DxD: Emperor of Chaos

CHAPTER 13

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He drops to the ground with his limbs loose like a puppet without strings. Yep, his limbs wouldn’t move at all, he was done.

His demonic energy reserves were as dry as a desert, his whole body burns from the recoil of the Kaio-Ken technique, the only reason why he was still in the game was because he still had his stamina left. He couldn’t move though, even with so much stamina left in his pool.

So, he watched as Riser single-handedly decimated his peerage members.

After his spectacle and wiping Riser’s Queen, the Phoenix Clan member stopped holding back as huge flames of rainbow erupted from his back. Like missiles, hundreds of fire spears locked onto his peerage and hunted them down, blasting to the sky and rained down upon them.

The first to go was Toujou. She tried tanking a few fire spears for Buchou and Asia, but Riser remotely detonated the dozen fire spears, causing them to explode point-blank. Toujou faded into white motes protecting the two.

The next to go was Akeno, she already expended a lot of demonic energy before Riser went full-on predator mode, the spears pierced through her back and the Rating Game system sent her back to healing.

After that was Kiba, surprisingly. The fire spears chased him for some time before the debris of the exploding fire spears hits him in the leg, causing him to slip due to being off-balance. The remaining spears tracked him down and stabbed into him.

With only 2 inexperienced servants left, and a Rook that couldn’t get up, Riser exhaled as he stopped the flaming spears and recalled them to float above the three Gremory peerage and himself. Fuck you too, Riser.

As the Phoenix Clan member started to monologue, Akira suddenly heard the sound of footsteps. He looked to the side to see Ravel Phoenix walking towards him, looking pristine while wearing a dress like the ones worn by western princesses. A literal princess, nice.

… Huh, he swore that she got hit by the Kamehamehawave…

“That was… A powerful attack, Rook of Rias Gremory. If it weren’t for the Rating Game system that teleports a person who is about to experience a deadly attack, my sister would have bit the dust.”

So, the Queen teleported away… Thank the big G for that one.

“I’m glad that the system worked as intended then. Sorry, I was frustrated that your Queen kept running away and vented my frustrations.”

He was serious, he was not a murderer. He was super glad that the system teleported away. The Phoenix girl snorted before crossing her hands together.

“Frustrations? That was mere frustrations? If it weren’t for me being an energy-sensitive devil, I wouldn’t have dodged it and would have been disintegrated by your attack. I would like to avoid that attack, even if I can regenerate.”

Ah, so she dodged it? Not bad, she must have sensed the insane output that he was putting in.

“Huh, the Kamehameha wave’s velocity was pretty quick too, you must be pretty agile to dodge it.”

The girl stared at him, letting him see her features. Seriously, are all pureblooded devils naturally so beautiful? She ticked all his boxes of a western princess, especially those drill twin-tails. Mmmm, blond hair is the best, they look especially cute on her…

Oh, she’s blushing up a storm now, staring at the ground. Uh oh. Sorry, his filters must have gone loose because his body felt very numb. But that gap moe of her looking and talking maturely to her cute embarrassment is incredible.

A sudden sound caused the both of them to look up to the new school building’s rooftop. Thankfully he landed with his back on the ground instead or else it would have been awkward.

Hyoudou was getting his shit folded by Riser, with Asia caged under a magic circle and Buchou who was slumped to the ground panting.

Every time Hyoudou dropped to the ground, he would get back up and enter a stance.

They both stayed silent and watched, until Ravel asked.

“… Are all dragon Sacred Gear wielders so scary? A monster that could beat Yubelluna that was nearing the level of onii-sama, only after reincarnating a few weeks ago. And then a Boosted Gear devil that demolished a whole peerage with transferring his powerups, and is fighting while fainted.”

Hyoudou’s eyes were already hollow. The boy had already fallen unconscious minutes ago, after enduring the barrage of flame spears. Yet his spirit drove him to get back up, just because he promised his master that he’d win. Fuck, he respected that determination.

