Beyond Critical - Chapter 19.2

"…This is amazing." Kaito looked down at his hands in awe, clenching and unclenching them, feeling the sheer strength in him now.

"You've been saying that every ten minutes, for over six hours." Yanagi who was walking beside him, deadpanned.

"Ah, sorry," he apologised to his girlfriend, "But I can't help it, this is…just amazing."

It wasn't just the strength of his body either-

"Glad you're so happy, while I feel bloated," Yanagi huffed with a grimace, "It took us literally over an hour to siphon off your excess power this morning."

Yes, his magic had massively increased as well. And to be blunt? It had grown a hundred times over.

According to Irina, his power had grown so massively, it even eclipsed both Gremory and Sitri's.

Right now, he felt like if he fought Satanael again, he could have defeated him in his base form, without using his touki or sacred gears.

Hell, he felt like in his base stat right now, he could defeat the him of this morning prior to using the King Piece, while that version of him used everything he had.

It was no wonder Satanael wanted the King piece so badly. This increase in strength, was quite simply insane.

If not for Yanagi and Irina's help draining his magic this morning, he'd have lost control pretty quickly and his full body would have inadvertently became a dragons.

Which made it all the more insane, that even with how powerful he'd grown, from what he sensed from Serafall last night…his magic power was literally still only 1/100 of hers at best, if that.

He still had a long way to go until he was in the true big leagues.

But right now? He was satisfied, more than satisfied even with his increase in strength and power.

Especially since, once he finally got around to transforming the rest of his body into that of a dragons, he would most likely gain another substantial increase in power as well.

"Ugh…once I go home, I'm gonna let loose and then go to sleep," Yanagi huffed, then grinned, "And I'll leave sucking your magic dragon jizz out to Irina alone tomorrow, that'll teach her."

"She did most of it today anyway." he snorted at her idea of petty little revenge.

"Yeah, well now she can get the full batch," she shrugged, both of them coming to a stop as they reached the entrance of Kuoh Academy, where they'd be parting ways for the moment, "You're heading off to see Gremory right?"

"Yeah." Kaito nodded. If he was right, and he was pretty sure he was, Rise Phenex would be making his appearance today and the whole rating game thing would be set in motion.

"Try not to kill Hyoudou honey-bun," she laughed and reached up to grab him by the collar and pull his head down so she could peck his lips with her own, "And if you end up banging Gremory, make sure to tell her I said 'get wrekt scrub'."

He rolled his eyes, "Sure, I'll get right on that, but what if I bang them all?" he teased, not meaning it at all.

"Then take a picture to show it to Hyoudou, do you need me to think of everything you dumb himbo?" Yanagi took it on the chin easily, "Well, you can feel free to bang them all but that stupid white haired midget."

"Hate to break it to you love, but I already banged you." he teased again, pecking her on the lips this time.

"Hardy har har, I meant the flat one." Yanagi snorted, before drawing him into a full on tongue wrestling make out session right there in the middle of the school building.

"Die you damn normie!" he heard perverted glasses shout at him, and caught sight of him and his bald buddy glaring angrily at him.

They were not the only ones mind you, a bunch of guys were giving him angry, jealous looks. They just weren't stupid enough to voice it.

He drew back from Yanagi to reply, but she growled and snapped before he could, "Sorry, Kaito doesn't speak virgin you losers, clear out." she shouted at them, brandishing her fist.

They got the message real quick and darted out of the entrance and disappeared amongst the crowd of students.

Yanagi nodded, pleased. Then she slapped him on the ass, "I'll see you later sweet cheeks." she bid him goodbye.

Honestly, that girl.

To think Fujio thought she was an innocent girl. She was a massive perverted degenerate.

…And he'd only probably made that worse.

Shaking his head, Kaito left the entrance himself, but instead of heading towards the school gates, he made his way to the side and walked his way to Occult Research Club building.

As he entered the gothic mansion-like building, Kaito made his way upstairs to where he knew Rias' office of sorts and the meeting place of her peerage was.

"-Akeno-san is buchou's right hand, so naturally if something is going on around her, she'll know."

He heard a male voice state as he rounded the corridor to where the office was located and found himself looking at an odd trio. A pervert, a blonde pretty boy, and a pretty blonde nun.

Honestly, it sounded like the start to a weird joke.

