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[Sunday, Midnight, Location: Abandoned building]
In the outer area of Kuoh City, far from the school or Micael's house, the entire group consisting of Rias, Akeno, Koneko, Kiba and Issei, along with Micael, walked along a dirt road between trees and bushes.
"So, you're telling me that he has little demonic power?" Beside Rias, Micael walked calmly as he asked her.
"Sigh, yes, the amount he has is too little, so he can't use the summoning circle, needless to say he is able to use teleportation magi." Sighing, wearing her school uniform, Rias replied while keeping her gaze fixed ahead.
Behind the two who were walking in front, a haggard-faced Issei scratched his head in embarrassment. He couldn't even apologize, as it was something beyond his control.
'Do I really have the potential I was told?' Resisting the urge to cry, doubt about what he had been told before began to set in.
"Hmm." Humming in response, Micael looked over his shoulder at Issei. "He seems depressed about it."
Looking over her shoulder as well, Rias then turned her gaze forward. "I already warned him not to worry about it, as long as he keeps trying hard, his potential will eventually come to light."
"You heard her, Issei, don't worry too much about it, just be patient and keep training." Micael said meeting his eyes.
"M-mm, right." Issei felt strange, receiving encouraging words from Micael was simply contradictory to what he had done, he would need more time to put that aside and get used to this bipolarity of his.
Giving a nod, Micael returned to focusing on walking alongside Rias.
"Don't worry, Issei-kun." Walking next to Issei, Kiba placed his hand on his shoulder with a comforting smile. "You'll get there eventually, don't worry."
"Thank you." Issei thanked with a strained smile, he wanted to feel grateful but that was impossible with Kiba's handsome face that reminded him of the injustice of the world, in the end he could only give that smile while feeling jealous internally.
"Well, at least the summons he responded to had good evaluations." Rias suddenly spoke.
Micael turned his head to her. "What do you mean?"
"He responded to two calls in those days, although he failed to close the deal, both gave good reviews, which is quite unusual as not closing the deal means he did not meet their wishes."
"I see."
"By the way, do you want to know what the second summoner's wish was?" Rias' question was accompanied by a mysterious smile.
"What?"
Rias laughed for a moment as she looked at Micael with slight amusement. "He was a man who wanted to be a magical girl, a tall, muscular man wearing a magical girl uniform, who spoke with 'nyou' at the end of every sentence."
Hearing this, Micael's face twitched as a strange expression appeared on his face. '...What the fuck.'
Rias laughed even harder when she saw his face, her hand lightly covering her mouth. "You're imagining it, aren't you?"
Micael just nodded silently in response.
"The man introduced himself as Mil-tan, a big fan of magical girls."
Hearing the name, Micael immediately remembered it. 'Huh? Is that the guy from the anime?' As the memory came to mind, he spoke to her. "I guess that's not so strange in your field, huh?"
"No, it's not, there are people much stranger than that, after a while you get used to it." She replied calmly, and looking at him for a moment, smiling, she gave him a light push with her shoulder.
Leaning slightly to the side in reaction, Micael looked at her with a raised eyebrow, seeing her eyes narrow in amusement and smiling as she lightly bit her lip.
Recognizing the look on her face, Micael smiled and gave her a shoulder push as well.
"Hahaha~." Rias giggled for a moment, tucking her hair behind her ear and seeming to find it quite funny.
Micael shook his head lightly as he laughed. 'Come on, Rias, I thought you had more willpower than that, you can't fall that easily.'
As the two flirted without even realizing it, a pink atmosphere enveloped them for a moment, the quartet behind him looked at them with different reactions.
Koneko had her usual neutral face, Akeno seemed to smile at them, although her smile seemed a bit forced, Kiba seemed to smile in genuine happiness for the couple and Issei looked constipated.
But the rosy atmosphere didn't last long, a ruined building appearing in the distance with the mood immediately changing.
The closer they got, the more tense the atmosphere became, a sense of foreboding permeated the air like a warning that something was wrong there.
Looking calmly at the ruined building, Micael felt the cold that suddenly increased, the temperature dropping a few degrees as a smell of blood and something faintly putrid like rotten flesh reached his nose.
—Whoosh...
With a light gust of wind, the coolness against his skin and the soft sound of the leaves on the trees rang out, adding even more tension and an air of misery to the sight.
'It looks like a scene straight out of a horror movie.' The building, the weather, the trees, the wind, everything together looked like something out of a horror movie, Micael had no doubt about that.
"Well, here we are." Rias said finally stopping, one hand on her waist and looking at the building.
"Gulp." Issei swallowed hard, tense, at the sight. This place was scary, only now did he realize that he was about to see a devil that acted according to its name. 'At least I'm not alone.'
They stood in silence, doing nothing, just waiting until, out of nowhere, a new sensation began to fill the atmosphere.
A cold and threatening sensation, as if a sharp razor was against the throat, was a raw and intense intent to kill.
With Issei being the only one visibly affected by the wave of murderous will, he nervously watched as a shadow slowly walked out of the destroyed entrance door, its heavy footsteps reverberating faintly on the ground.
'Yes, definitely a horror movie, let me see something... yes, it's scary as hell.' Micael thought as he saw the shape and deactivating his tomoe Sharinga for a moment, the scene becoming even more macabre in the complete darkness, he reactivated it and saw clearly again.
In his dark brown irises, a single magatama rotated lazily, the indentation in his eyes was noticeable, although weakened it was still a larger indentation than the Emperor's Eye.
As the footsteps echoed, the shape finally became clear, the torso of a woman, her breasts strangely exposed and a smile full of sharp teeth like a shark's.
