what you are going to say?" I ask "Are you going to tell people about the amnesia or try to pretend that she still has her memories?"

"We would have preferred that she pretended to still have her memories and to act like herself from before" Father said.

"...I'm not sure that is the best answer to our problem." Sirzechs said.

"Sirzechs, we appreciate it for you to want to help but we need to deal with this on our own."

"No Father." I say "This time I agree with her."

They both turn to me and mother asks "Why? You don't think Rias can learn everything again?"

"No. I think this Rias is more driven and is willing to learn what she needs no matter what"

"Then what is the problem?"

"The problem is…" I'm not sure how to say this. I look towards my wife to help me.

She nods and continue "She doesn't seem too concerned about things that she thinks it doesn't matter and I don't think she will bother to keep pretending"

Both of them stay silent for a second. Until Father says "You don't think that she will listen to us? even though she accepted us as her parents?"

"It's not that." She answers. " But Rias now seems more focused on other things. Devil nobility and the Gremory name doesn't seem something that she is really caring for.

"What other things could she possibly want to focus on?"

"She told me that she actually wants to train and learn magic to get stronger"

Those were not the exact words but I agree anyway "She is right"

We start discussing for a while until Mother just says "We should first ask her what she's willing to do"

"It will be quicker to send a message." I offer. They accept

I grab my phone and send a message to Rias

Me: Rias are you available now?

Rias: I'm free. I was just testing Issei's power on me. Hey did you know that the boosted gear could boost the brain of people this whole time? Issei came to me and said that she had a dream that she talked to the dragon in her hand and he said that not a single user ever thought about that but it should be possible. It's awesome!

… I'm not sure i should be happy that she is this proactive or angry that she is straining her body a day after i told that she should just rest

Me: Please be mindful that you should not strain yourself. If you feel any pain then you will stop immediately. And if I discover that you pushed yourself I will postpone when you will be able to start training.

Rias: Sorry, my B. I will be careful. Anyway, what did you need me for?

Me: We are discussing how to deal with the nobles about your memory loss

Rias: ?

Rias: Is there something to "discuss"?

Grayfia: It's about if we should say it to people or make you pretend that you still remember everything

Rias: I think that ship has sailed. I already told my cousin that i lost my memories

…what

Me: When did this happen?

Rias: Like a few hours ago. I woke up and saw that he messaged me. I was told that he was actually a cool devil that I got along with and he was my cousin so when he asked if I was ok I just told him that I was fine but without memories. Oh I also talked to Sona, she knows too.

Rias: And this Gasper person sent me a message to ask if I was okay. I asked my peerage and they told me that he was another one from my peerage so i told him too

Rias: Both of them said that they are going to visit me at some point and I said "alright". And i told Gasper that i was going to go to him eventually to re-meet in person eventually

…

Well. I guess that just resolved itself.

"Fia, is everything alright?" My wife asks

"... Rias already told Sairaorg and Sona Sitri about her memory loss"

I can see Father getting annoyed and mother just sighing.

"Maybe we could still recover. It's just them maybe they will keep quiet"

I sense my phone vibrating. I check to see that Rias sent another message.

Rias: Oh, They asked if it was a secret for them to keep quiet and i told them that i didn't care

…This is getting more out of control by the minute.

Me: Is there anyone else who knows now?

Rias: \_(ツ)/

I show the others Rias new messages and they now just give up.

"Well.. I guess it's just how we are going to tell everyone else." Father said

Mother says "I guess Sairaorg and Sona visiting is fine. And we can just tell everyone next time we go to a noble party, we don't really need to make a public announcement over something inside our family so it's fine if we don't rush it. But first. Fia, ask Rias about meeting Riser if she does accept it, then we better talk to the Phenex about her memory loss"

Indeed. That is the most urgent thing we need to resolve. Father and Mother and the Phenex are still in talks and get along well even after the game. But we need to make sure that the Gremory and the Phenex houses are still allied. Riser seems fine to a meeting but we don't know Rias's current stance.

Me: Rias we need to make a meeting for you and Riser to talk.

I see that she saw the message but takes a while to respond. Until she asks

Rias: It's not about marrying him again is it?

I turn to Father and Mother and ask "Are you going to try and reinstate her marriage?"

Both of them shake their heads and Mother says "Regardless of what happened she won the rating game. And we don't think that marriage would be a good thing at the moment."

I nod my head and send a message back

Me: No. You won the battle so you are not marrying him unless you want to.

Rias: Then yeah no problem.

Me: Are you sure?

Rias: Yeah, The situation happened because I was weak and I believe a big part of it was my fault. And besides, Issei is alive and I don't really hate or dislike Riser so I don't mind.

I stare at the messages for a while without saying anything. I am surprised at Rias's maturity for a second before remembering that it's actually because, again, she seems to care more about her own strength than devil politics. I don't know whether that is good or bad.

-Rias-

This is awesome! As long as issei is with me, studying will be far easier. Not completely removing the studying that I will have to do in life, a shame. But it will make things faster. It was weird of us to think of consulting a hand dream dragon but i'm a reincarnated cursed devil with memory loss so whatever.

Yesterday after Issei slept, she talked in her dreams with her hand dragon. She said that according to him, it would be possible to "boost" our brains, But only 1 or 2 boosts should be done at max for now. Just like the rest of the body, if we put too much of a strain on our brains it could very much go wrong.

If we boost our bodies, as in physical or magical strength, and something pops, then it's just a matter of healing as long as it's not too much damage. If we boost our brains and something goes even a little bit wrong then we are fucked no matter what. Just the thought of being stuck in bed like my last life terrifies me, even if I don't remember all of the experience.

I completely prohibited issei from ever using more than 1 boost on our brain at a time just to be safe. Although I did suggest that in case of an evil bastard and it's a matter of life and death she could boost an enemy's brain. She didn't like it but accepted it, hoping that it would never happen.

The "boost" she gives it's not stats or skill points in a video game. You can't just ask "issei rise my speed" and just the speed "stat" would rise. When she raised Kiba's magic, she more or less boosted his body's capability of storing and expelling magic that Kiba had, not just an invisible "intelligence" or "magic" stat.

So when we boost our brain, we raise our brain's capability of processing information, cognitive speed, reaction time, enhanced memory and multitasking. It's awesome for learning things but I'm worried about how much we can abuse this.