They noticed him at the same time and the pervert of the trio froze mid-step, eyes widening lightly, "E-Evander!" Hyoudou stuttered, one hand coming up to point at him, while the other two gave him curious looks.

There was a palpable aura of…not quite fear, but trepidation suddenly emanating from the older boy.

He'd done a number on his confidence before, huh?

Well, Asia Argento looked confused, while Yuuto Kiba narrowed his eyes ever so slightly, inspecting him suspiciously.

Hands in his pockets, Kaito continued his way down the corridor, stopping right outside the building, "Sup?" he greeted them, eyes briefly flickering to Asia and inspecting her, before going back to Hyoudou.

Hyoudou swallowed heavily, before shaking his head and biting out, "What the hell are you doing here?" he demanded.

Hmm, interestingly, out of the three here, by his estimates, Asia had the most magic power, granted not by much. It made sense he supposed, she had a sacred gear she'd used since she was young and was reincarnated using a bishop piece.

Overall though, she and Kiba both, had a little less than half of the magic power Irina had. And Hyoudou…Kaito couldn't sense his magic power at all.

He knew he had a miniscule amount canonically, but seriously? So little he couldn't even sense it?

…Though perhaps he shouldn't be speaking as if he was an authority on power. He could feel it. A stupidly powerful presence in the room next over alongside the Rias and two others, most likely Akeno Himejima and Koneko Toujou.

It wasn't on Serafall's level, but it was by far the second most powerful presence he'd ever felt. Easily ten times that of what Satanael had to offer.

So that was Grayfia Lucifuge, huh?

He put her out of mind for the moment and smirked at Hyoudou. Instead of saying anything at all, he focused on a still somewhat foreign feeling deep within his back and with a thought-

Two large pitch black bat like wings erupted from his back.

Three sets of eyes widened.

"No….." Hyoudou literally moaned, a pure sound of defeat, though Kiba to his credit didn't let his surprise show for long.

"I see, so buchou managed to entice you to join the peerage, Evander-san?" the pretty boy knight inquired.

"I suppose," Kaito shrugged, "Though, it's more like I'm a loaner right now. The one I joined is a bit higher on the food chain than Gremory."

"What? Higher than buchou?" Hyoudou looked completely lost.

Not that he had any intention of explaining to him.

"I see." was all Kiba said in reply, brows furrowing.

"Um…" Asia looked between him and her companions, looking quite confused, before enquiring, "Have you joined buchou's peerage as well erm, Evander-san?" she asked.

"More or less, it's nice to meet you Asia." he gave her a warm smile and didn't bother using any honorifics with her, while he stowed his devil wings away.

Honestly, they weren't all that useful to him. Anything they could do, his second sacred gear could do better.

Perhaps if he summoned his sacred gear over them, it would reinforce the sacred gear a bit more?

"Umu, you too?" she nodded back happily.

She was cute, very cute. And the innocence in her eyes…he could see it from a mile away. She was as pure as pure can be.

No wonder that shit heel Dildodora wanted to taint her so much.

"Oi, oi, stay away from Asia, I've not forgotten what you wanted to join the peerage muscle brain!" Hyoudou finally found his balls and growled at him.

His heckles rose and he found his lips pulling back almost instinctively to bare his teeth at the older boy, but instead bit his lip briefly and forced himself not to.

"Don't get your panties in a twist Hyoudou, I only said that to annoy you," Kaito replied, even as his hands curled into fists in his pocket and he resisted the urge to smash his face in, "Unlike you I don't actually need something like that and would just do it the normal way if I were so inclined."

"…What?" Hyoudou blinked, his meaning flying completely over his head.

Kaito resisted the urge to face palm.

Honestly, was it really any wonder his 'harem' had so many problems in the other timeline? This clown hadn't even been able to notice how hurt Rias had been when he kept referring to her as buchou and never by name.

Hmm…he was calling her Rias in his head now and not Gremory he noticed. God he was a sap.

"Now now, let's calm down guys, for the minute at least it seems we're on the same si-" Kiba walked forward raising his hands placatingly between them both, but as he did, he froze and his head whipped around to stare at the entrance to Rias' office, "…I didn't detect this presence until right now, how is that possible?"

He stared wide eyed and shocked at the door.

