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'So I finally died huh?'

Although I was a bit shocked and a bit afraid, dying was something I had already prepared for, for a long time by now. Honestly, I was surprised I even made it to 19.

I don't know what exactly I expected from the afterlife, but whatever it was, with my luck I would probably get lost on the way there and drift off into endless nothingness.

You know, just like this one actually.

...That was a bit of a lie, instead of being endless nothingness it looked more like endless everything, like a distorted endless chaotic kaleidoscope.

I am pretty sure none of the religions I knew about described an afterlife like this one. What the fuck happened then? Did I slip on a banana peel while driving down the highway to hell and end up out of bounds or something ?

I wasn't what people would call religious, but I did believe in the existence of god or godlike beings out of pure belief that they existed solely to make my life miserable. I do wonder that if gods were actually real which one I manage to piss off so hard they took personal offence to me living?

Or was I just born on top of a broken mirror under a ladder with the doctor delivering me being a black cat holding an umbrella indoors and wearing an upside-down horseshoe?

I was a pretty cautious person, but when the universe itself wants you dead even caution can help you little.

How did I die you ask?

While I was buying groceries, a very rare occurrence considering how little I left my house usually, a truck of all things rammed through the front of the front of the store before managing to hit only me, I wasn't even lucky enough to die from the impact, I died of bleeding and suffocation afterwards.

So, yeah, that was pretty fucked up. Probably one of the most painful deaths I could have had of drowning from the blood accumulating in my lungs.

3/10 , wouldn't reccomend .

But, damn. So that was it huh?

I have to say, that was one hell of a shitty life. I tried to make the best but life is not fair, neither is fate. Sometimes, your best will just be equivalent to someone's horrible.

Did I regret the life I lived? I definitely did.

Humans were weak creatures, I was a weak creature.

There is little you can do when the big wheel of fate decides that today is the day it absolutely robs you of everything you hold dear, and there is scant you can do to struggle.

But I got over that. I have learned to cope with the whims of fate, when life decides to give you the worst it can give you, the only thing you can do is persevere until the wheel of fortune turns again.

...Speaking of, still waiting on that turn on good luck.

Still, is this really it? Is this all there is to my life? Or my death? Just wandering the infinite kaleidoscope forever until I run out of thoughts and become a non-entity?

...Fuck, that's terrifying. Is it still too late for me to start praying to some god of sorts ?

Might as well, because unlike before, I have literally nothing to lose.

I placed together what I assumed were my hands(I was kinda more like a shapeless blob right now floating in the kaleidoscope right now but that was another can of worms) and prayed to... something? Whoever would listen anyway.

Please.

There weren't enough words to describe what I felt while I prayed. I couldn't string together the words I wanted to beg or scream with. I wanted to curse everything, the world around me, the gods that may or may not exist, yet at the same time, I was tired.

Over time you learn helplessness.

At some point, the only thing left that you can blame your bad luck for is yourself.

The cosmos is cold and unfeeling, it looks at your misery with nothing but apathy. It's up to you to try and carve a place for yourself in the world with what it gives you.

Just as I was about to give up and let my thoughts wander until even my ego vanished I heard, no, felt something. A rumbling, spinning and grinding of thousands of gears forming into a thought-like speech inserted into my head.

[SUCH KARMA UNREALIZED]

...What?

I know I prayed but I didn't think anyone would answe - I mean, yes?

[DO YOU DESIRE ANOTHER CHANCE?]

Yes, yes a thousand times, I want to live. I cannot be satisfied leaving behind a life like that. I want to experience life for real, I don't want to leave life with such regrets.

Whatever chance is given to me I'll take. Whatever opportunity you hand me, I'll grasp it. Just give me something, a chance .

[AFFIRMATION. REGISTERING USER...]

The grinding of countless gears in my head dimmed down as instead a translucent panel replaced the noise with visual data. I waited patiently as the window of me gave me feedback again.

[CALIBRATING ACCORDING TO USER...]

[THE GACHA SYSTEM IS ONLINE]

The what?

Wait- Gacha? Well, that's not what I expected but again, I will take anything. But... Gacha huh?

While I complained about my luck, statistically, or on paper, my luck wasn't terrible. It was more like some force from beyond was actively fucking with my life with how unlucky I was. After all, if my luck was so bad I wouldn't have had an FGO addiction.

Still, my life gets dictated by luck again? Fine.

Give me all you got.

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You have been another chance at life.

The gacha will now decide your fate.

You have received 3 Random Gacha Tickets.

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Uh, I don't want to impose or ask for more than I am already receiving but could I get an explanation, please?

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Explanation: Random Ticket

Tickets allow you to roll the corresponding gacha they align with, in the case of the Random Gacha ticket, it allows you to roll the Random gacha containing anything in the vast infinity ranging from practical skills to items and abilities.

Once all tickets have been spent, your new life will begin.

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I see.

I really don't have a choice, do I? Well, might as well. If I am lucky enough to get a second chance with an apparently Reality Bending System that can grant me a new life, maybe I will get lucky enough to get something half decent before being chucked into the warp of forty thousand hammers or something, never really saw 40k, just know about how shit it is from general media.

Alright, let's do this!

I hyped myself up, this would decide my new life after all.

Roll it!

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Rolling Random Gacha Ticket...

A Rare Ability!

[ Rare - Pearl Jam]

|Rarity: Rare| |Class: Trump, Recovery|

Allows you to imbue Pearl Jam into your cooking and improve it drastically. Depending on the quality of the food, its ingredients and your power, the food you cook gain additional effects such as healing and curing illnesses and much more.

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Wow, holy shit that was actually great! There is no one who wouldn't appreciate superpower foods. Sure, it gives me no combat ability but I have watched JoJo before and know how Pearl Jam works. It can cure basically any illness even ones that aren't conventionally curable like Cancer or something like Bronchitis or damaged lungs, infections, black death it could cure any conventional disease.

...Oh how I needed something like this before dying. That surely would have been very helpful with my fucked up lungs in my first life. Pneumonia is not fun.

Anyway, I am perfectly satisfied with a roll like this. Thank you system. Now I need the other two to give me useable things to protect myself with, because just like how people would appreciate a healing food maker, they would appreciate him in their hands even more.

I do not want to be turned into a slave just because I can cook good food.

So, please give me another.

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Rolling Random Gacha Ticket...

An Uncommon Trait!

[ Uncommon - Enhanced Vitality]

|Rarity: Uncommon|

Your vitality is beyond the norm, you recover from ailments and wounds faster than what most consider normal. In addition, your life force has been enhanced, giving you an increased lifespan.

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That's not bad, while it isn't exactly great for combat purposes, it seems useful for general life, especially if I end up in a hive city having an enhanced vitality should help me not instantly contract 902381 diseases from taking a sip from the wrong source of water or accidentally getting poked by a nail.

Alright, the last one, please, give me something I can use to protect myself.

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Rolling Random Gacha Ticket...

An Uncommon Ability!

[ Uncommon - Sand Veil]

|Rarity: Uncommon| |Class: Emitter|

Allows you to create a fierce protective Sand Veil around yourself. Inside the sand veil, you are harder to perceive and Earthen abilities are stronger. You are completely unaffected by the sand veil.

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Well, it's not exactly great but for my purposes, it is definitely a stellar ability. It gives me a free get-out jail card against any mundane combatant. It's quite hard to pursue someone when I suddenly shit out a localized sandstorm.

I mean, yup, this does seem pretty good. Not the best but I can live with just about anything really, I was good at surviving and making do with what I had. Not to sound arrogant, but as long as the odds were above 0% I could live with them.

After all 3 of my tickets were spent I was greeted with yet another notification.

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All tickets have been spent, roll to decide your fate.

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Right after those words, somehow, in the middle of the endless infinite kaleidoscopic void, I was stuck in with no up or down I now held a dice in my hands, the dice itself looked like it was weaved from the cosmos and had the texture of perfect glass, in addition, a pitch black table I couldn't discern the material of appeared in front of me.

...Isn't this a bit daunting? I know I was doing essentially the same with the normal gacha but the seemingly all-powerful system saying outright that this roll of the d20 in my hands would decide my next life was a bit unnerving.

But, I trust the system to not fuck me over.

After all, if it wanted to fuck me over, it already would have. So, I will put my trust in it.

I grabbed the die with a heavy heart and rolled it.

3.

Fuck.

Nevermind then, struggle is back on the menu boys.

Please don't tell me this means I am getting booted to 40k or something. Even with a gacha like the ones I have read before I have absolutely zero confidence in surviving in that hellhole.

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You have rolled a 3. Registering...

You get one advantage Random Gacha Ticket as compensation.

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Praise the system! At least it's not throwing me into the lion's den without at least throwing me a pocket knife. Using the system's magnanimity I rolled the ticket while crossing my currently nonexistent fingers.

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Rolling Random Gacha Ticket

Rare Ability - [Contract Enforcement]

|Rarity: Rare| |Class: Alteration|

"Beware the Fae"

Allows you to enforce the clauses and conditions of any contract you make. The conditions of the contract must be set while Contract Enforcement is active, with contract enforcement you can forcefully activate the clauses of a contract on your contract and force your target to comply, this however goes both ways.

or

Rare Familiar - [Cloud Elemental]

|Rarity: Rare|

A solitary elemental formed in the rainy skies. As an elemental born of the sky, she can conjure and exert control over wind, clouds and lightning.

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Well, this was a pretty clear-cut decision, wasn't it? I wasn't smart enough to fae deal with enough people and circumvent the side effects it may have, or have my ability revealed and people refuse to make deals with me. I was no mastermind.

On the other hand, the Cloud Elemental was even better than a Rare offensive ability for me, after all, I was some schmuck, I knew how to throw a punch but not how to fight . Having an independent entity able to protect me and have such a useful ability set to go along with that was a blessing and a half.

The moment I picked the Cloud Elemental yet another panel appeared in front of me.

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Initialization complete.

Finding the appropriate world to initiate transfer...

Success!

World: Draconic x Deus(Highschool DxD)

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I looked at the system with a complicated expression.

Well, that seemed both good and bad. Good because it wasn't any grimdark/death world I knew of. Bad because I have no idea what the frick Draconic x Deus meant. It does say high school next to it though, do I end up in high school again? Man, I just graduated too.

Well, no use ruminating, I will find out what the hell that means soon enough anyway.

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Initiating transfer...

Good Luck

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"ROAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!"

The last thing I saw in the void was the screen in front of me before a roar that seemingly shook the entire void pierced my ears, and then my view distorted and warped before going black.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

I felt a slight disorientating sensation as in one second I was a spirit floating through whatever afterlife that was, to now suddenly being alive and breathing.

My hands wandered my body, patting myself down in relief, I really missed having a body in whatever timeframe I spent just floating around in the void.

I opened and eyes and looked at the morning sky, the fresh morning air, the scent of dew, the cool breeze.

I was alive.

Screech!

That was before my ears picked up the sound of wheels sliding forcefully against the asphalt. I barely had a moment to turn my head.

Honk! Honk!

Before coming face to face with a truck so close to my face that I could probably count the dents on the bumper.

That was the last thing I saw before-

-Thud!

I felt a very heavy force impact my body, making it ragdoll through the air, I couldn't even register the pain through the disbelief.

Et tu brutus?

A/N: It starts off with a bang, or a crash really. Yuta is of the unlucky sort but rather ironically he rolled better than Hakari on his start except the very end. I adjusted the system a little to fit with DxD better, and this time I finally got to use the familiar part of the gacha that I couldn't fit into the MHA gacha.

I am still using the same custom-coded Python Script and an Ability list I gathered myself with over 1500+ possible pulls from the gacha from various fiction and my own imagination.

Considering how volatile and chaotic the world he is going to is Yuta will need all of the luck he can get and then some. May RNGesus bless his journey.

I hope you guys like this one. It's pretty fun to write.

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I... awoke? I felt so exhausted and drained that my mind struggled with even the basic functions it was supposed to do.

Fuck, was transmigration, or transmission or whatever the system did to supposed to be this tiring?

And strangely I was enveloped in something warm, like a warm comfortable hug. How strange. I also felt like I was on a... bed? A soft mattress-like object anyway. Something soft and warm was also touching me too.

I opened my mouth to yawn but-

―What the fuck?

"Mhh~"

Was that a fucking moan?

There is something in my mouth. My eyes quickly snapped open to see.

Breasts.

...I had someone's nipple in my mouth right now.

My survival instincts kicked in as I quickly jumped back, my back meeting a wall, and surveyed the situation, what was happening?

My eyes quickly darted around the room and locked onto a window next to me, if anything bad is gonna happen I can break that and hop out.

Then my eyes landed on quite possibly the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.

She had vibrant red hair almost like blood or rubies that flowed all the way down to her hips, she also had beautiful teal gem-like eyes and her body was the most beautiful one I had ever seen, not that that was a tough criterion to beat mind you. Her body was a perfect mix between voluptuous and slender. She also had breasts almost the size of my head, definitely, the biggest pair I had seen without cosmetic surgery.

I quickly tore my eyes from her breasts to her face and my thoughts ran wild.

Who was she? What was she doing in my house? Why was she naked? Why did I only have my boxers on? What the fuck is happeni -

-Wait, my house? I felt a second set of vague memories in my head, making my head throb painfully. Urgh, it's like getting a 10-hour flashback getting crammed into your head in a single second.

Seeing my plight the woman in my bed giggled and stretched, and her stretch certainly did very good things to her chest, my knowledge of physics said they shouldn't jiggle like that but my lower body promptly told that part of my brain to shut the fuck up.

"Good morning. No need to be so alarmed, you were quite injured so I had to spend a lot of time healing you even after reincarnating you." She looked way too relaxed and for some god for- fuck!

What the fuck!? Why did I feel like I was electrocuted!?

I closed my eyes and shook my head, looking at the naked woman sitting languidly in my bed and looking at me with warm and curious eyes I noted her body language, that was not the posture of someone who meant ill toward me. I trusted my ability to read cues enough and if she really did want to do harm to me she already would have done so when I was in the bed with her.

My body slumped down in exhaustion and I tried to keep my gaze anywhere but her godli- fucking shit! What the fuck is going on seriously !? I need answers now and she was way too calm right now to not know about my current situation more than me. Besides, what the hell did she mean by reincarnation?

"So... could you please explain who you are and what you are doing in my house?" The woman giggled again making me feel more exasperated.

"Well, I am Rias Gremory, your senior one grade above you and a devil." I looked at her as if she had grown a second head to keep up appearances but I believed her. Kind of hard not to considering I had just died, got a gacha system that sent me into another world and died again. But her words did not end there.

"I am also your king now, nice to meet you Yuta Yukimura-kun." I stared into her eyes, her appearance I put aside, for now, I needed answers. Like what the fuck being a devil constituted and why she said she was my king now.

"And what does that mean? You are just throwing a bunch of random lingo in my face and expecting me to understand what you are saying or are trying to act cool by confusing me. Why are you here? What happened to me? What the hell is a devil and why are saying you are apparently my king ?"

Rias Gremory thought for a second, Rias, my new set of memories told me about her, the prettiest and most mysterious girl in Kuoh Academy, the academy which I now also attended. Nobody in school knew much about her, she was apparently a foreigner from Germany or somethi- hey isn't Gremory from Ars Goetia? Suddenly her claims of being a Devil are sounding way more grounded.

"Yuta Yukimura-kun, you died." Rather obvious. "After your death, just as your soul was about to pass away I decided to save you, as a High-Class Devil I have the privilege of reincarnating people from other races as Devils in my peerage. Meaning I am your king." She said with an oddly happy expression on her as I tried to read her cues.

Relaxed, non-threatening, happy. She doesn't seem to have ill will but her words... I was a servant now? Slave? Familiar? Serf? I rubbed the bridge of my nose in exasperation. As if the gacha wasn't confusing enough already.

Also, only now did I notice I felt way healthier, stronger too but also sluggish and tired for some reason, so she really did turn me into a Devil. In hindsight, I should have figured out the changes but I was too disorientated.

As I stewed in silence trying to grasp my little former human head around the situation Rias got off my bed and started dressing from the pile of her clothes on my floor. I tried not to stare too much as the gorgeous girl dressed in my room.

Tried being the operative word, I definitely stared, not that she seemed to mind thankfully.

Before she moved on to putting on her school uniform, she turned me only in her bra and panties.

"That reminds me, are you feeling alright? You suffered a pretty gruesome injury after all. I did my best to heal you but tell me if anything hurts or feels wrong okay?"

"Is that related to why you were naked in my bed with me almost naked perchance?" Rias giggled while trying to work on her bra strap at my words.

"Yes, you are quite perceptive aren't you?" Eh, I was trying to transition to the topic of her being in my bed naked but that works too. "I embraced you naked to share my magic power with you in order to heal you, it's a healing method used by us devils, it's rather slow and the efficiency suffers the less skin contact there is. Could you help me clasp my bra?" What a messed up inefficient healing method, where the hell did I land? A hentai? Wait, what if I needed a dude to heal me?

Shaking my head to clear away the messed up mental image I conjured I walked over to Rias who parted her hair to show me her exposed bra with the unhooked bra.

...Shit, this sight is a bit too stimulating for my teenage hormones, and I am only in goddamn boxers, it's basically impossible to not pop a boner. Thankfully, I was still too nervous and, frankly, freaking out to pop one.

Steadying my nerves I grabbed the ends of her bra, my fingers brushed against her warm, soft and smooth back, biting my lip to keep the intrusive horny thoughts away I quickly clasped her bra.

"Ah, thank you Yuta-kun." As I had clasped her bra, Rias bent over and got dressed with the pile of clothes on the floor, finally being decent and wearing the Kuoh Academy Girls Uniform.

It was a long button-up white shirt with vertical stripes all around it. It also had a small black-shouldered cape and a matching black corset with black coattails of all things for some reason. Then lastly a magenta-coloured skirt with a frilled white underskirt that was definitely too short to be normal, all it would take was a light breeze to flash someone their panties.

...Not that I mind of course, but how did this dress code get approved?

...Wait isn't this basically a magical girl school uniform? As expected of a school run by girl satan or whatever she really was.

"Yuta-kun, do you feel hungry? How about I make some things clearer to you while we have breakfast, you still seem quite confused." No shit I was confused, I hadn't even gotten over the gacha part yet and now I was getting world-shattering revelations left and right.

"Yeah, that... that sounds nice. I could do with some food and some more explanations if that's all right." I scratched my head and looked to the side, this was a little awkward.

"Alright, I will wait downstairs, you can take your time getting ready and dressed, no need to feel rushed." Rias smiled kindly and left the room. I was still kind of sceptical about her and her apparent ownership of me to at least a certain extent, but at the same time she has been very patient and understanding so I will withhold judgement for now.

I looked up at the ceiling. Where was my gacha? Did it get scared away by Miss Satan or something? Did this thing have notifications or controls? How did I even navigate its menus?

Just as I thought that I heard a mental chime and notifications appeared in front of my eyes.

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Feat Achieved! Become a Devil +1 Gold Ability Gacha Ticket

Feat Achieved! Join Rias Gremory's Peerage +1 Silver Trait Gacha Ticket

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Huh, so that is how I earned more Gacha Tickets huh? Thankfully it seems I wasn't just sent here with a smattering of rolls and left to my devices. But what counts as a feat anyway?

I don't suppose there is something like a FAQ I can check about this gacha? Some information about how this all works would be appreciated.

To my surprise, it seemed like there was a FAQ for this stuff. Very helpful.

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Explanation: Feats

You can earn [Gach Tickets] by achieving feats. The rarity of the tickets are proportional to the magnitude of the feat achieved. Feats can range anywhere from convincing a powerful being not to kill you, being able to land a backflip first try, to killing the Great Red.

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I see, so I earn more tickets by being remarkable? I don't what is impressive about me dying the moment I got transmigrated and being abducted/revived into Satanism but I won't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Because horse mouths are disgusting.

Seriously, and they stink too.

Alright, is there a way to check my current abilities? Like a status or something?

_____/Status\_______________

Name: Yuta Yukimura

Race: Reincarnated Devil(Human)

Current Tickets: 1x Gold Ability Gacha Ticket. 1x Silver Trait Gacha Ticket

___/Abilities\_____________

-Active(0/1)-

None.

-Storage-

[ Uncommon - Sand Veil]

[ Rare - Pearl Jam]

___/Skills\________________

None.

___/Traits\________________

[ Uncommon - Enhanced Vitality]

___/Familiars\_____________

[ Rare - Cloud Elemental]

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Huh, looks good, I think. The ability slots bother me a little, but a beggar has no room to complain, I just have to be more careful with how I use my abilities. Right now it doesn't matter since in a situation where I would need one ability I wouldn't need the other. But how do I get more of them?

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Explanation: Ability Slots

Active Ability Slots can be increased by either reaching a milestone in the amount of abilities you have or through quest rewards.

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That's good to know, so I won't just be left dry. Speaking of abilities, I should probably spend these tickets just in case the Devil Lady turns out to be evil or something. After I mentally prompted, the system helped me use the tickets. I decided to use the ability one first.

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Rolling Gold Ability Gacha Ticket...

A Rare Ability!

[Rare - Disguise]

|Rarity: Rare| |Class: Stranger, Changer|

Allows you to manipulate the texture and colour of any object or creature you come into contact with as well as slight alterations to their shape. Disguise fades after the integrity of the original subject is compromised.

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Huh, that's... well, not exactly combat viable but rather useful for infiltration I suppose? Maybe I could pull a chameleon to hide? Either way, useful but not right now.

Alright, hopefully, the Trait is better for right now.

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Rolling Silver Trait Gacha Ticket...

A Rare Trait!

[ Rare - Helltaker](A/N: I swear I didn't rig this)

|Rarity: Rare|

"You wake up, dreaming of a harem of demon girls"

Infernally aligned/Demonic beings find themselves more attracted to you and it is easier to start a relationship with them.

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I raised an eyebrow.

That's... incredibly good for my situation no? If Devils count as infernal beings, which they obviously do, duh. That means my new boss is way less likely to pull a fast and dirty one on me since depending on how this works Demons either like me slightly more or I am Demon catnip.

Either way works for me. Nothing can go wrong with your new... boss? King? Liking you more.

Yeah, I could work with this.

A/N: I swear I did not rig the gacha for him to get the Helltaker Trait, even I was in such disbelief I had to take a screenshot to prove my innocence. I guess Yuta keeps rizzing demonic girls even in other worlds. I think naming the MC after him rigged the gacha somehow. It was meant to be.

Yuta dies, Yuta gets reincarnated in the peerage of a busty devil, Yuta gets the Helltaker trait. I guess his turn on the good luck is finally here. Writing an MC that doesn't just immediately have a prejudice against the characters and getting to know the characters instead of knowing about them is fun. What do you guys think about the rolls and the start with Rias? I would love to know.

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I looked at my new body in the bathroom body. I could see the resemblance to my old body, it was kind of creepy to see how I would look if I was Japanese but I didn't mind it much, I didn't exactly have many attachments to my last life.

According to my set of memories, I was Yuta Yukimura, both parents died of separate cases of vehicular slaughter, in fact, according to my deceased parents in this world, my great great grandfather was the first ever case of vehicular manslaughter in Japan.

Man, this bloodline attracted automobiles to them like moths to a flame.

I had shaggy dark brown hair reaching down to my shoulders and brown eyes too, as always, my eyes still looked like that of a dead fish even in another world. My face wasn't anything impressive, not ugly or anything, hell, I was maybe a little good-looking. Nothing that would turn someone's head or have someone take a second look but it was passable.

...Or is it my Helltaker trait working on me making my reflection more attractive? Maybe I look like a troglodyte but just think I look good due to the trait?

[Alert: User is not affected by the trait Helltaker]

Oh, that's a weight off my chest.

As for my body, I was skinny, my previous body wasn't exactly keeping himself in good health. Well, nothing that couldn't be fixed with some working out and abusing Pearl Jam.

Then the last part was...

'That doesn't seem right.'

My penis was larger. Considerably. Like, 9 inches large maybe. Would that even fit inside someone? That's almost like the length from my elbow to my wrist. What the fuck happened? I don't remember my previous body packing this much heat either. I was at a respectable like, 6 inches last I checked. -Oh wait.

Enhanced Vitality.

...Well, as with most men, I was not going to whine about my baton turning into a club. I would figure out the logistics of how this slab would fit inside someone later, if I ever get to that is.

Washing my face, I got dressed in the Kuoh men's uniform which was a black blazer with white accents over a white, long-sleeved, button-down shirt with vertical linings, with matching black pants, and brown dress shoes. There was also a black ribbon too but no way in hell was I putting that on.

Call me a rebel, I don't care, I am not tying a ribbon around my neck.

Hmm, maybe I should find more comfortable clothes and just use [Disguise] on them to make them appear like the uniform. Yeah, I was definitely doing that. Probably after I get a good judge of Rias' character first.

I don't want to reveal my hand to her before I make sure she isn't putting a collar on me or something then ordering me to bark for her.

Giving myself a once over to make sure I was presentable I went downstairs to see Rias lounging on my couch waiting for me. Seeing me come from from upstairs, Rias stood up.

"You're finally dressed? I was starting to get worried since you were taking so long."

"Sorry about that, I was just having an existential crisis over my lost humanity and apparent new servitude. Still not done processing death but I'll get there eventually." Rias shot me a mildly concerned look.

"Are feeling alright?" Comparatively? I was. I was pretty mentally resilient, or I like to think I am. I was used to the rough life.

"Yeah, I am, I am just trying to wrap my head around all of this supernatural stuff. It's still pretty hard to understand it all, I am a devil and I don't even know what it all means." Rias put a finger to her chin before coming up with something.

"Well, if you are so confused then how about I give you a quick crash course on Devils and the supernatural?"

"Yeah, I'd... appreciate that."

At least now I would get to know what the hell a devil and peerage were.

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I laid my head on the table as I tried to process everything Rias laid on me.

"Are you ok Yuta-kun? Do you need to lie down?" Rias tilted her head at me like she didn't just shatter my entire perception of reality.

"With all due respect, you just told me almost all major religions are real and that I am now the servant to one of the pillar families of hell after the entire bible fought each other then the Ars Goetia fought each other. I trying to cope with my perception of reality being shattered. And I am not exactly stoked about being turned into a servant either."

"Don't worry Yuta-kun, although I am your king, I won't force you to do anything you don't want to do. Besides, you can climb the ranks to become a noble High Devil yourself." I prefer my life not to be a pyramid scheme thank you.

"Well, I don't want to be a servant. Could I please get a refund on my freedom? You did say you wouldn't force me to do anything I didn't want to do." Rias made a difficult expression that also looked a little sad.

"Why? As a part of my peerage, you are a minor noble yourself as a low-class Devil part of a Pillar Household. If you prove yourself you can even become a High Class devil and have your own peerage. Doesn't the idea of riches and a harem interest you? If you are worried about your freedom, the Gremory family is known for treating their Peerages fairly, as I said, I promise on the name of my family I will not force you to do anything you don't want to." Rias said while I still stared at her with my dead eyes which made her feel quite awkward.

"That's great and all but... the idea of losing my own autonomy just doesn't sit right with me. You have been nothing but hospitable since I have met you Rias-san." Rias smiled a little at that, a hint of rose brushing her cheeks. "But I have no way of knowing who you really are. You may be good but I don't want to place my freedom in the hands of someone I met just an hour ago."

Rias released a sigh at that and slumped her shoulders slightly.

"That's... understandable. But there aren't any known cases of a Devil leaving a Peerage without becoming a High-Class Devil or getting traded." Fuck. "But, if you are truly sure that you don't want to be a part of my peerage I will understand. I could ask my brother for a favour to get you out of my peerage without getting branded as a stray devil and refund the pawn pieces I used to revive you since nobody knows I reincarnated you."

I looked at her with wide eyes, I didn't expect that to actually work.

"Wait really? You would be willing to do that?" Rias nodded but then held up a single finger.

"But I want to ask something from you before that." I nodded, not like there was much I had that she could ask for. I could still part with a kidney or two.

"I want you to give me a chance." Rias declared with a smile, puffing her chest out.

"A chance?"

"Yes, I want you to stay in my peerage for... a month. Yes, a month. All I want from you is to genuinely participate and get along with my peerage for the duration of a month. I want you to be a part of my peerage for a month, and if by the end of that month, you still want to leave my peerage, you can do so."

Well, I don't think there is any devil that would give me a kinder deal than that. Hell, it's not even like a genuine deal or anything, she just seems like she wholeheartedly wants me to be a part of her peerage.

And if she is trying to trick me... well. Only one of us had a reality-bending gacha behind them.

"Alright, since you did save my life this is the least I could do." Rias beamed a smile at me, making me slightly blush and avert my eyes, she had a cheat-like charisma, didn't she? It's a bit annoying to be reduced to a blushing teen but I was a regular schmuck against Girl Satan that was prettier than any model.

"I'm glad. Welcome to my family Yuta-kun. I hope you will enjoy it. Now, how about we go to school? I want you to meet the rest of your fellow peerage members." I nodded to her.

"Okay but would you mind me getting some breakfast first? I don't know about you but I am stricken with some post-morten hunger." Rias giggled at my joke.

"Alright, how about we go to a cafe I know? We have some time until school, they make very good sandwiches. My treat, I want to spoil my cute new family after all." Woah, was this how it was like to have a sugar mommy?

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~Yuta Yukimura~

I admit, my view of Rias has considerably improved. Maybe it's because I am starved for affection or because of her legendarily good looks but she was nice to be around.

I am absolutely not saying this because she treated me to an expensive breakfast in a high-end cafe on her own dime, because of course on top of looking like a model she was also loaded. But as expected of an Heiress of a Devil Noble family.

Sure, I held my scepticism toward her but she hasn't given me a reason to be wary of her other than reviving me without my consent but I honestly prefer becoming a servant to dying.