If I start sensing something like an addiction or if I feel that we are considering our normal selves "dumb" then I will start prohibiting us from using it, at least for a while. It's supposed to help us be better normally, not create boosted gear addicted idiots.

But even then issei can't really keep a normal boost for more than seconds and it tires her. So we tried to see if she could make her boost less strong but more consistent. Instead of giving a boost of twice our brain capability, she could give us part of a boost, like a half, a third or even smaller.

It took some trial, error and rest but she did manage it. This way we could maintain our studies for hours at a time, The boost would not tire her as much as normal and would last far longer. It's perfect for now even if we do not immediately become as genius as we thought we would become.

With this talk, we had planned to read everything we could that we thought would help. We started with math, because I have a plan that is going to need for us to be extremely good in Computer science, but first we are going to need math because, while the supernatural society is a little more advanced than the normal humans of the current time, we have not much advanced in the games departament and I have a plan to profit from that to get me and issei filthy rich so that we don't depend on my noble family money to buy things for me all the time.

I asked if we would study the subjects of the devils but she suggested that some of those we just study normally because Asia liked to learn new things, partially because of how sheltered she was raised and she would feel a little bit lonely if we stopped learning together with her. I personally did not care for devil study so I agreed. But when I start feeling annoyed with all the names I will absolutely activate my yellow eyed mode to have better concentration.

The peerage minus Gasper also joined us in the library. Akeno, Koneko and Kiba were reading different types of books. Asia was also studying with us but another subject and without boost. Millicas joined us too and started studying math as well, but also without the boost. We did help when he got stuck on something, not giving the answers but teaching a way that would make him remember the ways of doing counts and formulas easier.

After some hours passed. We didn't make that much progress as we delusion ourselves that we would have, because our brain was starting to get tired. Turns out, even if we are smarter, our brain gets tired of trying to absorb a lot of new information in a relatively short span of time.

If it's to learn a subject for a test in an hour it's a fucking joke of how easy it is. But to learn a great quantity of new information then it gets harder. When we stop the boost we also retain all the information that we gained but if we just try to learn something else right after a boost ended we would end up getting the information misplaced in our brains, like trying to use a formula when it was not necessary.

While we were resting Issei asked me "Oh yeah, What about that other peerage member that we have?"
I said "Gasper? I already talked to him and I could tell that he was a little bit ashamed that he didn't participate in the rating game" He was kind of blaming himself in the messages. Which, speaking off "Hey why didn't participate?"

Akeno, Kiba and Koneko looked at each other before Koneko spoke "Gyaa-kun is.. sealed away"

…? "What do you mean "sealed"?"

"His power is a little bit too much for him and you to handle, So it was officially decided by the devils that he was to be sealed until they thought that you were ready. And he seemed scared of "going out" of his comfort zone, that is a sealed dark room. so you decided to not force him to do anything. Even if you didn't like the fact that he was "sealed" " Akeno said

What the fuck "What kind kind of power he has? Is he like Issei, that is something else alongside being a devil?"

Kiba spoke "He is a half vampire that has the sacred gear that allows him to stop time."

… I stay stunned for a few seconds not understanding what I just heard.

HOL— FUCK OW. CURSED SHIT I HAVE FUCKING DIO BRANDO IN MY TEAM. WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FU–

While I was having a tiny crisis in my mind I heard Grayfia coming to the library, said hello to everyone and talked a little to Milicas. After some time she turned to me and said "Rias-sama, i've come to fetch you"

I recover for a second from the news about Gasper, but realize what she just said "What's up with the"sama "?" I remember her also saying yesterday but I thought it was just a one day thing.
"I am the maid of the Gremory family, and thus i need to treat you, the heir, with respect"

We stare at each other for a while. "It's weird for you, my sister to call me that, stop it"

"I cannot. It is my duty to treat you with proper respect in public."

"... did someone ever ask for you to refer to me as such?"
"No, it is of my own volition and duty as a maid"

"Then as my maid I can order you around?"
"Yes, if is within my power"

"Then i order you stop referring me as "sama" when in we are not in presence of outsiders"

Her lips twitch a bit when she says "Very well Rias."

Hmm. better "Anyway you need me for something?"
"Riser Phenex is here to talk"

Wa- Damn, that was fast. "Alright"

She immediately teleported us to another room and there H̛͓͕͉͐͆̒E̢͕̼̤͓̰̣̎ͥ was.

Wait, stop, hold on. I immediately activate my yellow eyes mode calm the fuck down. I spent a few seconds just looking at him and breathing slowly. I thought I was ready but the flashback of the fight and the nightmares came back for a second.

He was already seated on a sofa so I sat across from him on another sofa. We were just staring at each other for some time. When I finally recovered from my almost panic attack I made my eyes go back to normal. I spoke first "Hey"

"Hey Rias." He said awkwardly. From what I understood , I was really bitchy to him in the past for no reason. Only after I was mean to him that he started firing insults back to me. But now there is no reason for us to be mad at each other anymore. Well I don't, he might still.

Shit, this is actually awkward. I decided to just be quick with this but I guess that only us should be here. "Grayfia, please leave us."

She seems hesitant to do it but obliges. I don't know if it's because of her "duty" as a maid so she should obey or because she trusts me.

After that we stare at each other in silence for a while again until I decide to just say it "Why don't we talk about how we feel about all of this?" He nods his head agreeing with me "Then who starts first?"

"I can start but… before anything else, how are you? I did want to pay back all your insults but I didn't expect… that to happen." He says "My parents told me that you lost your memories and I… don't really know what to say about that" He hesitates for a little bit "But i'm sorry."

I look at him and just said "Nah it's fine"

He looked like he didn't really understand what I said. After a few seconds he rose from his seat and said "What do you mean it's fine?! You lost all your memories because of me!"

"But that situation happened because of me. It sucks that I lost my memories, I do feel bad about it sometimes, but it would not have happened if I did things differently. And besides you did not hurt issei seriously and she is alive. So thank you Riser"

He stood there for a while processing my words so I decided to change the mood a little. "Besides, it could have gotten worse."

"How could it have gone any worse than that?"

"If you had actually killed issei we would not be having this conversation because you would probably be dead a little bit after the rating game ended" Because apparently i deactivated my power when i slept in Issei's arms after the battle.

