Few days after the short adventure in Forest of Familiars, our Red Dragon Emperor was on his way back to his house to finish his 10 km run, with his usual giant boulder strapped on his back. When his house was within his sight, Issei spotted two familiar faces waiting for them. He stopped at the front gate as the two greeted him.
"Good morning, Ise. And welcome back", said Rias Gremory with her usual smile.
"Good morning, Ise-san!" said Asia cheerfully.
"Asia, ojou-sama. Good morning", said Issei with slight panting. It looks like Issei had to add his training regimen again soon enough, as his stamina had improved once again. "What brings you girls here?" then he noticed a pile of card-boxes and suitcases at the front door. "Whose luggage is that?" asked Issei pointing at the mentioned object.
"We'll explain inside, Ise. Right now, please take all of those in", said Rias as she proceeded into the house, followed by Asia after she gave a quick bow. Issei only stared with an imaginary question mark appeared above his head.
(Scene change, dining room)
"Alright."
"I know it may sounds outrageous, but… Wait, I beg your pardon?"
"Eh?"
Rias, Asia, and especially Issei were not expecting the words came out from Hyoudou Haruka, as the matriarch of Hyoudou household immediately agreed with Rias' request to take Asia into her house. Haruka who noticed everyone's incredulous looks raised her eyebrows in return.
"What's the matter? Is there something else?" asked Haruka looking around the teenagers before her.
"Um… Mom?" Issei was the one who asked first. "You sure about this?"
"Hm? What, do you not want Asia-chan to stay here?" asked Haruka with her eyebrows raised at her son.
Issei quickly waved his hands. "No, no! I'm totally fine, rather, I'm happy to have Asia here, but you know, it's kind of… inappropriate in a way…?" said Issei with a slight uncertainty.
His mother only snorted. "Hmph, ever since your dad left home, your mother has always been able to appreciate more company, you know? Especially from such a girl like Asia-chan here", she said as she smiled pleasantly at the blonde former nun, whom tried her best to smile back. "Besides…" Haruka trailed-off with her hands brought together and fingers together. "She can give me grandchildren some day, don't you think so, Ise?"
The three teenagers remained silent for a moment until the meaning of Haruka's words sunk into their heads. "EEEH!?" Haruka only giggled at the shrieks from her son and Asia.
Rias herself could only smiled in slight amusement as she inwardly sweat-dropped. She did not expect that Issei's mother would have accepted her request so quickly, and Hyoudou Haruka had used the argument Rias had prepared in case the mother had refused on the start.
"Come on now, mom… It's not funny to suggest such a thing…" said the blushing Issei retorting his mother.
"Oh, come on now, Ise… Look at her", said Haruka gesturing towards a still-blushing Asia. "A cute face that screams innocence… A regular sized, yet still well-developed breasts (at this comment, Asia yelped and covered her breasts)… waist and hips that ideal for child-bearing (Asia yelped again and covered her lowered half, Rias and Issei were blushing as well)… And her beautiful radiating hair! She's a perfect bride for you in the future! Not everyone can have a beautiful, foreigner wife like her!"
"Mom, stop putting stuffs into Asia's head!" said Issei wailing in embarrassment at his mother, his face went even redder.
"Hauu… being Ise-san's bride… It's still too much for me…" said Asia with her face fuming.
"Anyway, you are more than welcome to stay here, Asia-chan! My son may be difficult sometimes but please take care of him!" said Haruka with a gleeful tone.
"Um… I am inexperienced, but Ise-san has been taking care a lot of me, so I hope we can get along from now on…"
Rias only smiled as she watched Asia were bowing, giving back her own courtesy to Issei's mother, then her smiled dropped as she put a far-away look on her eyes, which was not unnoticed by Issei. "A bride, huh…."
X
On the next morning, Issei was finishing his training exercise as usual, only this time, Rias was sitting on the boulder that was strapped on Issei's back (again) as the boy ran back to his house after his 10 km running, saying that she wants to supervise Issei's training as much as possible. Upon arriving home, Asia was waiting at front of the house with a thermos bottle in hand.