Besides, when I asked she helpfully supplied me with the info that Evil Pieces, the things she used to reincarnate me with, did not have any magical binding or obedience powers to force me to obey anything. Just the looming threat of getting punished or being branded as a stray devil, basically an outlaw, if you escape.

We got more familiar with each other during breakfast, mostly me getting to know her than the other way around because there wasn't anything important to learn about me. Apparently, Rias wasn't some 1000-year-old Devil masquerading as a high schooler for some reason but was actually a high schooler.

She just really liked Japanese culture and anime so much that she wanted to go high school in anime land. I suppose even in another world and race rich people are rather eccentric. She was also the Heiress of the Gremory clan.

The questions she asked me were mostly about my interests and schedule, she actually scolded me for some reason when she heard of my sleeping schedule. Not order or rebuke but scold, like a mother or older sister would do to their younger sibling.

Given how she treats me I feel more like I have been adopted rather than enslaved.

I said I would work on my sleep schedule for her but I didn't expect any changes anytime soon, I had insomnia, and now that I was a night-dwelling creature I wasn't changing my habits.

After breakfast we walked to school together, Kuoh Academy, a school that had recently gone from girls-only to mixed-gender resulting in a very skewed female-to-male ratio. This resulted in some boys registering for the high-end academy just to be perverts. Like the infamous Pervert Trio.

Three very infamous boys in my grade who were responsible for worsening the opinion the girls in Kuoh had of all boys, such as me. I can't wrap my head around how they can peek in on girls changing so much yet never get expelled, well, they do get beaten pretty bad pretty often by the Kendo club.

Why am I mentioning those goobers? It's simple, their reputation reflects onto me since I am, if it wasn't obvious by now, a man, one of the minority in the school. And I was a well-known loner and all-around nobody, often called creepy, and rumoured to be a pervert since I am in the same class as the most notorious pervert of the Trio, one Issei Hyoudou.

So when I came to Kuoh Academy basically arm in arm with a satisfied-looking Rias who was basically the idol of this school the girls and boys burst into chatter. Which was to be expected, loner 1# and the high school idol walked into school together, that is precisely the type of dumb stuff that high schoolers love to spread rumours about.

"Alright Yuta-kun, I'll send someone to get you after school to meet the rest of your fellow peerage members ok?" With those words Rias departed, leaving me alone to face school once more.

Sigh...

Sighing I looked up at the ceiling. A lot has happened in a short time. At least classes will give me some time to process what the hell happened.

I guess even the devil needs to attend high school huh?

A/N: Yuta finally gets his bearings and gets some of the answers to his many questions. This chapter wasn't as packed with action as the last two but Yuta is finally taking his first steps into this wild and wacky world of Devils, Gods and Dragons.

Also, I figured that, with how Rias usually acts in canon and how important her peerage is to her to the point where she basically counts them as her own family she would let someone out of peerage if they truly did not want to be a part of her peerage that she would not force them to. But she is confident in her ability to convince someone. I wonder how she will convince Yuta when he has the Helltaker Trait? :3

What did you guys think about the developments in this chapter and Yuta's reaction to his new world? I would love to know. It may feel a bit slow right now but it will start to pick up soon.

Chapter Text

~Yuta Yukimura~

As the last class of the day came to an end with the chime of the bell I leaned back on my seat and released a sigh. I spent most of the day thinking about my circumstances and such while also getting used to my devil physiology.

Classes passed easily, I did not pay attention but when the teachers who took offence to that called me to the front I answered them easily. I already graduated once with decent grades and my previous body had paid attention to classes.

Speaking of classes, unholy frick was Kuoh an upscale academy. This place was not only a giant but also the most well-funded school I have seen. The floors were clean, the buildings were big and all the decoration was cohesive.

I did not have much authority on what a good school looked like, but I knew how a bad one looked. Hopefully, nothing bad happened to this one. My last classroom blew up due to a gas leak. I had to be in splints for 5 months after that.

I heard some of my classmates make gossip about me but I tuned them out and leaned back in my seat while waiting for whoever Rias sent. When I was just starting to doze off in my seat I heard the girls in my class start squealing.

"Kiba-san is here!" "Kiba-kun you are so handsome!" "Welcome to our class Kiba-kun, do you want a seat? The seat next to me is empty!" "But don't I sit there?"  

Oh man, I wonder who just came inside the classroom.

"Hey, Yuta Yukimura-kun right? Nice to meet you, I'm Yuuto Kiba, I'm on an errand by Rias Gremory, I'm sure you understand. Would you mind following me?" I turned my head to see the "Prince of Kuoh Academy" standing next to my seat with an amicable smile on his face.

Yuuto Kiba, there was a reason why he was dubbed the prince of Kuoh, short healthy blond hair, steel blue eyes, a beauty mark under his left eye and an overall very handsome face. On top of that, he had a toned but lean physique, all of that coupled with his polite and kind behaviour made him look like he had just jumped out of a shoujo manga as the male lead.

For a school chock full of hormonal girls he was basically deified by the female population, there were more women in this school who wanted to get pinned to a wall by him and taken right then and there than not. As you would expect, the male population disliked him because he made them look bad by comparison and because he hoarded all of the female attention in the school.

I didn't particularly care about those details much, but he was famous enough in school for even me to know about him. I just wondered if he was also a Devil and maybe a fellow peerage member, he was looking for me after all.

Getting up from my seat I shook his hand as he smiled at me, I never interacted with Kiba but I remember him being a standup guy, I don't remember him being rude to anyone before.

"Likewise, lead the way I guess." Seeing the interaction I saw the girls stare at me in disbelief.

"No way, the creepy loner and the prince are going together?" "Take me instead!" "Why him?" Do they not serve water in this school? How can a gaggle of girls be this thirsty?

After we left the class wordlessly I had to address it.

"Seriously, how do you deal with crowds like that daily?" I commented from the side as Kiba waved his hand.

"You get used to it, we're almost there. This is the Occult Research Club building." Kiba pointed to the building that looked almost like a small school all by itself.

I deadpanned to him.

"The whole thing?"

"Yes, the whole thing, it's actually the old schoolhouse that was disused when the new one was built, when Rias asked to use it for her club it was accepted." Rich school indeed, in my previous school you would be lucky if they gave you a notebook for your club activities.

I neglected to comment on it, Rias was an heiress devil, she probably pulled some strings to get her own building. We entered the surprisingly well-maintained building, with no dust or dirt to be seen. Rias seemed to be very clean at least. Kiba led me to a room that from its position I assumed used to be the student council room.

Inside, it looked like a room straight out of a Victorian mansion. With dark oak everywhere, and even candles, which seemed to me like a massive hazard but I noticed the lack of smoke coming out of them and the wax not melting, so decorative magic candles.

There was only one person in the room, a petite girl with white hair, eating a chocolate cake alone in the darkroom and doing nothing else. Alright, for now, I am going to assume she is a psychopath, because who else just eats sweets in the dark not even watching anime or checking their phone?

Of course, as if it was a repeating pattern, this girl was also famous in Kuoh Academy, Koneko Toujou, affectionately dubbed by the masses as the school mascot because of how cute she was and I saw it. She had a petite build and was very short, only reaching my neck in height and I wasn't particularly tall. She had white hair reaching her neck and amber-coloured eyes, overall, extremely cute, such a shame she is criminally insane.

"That's Toujou Koneko, she is one grade below you. She is also a part of the Occult Research club like us. Koneko-chan, this is Yuta Yukimura-kun." The girl gave me one cursory glance, seemingly disinterested before tilting her head like a cat.

"...Hello." She nodded at me before turning back to her sweets. I turned to Kiba.

"Charming, isn't she?" I turned to Kiba who laughed lightly.

"I have never seen her act so friendly toward a stranger." That was friendly? What does she usually do to a stranger? Disembowel them and cook them into sweets?

As I was thinking about Koneko and her cannibalism(actually, if she is a devil doesn't that mean it isn't cannibalism?) I noticed something. Was that a damn shower that was connected to this room? I can clearly hear the noises of the shower and could easily make out the alluring figure of Rias behind the curtains. I tried to not stare too much.

Okay, I lied, I didn't even try.

"Buchou, I prepared your clothes." A soft and almost motherly voice was heard, grabbing my attention. "Thank you Akeno, I'm almost out." And then the owner of the voice noticed and turned to me.

'Unholy shit those are massive.'

I recognized the girl instantly, Akeno Himejima, the girl with the biggest breasts in the school and it wasn't an exaggeration, those were almost the size of my head, if she weren't a devil I would be afraid for her back. She was one of the idols of the school, if Rias was known as the foreign beauty Akeno was revered as the perfect traditional Japanese beauty with black hair tied in a ponytail that reached even beyond her knees, she also had captivating amethyst-coloured eyes.

Unfortunately, what captured my eyes was not her pretty eyes but her chest that almost seemed to defy physics. Catching my gaze before I managed to muster the tremendous will to tear it away Akeno giggled softly.

"Fufu~ your gaze seems a little distracted." I put on a wary stance in case she took offence, never hurts to be cautious, but thankfully she seemed far from offended, she even seemed pleased as she put one hand on her cheek.

"My my~ Rias really brought in a cute one, didn't she? You are the new club member, right? I'm pleased to meet you." Akeno bowed to me formally, like a traditional Japanese greeting, my hormones didn't allow me to look away from the sight, and Akeno knew that as she giggled again, seemingly taking no small amount of enjoyment over my predicament.

"I am Akeno Himejima, the vice president of the Occult Research Club, if you need anything just tell me alright? I am always available to help my cute new junior." I did not miss the emphasis she put on anything but I will put a pin on that thought. As Akeno was teasing me, Rias finally stepped out of her shower, wiping her hair with a towel, some drops of water still clinging to her fair skin.

"Thanks for waiting Yuta-kun, since everyone is already here, we can start the introductions properly." After Rias said that she took a seat behind the large desk as the rest of her peerage gathered around her excluding me.

"Welcome to the Occult Research Club Yuta-kun, although that is just the front we use to conduct our peerage activities without bother. I already talked it through Sona and you were registered into the club." They handled all of that already? What devilish speed, though I wonder how they managed to convince Souna-senpai.

That woman has a stick so far up her ass it must be bumping into her teeth. Probably devil mindfuck magic or something.

"Since I already gave you a quick rundown of how peerages and magical society work I will jump to the introductions. Kiba is my knight, Koneko-chan is my rook, and Akeno is my queen. And you, Yuta-kun, are my pawn, or all of them. Surprisingly it took all of my pawn pieces to reincarnate you." I nodded.

Devil peerages were themed after chess for some reason with each spot in a peerage taking up one piece of the board minus the king for obvious reasons. The evil piece you are turned into a peerage member determines what buff you got .

Pawn for fuck all, Rook for a durability and strength buff, Knight for a speed and reflex buff, Bishop for a magic buff, and Queen for all of the above.

They also had chess-themed abilities of their own as well. With the rooks having Castling which allowed them to Boogie Woogie swap places with the king once per day while the Pawns had Promotion which allowed them to promote themselves to a stronger piece with permission from their king.

"Uh, is me taking all of 8 of your pieces a bad thing?" Rias shook her head and smiled at me kindly.

"Don't worry about that Yuta-kun, that simply means you were worth far more than a single piece, so I have high expectations of you alright?" Yeah, that's definitely because of the gacha isn't it?

"I... get you have expectations of me but I'm confused, what do you expect from me? I don't know what I am supposed to do as a member of your peerage, or what peerage members do other than generally being servants." Rias pulled out a pamphlet from her skirt pocket and threw it toward me. Catching it I read what was on it.

On it was a magic circle, and the words we grant your wish with a stylized devil woman on the corner. I quirked an eyebrow as Rias explained.

"Those are summoning circles. Us Devils get stronger by making contracts with other beings, normally the contractors would draw the summoning circles themselves but that practice has become mostly outdated, these days we use pre-drawn circles and distribute them to people of interest."

I nodded, that made sense to me, Devils corrupt the souls of good-doers and absorb their powers in fae deals. Rias continued with her explanation.

"So I wanted you to experience how contracts are done for yourself, after all, they are one of the most important parts of a Devil's career. We can walk through the other aspects as they come up" I looked at her with a dumbfounded expression.

"Isn't this a bit too early? I was a human less than 12 hours ago y'know? Wouldn't it be better for me to learn what I am doing before I start taking on contracts?"

"Not really, this is just for you to get a feel for what Devil Work is about. Besides, you will be handling a regular client of Koneko's since she received two summon requests at once. So, what do you think? Are you up for it?" I put a hand on my chin but then a notification interrupted me.

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[New Quest: First Contract]

Description: It's about time you acted like a devil since you are one now. Take your first contract of many and make it successful. You wouldn't want to disappoint your king on day one right?

Requirements: Take the contract Rias offered you and finish the contract successfully. The reward scales with performance.

Rewards: [Ability Gacha Ticket], [Minor Demonic Power Increase]

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Never mind.

Apparently, I am doing a contract right now.

I took a deep breath.

"Alright, when do I start?"

A/N: Meet the team! We have Daddy Issues, Sword Issues, and Sister Issues. Anyway, Yuta has finally met his fellow peerage members and as you can see Helltaker is already putting in work considering Koneko acknowledged his existence. Did you guys like the interactions between Yuta and the rest of the peerage?

Also, meet the contracts, this is the primary way Yuta has for farming tickets. Devils get more powerful through contracts, Yuta gets more powerful through tickets, thus he gets tickets from contracts, it made too much sense for me to not make it like that.

Yuta will truly get to indulge in his newfound Gacha addiction next chapter.

Chapter Text

~Yuta Yukimura~

The matter of going to contract was simpler than I had thought, Akeno-senpai created the teleportation circle for me since I did not know how to and they inscribed the Gremory Insignia on me to show that I was in fact a member of the Gremory family.

After that, Akeno-senpai activated the teleportation circle and red washed over.

...

I felt a slightly dizzying sensation as the magical power washed over me and my body was teleported. As the red light dimmed down I could see where I appeared. And the first thing I thought was...

'Woah, this dude is hardcore.'

It was the room of a true Otaku, manga and anime DvD's lined the shelves of the apartment, posters and figurines were plastered everywhere. And in front of me was a very tall and lanky man wearing glasses with a confused expression.

"Huh? I thought I summoned Koneko-chan, did I make a mistake?"

"Uh, no sir you didn't, Koneko-senpai was busy so I was sent to take this contract in her stead, I am a new devil of the Gremory Family, so I apologize if I make some mistakes." The man sighed and sat down on his office chair while I channelled my inner customer service, my reward scaled with his satisfaction and satan dammit I was getting my tickets.

"Oh well, you are a devil, doesn't that mean you have some special technique? You can start by showing me, I'll see what I want after." I rubbed my chin, I needed to impress my first client. Sand Veil is a no-go for obvious reasons. Neither is Pearl Jam since I am not the best cook.

Disguise it is. This guy was a hardcore Otaku right?

___/Abilities\_____________

-Active(1/1)-

[ Rare - Disguise]

"Well, I can disguise anything and anyone perfectly. For example..." I focused my energy and visualising the image in my head instinctively before snapping my fingers, the moment I did so a small puff of clouds exploded from my body as I got disguised.

"Hey, it's me Goku!" Surely, an otaku of his calibre would be impressed by that right? I used Disguise to make myself look exactly like the Goku from this world's version of Dragon Ball called... Drag So-Ball. My disappointment is immeasurable but the bank does not care for disappointment, it wants its payment.

"UOOOOOOOOHHHH!!! Is that Sun Goku from Drag So-Ball!? No way!" The man jumped up from his seat with childish excitement and stars in his eyes. He scrambled all over his desk.

"Picture, let's take a picture! Your disguise technique is definitely amazing! Can you do more of that? Can you do different characters?" It was a bit weird to see a grown man act so eccentric but I nodded.

"Yes, just show me the picture and I can disguise myself or even you as them. So, how about that contract?" The man nodded fiercely while holding his phone and taking pictures of me disguised as Goku.

"Yes definitely! I dare say this is almost even better than having Koneko-chan come! I accept the contract, I will give you the same rate as Koneko-chan don't worry, now can you do Ultra Sayian?" Hearing the words Ultra Sayian hurt my soul but I witheld my cringe as I adjusted my disguise.

Disguise required minimal amounts of Mana to use and did not consume mana to maintain so even a little babyman of a devil like me could use it around 50 times before running out of juice.

"Yep, one 'Ultra Sayian' coming up." Although I loathed the Dragon Ball knockoff my memories of this world watched the show so I could still disguise myself without issue, the designs weren't even that different, I just hated the names since they sat at just the uncanny valley.

But for that ticket, I won't even let out a peep of complaint.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

"Woah, that guy really was stacked."

I counted the wad of bills in my hands as I sat on my couch with the first episode of this worlds version of Sword Art Online playing on my TV that I borrowed from Morisawa.

The contract went pretty smoothly, I used [Disguise] to pose as various anime characters and modelled for Morisawa(my contractor's name), although he had stranger requests such as taking a selfie while in my arms while I was posed as Goku.

Eccentricity aside, he was pretty cool, and we talked about the anime in this world afterwards, he even lent me some of the anime DVDs in his collection to me as a bonus. Speaking of, as expected of a guy with that much merch he was moderately loaded.

He handed me a crisp wad of 250,000 Yen, or 2500 dollars for the contract. He paid me double because he was apparently that satisfied with my service. And promised to make a contract with me again.

After my contract was done , since I did not know teleportation magic, I had to manually walk back to Kuoh which sucked and I made sure to show my displeasure as I walked back.

She seemed quite pleased and even proud to see me complete my first contract and dismissed me for the day, even letting me keep the entirety of my contract reward which was a surprise. I thought she would at least take a cut.

I... still did not know what to think about Rias. She did basically enslave me but it was either that or death for me so I can't hold that against her. She acted more like a proud big sister to me than a king, she was attentive and caring, rather than controlling and overbearing.

Hell, when I asked how I could learn more about the underworld and stuff she gave me a new Devilphone connected to the internet and let me do my own research, she said it was a bonus because I did so well on my first contract. She has asked nothing of me so far and given me a fair share.

And I learned about peerages better thanks to the connection to the Devilnet(Do they just slap devil at the beginning of every invention or do humans copy it and just remove the devil part?).

Peerages weren't exactly slavery. First of all, was the social position of a peerage member. Peerage Members aren't treated as second-class devils in society despite what I assumed.

No, peerage members were treated more like how medieval people would treat knights. After all, only High-Class Devil nobles can have peerages, and one of their peerages is their sworn servant and are granted a title , so they are Low-Class Devils, the lowest class of nobles in devil society, like Knights who were the lowest class of noble in a medieval world.

Peerage Members also had rights, granted, they weren't many and they only got rights a hundred years ago thanks to the efforts of the New Satans.

When you compare them to medieval times suddenly peerages become way more understandable.

For all intents and purposes, I was a knight serving a noble in the medieval ages, just without my consent. And just like a Knight in the Middle Ages, I could become a real noble by achieving great things and proving myself.

So, peerages weren't overly horrible other than the expected subservience.

All in all, if I was born in a medieval world my living conditions wouldn't change all that much, I would still be expected to unconditionally obey a king the only difference here was that the king was right next to me.

Urgh, this all hurts. Such a chaotic day this has been. At least, now that I am at home I can enjoy the gacha I have been granted in peace.

I pulled up my notifications that I refrained from checking until I got home just in case .

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[Quest Complete! First Contract]

Rewards:

+Client satisfaction bonus! + 1x Advantage Silver Ability Gacha Ticket

+[Minor Demonic Power Increase]

Feat Achieved! Earn your first 1,000 dollars + 1x Bronze Skill Gacha Ticket

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Very nice. It was a good idea to apply myself fully with that guy. I can feel the improvement in my Demonic Power too, since it wasn't great to begin with it was very noticeable. Very good, now let's start with the Bronze Skill ticket.

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Rolling Bronze Skill Gacha Ticket...

A Common Skill!

[Novice - Hand to Hand Combat]

|Rarity: Common|

You are reasonably talented in hand-to-hand combat. You know how to punch and where to punch and that's enough for most people.

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I felt my mind change a little as some experience was instantly downloaded in my head. I felt like I knew how to fight, or at least the basics for it. Getting some talent for combat was very nice since I never really fought hand-to-hand before.

Alright, hopefully, that didn't drain all of my luck, now it was time to taste the fruit of my efforts, let's spend that Silver Advantage Ticket, papa needs a new ability.

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[Uncommon - Regenaration]

|Rarity: Uncommon| |Class: Recovery, Passive|

Allows you to passively slowly regenerate from injuries using mana, the more severe the wound the longer it takes to heal. Regeneration can be accelerated by focusing and spending more mana.

or

[Rare - Cursed Fireball]

|Rarity: Uncommon| |Class: Blaster|

Allows you to conjure a ball of powerful cursed flames, cursed flames deal increased damage against holy enemies. Unlike regular flames, Cursed Flames obey gravity and bounce against any non-organic surface.

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Hmm, what to pick, what to pick.

Cursed Fireball gives me a pretty good offensive option and since I am a Devil that means that most likely I would have to face heaven since they are almost always evil in a setting like this but...

I already have offensive options in the form of my Cloud Elemental. Regeneration seems more useful overall. It would also eliminate the need for my elemental to guard me in a fight too, not to mention I could exploit it to get quick gains by working out.

I took a moment to flex my bicep and marvel at the lack of muscle there.

Satan knows I need to put on a couple dozen kilograms.

Also, once I get my second ability slot wouldn't Regeneration and Pearl Jam combo together quite well? I could maybe even make regeneration food. Not to mention I feel like it would pair really nicely with my enhanced vitality.

Yeah, I'm gonna have to Regeneration on this one. If I encounter any enemies I can just stand behind Rias or an elemental anyway .

Speaking of elemental...

I should probably summon her to check her out yeah?

I held my hand out and instinctually knew how to summon my familiar, I pulled on a connection inside me and when I did, suddenly in the middle of my house a swirl of clouds appeared before coalescing into a female form.

My mouth was left a little wide as the clouds formed the shape of a very curvy and mature woman made of dark clouds, she opened her eyes and looked at me and tilted her head. Her body had no clothes but at the same time no genitals, her legs below her knees trailed off onto clouds. She also had hair that was made fo swirling clouds that reached down to her waist.

I immediately recognized her, of course, I did. She was the Cloud Elemental from Calamity Mod, though she looked different than what I expected, at least her latest sprite wasn't like that, she looked like her old sprite. Did I need to do something specific to make her ascend or something?

"Can you come closer to me?" I tried to test the level of control I had over my familiar and she understood my intent, moving closer to me at my words without objection. Let's test this a bit more.

"Can you make me a glass of water?" She nodded and languidly grabbed a glass from my cupboard that she shouldn't have known would be there and put her finger above the glass and water poured out of her finger into the glass, filling it up. Then she floated back over to me and gave me the glass with a slightly proud expression. I noticed my Mana trickle down slightly when she created water, interesting.

"This IS safe to drink right?" She nodded and I drank it, it was surprisingly refreshing, like cool spring water. Huh, aren't I drinking girl water now? I don't know if that statement made the taste better or not.

As she floated languidly in front of me a devious idea had intruded into my head and refused to leave.

I gulped.

Well, she was my familiar. She would obey what I asked of her right?

"Can I... touch your boobs?" I asked the elemental in front of me like I was some blushing virgin, which yeah, I was. I felt like one of the perverted trio at the moment but you can't blame a hot-blooded teen who got a sexy cloud elemental for trying all right?

The elemental just smiled and nodded and before my neurons even had a chance to fire my hands reached out toward her breasts and squeezed.

Wow.

It is unpleasantly cold and wet.

It feels exactly like what I thought grabbing rainclouds would feel like.

I withdrew my hands and looked at them while the cloud elemental still smiled and floated languidly behind me.

I don't think there are words good enough to describe my disappointment. If I could turn my disappointment into a ticket it would probably be a Legendary Super Rare.

...Nothing? No dice. Figures the system wouldn't pity me a second time.

Anyway, since I am a night-dwelling creature, doesn't that mean I have plenty of time to play around with my abilities?

Sorry Rias, but it seems like I won't be fixing my sleep schedule anytime soon.

A/N: Yuta completes his first contract, seems like getting some disguise came in handy after all. Contracts are the most reliable way Yuta has for banking tickets, which allows me to create fun contract scenes. Did you guys like this one? I will try to do something unique for any extended contract scene. Who knows, maybe some clients are one-off characters from other series like that one DA omake I made.

Also, Yuta is getting lucky with good rolls . Not like how Hakari started with 4 abilities he hasn't used for 30 chapters. Also, he fell for the classic trap of assuming hentai logic would let him touch his elemental and feel anything other than... y'know, clouds. What did you guys think about this chapter? I'd love to know.

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A/N: For anyone wondering why Crawling Chaos is missing on Webnovel, Webnovel just locked it without any reason given and I am still waiting for the amazing customer service to maybe give a glance at my problem before the end of the year.

~Yuta Yukimura~

Waking up from my sleep I stretched, damn I slept like shit. Well, sleeping was an exaggeration, more like took a nap since I slept at 6 am.

It was quite hard to sleep with all of those revelations swimming around in my head and because I was too excited to play around with my new abilities. Can you blame me though? I got superpowers, damn right I am going to be putting them to use. Which I did the entire night.

Crawling out of my bed I looked at the sun with scornful eyes, I wasn't a vampire, why the hell did the sun weaken me? So annoying, not even weaken hard enough to hurt so I didn't have a real compulsion to avoid it, which somehow made it more annoying.

Shaking my head I resumed my normal morning routine, taking a quick shower to have basic hygiene before deciding to make my own breakfast with Pearl Jam for a little pick me up.

Pearl Jam was surprisingly easy to use, nothing really complicated, I could activate it while making food to enhance an aspect of the food to supernatural levels and give supernatural effects to my food if I focused on it enough.

I made some omelettes with Pearl Jam with the effect of recovering my stamina and easing my fatigue, I freaking loved Pearl Jam, not only is the food tasty but the buffs they provide are excellent for quality of life. The problem of it scaling with the food I cook is annoying though. And then the buffs had to be vaguely in line with the food I made, so no regeneration chocolate, trying to give an effect to the food that its not able to have feels like pushing up against air.

Maybe I ask Rias or Akeno for some help about that? I am pretty sure Akeno can cook, and she did say I could ask her for help with anything .

Yeah, I'll ask about that after school, along with how to make contracts by myself so I can gain more rolls, I can't just keep mooching off of Koneko's contracts, though I have a feeling she would appreciate that.

After I was done eating I put on my uniform and left my house but bumped into someone unexpected waiting for me in front of my door.

"Rias-san? What are you doing here?" Rias was standing in front of my door like it was the most natural thing to do.

"Hmm? What are you talking about, I am here to pick you up of course . I came just in time too." I sported a difficult expression, this demonic boss was hard to predict.

"I understand that but my question was more about why? Why would you want to walk with me of all people to school?" Rias shook her head and reached her hand out to pat my head but I ducked under it, making her pout, what was I? An animal?

"Do I need a reason to want to occupy my new cute servant to school?" Rias said a bit haughtily but I appreciated the compliment, I'd prefer handsome but my self-esteem is low enough that any compliment counts.

"Well, you're the boss so I guess not. Not that I was going to complain about a beautiful girl walking with me to school." Rias blushed at that comment, I briefly wondered if I went too far but she simply smiled and took my arm.

"I see, if that's so then you also won't mind this then?" I most certainly did not, if I was bothered by the prettiest girl I had ever seen taking my arm and smooshing it up against her breasts I could just throw away my man card.

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Rias was great for conversation, she was a good listener and tried to engage in what little conversation we made on the way to school, the school was not too far away from my home so the journey was over in about 12 minutes. And I realized that Rias greatly enjoyed teasing me and did not care much for physical boundaries.

She liked touching, whether it was on the arm or hugging. She tried to pat my head again but I deftly dodged it again which seemed to embolden Rias' attempts to get closer to me.

Am I complaining about my busty devil boss liking to touch me? Hell no. Do I want to get patted in the head on the head like I was a pet or Koneko? Hell no.

After we arrived at school I went about my classes as always, I got the occasional weird or appraising gaze from my fellow classmates for seemingly being close to Rias but no one came up to me, both because of my loner status and because my dead eyes coupled with my eyebags made me look like I was permanently two steps away from reaching into my bag.

The chime had rang, declaring the start of the lunch period. Naturally, I wasn't going to do anything at this time but sleep, school was sleep time for me while night was showtime.

Well, that was before-

"Akeno-oneesama? What are you doing here?" "Akeno-san is here? Score!" "Why would Himejima-san come all the way here?"

Oh man, I wonder who just entered our classroom.

I ignored the commotion and got my forehead off of the table and turned to Akeno who walked toward me with an expression that betrayed a modicum of the mischievousness of her intentions.

"Hey Yuta-kun, you seem to be free. Would you like to have lunch with me in the club building?" I appraised Akeno with my eyes for a second while the entire classroom erupted into chatter, I would have cared if I paid attention to gossip, if I couldn't be bothered to talk to them, then I didn't care about their opinion of me.

"...Sure. Lead the way Akeno-senpai." I didn't know why she wanted to have lunch with me but I didn't think she would hold some malintent toward me at least.

"That's great, let's go then, I accidentally prepared more lunch than usual." I got up and quickly followed Akeno, as we were going I noticed that she was intentionally swaying her hips, or at least I thought so. I occasionally caught glimpses of her sheer lace black panties covering her large and magnetizing ass.

Safe to say I had to adjust my pants and tuck my belt. I was almost sure she was doing it intentionally.

She and Rias seemed to really like teasing me, I had to wonder if this was because of Helltaker, them wanting to honeypot me to stay in the peerage, or both. Or option 3 of them just being bored but I will ignore that option for the sake of my fragile self-esteem.