He pales a little bit but recovers himself "..Yeah, i guess that would have really happened huh" He sits back "So.. we're cool?"
"Yeah we're cool. I don't really have any hate towards you because, well, I don't really remember y'know?" it's funny seeing his reaction because he didn't find it as funny as I did "But anyway apparently it was a dormant power. if it didn't happen in our fight, it could easily have happened in the future so you don't really need to feel guilty. If anyone asks i will just say that it was because of me"

He still seems hesitant to comment on it. "Well if you want to guilt yourself feel free. I personally would like to move on. I think I have better things in my time that I would like to do."

"Oh?" He seems appreciative of the change of subject "You mean go back to your cartoons and comics from japan?"

"No… well yes but not only that. I decide to actually train"

"...What?" He looks at me like I just said something crazy. "You, Rias Gremory, want to train."

I would have felt insulted if his face wasn't so funny. I nod to him.

"...Why?"

"Why not?"
"I mean, speaking for myself. For a few years after training my powers I never had to train again. And now I can literally do anything I want, just fight other devils around my age and hell is happy to consider me part of the elite. Being part of the family who produces the main healing method of hell and having an absurd recovery power have a lot of perks"

"Yeah but… you still had to marry me."

"Yes but it's the duty of devils to pass on to the next generation of devils"

"Yeah, that is the official reason but… do you actually care for it?"
" "It" being what exactly?"

"Y'know, the whole blood purity thing?"

"Nah, not really but it's the only thing that we actually have to do. We are very lucky that all we have to do is to have a child. Other devils have a constant need to prove themselves to their own family. My just let me do whatever I wanted besides our marriage. You had a very spoiled life that even I can get jealous of, besides the marriage. So just keep doing what I'm doing plus have a child with another devil.

If I did with a "pureblood" wife it would look better for the old farts but more and more they are being ok with reincarnated devils so, even if it was not "perfect", just having children with my peerage minus my sister, of fucking course, and they would be satisfied."

" Yes. That may be true but… I'm not ashamed to admit that I can be somewhat stubborn. I don't know if I was the same before our fight but I find their ideas of purebloodhood really fucking stupid. Like is that the life purpose that they designed for us? All of us are useful only for our blood only.

If you are strong I imagine that they keep annoying people to make them have strong children. If they are weak and young then they want for you not to go to danger and make the devils lose their "breeding factories"."

"Huh. I'm accustomed to devil society so I mind a bit less but from that point of view I can see how annoying it is on paper." He says "But what about the training thing?"

"Because I realized that I don't like being told what to do to appease a bunch of old farts that I couldn't give less of a shit. If I am able to become my sister's level then they can't really do shit to me. I could truly do whatever I wanted as long as I was not causing trouble."

"Ah. That part seems more like the old Rias, if a bit more muscle headed. But how do you plan to do that"

"Well to start I will learn how to manipulate my magic and POD. I heard that my sister has an absurd level of control over hers and magic in general sounds amazing. Also plan to learn types of magic from other religions."

"POD?... Ah power of destruction, right. But why other types of magic? Couldn't the Maou Beelzebub do a lot of shit with our devil magic alone?"

"Yeah but there might be things that our magic cannot do or maybe even that i can but it is inefficient like… " I try to think of exemples" Like the magic that youkai use, they have different types of magic that do different things. Imagine raising your magic power while also making your body healthier and more energetic. Maybe even cure the fertility problem of devils for some of us, the young devils wouldn't need to be breeding machines just to survive."

He laughs a bit "That does sound good. Imagine you being able to make a fertility potion. The old farts will try to say "Go do some children" and you just throw a potion at them "Go do your own satan damn self." "

I pause for a second. I was just thinking of teaching yokai magic to my family and friends. He might have said jokingly but the potion idea it's not actually a bad one.

"Tell you what, If I make a potion I can give you a sample."

"Thanks but now that we are "over "I don't think of having children anytime soon."

"Didn't you say that you would with your peerage?"
"Yeah but not NOW."

Heh "Coward"

"I'm sorry. Who's the girl who cried so hard that she discovered new powers?"

"I'm sorry, who's the one that was scared of this crying girl?"

I didn't expect this when I was going to meet my ex-spouse but I can actually see us becoming friends. We started chatting about random things for a while. He decided to give me some tips about being a veteran devil compared to the baby, a few days old that I am. While he was being slightly annoying on purpose about it, I appreciated it.

He told me about other devils, or at least his impression of them. Talked a bit about what the fuck the old devil faction wanted, that is for devils to seem more devil, it apparently means that they want us to be more evil for no reason, And they complain about new shit, like the fact that we have a day and night cycle to be more accommodating for the reincarnated devils. And that apparently our hell used to move a different time from earth and now it's the same.

Like what the fuck, just with our magic we can manipulate the weather and the time in hell. I'm absolutely getting a time chamber… No, Even better. A time resort like the one that Evangeline from Negima had.

He even told me that We on the surface of hell have a good life in general. But the other parts of hell are crazier. They have Demons that apparently are different from us devils. Other natural born beings like hellhounds, imps, succubus. There are also people who died and went to hell who are in another part of hell. And that very rarely demons gain permission to come to our part. Even we devils have to get some kind of permission if we want to go to those places and some areas are even completely prohibited.

Riser said that he got permission and did go to those places because there are places that are relatively safer for Devils to go. And Since they have human degenerates and beings that like to party all the time they are a fun bunch to hang out with, As long as you do not let yourself go.

There were some times where a devil noble was made a laughing stock because he thought that everybody would just kiss every step he made and try to fight others who were far stronger than him. Very rarely a devil dies there, but it had some cases.

These parts are managed by a part of the Lucifuge family that is not from the old maou faction. Their leader is called Luci Lucifuge alongside other Lucifuge descendants that did not want to join the war or the old maou faction. Judgment, Justice, Malina, Zdrada, Pandemonica, Modeus and a hellhound genetically modified by The old lucifer himself that is just called Cerberus.

I don't care about the parties but I do want to meet Grayfia's family who are not assholes, besides, there are demons who used to be humans there, so those who are not suffering eternal damnation will end up liking the video games that I'm planning to sell.

We talked for like an hour or two then we decided to end our talk. We exchanged numbers, because apparently we never spoke through our phones. After saying goodbye he himself teleported out and I left the room to find Grayfia but she was still just outside.

"Have… have you been here this whole time?"
"Not important. How was it?" She spoke a little hastily.
"Oh it was fine. We are chill. Not marrying him though."

She sighs in relief

"What? You actually thought that I would attack him?"
"Every single encounter with Riser you had was not in a friendly way."