Yeah…how did he miss Grayfia? Sure, she wasn't exactly broadcasting her presence, but with that monstrous power, she didn't need to.

"Kiba?" Hyoudou blinked, giving him another confused look.

Honestly, confused seemed to be this guys default mode beyond horny for tits.

Kiba sighed, "…This will be troublesome." he said, and stopped playing referee to make his way into the office, which was cue enough for them to drop the little pissing contest and follow him in.

"Eh…who's that?" Hyoudou stopped and stared as they entered, his eyes going straight to a beautiful silver haired, voluptuous beauty dressed in a blue maid outfit.

Predictably, his eyes zeroed in on her tits.

"Grayfia Lucifuge, the queen and wife of Sirzechs Lucifer, Rias' older brother." Kaito quickly got the point and explained. If he let anyone else do it, they would probably go the reach around way and be all dramatic.

Not that they needed something like that for drama right about now. The moment he entered the room he could feel the tension in it.

"Ehh, so buchou's sister in law came for a visit?" Hyoudou asked.

She wishes.

Yawning, Kaito made his way over to sit down on one of the couches in the middle of the room, nodding to Rias who was sat at her desk, bags under her eyes.

"Kaito-kun, thanks for coming." she shot him a brief, grateful smile.

"Just fulfilling my end of things," he shrugged, sitting down next to the tiny white haired form of Koneko, "Sup." he greeted her.

She shrugged.

"Cool." he nodded and looked around the room.

As he did, he noticed Grayfia giving him a thoughtful frown. But, wasn't able to ponder on it much.

"Ara, ara," Akeno mused, cupping her cheek as she made her way over to stand behind the couch, and him, "I was honestly doubting the day would come when you would be part of this peerage, however briefly you know? I almost expected Yanagi-chan to be attached to your hip and growling at us to warn us away from her man."

Ah right, she had tried to approach him a few times over the last month. Every time though, Yanagi was there to blow her off.

"Tch." Koneko clicked her tongue in annoyance at the mention of one of his two girlfriends.

"Nah, she's passed that now, in fact she told me to go ham with you all if you offered," he pointed out with a snort, before jabbing his thumb at Koneko, "Well, except Tojou here, something about you gets her pissed."

"The feelings mutual," Koneko scoffed, and gave him a dead yellow stare, "Erase the memories you have of me from before."

…Was she talking about when Yanagi flipped her skirt?

"No can do," he shrugged, "I've not learned any of the hypnosis tricks you guys have yet, I only became a devil last night. Besides, I quite like those memories." Yanagi had been getting a bit too gung ho about things lately and a bit too, well domineering wasn't the word, but demanding fit a bit.

Some banter with the white cat girl, would serve to deflate that ego a bit he was sure.

"Perv." Koneko rolled her eyes.

"Says the girl who flashed me." he shot back.

"You know it was your stupid cow chested girlfriend that did that," she retorted drily, "Did you ask her for it?" she tried to put him on the backfoot.

"Nah, though I won't deny it was a nice sight." he shrugged.

She looked him in the eyes blankly, before turning and looking away out of the window.

Victory was his.

"My, my, it looks like you two get along well," Akeno tittered with a demure smile, "It almost makes me jealous."

"Buchou, what the heck is going on here?" Hyoudou who had been silent up until this point finally broke out, drawing attention to him, "Why is Evander here, why is he part of the peerage all of a sudden? And what is-"

He never got to finish as a large blazing orange magical crest appeared at the side of the room, igniting into flames and rising up.

"That's…the Phenex crest!?" Kiba gasped.

The flames swelled into the middle of the magic crest, a shadowy figure appearing within the middle of it. And then the flames burst apart, falling in a rain of glimmering embers to reveal a tall, slim blonde man with pure blonde hair and dark blue eyes dressed in a maroon suit, left open at the top, the white shirt underneath having three buttons undone to show off a toned chest.

"Ah…it's been a long time since I came to the human world," Riser Phenex mused, his dark blue eyes sweeping right across the room to meet those of the beautiful redhead sitting behind her desk, "My lovely Rias, I've come to see you."

Hmm.

'Eight out of ten.' Kaito mused inwardly, resisting the urge to give a small clap. That was quite the flashy entrance, stylish too.

Perhaps he should look into something like that once he got his own teleportation circle?