"We are here. Here, Yuta-kun, you don't have your own luck, right? We can share mine." I readily accepted her handout and instead of sitting opposite of me, Akeno chose to sit right next to me, only leaving 4 fingers of space between us.

"Why did you want to eat with me Akeno-san? Your cooking is great by the way." I said, taking a bite of the offered box lunch containing a traditional layered Japanese, her cooking tasted even better than mine. As expected, traditional well-cooked food tasted better than artificially enhanced food.

"Ara~ ara~" Her voice sent shivers down my spine "I simply wanted to get to know my junior better. I noticed you didn't have your own lunch and decided to share some of mine with you." I nodded and muttered a brief thanks, we settled into conversations as I ate Akeno's food.

"By the way Akeno-san, you cooked this yourself right?" Akeno nodded.

"This is a bit embarrassing but could you teach me how to cook better?" Akeno made a surprised expression and covered her mouth with her hand.

"Oh my, you like my food that much Yuta-kun? Why do you suddenly want to cook better if you don't mind me asking." I thought about what answer I could give.

I really did not want to keep my abilities hidden. Tiptoeing and sneaking around Rias and her peerage was not a good way to improve my power at all .

Besides, I felt like I could trust Rias and her peerage. Rias revived me and passed up on the chance to keep me as a servant against my will even though she knew I was worth 8 pawns. If that doesn't warrant an olive branch of trust I don't know what does.

And if that trust was misplaced, I was used to it. I would find my way out, I always did. There was a reason why the world had to drop all pretense and just kill me outright.

I scratched the back of my head and tried to find a way to explain without giving too much away.

"I have an ability that I discovered, I can apparently infuse the food I cook myself with my demonic power, doing that allows me to grant my power effects like recovering stamina or curing illnesses. But they are affected by the quality of the food I cook , so I wanted to know if you could teach me." Akeno sported a surprised and curious look when I said this.

"I see, I would love to help you learn some cooking. I wonder if this is your sacred gear manifesting itself? I have never heard about one like this, maybe you should bring this matter up to the president too. I would want to start today but I am held up by a regular contract I have after school today so sorry about that Yuta-kun." I waved her concerns.

I already knew what sacred gears were from my late-night research. Powers and items given by humanity by the big man upstairs for them to stand a chance against the supernaturals. I almost was certain mine wasn't one but I wasn't going to deny it.

"Could be. I'll talk to her once I figure out more about it." We fell into a rather silent rest of lunch after that, before Akeno went to take a sip of her tea when it suddenly slipped out of her hand somehow and spilt all over shirt, drenching it in green tea but she looked awfully unsurprised by it.

"Oh my~ this isn't good, I spilt some tea on myself, do you mind Yuta-kun?" Mind what? Before my thoughts were voiced however Akeno started taking off her cape and unbuttoned her shirt and took it off while I was stun-locked.

My logical brain tried to push the buttons on the control panel but it was shoved aside by the primal monkey brain inside of me.

Akeno stood in front of me, wearing only her black bra, revealing her large breasts held back barely by the struggling garment, her skin looked so smooth, it was magnetizing.

"Yuta-kun, could you help me with this?"

"Excuse me?" I could feel logic and horny throwing hands over control of my frontal cortex but thankfully logic managed to get an advantage. Enjoying my reactions Akeno chuckled.

"I need your help to unhook my bra." Score. "I'm drenched, I want to clean my clothes before lunch ends." That sounded like a reasonable excuse , I nodded and Akeno turned her back to me.

Her back was smooth with strands of black hair framing it. I reached out toward the hook of bra, my fingers brushed up against the smooth skin of her back, I felt Akeno shudder under my touch. Before I lost my composure I unhooked her bra and adjusted my pants at the speed of light as Akeno's bra fell.

"Thank you so much Yuta-kun, I will be borrowing the shower now." Akeno turned to me, one hand cupping her cheek while the other covered her mountainous breasts, barely preventing them from spilling out, I could see hints of pink around her arm bra.

Man, I really need to get laid.

Akeno flushed a little and giggled at my predicament before getting up and walking toward the shower with her clothes in tow while I slumped back in my seat.

Fuck that was intense.

I need something to occupy myself with or she will start living in my head rent-free.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

"Argh, finally done. I can't wait I get some more traditional familiars to do this work for me." The moment I got home I flopped down on my couch.

I really should buy a bike or something. I can't fly or ride my cloud elemental in public since I didn't know mindwipe magic.

After school, I had made the bright decision to ask Rias for more work I could do, since more work = more tickets. So Rias gave me my own pamphlets to distribute to my potential clients so that I wouldn't just mooch off my fellow devils and make a name for myself.

Thankfully, she had already marked potential clients in a demonic GPS thingy so I just had to run to their door and slip the pamphlet in. Excellent cardio exercise but tedious.

As I was doing so, I was actually called to a contract in the middle of it so I had to slip into an alley and use the teleportation spell imbued into the contract papers to go there.

My contract this time was rather simple, the one who called me was basically cookie-cutter . Overworked Japanese office worker.

When he asked what I could provide for him I decided to use Pearl Jam to fix his health up a little which he readily jumped on. As expected of a Japanese wage slave, his health was bad.

After an hour-long cooking show of making foods that address his specific issues and imbuing them with Pearl Jam, I managed to fix his back problems, migraines, carpal tunnel and etc . I hadn't tested it before but mundane illness stood no chance against the Jam .

Safe to say, he gave me some big bucks, 300,000 Yen richer baby. I also got the standard slight demonic power increase from finishing a contract and a Silver Item Ticket for completing a contract with a very satisfied client.

I didn't get the Advantage since this wasn't my first contract but I had a reliable channel for rolls and I wasn't complaining. I just needed to keep cutting deals for more tickets and more tickets for more power and more power was better power.

I pulled up my event log with an excited grin, this was what I was looking forward to at the end of the day.

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Feat Achieved! Do the legwork and distribute your contracts yourself! +1x Bronze Ability Gacha Ticket

Feat Achieved! Finish a contract with a very satisfied client! +1x Silver Item Gacha Ticket

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I excitedly rolled them, starting bronze first, it's better to roll the worse ones first to build up anticipation after all .

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Rolling Bronze Ability Gacha Ticket...

An Uncommon Ability!

[Uncomon - Natural Weapons]

|Rarity: Uncommon| |Class: Changer|

You have the ability to further weaponise the tools given to you by Mother Nature. You transform your teeth into fangs, fingernails into claws and more. Your transformed natural weapons are more durable and powerful than their untransformed counterparts.

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Woah, that was good . Especially with my Hand to Hand Combat skill. I tested the ability and slotted it in before giving myself some wicked sharp sharp-looking claws in my left hand, a test showed that they were sharper than my kitchen knife with how smoothly they glid through paper.

Alright, now, hopefully, the item is just as good.

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Rolling Silver Item Gacha Ticket...

An Uncommon Item!

[Uncommon - Nymph Waterfall]

|Rarity: Uncommon|

A waterfall populated by lesser Nymphs, spirits of water, the waterfall itself is magical in nature and nymphs are naturally born inside of it. Nymphs produced by the waterfall are naturally loyal to you as the owner of the waterfall.

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Uh.

Where the fuck do I put a whole ass waterfall?

A/N: The helltaker trait is gonna be responsible for hell taking Yuta soon enough. What will poor Yuta do when stuck in between two busty flirtatious devils? Akeno is going in full swing with only the barest hint of subtlety. What did you guys think about the interactions between Yuta and Rias and Akeno?

Yuta is going steady, has decent abilities and an all-rounded build which is decent on all fronts but not great at any of them, he has good recovery but not great, he now he has decent attack but not great . Also , if you guess where the Nymph Waterfall is from, props to you.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

Boy was I thankful the items I got from gacha did not immediately just appear and demolish my house. They were instead apparently put in some kind of system storage for me to be able to take them out any time. Some water elementals sounded useful but not exactly useful for me to pop out a whole waterfall over.

Hell, do nymphs even exist in this world?

After a quick search on the Devilnet revealed that, yes, Nymphs did exist in this world and were considered lesser water spirits and popular familiars among young devils. As they got older or gained more magical power they sometimes evolved into Undines.

-Why the fuck do Undines look like they could benchpress a mountain with their muscles alone? Aren't they supposed to be seductive water spirits? Because frankly, looking at their muscles makes me feel insecure.

Putting the nymph waterfall aside, before sleeping I should spend some time abusing my regeneration and building muscles. I quickly made myself a workout routine and started following it.

Of course, due to my limited equipment, I was mostly doing calistenics, do pushups until you can't, then after resting for 5 minutes start doing it again. Did it feel like absolute ass? Yes. Did I still do it? Yes.

The grind does not care for your tears just like how the bank does not care about your pride. Just like how I would be willing to dress up as an anime girl and do an hour-long photo shoot for a silver ticket I would inflict on myself pain to a degree that it could be legally considered torture for gains.

I did every exercise I could think of, squats, pull-ups using doorframes. I also threw in stretches here and there to make myself more flexible. Something I noticed was that Regeneration did not consume as much mana as I thought it would. A quick check with the ability description told me why.

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[Uncommon - Regenaration]

|Rarity: Uncommon| |Class: Recovery, Passive|

Allows you to passively slowly regenerate from injuries using mana, the more severe the wound the longer it takes to heal.

Synergy - [Enhanced Vitality]

Regeneration cost is halved.

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As I thought I had made the right choice. I'd guess it is halved because it's simply easier to heal me so it doesn't need to spend as much energy to accomplish the same healing. Feeling the micro tears in my arms mend themselves was a novel feeling.

I also had to make food in between, not very good food mind you because of how tired I was but I needed the nutrients to grow strong muscles instead of healing them to normal. By the end of the workout, I was positively fucking dead tired. I was so tired that I didn't want to take a shower so...

Snapping my finger I summoned the cloud elemental making her form in front of me with an interested smile.

"Hey, could you give me a quick shower and dry me if you can?" I laid down on the bathroom as the elemental nodded and formed a raincloud over me. Won't that sprinkle take a while-

Then I was blasted by water from the cloud, it washed all over me, almost like a pressure washer of millions of raindrops that are just strong enough to irritate but not enough to injure. Then after I looked like a drowned rat in the middle of my shower I was blasted by warm air like I was in the middle of a hurricane. I looked at my summon who looked at me with a proud expression.

Sigh... I can't get mad at that.

"Cough!" I coughed out a full lungful of water onto the floor. "Thanks for the bath Cloud." After she preened under my praise I unsummoned her and shambled toward my bed, at least I was as dry as any human could be after getting hit by a 60mph hair dryer.

As soon as my body hit the bed I was out like a light.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

The school day passed as usual, I was keeping my head down in class, napping and such, playing around with disguise on my desk to disguise the top of it into images. It actually helped me practise precision with my disguise a lot.

I could see the perceptions of the students around me subtly changing, they were looking at me a lot more, more often with appraising and reproachful gases. Not that I really cared about their gossip but it was a tad irritating.

I learned to ignore people when people spread rumours that I was affiliated with a gang back in middle school. I was only kidnapped by them once . And I wasn't even the target, another kid in the school was their target but they nabbed me because I vaguely fit the description.

Still beat the shit out of me for wasting their time but that was just life.

As I was musing, the bell for the end of class finally rang and I was free, Akeno didn't choose to eat lunch with me this time, stating that she wanted to prepare some things. So I just found a quiet corner of the school to sleep in before the lunch break ended. Now, it was the end of school and I would get my cooking lessons. I shudder to imagine food made with Akeno's expertise and Pearl Jam.

I packed my bags and trekked to the ORC and found my way to the kitchen. Yes, the kitchen, this place had a fully furnished kitchen. If I did not know any better I would assume someone was living here full time.

Shaking my head of idle thought I opened the door and entered.

"Alright, Akeno-senpai I'm here-" My words got stuck in my mouth as I saw what was in front of me.

"Ara ara~ you arrived just in time Yuta-kun, I just prepared everything, just put on your apron and we can start the lesson," Akeno said warmly while my mental reset button was pushed.

Akeno was wearing an apron. And only an apron at that. Coherent thought seemed to be a luxury these days it seemed. I managed to find my words in a miracle.

"Akeno-senpai, where are your clothes? Why are you wearing only an apron?" I knew she liked teasing me but isn't this going a bit too far? I didn't mind but I also did not understand. Akeno giggled and turned around.

"I'm still wearing underwear don't worry." As she said, I could see her panties barely containing her large ass, I did not even try to hide my gaze at this point, I could also see her bra straps. "Cooking can often get messy so I usually take my uniform off. Is that a problem?" Hell no.

"...Nope. Totally fine. No complaints here." I was not going to raise objections or ask further, do not look that gift horse in the mouth, I grabbed the apron handed to me by Akeno and quickly donned it, only staring at Akeno's ample cleavage moderately.

"Oh my~ you sure are eager aren't you? Well, let's start with picking our ingredients and preparing them." Akeno turned to the fridge in the room and opened the fridge door and leaned to grab something, presenting her plush ass to me fully, I could even make out the traces of her pussy through the strained fabric.

Oh my Satan give me strength to be able to finish this lesson without making an absolute fool of myself.

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Turns, Satan, whoever he was, was a pretty chill guy since he gave me the strength I needed to not make a fool of myself.

Sure, I was caught staring at Akeno many times and had to turn my gaze away awkwardly but I managed to restrain myself well enough. And surprisingly enough, even though Akeno was obviously dressed to tease she was also serious about giving me the lesson.

She showed me how to prepare my ingredients, how long I needed to cook something to get the consistency I wanted etc.

She was a good teacher when she wasn't trying to get a reaction out of me. According to Akeno cooking was equal parts precision and eyeballing. In some parts, you had to be precise to get the results you wanted but in other parts, it was best to do what you felt like was the best.

I felt like I learned a lot under Akeno, at the end of the lesson Akeno hung back and watched me finish up the egg-fried rice. At the end, I felt Pearl Jam enter the food at my command as I made them give the food the property of getting rid of exhaustion and tiredness. Looking at the plate of food in my hands in pride I presented it to Akeno.

"What do you think Akeno-senpai?"

"Oh my~ this looks quite good Yuta-kun, good job. I am really eager to see your ability for myself. Let's have a taste." Akeno used a spoon and dug into my food and took a bit and then...

"Mhh~~!" She... moaned? I could see her legs clench together for a second as Akeno braced against the table.

Huh?

"Mh~ the food you make really is dangerous Yuta-kun." Huh? "This really hit the spot, I was feeling rather tired recently. You have a very impressive ability." Akeno stretched after saying that while I stared at her busty form. Hesitantly I reached for the spoon and took a bite.

Mh.

That tastes good. Not like, cum in my pants instantly good but it tastes like a hot meal after a long and hard day at work.

We ate the plate of egg-fried rice in silence as Akeno made noises of delight. At the end, we washed the dishes and put them away and then Akeno.

"Thank you for the food Yuta-kun. I think you deserve it." I got flustered a little, with how much she was teasing me what was her reward going to be? As my mind rushed a million miles a minute Akeno leaned in.

Chu.

And planted a kiss on my cheek.

"Ara~ ara~ Yuta-kun, did you expect something else? You naughty boy." I looked at Akeno with dead eyes.

"Senpai, you are a cruel mistress."

"Ufufufu~"

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~Yuta Yukimura~

Bad news, I did not get any contracts today. Good news, impressing Akeno with my cooking counted as an achievement, regardless of how minor it was.

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Feat Achieved! Impress Akeno with your cooking +1x Bronze Trait Gacha Ticket

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This lit a spark in me, doesn't this mean I could potentially get a better ticket for making someone truly foodgasm? Maybe making a princess like Rias foodgasm would even give me a gold ticket.

I rolled the ticket, I had a preference for waiting until home to roll my tickets so that I could freak out in peace.

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Rolling Bronze Trait Gacha Ticket...

A Common Trait!

[Common - Perfumer]

|Rarity: Common|

You naturally have a pleasant smell, even your sweat smells nice.

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Well, that is certainly...

Pleasant.

A/N: Yuta is settling into a routine and building himself up, making use of every tool at his disposal, regeneration and Pearl Jam for good food, Cloud Waifu for a quick shower and his peerage seniors for advice and help.

Also, Akeno is being Akeno as always, and especially with the Helltaker Trait. She is on the prowl for some fresh meat and Yuta is wagyu. What did you guys think about the cooking lesson with Akeno? I'd love to hear your thoughts about it.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

I would say I settled into a pretty good routine at night, it was cooking and working out while watching the anime Morisawa lent me, speaking of, I should probably give them back to him sometime.

I tried to cook a meal for the cloud elemental on the off chance that she may eat it but no. Seems like she really is just a sentient gathering of clouds.

Out of the things I tried with her she did seem like to... eat? Ice cubes. I could tell because I could vaguely communicate with my familiars it seemed. I could tell their intentions and they could tell mine.

So, this was why I ended up doing pushups while my elemental floated idly and chewed ice cubes out of a bag while watching me.

She didn't make for a very pleasant conversation partner I will admit, on the account of being unable to engage in conversation. But at least she was company. Besides, she was the perfect air conditioner without having the funky air of an air conditioner.

Another thing to note was that I was making spectacular progress in filling out my frame. Regeneration was truly busted, I could already see some definition on my frame. And when I drew on my demonic power I noticed my physical power was enhanced.

On average, as a devil I was about twice to thrice as strong as I was when I was a human? Thankfully, it was not too hard to get stronger yet, I hope I get some gravity training power, that would be pretty friggin sweet.

As a repeat, I abused my body until exhaustion and was given the world's strongest shower before throwing myself to bed. Normally, with how utterly exhausted I was and the fact I was only sleeping for a solid smattering of hours I wouldn't wake up to any normal alarm.

So, instead of just relying on my alarm I had my Cloud Elemental wake me up when my alarm rang by sprinkling water in my face.

Sure, it was not a pleasant way to wake up at all but it woke me up and that was what mattered. And after that, it was breakfast and going to school with Rias in tow.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

Again, Rias and I parted our way, something unexpected happened.

"Yukimura―! You bastard!" I saw one Issei Hyoudou running at me while shouting and swinging his fist while the other two of the perverted trio seemed aggrieved with me too. I think their names were Cueball and Four Eyes.

I turned to them with a confused expression, did I even speak to them before?

Issei and his friends reached me and he pointed an accusing finger at me.

"You! How the hell did a loner like you get the attention of Rias-senpai! You have to tell me!" I turned to him, speechless while his other friends rattled on too.

"Yeah, how did you even get in her good graces? We even saw you get out of class Akeno-senpai too! What secret are you hiding? Did you learn hypnosis!? You have to teach us too!" The four-eyed man rattled on while Cueball nodded.

"Yes, us loners have to stick together. That's why you can introduce us to some occult research club girls right? Seriously how did a loner like you even come to school with the school idol? I'll even part with some of my porno collection with you so just introduce us will you?"

I looked at them.

I... I'm just... lost for words.

What the fuck were they smoking? Seriously how do you ask something from someone like that? I am pretty sure they insulted me more than they asked for my help.

Were they just that deluded? The bigger question is how I should mess with them? Hmm. I have an idea, is it worth spreading rumours more just to feel the satisfaction?

Yes, yes it was.

I took a breath and channelled my inner smugness before unleashing my most condescending grin possible.

"Hmph, why would I need your porno's when I already have a relation with Rias where we shared a bed naked together?" The three recoiled in shock as if physically struck by my statement while I left their blustering selves behind.

I felt my intelligence briefly drop down to their levels for humouring their delusions but seeing their crushed faces made it. Now I just hope I don't have to see any their faces again.

As I made my way to class I got a ping on my phone. Pulling it out of my pocket I looked at the id.

'A message from boss?'

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~Yuta Yukimura~

I knocked on the Occult Research Club room door, I had no idea why Rias needed to call a meeting at this late into the night. Was I getting fired for not meeting an unknown contract quota? Did I fail some arbitrary test Rias gave me that I did not know about?

"Come in." Hearing the invitation I entered the room to find the entire peerage waiting for me.

"...Why did everyone gather? Did I come too late?" Rias shook her head.

"No, you came just in time Yuta-kun, we have all gathered here because a stray devil who attacked their master was spotted in my territory and we are going to dispose of it." Oh, that was bad , I think. Stray devils in general kinda go off the rails, especially ones that are insane enough to attack their king.

"I see. Why did they decide to hide here? Surely it would be smarter to hide somewhere else not ruled by a Devil?" Akeno helpfully supplied me with the answer.

"That's because Kuoh has a sparse supernatural population due to being Devil territory. It's easier to hide where fewer people will find you rather than somewhere like Kyoto with a high density of supernaturals." Rias added on top of it.

"And they underestimate me." Rias added with a slightly offended undertone. "They assume that I will be some incompetent princess unable to take care of them or them because of my age. So we will be doing the family who the stray escaped from a favour and show that strays have no business in my territory." I shrugged, made sense to me. I didn't need much of a reason.

Bossman(Bosswoman?) wanted the stray dead, that meant I was killing the stray apparently, I agreed to act as a proper peerage member until I left and I intended to honour my agreement. Because it meant it was a mission and missions were tickets and tickets were power and power was good.

"Alright, how do we do this?"

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"Alright, we are here."

We all stepped out of the teleportation circle Akeno had cast and began walking to the abandoned theatre at the edge of Kuoh. I felt a tad nervous as we approached. Inside the theatre was just about what one would expect, just the usual horror movie setting. But ignoring the cliche, when the moment Akeno said she detected something we all got on edge.

"I smell something foul, something sweet. I wonder if it will be tasty or bitter~" A giant creature crawled out with the upper body of a naked woman, her voice sounded garbled like it was multiple voices stitched together. She looked like a woman who stapled everything above her torso to some fucked up chimaera the size of a double-decker bus.

Uh... on second thought, I don't think I can mildly inconvenience at least 20 tons of meat with 6 arms, sharp claws and presumably magic. While I was debating the logistics of trying to take on the stray devil Rias suddenly did an anime pose.

"Stray Devil Viser! For the crime of abandoning your king and selfishly pursuing your desires at the cost of my people's safety, I sentence you to death! I will blow you away!" I had to give Rias a second glance at that.

"Rias-san, did you practice that pose and speech?" I could see beads of sweat forming on her forehead as a blush overcame her face.

"N-nevermind that." She definitely did, was my king a Chuuni? That was adorable. "Yuta-kun, allow us to show you how Devils truly fight." Viser grinned madly at that, exposing her sharp teeth, her visage growing more... demonic (heh).

"I'd like to see you try you pompous brat! I smash your skull and see which is brighter, your hair or your blood." She raised her large body in preparation, damn did she look intimidating, but I decided to try my luck, what better place to try it than with people who can support me?

"Say, Rias-san, could I try something? I'd like to try and take her on myself." Rias looked at me with wide eyes as I pulled off my blazer and tossed it aside while rolling my sleeves.

"What? Why, you just reincarnated Yuta-kun, it's too dangerous for you to face a stray devil." I took a step forward and gave Rias a reassuring look.

"Don't worry boss, I discovered some things about myself. I want to try my mettle against hers at least once. Besides, don't I have some reliable senpai's right behind me who can cover for me if I mess up?" Rias looked hesitant but Akeno placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Just let Yuta-kun have a try Buchou, just place a little trust in him. Besides, with us here he shouldn't be in any real danger." Rias looked back at Akeno and then at me and then slumped her shoulders.

"Alright Yuta-kun, go ahead. We will pull you out in any case of danger." I smiled back at them which made Rias blush a little.

"Thanks boss, Akeno-senpai." I stepped forward where Viser was looking at me eagerly. "Sorry to keep you Viser, and thanks for waiting."

"Hihihi~" Her laugh sounded like nails on a chalkboard. "I don't mind waiting handsome, especially since such a good meal presents itself to me, I will keep you alive just to drain you over and over ." I rolled my shoulders.

My eyes appraised her form, looking for any weak spots, any approaches I could take.

"Thanks for the consideration I guess." My arms looked more muscled as muscles strained and veins expanded like I suddenly took steroids while my nails grew into 3-inch claws, I was basically copying Killua with a little upgrade thanks to Natural Weapons, my claws were sharper and more durable than the average knife.

But as I was leisurely walking I suddenly snapped my fingers and took off into a sprint, at the same time my elemental emerged, drawing gasps and exclamations of surprise from the crowd and Viser who raised an eyebrow at the Cloud Elemental who just joined the fray.

Thank you for underestimating my capabilities.

" Thunder. " I whispered under my breath.

Crackle! Zap!

"Grraaaaaah!!!" Viser made a horrible noise of pain as my cloud elemental heeded my quiet command and blasted Viser with lightning like a certain emperor.

"You bitch I will tear you apart!!!" I felt my demonic power drain as my elemental blasted Viser with thunder, and while Viser's attention was squarely on my familiar I sprinted to her blind spot and waited for a moment where I could strike.

When Viser raised her giant body to slam her hand down on my elemental I summoned her back, making Viser crush down on nothing while at the same time I leapt at her, leveraging my enhanced Devil body to step on her large centaur-esque lower body as a foothold to launch myself toward her human half with my claws raised.

"Grahhh!" My fingers sunk into her neck, but it felt tough, like hardened leather, I wasn't able to sever her head fully, a shame, and taking advantage of my failure Viser grabbed my arm, her grip felt like a metal vice.

"You fucking brat I will rip out your balls and shove them down your throat!" I grimaced slightly as I felt my arm break under her grip, I could hear shouts of concern and saw Akeno prepare a magic circle in the corner of my vision along with a Kiba who looked ready to spring into action but I still had a card up my sleeve.

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-Active(1/1)-

[Uncommon - Natural Weapons] -> [Uncommon - Sand Veil]

"Grahh! Fuck!" Viser had to let go of my hand as a vicious blast of sand emerged from my body and blasted her with the power of a localized sandstorm right in the face, pelleting her eyes and mouth with fast particles of sand and powerful winds. And I took advantage of her distraction to use my still transformed hand.

"Kuaaakh!"

To drive my non-broken arm into the other side of her neck to fully sever her spinal cord, drawing a short pained gasp before her human half limped and her chimaera half collapsed, dropping me down to the ground.

Victory tastes sweet.

A/N: Yuta finally encounters the pervert trio in the flesh and predictably, they accost him for being near a pretty woman because they cannot handle the salt.

In other news, Yuta finally displays his combat potential, he thinks calmly and assesses the situation, he feels no fear when jumping in, he has faced far worse situations and came out of them alive after all. Whats a chimaera beast if not Thursday? What did you guys think about the short Viser fight scene? I wanted to show how Yuta uses his abilities in a combat situation, his current build is really leaning on an assassin approach.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

I felt the cold sweat on my back as Rias glared at me half heartedly. I could tell that she was angry at me but at the same time, she knew she couldn't be mad at me because I had asked for permission.

But damn did having my boss who can easily disintegrate me with a flick of her fingers angry with me put my balls in my throat.

To recap for you, the voices in my head. After my defeat of Viser, I was carried back to the ORC by Koneko of all people, it was quite awkward being carried by a girl that barely reached my chest but she didn't seem to mind. Hell, she even complimented me.

'...Nice smell.' I don't know what that counts for but its a pretty girl complimenting me.

But yeah, this is how I ended up here, facing down an angry red lioness.

I averted my eyes, this was quite awkward huh?

After a few moments of suffocating silence, Rias sighed and got up, walking toward me in silence before...

Pomf

Contrary to any expectation I had, Rias simply held my head and pulled it toward her breasts, burying me in them much to my confusion, I expected to be hit or worse.

"I want to be angry at you. And I am, not because of what you did but because you willingly threw yourself into danger." I wriggled my way out of her bosom and tried to give her a confident smile that just ended up being shaky instead.

"Well, I trusted that you guys wouldn't let her do any real injury to me. And I did ask for permission." Rias sighed and slumped her shoulders, I could hear her heart beating like this.

"You just know the right words you have to say to get out of trouble don't you?" I smiled at that, if I was good at anything, it was getting myself out of bad situations. "But my point still stands, Yuta-kun, why were you so willing to throw yourself into danger when you didn't have to?" And then she added.

"And don't think I forgot about your new powers. I'd like to hear about them. Not to mention the familiar you had."

I looked to the side.

Yeah... I suppose it was time to come clean.

Or I suppose as clean as it was beneficial to me.

"I... discovered an ability I had. I don't know if it's some bloodline from my ancestors or a sacred gear or whatever. But I keep developing new powers." Rias tilted her head while furrowing her brows to think.

"Developing new powers? I can't say I heard of that before but it's not unbelievable, Akeno did tell me about your cooking power. Still, that doesn't explain why you rushed headfirst into danger." I scratched my head, she was weirdly insistent on that topic huh?

"Well, the way I get new powers is... a little strange. I randomly get more powers, I wanted to see how I measured up to a stray devil-like Viser when I had the chance, there doesn't seem to be any demerits to it. They usually develop when I actively do things and push myself so I thought I'd try my luck there." Rias looked at me with a thoughtful expression.

"Hmm, that is indeed strange. Maybe it's a mutated sacred gear? I'll have to ask my brother and Lord Ajuka. But, I'm glad you have a good ability, you fought rather impressively there you know? Even Kiba or Koneko may have struggled against Viser." I furrowed my brows.

That wasn't likely, the way they held themselves against Viser with such confidence told me they barely considered Visser a threat, maybe she would have been able to hurt them on the off chance she tagged them but I did not have glowing hopes for Viser even in such a scenario.

"I wouldn't consider what I did particularly impressive. Viser was about as smart as an animal at best, she didn't bother to protect her vitals and forgot about me the moment my familiar attacked her." Rias gave me a small smile.

"If you want to be modest about yourself then that's fine I suppose." She chuckled like she found it funny but I honestly didn't consider it impressive, if she were any smarter I would have had to rely on Kiba to bail me out.

