25 Riser Phenex
Like usual, the Occult Research Club gathered to talk about the supernatural activities going around the region.
Freed went missing and they had no clue about his whereabouts. As for the fallens, the heiresses were contacted by their families that the leaders of the fallen angels will talk to them.
This made them a bit nervous but when they were assured by their families that it would just be a discussion, they felt relieved.
"We don't have much to worry about now." Kiba said. "So, we can focus on the issue at hand, Rias."
Rias nodded, unsure of how to proceed about the situation.
As they were about to discuss about the issue, they heard a knock at the door.
"May I come in?"
It was a voice that everyone was aware of.
"Come in, Kento." Rias said, relieved a bit that the boy was back in the academy.
Sona had been stressing over his absence lately.
As the door opened, they saw the boy who helped in taking down the fallens walk in with a smile.
"Sorry for not coming here for a few days." He said as he walked inside.
"It's fine." Rias smiled. "You had permission after all."
Nodding at her, he looked at Akeno. "Is that a new ribbon? It's not your usual one."
The girl was shocked that he noticed something that no one paid attention to. She was wearing a purple ribbon which was different from her usual orange one.
"Y-Yeah." It was rare for her to get flustered, but she liked it when someone noticed the things that she did. Even if they were minute.
"Anyways." Kento smirked as he walked near the table. "I got sweet from Kyoto."
Saying this, he opened that backpack that he was carrying and took out a box of sweets filled to the brim.
"They were a gift from an acquaintance. And since I cannot eat so many sweets, I brought them for everyone."
Koneko, who just got back from the washroom had her ears perked up at the mention of sweets.
"Sweets?" She asked.
Despite her keeping her default face, Kento noticed the sparkle in her eyes.
"Yep." He grinned. "All yours."
Koneko stared at the box for a while before swiftly picking up a sakura mochi from it.
The action made the people in the room smile.
"Where is Issei?" Kento asked. "Hope not spying on girls."
Kiba chuckled at the statement while Akeno shook her head.
"He is showing Asia around the campus." Rias answered. "After a bit of discussion, we decided it was best to enroll her in the academy. That way we can protect her and she can also continue her education."
"That is probably for the best." Kento agreed. "She has a Sacred Gear that cannot be used offensively. So, she needs protection."
Asia was a healer and lacked the offensive capabilities to go against the monstrous enemies that targeted people with Sacred Gears.
"Did you turn her into a devil?" Kento asked, genuinely curious about the whole aftermath.
Rias shook her head. "Asia is still a believer despite all that happened. And thus wanted to remain a human in order to be able to pray."
Kento nodded. He was told about her past and how she was thrown out of the church for healing a devil.
"Fair enough." He said as he turned around and found Koneko stuffing her face with the sweets.
"Slow down, Koneko." He said. "You will choke otherwise."
The girl barely looked at him once before going back to munching on the sweets.
This made everyone in the room laugh.
"Kento?"
Hearing the voice, Kento looked towards the door to find Issei standing with a massive grin on his face with Asia standing next to him.
"Welcome back man!" He said, giving Kento a peace sign.
"You seem energetic." Kento said. "And hello Asia."
"H-Hello." The soft spoken girl greeted back. "It's nice to finally meet you, K-Kento."
Kento chuckled. "No need to be so nervous. We are all friends around here."
Issei already assured Asia that he was her friend and so did the others. So, when Kento called her a friend –she felt happy.
"Are those sweets?" Issei walked towards the box of sweets that was almost empty. "Sweet~"
But as he was about to pick up a piece, his hand was slapped away by Koneko.
"No sweets." Saying this, she immediately shoved down at least three sweet pieces in her mouth.
Issei scratched his head. "Not even a piece, huh?"
Koneko frowned. "No."
"You can share Koneko." Akeno said. "There are a lot of them–" But stopped when she saw the box almost empty.
Kento shook his head. "It is alright. I have more at home, if you want I can bring them later.
Kento was in a good mood. The whole encounter with Inari and Yasaka was one that Kento was proud of.
He was on good terms with the Shinto faction –both gods and youkai.
Not many humans could be proud of that, after all, not everyone could say the same.
However, as they continued to laugh and talk about the past few days.
They felt a sudden increase in the room's temperature alongside a magical pressure as a teleportation circle formed in front of them.