"I don't remember that so it doesn't count"

Her face twitches. Heh,although I still get upset about my memories, it's hilarious how these jokes make people awkward. One day they will stop being funny but until then I will enjoy every moment of it.

"Your sister is calling you"

…? Was there something else?... Ah shit, right. She was going to tell me about my peerage. I completely forgot about that

She seems to realize this and laughs. I don't waste my change though "Yeah laugh at the girl with amnesia that forgot something again"

Her lips twitched again but now I could see that she almost smiled. Before I say anything else she teleports us to another room to another different room.

Sirzechs is here and she speaks first, also with a little bit of hesitation "Hey Rias. Was everything fine?"

Grayfia speaks before I could "She did everything greatly. They seem to be on friendly terms now."

Hm. Just so that i could not say my hilarious joke once more. Shame.

"Yeah It seems a pain to continue to antagonizing him so we are cool now"

"Wonderful. " She says. "Now. Do you want to talk about your peerage? It's a little bit rough about them so it's fine to leave for another day if you are tired"

"It's fine." I say "The sooner I learn everything the better.

"Okay then… well the first one was Akeno-"

And then she told me about their complete past that my peerage didn't really feel comfortable telling me.

She told me about Akeno, her mother and her hate towards herself and her father. Kiba being experimented on and his hate towards holy blades. Asia being used and thrown away by the church and being sacrificed by rogue fallen. Issei being seduced by her first Girlfriend in her life and being killed by her. Gasper being a half vampire that can fucking stop time but was persecuted because everybody is fucking racist in this world for some reason and now he is an extremely shy shut-in. But when she got to Koneko she I thought something was weird.

"And then we decided that letting her stay with you would be better."

… Wait "Kuroka went crazy with Senjutsu?"

"Yes"

"Wasn't she something like a genius with it? I'm not really sure about it but it seems kind of weird? Like if she was really good with it then why randomly do that to her master? Why not Attack Koneko as well? And since she was a genius then how did she let it go out of control? Didn't her master see what she was doing? "

She looks at me for a few seconds and smiles. "Yes… she "going mad" was just the "Official" Reason that we gave so that we could appease other devils and hide what actually happened."

Oh shit. "Then what actually happened?"

"Their master… was making an experiment. To what end I cannot tell you, it's confidential. But he was using Kuroka and another person as a test subject for a long while." She says "But, according to some notes that were not destroyed in the lab, after some time the other test subject ended up in a coma and their master also thought that Kuroka alone was not giving the result that he wanted. Either Kuroka found those notes or she heard him tell her that he as going to use her sister, and then she killed him"

Damn. Fuck that guy " But what made her leave her sister?"
"That we can just guess that probably she thought that we would spare her if it seemed that she was not cared for and abandoned and that she would be better in our care than as a fugitive or that, even if she is a genius and didn't went "crazy", she might have been still emotionally unstable and thought that was the only solution."

It seems a bit ridiculous to trust the race of the guy who tortured you and hope for the best but I guess it was an extreme situation.

"What happened to the other person?"

"She is still in a coma in a safe place. Whatever put her in that state was not devil magic. Probably Kuroka's Youkai magic. But we don't really know which type of magic and what exactly she did so it's not really ajuka's area of expertise."

What?! "Isn't Ajuka the most magic talented devil? What do you mean not his "area?" Even if he doesn't know about senjutsu and youjutsu he should be able to do something.

"Sorry, that part is also confidential."

Fuck. When She said that what my peerage told me was a really abridged version of what happened to them I was not actually expecting all of this.

"But why the secret?"

"If you mean why hide from you specifically it's because you were young and we weren't sure how well you could take the news and keep the secret. Later on you never actually bothered to try and help Koneko with her youkai powers so we never had to actually tell you." She says "But the experiment that we cannot tell you was a really dangerous one that must be kept a secret. Those who know agreed to not talk about it.

That's why Koneko was not Killed, because a lot of the nobles knew that it wasn't actually their fault. But we still had a dead noble so we needed to at least put Kuroka as a stray devil and "seem" that we wanted to kill her. On the other hand, we also had to deal with pressure from outside" She then briefly explains to me what the "outside" means and Leviatan-sama's part in all of this.

Well, I could complain that they should have told me that Senjitsu would not immediately make Koneko insane. But I guess that I would not have mattered if I myself did not start helping my peerage.

"Thank you Sis. For telling me. " I guess this is really important. Although she still did not tell me about the experiment itself. It still is somewhat of a secret

"I will always try my best to help you, Rias." She says as she looks at me fondly. "I promise."

…I can feel my face heating up a little and don't know what to say to that. "But shouldn't you be, I don't know, managing hell?"

"Well I–"

Grayfia Interupts her "Yes she should. You are fine and healthy enough, but just in case I will be here to take care of you and your training. She IS going back to her job because she should not let the work of Lucifer for her peerage to substitute."

"But–" Sirzechs tries to argue but Grayfia glares at her. She concedes with a sigh.

Wait a minute "Wasn't Akeno going to train me?"

"She was until I realized that you actually have some dangerous Ideas, and we should not let your imagination be completely free, ESPECIALLY when you are completely new to magic."

Hm… Spoilsport. She is right but I don't like the fact that she is.

(Next Day)

Yesterday, I used to prepare for today, now that I knew more about my peerage than what they told me.

I also called Gasper through a video call to actually have a talk with him, not only through messages, to learn more about him besides what my sister told me. I saw how shy he was but he's a really gentle person. Also that he was really good with computers which will also help me tremendously in my video game plan. But that is for another time.

But today is not going to be pretty, but better to get this over with. As soon as I felt prepared after dinner I asked my peerage to come to my Room . That for some reason also has a side room that we can only get from inside My room. Weird design but I loved it. It would be a great work or gaming room If i were to have Computers and Videogames.

Old me was more interested in novels, manga and anime so the room was filled with them alongside a lot of things from japan. There is a table, sofas and even another bed as big as My Room. I'm going to call it the Work room for convenience.

They are all in My normal room sitting around in chairs and fofa, waiting for me to talk. "Tomorrow I'm going to start training. So also I decided that you will start as well. But today I want to have a talk with all of you. It will not be a pleasant one but we need it so that I can know what training I can expect for you .

When we are done with our talks you may leave and do whatever you want for the rest of the day but make sure you are rested because tomorrow we start training. Any questions before I call you one on one?"