"Also, don't think I forgot about your familiar friend, who was she? I know you didn't visit the familiar forest and sky elementals are very rare." I averted my eyes.

"You know, I found her... around." Rias quirked an eyebrow.

"Around?"

"Yeah... around. I just met her and then she became my familiar. You know, chance encounters, shiny Pokebeast in a bush." Rias giggled a little and shook her head.

"Well, if you don't want to tell me it's fine. Your familiar is clearly serving you fine so there won't be any problems." I made a show of breathing a sigh of relief, I really did not want to explain my gacha creating or summoning fully sentient entities foreign to the world.

Abilities and Traits? That can be explained away but fully sentient alien beings couldn't.

"Well, if you ever feel the need to, remember we are open to helping you train your abilities, don't be shy to ask for help Yuta-kun, you are a part of this family." Rias hugged me one last time before letting go.

"Now, it's quite late, you should probably head home and get a nice sleep, today must have been quite exhausting." I could assent to that, I felt pretty darn tired after fighting in a life-or-death battle.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

I laid in bed tired, I decided to skip working out today as I had enough action for the day, and I had a lot on my mind to think about.

Stray Devils. Seeing one in front of me made me think about my current situation in more depth.

I could have been in Viser's position, intentions or not, the moment you abandon your king you are an outlaw. If you rebelled violently it was a direct death sentence.

If I ran away I would be labelled an outlaw by a race I had no choice in being a part of and be imprisoned and or be put to death. How screwed up. But I could understand.

It's rare that I get angry, I've felt too much unfairness in life to be quick to anger, even if someone spat in my face I would probably feel irritation rather than anger. My emotions are usually chained down heavily by my logic, I did not get to live a life where I had the privilege to express my emotions.

But even so, I did not like being a slave.

So, what did I think about my current situation? It was complicated .

Rias was a good person, as paradoxical as that is for a Devil. She was kind, patient and caring. We knew each other for so little but I had a feeling she was already willing to throw down for my sake if things came down to it . I was very good at seeing through deception.

Being dropped in a volatile world with a power that was incredibly valuable to a fault, maybe being taken into Rias' peerage was a good thing. She was the best king you could have around, not only that she was a good pillar of support and a very strong back to hide behind.

If someone wanted to get me they would have to get through her first, if they wanted to get to her they needed to get through the Gremory Family first.

So, I did not feel particularly bad about being reincarnated into her peerage. She was the best boss you could get, and if you were weak you had to serve one boss or the other, no way or the other. So finding her could be counted as good luck since I was weak at the moment .

It was a dog-eat-dog world, might make right and the right . Especially in a world with such power discrepancy.

But.

It puts a very bad taste in my mouth. Being a slave, being forced into a servant position in a society that did not care about my life. I didn't dislike Rias or her being my boss, I disliked the fact I was not strong enough to avoid being put in such a position.

So, how would I solve this problem?

I shook my head, thinking such complicated thoughts weren't going to help me right now. I should live my life first before trying to find out what I am going to do with it.

What was going to help however was the ticket I got from Viser.

Feat Achieved! Defeat Viser without help +1x Gold Ability Gacha Ticket

Oh yes, this was going to help a lot. It's been a while since I got a Gold Ticket, I only got the one when I got turned into a Devil, was slaying Vizer that impressive? Well, compared to my other feats it certainly was. Vizer was an opponent clearly out of my weight class and I managed to kill her pretty handily. It may not be anything out of the ordinary for my fellow peers but it was certainly a hurdle for me.

I didn't feel anything about killing her of course, I had killed before and had no gripes about taking a life, I took my first life when I was mugged with a knife, I pepper sprayed him and pushed him on the ground before jumping on his neck.

I couldn't afford to have him track me down afterwards so I made the pragmatic and correct decision to take his life. Death was no stranger to me, I had seen it take plenty of passengers aboard.

Anyway, I am feeling itchy with a golden ticket burning a hole in my pants, time to roll that thing.

Give me something good.

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Rolling Gold Ability Gacha Ticket...

An Elite Ability

[ Elite - Ghost Form]

|Rarity: Elite| |Class: Breaker, Stranger, Mover|

Allows you to enter a Ghost Form, while you are a ghost you can freely fly and phase through any mundane material while being immune to physical damage, you are also immune to mundane forms of detection. Likewise, you cannot interact with the material world. When in Ghost Form, you take double damage from elemental abilities, you are also vulnerable to all things ghosts are vulnerable to.

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Hell fucking yeah! An Elite ability? And this one seems incredibly good too, luck really is shining my way recently, its almost foreboding, good luck is almost never a good sign.

But that wasn't all.

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You have acquired 5 abilities +1 Active Ability Slot

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I felt a new imaginary notch open inside me and checking the Status showed that my active ability slots had indeed increased. That just bumped my versatility up by a decent chunk. Now if only I figured out how to decrease the ability slot cooldown of switching between abilities.

Whenever I swapped out an ability slot, let's say from Regeneration to Natural Weapons, I would have to wait 10 minutes until I could replace that slot again. I haven't felt any problems because of that yet but in a fight it could prove a pain in the ass.

Anyway, while I had a new toy to play with, I had a bed sensually calling my name to come to dreamland with it.

And I did not want to miss my appointment with Sandman when I was this tired.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

Ghost form was fucking amazing.

Although the restriction of getting double damaged by elemental attacks wasn't good everything else made up for it. I tested it by getting Cloud to zap me and damn it hurt.

First of all, I could fly, sure I could do that with my devil wings too but I have no idea how to use those. And besides , flight with Ghost Form was different.

I can freely move in any direction while completely ignoring gravity and physical barriers. My speed was easy to control and I was considerably faster in Ghost Form than in human form.

If I really put my mind to it, with my enhanced Devil stats I could clock in about 60 kmh, but with Ghost Form, it was double that at 120 kmh with almost instant acceleration and deceleration.

It was hard right now but I'm sure I will be able to flicker between Ghost and Devil form to dodge attacks and retaliate. The only fault I have with it is that I can't halfsie it.

Either I was fully ghost or not. I couldn't pull a Mirio and phase my arm through someone's punch and clock their jaw. Speaking of Mirio, I discovered that turning off Ghost Form while overlapping kinda resembled his.

I tested it by leaving a single finger inside the ground and turning it off, confident in regeneration being able to at least save a finger in the worst case. The result was the feeling of my finger being roughly shoved out and feeling sore.

A few more experiments showed that I was squeezed out at approximately 40-ish kilometres per hour so no clever exploits there.

I tested all of this along with the invisibility in the park where I started running since it was the weekend. I was trying to build up my stamina, by sprinting again and again, feeling the burn in my lungs and then feeling them fade was satisfying, with every lap completed, I was getting less tired each time.

Sure, it would be a while until my stamina became truly tremendous but I appreciated having visible growth to motivate me. And man was perfumer a blessing, sweating was not as unpleasant when your sweat smelled like some nice mild perfume.

To amuse myself while walking I decided to get up to a little mischief and summoned the Cloud Elemental while not truly manifesting her so that other people couldn't see her but she could still use her abilities at a reduced capacity.

Yes, I was using my Elemental Familiar to flip skirts for my amusement while walking. Why not? I was an evil and devious devil now, sin and debauchery were in my blood now. And the women of this town were almost all attractive for some reason.

But while I was going on my merry way I encountered something I did not expect.

"Oh no... they are everywhere!"

A nun face down ass up, grabbing clothes with her butt and panties fully exposed.

...And I thought this world was strange enough.

A/N: Yuta finally comes clean... ish, he reveals just enough to make it advantageous to him but not enough to raise a lot of uncomfortable questions. Luckily Rias trusts her servants to a fault and never forces them, even if she is curious or needs them to, if she doesn't use Koneko to use Nekomata mode and Akeno to use her holy lightning she won't force Yuta to spill the beans if he really doesn't want to.

Also, Yuta finally gets his first Elite ability and it's a good one, if not a bit vulnerable in DxD but it is very useful still, especially with the amount of synergies it had. And now that Yuta has unlocked the second ability slot he has a lot of synergies to discover, seriously, the abilities Yuta has have some of the most Synergies, especially Ghost and Natural Weapons.

If you guys have any synergy ability ideas I would love to hear them.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

I looked with conflicted confusion at the nun who was face down, ass up on the ground, frantically grabbing garments off the floor. Reflexively my hand went into my pocket and took a photo of her rather large ass barely covered by her pure white panties.

...Man I really, really need to get laid. I am almost starting to dip my toes into the realm of the degeneracy of the perverted trio.

So, why was a nun here? In Kuoh? A known devil territory. Hell, the church shouldn't even have much stake in Japan anyway, Japan was Shinto territory, not Christian territory. And Rias didn't warn me about any Church people in town either.

Either she was here in secret, was a regular nun, or was here with ill intent.

Detective Yuta mode engage .

I narrowed my eyes and inspected the girl in front of me, she didn't give off the vibe of a combatant at all, in fact, she looked rather pathetic, picking up her clothes off the ground while mumbling embarrassment.

Seems like it won't be immediately dangerous to approach her and just ask what she is here for, so that I can report to Rias about what was happening.

But just in case.

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-Active(2/2)-

[ Uncommon - Sand Veil]

[ Uncommon - Natural Weapons]

Better be safe than sorry, if she does try something I can blast her with sand veil and gut her with Natural Weapons. Or try to and get murdered if it turns out she was stronger than Low Rank.

"Hey miss...? Could I help you? You look like you need some help." The girl turned around and looked at me like a lost puppy who just found their owner with how she just perked up.

She was a shorter girl with long straight blonde hair and green eyes, she had a rather sizeable bust, she looked rather adorable and like she wouldn't hurt a fly, or couldn't if she tried. She wore a dark teal nun outfit with light blue accents, a white veil over her head with light blue accents, a brown satchel slung on her right hip and brown boots with black straps in an X-shaped pattern. She also wore a silver cross necklace around her neck. Even her conservative clothes failed to hide her attractive figure.

I gave her a hand and pulled her up as she dusted her clothes.

"Oh! You speak Italian? I'm sooo glad! I got lost on my way and fell and didn't know what to do." Fuck, I didn't think that she wouldn't speak Japanese in Japan, but she doesn't seem to suspect that I am a devil even though I was a Japanese schoolboy speaking Italian to her despite not hearing her speak it.

She was either unaware of the supernatural or was just naive and innocent. Or she was pretending to not notice and I was about to get gutted by a Bible Blast™.

I replied while helping her pick up the clothes that had fallen out of her suitcase.

"Yeah, you can say I know a little Italian. So... what is a sister doing here? Visiting family? Or just travel?" I lightly probed as the girl beamed at me with a smile now that all of her clothes were back in her suitcase.

"Oh no, I was assigned to this church in town, I am glad to have met such a kind soul in this town, I have a hard time finding my way so I end up lost. This must be the Lord's work." My mind turned and I was still wary of Asia, she seemed kind and naive, too kind and naive.

I was confident in my ability to read body language but at the same time, I was facing my natural enemy here, maybe the moment I turn my back she would plant an appropriately cross-themed dagger in my back.

But operating under that assumption was simply paranoia, just be prepared for the scenario but don't assume it. Everything so far points to her being innocent. But just one thing doesn't add up.

"But isn't that church abandoned? As far as I know anyway." Asia tilted her head at my words, not understanding.

"Abandoned? Is it? Do you perhaps know where it is? Could you please help me find it? I have been trying to find it for the past four hours..." Asia said dejectedly as I updated my mental portfolio of her.

Growl!!!

Before I could respond however I heard a rumbling growl, like a mighty beast threatening my life with its jaws bared, I slowly turned my head to see Asia with her head hung and clutching her stomach.

"I-I also haven't eaten anything since yesterday. I am sorry for being such an inconvenience!" I turned my head and couldn't help but quirk my lips, laughter nearly escaping my throat before barely recomposing myself and turning to the girl.

"Nah, I don't mind it, want to join me for lunch?" I can't help myself, she acts like a kicked puppy, I want to pamper her. She quickly waved her arms.

"N-no I can't possibly impose and take advantage of your kindness!" I raised an eyebrow and lifted a corner of my lips.

"You won't, I was about to eat anyway and I'm rich. You won't be a burden." She still shook her head, was this girl a saint or something? Seriously, how can one human be this nice? You couldn't act this nice.

"Well, can you please do it for me? I don't want to eat by myself, I would appreciate the company you know?" She went to object again but another grumbling of her stomach cut her off, making her meekly nod. I chuckled, this girl was cute

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"Thank you very much for the food Yuta-san, I am very thankful to the lord for allowing me to meet such a kind soul like you." Asia said as we left the Pizza place we had lunch at.

Asia Argento, that was her name, I learned after probing her for information a little at lunch. She was a nun who came here after being sent here by the Vatican, she was apparently supposed to meet someone who would have helped her to the church but they apparently pulled a no-show.

Also now I was certain Asia was just painfully innocent and kind, not acting as far as I could tell. Hell, I had to teach the poor woobie how to eat pizza.

I had to teach an Italian how to eat Pizza .

She was kind, adorable, helpful, innocent and downright saintly. I may have only known her for an hour but I would throw down for this adorable specimen.

I wish I had a girlfriend like her.

...Maybe I could? I mean it's kinda like Romeo and Juliet but instead, it's Saint Girl and the gambling devil. Whatever, I shook my head to get out of my thoughts.

"Alright, that should be the church, at least I don't remember any other in Kuoh. But are you seriously going to live there?" Asia beamed at me in happiness as I pointed to the abandoned church over the hills.

"Yes! Thank you so much Yuta-san! I cannot repay your kindness enough. May god bless your soul." I tightened my neck as I felt a piercing headache at her words, I was very good at making pain not show but that was seriously painful.

"Yeah, no worries, hey Asia-chan, want to meet me back here tomorrow at the same time? You know, we could walk around town and I could help you get adjusted." I not so subtly offered both a date and a way to keep an eye on Asia but I doubted she knew what a Date was.

"Ah yes, thank you so much Yuta-san, I will be back here tomorrow them . " Asia said with a blush on her face. "Then I will see you tomorrow, I better get to the church now." I smiled a little.

What a nice girl.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

Home sweet home, I feel like absolute shit.

After my meeting with Asia, I spent most of my day just working out and studying about devil stuff, I also did a contract just to get a Common Item Ticket that I would roll when I was feeling more alive. A bit disappointing but I couldn't just crank out a silver every time I guess, and to be fair my contract was a very easy one, trivial even so I didn't expect much either.

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You have completed a Simple Contract +1 Bronze Gacha Ticket

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So I was just completely spent, I just wanna crash out and watch the anime collected I borrowed from Morisawa.

I decided to cook up some salmon this time, Akeno recommended me to try cooking a variety of foods to learn more ways to cook and expand my horizons, and I found some fresh salmon being sold on the way home, it was a bit expensive and I definitely got a bit scalped by that old man but it looked like quality salmon so I bought it, not like I am begging for money considering I got another 100,000yen from my latest contract.

I started by putting some butter in the pan and heating it up before putting the cut of salmon in, I was making some pan-seared salmon steak, I carefully cooked the salmon while adding seasoning and using Pearl Jam, this food wasn't supposed to be anything special, just an overall boost to the vitality.

Leaving the steak next to the open window to cool down a tad I cut up some green veggies and prepped a plate but when I turned back to my steak there was now a black cat chewing on my steak, seemingly having smelt my goods and crawled through my window.

Just my luck. A black cat too, how fitting.

The cat and I locked eyes, a tense air formed, I looked at the steak it took another bite out of and sighed while straining a corner of my lip.

"You were hungry little guy?" I watched as the cat tilted its head at me before going back to eating the steak while I slumped my shoulders.

"Whelp, hope you enjoy my human portion of steak you ravenous beast." "Mrow." The cat seemingly replied to me in a manner that I would only describe as smug if it were an actual human. "Guess, I am making another steak for myself then."

I fired up the stove again and started searing another steak while, contrary to my expectations, the stray hadn't left my house but instead was now inside and watching me from the counter, or more importantly the steak I was searing.

"Seriously? Can cats even eat that much?" "Meow" "They do!?" Of course, I only pretended to understand the stray cat to amuse myself, I finished up my steak as the cat was still lazily waving its tail. I cautiously plated my salmon and sat down while the black stray followed me like the plague, eyeing my plate, the moment I took my eyes off the thing I felt like it would vanish.

"You already had your own." "Mrow." "This one is mine." "Mew."

I took a bite of my seared salmon while the black cat assaulted me with an intense gaze. I sighed again, moving my fork and cutting a portion out and holding it out for the cat that quickly gobbled it up without an ounce of hesitation, must be getting fed by the neighbours considering how fat it was.

"Such a hungry beast, I should probably give you a name to at least call you by, I'm tired of having to refer to you as stray in my monologue." I tilted my head as I inspected the cat eating my food, it looked like a stray but looked just about the healthiest cat I had ever seen. I took another bit for myself and gave another to the feline.

"Kuro?" The cat stiffened up for some reason as if I was about to take its food away, what a whimsical creature. "Nah, that's too boring and generic. From henceforth you are Bobby Black the 3rd." The cat lifted its head up from its meal and gave me a look as if I was a bug it just squashed. What an emotive specimen.

What a weird cat, maybe mana just does that to animals? Weird cats wouldn't even rank top 10 in the strangest stuff I have seen in this town.

"Yup, you are officially Bobby Black the 3rd." I reached out and booped the cat's nose, making it receive away and scratch my fingers with a hiss as I laughed, those are some sharp ass claws, holy shit.

"Hiss!"

"Haha, don't be so mean to be mean to me Bobby." Bobby hissed at me again. "You'll break my heart, your predecessors already broke my heart by leaving me behind, don't do me like that." The cat tilted its head at me.

"You act just like Bobby Black the Second you know? He had a ravenous appetite too, the little monster. Too bad that hawk grabbed him and tore him apart in front of me, birds are such assholes, still miss him. Even Bobby the first had it better and he got ran over in front of me." I didn't have a good track record with pets, I still remember that hawk making eye contact with me as it tore my cat in half and ate it on top of a tree in my backyard.

I hate birds with a passion, because one ate my cat and others keep shitting on me.

"Meow~" Bobby the 3rd rubbed up against my hand a little making me smile, cats were cute, Bobby sniffed my hand and rubbed against it again, making me chuckle and pet its soft fur absentmindedly, Bobby had really soft fur-

-Oh.

"You cheeky little bastard."

"Mrow~" I didn't know if cats were biologically capable of grinning but I felt like Bobby was definitely smirking at me.

The little feline fuck gobbled the rest of my salmon while it was acting cute and rubbing up against me. Betrayal, betrayal on all sides.

I sighed and petted the cat again.

"Whatever, you're lucky you are a cute little bastard."

":3"

What a temperamental, whimsical little creature.

A/N: Asia, the eternal woobie makes her appearance, Yuta carefully steps around her and gauges her threat while Asia is probably the most harmless creature on the planet. What did you guys think about Yuta and Asia's interaction? I hope it felt natural.

Also, Yuta gets a pet-ish, every guy needs a whimsical and temperamental cat sidekick, and what better companion for an unlucky guy than a black cat? What did you guys think about the totally normal and mundane cat Bobby Black the Third? Did you like Bobby and her interactions with Yuta? I'd love to hear your thoughts about her.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

"That was pretty good, don't you think so Bobby?"

"Nya."

I reached down slightly and petted the cat lying down with me across the couch. We had just finished the last episode of the Sword Art Online of this world, or should I say Bladeworks Online? There were no major differences except for Kibito and him having a catchphrase of "I'm gonna show you how to work the blade!".

The show wasn't that great but the trip down bootleg memory lane was fine. I had nothing left to do today other than relax and I was taking my relaxation seriously. However, the cat across from me still puzzled me.

Bobby seemed way smarter than the average cat, or the world was gaslighting me by making her meows come out whenever I wanted a response. Both were likely.

I couldn't help but look down and wonder.

"Are you a familiar or some kind of magical beast buddy? Maybe a spy keeping a watch on the town?" I muttered while absentmindedly petting the cat. Curious I picked up the cat who went limp like liquid and looked at it in the eyes.

I held its gaze for a few seconds before concluding.

"Yeah no way, there is not a thought behind those eyes, the lights are on but no one's home. Not a speck of light behind those orbs, it's like looking at a bluescreen." It was a stupid little thing, perhaps since this world was clearly more anime and the world grew up with mana animals were smarter than average or just understood humans better.

"Hiss!" Bobby hissed at me and batted my hands away, making me drop her as I chuckled and patted her head.

I put Bobby aside and decided to roll the Item Ticket before going to sleep, maybe I would get something good or I would get yet another building and start crying, at least now I had a little guy in my house to cheer me up and keep me company other than my elemental.

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Rolling Bronze Item Gacha Ticket...

A Common Consumable!

[Common - Scrap Iron Candy]

|Rarity: Common| |Cooldown: 8 Hours|

"Tastes like its name"

When consumed, bolsters the user's defence for 30 minutes.

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I looked at the notification, a consumable huh? Does the cooldown mean when it respawns? Curious I summoned the candy in my hand, when it suddenly appeared in my hand Bobby's ears perked up and she stared at the candy, it was inside a purple wrapper, the moment it appeared in my hands I noticed the cooldown start ticking down. Interesting, so I have an unlimited supply, nice to know.

Since Bobby was curious about the candy I held it for her to try, she gave it one lick and started gagging, swatting it out of my hand and glaring at the offending candy. I picked it up from the floor and put it in my mouth.

Mmh.

Tastes like metal and rust, no wonder Bobby didn't like it. When I swallowed the foul treat I felt... hardier? As expected from a common item, it was no game-changer, but it was noticeable. I transformed one finger with Natural Weapon and dragged it across my skin, it indeed gave more resistance to cut.

Seems like this roll was not wasted after all.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

I got up early for my date with Asia and because I was not used to waking up early in general thanks to my cloud elemental dousing me daily. Bobby had left last night, I wasn't surprised since she was still a stray, but I knew how strays like that worked, she would leave and then come back when she sniffed my cooking.

I should buy a cat bed.

Before going out I retrieved another Scrap Iron Candy, I saw that even though I did not consume it, it still went on cooldown. Good to know, I put the candy in a jar and did my morning routine before starting my workout waiting for Asia. I went to the promised spot half an hour early just to see Asia already sitting and waiting there. She greeted me cheerfully, like a cute puppy.

Asia and I went on our... Date? It was close enough to a date in definition anyway. We hung around the park while I toured her around Kuoh asking her about her life in this church at the same time.

I was not so subtly probing about why she was truly here and Asia was such a terrible actor. She got nervous whenever I probed her about who she was living with, or what they were.

I was 95% sure she was staying with a supernatural and that she was also supernatural.

And that was confirmed when we were walking to a lower portion of the park and I somehow managed to slip on the stairs, someone spilt something on the stairs. Nothing new to me honestly, I have taken a tumble down more stairs than I would like to admit.

Thump Thump Thump.

"Urgh..." I took a rough tumble down the stairs, I was pretty sure my ankle was twisted and my ears burnt for some reason.

"Yuta-san! Are you okay?"   Asia quickly rushed to my side while I was slightly annoyed that I couldn't use regeneration next to her if I didn't want to get exposed or be asked questions. Asia may not be ill-intentioned but I didn't trust her ability to keep a secret.

But what I didn't expect was for two ornate rings to manifest on Asia's fingers, one on each hand, and for her to emanate green light from her hands, almost instantly I felt my wounds disappear, the strain gone. I looked at Asia in disbelief while I tested my leg, nothing, no pain or discomfort.

"Wait, Asia, you can heal people?" She nodded while smiling, seeing that I had recovered.

"Yes, it's an amazing power I have received from god... truly..." She said with a solemn expression as her words trailed off, making me raise an eyebrow.

"That sounds like it has got some story behind it, want to share?" I walked over to a bench and patted the spot next to me while Asia followed behind me, sitting without a fuss.

"I... wouldn't want to trouble you with such things." I sighed, too kind for her own good.

"Come on Asia, you wouldn't be inconveniencing me, we're friends, I don't mind listening." At my words, Asia brightened up considerably and seemed to gather the courage to speak.

"...I was abandoned by my parents who dropped me off at a church in a small town in Europe . I was raised there by the church, and when I was eight, I stumbled across an injured and sick puppy, I prayed to god for its wellness with all of my heart. And when I did, a miracle happened, the puppy was healed." Asia said while looking up at the sky, and I looked up with her.

"Immediately after, I was taken to a larger church and told to heal the ailments of believers. I was ecstatic at being able to help people with my power. But then I came across a man, severely injured, I healed him but then..." She bit her lip slightly.

"...They said I was a witch, that my powers were evil for being able to heal a Devil. I was driven out of the church and excommunicated before being taken in here. Even still I haven't forgotten my prayers and gratitude to God. I'm sure that this is just another one of his trials for me, if I prevail I hope he will fulfil my wish." Asia said, bringing her hands together in a prayer while I leaned back.

...That was rough, she lived a rough life. I wanted to console her but at the same time, I didn't know how to. She was a tough person, tougher than me at least. In a similar position, I gave up and cursed the entire world and any god I could name.

When I heard my parents screams the only thing I felt was disillusionment. There was nothing in the world working for me. I felt no hope, just bitterness. I admired Asia's tough spirit to be able to hold onto hope even still.

"You're a good person, Asia, don't let anybody ever tell you you aren't. What is your wish?" Asia averted her gaze from me and flushed.

"It's a bit embarrassing you see. My wish is to have lots of friends, to be able to eat together with them, buy flowers with them, go to school with them. I don't have a lot of friends you see. That's why, when you said you were my friend I was very happy ." Asia bashfully admitted while I looked up at the sky.

Whoever was up there had to be either deaf or dead to not hear Asia's wish and let her fate be like this. But I knew better than to place hope in things as fickle as gods.

I put a hand on Asia's head.

"Well, I may not be a god but I am your friend Asia, and friends help each other. I'll do my best to get you more friends, and even if I do fail, well, you always have me in your corner. If you ever need something from me, I'm gonna be there." Asia trembled a little, holding back tears or trying to, she was doing a rather poor job as her shoulders shook and she held a hand up to her mouth.

"T-thank you so much Yuta-san, I am so grateful!" I smiled a little and petted her head comfortingly.

"Don't mention it, we're friends after all. Now, let's continue, the day is long and we have time to still look around like you wanted."

I felt a sense of kinship with the poor girl, and I was not lying, I would be her friend, such a kind and good soul was a rarity, mythical even. If anyone wanted to do anything to this cinnamon roll, they would have to get through me first.

Relations between a nun and a devil be dammed, I was down to throw down for this cinnamon roll with my life on the line.

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~Yuta Yukimura - Tomorrow~

After my little date with Asia I, had gone back home to resume my usual routine, strangely, I hadn't gotten any contracts despite it being a Sunday, when people were the most free. That annoyance aside I went about my night as usual. And as I had suspected, Bobby came right back when I started cooking again, I cooked a portion of salmon for her and an egg sandwich for myself before doing my callisthenics routine.

Bobby seemed very interested in my workout, sometimes laying on top of me as I did push-ups. She also stole my shirt and I still couldn't find it. I swear that cat is fucking with me, I just can't prove it.

But just like that, another day had passed and I had to go to school again, school came and went by but I noticed a more subdued and sombre mood that I didn't care enough to ask anyone about it .

Well, that was before I received an urgent message on my phone at the end of the school day, from Rias asking me to come to the Occult Research Club for an emergency meeting, so I quickly ditched whatever plan I had to go there.

Opening the door I saw everyone there already, how am I the last one every time? All of them held serious expressions, was I getting lynched?

"Hey Boss, what did you call me for?" I tried to break the mood, making Rias smile at me, alright, I'm still safe then.

"You're here Yuta-kun, that's good. We have some very serious and concerning news." I nodded and sat down on the couch next to Koneko while Rias was leaning against the desk in front of us with her arms crossed.

"Someone in Kuoh Academy was murdered."

Huh?

A/N: We are finally moving to the actual plotline. I think it's rather obvious who dies around this time. A butterfly flaps its wings and it becomes a storm in another part of the world. An insignificant change of factors. Like someone being slightly late can throw everything completely off.

Asia is a precious sweet cinnamon bun and needs protection, fortunately, Yuta is there to provide her with more than she could ever want. Kindred spirits stick together. What did you guys think about Asia and Yuta? Also, do you guys like the small slice-of-life scenes with Yuta and his totally not suspicious pet?

Chapter Text

~Yuta Yukimura~

"A student in Kuoh Academy was murdered." Rias said bluntly.

I raised my eyebrows, that was concerning, but at the same time, it wasn't exactly alarming. People died all the time. One of my friends back in middle school got chopped in half by a falling billboard right in front of me before, I was used to it.

"Okay...? Is there anything else? I know Kuoh has a really low crime rate but does someone biting it in the school constitute an emergency?" Rias nodded.

"Yes, while alarming this wouldn't be something worthy of an emergency, however, it was the circumstances in which they were murdered. Yesterday a barrier was erected in Kuoh, and when we came to the scene all we found was the corpse of a student, Issei Hyoudou and considering the piercing wound and burnt flesh it was mostly done by a fallen angel." My eyes widened.

Issei was dead? That was mildly upsetting . I may not cared for him but the dead being someone I knew by name instead of a random student felt more real and upsetting .

But... a fallen angel huh?  

While I was contemplating Rias continued.

"Not only that, we have found 2 other dead contractors and a potential client. Killed in a considerably more brutal fashion, with all of their corpses mutilated and crucified, someone or some people are hunting down our clients and potential clients, Issei Hyoudou was one of them." I raised my eyes and looked Rias in the eyes.

"Rias-san, I think I know something related to this matter." Rias tilted her head, motioning for me to go on.