"Oh my, Asia. Good morning", Rias was the one who greeted first.
"Good morning, buchou-san, and welcome back, Ise-san…" said Asia greeting with a smile on her face.
"Yeah, I'm back. Is that…?" Issei greeted back then he noticed the thermos on Asia's hand.
"Yes, I thought you maybe thirsty after those running, so I made you some tea. I hope it suits your taste…" said Asia meekly, not very confident for her tea-brewing skills, as she handed Issei the bottle.
Issei reluctantly accepted and he took a sip after he poured some. "Wow, this is actually quite good. Come to think of it, the dinner you cooked last night tasted nice too. You're really gonna be a good wife, you know that, Asia?" said Issei with a goofy grin.
Asia only blushed again as she stuttered, not knowing what to say. "W-well… Thank you, Ise-san. Um… Why don't you settle that boulder down and get inside? Your mother had prepared breakfast", Asia said as she playing with her fingers.
"Oh, right. Um, ojou-sama, I'm going to put the boulder down, so would you please step down?" Issei looked over at Rias whose eyes were staring solemnly at Issei and Asia. "Ojou-sama?"
Rias seemed was snapped back to reality as she flinched slightly. "Ah… right, yes. Good work, Ise…" Rias said as she hopped down from the boulder.
Issei was a bit worried for a second, but decided to wave it off for now as he put down the boulder. "Well then, would you care to join us for breakfast, ojou-sama?"
Rias thought for a while, then a smile appeared on her face. "Sure, then. Why not?"
(Scene break)
At the end of the class at school, Issei's usual nap-time was disturbed as Matsuda and Motohama bowed before him.
"Master!" both of them said in unison, resulting Issei looking at them with droopy eyes with eyebrows raised.
"What is it again, you two?" said Issei rubbing his sleepy eyes. "And will you cut out the 'master'? Like I told you before again and again, I don't have a harem!"
"Bullshit!" said Motohama shifting his glasses. "Everybody has seen you talking with Gremory-senpai and Himejima-senpai more recently, not to mention, yesterday, our newest transfer student, Asia Argento-chan always been with you! Even if you won't admit it, you've already had yourself a harem, Ise!" Matsuda only nodded in agreement.
"…(sigh)… Whatever, what do you guys want now?" Issei decided to let them have it their way for now.
"We'll go to the point…" said Matsuda as he and Motohama clapped their hands together in begging. "We're desperate now! Please introduce us one of your girls! We beg of you!"
Issei's eyes twitched at their request. He never considers himself for having a harem. Sure, he has contact numbers of all Occult Research Club girls, including Asia, but the boy does not think giving his friends those contacts would be a good idea. Then he remembered that Mil-tan, one of the contractors have given him his contact number when they met by chance and the cosplayer expressed his gratitude for earlier incident with Freed.
"Fine", the two perverted friends looked up to see Issei handing out a piece of paper with a name and number written on it.
"Mil-tan…? Sounds kind of cute. What kind of girls is she, Ise?" asked Motohama.
Issei looked sideways with an awkward sweat. "Err… He… I mean, she, likes cosplaying…"
The perverted duo cheered gleefully without a doubt as they thanked him and stormed out of the classroom. Issei only sighed and hoped that those two will have a good time. He knows that he could not pray, but he still did so.
During the club activity, Issei just finished escorting Asia in one of her jobs as a devil. Yesterday it was Koneko to show the blonde former nun the ropes, since the client was one of Koneko's regular, while today was Issei's turn, since it was apparently Mil-tan who was doing the summoning. Issei was kind of glad that he brought Asia along, since the cosplayer, whom slightly creeped Issei out was more distracted on Asia rather than Issei himself. Upon their returning to the clubroom, the two new devils were greeted back by Akeno, while Yuuto and Koneko were doing their own things as usual. Issei approached Rias' desk with the latter sitting with her chin resting on her hand, her eyes were having the same far-away look that Issei noticed before.
"Buchou, we're back", Issei reported back, hoping his master will respond to him. However, Rias remained gazing blankly at the air.