And as they started at the circle, they heard a voice.
"This place is just as filthy as ever."
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Teleportation circles were often used by devils to travel between realms as it was one of the fastest mediums one could use.
And the one that burnt itself on the floor of the Occult Research Club was an orange multi-layered circle with a bird-like pattern at the center.
Just a second after the circle formed, a certain man walked out of it followed by a bunch of women.
The man wore a white shirt that was not properly tucked with red pants and a red coat. His middle-parted hair was rather unkempt with a portion of the hair sticking out in a funny manner.
'What's up with that chicken hairstyle?' Kento thought as he saw the proud looking man walk out.
The moment the man walked out of the circle, it vanished.
Kento wondered if every devil used this method as he saw both Sona and Rias using circles as well.
'That's not subtle at all.'
His teleportation allowed him to teleport without forming a circle and he prefered that. While the devil way was fancy, it was too eye catching –which could be bad in a battle.
"Ah, Riser can never get used to this filthy place." The man scoffed. "How do you live here, Rias?"
Kento already figured that it was someone Rias knew but looking at Rias's face change from content to disgust –he knew that it was not someone that she had a favorable impression of.
Not that Kento had one either as his appearance and personality both seemed hideous.
Now, he was not ugly per se, but the way he dressed and walked was unappealing.
"Riser." Rias stood up with a frown. "I told you not to come here. Whatever business you have is to be dealt with when I am in the underworld."
Kento looked at the scantily dressed women that stood behind the man.
'Do they have some exhibitionist fetish?' He wondered but this also made him curious about something.
{Inspect}
{Name: Riser Phenex
Age: 23
Class: High Class Devil
Skills: Demonic Power (A), Immortality (S), Fire Manipulation (B+), Wind Manipulation (C-), Enhanced Physique (C), Expert Combatant (B+), Flight (B+)
Special Trait: Being from the Phenex clan, Riser possesses the ability to regenerate from any injury –almost making him immortal– however his regeneration ability is directly proportional to his demonic power. If his power is exhausted he cannot regenerate.
And his regeneration can be negated by holy magic or abilities.}
For a moment, Kento felt that his eyes might pop out when he saw the skill {Immortality}. But when he saw the description of it, he felt relieved.
'No one should be given immortality. That would shift the balance of life and death entirely.'
Riser smiled. "Aw. Don't be like that, darling. You know that Riser missed you right?"
Seeing this, Kento raised an eyebrow. 'Her boyfriend? No, she does not seem happy to see him. So an ex?'
Shaking his head, he looked at the purple haired woman whose tits were about to burst out her dress.
{Inspect}
{Name: Yubelluna
Age: 26
Class: Middle Class Devil
Demonic Power (C+), Explosive Arts (A-), Enhanced Physique (B-), Advance Magic Talent (A-), Flight (B+)
Special Trait: Yubelluna has the ability to contort her magic power in ways that allows her to create explosions according to her size.}
'Nothing that special.' To Kento, her stats were quite unimpressive.
He felt himself almost laugh at his own statement. 'Just a few days ago, I was scared shitless of beings with such stats.'
Now, he was capable of killing them before they could even react.
Looking around, he decided to see the stats of the blonde girl that was the shortest of the bunch.
{Inspect}
{Name: Ravel Phenex
Age: 16
Class: Middle Class Devil
Skills: Demonic Power (B), Immortality (S), Fire Manipulation (C), Wind Manipulation (C), Advance Combat Arts (B), Cloth Manipulation (A), Genius Intellect (A), Flight (B+), Master Tactician (A)
Special Trait: Being from the Phenex clan, Ravel possesses the ability to regenerate from any injury –almost making her immortal– however her regeneration ability is directly proportional to her demonic power. If her power is exhausted she cannot regenerate.
And her regeneration can be negated by holy magic or abilities.}
Kento was amused that there was another member of the Phenex pillar within the group.
He figured that the women were part of Riser's peerage thus he was confused as to why Ravel Phenex stood within that group.
"Don't call me that!" Rias shouted.
But this did not bother Riser, rather he smirked. "But what else is Riser supposed to call you, love?"
However, what he said after that was the biggest shock factor for Kento and Issei.
"We are engaged, after all."
This made Issei shout, while Kento muttered.
"What!"
"Pardon?"
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