"This weekend on Saturday I stumbled on a nun coming to this town, named Asia Argento , I am fairly sure she is not involved or knows about the killings but I think she is at least connected to them in some way considering the timeframe. She was excommunicated from the church for healing a devil and taken in by someone living in the Kuoh Church." Akeno covered her mouth in surprise.

"A sister healing a devil? How unusual, how did she heal them? Devils can't healed by the same method churches usually use, the only sacred gear I can think of being capable of that is Twilight Healing and that is particularly rare. Still, she must have been a very kind sister to go out of her way to heal a devil." Rias nodded in contemplation.

"Hmm, a human with Twilight Healing excommunicated from the church? The ones that took her in are definitely fallen angels. What do you think about this sister personally Yuta-kun?" Rias inquired.

I thought for a little bit.

"I think Asia is nice, a bit too nice and kind. She wouldn't be able to hurt a fly if she tried. I am still in contact with her, I was trying to find out more about who was housing her." Kiba smiled from the side.

"You must really like her Yuta-kun." I gave him a side-eye.

"Yeah? What about it? Is it a problem to be friends with someone from the church? She doesn't seem to have a prejudice against Devils either." Rias shook her head and smiled.

"No, it's fine, she is excommunicated anyway. But I want you to be vigilant Yuta-kun, the girl may be nice but the people she is involved with certainly aren't. But I'm glad you are making friends Yuta-kun." I raised an eyebrow, what was I? Her kid?

Rias clapped to gather everyone's attention.

"Alright, since we know there are fallen hunting contractors, we need to do a few things. I want to figure out what their real motives in this town are, we can't just barge into the Church without proper reason. Everyone, I want you to learn everything you can about the situation without putting yourself in danger, we don't know who the enemy is and what they want."

Huh... demons and angels... murder mystery in a town... highschool ... am in some unsatanly mix of Persona and Shin Megami Tensei?

"Alright then, lastly, Koneko-chan, could you walk Yuta-kun home?" I raised an eyebrow at that.

"Why? Not that I am against it, but I can go home by myself." Koneko also sported a similarly confused expression as Rias explained herself.

"There are enemies out there we don't know the motivations of Yuta-kun, while not likely, they may decide to attack us directly, and since you are still a novice, it would be a good idea for Koneko to accompany you home at least, because if they know who we are then they know when we leave school." Hmm, I couldn't argue against that, I nodded and Rias clapped her hands.

"Alright then, Koneko-chan, do you mind?" Koneko shook her head and stood up, I still didn't know what to make of her. The little midget barely ever talked, she walked up to me, and looked at me with a blank expression.

"...Go?" I shrugged my shoulders.

"Sure, let's." I got up and said farewell to the others while Koneko followed behind me.

As we left the Occult Research Club my thoughts lingered.

Maybe I should buy a detective hat? Or glasses? Every persona protagonist needs their glasses. At least I think they do, I only played Persona 4 for like 6 hours.

We were walking back home in a stifled mood, Koneko was being quiet as always, it felt awkward, I felt like I should say something but at the same time didn't know what to talk about with Koneko. So my gaze wandered, and when I did, I noticed a notification suddenly covering my view, why did it take so long?

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Feat Achieved!

Issei Hyoudou has perished.

The strings of fate have been broken.

Good Luck, you will need it.

+1x Advantage Gold Random Gacha Ticket.

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That was... ominous. Why was Issei so important? Why did the gacha wish me luck now that he was dead? But I know for a fact whenever the gacha wishes me luck that it is an omen.

Last time it wished me luck I got hit by the truck.

I better roll that ticket now just in case.

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Rolling Advantage Gold Random Gacha Ticket...

[Trait - Esper]

|Rarity: Elite|

Specialization, You are a natural-born Esper, using abilities comes naturally to you, they are part of you. Mastering and improving your Abilities are easier. Ability cooldowns are halved.

or

[Trait - Counter Curse Mantra]

|Rarity: Rare|

Whatever negative status effect someone tries to inflict on you gets reflected onto them . Potency scales with Demonic Power.

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I picked Esper without hesitation, my abilities were my lifeline, while curses sounded scary there was a difference. Curses had to come from this world, and if they come from this world, someone from this world can resolve them. Chances are, if I'm cursed, my boss will shill the big bucks to treat me so I don't have to worry about that too much.

So I chose more potential for myself. And the moment I confirmed I felt something in me change. My abilities felt... more responsive? They felt way more natural to me, it felt like going from a prosthetic to a real arm.

I channelled Natural Weapons, I felt the difference, it couldn't be described in simple words. I felt connected to the ability. As if flexing a muscle I adjusted the length of the claws, my skin rippled as I focused on the ability.

So this is what talent felt like.

I could get used to this.

As I inspected my clawed hand, I failed to notice that Koneko had come much closer to me, now leaning over slightly and looking at my hands. I turned to face her, being snapped out of my trance.

"...Claws?" Koneko tilted her head questioningly, she looked oddly like a cat, reminding me of Bobby for some reason. I shifted my hands back to normal while dispelling Natural Claws, showing my hand for Koneko to inspect as she was curious.

"Yep, one of my abilities, it's the one I used to take down Viser with, I was trying out new things with it. Maybe make my claws longer so that I don't have to get as close." Since there was an opportunity to finally make conversation I took it, I shifted my hand back and forth between claws and normal as Koneko watched.

I expected her to comment on my ability but instead of what I expected Koneko got closer to me and... sniffed me. I stood still and she furrowed her brows and smelled me again. Feeling awkward I decided to interject.

"So... what's the verdict? Do I really stink that bad that you had to do a triple-take? That kinda hurts." I tried to joke as Koneko seemed to realize her, frankly, creepy action of just randomly sniffing me for a solid few seconds without saying anything as she suddenly jumped back with a red face, facing away from me.

"N-no, you don't stink. ...You actually smell good." She bowed her head, way too formally. "I apologize if I was being creepy." She lifted her head and I could still see the pink in her cheeks still burning her face as she faced away from me.

I just stared at her, seeing Koneko so emotional was definitely a novelty. She seemed to blush more as I just stared at her not saying at her, getting more fidgety.

Damn, she was absolutely adorable, I failed to see it before since she is as still a statue most of the time with a neutral expression but satandamn blushing Koneko was adorable.

"...What is it?" Koneko couldn't help but ask after a full ten seconds of me just staring at her, I couldn't suppress my grin.

"Nothing, I was just thinking how adorable you were like this, I never saw you flustered before, it's cute." Koneko frowned but her blush still remained lit, she flicked my arm, making me stumble and clench it, which felt like getting hit by a mace. Okay, maybe don't tease your very dangerous senior devil if you want to keep your arm.

"...Pervert." She pointed an accusing finger at me while her lips trembled from the humiliation, I stepped out of the finger-flicking range just in case and raised my arms placatingly.

"Alright, alright, sorry, I couldn't help it. How about I make it up over dinner? My treat." Koneko narrowed her eyes wearily at me, weighing her options.

"I'm sure Akeno-senpai told you about my cooking ability right? I have some salmon left over-" Koneko grabbed my wrist with intense eyes.

"Let's go. What are we waiting for?" I covered my mouth with my hand and struggled to choke down my snicker.

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"...Your house is unexpectedly clean." Koneko said, wandering around my living room while I was cutting up the salmon. I oiled up the pan and turned up the heat while answering.

"I'm not sure if I should be flattered by the compliment or be offended by the dig." I placed the salmon and the sound of the meat sizzling made Koneko perk up from the corner of my vision, she intently watched me cook the salmon steak from the couch. I was impressed with her patience for not asking how long it would be until I was done even once.

Once I was done cooking with Pearl Jam I plated the steak and rolled up my sleeves, I put down the plate in front of Koneko who had shining eyes and a little drool at the corner of her mouth.

"Alright, thank you for waiting. Dig in." Koneko took a bite out of the steak the moment the words left my mouth. I could see her blissful expression as she swallowed her bite and immediately sliced another portion with her knife and chowed down. She was treading an impressive line between manners and hungry devouring.

I could basically see her aura change as she enjoyed the steak, it was like she was in her little slice of paradise. Without thinking my hand moved to her head, the moment I put my hand on her head she froze up for a second, pausing her movements, red dyed her cheeks a little again as she moved her eyes from me down to the salmon and taking another bite, slowly.

...I am taking this as a sign that I am allowed to pat her head. Her hair was so soft and clean, it was almost like cat fur, she must take a lot of care in maintaining her hygiene.

"...You are a very kind person Yuta-san." Koneko mumbled quietly, I could barely make out the words but they made me smile a little. I noticed that Koneko ever so slightly leaned into my touch.

"Thank you Koneko-chan." While I was patting her head, I noticed that the plate had emptied, Koneko raised the empty plate toward me with adorable pleading eyes.

"...Seconds?" This girl was dangerous, she was weaponising her cuteness against me, I was fooled by her cute exterior and got caught off guard. Sighing a little I picked her plate up.

"Alright, alright, no need to squeeze my heart with that face." She tried to hide it but I saw how the corner of her lip quirked up with satisfaction. For a stoic girl, she sure was good at weaponising her cuteness.

I shrugged my shoulders and took out more salmon.

It's not like I disliked cooking for others. Besides, her expression as she eats is too cute.

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After Koneko had left after consuming 3 whole plates of salmon I was left alone at home, Bobby didn't visit today even though I cooked salmon but she'll probably be back again sooner or later. Or she got killed by a hawk, or got cut in half by a powerline.

Well, that remains to be seen. Hopefully she is alive, she may eat like Kirby but she already grew on me.

As I was preparing for my usual workout I felt a phantom tugging sensation, someone was summoning me. I quickly threw my clothes back on in excitement. It's been a while since I got a summon, with this whole murder mystery I better take as many contracts as I can so that I get strong enough to face whatever Persona plotline was happening.

Making sure I was decent I answered the summon. The Gremory summoning circle appeared beneath my feet and teleported me to where the summoning paper was.

There was just one problem however.

When I opened my eyes...

'Fuck.'

I now was inside a wreck of a room, blood was splattered everywhere and I could see a mutilated corpse on the floor. This obviously was not a normal summon.

A/N: Chains of fate have been broken, there is no knight in red shining armour to save the world anymore. The butterfly has flapped its wings and now Yuta has to deal with the storm. He will need plenty of luck to face the world in the original MC's stead.

Koneko finally makes her first debut, and unfortunately for the sassy, and stoic kitty, Yuta's build completely counters her, he has a 4x advantage against her, the girl was barely keeping her composure. What did you guys think about the peerage scene and Koneko in general?  

Oh and lastly, the alternate chapter title is "You came to the wrong house fool !" but it was too long to put in the title section

Chapter Text

~Yuta Yukimura~

I was now inside a wreck of a room, blood was splattered everywhere and I could see a mutilated corpse on the floor. This obviously was not a normal summon.

Did someone kill my summoner? They were killing contractors-

There was only a few seconds difference between me getting the summoned and arriving. They couldn't be that brutalized. Then...

-Who summoned me?

Bang!

I tried to duck the moment I heard the gunshot, but the bullet was way faster than the sound, I felt a searing sensation rip through my back and out of my stomach, it felt like a red hot metal rod was plunged into me. I quickly turned my hand into a claw and turned around just to get kicked hard , crashing into the opposite wall.

Just as I was about to try and get up-

"Urgh!" Something stabbed into my shoulder, the pain was searing, and continuous, like someone shoved a lightsaber into my shoulder.

Correction.

I could see that an actual lightsaber had indeed been stabbed into my shoulder. It was a pale blue blade of light wielded by a man standing over me with a sadistic grin, he had glittering pale red eyes, he wore a priest's clothing and held a pure white sci-fi-looking gun in the other hand. The man above me started cackling like a hyena as I grimaced from the pain.

"Hahaehea! If I knew it was this easy to catch some scummy rat devils like you I would have done it long ago! As a holy man once said 'The wicked must be punished!' isn't that right little devil-kun!" The man twisted the blade in my shoulder as he laughed while I struggled to not scream in pain.

Shit! Shit! Shit!

Of all things, I immediately stumble into the fucking psycho killer in town!? SHIT!

Think, think, distract him, learn what he wants, leave alive.

"S-so you were the one killing our contractors? Who the hell even are you?" I struggled to say as the blade still burnt my shoulder, this pain was one of the worst I have ever felt. I had to keep him talking while I figured out a plan.

The man put a hand on his chin while I planned. Lunge at him with Natural Weapons? No, he still has his gun and he was probably physically stronger than me with how hard his kick was. Sand Veil? He knows where I am with the blade he has me kebab'ed on, won't work. Ghost Form? I would probably die instantly with my devil weakness, elemental weakness, and ghost weakness against his holy blade considering his priest outfit.

Fuck!

"Who am I you ask? I am Freed Selzen. Of course that doesn't mean I want to hear your name, I don't care about the names of scum devils like you, please save your last breaths for something else! When I was doing my daily thing, just punishing filthy sinners as always when I got bored and decided, why not summon Devils to slaughter myself? Aren't I a genius!?" The man rambled like a deranged rabid animal.

I switched out Pearl Jam for Sand Veil, I would try summoning Cloud Elemental and use her to distract him before blasting Sand Veil and replacing Natural Weapons with Ghost to phase out into the Sewers-

Bang!

"Grah!"

The fucking lunatic shot my fucking leg, right through the thigh, my vision was blanking out, there were three holes in my body and they were all burning. Freed pulled the blade out of my shoulder with a frown. But before I could even think about the relief I felt the muzzle of his gun pressed up against my forehead.

"This is getting really boring, you aren't even screaming out in pain for me, you just lay there, do you at least like the taste of exorcist-blessed purge rounds? You are really a let-down, it's disgusting, just lying there and squirming like a worm." I did not reply, just looking behind him at the cloud elemental forming with the winds gathering, Freed looked behind him, noticing the winds to see the familiar forming, getting a grin on his face.

"Oh! Now you have little familiar huh!?" Fast, faster than I had expected Freed slashed apart my cloud elemental before she had fully formed, drawing out a howling shriek as her form dispersed, sapping my mana along with it. "Huh, that was disappointing." Knowing my elemental wasn't dead I decided to go ahead anyway and used Sand Veil, and was just about to switch over to Ghost Form when I froze up with the barrel of the gun shoved toward me again. The sand veil stopped, he was too fast, he moved too fast for me to get an edge over him.

"Ack! My eyes! Damn sand, you really are a pest, aren't you? Fighting and killing you isn't even fun, just think of me killing you as a favor , it will hurt for a bit but it will feel really good alright? So just lay down like the dog you are." The barrel of the gun was pressed up against my neck.

"I would ask for your last words but-"

"Freed-san, I heard noises what happene- Yuta-san!? W-what happened here!?" My eyes widened to the size of saucers as Asia stepped out of the adjacent room and screamed in horror and shrieked at the sight of the carnage.

Why the hell was she with this psychopath?

Freed turned away from me and faced her, not even acknowledging me as a threat.

...Like this, I may as well not be.

"Oh, Asia, are you done setting up the barrier already? Don't scream so loud, you are hurting my ears." Freed scratched his head with his gun, completely unconcerned.

"W-why are are there corpses? Why are you hurting Yuta-kun, Freed-sama! please stop!" Asia got in between me and Freed while Freed put on an annoyed whiny voice.

"Why? Whaddaya mean why? I hate working with amateurs. This is our job, I executed a filthy devil lover and now I am simply purging a filthy shit that sold its soul, I am getting rid of another devil as god commands. Why are crying like a bitch, seriously. Get out of my way."

Freed raised his sword while Asia remained steadfast, shielding me with her arms raised.

Her shielding... me? A girl as frail as her? I have to be protected now?

I gritted my teeth. An emotion that had become unfamiliar to me re-emerging.

"No! I can't let you do that Freed-sama, even if he is a devil Yuta-san is innocent! God would find it unjust , please , Freed-sama! Let him go!" I balled my hand into a fist , she was begging, begging .

"What a shame." Freed swung his sword down, making the blood in veins go cold for a second before I noticed that Asia wasn't hurt, he cut her clothes in half. Freed roughly grabbed Asia's wrist with one hand and her chin in the other.

"You stupid bitch! Just because the fallen angels said I couldn't harm you doesn't mean I won't punish you!" I saw him reaching his hand out for her and it boiled over.

Anger.

I felt angry.

I rarely ever felt properly angry , over time my anger was replaced by the feeling of helplessness. I just couldn't burn rage inside me knowing I could never fight back against it.

But I had abilities now, I had a tool to fight back with.

So what the fuck was I doing right now? Letting a scared girl half my size have to protect and beg for my life?

I felt the fire burn in me as my teeth clenched and my eyes narrowed. My lips twisted into a snarl.

I'm gonna kill him if it's the last thing I do.

Through instinct natural to an esper, I felt a new avenue I could exploit , none of my four limbs would be of help . Then I had to use the other two.

I channelled Natural Weapons as my black wings erupted.

Schwing!

"Guahk! What the fuck!? My arm!!! You fucking Devil bitch!"

Freed screamed as his arm was nearly taken off his shoulder by my wings, the wall behind him was ripped in half, and my other wing lunged at him, like a spear, forcing Freed to jump back in a hurry.

My form now supported two 10 meter long metallic looking razor sharp wings ending with spear tips. I withdrew my wings and they hovered menacingly like venomous tails ready to strike, and they did, lunging at Freed as he jumped away again , my wings dug into the floor like it was made of butter.

"Fuck! Fuck! What is with you insane bastard!?"

Freed raised his gun again but my wings sheared through the floor and rose, swinging straight for him, cutting through the gun in his hand and the wall of the house, collapsing a portion of the roof.

Freed glared at me but I could see the twinge of fear in his eyes, I glared harder, staring into his soul, what a rat, the moment his prey fought back he shits himself.

"...There are no threats." My eyes bore into him as Freed took a step back while I pushed myself up, so much rage made me blind to the pain, my wings grew and raised like guillotines.

"I am simply going to make sure you regret ever having lived." As I brought my wing blades down, Freed did something I didn't expect, he jumped through the window and started running.

"Fuck this! I will get you another day you filthy fucking devil!" My wings tore through what remained of the house, I watched Freed vault over the wall and snarled.

"Oh no you don't!"  

Just as I was about to jump after Freed and chase him down to the sulfur pits I felt hands grab me , looking down I saw Asia looking at me with a tearful expression.

"Yuta-san! Please don't!" I narrowed my eyes down at her, she was seriously stopping me from chasing that fucker?

"Asia are you really trying to stop me-" She clenched my pants harder.

"You're hurt! You won't last like that much longer! P-please don't leave!" I felt my rage simmer as I realized that Asia was telling the truth, she was simply more worried about me than him. I withdrew my wings and collapsed on one knee. Asia quickly raised her hands and I felt healing energy envelop me, lessening the burning pains.

I released a deep breath.

"I'm sorry for snapping at you Asia, and for hiding the fact I was a devil. Thank you for healing me." Asia tried to smile as she healed me.

"Don't be, Yuta-san! Even if you are a devil you are still my friend, you are a great person!" She hung her head. "...I didn't know Freed-sama was so evil." She said, glancing toward the corpse of my would-be contractor and recoiling from the sight.

Freed. I would be murdering him as brutally as possible even if it was the last thing I was doing. He would still be in this town, I would find him and I would make him regret every moment he has breathed.

I patted Asia's head and smiled comfortingly.

"Don't worry about him Asia-chan." It's a fool's endeavour to mind a dead man. "Now, let's go home alright?"

"Home? But I can't go back..." Asia got teary-eyed again while I chuckled, I switched from Natural Weapons to Regeneration to speed things along .

"Hell no am I letting you go back to that fucker Asia-chan, I meant you are coming along with me. And don't even try to object alright?" Asia closed her mouth but I could see a small smile worm its way to her lips.

"Yes, thank you for having me Yuta-san." I smiled, trying to keep my gaze above her neckline and failing.

"And we should also get you spare clothes." Hearing my words Asia looked down to see her clothes torn in half, exposing her fairly large breasts and panties to me, those clothes hid a lot . She quickly covered herself while blushing.

"I-I'm sorry for showing you such a sight!" I shook my head while smiling wryly.

"Don't be, I would never complain about seeing a cute girl's naked body. Thank you for the reward." Asia looked conflicted while blushing like an apple.

"S-should I show you more then?"

...Huh...

A/N: Yuta finally locks in , he has never faced true danger so far and now that he has, the esper trait shows its true value. Also, for anyone confused about why Freed was so dangerous, if you pay attention, Freed is consistently somewhat evenly matched with Kiba and could stall him , he is an opponent that should be above Yuta's paygrade but that goes out the window with creativity.

Freed has signed a warrant for a very painful death along with everyone in the abandoned church, fear a calm man's anger. Yuta is not a person to rely on for mercy. In other news, Asia is finally claimed, do guys like her character? I would love to hear your thoughts about the fight and Asia.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

"Welcome to my home Asia-chan, make yourself comfortable while I fetch some clothes." I scratched my head as I welcomed Asia inside my house, after she had healed me sufficiently I quickly walked us to my home in case Freed grabbed some reinforcements, but I suspected he was too much of a little bitch to do so.

I felt a little self-conscious as Asia looked around in wonder, clasping her hands together and smiling.

"Your house is wonderful Yuta-san, it's very cosy and homely, I really like it." Gah! She is too bright! My eyes are burning! Of course, she forgot again to keep her clothes closed, making her naked breasts spill out. I definitely stared longer than I had intended to before excusing myself to my room to find some clothes for her to wear.

Of course, I had another reason for excusing myself other than the giant erection nearly ripping a hole in my pants. Once I was in my room, I pulled up the logs that popped up after I had driven Freed off.

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Feat Achieved! Find out the Killer in Kuoh Town! +1x Silver Skill Gacha Ticket

Feat Achieved! Survive Freed's Ambush! +1x Golden Ability Gacha Ticket

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That's what I am talking about, a skill and an ability, thank you for your generous donation Freed, I will be sure to liberally use whatever proficiency and ability get from these tickets to inflict as much pain on you as possible.

Alright, silver ticket, hit me.

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Rolling Silver Skill Gacha Ticket...

A Common Skill!

[ Novice - Bladed Weapon Mastery]

|Rarity: Common|

You are reasonably talented in handling bladed weapons. You know how to swing them and align the edge to cut things, and how to poke things too!

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Huh, that's certainly useful, I felt like now I had some experience in wielding a blade, well, any bladed weapon, this mastery covered a lot, anything with a blade I felt like I could handle with reasonable proficiency, and this meant I was better at fighting against blade user too.

Very useful, I should ask to spar with Kiba and Koneko to test my skills.

Now then, Gold Ability, I hope this one is good. I need something that will really hurt Freed. Hit me harder!

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Rolling Gold Ability Gacha Ticket...

A Rare Ability!

[ Rare - Iron Manipulation]

|Rarity: Rare| |Class: Kinesis|

Allows you to telekinetically control iron and iron-based objects in your perception. The level of control and strength is based on the level of focus and the amount of mana spent.

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Ohhh baby. That's what I was looking for. Now that is an ability for an esper. I slotted the ability in and immediately felt the difference. I looked at the chair in the corner of the room with iron legs, I extended my hand toward it and immediately felt my control over it, like it was another limb I could control, the control was instinctual.

The chair floated in the air under my command, it spun diagonally, vertically, and gently set it down again. This was amazing, this opens up so many avenues! A little test later I also concluded that there was a limit to what I could and couldn't control.

My blood couldn't be controlled, I felt like it was because the object the iron was a part of wasn't iron-based but only included iron. I couldn't control iron on a molecular level either, since my perception didn't extend anywhere near microscopic levels.

But the good news was that I could exert control over almost all forms of steel since they were mostly iron. In a modern city basically anywhere I went to I had a weapon at the ready. Seems like the object I am controlling has to be at least 50 - 60% iron for me to be able to exert control over it.

I shook my head, focus Yuta, you can play with your new ability later, you have to give Asia some clothes first. I looked around and found a sufficiently baggy shirt, anything else wouldn't really fit Asia. I grabbed it and went downstairs and saw Asia looking at my cat bed with curiosity, Bobby still hadn't come back , but I wasn't exactly surprised.

"Yuta-san, you have a cat? Can I meet them?" I enjoyed Asia's excited face as I handed the shirt over to her.

"Not really, I feed a stray cat, she occasionally comes over, now, I'll step out so you can change." Asia waved her hands and flushed lightly.

"N-no need I can change right now. Thank you for the clothes Takumi-san." Even though I knew I should have, any attempt at refusal refused to leave my lips as Asia quickly took off her ruined outfit and put on my shirt while I couldn't help but lick my lips. My eyes taking in every detail of Asia's body.

Her slim yet cuddly body, her plentiful ass and her perky boobs were more than big enough to fill my hands tipped with light pink nipples. The only thing covering her decency was her pure white panties.

She quickly put on my shirt and I felt my mouth get drier. My shirt was just large enough to cover her and nothing else, leaving her legs exposed, I could see a hint of her ass and panties whenever she moved.

Fuck, I don't know how much control I really have. It's taking every ounce of my self-restraint to not jump Asia . I didn't know I even had a sex drive like this.

"How do I look Yuta-san?" Asia did a little twirl that further eroded my self-restraint. I gave her a shaky thumbs up.

"You look absolutely adorable Asia." She blushed and mumbled a thank you, the contrast between sexy and adorable was doing a number on my psyche.

"Umm, Yuta-san? Do you perhaps have a sewing kit? Could I please borrow it if it isn't too much of a bother? I-I am fine but I would like to fix my outfit." Asia embarrassedly muttered while I turned to her with raised eyebrows.

"Asia, you sew?" Asia smiled and nodded, reminiscing.

"Yes! I learned how to sew to help the sisters at the church who had to go to a distant tailor to fix their clothes every time." I seriously cannot see a black spot on her soul, if she were any purer I feel like I would take physical damage from being near her.

I couldn't help but pat her head which she confusedly leaned into without thinking but smiled regardless.

"Alright Asia, I'll see if I can get you a sewing kit . Since I don't have one lying around the house. Speaking of, let me show you around." Asia agreed with excitement, I felt like this was her first time being inside a proper house.

I showed Asia around my house while trying to ignore her clothes and where everything was, she would have to stay here for a while until I crucified Freed, because the streets weren't safe for Asia when he was still alive and not getting his bones replaced with iron spikes.

Of course, the streets were not safe for him when I was still alive. I will have to talk about everything with Rias tomorrow.

She could stay here even after if she wanted, but I wasn't about to force her, I said I was her friend and I stick with my words.

And then, since it had been a long day it was time to decide the sleeping arrangements.

"Alright, Asia-chan, you can sleep on the bed, I'll take the couch." Asia shook her adamantly, and I kinda expected it at this point, she was self-sacrificing, she would lay over a puddle so that you could step on her and over it with a smile on her face if you asked her to.

"I can't possibly! It's your bed Yuta-san and I have already caused you enough trouble." I crossed my arms, this was going to be an uphill battle.

"Well, I won't let a guest sleep on my couch, just take it, Asia, you already saved me today enough and it's poor manners to let my guest sleep on the couch." I remained adamant, I was not letting her sleep on the couch. Then Asia seemed to have an idea.

"W-what if we slept together?" Asia flushed and looked away "I-if you are fine with it of course Yuta-san." I took a deep breath, this would be a really big test of my patience but at the same time, I physically couldn't refuse a pretty girl offering to sleep together. My tongue and lips refused to form such words.

"Sure, if you are okay with it." Asia smiled and that's how we ended up together on my bed. Thankfully mine was a double bed so we weren't squeezed together but our skin made contact more often than not.

I had exercised a surprising level of self-restraint to not grope Asia's soft body as she slept. I would not give in to the horny so easily. Asia was facing away from me, her hair smelled like lavender, to be honest, I felt too nervous to properly fall asleep like this .

"This feels... nice. Yuta-san." Asia spoke up in a small voice, I could feel the embarrassment in her voice but there was also the tone of happiness it carried. "I am happy to be here with you Yuta-san, thank you so much for choosing to help me, I... really don't know what I could have done without you.." She said in a whisper, I couldn't resist, I wrapped my arm around Asia and pulled her in for a hug as she did a little 'eep!'.

"Don't mention it Asia, no matter what happens I'm with you as long as you are willing to have me. Now, get a good rest. Good night Asia." Asia made a yawning noise, now the sleep was truly hitting her she mumbled tiredly.

"Good night Yuta-san..." And drifted off into sleep before she could even finish her words. Poor girl must be exhausted.

Speaking of exhaustion, it's about time I pass out too. Getting holes poked into me, and then healing from them was very exhausting.

The moment I closed my eyes I felt the grasp of sandman drag me to dreamland.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

I woke up to a sweet sight, Asia was clinging to me in her sleep like a baby koala, her arms wrapped around my torso and her head nestled into the crook of my shoulder, a little drool leaked out of her mouth. It made me want to poke her so bad.

Speaking of poking, there was something poking alright, my lower body was rebelling against the tyranny of my rationality, demanding to be released, I was in bed with an adorable girl and it sought salvation. And now in our position, my engorged crotch was rubbing against Asia's panty-clad ass.

My rationality was just about to lose the battle when Asia roused from her sleep, accidentally rubbing against my penis making my eye twitch.

"Good morning Yuta-san~ hmm... what's what-?" Asia sleepily rubbed her eyes before her eyes drifted down to see my erection rubbing against her, almost on autopilot I activated Ghost Form and phased through her and landed on the floor.

"Eh?" Asia muttered sleepily, unable to keep herself fully lucid, a fact I was very thankful for, I couldn't handle the shame of my tool rubbing against Asia at the moment. I turned around and rubbed the sleepy Asia's head.

"You can go back to sleep Asia, I will handle breakfast and you can come down at any time ." I pulled her covers up as Asia sleepily nodded.

"Okay..." And she was out again. I sighed a relieved breath. Crisis averted.

Now, I need a cold shower, or three.