"Buchou?" even Akeno was starting to get worried together with the others. "Rias?"
Still no answer.
"Buchou!" Issei clicked his finger this time and his voice was a bit louder, snapping Rias out of her own reverie.
Rias blinked a couple of times then she turned her heads towards her 'pawn'. "Ah, yes. Good work for today, Ise, Asia", said Rias as she simply smiled.
"Buchou, are you alright? You've been kind of out of it since this morning…" asked Issei in concern.
"I'm fine, Ise. I was just thinking about something, that's all. Nothing important to worry about", Rias replied with her hand waving.
Issei's eyes narrowed slightly and sceptically, he turned to Akeno with questioning look, hoping that the 'queen' would know something, However, Akeno simply let out a small smile as she shook her head a little, telling Issei not to ask anything more for now. The rest of the day in the club ended with Rias still spacing out sometimes.
(Scene break)
When the night fell, Issei was lying on his bed, resting as he waited for the time to pass until time for dinner. He thought over everything that had happened ever since that day. Sure, he now had to take a bit detour in finding his father now, but considering the new friends he gained along the way made this detour worthwhile. As Issei just began to smile, suddenly a red magic circle with Gremory symbol appeared on Issei's room, alerting the boy to get up from his bed. As the magic circle glowed, a figure, which belongs to his master in her school uniform appeared and as soon as the magic circle had gone, Issei was suddenly being pinned on his bed by Rias. Issei who was surprised at sudden turn of events only blinked twice before he managed to say something.
"Err… Ojou-sama? What's wrong?" asked Issei looking up at Rias whose face looked desperate.
"Ise, I want you to take my virginity right here and now!" Rias suddenly said without any sheer of doubt in her voice.
Issei only blinked twice again as Rias' words sunk into his brain. "E-eh!?" Issei's eyes widened at such order. "Wait, wait, c- can you please repeat that again, ojou-sama?" Issei said nervously, his body somewhat could not move under Rias' body.
"I want you to make love to me", Rias said as she suddenly unbuttoning her uniform. "I know you might be inexperienced, but so do I. So let's do it gently, okay?" this time, the girl had put off her skirt and unhooked her bra, letting her entire body minus her private region for the world to see.
"Holy shit! This moment… This event… Is this what Matsuda and Motohama have always been waiting for!?" Issei's face was now flushed in deep red as he looked at Rias almost naked body and he became even more nervous. However, Issei managed to notice the look in his master's eyes, and then Issei forced himself to get up and he held Rias' shoulders, pushing her back gently.
"Ise…?"asked Rias as she saw Issei's concerned face.
Issei took a deep breath and let it out. "Ojou-sama, I need you to calm down for now. You really out of it today", said Issei with firmed eyes.
"What is it, Ise? Am I not good enough for you? You can do whatever you want with my body, you know?" Rias said in desperation as she brought one of Issei's hands from her shoulder to her breast. Issei's eyes twitched ever so slightly as he blushed again, fighting his hardest to hold the urge to squeeze Rias' breast.
Issei finally managed to let go of Rias' breast as the former placed his hand on the latter's shoulder again. "No, no. Ojou-sama, it's not about whether your body is good enough or not, but you're REALLY kind of loose it at the moment. Just… Just take a deep breath and calm down, okay?"
"No, listen to me, Ise. There's no other way but me doing this, and I want to do it with you!" said Rias back with more desperate tone.
Issei's eyes widened again as he saw how desperate Rias was. His expression turned into a frown as he was still holding Rias firmly. However, before Issei could have made out anything in his mind, another magic circle with the same symbol appeared in the room, alerting both teenagers on the bed.
"Tch, I guess we're too late…" Issei turned his head towards his master, not really believing that his master just clicked her tongue, which was not very un-lady like in his view. When he turned back at the magic circle again, a beautiful woman appeared. The woman appeared to be in her early twenties, with silver hair and matching eyes. Her hair, which flows all the way down to her back, features a long braid on each side with small blue bows at the ends, while the rest is let down, ending in twin braids. She was also wearing a blue and white French maid outfit with long sleeves and a white maid headband over her head, with red lipstick as a cosmetic accessory.