Koneko asks "What about Gya-kun?"

"Since I actually don't have permission to unseal him" Which is fucking bullshit " I will have this same talk trough a call and then tell what I want him to train on his own. Any other questions?"

Nobody says anything. Alright let's get this started "Asia, you're first"

-Asia -

I joined Bucchou on the room besides her room

"First I know that you are a healer but I want for you to train to fight for yourself. Ideally it would be to defend yourself but even If you become more athletic to defend or run then it would already be great.

What?... me… attacking someone? "But.. I don't know if I can hit people…"

"Everybody can hit anyone Asia. You just need to learn how. A great deal of martial arts is to defend yourself from others. Might be a violent way but you are not at fault for hurting someone when she was going to hurt you."

"I want to be of use to you but… I grew up learning how to never be mean to anyone and help everybody with my healing."

Buchou seems pensative until she says "Well Asia thinks of this way. When we get hurt do you feel upset?"

She nods her head

"We also think the same towards you. But I think that when we get hurt by someone you get upset at the person who hurt us but goes to heal us. I, on the other hand, am fully willing to physically destroy and maim someone if they hurt you.

So if you do want the more peaceful option then you should defeat the enemy yourself before you get hurt and I do it in a more violent way. I don't know what the others from the peerage will do but i know that i will use my power of destruction on them"

…I don't know what to say… I should be upset at her for being mean to others but.. I feel also… happy? Why would Buchou go so far for me? She doesn't…. remember me.. but even though i don't know if she remembers how to fight, she is already willing to hurt someone else to protect me.

"And also I want you to be more selfish and greedy."

…? "But wouldn't it be bad if I was selfish?"

"Maybe if it was an absurd amount of selfishness. Like the pieces of shit that used you and discarded you. But just learning to "want more" it's not a problem. You are a devil, it's fine to Sin, just don't drown in it."

I'm… I'm not sure what to say. Buchou tells me "Be a little bit like me. I was and am selfish and greedy"

…What did she say?! "You are not!" I scream, startling her "Buchou helped everyone when they needed the most! If it wasn't you, I would never have met Issei and she would not have become my first friend! You… you saw how useless i was in the rating game… you have all the right to discard me for being bad, but you still accepted all of us.. and me to stay by your side.. "

She stays stunned for a few seconds until she smiles and says "Asia, a person can be greedy, selfish and do good things as well. I don't think of myself as "Gentle" or "Good". It's just the way that I act. I am greedy and selfish. I don't do things because "it's the right thing to do", I do it because I want to, because I have to or because I will feel bad if I don't.

I'm not planning on making everyone stronger because it's the right thing. I'm doing this because I don't want to see you guys dead or hurt. So I need you guys to grow strong with me if you want to be by my side."

I try to absorb her words and then I ask "... You won't be mad if I fail or do something wrong?"

"If you do something that I do not like I will tell you, scold you or get mad at you." She says to me, I feel myself flinch "But I will not throw you away or abandon you. I promise"

I can feel myself starting to cry a little. I stay in place until Buchou comes to my side and hugs me. We stay like that for a while until I calm down.

-Issei-

We all wait outside. We don't talk to each other because Buchou seemed serious so we are all just preparing ourselves at what exactly she wants to say to people that made her make that kind of face at dinner when she said we were going to talk.

We heard the door opening And saw Rias holding the door open to Asia to leave. Asia seemed a little red in her eyes but had a determined face.

"Issei, you're next."

I go to the other room and we sit across from each other.

"Well… let's start with the basics." She says " Every day I want you to keep sparing some time to exercise. 30 minutes up to 2 hours with the harshness enough to leave you tired but not overworked. I believe we can do it together and I will find a way for us to have weighted clothes or to have a bracelet in our arms and legs all the time, I'm not sure."

Yikes. I guess She will be harsher than what she was at the training camp before the game.

"But now about your…. technique."

?... Oh, the dress break. I… do feel embarrassed when people comment on it out loud but I do not regret it. It is an amazing technique that helped me a lot in the game…. even if it did not matter at the end…

"If it's just clothes then it will just be a joke skill that will not have much purpose in the future." … Ouch, that was harsh, but I guess it's fair… "But if we manage to enhance it then I can see it becoming something another overpowered skill that you may have."

"What?" I Ask. I'm happy for her to acknowledge my skill but I don't see her point. "What do you mean?"

"See if it is just normal clothes then it is meh. But what if the clothes are enchanted, a transformation, an armor? So not only you made your opponent embarrassed, but you also took away something that was making the opponent stronger.

Like if i was surrounded by my POD, that is, my power of destruction, even if you could attack it from afar, you would not be able to touch me. But if you could use the dress break on me then you would break my destruction armor and be able to hit me again."

That actually sounds strong, but "I don't know if I can break something if it is more… magical?"
"Well I don't really understand what you're actually doing. If it was a spell, then it would focus on destroying the person but just their clothes or something complicated. But from what you told me then it is literally you just imagine a woman naked, touch them and you will have their clothes destroyed. It does sound stupid on paper but if we are to analyze it then it probably means that it depends on your will and your magic power."

Huh. It does sound crazy but I could see it happening. "So basically just train my strength and my magic? "

"That and also add Will and imagination but yes. Do try to keep yourself boosted on your strength training, it will make you gain some strength and also make your body more and more accustomed to boosting itself. Now remember, only boost your strength, be it magical or physical, NOT YOUR MIND. And don't use your mind boost in a fight either, It's better to train outside combat so that when fighting you only use your energy to boost your body"

"Right. Leave it to me!" I thought that she would tell me to never use that again. But not only does she approve, she encourages me to be creative. She's the Best!

"Also, Please don't explain your attacks to your enemies or if you can, try to mislead them into thinking that it works in another way. I don't care that they probably will prohibit it in the rating games. But now they know that you only like girls, Even if it was allowed, people will find a way to counter. That goes to any other techniques that you create from now on."

Oops. yeah i can see how that is going to become a problem. "I thought That you were going to make me stop doing those techniques."

She stops to think for a few seconds until she says "I do expect for you to create non perverted skills. But you are a devil dragon who was also already a pervert as a human. So your power will greatly increase with your willpower. Me trying to force you to dress break a guy would be far less effective than making it stronger than it already is and you creating other new techniques."

"Sorry about that" I scratch my head a little bit embarrassed.

-Kiba-

Issei got out of there smiling. I wonder what exactly happened.