After that, it was time to tell Rias about what happened last night.

And then it's hunting time.

A/N: Yuta, right after esper actually rolled such a good ability I am surprised, kinesis type abilities are always fun to write, especially one like Ferrikinesis, this will be fun to write. what do you guys think about the roll? Any synergies or potential uses in mind? I would love to know.

Also, some Asia fluff before we get down to the gritty, this absolute cinnamon roll is what Yuta is fighting for, even if she is causing a lot of trouble for his sense of self-restraint. A shame, if only there were a lewd Onee-san to take care of his pent-up needs, if only . What did you guys think about Yuta and Asia's domestic scene and their dynamic? I would love to know. I hope it felt natural.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

After taking a cold shower, or three, I started on my morning routine, I didn't wake up Asia since the girl was utterly exhausted after yesterday. So was I but she was human and I was a devil, I was built from birth to take punishment.

I took time out of my morning to cook several meals and refrigerated them for Asia to reheat when she wakes up. After that, I left my house after making sure my uniform was on properly and I was not missing anything.

Of course, the moment I left my house I saw Rias waiting for me again, I even left early this time too. For a king and Princess, she sure has plenty of free time.

"Ah good morning Yuta-kun, how was your morning?" Rias greeted me with a smile as always while I shrugged, I really didn't feel that great. I was uninjured but tired out of my mind. I followed her as we walked to school.

"Good morning Rias-san, could have been better after that insane exorcist nearly killed me." Rias stopped in place, making me furrow my brows. She turned to me with a dead serious expression.

" ...Yuta-kun, what do you mean by that? " Rias said with a cold voice while I nonchalantly answered.

"Yesterday, I was summoned by a client, but it turned out he wasn't a client but a mad exorcist who shot me through my stomach, then my leg and stabbed me in the shoulder with his weapons. I drove him off though." Rias looked haunted, she clamped her hands on my shoulders and gave me a grave explanation.

"Yuta-kun, tell me everything, right now." Wow, she wasn't this mad about the fallen angels.

"Ok... but maybe let's get to the club or somewhere private first?" Without saying a word Rias grabbed my arm and formed a teleportation circle below us and teleported us to the Occult Research Club faster than I had ever seen her do before.

"We are here Yuta-kun. Now, what happened yesterday?" Rias asked me gently but furrowed her brows at my serious expression as I sat down.

"Rias-san, did you notice a demolished house yesterday?" Rias nodded.

"Yes, did Akeno tell you? We discovered the corpse of yet another contractor at the scene, it was most likely done by the fallen angels. Why was it perhaps..." In response, I wordlessly removed my top uniform, making Rias blush a split second before a much more serious expression settled on her face when she spotted the nasty scar on my shoulder and the smaller one over my stomach.

"It was actually done by me. I found who killed our contractors and was ambushed by him yesterday and drove him off." Rias narrowed her eyes, I could see an eerie aura around her as her hand crushed the desk she was sitting on with her grip. She spoke in a tone of barely concealed anger.

"Tell me everything Yuta-kun, don't spare any details, I want to hear everything, I will excuse you from your classes if we need time." I nodded and started telling Rias what happened last night.

I mentioned how I was ambushed by Freed, how Asia stood up for me, how I drove him off using natural weapons. By the end of it, Rias was hugging me like a teddy bear again, not that I minded being suffocated by her breasts.

"I'm sorry Yuta-kun... I'm sorry that I wasn't able to help you, I must seem pathetic to you." I could feel it in her voice, the fear and anger, at herself for me being nearly killed under her watch. She released my head and looked out of the window, the red aura surrounding her again.

"This provocation I can't ignore." She clenched her fist, tightly "I will find them and make them pay, even if they are from the Grigori, nobody hurts my family and gets away with it-" I cut in, my voice.

"Actually." Rias turned to me, the wind taken out of her sails with my voice, confusion apparent in her face. I looked Rias dead in the eyes.

"Rias, I will kill Freed myself."

"What are you talking about Yuta-kun? That's too dangerous, you already nearly died once." Rias frowned but I didn't back down.

"I need to kill him myself, I want to make sure I am the one that drains the light out of his eyes." My fist clenched. "And, I got stronger from surviving. So please leave this to me." I looked Rias in the eyes sincerely.

"Yuta-kun, this is incredibly irresponsible and needlessly dangerous." Rias met my gaze head-on.

"I know, but I have to, and I am confident in myself." Rias held my gaze for a full 10 very uncomfortable seconds before sighing in resignation and sagging her shoulders, making me release a breath I didn't know I was holding.

"If that's truly what you want to do, I will not stop you Yuta-kun, I will respect your wishes. But I want you to remember that whatever you need help with I will help you with it, you do not have to do this alone. Tell us if you need anything all right?" I nodded and smiled a little.

Thankfully Rias was still very understanding even if I was the one being unreasonable here. If I was in her position I know I wouldn't let myself go.

"Thank you Rias-san." Rias' frown gave way to a light smile but her narrowed eyes told me otherwise.

"However, if you recklessly go in and get hurt I will not be very forgiving understood?" I mock saluted like she was my superior in the army.

"Yes ma'am" Rias' expression finally softened as she leaned over and hugged me again, I did not mind as she was really soft but it was still a little weird regardless.

"Alright, Yuta-kun, I am choosing to trust you so don't disappoint me. Now, we should get going, we dont want to be late for class more than we already are." We both got up and headed to class after that since even Devils cannot afford to be tardy I suppose .

But the thought that lingered on my mind was...

Well, I better not disappoint after I talked all that.

I was going to crush Freed swiftly and thoroughly.

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~Takumi Katsuragi~

Although I wanted to bust down the church door and tear Freed to shreds, as Rias had said earlier, it was very reckless for me right now.

In a direct confrontation, I wasn't confident in besting Freed, he was fast, strong and ruthless even if he wasn't very bright. And he wasn't sadistic enough to drag a fight out.

But unlike last time it wouldn't be so one-sided, because this time it wasn't Freed ambushing but hopefully it would be the other way around. The importance of initiative in a fight cannot be underestimated.

Still, I need something .

So that was why I was now in the woods at the back of the Occult Research Club, no one came here, which was perfect ground for some improvised training.

I was not strong enough with just my current powers to take down Freed, maybe with Iron Manipulation but I wasn't confident enough in it to trust my life with it. Then I thought about something.

My instincts as an Esper tickled something in the back of my spine, it told me that I wasn't utilizing my abilities well enough, a nagging feeling that I hadn't tried something.

I stared at the abilities screen in deliberation.

My abilities individually weren't anything too impressive, only Natural Weapons managed to drive off Freed because he was caught off guard.

Individually...

My eyes opened wide as I looked at the ability screen closely.

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-Active(2/2)-

[ Uncommon - Natural Weapons]

[ Uncommon - Sand Veil]

What if I try to use them together? But that doesn't work, there is no way for Natural Weapons to affect the Sand Veil and vice versa. Sure I could use the help Sand Veil provides to ambush my enemy with Natural Weapons but... that doesn't seem to be what my instincts tell me, I already knew about that, if it was that then I wouldn't feel such a nagging sensation.

I looked into myself. The points of light inside of my soul slotted into imaginary notches representing my ability slots.

Use them together. Together...

Their effects, not using them one after another or that sort of thing. Their effects, use them together, where do their effects intersect? Where could they intersect?

I felt it, it was almost like a magnetic force once I had found it, with a nudge, I felt the abilities want to combine as I pulled on both lights together in tandem.

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Temporarily Combine [Uncommon - Natural Weapons] and [Uncommon - Sand Veil]?

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When I approved I felt the sand of Sand Veil, instead of doing what it normally would and creating a sandstorm around me, instead swirled around my arm violently, I felt it, my command over the sand, I could shape it into weapons, projectiles.

My eyes moved over to the window. My lips curled into a smirk as saw I was what was on my ability list.

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[Combination - Desert Weaponry]

|Rarity: Rare| |Combination: Sand Veil & Natural Weapons|

"Desert La Spada!"

Allows you to form violent sandstorms into a variety of weapon-like projectiles.

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My inner weeb cried its heart out, even the system was telling me, just do it, it was begging.

I reared my arm back and the sandstorm grew more violent before I swung.

"Desert La Spada!"

The sandstorm I threw out turned into multiple fan-shaped blades, like guillotines made of sand, tearing through multiple trees like they were made of paper.

...So, this is what actual power felt like. My body felt tingly, like a current of electricity was hooked up to me. I felt like a child again, finding a fresh chest of toys to play with.

With a thought, Desert Weaponry fell apart back into Natural Weapons and Sand Veil. I wanted to see if I could find any other combinations. So I glanced over my ability list before deciding on a combination.

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-Active(2/2)-

[ Uncommon - Natural Weapons]

[ Uncommon - Sand Veil]

-Storage-

[ Uncommon - Regenaration]

[ Rare - Pearl Jam]

[ Rare - Disguise]

[ Rare - Iron Manipulation]

[ Elite - Ghost Form]

Thinking of an idea I replaced Natural Weapons with Ghost Form instead and to my delight I felt the sensation of a potential synergy again, like putting magnets next to each other, you could just feel them being compatible.

And combining them gave...

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[Combination - Sandstorm Shift]

|Rarity: Elite| |Combination: Sand Veil & Ghost Form|

Allows you to turn into a living sandstorm. You can freely control the sand stream, the only way to damage you in this form is to destroy the sand particles that make up your body. Your sand cannot extend more than 20 meters away from your centre.

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A defence even better than Ghost Form, if I trained I could even pull a logia and transform the moment a punch hits me. The problem it had was that its on-and-off states were more difficult than Ghost Form. With Ghost Form, I could simply flicker it on and off. But with Sandstorm Shift I had to gather everything in one place to turn back.

Unfortunately, I didn't have all day and energy to keep working on synergies so I focused on Sand Weaponry the most during the break I had since the teacher was sick. Straight-up strong stopping power with decent was very valuable to me, especially against Freed, with its range he didn't have many ways to respond to it.

I could definitely work with this.

Synergies were seriously useful things weren't they?

A/N: Rias gives Yuta the go-ahead to go on his roll-collecting trip- I mean his revenge mission against Freed that is totally unrelated to the hefty stack of tickets he will get from clearing Act 1: Fallen Fiasco.

I decided to refine the combination abilities in MHA to a more refined version and came up with the synergy system, because Yuta has a lot of potential synergies, especially with Natural Weapons. What did you guys think about the synergy system? Do you like it? Have any ideas for your own synergies between Yuta's abilities? I'd love to your thoughts about it !

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~Yuta Yukimura~

The rest of the school day passed without any major incidents, the rest of the club visited me to check on me after hearing about my condition from Rias but that was all.

During class I mostly spent my time distracted with playing with Iron Manipulation, I may or may not have caused our hot teacher's skirt to fall down and expose her panties using her iron belt buckle but no one can prove I did it so I didn't do such a thing.

My precision was decent, I couldn't sew with an iron needle yet but I could probably tie a chain into a knot. Iron manipulation and mischief were what kept my little skull out of the ocean of boredom until the last bell rang. When the last bell had rung that meant I could finally get out of my seat and go home to practice with my abilities some more.

Of course, however, like always I bumped into someone right after getting out of class. And that someone turned out to be Akeno, holding her school bag in her hands and looking ready to leave school just like I was. She raised a hand in greeting with a kind smile on her face.

"Hello Yuta-kun~ would you mind if I joined you? I heard the streets are rather dangerous these days and Koneko-chan was busy today." So she was the one walking me home today? Well, I didn't mind, I may want to beat Freed solo but that doesn't mean I am fine getting ambushed by him again.

When I agreed Akeno joined me promptly, as we walked together she asked me about my day and how my studies were going and such. I knew she was just being polite but I was on edge against her.

Akeno was like a predator. She would act innocent and then strike with the most shameless teasing known to man a second later without letting up.

She seemed docile enough but I didn't know when she would strike, and I was weak to teasing because I wasn't confident enough in the fact that she was maybe actually attracted to me instead of fucking with me for the fun of it.

Thankfully for my nerves, she did not do anything until I reached my home, apparently, she wanted to do a cooking lesson at my home which I accepted without hesitation. I am a man with a weak will.

"So this is your house Yuta-kun? I like it, it seems very cosy. Is Asia-chan still with you?" Akeno commented as we arrived at my front doors, I was slightly nervous about Asia and Akeno meeting but I'm sure it will be fine.

Asia is a kind girl and Akeno-senpai was... also... kind . Well, she was kind but also very mischievous. I told her about Asia before we arrived and she didn't seem opposed to her thankfully.

"Yeah, I think you guys will get along," I answered before opening the door and letting ourselves in. "Asia! I'm back, I have a guest with me!" In response to my words, I heard the patter of footsteps on wood as Asia rushed down the stairs to greet us.

"I'm coming-!" That's what she said. "Welcome back Yuta-san, you have guests? Um, forgive me for asking but who might you be?" Asia asked politely as Akeno giggled.

"Aren't you just adorable~ nice to meet you Asia-chan, I am Yuta-kun's senior devil, Akeno Himejima. No need to be shy, I am just here to help him with his cooking lessons." Asia immediately bowed to her in greeting.

"Oh! Is that so? It's very nice to meet you Himejima-san, thank you very much for helping Yuta-san." I sighed while removing my shoes and throwing my bag onto the couch.

"Asia, you don't have to be so overly polite you know ? You can act casually if you want." Seriously, this girl needed to grow a spine but I had no idea how to teach her to be more assertive. Maybe a more normal environment would help her become less of a pushover.

I gave Akeno a quick tour around the house she seemed to get along with Asia, but before we moved over to the kitchen Akeno suspiciously asked Asia for some privacy. Of course, Asia was more than ready to give us some because she was Asia and I don't think she was physically capable of rejecting requests from others.

As we started our I kept glancing at Akeno from the corner of my eye, she wasn't undressing or deepthroating a cucumber like I had been conditioned to expect. Catching my gaze Akeno giggled.

"Oh~? Are you perhaps expecting something Yuta-kun? Perhaps something you were looking forward to~?" Her vulpine grin made my eye twitch, I felt like she was toying with me, this was getting a tad on my nerves, especially because I was looking forward to something like that thank you very much.

"...Was it that obvious?" I will not take any blame for this, I was a teenager with a beyond-healthy libido. Akeno softly giggled again, drawing closer to me, standing so close to me that I could smell her lavender-scented hair and stare into her amethyst-coloured eyes.

"Well~ I guess you deserve a special kind of reward for being so patient. Honestly speaking, I expected you to try and jump me at least once or twice during cooking lessons with how intense your eyes were." I blushed a little, did she want me to? Maybe? Fuck if I know, the mind of a woman is an unknowable maze I cannot hope to traverse.

"Besides, after what happened you deserve a little break and a reward, don't you? I can... see how tense you are." Akeno said, glancing downward and licking her lips a little, sending a shiver down my spine, I then noticed the boner hard enough to break bricks trying to pierce its way out of my pants.

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I really wanted to say something but no words came to my mouth as Akeno suddenly pulled my pants down, making my eyes widen and hers too as all 9 inches of my phallus slapped her in the face. Akeno gently grasped it and looked over it in wonder, even drawing her nose closer for a little sniff that made my cock twitch.

"O-oh, you have a very impressive penis Yuta-kun, it's even bigger than my toys. But... I think I can handle it~" Akeno said with confidence but I heard her voice waver ever so slightly when she looked over my imposing-looking cock.

Chu~

My knees felt weak when she planted a chaste kiss on my engorged tip, it felt like a shiver of pleasure ran through my body. Akeno seemed almost entranced as she licked at my shaft, her hands gently caressing it, the pleasure was beyond any masturbation I had ever done.

"Do you like that~? I may not have any experience but I watched plenty of videos~" Akeno said while jerking me off with her hand gently, I thought that a girl like her would have had way more experience so I was quite surprised.

"You're very good at this Akeno-senpai." I tried really hard not to groan while saying that, Akeno's eyes lit up at the affirmation. "When you say that it just makes me want to tease you more you know Yuta-kun~" Akeno gripped my cock and took the head into her mouth.

She licked and sucked on the tip like was some lollipop, she was still teasing me, my loins stirred. I rocked my hips but she was still not going all in, she was enjoying my flustered reactions.

A single vein popped up in my forehead.

Akeno... was really playing with me. I felt a little irritated with her constant teasing and even with my cock in her mouth she was still teasing me.

You know what? Fuck it.

No more passiveness. I'm done being teased.

I put my hand on Akeno's head as she curiously peered an eye up at me, her tongue stalling.

"Enough, start sucking properly."

She wanted me to jump her? Well, if she wants to be treated roughly , so be it.

Without thinking hands reached and grabbed Akeno's head properly before thrusting my hips, making my cock go all the way down her throat as Akeno moaned into my cock. Surprisingly she didn't even gag.

The sensation was beyond any masturbation, rational thought had damn near left my mind at the stimulation and the ancient mating brain was at the helm. I roughly used Akeno's head, thrusting my hips powerfully and Akeno seemed invigorated, her tongue moving relentlessly and she tried to suck even harder.

Some saliva sputtered out as I roughly fucked her mouth and throat. My balls quivered and simmered, I felt heat in my nethers, begging to be released, I couldn't hold on for long, not with this kind of pleasure.

"Akeno! I'm cumming, drink it!"

Akeno's hands wrapped around my hips and I thrusted again, burying her head in my crotch as my last rope of resistance was cut and I shot ropes of cum down Akeno's throat. My thick seed spilling down her gullet as she drank me dry. I felt her body tremble and shiver for a few seconds, once I felt all the spunk in my system leave I pulled my soft cock out of Akeno's soft mouth, letting her finally get some oxygen.

"Mmh~"

Akeno licked her lips as she took deep breaths, I could see a line of cum trailing down her chin, she was still sweaty and squatting on the ground, and her cheeks were flushed. She got up on shaky legs and I had to sit down with the sheer volume of juice I flushed out. She wiped her mouth with her sleeve once before smiling at me.

"I m-may have gotten a little carried away. But you were excellent Yuta-kun. We may have to cut this lesson a bit short, I have to go home to change." This was when I discovered the small puddle on the floor and the small trail leaking down Akeno's legs.

Damn.

I did that. Didn't I?

"...So, see you tomorrow Akeno-senpai?" I asked with a rather absent voice, I felt like I was an awakened saint at the moment. I never had a post nut this clear before.

"Yes, see you tomorrow Yuta-kun, good night, say goodbye to Asia-chan for me too alright?" With that Akeno quickly made her exit by teleporting out while I still stood here post-climax.

Whoa.

That was amazing.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

It took me a few moments to regain whatever bearings I could gather and clean up the kitchen and finish dinner, I ate together with Asia who looked rather flushed for some reason but I couldn't pay attention.

I got a blowjob from my supernaturally attractive senior. I think this is the luckiest in life I have ever been. I feel like a new and improved man and the gacha seemed to agree.

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Feat Achieved! Get your first blowjob +1 Silver Skill Gacha Ticket

Rolling...

A Rare Skill!

[Adept - Shooting]

|Rarity: Rare|

You are a natural crack shot with most projectile weapons, you are very talented in the art of shooting and aiming projectiles.

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Of course, I rolled it instantly to ride on my current wave of luck. It was a pretty good skill but I didn't have guns on me so I wasn't going to be using it any time soon. May need to nab one of Freed's guns if he has any spares.

After dinner, I cleaned up everything together with Asia before deciding to take a small walk outside to buy some groceries and such, and more because I couldn't exactly contain how hyper I felt after what I did with Akeno.

Maybe, my luck was finally turning around.

-Was what I would be saying if the night sky didn't suddenly get replaced with a kaleidoscopic-looking purple barrier as I was leading back with a bag of groceries.

Like the ones that Rias warned me about.

I sighed.

Maybe I shouldn't jinx it next time.

At least my targets were doing the delivery for me.

A/N: Yuta finally gets some action from his lewd half fallen-angel half-devil, full pervert senpai, she is the true predator of any Helltaker unable to tame her. What did you guys think about Akeno and her quick scene? I would love to know.

And finally, someone comes picking a fight with Yuta again, he just can't catch a break. But this time Yuta is much stronger and not to mention much more motivated. Time to find out just how much damage Yuta can do with his new abilities.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

I sighed and immediately slotted in regeneration and Iron Manipulation the moment the sky changed colours, I was in the middle of a street, and I was surrounded by iron-based objects, anyone facing me would be at a disadvantage.

Spinning on my heel I faced the noise of wings flapping to see an attractive fallen angel hovering ominously in the air with her crow-like wings spread, she was a busty older woman wearing a rouge business suit that showed a lot of cleavage. I could even see her panties from down here, which were purple.

But that did little to distract my thoughts from the solid spear of light formed in her hand that screamed danger to me. And, predictably, she reared her arm back and shot the spear toward me like a javelin, aiming for my thigh.

Crack!

I jumped back lightly, the spear wasn't too fast, I was able to dodge it rather handily. My face seemed calm but my thoughts raced.

My eyes darted around as I evaluated her threat, Light Spear, a trademark of the Fallen Angels. Strength? Weak, I could probably do better with an uncommon ability, even as a devil I would be able to survive a spear or two. Not fast enough to catch me easily either.

I lifted my head to face the busty fallen that was floating above me, the spear she just threw might have just been to observe my reaction or a warning shot, I should finish this as quickly and efficiently as possible to not give her any chances in any case, first, distract her.

"So, Miss Fallen Angel, why are you doing this? Do you really want to make an enemy out of the Gremory like this? I don't remember doing anything to draw your ire."

While I addressed her my real attention was actually on the stop sign on the ground that I had quietly ripped out of the ground that she didn't notice as she scowled with a rather fierce expression, not much for awareness that one.

"Do you think we are afraid of the Gremory? We are proud fallen angels. Now, reveal where you are hiding Asia Argento! I know you have her servant of Gremory! Freed told me all about it." The woman pointed another spear at me and it was as if a switch had been flipped for me.

They were looking for Asia? That changed things completely. This was very personal now. Very, very personal .

"Why are you looking for her?" I tried my best to act, but my voice leaked out colder than I had intended as the woman sneered, poising her spear ready to strike once again.

"So you do know where she is, no matter, I will make you talk myself!" But before she threw her spear again my stop sign had sneakily floated behind her, and with a clench of my fist the stop sign swung full force into the back of her head.

-Bonk!

Crash!

There was a loud thud sound as the stop sign slammed into the back of her head with enough force to turn the head of any human to fine pink mist, her head yanked forward like she was stuck in a car crash as she was batted to the ground by the stop sign, crashing into it heavily without being able to guard herself.

A concussion at least.

But I didn't let it go easily. Supernaturals were rather hardy, I would know.

"Urgh!" She tried to push herself off the ground but before she could the stop sign returned.

Clang!

-And batted the back of her head again, cracking the asphalt with her forehead and deforming the head of the stop sign. I bent the stop sign like a metal snake with my iron control, the metal bar wrapped around her neck, choking her, I lifted her up by the neck like a certain Sith, dragging her over to me by the metal around her neck, her hands gripped her restraint trying to break it but iron was more durable when I controlled it thanks to my magical power.

"You struggle a lot." Her face twisted in rage, and before she could retaliate I ripped out the iron fence from the house next to us, it hit her in the back, making her stumble before the fence bent and twisted like ropes under my command, the segments covering her body, restraining her arms and legs in a style that had become like turtle shell bondage without my thinking of it. Now the fallen was completely restrained, she struggled but even with her fallen angel strength, there was nowhere enough leverage for her to budge her restraints.

"Grrh! Release me, you filthy devil!" She wriggled, trying to get herself loose to no avail while I brought her over, leaving less than a meter of distance between us.

"Why do you need to find Asia and what do you want her for?" I asked again while tightening the restrains just a little for the threat. She scoffed in my face.

"Why should I listen to anything you sa -" I gave her a reason.

Crack!

"Grah! Wh-what!?" Fear crept into her face as her elbow was bent the wrong way by the iron rods, I gripped her chin and forced her to keep eye contact with me.

"Why do you need to find Asia and what do you want her for?"

"You coward- argh!" I could see tears form in the side of her eyes as her other elbow broke too. I closed my hand a little, closing the neck brace enough to make it very difficult for her to breathe.

"I will say this bluntly, I keep breaking your bones until you tell me what you want, next I am moving onto the fingers, if you refuse till the bitter end, the last bone I break will be your neck." I stared into her eyes, there was barely a centimetre between us, I could feel her scared breath on my face.

"You can keep suffering needlessly or just tell me what I want, hell, if you talk right now I promise I will spare you, the choice is yours." I gripped her index finger roughly as she sweated profusely, I started bending it little by little the wrong way, fear clear as day on her face. Her lips trembled.

"A-Alright I-I'll talk." She struggled to get the words out from the metal choking her, I let it slack just a bit. Thankfully, the facade of a proud fallen angel crumbled quickly in the face of a promise of extreme violence.

I was thankful for that, I didn't particularly enjoy torturing random people.

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I sat on Kalawarner's unconscious body, I had bludgeoned the back of her head into unconsciousness with the stop sign after hearing what she had to say. And what I heard wasn't pretty.

These bastards. They only fueled my desire to kill them.

They had taken in Asia not even to make use of her healing abilities or being potentially adept at magic, I could understand that and that reason would make me less mad, she would have just been a part of their little group.

But no.

Those fucking crows had brought her to sacrifice her to their head honcho, Raynare, so that she could sacrifice Asia in a ritual to take her sacred gear for herself. They never cared about Asia in the first place, she was never anything more than a loot chest for them.

This just affirmed it for me, death sentence, no pleas or appeals.

I needed to strike them today. They knew Kalarwarner was out, and they would go on high alert if she did not return today.

And I wasn't taking the chance of letting her go back to them, so today was execution day. Besides, this was an opportunity, I knew about them and they didn't expect me.

Kalawarner was weak, and according to her Raynare wasn't too much stronger. I didn't know if that was her pride speaking but it shouldn't be far from the truth. The rest of the stray priests and exorcists in the basement could be a problem but the important fact stood right now.

They were preparing for a ceremony, they were ripe for an ambush.

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[New Quest: Fallen Down on Hard Times]

Description: Fallen Angels are in your town and they have picked the wrong person to mess with. Now, it falls on you to get your revenge and secure the safety of your nun girlfriend. And tonight's the night to strike.

Requirements:

Defeat Freed Selzen without outside interference

Reward: 1x Gold Ability Gacha Ticket,

Defeat All of the Fallen Angels in Kuoh without intervention

Reward: 1x Gold Trait Gacha Ticket

Completion reward: 1x Gold Item Gacha Ticket

Note: The quest will be counted as failed after 8 hours have passed or if any of the targets have escaped.

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Those rewards certainly look juicy, I don't know about that Arc 1 modifier but I was going to ram them hard regardless, I was just being given even better motivation.

Now then... I certainly have some ideas on how to handle this infestation.

But first, I need to make a call.

I fished out my cellphone and dialled Rias' number, no use in keeping her in the dark, after three rings she picked up.

< "Yuta-kun? What is it?" >

"Hey Rias-san, I need your help with something..."

What I am going to do to them will hit harder than falling from heaven ever did.

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~ Abandoned Church ~

Twilight shone down on the woods surrounding the abandoned church nestled on one of the hills surrounding Kuoh. Sitting on one of the trees was Mittlet, dressed in gothic lolita attire and kicking her legs back and forth childishly while doing the bare minimum she had to do as the guard stationed outside alongside Dohnaseek who was on the opposite side at the back of the church.

As she was getting bored out of her mind she finally heard the sound of flapping wings she was waiting for. She shifted her eyes from the ground to see her busty ally floating down toward her with the target in her arms, she held a stern face as always.

"Mittelt, I'm back. Take her from my hands, I'm tired from carrying her all the way here." 'Kalawarner' said landing in front of her with a limp 'Asia' in her arms.

Mittelt whined while throwing her arms in the air exaggeratingly.

"Finally! What took you so long!? Raynare-nee has been chewing my ear off like I was the one responsible for nabbing her! Just take her down yourself, she'll just complain that I abandoned my post if I do it." Kalawarner still held a stoic facade but Mittelt saw her brow furrow for a second in irritation.

"Just take her, I'll cover for you, I do not want to see Raynare's smug face right now. My back hurts from searching all day." Mittelt covered her mouth as she smugly giggled.

" Oh my~ are you sure it isn't because of your cow tits? Whatever, I'll be gracious and carry her for you but you better be grateful." Of course, Mittelt was planning to use this opportunity to lie to Raynare about how Kalawarner messed up and she had to be the one to get the girl instead.

Mittelt walked over to 'Kalawarner', ready to receive the 'unconscious girl' before 'Kalawarner' suddenly threw the body over to her making her panic and stretch her arms out to catch

"What the fu-" Her words were cut off as 'Kalawarner' lunged forward and drove her hand into the distracted Mittelt's abdomen, the clawed digit stabbing through her body, impaling her on the arm.

"Guek!" Mittelt vomited a mouthful of blood before keeling over, in front of her eyes the facade peeled away like a mirage being lifted, the image of 'Asia' faded to that of a rolled-up blanket while 'Kalawarner' was replaced with a young man whose hollow eyes seemed to drill into her very soul.

Ripping the arm out, the man let Mittelt collapse onto the floor like a discarded puppet.

He stared at the abandoned church through the tree line with a stern face before swinging his arm to throw the blood off of it.

"3 left."

A/N: Creativity is the best weapon at a gacha user's disposal, and Yuta's is plenty sharpened. Yuta is pretty ruthless when push comes to shove, he is going to complete his quest efficiently and thoroughly. They messed with the wrong girl, there is no mercy, just a death sentence without plea .

What did you guys think about Yuta's performance in this chapter? I wanted to creatively use most of his abilities, especially the disguise one. Yuta will make good use of any tool given. He has an assassin build that focuses on singular decisive shots compared to Hakari's bruiser style. What did you guys think about this chapter and how Hakari acted alongside the fallen? I would love to hear your thoughts about it.