When the maid looked at Rias and Issei, her eyes narrowed. "Milady Rias, are you aware of what you're trying to do here?" the maid's question was ignored as Rias simply turned her face away. Issei himself could only remain silent to see how the event would fold up.
"Your family will be very upset if you tried to do something as drastic as this to break off your engagement, not to mention to do it with some random lowly person…" said the maid finishing with a sigh.
Rias' turned back immediately and she glared at the maid. "Grayfia, who will have my virginity is mine alone to decide. And even though you are my brother's as well as the maou-sama's 'queen', I would like you to watch you say! Ise is one of my precious servants, and I won't allow anyone, even you, to insult him", said Rias with a calm, yet un-wavered tone.
"Understood. But still, milady Rias… you should have more modesty. It is not good for you to show your skin easily to anyone", said the maid identified as Grayfia as she picked up Rias' clothes from the floor. As soon as she handed the clothes over to their owner, the maid turned her head towards Issei. "How do you do, I'm Grayfia, the maid of Gremory house-hold. Pleased to make your acquaintance", said Grayfia bowing politely at Issei.
Issei quickly straightened himself while he remained seated on the bed, then he gave a bow as well. "How do you do too, Grayfia-san… My name is Hyoudou Issei. The pleasure is mine."
Grayfia's eyes widened ever so slightly when she heard Issei's name, but she quickly regained her composure afterwards. "Very well then, milady Rias. We should go back to the house now. Everyone is waiting", said Grayfia at Rias who had finished clothing herself properly.
"Yes. Can I bring Akeno together with me?"
"The Priestess of Thunder? Of course, you are expected to be seen with your queen at all times, after all."
Rias turned towards Issei once again with apologetic look. "I'm sorry for tonight's inconvenience, Ise… We'll talk again tomorrow", said Rias as she land a quick peck on Issei's cheek, resulting Issei to blush slightly again.
As soon as the two devil women had teleported away in the light of the magic circle, Issei slumped on his back to the bed. He let out a huge sigh as he covered his eyes with his right hand. "Oh, boy… Tomorrow's gonna be sooo awkward…." said Issei before Asia called him out for dinner.
X
On the following day, Issei and Asia were heading at the Occult Research Club together as soon as they had finished their class. Apparently they received a notice in the morning to gather in the clubroom for an announcement. They met with Yuuto on the way and the three now were walking inside the old school building.
"I wonder what buchou-san wants to tell us…" Asia was the first one to start a topic.
"I don't know, I'm just as clueless as you are, Asia-san…" Yuuto replied with a shrug.
"Well, whatever it is, we just have to deal what buchou has to say with Grayfia-san, don't we?" Issei replied rather nonchalantly.
"Huh? Issei-kun, you know Grayfia-san?" asked Yuuto stopping on his track.
Issei raised his eyebrows slighlty at Yuuto's question. "Y-yeah, I do. I actually met her last night…" Issei replied as he remembered the awkward moment with his master before.
"Ise-san, did someone come to the house last night?" Asia asked innocently.
"Err… I'll explain later, Asia…", Issei replied with a small sweat-drop.
"Okay… And how do you know that she's waiting inside?" Yuuto asked again.
"Well… Let's say that after meeting with her once, I managed to somewhat pick up her presence… And I somewhat familiar this kind of chilling presence behind this door", said Issei as the three were actually had arrived not far from the clubroom entrance. The brown-haired boy could not forget, the presence that Grayfia gave last night were akin to a giant dried-ice that made the temperature in the room dropped several degrees. "You feel her presence too, right?"
Yuuto only shook his head at Issei's question. The latter only stared at the former with deadpanned look. "Okay, never mind that. Let's go in and find out what'll happen, okay?" Issei dismissed the conversation and he opened the door.