"Kiba, you're next."

I go to the next room and sit down across from her.

"Right… you and Akeno are the ones where i can see the most resistance about what i'm going to say. Before you open your mouth I need you to listen to me until I let you talk again ok?"

… I probably know what she is about to ask of me and I will have to refuse. But I trust that this new Buchou will not simply emotionally tell me to abandon my vengeance. I nod to her.

"I need for you to not have some vengeance against swords and to see if you can create sword similar to them"

… I for one second wanted to outright deny her request but the second part confused me. What exactly does she mean?"

"Being angry at a sword is stupid. I'm not making fun of your anger or your friends but you swearing vengeance against swords makes no sense. What if we had allies that use holy swords in the future? Will you go against everything and ruin whatever is happening just to destroy a weapon from another dude who wants to help us? What if it's from another devil, will you try to cause a fight between our houses like I did with my marriage but now because of a weapon?"

I want to lash out at her. I know that she wants to help me, and we all promised that we would stay by her side after she accepted us even without her memories, but i can't simply let it go. My friends deserved better.

"Now before we continue, breathe, calm down, and then tell me what you disagree about what I said and then we can discuss."

…. I inhale and exhale for a few seconds to calm myself. When I'm confident that I won't simply just scream at her I start talking. "I'm sorry… but I can't… My friends died because of these stupid weapons. There is nothing holy about them. Every one of them will end up causing some pain to someone and they should not exist. I.. I can't simply forget my revenge."

She looks at me like I said something dumb "What? I didn't say to forget your revenge."

…? "Didn't you just say to forgive the holy swords?"
"Yeah. the fucking weapons. They themselves don't hurt anyone unless it actually uses the life force of the user or it takes control of the user. If you kill someone with a sword because of whatever the fuck reason the parents of the dead will either be angry at the government who let the guy had a sword and/or the murderer."

"..Then what should I do?"

"Y'know, we try to discover who was the fucker who actually did the fucked up experiments and you go after him. He is probably an outlaw, so depending of the circumstances I will even allow you to torture him if it makes you feel better."

I stop to think for a while. Wow, I was not expecting this. "... You don't mind me making my life purpose be killing another person?"

"Well.. it sounds bad when you put it like that. But honestly? Nah. Even if we have to capture him alive. Depending of what is at stake I'm willing to just say fuck it and letting you go at him" She says with a shrug. "You are part of my peerage Kiba. I want you to continue to grow strong alongside all of us. I don't mind you wanting to end a piece of shit, but not when it's making you dumber and weaker. Especially if it might end with you dead."

…I.. Huh. I always thought that I was alone. That all the people around me would be against me. Is it really that easy?... I guess being angry at a person instead of forgetting my vengeance seems more reasonable?

" But why do you want me to make holy swords?"

"I don't want you to actually make a holy sword… I mean, Asia can heal devils so maybe you can? But that's not the point. A lot of holy swords give boost to the person without some dumb debuff like a lot of cursed swords Y'know? Or even better, make new swords that people haven't thought about.

Make a sword that can heal, give you speed, strength, a "dress break" sword, a "power of destruction" sword or whatever the fuck you think about it. Be creative like issei or, if you can't, just steal ideas from anime, manga, books or even from the real world and make them into a "sword".

Imagine if you make an "anti-devil" blade that doesn't hurt you specifically, make it gold and shiny with an aura. It will confuse the fuck out of people."

…Huh.

-Akeno-

I see Kiba-kun leaving the side room with a very conflicted and confused face.

Rias came out of the room, each time she came out of the room she seemed more tired than before. "Akeno, you're next"

I joined her in the room. She seems very hesitant in what she is about to say. "Right.. I don't know how else I was supposed to say it but I will just say it straight." She takes a moment to breathe and says "I want you to start using your holy lighting."

"NO!" The words come out of my mouth before I even think and she flinches" I WILL NOT USE THE DISGUSTING POWER FROM THE MAN WHO LEFT ME AND MY MOTHER TO DIE!"

She says "But it's not his power Akeno, It's yours. It would be his if she could somehow stop you from using it like it was borrowed. but it's not. I understand that it makes you remind of him but it is stupid for you to make yourself weaker for someone you don't like. It would be better if–"

"What do you know?!" I interrupted her " You don't know what it's like to hate yourself with something that you cannot change! You don't know what it's like to be betrayed by someone you trust! You don't know what it's like to have people murdering your loved ones and persecuting you just because you exist!

She turns her eyes yellow "Akeno. we need to get stronger. All of us will have to do something that we don't like. And all of us WILL get stronger."

She continues "You say you hate your father. But from my understanding his sin was being late. You said that you have to live hating yourself but can you imagine him? If he was a piece of shit then fuck him. But what if he's not then he had the love of his life taken from him and their child, that was made from their love, now absolutely despises him."

I failed to hold myself "YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!"

She rises from the sofa and scream as her eyes change into Red "I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING BECAUSE I DON'T R͉̺̖̯̅̚͢Ḙ̡͖̪̿M̪͎̳̼̹̼̋͗͝E̩̺̦̙͉̿ͤ̾͑͞M̴̼̻̤͔̯̗̃͑B̞̤̩̺͕̃̅́É͈̺̪̤̻́R̼͍̰̊̑͐́ ̹͍̠̤̥͌͝A͎͈̽ͯ̉͑N̶̩̼̯̺͒Y̞̼͇̝̟̺̙͔̑ͬ̑͢T̵̘͚̮̻̬̥̳ͬH͑͏̤͖͕͕̗̜̟I̹̺͙͂͌̔̊͢N̤̟̤̠̱̒̇̑́͟G̡̮̳̐͂̂̆"

She stops herself. She starts breathing heavily to try and calm herself until her eyes change back to normal. "I don't even remember… myself" tears start coming out of her eyes. " All 18 years of my life, my friends, my family. Gone! Because of a fight that I had years to prepare and almost lost pathetically anyway!" She starts crying "Every night I have nightmares of that battle. I don't even see Riser anymore, I just see Issei dying! Because of me!

I hate trying to think of "what ifs" but after every nightmare I always think of "If only I were stronger". I know it is useless. that will not help anything and will change nothing. But our peerage is completely filled with individuals that could have been far greater…" Her sobs start to get stronger. "If only I had tried to help you earlier. Then you all would have been happier and I would still have my 18 years of memories and —" I stop being able to understand her words and she just slumps on the sofa crying.

