Chapter 18 : Auburn-Haired Girls

-Yup, don't worry, just come to the park.- With text sent, he started walking toward the park where he was about to meet his two new tutors.

As he entered the park he went to the first bench he found empty and sat there thinking about random things thill the duo arrived.

What he wasn't expecting was that after ten, fifteen minutes to come face to face with the girl that was one of the topics on the meeting he had with his peerage.

"Well, who do we have here? What are you doing here all alone my dear?" Said the voice that was very familiar to Issei as he turned around to see the Auburn-haired girls sitting beside him on the bench.

"Oh Chelsea, what are you doing here? You know that the Devils are following me right?" He questioned as he saw her moving closer and closer to him.

"Yup but don't worry. I came here to tell you something, my sweetheart." She replied in teasing tone that made Issei blush.

"And what is that you wanted to tell me my darling." He said in a sing-song voice as he saw her blush a little bit at his teasing.

"Well, since you are so sweet to me darling, I would tell you how you can defeat that how did you call him...a yes, Fried Chicken.

Nice nickname you gave him by the way." She replayed in her sweet tone.

That made Issei's eyes go wide. How did she know that he was about to fight a Phoenix? How no one noticed her presence? There were one Ultimate and two High-class devils and even they didn't spot her.

"H-how do you know all that? Were you spying on me at a meeting?" He asked feeling a little dread creeping up his spine at this girl.

"Yup." She said in a happy tone as she took a lollypop from her pocket and put it in her mouth.

"And?" He questioned wanting to know what she was going to tell him.

"Well, If you want to defeat such a troublesome opponent dear you need to have either the power that can with one punch destroy his fighting spirit or stop his regeneration and then beating him senseless.

Or of course, use some holy objects to beat him that would make him surrender." She spoke as she patted Issei on the head seeing his head drop down.

"Great and I don't have that much power or magic reserves to make his regeneration stop even for a few seconds.

Holy objects are out of the question since I'm a devil and can't even hold them let alone use them against him."

He said in a defeated tone as he felt that all was lost even before he begun.

"You do have ten days to train to get to a level where you can at least hold your own for a little while and give the others time to help you overpower him."

She instructed, not wanting to see such a handsome man and someone that she thought cute to have a bitter look on his face.

"Yeah, I guess you are right, anyway I think you should leave before you are spotted by the devils." He said as he felt a little bit encouraged by her.

"You are welcome, well talk to you later my sweety. See ya."

Whit a kiss on the cheek she left him and again made him froze from the affection she gave him. Even though it was small Issei still wasn't used to it. This was all new to him and he liked it a lot.

Not ten minutes after Chelsea left, Katase and Murayama showed up with their training bags.

"Here we are Ise, what was it that you wanted us to know that was important?" Murayama stated as Issei stood up and looked at both of them an find it almost impossible to not look at their body's.

"The things is, that from tomorrow and for the next two weeks, I won't be in Kuoh since we, as in ORC, need to go training for an upcoming battle again's the members of the Phenix peerage.

That's what I wanted to tell you so that you know why I wouldn't be at school and for you two not to go on a rampage on me when I return. I hope you can understand this."

Issei said as he bowed his head down in an apologetic way to show how sorry he was for not starting his training with the girls, but being a Pawn of Rias put Rias priorities up and his down on a list of things to do.

The two girls looked at each other and understood that he wasn't in a situation to chose what he wanted to do but was more of a line forced to go to the battle for her.

So they decided to since they couldn't do much at least show him support in his upcoming struggle.

"When you put it that way, there isn't much we can do, but when you go to fight give a few good hits for us will you?" Ask Katase as she smiled a little towards Rias Pawn as he looked at the two in shock.

"You two are all right whit this?" He questioned still not believing what he was hearing.

"Yes we are Ise, we can't force you to stay and as Rias is your King you have to obey her.

But we wish you luck in your upcoming battle and hope that you return in one piece." Said Murayama, as she hugged him making his face go full red from all affection he was getting from her.

First was a kiss, now hugs he was seriously thinking that she was in love with him.

"Thank you, guys it really means a lot to me." He softly spoke as he returns the hug much to Murayama's joy.

"You are welcome Ise and thank you for telling us about that, now come on Mur, you can hug and kiss him all you want later when he returns.

We need to go training." Said Katase as she smirks seeing her best friend turning crimson red with embarrassment.