When they entered the clubroom, Issei was greeted with the sight of his other club-mates, his master, who was unusually sitting on one of the couches instead of her usual desk, and right on his money, Grayfia who was standing besides Rias' couches together with Akeno. Grayfia maintained her usual stoic face, while Rias' expression was rather grim, and Akeno was smiling as usual, though Issei could tell something was off behind that smile. Issei, Asia and Yuuto simply nodded in greeting and took their own seats.
"Alright, now everyone is here…" Rias' was the one who started without any greeting.
"Milady Rias, should I be the one to explain?" Grayfia interrupted.
Rias took a glance at the maid. "No, I'm the 'king' here, so I'll do the explaining", then Rias set her eyes on everyone in her peerage. "So everyone, basically…"
Before Rias could have said anything more, a magic circle appeared on the empty space of the clubroom. The magic circle did not belong to the house of Gremory. The said circle had a bird-like picture encased in circular shape.
"Phenex…" Issei could have heard the word coming from Yuuto, whom looked in weary as the circle got brighter.
The circle itself, rather than glowing, it suddenly flared and a flame erupted from the circle, showing a figure of a man appearing from it.
"Ah… It has been a while since the last time I visited the human world…" the man came out from the circle said, the way he carried himself, in Issei's view like the one who was as if owning the whole place. Typical arrogant bastard that he usually saw in story-books. The man himself was a tall and handsome young man in his early 20's with short blonde hair and dark blue eyes. His outfit consists of a burgundy blazer with gold embroidery on the right with matching pants and black dress shoes. Underneath his open blazer is a white dress shirt that is not fully buttoned (just one button short), giving a slight view to his chest.
After scanning the room for a while, the man's eyes stopped on a particular red hair, then he approached the owner of the said hair. "My dear Rias, I've come here to see you…" the man nonchalantly walked towards Rias. As soon as the former sat down besides the latter, the man wrapped his left arm around Rias' shoulder, much to the latter's disgust, and before the man's right hand could have gone on Rias' laps, the latter slapped the man's hand harshly.
"Don't touch me so casually, Raiser", Rias said spitefully as she glared at the man identified as Raiser. "What do you want?"
"Hahaha, harsh as usual, my dear…" Raiser replied playfully, as if he did not take Rias' respond seriously. "Whatever, we should go take a look at the wedding hall, we also need to verify the reception date and greet our families as well."
Judging from Rias' attempt last night, her current expression, and the word 'wedding' as well as 'reception', Issei did not like where this conversation would lead to. The boy would like to at least apprehend the Raiser guy accordingly, like for example, at least a shove or perhaps one or two punches in the face, but Issei would like to try a different approach this time. After staring at Raiser all chummy with his master impassively, Issei raised his hand as he turned to Grayfia.
"Um… Excuse me, Grayfia-san…" the woman in question turned her head towards Issei, and the boy continued on, "I'm not sure what's going on, but…" Issei pointed at the blonde-haired man, whom was now looking at him. "Why is there a gigolo suddenly barged in to the clubroom?"
"You…! How dare you…!"
Various reactions occurred when Issei asked the question. Raiser stood up and furious at the boy, Rias tried to hold down a smirk came to her face, Akeno and Yuuto giggled silently, Koneko snorted, Asia yelped when Raiser yelled, and Grayfia simply remained impassive as ever as she addressed Raiser first.
"Please calm down first, Raiser-sama", then Grayfia turned to Issei, as well as everyone else. "Issei-sama, let me introduce you. This man is lord Raiser Phenex, the third son of Phenex household of 72 pillars. He is also Rias-sama's fiancée", said the maid gesturing at the man now identified fully as Raiser Phenex.
"So it really went down to this way, huh…" Issei thought grimly as he maintained his straight face.
Everyone who knew what Issei was doing starting to get worried for the boy just showed unsightly manner towards the third son of Phenex clan. However, since everyone else also did not fond of Raiser Phenex as well, they decided to see how things going to play out for now.
(Scene break)
"Hmm… Delicious. I expect nothing less from the tea prepared by Rias' queen", Raiser said complimenting the tea prepared by Akeno. The man himself was still sitting next to Rias, with his hand still wrapped around her shoulder, much to the latter's displeasure.