I… What am I doing? What the fuck am I doing? We made an oath that we would never abandon her and stay by her side. I am supposed to be her queen and the closest to her but.. Here I am, never even realizing what she was feeling. I was just thinking that she moved forward because of her desires. But she's looking forward so that she doesn't have to look back to see what she lost. What a joke of a queen I am.

I joined her on the sofa, hugged her and started rubbing her back. She cried on my shoulder for a while until she managed to recompose herself.

-Rias-

That was embarrassing. I was supposed to help them get better but she ended up comforting me. We stayed like that for a while until I stopped crying. I don't like how weak I felt, but… I do feel much better now.

In the end what matters is the result anyway. Akeno promised to… try to use her holy lighting, that is far better than doing nothing. But she did say that if I try to bottle up my feelings alone and it's bad enough for them to notice and I refuse to let them help me, she will tell my sisters. I'm not THAT stubborn… I think

Anyway I don't really want to keep thinking about it. Before Akeno leaves I tell her to ask Koneko to wait a little because I want to talk to Gasper first.

I call Gasper, he takes a while to answer but he does pick up. "Helo Gasper".

"Hel- helo Buchou."

Hm, It's awkward to try and force help on a person that I never met in person. "I will not waste time here. I want you to be able to get out, to use your power and to interact with people."

I can hear him panic "Bu– b– b - But I CAN'T! EVERYTHING IS SCARY AND I WILL HURT PEOPLE!" He continues panicking and saying that everything is scary, I just let him do it for a while.

At some point he ends up stopping and I say " Gasper, I do not mean that I will instantly make you do everything at once, it will be one thing at a time" Shocking therapy may help in some cases but forcing without an actual plan will do more harm than good. " I will give you a training plan that I want you to follow, If feel you cannot do it then tell me and I will see if I want you to continue even then or if I understand that it would be better try something different"

"But… why? It was fine before for me to stay in my room. I like it here and I earn money as a devil."

"Because I want you to be a better Gasper. It's fine to like a cozy dark room. What is not fine is being forced to stay in a dark room because going outside it's terrifying.

"But my power is scary… I don't like it. I'm scared… of hurting anyone"

… "Did you see my fight?"

"I… did"

"Then you saw that power of destruction that I used. Just like you I'm afraid of using it to hurt people, I… already did, kind of… It…sucked and I felt horrible. I know exactly what you are scared of happening. but I believe that if you have a dangerous power then it's far better to learn what it does, and master it, so that you never hurt someone that you didn't want." As long as your power doesn't need to sacrifice your health or life or something. "I believe that you are capable of facing your fears."

"But… I'm a coward. I'm scared of talking to people, I'm scared of leaving my room… I'm scared of me…"

"What's your point?"

"Wh- Why do you believe me? Didn't you… Forgot?"

… Yes.. I did. "It's a matter of logic really. Issei was just a normal human a few months ago and now she is THE Red Dragon Empress. You are a half vampire, that is, a vampire that can walk in sunlight and the user of a very powerful sacred gear. I just don't see a reason why you would not be able to master your power."

We stayed in silence for a few minutes until he spoke again "... What would you want me to do?"

"For now I can't really take you outside so for now that is not possible. But you can train your own powers. From what I understand you can freeze time on things. Try to find some objects for you to freeze and keep choosing between some objects so that you freeze only those that you want. Can you do that?"

"I- I can, yes... I think that my power is still scary but if it's not a person then I guess it would be fine. But what about the… talking part?"

"That… I'm not sure what exactly… I guess we keep talking? That and you also talk with the peerage, either calling or texting them. Also I will end up doing something that involves computers so try to learn programming leaned towards making games and about game engines. You would end up talking more with Issei because she will end up in it as well."

"... I see… I'm still not sure about everything but I guess I can try"

This was nice. Although we wouldn't be able to do something about the "sealed" part, It was nice that he's willing to try something, even if it's because he knows that he is still gonna be able to stay in his room for a long while. Shame that I can't unseal him…. or can I?

-Koneko-

Buchou finally came out of the room. She seems a little bit better than the last time but she's more tired. "Koneko, you're last"

I joined her in the other room. I sit on one of the sofas, she sits by my side.

"I talked with my sister and she told me about… your past"

…Oh… I.. Is that why she wanted this talk with everyone? When she said training I… didn't think that it was going to be anything different than before… Is she going to ask me to train Senjutsu?!

"Well to start with. I want you to start using your youkai powers."

"Buchou I can't! I can't control it! I will end up getting mad!"

"Like I did with Riser?"

Wa- But tha– " But that is different! You went mad because you saw Isse-senpai die!" She twitched a bit when I said that but I ignored it "I can't… My sister was a genius but even she went crazy. I was far worse than her. I have no chance of controlling it! I will end up killing you to—"

"But what if your sister didn't go mad?" She interrupts me

…What?

"What do you mean…?"

And then she told me about what we didn't know. What my old master was doing to my sister and Zest-nee. What… they had to endure. That Zest-nee is in a coma because of the experiments. My old master said that it was a sickness and that they were trying to do their best to wake her before.. it all went down.

But! If Kuro-nee was not crazy then "Why? Why did she leave me?!"

"We can only assume that it was because she didn't want to give you a life of a criminal that has to constantly run away"

"But she left me to die! I heard… people wanted to kill me because of what she did… But only Lucifer-sama chose to spare me."

"Hmmm. Yeah… not exactly?"

? "What do you mean?"

"Apparently the experiments he was trying to do were highly illegal, like, even worse than killing a noble devil. So some of the devils only appeared to want to kill you because they couldn't reveal the experiments but needed to "appear" to be following the law.

That and the japanese youkai and deities wanted to know what the fuck was happening because we and their faction are more or less allies, and they allow us devils to operate on their country.

So not only my sister, who found what what happened but Leviatan-sama, who is in charge of the foreign affairs, also was extremely against killing you, not only because it wasn't your fault, but also because it would be bad to have to explain to the youkai and divinities about why we execute a child youkai when it wasn't even their fault."

I take a while to absorb all of that. But even still "Did my sister… knew?"

Buchou hesitates until she says "Maybe? She destroyed part of the laboratory and part of the data about her, you and the other person in her escape but she left the parts describing some of the experiment in perfect condition.