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A/N: Just a heads up, the class section of the abilities may seem a little different with classifications since I have been overhauling the gacha script and list to make them better and easier to use and not an absolute mess. I have actual consistent classes for abilities now rather than just listing them off the top of my head with zero consistency.

~Yuta Yukimura~

2 down. 3 to go. Freed Selzen, Dohnaseek, and Raynare.

The first two went down easily but the other two I suspect won't be. Dohnaseek, from what was told to me was way more cautious and hard-strung than Mittlet which was why I went for her first just in case.

Dohnaseek is on the other side of the church, maybe I could snipe him with Desert Weaponry? But I would like to dispatch him quietly to not alert Freed who is on the upper portion of the church, I can't defeat him if he has backup.

Hmm, let's see if I can get any tools I can use to solve this situation.

My eyes drifted to the minimized notifications window and brought them up.

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Feat Achieved! Defeat Kalawarner +1x Silver Ability Gacha Ticket

Feat Achieved! Defeat Mittelt +1x Silver Item Gacha Ticket

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Yeah, it's best to roll them now and see if I can use the rewards right now .

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Rolling Silver Ability Gacha Ticket...

An Uncommon Ability!

[ Uncommon - Set Trap]

|Rarity: Uncommon| |Class: Alteration|

Allows you to set traps that can be activated remotely or under certain conditions. Traps can only produce effects that you yourself are able to produce. Only 5 traps are able to be armed at once.

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Hmm, can I use this right now? No, I was the one ambushing them, not the other way around. But it's a very good ability for defence, if only I had other offensive abilities it would be spectacular but as it is, it's only mildly useful.

Now then, what item can I get?

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Rolling Silver Item Gacha Ticket...

A Rare Item!

[ Rare - Wind God's Ring]

|Rarity: Rare|

An ornate silver ring blessed by an unnamed god of wind, wearing it boosts the agility and reflexes of the wearer to superhuman levels.

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That's what I was looking for. I took out the ornate silver ring with white engravings and slipped it on, immediately I felt my agility get boosted, my body felt lighter and more responsive, this will definitely help.

Now then, to find the other one. I have an idea that should make it relatively easy to dispatch him.

I switched to Ghost Form by discarding Disguise. After activating it I sunk into the floor, until only above my eyes were out of the ground, allowing me to drift across the floor super fast while being able to see and at the same time making me nigh impossible to see.

I quickly traversed the forest in seconds to find my second target, a man wearing a black trenchcoat and fedora, leaning against a tree with a serious expression. I quickly circled around by phasing through the floor until I was behind him.

He was completely unaware I was here, after all, I made no noise, nor did I displace any wind, unless you had a very honed mana sense you wouldn't even be able to tell I was anywhere without directly seeing me.

I floated closer and poised myself ready to strike, my hand still sharpened. I was fast, very fast, faster than him.

Without hesitation I swung as fast and as accurately as I could toward his neck, and then the moment the attack was about to connect I turned off Ghost Form just in time for my clawed hand to sink into the side of his neck, ripping through the artery and most of his spine before I flipped Ghost Form and flew into the ground through his body to avoid any retaliation.

"Cough! W- guekh!"

I resurfaced 10 meters away to see the man clutching at his throat, trying to speak but only able to vomit blood while trying to. He opened his wings to try and fly but couldn't even manage that as he fell to his knees, clutching his mangled neck. I watched for a solid minute before I turned off Ghost Form and cautiously approached his limp form before parting his neck off of his shoulders with my claws just in case.

I quirked an eyebrow at the lack of notification and plunged my hand into his chest and ripped out his heart just in case he was alive but nothing. For some reason this guy doesn't give a ticket, annoying , doubly so considering my hand was now covered in gore.

No matter, because now it was time for the main course. I rested in place for a bit first to wait out my ability slot cooldown and to recover some stamina before swapping out Ghost Form for Sand Veil. After all of that was done I circled around back to the large doors of the church.

Time for revenge.

But before I went in, I reached into my pocket and pulled out a scrap iron candy and swallowed it for the added extra defence just in case. Fully ready, I reared my leg before kicking the giant church doors open.

Bang!

"Oh? I didn't think anyone would actually come! Come on, hope you make my evening! ...Oh wait, it's the scum-rat again. May as well squish you for real this time. You made me replace my fucking gun!" I saw Freed casually lounging around on a church pew, his arms splayed out and a smug cunt expression on his face, although that fell when he saw me.

Of course, I did not dignify him with a response as sand swirled around my arm before I swung with Desert Weaponry.

'Desert La Spada!'

"Whoa man! That was close!" Freed jumped up from the pew and avoided the 3 giant desert fan blades that tore through where he was moments prior. He did a flip in the air and aimed his gun at me but I broke the combination and used Sand Veil, enveloping the entire area in a sandstorm before the trigger was pulled, throwing his arm off and the blessed rounds whizzed past me with a wide margin.

"Peh! My eyes and mouth again! You little fucking bitch! Are you nothing but tricks!?" In a large room like this, I had a major advantage over Freed, that being, I could see through my veil and he couldn't.

___/Abilities\_____________

-Active(2/2)-

[ Uncommon - Natural Weapons]

[ Uncommon - Sand Veil] -> [ Rare - Iron Manipulation]

'Finish this decisively.'

I summoned the Cloud Elemental again, the moment she formed I aimed her lightning for her, she formed a spear of lightning in her arms before throwing it toward Freed, hitting him in the gun arm.

Boom!

" Argh fuck! " Freed cursed loudly as the gun was ripped out of his hand and his arm looked burnt with lacerations across it from the lightning, it went limp almost instantly and Freed took a knee from the paralysis. Not that he would be getting up ever again.

I extended my arm and channelled Iron Manipulation, I wasn't using any precision, instead, I put it all into a single action, a pull for all iron toward a single direction.

Slam!

"W-what the fuck-!" Freed yelped in pain and shock as a church pew was forcefully slammed into his body, dragged by its iron screws and hinges. Freed ducked over another pew thrown at him, but quickly enough another two from two directions hit him, and another and another.

Slam! Slam! Slam! Slam!

"Guak! Fuck! Fuck! Stop! What the fuck!?!?" Freed tried to struggle as pew after pew slammed into him thanks to Iron Manipulation. He looked almost buried under wood and metal . Time to put an end to that struggle.

My veins bulged a little as I strained a little to tear off the large and reinforced 5-meter-tall church doors. Both doors drifted to either side of Freed before I clapped my hands.

SLAM! Crush!

"Kuekh!"

Both doors slammed into Freed at the same time in one motion, pancaking him in between and making a disgusting crunching noise. I squeezed a little more before loosening my control and letting the doors fall, seeing Freed's broken body fall to the floor limply with both his sword and gun broken I approached him with brisk steps before picking him up by the scruff.

"U-urghh... s-spawe me..." He pathetically whimpered out.

He looked terrible, most of his teeth missing from the impact and blood trailed from his mouth when he spoke, even if I let him down now he wouldn't make it an hour.

"You know Freed, I wanted to torture you, but I realized that you simply aren't even worth my time to torture. But I make true to my promises, you can say hi to your co-workers in whatever underworld you go to. The last one will join shortly."

Slice!

I took his head off of his shoulder with a quick swipe of my sharpened hands and dropped his body unceremoniously. My body felt a bit lighter knowing this fucker was off the mortal plane for good.

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Feat Achieved! Defeat Freed Selzen without outside interference +1x Golden Ability Gacha Ticket

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I can hear noises from downstairs, they must have heard the noise, I should find a way to collapse the basement down on their heads to pick out the mooks quickly, even if some remain alive it won't matter, they won't escape with Rias and the other keeping a perimeter around the church at my request.

Let's see if this gacha can give me something useful to help me, if not I still have plan A.

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Rolling Golden Ability Gacha Ticket...

A Rare Ability!

[ Rare - Shadow Hands]

|Rarity: Rare| |Class: Master|

Allows you to conjure floating spectral hands made out of shadows under your control. These hands can grip, crush, cut, smash etc and otherwise function as additional hands the user can control.

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Hmm, these seem useful, can I use them right now? No, let's not risk it and go with my original plan. Someone will come up here and check on the commotion in short order, I need to do this fast.

"Cloud, lift me with a platform."

Obeying my orders the elemental conjured a platform of solid clouds that I stepped on it, the platform quickly floated over 9 meters above the floor of the church almost all the way to the top of the tall ceiling. Then I took a deep breath and aimed my hands down again, this would be difficult to do, and I didn't exactly have infinite energy to spare for this.

Crack Rumble

A vein bulged on my forehead and sweat pooled up on my face. The floor of the church cracked as I focused all of my power on what was inside the floor.

Pipes, cast iron or steel, doesn't matter, both are iron-based.

And I was exerting all the pressure I could with iron manipulation down on said pipes that were in the floor of the church, and by proxy the ceiling of the basement.

"Break already...!"

Crack! Crash!

And then the last straw broke the camel's back, the cracks spread violently and the pipes made horrendous noises of screeching metal before the floor lost all structural integrity and collapsed, bringing the hundreds of tons of earth down on the basement as it all plummeted over ten meters. The entire church and surroundings shook from the impact.

" Huff... huff... fuck... "

I put my hands on my knees and breathed heavily. That shit was hard, it was like trying to benchpress 300 kilograms as a human. I am sure I wouldn't have been able to do this without Esper.

'Now then, I just wait for the mole to peek her head out before whacking her.'

I reached out telekinetically and gathered several masses of scrap poking out, I had an idea for a synergy that just came to my mind now after flinging those doors and stop signs like weapons.

Mentally, I nudged both abilities together and they fit together like pieces of a puzzle under my intent.

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[Combination - Iron Armory]

|Rarity: Rare| |Combination: Iron Manipulation & Natural Weapons|

Allows you to transform iron-based constructs into a variety of weapons at will, created weapons act as extensions of your body and can the controlled telekinetically.

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With a single thought the metal scraps melded together into a set of 4 uniform iron swords that floated menacingly in the air, moving them felt as natural as moving my arms or fingers. I poised all 4 swords, ready to use them to strike anyone who popped their head out, all of them hidden just out of sight.

Rumble!

"Grrh! How the fuck did the ceili-!"

Squelch!

The fallen angel with raven hair who had dug her way out of the ruins did not get to say much before one of the swords lodged itself into the back of her head, and that was it. She fell limp the moment I stabbed into her skull with all of my remaining demonic power. The leader died the most unceremonious death.

"Fitting that a rat should die like a rat. With nothing more than a whimper."

With my mandatory cool anime one-liner out of the way I let myself collapse onto the cloud platform. Even getting ambushed by Freed did not feel this exhausting, I really outdid myself this time.

Though I was exhausted...

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Quest Complete!

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Victory felt all the sweeter thanks to it.

A/N: If it wasn't obvious enough, Yuta is a straight-up sociopath willing to plunge arms into people just to double-check. He completed his mission, quickly, efficiently, ruthlessly and silently . A truly butter-smooth operation.

And Yuta finally got a very fair power spike, not even to mention the 3rd slot he will be getting next chapter since he is at 9 right now. What did you guys think about the operation? Did you like how the abilities were used and the new abilities he got out of it? If you guys have any ideas about any new synergies he could make or just ideas in general I would love to hear them.

Chapter Text

Since a lot of people have been asking, I decided to compile Yuta's status and items and release it as a reference chapter since the first major arc is complete. I also changed some of the classifications of some of the abilities since I am in the process of rebuilding the gacha program and item lists. Aka, putting down actual rules for how I do things and adding actual descriptions to ALL abilities so I don't get confused(600+ abilities and 20,000+ words in)

Also added the sources of where some of the abilities come from, if there is no source that means I probably came up with it.

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Name: Yuta Yukimura

Race: Reincarnated Devil(Human)

___/Abilities\_____________

-Active(0/2)-

-Storage-

[Sand Veil](Source: Calamity Mod)

|Rarity: Uncommon| |Class: Emitter, Stranger|

Allows you to create a fierce protective Sand Veil around yourself. Inside the sand veil, you are harder to perceive and Earthen abilities are stronger. You are completely unaffected by the sand veil.

[Natural Weapons]

|Rarity: Uncommon| |Class: Changer|

You have the ability to further weaponise the tools given to you by Mother Nature. You transform your teeth into fangs, fingernails into claws and more. Your transformed natural weapons are more durable and powerful than their untransformed counterparts.

[Regeneration]

|Rarity: Uncommon| |Class: Recovery, Passive|

Allows you to passively slowly regenerate from injuries using mana, the more severe the wound the longer it takes to heal.

[Set Trap]

|Rarity: Uncommon| |Class: Alteration|

Allows you to set traps that can be activated remotely or under certain conditions. Traps can only produce effects that you yourself are able to produce. Only 5 traps are able to be armed at once.

[Pearl Jam](Source: JoJo)

|Rarity: Rare| |Class: Alteration, Recovery|

Allows you to imbue Pearl Jam into your cooking and improve it drastically. Depending on the quality of the food, its ingredients and your power, the food you cook gain additional effects such as healing and curing illnesses and much more.

[Disguise]

|Rarity: Rare|   |Class: Stranger, Changer|

Allows you to manipulate the texture and colour of any object or creature you come into contact with as well as slight alterations to their shape. Disguise fades after the integrity of the original subject is compromised.

[Iron Manipulation]

|Rarity: Rare| |Class: Manipulation|

Allows you to telekinetically control iron and iron-based objects in your perception . The level of control and strength is based on the level of focus and the amount of mana spent.

[Shadow Hands](Source: Terraria Deerclops/Bone Helm)

|Rarity: Rare| |Class: Master|

Allows you to conjure spectral hands made out of shadows under your control. These hands can grip, crush, cut, smash etc and otherwise function as additional hands the user can control.

[Ghost Form]

|Rarity: Elite| |Class: Changer, Stranger, Mover|

Allows you to enter a Ghost Form, while you are a ghost you can freely fly and phase through any mundane material while being immune to physical damage, you are also immune to mundane forms of detection. Likewise, you cannot interact with the material world. When in Ghost Form, you take double damage from elemental abilities, you are also vulnerable to all things ghosts are vulnerable to.

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[Novice Hand to Hand Combat]

|Rarity: Common|

You are reasonably talented in hand-to-hand combat. You know how to punch and where to punch and that's enough for most people.

[Novice Bladed Weapon Mastery]

|Rarity: Common|

You are reasonably talented in handling bladed weapons. You know how to swing them and align the edge to cut things, and how to poke things too!

[Adept Shooting Mastery]

|Rarity: Rare|

You are a natural crack shot with most projectile weapons, you are very talented in the art of shooting projectile weaponry.

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[Perfumer]

|Rarity: Common|

You naturally have a pleasant smell, even your sweat smells nice.

[Enhanced Vitality]

|Rarity: Uncommon|

Your vitality is beyond the norm, you recover from ailments and wounds faster than what most consider normal. In addition, your life force has been enhanced, giving you an increased lifespan.

[Helltaker](Source: Helltaker)

|Rarity: Rare|

"You wake up, dreaming of a harem of demon girls"

Infernally aligned/Demonic beings find themselves more attracted to you and it is easier to start a relationship with them.

[Esper]

|Rarity: Elite|

Specialization, You are a natural-born Esper, using abilities comes naturally to you, they are part of you. Mastering and improving your Abilities is easier. Ability cooldowns are halved.

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[Cloud Elemental](Calamity Mod)

|Rarity: Rare|

A solitary elemental formed in the rainy skies. As an elemental born of the sky, she can conjure and exert control over wind, clouds and lightning.

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---Items---

[Nymph Waterfall](Heroes of Might and Magic 3: HOTA)

|Rarity: Uncommon|

A waterfall populated by lesser Nymphs, spirits of water, the waterfall itself is magical in nature and nymphs are naturally born inside of it. Nymphs produced by the waterfall are naturally loyal to you as the owner of the waterfall.

[Scrap Iron Candy](Source: Black Souls)

|Rarity: Common| |Restock Timer: 8 Hours|

"Tastes like its name"

When consumed, bolsters the user's defence for 30 minutes.

[Wind God's Ring](Source: Black Souls)

|Rarity: Rare|

An ornate silver ring blessed by an unnamed god of wind, wearing it boosts the agility and reflexes of the wearer to superhuman levels.

Chapter Text

A/N: Hey guys, for those of you who don't know, I am in the process of getting my Gacha Script redone and redoing my Item List since it was frankly pretty bad with most things having no descriptions and a lot of repeats and the interface of the gacha itself being rather barren. This time with a custom description for everything since before I would write the description after rolling. I am at 820+ abilities and 30k+ words of pure description already and that's just abilities(Or around 15 chapters of just description). I made decent progress on the other categories to as they also add up to over 10k words.

Once I am done with the Chaos Gacha rebuild(name subject to change) I will probably release it to the public because frankly, I have poured an ungodly amount of hours into this gacha to just see 90% of not getting used and I'm interested in what other people could write it. What do you guys think?

~Rias Gremory~

Rias looked down at the church with conflicted eyes, her and her peerage were watching the entire showdown through their familiars, the fallen were not skilled to the point that they could detect familiars. And Kiba was on the ground securing the perimeter far away just in case anyone got out just like Yuta had asked them to.

Watching the whole ordeal she couldn't help but think.

Her newest pawn was... something else.

She didn't know what exactly to think of Yuta. He was an enigma, he always had a vacant expression with dead eyes, he seemed completely new to being a devil yet acted like a fish in water. Yet despite being made a devil against his own will and that indifferent expression he was also very kind and caring.

He always made an effort to try and get along with others. He humored her and walked her to school to every day and tried to learn about her . He took cooking classes from Akeno and he fed Koneko and earned even her approval. Kiba seemed fine with him too.

She couldn't have asked for a better peerage member. It felt like she was learning about new faces he had every day. But she liked that about him. And the new face she saw today was one that made her insides feel hot.

The Yuta that she knew seemed to care little about himself. A very tolerant and indifferent person, uncaring of what others thought about him. Less stoicism and more like apathy.

But when he saw close to him get targeted or hurt. She never saw such fervour and light in his eyes. It was like a switch was flipped inside of him. He was unwilling to care much about himself but the moment he had to protect his friend he seemed willing to chase people down to the deepest layers of hell to make sure they were safe.

From the eyes of her bat-familiar, she watched as the sweat dripped from his face and his defined chest heaved up and down from exhaustion, the sweaty shirt clinging to his body as he sat on his cloud. She blushed and fanned her shirt a little.

Him standing off against his woman's enemies and not giving up even in the face of adversity, defeating them no matter what. It was an unexpectedly manly side to her newest pawn that made her insides clench. It didn't help that he looked damn good doing it.

Soon after the church collapsed Yuta floated over to them while riding his cloud like the nimbus. She could clearly see just how tired he was. His eyes half lidded but he wore a smile. His self-satisfied smile did things to her.

"Hey... can anyone give me a lift home? I kinda overdid it and my mana is at its last dregs, soon the mana will end and I drop very unceremoniously."

Overdid it wasn't enough to describe what he had done. Even she would find it hard to defeat 4 fallen angels and over 50 exorcists without a single scratch a very difficult task. Yet her newest member managed to do it within his first month of learning about the supernatural.

But well, if he wanted to be escorted home she could certainly do that. After all, he deserved a reward for taking care of the Fallen Angel problem, didn't she? I could certainly help them bond together a bit more~

Rias cradled her chin and nodded to herself. Her plan was perfect.

"Ara ara~ you certainly blew all expectations out of the water Yuta-kun. You can rest now, I will take you home~" Akeno reached out for Yuta before Rias grabbed her wrist. She narrowed her eyes and smiled .

"Akeno? Won't you be busy reporting what happened today? I can take care of taking Yuta-kun home." Akeno met her gaze and sparks flew, just one shared gaze told both of them they wanted the same thing, and neither would be willing to give it up easily.

"You don't need to worry about that Buchou. It's not urgent, besides, I am the only one here who knows Asia-chan here, we wouldn't want to worry her with a stranger entering her home right~?" She could see the cold light in Akeno's eyes challenging her. Rias folded her arms.

"I will need to meet Asia-chan sooner or later regardless. As his king, it's my responsibility to care for him isn't it?" Akeno and her butted heads, neither willing to back down.

"Uh... guys, kinda running out of mana here."

"...As an unbiased third party, I can carry Yuta-senpai home. Buchou, Akeno-senpai, you both seem like you will be very busy today." Akeno and Rias' rivalry was suddenly interrupted by a third, they both turned to face Koneko. The rebuttal seemed innocent at first glance but when their eyes met they saw the scheming eyes of Koneko.

Sparks flew again and both Akeno and Rias' eyes flew wide open.

'Koneko too!?' 'Even Koneko-chan!?'

An unexpected rival had stepped into the fray. They hadn't even considered her here.

"Seriously, I cannot hold on for much longer."

Rias bit her thumb. She was good, Koneko was the most logical option here. After all, both she and Akeno had paperwork and reporting to do while Koneko had zero work or responsibilities to attend to.

What a shrewd cat.

"Can someone please grab me before I fall?"

"No need to worry yourself with that Koneko-chan. I am perfectly fine going." Akeno tried to play it off while Rias thought of a rebuke.

"Oop, down I go."

"There is no need for-" As Rias was speaking-

Thud.

At the dull thud sound of something meeting the ground, all three stopped and slowly craned their necks down to see Yuta lying face down in the dirt.

...They were too preoccupied to notice that Yuta had finally run out of mana and plummeted down to the ground.

"...I'll just take him home."

No one raised objections this time.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

"Eurgh, that's not nice."

I woke up with a slight headache.

Whatever happened last night after I passed out from exhaustion and overuse was a bit of a blue for me. I know Rias eventually picked me up and brought me back home after callously letting me drop down but beyond that, I had little in terms of memories.

Well, I did have my rewards. And considering I could hear some vague sounds from the kitchen I probably had some time before I'd get disturbed. I tilted my head to see the black ball of fur inside of my shirt, with its head pressed up against my chest.

Bobby always has a special way of cheering me up. Still don't know why she always rubbed against my torso or neck.

Anyway, time to check out my spoils while I have the time.

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Quest Complete!

Defeat All of the Fallen Angels in Kuoh without intervention! + 1x Gold Trait Gacha Ticket

The Quest Completion Reward was upgraded due to flawless execution! + 1x Advantage Gold Item Gacha Ticket

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I nodded to myself in satisfaction, I made sure to not get hit, firstly because I promised Rias I wouldn't get hurt but also because I wanted to see if it would help.

As expected, the more impressive a feat is the better its reward is. And clearing the event hitless certainly was more impressive.

Onto the tickets, starting with the gold trait.

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Rolling Gold Trait Gacha Ticket...

An Uncommon Trait!

[ Uncommon - Kakyoin's Gift]

"Lero Lero"

Women with children and/or married women find themselves slightly more attracted to you and it is easier to start a relationship with them.

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I am extremely conflicted.

I... wanted a combat perk like Esper or Enhanced Vitality. And a trait like this one had no foreseeable use for me considering I was fairly certain I wouldn't be trying to woo any married women soon.

But on the other hand, I cannot, in good faith, as a man. Complain about getting a trait that makes Milfs like me more.

So I will instead ignore it, I don't know the extent to which they work anyway. I know Helltaker seems to be working what with Akeno seeming to favour me but then again using her as a measuring stick was hard as she seems to have something wrong with her by design.

My guess is daddy issues.

Putting that can of worms aside. It's time to roll my advantage gold ticket. After all the effort I put in, this better be something good.

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Rolling Advantage Gold Item Gacha Ticket...

[ Rare - Orb of Firmament]

An orb containing ancient and primordial magic that boosts the power of the Air and Lightning magic of those who hold it.

or

[ Rare - Garden of Revelations]

A mystical garden full of life and flowers, being inside of the garden makes it easier to improve your magical abilities.

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Hmm, the Garden probably won't help me too much. For some reason, I was an absolute disaster in terms of learning magic so far. And just a rare rank Item didn't seem like it would help me that much with that. And my house is too small to put a magic garden inside of it .

Orb of Firmament on the other hand is very useful to me, not only was it a clear boost to my Cloud Elemental who has been nothing but a benefit to me. But in a scenario where I am out of magic, I can hand the Orb over to Akeno since she primarily uses lightning magic.

So I chose the Orb without much deliberation. I held off on pulling out yet, I would deal with those later, I deserve a break after busting my balls hunting down those rotten fallen angels.

Not wanting to wake up Bobby I tagged in Ghost Form into slot 1 before turning it on and phasing out of my shirt. After that, I wore another shirt from my wardrobe before going downstairs.

Downstairs I saw the sight of Rias cooking breakfast in my kitchen while Asia sat at dinner table and the two casually conversed. Seeing me enter Asia's eyes widened and Rias smiled.

"Yuta-san! You are awake! I'm so glad!"

"Good morning Yuta-kun. You woke up just in time for breakfast." Rias greeted me with a warm smile while I pulled out a chair and took a seat across from Asia. No need to comment on Rias cooking, I'd murder a Freed for some grub right now.

"You two seem to get along well. Did I miss anything?" Well, I didn't expect them not to but it was a good icebreaker.

"Yes. Rias-san told me what happened last night, she is a very nice person Yuta-san. As expected of a friend of yours, they are likewise very kind." Gah! Asia is too bright! My poor eyes are getting charred.

"Asia is a very nice girl. I'm glad you two have each other, I'm almost jealous of how close you two are." Rias said in a strange tone that almost sounded like jealousy before she turned out with a tray of steaming warm dishes that made my mouth water. As we started eating together I couldn't help but wear a wry smile.

Finally, my ordinary life is back. No more stressing about Angels and Freeds. Hopefully, there won't be any more major upheavals in my life that I have to deal with again anytime soon.

...Right?

Bah, who am I kidding? Of course, another problem will pop up sooner or later.

So I should just enjoy this peace while it lasts.

A/N: The start of the harem shenanigans. Yuta opened a dangerous pandora box by raising the affection meters of all three heroines at the same time without even knowing(except for Akeno) and now, on top of his gacha grind time, there is now the matter of dealing with the shenanigans you would expect from DxD.

Speaking of, Yuta is a lucky dog. Helltaker and Kakyoin's Ble ssi ng!?(Blessing is a downgrade of the gift Hakari has) if you know anything about DxD and what I tend to favour you know that those two traits have unlocked the Pandora's box. Now that Arc 1 is completed what did you guys think about the whole Fallen Angel matter and the rewards from it as well as the Rias pov? I'd love to hear your thoughts about it.

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A/N: Hey guys quick update on the gacha, I am mostly done with the ability portion of the gacha(900+ Abilities, 37,000+ words) and halfway done with Items, Traits, and Familiars. I should probably be finished and will be able to release v0.1 in a week or so.

And for those interested, here is what the interface of the Chaos Gacha currently looks like with an example Trait. 

https://cdn.imgchest.com/files/7ogcbp8p69y.png

~Yuta Yukimura~

As we were eating the breakfast Rias made for us my mind was stuck on a particular issue.

What now?

Freed got fucked, the fallen angels bit the curb and the exorcists were 30ft under. All threats to Asia were gone. There wasn't any reason for Asia to stay in Kuoh anymore, she had no friends or family here besides me and I hardly counted.

Hell, she didn't even know Japanese. Living in Japan was practically impossible for her. What was next for her?

"Asia-chan. What do you plan to do now?" I took a bite of my omelette while asking Asia who looked like an energetic puppy, I could almost see an imaginary tail wagging behind her.

"What do you mean Yuta-san?" Asia tilted her head while Rias watched from the side.

"I mean what are you going to do now, now that no one is after you? Are you going to return to Italy?"

Asia blinked owlishly before blushing.

"U-um, if possible I would like to stay with you Yuta-san!" Man , she really is adorable but damn is she not thinking things through logically.

"Asia, I'm flattered but... you don't know Japanese. The only reason Rias and I can understand you is because we are devils and the comprehension of all languages is a package deal."

Asia looked disheartened, it made my heart pang a little before she raised her head and looked at me resolutely.

"Then couldn't I become a devil too? Wouldn't that fix our problem?"

My eyes widened. Aren't you still a sister? Is it fine for you to decide on that so easily !?

Rias looked interested as a devil herself and casually addressed Asia.

"Would you really be fine with that Asia-chan? You would be abandoning your beliefs this way, you wouldn't be able to pray anymore either or return to the church. Are you really ready for such a sacrifice?" Asia nodded without hesitation, surprising me greatly .

"Yes, I am. I am certain that the Lord would forgive me. Even though you are devils you are good people, Yuta-san, Rias-san. A-and I want to stay with Yuta-san! He saved my life!" Damn Asia, you are gonna make me blush at this rate.

Rias nodded her head, seemingly satisfied with something about her words.

"If you really won't regret your decision, then I would gladly welcome you into my peerage Asia-chan. A healing sacred gear that can heal devils is worth more than its value in gold, and I have a bishop piece available." I couldn't help but interject.

"Asia, it's great and all that you want to join with me but you don't have to join a peerage. If you want to stay here I will take care of you to the best of my abilities no matter what. You don't have to feel pressured." Asia blushed like a tomato while Rias frowned lightly looking between me and Asia. Still, Asia looked undeterred.

"I want to do this Yuta-san, Rias-san seems like a wonderful person. And I don't want to be a burden to you! I want to get stronger and be able to help you Yuta-san! So please let me become a devil." If she was that adamant it was her choice, not mine.

I sighed and shrugged my shoulders.

"Alright Asia, but first, Rias-san. I want to do the same thing you did to me and sign a contract ensuring that Asia is able to leave the peerage anytime without facing repercussions." Rias nodded her head while crossing her arms.