"I'm glad that it suits your taste…" Akeno simply said, but those who know Akeno well could tell that Akeno's smile was totally a fake one.
"Okay… So this gigolo-wannabe is buchou's fiancée?" Issei started a conversation with another insult.
"Why, you…! After knowing who I am, you still dare to call me names! Who do you think you are!?" Raiser got angry again, but this time he still remained on his seat, though he clenched his fist and the room's temperature felt higher than before.
"Ah, sorry about that. I'm Hyoudou Issei, Rias-sama's 'pawn'", Issei simply introduced himself without any respect in his tone.
"Hmph, I see. This is the first time I heard that you finally recruited a pawn, my dear Rias… So I guess I can understand why this pawn has not heard about me yet. But the question is, why have you not told them anything about me yet?" Raiser somehow looked calmer, but his anger towards Issei still present.
"It's because I believe that I don't ever need to. And let me tell you once again, Raiser. I won't ever marry you!" Rias answered and she declared her intentions with spiteful tone.
Before Raiser could have retorted back, Issei also followed. "My master is right, Raiser-san…" all occupants of the room turned their eyes at the brown-haired pawn who was remained calm on his seat. "I'm aware that you're engaged, I don't really understand about devil's politics, but I can say you don't deserve to have a woman such as my master", Issei said calmly, inviting Raiser to raise his eyebrows.
"Hoo? Then do tell me why, you 'pawn'…" Raiser asked in challenging tone.
"It's obvious, because…" Issei closed his eyes and he opened it, his expression getting serious. He stated as he gestured his hand towards his master, "Rias Gremory-sama, along with the glory of her sexy body and graciousness, already belong to us, the Occult Research Club!"
At Issei's blunt statement, everyone, minus Grayfia all sweat-dropped at the same time. Soon after, Issei's head was smacked by Koneko, as the white-haired girl simply looked at him with narrowed eyes. "Idiot…"
Issei himself did not complain anything about Koneko's hit as he rubbed the sore spot in his head and maintained his impassive face. He did expect to get not-so-good reactions from the others.
[I kind of agree with that rook girl, partner. Even as a joke it was kind of dumb]
"Shut up…"
Asia and Yuuto only sighed as they shook their heads in slight embarrassment, while Akeno simply giggled in amusement. Rias herself only rubbed her temple at her pawn's antics.
Raiser also only chuckled in amusement. "Kukuku… You sure have an excellent jester as your servant, Rias… And anyway, you are aware as good as I am, Rias… Ever since the last great war, our races, especially pure-blood devils had been greatly depleted. Our marriage is an important step for us to preserve the number of pure-blood devils, as well as to flourish the name of our house-holds", said Raiser to his reasoning.
"I do understand my duty as the heiress of my family, and I'm willing to take a husband", but before Raiser could have voiced his own agreement, Rias cut him off. "However, who my husband will be is my own choosing. My parents may have an authority over me to fulfil my duty as the heiress but they don't have the right to choose the man I'd want to spend my life with! And that man is not you, and it will never be you!" Rias finished her objection with determination.
Issei only smiled a bit at his master's determination. However, the room's temperature suddenly got even higher. Everyone in the room noticed torrents of flames were erupted around Raiser as he stood up.
"I have enough of your selfishness, Rias… I will take you as my wife, even if I have to burn all of your own servants to ashes!"
At Raiser's stunts, everyone's expressions hardened as they took their own positions and stances as they prepared for a fight to break out. Issei himself readily shielded Asia with his body at moment's notice, his thumb cracking his other fingers in anticipation. However…
"Enough", Grayfia's voice took everyone's attention away as the room's temperature suddenly dropped several degrees yet again.
"I will not tolerate anymore violence to occur. Even I won't hold back against you, Raiser-sama…" Grayfia said in a cold tone as her aura leaked out from her body, chilling out the air around the room.