Maybe she would want people to find it, maybe she was really smart and knew that they would not kill you because of the youkai faction. But maybe, even if she didn't go crazy, she could still be in distress after learning that you would be experimented on as well and acted on it, not because she went mad, but because she was desperate. Only she knows the whole truth."

-Rias-

I see her eyes watering but she stays in place. "... I.. Don't… I Can't.." She is struggling to know what to do.

I hugged her. "Koneko, We… If we ever meet your sister again I will try to communicate with her. To know that we know." For now that is all that I can do about that.

".. What… About Zest-nee?"

…? Who?... Ah "The other person that I mentioned?"
She nods

"My sister said that she is alive but still in a coma. Apparently even Ajuka himself doesn't really know what to do because it's youkai magic and there is some other part that they can't really tell us."

"Then.. if I get better in learning senjutsu and youjutsu… will i be able to wake her?"

Hm. I guess it's not impossible? "Maybe, it's just better not to rush things. But yeah it might help"

"But.. I don't know if i can… even if my sister didn't go crazy, it could happen to me…"

"That's why we're going to train, Koneko. To become stronger and to make sure that our powers will not go out of control. Me with my new powers, you with senjutsu and even Issei with her sacred gear. I searched about it and discovered that a lot of Boosted Gear users used a transformation that made a lot of them go mad and fight until they died, and even those who could somewhat control it, they had to pay some kind of price.

She hums in what I expect is agreeing with me. "But.. I only more or less remember the basics of senjutsu. What about touki and youjutsu?"

Hm. I am still gambling on Sairaorg being willing to lend a help on touki or Koneko managing to learn it on her own. But youjutsu I was hoping for it to be us teaching her to master devil magic and then she learns how to do it with her… life energy or chakra? I don't know.

"We'll deal with it when the time comes. But starting it's better than doing nothing."

"Un.."

I guess I'm finally done. Damn I'm ready to crash out. But…

I look at Koneko still clinging to me and feel myself feeling more drowsy by the second.

Welp.

-Akeno-

After I left Rias's room I still was worrying about things, about what I actually want to do with my father, about myself, my powers and what I'm willing to do for Rias. Until I decided it was enough and went to take a bath.

Issei-chan was already there so I joined her. I could see her trying and failing to hide her glances but I just let her. Normally I would love to tease that but that talk was…tiresome. We chatted and she seemed excited to start training.

That is wonderful, We all could see that she still blamed herself for not being able to bear Riser, only that she manages to hide it very well when Rias is around. Now she seems genuinely happy to do something. But I better talk to Rias to let her know about it in case Issei decides to overwork herself.

After the bath we separated and went to our rooms. Well, Issei did, I went to Rias's room. She said that she still had nightmares that haunted her and we didn't even notice anything about that. She doesn't really try to hide her fears but it's more that she just burrows it deep and just tries to move forward.

When I quietly enter her room I see that she's not in bed. Is she still talking to someone? I go to the door that leads to the side room and put my ear in the door. I don't hear anything so I enter. When I look around I see the bed with Rias and Koneko clinging to each other in their normal clothes.

Well… I guess someone beat me to it for the sleepover… but I won't let it stop me. I change my clothes with magic to sleep clothes, join in bed and cling to Rias. I feel her body flinch for a second but she still is sleeping. I feel her bringing Koneko closer to her and Leaning towards me. Hm. I've forgotten how nice sleepovers are. I will suggest we do this more often. But I better start sleeping because tomorrow… we go back to training

AN: Hey, it's been a month. Sorry for no training yet.

It took this long because of indecisions of where I wanted the chapter to end and a lot of procrastination. I choose to just get the talks with the peerage over with. But I didn't want to simply rush things completely, especially with Koneko. So this is what I believe that I could do.

I also didn't want to just copy the novel and I think that this Rias would be a person that would just get things over with and not procrastinate to deal with problems, unlike me. In the end I had this big 10k word chapter. I don't know if I want the chapters to be this long or release shorter chapters faster.

Anyway I finally got to add more people to this Story and finally got to use the "anime x-overs" tag. When I add new people that exist from other media I will add here in the end so that people who don't know who they are can look them up. And if I add OCs as well I will also put in these notes.

The Lucifuge people: All of them are from Helltaker, a simple game that I remember to this day and love the characters, even if the game was small. The only thing I did was change the name of Lucifer to Lucy because it would get confusing even for me to write and remember "Lucifer Lucifuge" and also she in Helltaker was actually "lucifer" so it would get confusing, so here she is Rizevim's sister.

Zest-nee: Zest from Shinmai Maou no Keiyakusha. Because I also am reading that novel and I really like her. She won't appear for a while though.

Zack: The demon god from chapter 1 is an OC. I will probably end up making his fic at some point but for now he is just an outsider and won't interact in this story… Much. I don't have a fixed image of him but I normally imagine him being a more athletic and muscled version of Accelerator from to aru majutsu no index, but with horns.

The other Hell with the imps and succubus is from the demon world of Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel. So some parts of hell are what we've seen in those series where the demons live.

Some other parts are what we consider "traditional hell", the part with torturing the souls who end up in those parts, But the "surface" is where all the devils and the fallen angels live. Basically what we see in DxD.

Also I took some inspiration from other fics. The part where Kiba should make more creative and "stats" altering swords I remember from a big DxD fic called " Go away I'm watching Porn" from Third Fang. For those who don't know, I promise it's far different than it sounds from the name. Of course I do want to expand what I do with it to not just copy it.

The part about having "demons" and "devils" was a great concept that I remember from "Academy DxD" from DanzyDanz.

The Issei's Dress break strengthening training I remember from the crossover fic "2: The Demon Fox, Devils, Dragons, and the Dungeon" from daeore. Which is the second volume of a story that started in Danmachi that afterwards went to DxD. I will really wish to use this skill more in the future because of how OP it could be.

And the part with the Boosted Gear giving parts of a boost came from a Dragon Ball fic called "Dragon Ball: It's about Time" by flameclawsxx. It wasn't Boosted gear of course, it was the kaioken there. But I found it to be a genius idea that could be applied to many situations.

Of course I don't like the idea of just copying things so I will expand on these. These Ideas were great and I wanted to credit them for it. If you feel like I'm stealing an idea from another fanfic that you read, please tell me so that I can address it. I will always tell if I remember it from somewhere, if I did take it from somewhere and want to expand on it or if it was a coincidence.

So, with that being said until next time. I don't think that I will take more than a month to make a chapter again but I promise nothing.