“I guess so. Never fight against a desperate dragon, Missus. A cornered beast is the most terrifying of them all. Hyoudou’s spirit is still fighting your brother for his master, that dedication is inspiring, really, I can respect that.”

“… Yes, yes I can too.”

[… Rias Gremory has resigned. The victor of the Rating Game is Riser Phoenix, the House of Phoenix.]

He heard Grayfia’s neutral tone in her voice as he stared Buchou laying the battered body of Hyoudou onto her lap, her eyes crying and with love towards the Pawn in her lap. Sighing, he changed the conversation.

“… So, what’s your name?”

He looked over at Ravel. He knew her name, from the anime, but he wanted to hear it from her.

“Ravel Phoenix, third child of the House of Phoenix.”

She introduced herself without hesitation. He simply gave her a grin.

“Nice to meet you, Ms. Ravel. I’m Ryuuto Akira. Well, Akira Ryuuto if we’re going by western name-sense.”

“Are you supposed to even be so friendly to an enemy?”

If he could shrug, he would.

“The game’s over, meaning my master’s peerage will now become closer to your brothers’, so we’ll be meeting often now… Well, if he doesn’t straight away trade the guys away for additional harem members. Besides, strangers are just friends you’ve never met before.”

She looked down at the ground in thought before nodding.

“… Very well. I am pleased to make your acquaintance then.”

“You too, Ravel-chan. Nice dress by the way, totally suits your color scheme of bright yellow.”

She had a layer of red on her cheeks at the informal tone of his. Since they weren’t transferred back to their respective locations yet, they continued talking about their recent game. Surprisingly, they hit it off quite well.

Well, he was more of a listener to her giving advice on how their team would have done better, and he agreed with them. Now that he thinks about it, Buchou would learn a lot from her explanations and tactics. This girl had quite the strategic head.

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He finally did it. He had added another person’s number into his cellphone. This was a huge achievement, he now finally had 5 people in his contacts list.

Azazel, Toujou, a Kuoh Academy teacher, his local gym equipment store manager, and lastly Ravel-chan’s.

He asked for it since they just clicked so well for some reason. A little too easy to be honest, maybe she doesn’t have many people to talk to other than her brothers and Riser’s peerage? Definitely not because of him being Riser’s peerage due to the marriage, that’s for sure.

Eh, who cares, he now had another… friend? No, acquaintance was the better word for it, yeah. And teacher, he had a question about some magic a day ago and messaged her about it. He thought that since she was in the supernatural way longer than him, and was a devil, she would know more about how to apply it and such. Because of it, they’ve been messaging back and forth for a whole hour earlier.

What a good acquaintance, she even replied to him at 7 in the morning too. Must be a morning person like him. He would try to get back for her helping him… But he doubts that he could do anything that the girl wanted. She was rich, she has good backing, and was quite popular (He thinks).

Hearing his door knock, he stared at the door blankly before his brain recovered from farting.

“Yeah, you can come in!”

The door opens to reveal a woman dressed in a French maid outfit, bowing down to him.

“Ryuuto-sama, good morning.”

“Uh, yeah, good morning.”

Walking into the room, she quickly prepared a cup of tea beside his enormous bed while telling him about the schedule that he had.

“At 10 a.m. there will be a tailor that specializes in the House of Gremory styled suits, Ryuuto-sama and Kiba-sama are to meet with him and to measure your sizes for the event tomorrow. And at 1 p.m. later after lunch, Madam Venelana will be teaching Ryuuto-sama on formal conversations along with formal dancing.”

Processing the schedule, he groans at the last agenda on his list while the maid entered his room’s bathroom, the sound of water running entering his head.

“Formal conversation lessons? Dancing? Ugh…”

Getting up from his seat, he stretched his healed body, bless Argento for her kind heart, before yawning, grabbing the teacup and drinking it.

Mmm, devil tea sure is good. If only there were pizzas here, would make a great breakfast.