Everyone, including Rias quickly composed themselves and relaxed. Raiser himself only snorted and he put off his flames. "Who am I to dare to talk back against the underworld's 'Strongest Queen'? Considering the peerage of Sirzech's Lucifer-sama was a bunch of monsters…"
Issei himself could not help but to sweat drop at Grayfia's display of power. From the aura alone, the boy could tell that the maid was one of the top dogs of the underworld and not someone to be underestimated. The 'Strongest Queen', huh? Issei almost could not believe that a woman as strong as her is working as a maid.
Grayfia put off her aura as she spoke again, "Lord Lucifer and each of respective households had foreseen this coming, so all of us had agreed to resort to an alternative."
Rias raised her eyebrows at Grayfia's statement. "Alternative? Could it be…"
What Rias anticipated was confirmed by Grayfia's next words. "Yes, an un-official Rating Game will be held between Rias Gremory-sama and Raiser Phenex-sama. If Rias-sama were to win, the engagement between the two will be nullified, however, if Raiser-sama were to win, the marriage will proceed as planned"
Rias' eyes narrowed in displeasure. "To even resort to such alternative… How long they want to interfere with my own life?"
"A Rating Game, huh? Very well, this is a good opportunity to show you that there is nothing you can do but comply to be my wife, Rias… So I'll take the pleasure to show you your place", said Raiser with full confidence.
"This is also my chance to gain my freedom. I as well will take the pleasure to blow you away, Raiser!" said Rias with determined tone.
Grayfia took a glance on both Rias and Raiser, then she announced, "I see, very well. I have confirmed that you both have agreed to this alternative, thus I shall informed lord Lucifer and both of your respective households."
Before Grayfia and Raiser took their leave, Raiser took another look at Rias' peerage and he asked, "Rias, all are these people your servants?"
Rias narrowed her eyes again, "Yes, what about it?"
Raiser exploded in laughter. "Hahahaha! Sure you don't think you can win with only these numbers, do you? So far, only your 'queen' can fight evenly with all of my cute servants!" then Raiser snapped his fingers.
At the sound from his fingers, another magic circle of Phenex clan, which was bigger this time, appeared and a burst of flames came out from it, revealing fifteen women with each of them wearing rather exotic clothing that match various kinds of fetishes.
"As you can see here, I have a complete set", Raiser brandished his arms to emphasize his peerage with all of his pawns, knights, bishops, rooks and the queen.
Issei took a look at Raiser's servants one by one. There were those who wear gym-suits, maid-outfit, cat-ears, kimono, etc. But the one that caught Issei's eyes was a beautiful young girl with dark blue eyes. She had long blonde hair that was tied into twin-tails with large, drill-like curls, and blue ribbons keeping them in place. The front of her hair has several bangs hanging over her forehead, with a V-shaped fringe hanging over the bridge of her nose. Her outfit consisted of a light purple dress with dark purple accents and a blue bow at the front. In Issei's eyes, the girl's bearing was way too esteemed to be a mere servant. Her bearing was more like a princess. Nevertheless, once he had done took in the appearance of each girl, the boy could not help but whistled at the spectacle.
Raiser who noticed Issei's reaction smirked in return. "Do you see now, you lowly pawn? The difference between you, a low-class and me, a high-class devil?"
Issei only blinked and he put a thinking posture. Then he put his fist on his palm as if in epiphany. "Hmm…. Let's see… Oh, right! You're simply a lecherous, womanizing asshole while I'm not?" Issei replied with wide smile, without any hint of remorse. The rest of Gremory peerage could not help but held their laughs and giggles in amusement.
The women of Raiser's peerage simply narrowed their eyes at the boy who insulted their master, while the said master simply fuming in rage yet again. "Why you…!" However, Raiser quickly composed himself yet again after he felt Grayfia's warning glare on him.
After straightening himself up, Raiser turned to Rias. "My dear Rias, how about I give you ten days to train your peerage?"
Rias's eyes widened and narrowed in anger. "You say that I and my peerage are too weak?"