With two spears in her hands, glowing red eyes, and long black hair that reached the lower half of her body.
And there was the strange part, its lower part, starting at the waist, was some sort of unidentifiable quadrupedal animal, it looked like a cross between a feline and a reptile with a snake's tail to complete the package.
"That smell... Kekeke, a small group of devils, and they brought a human! The human I ate yesterday was good, but you smell delicious! Kekeke~." The woman's voice sounded shrill like a fork scratching on a chalkboard.
"Mmhm~ I wonder... what do your insides taste like~?" Her lips parted to her cheeks, her long tongue swiping across her lips as she looked at Micael.
Micael just looked calmly at the monster woman. 'Of course she would have her breasts exposed.' His gaze dryly rested on her large breasts with pink nipples before focusing on her eyes that were staring at him intensely.
"Stray Devil Vaizor, in the name of duke Gremory, you will be killed for going against your master and running away." Rias said calmly from her position next to him.
"Kekeke, you're free to try, little devil." With her bloodthirsty smile, the Stary Devil referred to as Vaizor laughed in amusement, weakly twirling her spears as she assumed a pose in preparation.
"Hey, Rias, how about you test Issei against that thing?" Micael pointed his thumb back as he looked at her.
Looking at him, she then looked at the devil for a thoughtful moment before making up her mind. "Alright, let's see how he does."
"W-What!?" Issei couldn't be more shocked, snapping out of his stupor as he admired the devil woman's breasts, although the lower part lost a lot of points in his opinion, the last thing he expected was to have to fight that.
"Don't worry, we'll be here to protect you, go ahead." Rias said with a reassuring smile and a thumbs up.
"You just need to remember what you've trained for the past few days." Micael said, looking at him.
Still in disbelief, Issei received an encouraging pat from Kiba, along with a nod from a smiling Akeno and a neutral Koneko.
Swallowing hard, he walked forward with tense steps, the killing intent exuded by the female Stray Devil growing stronger and stronger.
"Kekeke, what is this? Are you sending him to me as a sacrifice?" Vaizor's smile now seemed mocking.
'I think so too!' Screaming internally, Issei slowly approached until he was just a few steps away from her. 'Damn, does this have to do with me looking at her breasts earlier? It's not my fault! Those breasts are really beautiful after all!'
Sweating coldly, he struck a simple fighting pose, his eyes constantly moving up and down.
Noticing Issei's gaze, she narrowed her eyes and laughed. "Kekeke, I'm going to love eating you!" Then, she charged forward at a surprisingly fast speed for her size, a spear moving in a piercing attack towards Issei.
'Eh?' Completely caught off guard, Issei could only watch the approaching spear without moving a muscle.
But his body did it for him.
—Shinn
The spear cut through the air and struck the ground harmlessly. Issei was far away from it because his body instinctively dodged it by rolling.
'...Ehhh?' Crouching down, Issei looked in surprise at the spear a few steps away, still processing how he had done that.
"Remember your training."
Looking at Micael who had spoken, Issei then realized that the training of the past three days seemed to have already stuck to his body.
With a sudden surge of confidence, Issei smiled as he summoned his Sacred Gear.
[Boost!]
His power then doubled, then dodging another predictable spear attack, he approached and punched the lower part with all his strength "Ha!"
—Thud!
Silence then reigned, his fist against the scaly skin seemed to have little effect, with sweat running down his cheek, Issei looked up, meeting a furious gaze.
"Damn worm!" she exclaimed as she raised both spears.
Issei could only look on tensely as he looked like he was about to be skewered.
But he was saved at the last moment.
—Crack!
"Argh!"
With a bolt of lightning striking her, Vaizor was thrown away, Issei looked to where it had come from and saw electricity crackling from Akeno's raised hand.
"As we already warned Issei, we will keep an eye on your guard, rest assured."
Receiving the same warning from Rias, Issei nodded nervously before shifting his focus to the devil rising from the ground.
Swallowing tensely, he then continued trying to defeat her.
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"Haaa...Damn." Muttering between deep breaths, Issei stared wearily at the furious-faced devil.
With welts and bruises scattered across her pale skin, she appeared to be genuinely injured, though not seriously, as her killing intent remained as intense as it had been at the beginning.
While Issei himself seemed to have almost no energy left to continue.
"He really has grown a lot..." Rias commented thoughtfully, during the fight, she saw Issei doing surprisingly well, they will only interfere a few times thanks to that.
Not only that, but she realized that she was applying what she was learning, considering how she imagined herself and what she would do in his place.
"This training method of yours really works." She said with a slight smile as she looked at Michael beside her.
Micael looked away from Issei and the devil woman to her and nodded. "Well, it's literally the training I do, so yes, it's quite efficient, although Issei was lucky that she only relies on brute force and her magic is useless against him."
Rias nodded. "Yeah, I think I've seen enough, Issei, step back."
"Uh?" Issei looked back in confusion, only to see Rias reaching out her hand towards him. Feeling a chill, he quickly moved out of the way.
Without giving the Stray Devil woman time to even think, a ray of dark red energy instantly struck her and expanded to cover her entire body in a ball.
With a low, ominous sound ringing out, the energy ball only lasted for a few seconds before it deflated and disappeared into tiny particles, leaving only a hole in the ground.
Issei broke out in a cold sweat when he saw this. 'Holy shit!'
Micael raised his eyebrows when he saw that and looking at Rias's little smile, it seemed like she was trying to show off to him.
"Our work here is done, shall we?" She asked, smiling as if she hadn't just vaporized a being over ten feet tall like it was nothing.
"Let's go." Micael could only laugh, amused, at the contrast.
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