Hey Issei wasn't Yuuma-chan the name of that girl you were dating?" questioned his now drunk father.
His son just sighed as he realized that he couldn't deny that now and nodded, drawing a triumphant smile from Rias.
"Yeah I know her why do you ask?" he replied.
Instead of responding Rias just turned to look at his father, "Mr. Hyoudou you're looking really tired I think you should go to bed now."
Issei watched as his father's eyes glazed over slight before he shook his head and turned to his son, "Issei I'm going to go to bed remember to lock up before you go to sleep."
The teen nodded and watched as his father left the room before turning to glare at Rias as he pulled the Lancer card out of the cardholder,
"you have ten seconds to explain what you just did before I stab you in the heart."
"I never picked you to be the violent type Hyoudou-san," frowned Rias.
"Only when my family is involved Gremory-san, I already lost my mother and I'm not losing him as well," growled Issei.
"I understand believe me I feel the same about my peerage and I swear to you on the name of Gremory that I only used a bit of hypnosis so we could talk nothing more,"
promised Rias and after looking her in the eyes, Issei was surprised to find he believed her.
"You mentioned a peerage, that must mean you are a Devil," commented the teen.
"You know about us?" questioned Rias in surprise.
"The Fallen Angels mentioned you briefly during our fight," lied Issei, remembering to keep Zelretch a secret.
"You fought off multiple Fallen Angels by yourself! Your Sacred Gear must be incredible," exclaimed the Devil.
"I didn't do that well in fact I nearly died and was covered in wounds after the fight," replied the teen, rubbing the back of his head with a smile on his face.
"Hyoudou-san most humans wouldn't be able to stand up to a single Fallen Angel let alone fight off multiple," lectured Rias, excitedly.
"Just call me Issei, I prefer it," he said as he smiled at Rias before offering a hand.
Seeing this the Devil just flushed and shook his hand with her own smile, "then please call me Rias."
Issei just frowned in concern before he placed a hand on her forehead and causing her face to become the same shade as her hair,
"hmm…you don't seem to have a temperature but then again you are a Devil so who knows what's normal for you."
"I-I'm fine," she stuttered before regaining her composure. "Issei your Sacred Gear, could you show it to me?"
Issei frowned as he debated the pros and cons of each choice, after all he could easily say that Gae Bolg was his Sacred Gear but there was a chance she would recognize the spear. '
Still those Fallen Angels didn't recognize it until I said its name, maybe this world's Gae Bolg looks different?
I suppose now is as good a time to check as any,' he thought, before sighing as he held up the glowing card.
"Include Lancer," he whispered and the card transformed into Gae Bolg causing Rias' excitement to grow as she examined the spear.
"Can I hold it?" she requested, cautiously.
He just nodded before handing the spear over to her and the Devil stared at it with a confused expression, "is something wrong?" he asked.
"No it just isn't what I expected you to have; I can't detect any sigh of a dragon residing in the spear, in fact I don't recognize this Sacred Gear at all," she replied with a frown.
Issei quickly filled this information away before speaking up, "is that really such a big surprise? I'm sure you haven't memorized every Sacred Gear in existence."
Rias nodded before handing Gae Bolg back to him, "true but that spear doesn't feel like a Sacred Gear but something else entirely. Can you tell me what its name is?"
He grinned having already thought up a name, "It's called Akashi," he lied.
"Red Death? How unimaginative and yet from the bloodlust it gives off, surprisingly appropriate," frowned Rias. "Still I can't remember ever hearing about this Sacred Gear before."
"Maybe I'm the first wielder to ever wake it up?" he suggested, remembering how Zelretch explained these Sacred Gears to him.
"I suppose that is possible but still with how long Sacred Gears have been in existence I find it hard to believe that this one has never been activated until now," responded Rias with a thoughtful expression.
"In the words of a great detective; 'when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth,'" quoted Issei with a smile.
A similar smile spread across Rias' face, "why of course it's elementary my dear Watson."
"Oh please if anything I'm Sherlock and your Watson," he scoffed with fake indignation.
The two just glared at each other before Rias starting giggling, "I can't remember the last time I spoke to someone like this."
"Why? You some important person among the Devil's or something?" asked Issei, eagerly pouncing on this new information.
"It doesn't matter, tell me Issei what do you know about peerages?" replied Rias quickly.
Issei's eyes narrowed at the obvious and sudden change of topics before he shrugged, "only the very basics.
A Devil revives another as one of their own but in return they become that Devil's slave, so before you ask no I will not join your peerage Rias."
"While I'll admit that some of my kind are questionable masters I assure you that we of the Gremory clan are nothing of the sort,
we treat our peerage members like they were family," she argued, trying to convince him.
"Be that as it may I'm still going to have to refuse you Rias, I like being human and I'm not ever going to give up my freedom if I can help it," he replied, sternly.
The red headed Devil just looked down at the desk with a depressed expression on her face before she sighed, "I see, that's a shame I would have liked having someone like you in my peerage."