"Kukukuku… You know well of my expertise in Rating Games, Rias dear… And let me tell you, Rating Game is not something that can be won with your feelings alone… So prepared yourself, might as well you prepared your wedding dress… Hahahahaha…!" Raiser laughed as he prepared to teleport away with his servants along with Grayfia. However, before he disappeared, he looked towards Issei whom was still staring at him. "I'll make sure that you'll pay after humiliating me today, pawn of Rias Gremory…" then Raiser finally disappeared in a burst of flames, with Grayfia disappeared into her own magic circle.
(Scene break)
Once after Raiser and Grayfia had took their leave, the rest let out relieved sigh and Rias turned her gaze towards Issei. "Ise, although I must say that some of your insults are quite… right on the spot, did you really have to make a fool out of yourself earlier?"
Issei laughed sheepishly as he rubbed his head. "Well… I have my own reasons, buchou. But for now, we have to focus on something, right?" Issei asked with serious tone.
Rias nodded her head as she decided to dismiss Issei's earlier antics for now. "Right. Everyone, Akeno and I will prepare the venue to train for the next ten days. So all of you please go back to your homes and prepare yourself for tomorrow, because we will go for a training camp. Understand?"
Everyone in the clubroom chorused at the same time. "YES!"
X
(Unknown location)
On a barren wasteland with brown, dust-cloud covering the sky, a figure of a man with bald head and clothed in an old outfit that consisted a black long-slack, dusty T-shirt, a pair of worn-out shoes, worn-out finger-less gloves on both hands, and a tattered cloak, was sitting on a carcass that seemed like a giant, deformed mutated, four-legged dinosaur. The said dinosaur had blood flowing like a river from its mouth, a crack that looked like a fist-mark adorned on the side of its skull, presumably the result of its death.
"…(sigh)…" Upon sitting on the carcass, Hyoudou Saitama was taking a quick breather after he took down the said dinosaur when his phone suddenly rang. Saitama turned his gaze on his pocket and picked out the cell-phone that never ceased to impress him. The man still remembered the first time he received the cell-phone from Azazel after the incidents when he ended up fighting with the devil… Sir… Sir… who was it again? Saitama could not remember the first name of the devil he fought that day, because he thought that his name was very hard to spell, but he remembered that he was also known as Lucifer. Saitama also still remembered that the Lucifer guy was actually nothing like a cunning, evil being that he used to hear in the past, in fact, Saitama admitted that he enjoyed talking to him. Another fact was, ever since that day, he, Azazel and that Lucifer guy had been e-mail buddies and they contacted each other from time to time.
Saitama did not expect that instead of e-mail as usual, his phone was receiving a call, a call from a number he recognised, nonetheless. Seriously, this cell-phone will be a hit in the market, since the gadget can literally reaches everywhere, even to the place he was currently at now. He flipped open the phone and he pressed it on his ear. "Hello?"
"… Yeah, I'm doing fine now, what about you?… Um, did I?... Yeeeaahh… I do actually… Erm,.. Yeah, sorry about that. I guess I did never tell you before… Okay… Uh-huh… Uh-huh… Wait, come again?" then Saitama heard lots of noises coming from behind him. "Erm, sorry. I kind of busy right now. Can we talk later?... Yeah, got it. Thanks, err… Right! Sirzechs! Sorry, your name was kind of hard to spell out… Yeah, you too. Tell Grayfia that I said hello", Saitama then ended up the call as he closed his cell-phone. He let out another sigh as he looked up at the dusty sky.
"Now it had come to this, huh…" Saitama thought as his mind ran to his family that he left behind. "I guess I should go for a quick visit back home… Or should I not?" Saitama contemplated again as he stood up from his seat. He turned his heels toward the source of the noise and he hopped down from the giant carcass he was previously on.
"I'll think about it later…" Saitama murmured to himself as he gazed at front of him. "After I deal with you lot…" Saitama finished as he took a step forward, walking towards a horde of monsters and beasts in various forms, some of them had their various weapons ready and some of them had their fangs and claws brandished, ready to attack Saitama at a moment's notice. As soon as the sound Saitama's collided fists was heard, the horde roared and lounged their bodies and respective weapons towards the man whom only had his impassive face on and his fist ready to retaliate.