( Yuuki's POV )
Yuuki: What kind of help do you need?
Vivi: It's a request from Ranko. She wants a coat like the one I made for you, but one that works for her Personas.
Vivi could change her creation to work with Ranko's powers, but she had a complicated demand, wanting it to work with two different Personas at the same time.
Ranko was the right person for what I was asking for, and by bouncing ideas with Vivi, she came to an enlightenment, But she had to wait for the train to reach its destination to start working, but she excitedly left to make some designs.
When I was left alone, Sakura was the next to appear.
Sakura: Yuuki, have you seen Vivi?
Yuuki: She was here a moment ago.
Sakura: Um, thank you.
Sakura left after asking about Vivi, and I was somewhat curious about what all that was about, but I thought it was best not to interrupt.
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Yuuki: Is this the right place?
When the train stopped, we arrived at a luxurious mansion, but this was not the Phenex mansion I remembered.
Ravel: This is our family's summer house; I asked my brother to give it to us to create another base in the underworld.
Yuuki: Then I should go and thank him.
To fulfill Ravel's request, I went to the Phenex family's main house. There I met Riser and Ravel's older brother, who was the new head of the family, I asked about Rizer and he told me he was at the family training ground.
I headed to the location and, as I would expect from the Phenex family training grounds, the place was engulfed in flames. Riser was fighting against his entire peerage, the seriousness and dedication he was putting into this training was something that would seem impossible for the old Rizer.
I touched the ground a couple of times with my foot and then a wave of snow and ice changed the stadium to a frigid tundra, this of course attracted everyone's attention and I casually jumped in front of them.
Yuuki: Hey Riser, it's been a while, have you missed me?
Rizer: ...What are you doing here?
Rizer and I didn't have the best relationship, but the fact that he didn't pick a fight with me the moment he saw me was a sign of progress.
Yuuki: I'm here for family reasons, you know, your sister, my future wife, wanted me to help you out a little.
Rizer: I don't need your help.
Yuuki: I see that your determination is better than when we first met. Let's see if that's the only thing that's changed. How about a rematch of our first encounter?
Riser: That sounds good, I'm going to wipe that smile off your face.
Yuuki: That's the spirit.
Riser was clearly far from being able to beat me, so I set some rules for the victory condition.
Yuuki: Let's have a turf battle, this training ground is completely frozen, but if you can cover more than half of the place with your flames, that will be your victory, and I will give you a personal sacred gear as a reward.
Riser seemed to want to refuse to accept something I created, but I didn't give him a choice.
Yuuki: Don't be so proud and accept the offer, it makes things easier for everyone... Brother.
Riser: I will accept it if you never call me brother again.
Yuuki: fair enough.
Stomping on the ground again, ice spears appeared around me. I threw one of them at Riser with great power, and Riser's queen and two bishops created a barrier to block my attack.
Yuuki: Remember this, Riser, if you and your servants don't complement each other, you won't have a chance of defeating an enemy stronger than you, even opponents weaker than you would have a chance to defeat you if you are out of balance.
I grabbed a couple of ice spears from the ground and ran straight at Rizer. Some of Riser's pawns tried to stop me, but I dodged them effortlessly.
When I reach Rizer's queen, I use a double swing to sweep out of the way his queen and his two bishops, then I pointed a spear at Riser, who could barely react because his feet were frozen to the ground.
Yuuki: I have two days ñ I can spare, give your best in that time.
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Riser made great progress in two days and under immense pressure and a strong desire not to lose to me again he was able to meet the victory condition I set for him by a little.
I left the place after that, but Rizer and his peerage continued training.
Today my students were arriving, and I moved to the place where they were going to train, but I wasn't the first to arrive; Azazel, who had become a teacher at Kuoh Academy to study the sacred gears of the young devils, was with a purple-scaled dragon.
Azazel: oh Yuuki, I was starting to think you weren't going to show up.
Yuuki: I've been a bit tied up with family matters, and it's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Kurokawa B. Yuuki, what's yours?
???: I am Tannin, I've heard a lot about you Yuuki, I'd like to be able to test my power against someone like you.
Yuuki: oh That sounds fantastic, I don't often come across a dragon like you.