"Of course, what did you take me for? Anyone in my peerage is free to leave any time they like but if you want I will put it in writing too." I heaved a sigh of relief. Thankfully, Rias was about as trustworthy as you could get with a devil.

"Thank you very much Rias-san." Rias waved her hand.

"No, I'll have to thank you, Yuta-kun. You not only solved a large problem for the town by your lonesome but you helped a more than capable bishop join our peerage. If there is anything you want as a reward, feel free to tell me." She gave me half-lidded eyes with that like Akeno, making me tense up. That was an innuendo, wasn't it?

Doesn't she have a fiancee?

Oh satan, was Kakyoin's blessing working on her or not!?

...As if my life wasn't complicated enough.

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After breakfast, Rias left with Asia in tow for school for her to be turned to the dark side and get fitted for a Kuoh Academy Girls uniform as well as to make her a student there according to Asia's wishes. She must be one of the only people I have ever seen to want to go to school.

I on the other hand was forced to stay home and rest by Rias after over-extending myself yesterday along with a sick note so that I don't get written up as tardy. So, I obeyed the boss and stood home all day, playing with my pussy, as in Bobby. Trying to find the used shirts of mine that she stole from the dirt basket to no avail.

Of course, I wasn't missing the grind so I did a contract too, a very frustrating one of a man wanting me to get proof that his wife was cheating on him. So, I just followed her for a few hours, swapping through disguises and to ghost form every now and then before catching her going to meet her secret lover in a love hotel.

Then I took a video of the secret lover fucking the man's wife in the love hotel in HD 4k and handed it over to him. After giving him nothing more than a reassuring pat on the shoulder and a video of him getting cucked I took my payment for his contract of 500,000 Yen before leaving him to his devices.

Whether he would cry himself to sleep and not confront his wife, kill her and them himself, or just divorce I didn't care. Not my job. But my reward for the unusual contract was pretty nice and well worth it.

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You have completed an Intermediate Level Contract!

+Minor Demonic Power increase

+1x Silver Ability Gacha Ticket

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Nice, after returning back home and taking a shower I cuddled on the couch with Bobby, feeding her snacks while rolling the ticket with much anticipation.

This would mark 10 after all.

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Rolling Silver Ability Gacha Ticket...

A Common Ability.

[Common - Share Sight]

|Rarity: Common| |Class: Thinker|

Allows you to share your sight targets and vice versa by touching them.

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Hmm, this could be useful. It's almost completely useless by itself but kinesis-type abilities do rely on perception. Maybe I can find some sort of synergy between it and iron manipulation? Iron reflections? If I could see through Iron it would be a very powerful sensory ability, even being able to sense Iron from a distance would be helpful.

Well, lacklustre ability aside it should happen right about... now.

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You have accumulated over 10 unique abilities!

+1 Active Ability Slot

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Finally, this should increase my power quite a bit, Natural Weapons synergize with damn near anything and I am eager to see what combinations I can pull off. Was this because I was an esper? Regardless, the concept seemed very appealing to me.

But I need someone to test them against... hmm, problems for later.

I spent the rest of the day until Asia came home either working out, looking up recipes, or lounging around. Asia came back home rather tired but satisfied, she would start school in a few days which was nice, I could use more friends at school to have something to do.

After having dinner Asia retired early and I joined her soon after.

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Getting up early in the morning I got a random urge and decided to be nice, besides, experimentation was a good habit to have.

Since I had over 50,000,000 Yen in my bank I bought a few lunch boxes for me, Asia and some spares from the 24-hour store, I was unusually well rested since I hadn't done any life-and-death fights yesterday and slept at a reasonable time to the surprise and tears of happiness off my biological clock.

Now, I thought, why not score some brownie points and train Pearl Jam at the same time ? I made myself and Asia some simple lunch boxes Japanese style from what I looked up on the internet.

I made an extra one from the tuna I bought yesterday for Bobby, it took me about an hour to get it down properly but I managed to make some Tuna Sushi. Of course, I made it with Pearl Jam so it should improve sleep and skin quality alongside being tasty.

Koneko seemed to really like my fish, and not only was she my senior devil but she was also incredibly cute when she ate, just like Bobby who seemed to awaken the moment I touched the fish and took 6 extra rolls to fill her gullet as the feline tax.

After packing lunch and leaving some food and money on the counter for Asia I went to school without Rias in tow this time, she messaged me that she was preoccupied so she couldn't go with me today, I didn't exactly mind, just going about my day normally as a social outcast until lunchtime arrived.

I got up from my seat for lunch, on my way to find Koneko. And I knew exactly how to find her. I figured out a very useful ability combination for it.

[ Rare - Shadow Hands] + [ Elite - Ghost Form] + [Common - Share Sight] =

[Combination Ability - Shadow Observers]

[Rarity: Elite+]

Allows you to send out Shadow Observes you can control with your mind, Observers cannot be detected or interacted with through mundane means and you can freely view whatever they view like cameras.

It was a damn good ability, I created 5 observers, they looked like basketball-sized translucent black eyeballs with purple pupils before sending them to scour the school grounds for Koneko, which took less than three minutes when you had cameras that could phase through solid ground and moved at over 200km/h. She was in the garden, looking at her phone, watching... a hydraulic press compilation.

Regardless of what she was watching, I dispelled my observers since they were crunching my mana like hungry hippos and reached her in short order, she curtly greeted me until I pulled the neatly wrapped bento from my jacket, the moment she saw it her nose twitched and her eyes widened, her mood seemed to instantly improve considerably.

"Hey, Koneko-chan, I made some extra Tuna Sushi , want to share it with me? I can't finish it all by myself." Koneko nodded rapidly and gave me a rare smile of hers, she looked adorable smiling, too bad most of the time she had the emote range of a brick.

"Yes, thank you Yuta-senpai." She said with her usual quiet and even tone as I put down the bento in front of her and pulled out my own on the bench, mine was considerably simpler with egg rice and sausages. Koneko dug into her sushi and sighed in contentment as if everything was finally alright in the world .

"They are delicious Yuta-senpai, thank you for the meal." She said, devouring another sushi with a content expression. A corner of my lips quirked up.

"You know, if you like them that much, I can make some more for you, you know? Having a taste tester would be nice." She perked up instantly. She actually smiled, not a light smirk but a genuine smile.

"You really are kind Yuta-senpai, if possible I want to continue eating your food. It's really warm and tasty, even better than Akeno-senpai's." Oof, I hope for her sake that Akeno doesn't hear that.

"Geez Koneko-chan, you're gonna make me blush." I almost took critical damage right there. Koneko is like an assassin suddenly ambushing me with feelings while hiding behind her usual neutral facade.

We resumed eating before something caught my attention as she chewed.

Hmm, there is some rice on her cheek, she was a pretty messy eater huh? It's throwing me off, I was not someone who liked messes.

"Hey Koneko-chan, can you lean for a bit?" Koneko tilted her head but shrugged her shoulders, trusting me and leaning forward.

"You have rice stuck on your cheek, here, let me get it for you." I reached out with my hand and lightly grazed Koneko's soft and warm cheek with my thumb delicately as she froze like a statue.

As red crept from her neck up to her ears I looked at the rice on my fingers, would be a shame to waste it. I stuck out of my tongue and licked the rice from them while Koneko blinked owlishly.

Mmh, good rice. I am a good cook.

"Hmm? Koneko-chan? Is something wrong? You look like you are about to stare a hole through me."

Koneko just stared at my face with one hell of a blush, her lips quivered and her eyes narrowed before-

"-Ow!"

She flicked my forehead, except it felt like my forehead got punched instead with her freakish strength. Koneko hung her head down, I rubbed my forehead, why was she so sensitive?

"Lecher." She quietly muttered in a sheepish voice while I remained indignant.

Seriously, what did I do to deserve this!?

A/n: For anyone wondering if Yuta is too dense, it's a mix of never having any experience with the opposite gender and the lack of romcom watching, unlike Takumi, he isn't aiming to seduce anyone, he is literally just living and life is causing problems. And Asia has officially joined the Peerage because not being a Devil would be a huge problem for her, besides, Rias has proven herself to be more than trustworthy for Yuta.

Koneko is falling down hard, Yuta is hitting every single weak spot of hers. I wonder how long she can resist being helltaken? Who knows, maybe she will actuall y take the spot as the first girl in this fic. What did you guys think about Asia and Koneko in this chapter? I would love to know.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

It has been a slow few days since I fucked Freed's shit up and rocked the Fallen Angels.

Days in Kuoh passed by normally with Asia finally joining the academy as a student proper. She seemed to get along well with some girl with brown braids that I forgot the name of. Of course, with the entrance of Asia, the school populace got even more wary of me due to the number of beauties I interacted with daily.

I still couldn't care less of course. I don't think I have exchanged more than a few words with students of the academy other than the peeps over at the occult research club. I have long learned how to tune out people I don't know, the amount of people I saw die daily in my life made me numb to people I didn't know since their lives seemed so fleeting.

Speaking of them, Rias and Akeno have been really busy lately, something about the fallen angel matter and a secret matter they had to take care of. Koneko seemed split between avoiding me and being too hungry for my food for some reason. Kiba was there too, we didn't talk much since our interests didn't really align, I spent most of my school days helping Asia settle in.

Interestingly, this evening, both Asia and I were called into the club by Rias just to see everyone inside already. Like always, maybe I will be called into the room first one day to wait for someone to enter when I become senior enough.

The reason we were called was apparently to teach us about familiars. Well, more for Asia since she was newer but I also didn't know how familiars were seen in Devil society either.

Rias and the rest showed us their familiars one by one, Rias' was a bat, Akeno's was a weird miniature imp, Koneko's was a regular-looking cat(very fittingly) and Kiba's was a golden retriever(again, very fitting). After showing us their familiars one by one Rias started explaining to us the functions of said familiars.

"Familiars are vital for a Devil, they are almost a fundamental part of all Devils. They can be used for gathering information, tracking, mundane tasks, help with manual labour and all sorts of matters. Thus, they are very important, and the quality of a familiar also reflects on their master, it is easier to become a high-class devil when you have a high-class familiar."

I nodded, could Cloud also do those? I wasn't sure, she was a very non-standard familiar and unlike Rias' bat, she couldn't transform into a human. I could disguise her but that doesn't fix the part where she couldn't talk, she was sentient clouds after all.

So, it would be useful for me to get a more standard familiar for devil business no matter how useful cloud was for combat.

"Um, so how do we get our familiars Rias-san?" You get them by rolling the familiar gacha Asia.

"You see Asia-chan, normally young devils would visit the Familiar Forest, guided by the Familiar Master to make contracts with their first familiar as tradition but unfortunately there has been a... conflict of interests this time around." Before I could ask her to clarify a knock sounded on the door, making everyone turn their heads to see the... student council walk in with Souna at the helm, it almost felt like a royal procession.

"Excuse us Rias, how are you today?" The she-devil herself welcomed herself in with a slight smile, and Rias seemed to have expected her as she got up and crossed her arms.

"Good day to you too Sona, what is the reason for your impromptu visit?" Sona?

"Well Rias, since we both expanded our peerages I thought it might do well for them to get acquainted with each other. And for some other matters as you know." Sona(?)'s eyes sharpened slightly and I nudged Akeno's side.

"Akeno-san, who exactly is the student council president...?" Akeno giggled a little and whispered to me.

"She is Sona Sitri, Souna Shitori is an alias. She is also a king like Rias and her family is an upper-class noble pillar family. She also co-rules the city along with Rias."

I nodded.

"Student Council President is a devil huh? It makes too much sense." Sona is the person I would point to if someone asked me the person most likely to be a devil in the school.

Unfortunately, my remark seemed to have been heard by the singular male in Sona's peerage, I think he was... Genji? Benji? I only remembered him because his hair looked funny, he was lanky and blonde with greyish-blue eyes. He clenched his fist and glared at me as if I had committed some transgression against his bloodline.

"Hey! What are you trying to say about Kaichou(Student Council President) huh? And Rias-senpai, you really didn't tell him about us?" He shrugged his shoulders arrogantly, the fuck was his problem? "I'm not too sure what to think about a devil who doesn't even know who doesn't even know about his fellow devils."

My eyelid twitched. Does this bastard want a fight? I craned my neck and raised an eyebrow. Did he really think he could just walk in here, talk shit and disrespect me in front Rias? I may not care about my own image much but disrespecting me here was disrespecting Rias too.

"I'm sure Rias-san didn't find you important enough to feel the need to tell me. At least I certainly don't tell Rias about every dog I see roaming the streets." He glared at me while I heard Rias trying to stifle a snicker behind me.

As he went to retort Sona held up a hand and stopped him.

"Stop it Saji, it's only natural that he doesn't know about us, Rias and I don't get involved in each other's affairs unless we need to. That said, it's only a courtesy to introduce our new members to each other. This is Saji Genshiro, my new pawn." She gestured to the smug Genji while Rias shrugged and gestured to us.

"This is Asia Argento, my new bishop and he is Yuta Yukimura, my pawn." The guy sneered, he was really getting on my nerves for someone in gutting distance. I tilted my head in mock confusion.

"Are you sure he wasn't reincarnated with the clown piece? He sure looks and acts the part." I heard Koneko audibly snort at that while the guy crossed his arms.

"Honestly, you look like the real clown here, I am embarrassed to be a pawn like a gloomy creepy loner like you. I'll have you know, I am not just a pawn, I took 4 whole pawn pieces. You really want this fight?" I raised an eyebrow, he certainly didn't have the presence of someone worth 4 points. Hell, I'd pay a pawn to kick him off my team if I had him in my peerage.

"You sure those weren't defective pieces? If I were you I'd get a refund." I shot a look toward Sona who still held a neutral appraising expression. "And even if you weren't such a big mistake that even the evil pieces failed, so what? I am worth 8 pieces but I don't go around puffing up my chest like a peacock and bragging."

"All eight? No way, no way a creepy loner like you could be worth that much." I have a really high tolerance for bullshit but this guy was really pushing my patience. He had a really punchable face, or a really cleavable waist with Wing Blades.

"Saji, stop that, Yukimura-kun, Asia-chan, I hope that you can overlook his behaviour and can still get along. Saji." Sona gestured to Saji who immediately yielded and went to shake hands with Asia before he saw her beauty and immediately changed his tune and grabbed Asia's hand with excitement.

"Y-yes, a pleasure to meet you Genshirou-san." Asia said politely while the wastrel grabbed Asia's hand with both hands with a blush, not a light blush but a perverted one.

"The pleasure's all mine! I am always happy to meet a cute girl like you!" He rubbed her hands like a creep and officially my patience ended for Issei 2.0

My hand reached out and grabbed his wrist making him frown and turn to me before I squeezed .

"What's your proble- Ow ow owww!!! " Saji tried to break my grip but he couldn't, for all the shit he talked he was pretty scrawny while I have been intensely training ever since I became a devil, my body was packed with a decent amount of dense muscles so I was gripping his wrist until it bruised.

"You know, it feels pretty disrespectful to just swagger in here, talk like you are the hottest shit around, look down on me and consequently my king, insult me to my face and then blatantly creep on Asia." I glared into his eyes. "Will you behave or do you want me to put you inside the timeout pavement? It goes as deep as 6ft under." He was barely putting up resistance, did Sona gas her new pawn up too much or was he just naturally retarded?

"Yuta-kun, could you please release Saji?" Sona said while narrowing her eyes just a tad at her pawn getting manhandled. I tugged on his arm and sent him tumbling toward Sona's side as he cradled his bruised wrist while glaring at me. I locked eyes with Sona.

"It doesn't look good for a king when she lets her dog act like a rabid mutt in another king's home. Speaking of rabid, have you tried neutering? I hear it does wonders for a dog's attitude." Sona met my gaze with a steeled one of her own.

"Yuta-kun, enough, we don't want to start a fight here." I shrugged my shoulders, they seemed pretty intent on starting one to me. What with their obvious power plays and all. Sona pushed up her glasses.

"Indeed, we are also here to discuss the Familiar Forest spot, aren't we? We both have new peerage members and the familiar master only takes people once a month. How do you propose we settle this Rias?" Oh, so that's the thing that Rias was preparing for. Hearing Sona's exclamation Rias wore a challenging look.

"I know that neither of us are willing to give up this spot so how about we have a competition of strength, Sona? The winner is the one who gets the Familiar Forest spot." I could see the imaginary sparks fly between Rias and Sona as they stared each other down.

"Oh? And what kind of contest of strength are you proposing Rias?"

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~Yuta Yukimura~

"You know, when you said 'competition of strength' I expected something more bloody or brutal... not dodgeball," I mumbled in slight annoyance as I stretched while wearing a grey tracksuit in the school gymnasium.

The entire peerage was here wearing sport clothes for our game of dodgeball against the Sitri peerage for the Familiar Forest reservation. Rias wore a red tracksuit while the rest of the girls wore tight shirts and bloomers which I really appreciated how it clung to her bodies, the bloomers were barely bigger than panties in all honesty.

As I was helping Rias stretch by her request Rias asked me a question in a neutral tone.

"By the way Yuta-kun, why were you so aggressive against Sona's peerage? I have never seen you be like that." I couldn't pick any specific tone from Rias as she asked.

I sighed and shook my head.

"Although my circumstances are different I am still a part of your team Rias-san. it does not paint a good picture when you let another king stroll into your home and talk shit without talking it back. I hope you weren't thinking about scolding me for it, I wasn't going to let anyone walk over us on our own turf." Rias flushed at that, averting her gaze.

"I see... I thought it was quite manly you know . It'll be fine, we are rivals a bit of disrespect is to be expected." I shrugged, if it was fine with the boss then there was no problem.

After a few more minutes of stretching, the door to the gymnasium opened to reveal the Sitri peerage finally making their entrance, I felt a bit of excitement get roused inside me.

Time to stretch my muscles a bit.

A/N: Yuta has zero filter when he gets started. He always aims for the jugular. And season 1 Saji is such a massive asshole that makes Issei seem tolerable, he had coming. What did you guys think about Yuta's attitude? While he is usually indifferent, that changes for the people he cares about, he is rather quick to go from 0 to 100, all that repressed anger has to go somewhere.

Also, time for dodgeball. Rias vs Sona's peerage in the world's most dangerous game of dodgeball . Yuta will have to get creative with the powerset considering his lack of enhancement abilities if he wants to win. And he always wants to win.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

I couldn't help but feel anticipation well up as I watched Sona's peerage stroll inside the gymnasium, all of them wearing bloomers and gym shirts. I couldn't help but nod in appreciation, like Rias' peerage, although to a slightly lesser extent, Sona's peerage was filled with beauties too although Saji was also there due to Sona's poor judgement.

Especially Sona herself, while her body was less endowed it had a pleasant sense of balance, and she had nice legs too. I wasn't someone who was very hung up on the size of my breasts. As long as they were nice who cared how big they were?

"Ufufu~ you look quite distracted Yuta-kun. Something catch your eye~?" I didn't even bother turning my head to respond to Akeno's teasing.

"No, I am simply visualising success." And adjusting my loadout, I had already settled on Shadow Claws, Ghost Form and Natural Weapons long ago. I was fairly confident in this loadout, I shouldn't lose to any old mook but I would have to be wary.

Saji glared at me nastily while his nostrils flared as he leered at my teammates, I was putting him out of commission first. It was personal.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, let's start immediately," Sona said in a confident tone while her queen flanked her from the side. In fact, all of her team seem to be in practised poses.

...Are all Devil Kings nerds?

According to the agreement, one of Sona's peerage would sit out the volleyball game since they held a number advantage over us. And that person was her white-haired bishop who didn't look very athletic, without good physical stats they were more of a liability in the fight. She would be the referee instead.

We stared each other down, the ball started on Sona's side of the field, and the one who held the ball was a tall tomboyish girl with turquoise hair, she was a knight, I crouched a little to lower my centre of gravity and kept my eyes trained on the ball.

I had developed excellent reflexes and instincts thanks to facing so many dangers in daily life. I may not be on the level of a knight but I wouldn't be taken out so easily.

Woosh!

The ball whizzed past with such speeds and power, thankfully it was not aimed at me but at Koneko instead who failed to dodge it, she tried to lean it but it grazed her, also tearing her clothes in the process somehow, revealing her blue and white pattern underwear.

This world baffles me the longer I live in it.

"Out!" The referee declared and Koneko looked a little sullen.

"...Sorry." I chuckled and patted Koneko's head.

"Don't worry Koneko-chan, we will avenge you ." Rias nodded along with me and picked up the ball with a scary glint in her eyes. Making Koneko sad was a sin that would be paid with bloodshed.

"Indeed, I will have to repay the favour, Sona." Rias threw the ball and created a magic circle in front of it which covered it in the fucking Bael Power of Destruction as it headed for Sona's rook.

Are we murdering them now!?

"Gyahhh!" "Out!" Thankfully it only launched them a few meters back and disintegrated her clothes, leaving her naked. Not that I mind but how!? It was better than killing them but I was confused by the logistics.

Shaking my head I refocused to see Saji pick up the ball and blatantly aim towards me. He threw rather sloppily, shouting all the while.

"Take this, you bastard!" This man learned absolutely nothing from when I manhandled him like a preschooler.

I, of course, caught the ball with ease. I played dodgeball plenty of times before and knew how to throw a ball. Taking a deep breath I engaged all of my muscles, still, I wasn't a god at dodgeball but what was I good at?

[ Adept - Shooting Mastery]

It wasn't as effective as something like Throwing Mastery which is more specialized but I was still able to throw like a veteran. And I knew how to shoot hard. Putting all of my superhuman muscles grown with Pearl Jam and Regeneration to good use I threw the ball as hard as I could.

Bam!

The ball slammed into the ground in front of Saji as if it missed but then it bounced up like I aimed and hit-

"AAAAARRRRRGHHHHH-!!!"

-Saji's balls straight on with enough force behind them to crack wood. Saji immediately crumpled like wet paper and collapsed while clutching his balls. He had to be carried away by the pawn with brown pigtails as he sobbed and got into a fetal position. I almost felt bad for him, almost.

That's what he gets for trying to touch Asia in front of me. The last guy who tried that got crushed to death, he got a light sentence in comparison.

After that Sona's bishop threw and Akeno managed to catch it, several balls were exchanged and I was convinced that this game was more dangerous than an actual fight with the amount of magic used.

These were less like dodgeballs and more like cannon fire. Before long had passed, Asia and Kiba were out along with Sona's remaining rook and knight. I was still in the game however, not only because of my impeccable dodging skills born from an unlucky life but also thanks to the Wind God's ring giving me the benefits of the Knight Piece to a lesser extent.

"Just to make sure, abilities are allowed, right Rias-san?" Rias nodded, as long as we weren't making things like physical barriers or shooting straight-up projectiles magic was fine. And if I wanted to keep myself in the game I would have to pull out something impressive. Thankfully, my esper instincts gave me an idea.

I pulled together Shadow Claws and Natural Weapons to make a new Synergy.

[Combination Ability - Spectral Claw]

|Rarity: Rare+| |Combination: Natural Weapons + Shadow Hands|

Allows the user to manifest large ethereal clawed hands and arms with supernatural strength and grip on top of their regular arms. They can adjust the size and length of these appendages at will.

Good combination, a strength multiplier was precisely what I needed to be able to stay in this deathgame dodgeball. But I needed to reveal it only when it was needed so that nobody would figure out any shortcomings it had and exploit it to throw me out.

I kept my body in the game as time ticked by, everyone kept giving weird ass names to their throws like "Dreamlike Flame Throw" or "Gremory Blitz Shot" and stuff like that. I would have made fun of them if getting hit by those balls didn't mean almost certain death with the sheer power behind them.

You only get to make fun of what someone calls their move if getting hit by it won't put you in the ICU.

Speaking of killing, Sona bent over and grabbed the ball from the ground with a menacing aura around her that sent chills down my spine. This did not look good for me.

"Yuta-kun, after all you have said, I hope you can back it up with your abilities." Oh boy, she was miffed, probably because of everything I talked to her just a bit ago or maybe because I just erased her pawn's future bloodline.

She took on a bizarre pose and exclaimed as her magical power surged.

" Sitri-Style Backspin Shot™! "

Although just like all the other bizarre chuuni technique names I heard today the power behind her shot was undeniable as the ball spun like a drill and broke the sound barrier with a threatening blue magic aura around it.

Yeah, forget about playing Dodgeball, that was a goddamn tank shell. And it was following me as I stepped to the side.

As the dodgeball containing enough power to bisect an elephant came barreling toward me I decided, fuck it, and a large clawed arm manifested on top of my current one, the arm was thick as a torso and the hand was large enough to grip the head of an adult man like a softball, it looked to be made out of photonegative flames.

The spectral claw shot forward and grabbed the ball with its superhuman strength but I still had to grit my teeth as I heard the noise of metal grinding as the ball spun in my palm like a drill, damn did that shit hurt.

It was only my superhuman strength and grip that I managed to stall the ball to a stop, letting steam blow out, getting a raised eyebrow and a smirk from Sona as a response.

Fuck... forget about the Elephant part. That dodgeball could have torn apart a panzer. I am surprised I even managed to stop it.

"Impressive Yuta-kun, I didn't think a new devil would be able to stop my Sitri-Style Backspin Shot™." Sona held a slight smirk but I could tell from her eyebrows that her pride was a little wounded.

"Thanks for the compliment Miss Sitri. Now, let me return the favour." I held the ball with the spectral claw as the arm grew longer until it was over twice my size. I drew the arm as far back as I could before lashing it out like a whip thanks to the lack of bones. Normally a shot like this would be un-aimable but Shooting Mastery showed its worth as the shot flew straight.

"Here you go Kaichou!" The ball broke the sound barrier. Of course, I didn't give her a heads-up by shouting for nothing, because-

"Kyah!" "Tsubaki!" Her queen let out a squeal as the ball hit her leg, catching her off guard, the ball somehow bounced up her leg and tore her shirt leaving her naked, I don't know how but it certainly managed to.

When I had declared Sona as my target, Tsubaki instinctively relaxed and turned her attention toward Sona instead of being on guard. It was simple psychology and redirection at its finest.

"I see, you have tricked us. Well done Yuta-kun" Her words were friendly but her tone certainly wasn't, if that hurt her pride before, playing her for a fool certainly did worse.

Sona's glasses glimmered as he reached down and picked the ball up while I shrugged my shoulders while cold sweating.

"Don't take it too personally, after all, all war is deception."

"That may be so, but sometimes deception can be surpassed with overwhelming force." As Sona reared her arm back to deliver a vengeful railgun of shot toward me the referee sounded her whistle just in time as I had expected.

"Time out! Rias Gremory's peerage wins!" Sona's eyes widened before they narrowed.

I grinned at the frowning Sona who realized she got played and gave her a V sign. That's what she gets for disrespecting Rias, any by proxy, all of my friends.

That was closer than I had liked. Thankfully I managed to stall enough.

If you cannot win by practicality, you must win by technicality

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~Yuta Yukimura~

Damn I am tired .

That game of high-stakes Dodgeball felt like it lowered my lifespan with how stressful it was. But I got my reward out of it, not only did we secure an entrance to the familiar but I had my personal reward.

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Feat Achieved! Defeat the Sitri peerage in Dodgeball! +1x Gold Trait Gacha Ticket

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Now that I was home after the fact I could finally roll it, post-game was rather stressful with Sona staring daggers at me and promising that the result would change in an actual rating game but I had made out alive and physically uninjured.

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Rolling Gold Trait Gacha Ticket...

An Uncommon Trait!

[Uncommon - Enhanced Stamina]

|Rarity: Uncommon|

Your stamina is beyond the norm. It takes a lot more to get you tired or winded. And even when you do, you recover very fast.

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Enhanced stamina huh? I can work with that, at the very least it will help prevent what happened to me after facing the fallen angels from happening again. With this, Regeneration, and Enhanced Vitality I was a pretty good endurance fighter.

New trait aside there was a new matter at hand.

We were going to the Familiar Forest tomorrow and I wanted to snag a good familiar and I couldn't do that without being ready.

Well maybe I could, I didn't know yet but I wasn't taking chances.

Familiar Forest here I come!

A/N: Yuta gets caught up in the world's most dangerous game of dodgeball against the weebs and his kit is strangely suited for it. He has speed and agility thanks to Wind God Ring and now has a Brute option of Spectral Claw he can rely on which is a very solid Brute ability. In other news, Saji's future kids vanished from the timeline.

What did you guys think about this insane game of volleyball and the upcoming Familiar Forest hijinx? I would love to know. Any ideas about what could happen there? I am always up for suggestions.

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A/N: Hey guys, news about the Gacha, I am mostly finished with the v0.1 and only have less than 400 things left to give descriptions to . The interface is also mostly done too. After I find out the problems and do some editing I will most likely release the v0.1 of Chaos Gacha in around a week.

Next Up - My Hero Academia: Restless Gambler

~Yuta Yukimura~

"Alright, we are here. Welcome to the Familiar Forest, Yuta-kun, Asia-chan." I rubbed my eyes once the red flash of the teleportation spell subsided to see...

... The most evil-looking forest I have ever seen.

The sky was a dark blood red with clouds of similar colour covering it. The trees all around were dead and looked coal black, I could see some bats flying around too. The only thing missing was a creepy BGM and the cackling of a witch in the background.

"...Rias-san, are you sure you didn't accidentally cast us into hell?" This place really put me on edge, hearing my words Rias giggled a little.

"Accidentally? Don't be silly, we are in hell. Where else do you think we would get familiars for Devils?" Rias stated quite matter of factly.

...I admit, that's on me.

I sometimes the fact that we are devils kinda slips my mind.

"Get your game on!" I was startled by a loud shout making me instinctively form several Shadow Hands around me protectively as I jumped back a little to see... an old man dressed like a 12-year-old with a backwards cap like he is desparately clinging to whatever remained of his youth.

Seeing my posture he tsked and shook his head with a smile.