"Take care and let me know immediately if anything happens," Kozue said as she said goodbye to the girls at the mall.
Kozue had already said goodbye to her parents and had stopped by the shopping center to say goodbye to them before going to the training camp with Rias and her peerage.
"Robin, you'll be in charge while I'm gone, and remember the task I entrusted to you," Kozue said seriously to the archaeologist.
Robin nodded, remembering Kozue's task of watching over her parents during the days she was not present.
"I'm going to miss you Kozue, take me with you!" shouted Mikita as he jumped on Kozue and wrapped his arms and legs around him.
"I won't take you with me, I need you to stay here and protect my parents."
"After I get back, we'll have some fun," Kozue said as she held Mikita's body and patted his butt.
Mikita smiled at what Kozue said and gave her a goodbye kiss.
Besides Robin and Mikita, Raynare and Asia were also there, with Mittelt and Kalawarner missing as the two women were still sleeping after last night's sex marathon.
After kissing Robin one last time, Kozue left the mall.
Since he couldn't teleport in the mall, he had to leave and find a secluded spot to reach Kuoh Academy where he would meet Rias and her peerage.
With a magic circle beneath her feet, Kozue appeared in the occult research club building and walked towards the club office.
"Kozue"
The first person he encountered was Akeno, who greeted him while sitting in an armchair.
"Akeno" returned Kozue's greeting as she sat down next to her.
While the two were talking, Kiba and Koneko appeared, with Rias appearing last minutes later and the group was ready to leave.
"Let's go," Rias said in the middle of everyone, with a magic circle appearing under her feet and teleporting the group to their destination.
With another magic circle beneath their feet, the group appeared on the top of a mountain, where they could see a large holiday home, a large swimming pool, a huge training field, and an area with various training equipment.
This was a property belonging to Rias's family, and it seems the redhead took charge of modifying it for the group's training.
Rias explained the property to them and gave them a tour of the interior, pointing out the rooms where they would all be staying.
After tidying their things in their temporary rooms, the group gathered in the training yard and decided how they would train.
The group decided to train separately in the mornings and as a group in the afternoons.
Kiba and Koneko went to the training field and the gym to practice their swordsmanship and train their bodies respectively.
Meanwhile, Akeno and Rias headed to other parts of the training grounds to practice their lightning spells and Rias's control over the element of destruction.
Since the training field was huge, they had enough space not to get in the way of someone else's training.
What about Kozue?
He also chose the Gym with Koneko and trained his body.
The gym equipment was made of special materials and enchanted to have more weight, as Kozue pointed out to Rias when they decided to go to a training camp for the next 10 days.
And since Rias was the heir to the Gremory clan and the younger sister of Satan Lucifer of the devil race, it was very easy for her to get what she asked for.
Koneko and Kozue started using the equipment and the difference between them quickly became apparent.
Even though Koneko is a Nekoshou and her Rook piece gives her greater strength, she was far behind Kozue, and she looked at him in surprise as he lifted a bar weighing several tons with one hand and minutes later did it with the other.
Although she knew that Kozue was stronger than her, it was still surprising to see him lift tons so easily.
Wanting to achieve it, Koneko put more effort into her training.
Ten minutes passed and Koneko lowered the bar she was holding, breathing heavily as she felt her arms grow tired.
Turning to look at Kozue, the Nekoshou saw him lifting a heavier bar with both hands with no signs of stopping anytime soon.
It was after another 10 minutes that he saw Kozue stop and lower the bar.
Koneko realized that she had been staring at Kozue for 10 minutes, at which point the Nekoshou quickly turned her face away, embarrassed, her cheeks red.
But something quickly drew his attention back to Kozue.
Blue light from a magic spell surrounded Kozue's body and Koneko saw her tired complexion disappear in seconds and she lifted the bar again with both hands.
Suddenly, Koneko realized it was a water element spell that healed Kozue's tired body, allowing the young man to continue training and achieve better results.
'If I could heal myself, I would be stronger,' Nekoshou thought.
Although the Nekoshou could use Senjutsu to heal themselves quickly, Koneko would not use that ability that she took from her sister.
Shaking her head, Koneko lifted the bar with her hands and exercised her body until her last bit of strength.
Leaving the bar on the ground, Koneko took a step forward and stood in front of Kozue.
"Heal me," Koneko asked, and Kozue did so with a smile.
After all, he had used a water element spell to heal himself in front of Koneko with that goal in mind: to demonstrate his healing abilities.
Not only to help in the group's training, but also to provide an excuse for his healing abilities when he is forced to demonstrate them in the future.
Surrounded by the healing spell, Koneko smiled as she felt her body recover and knew she would be stronger very soon.
"Thank you," Nekoshou said softly, lowering her head before returning to her place and continuing her training.
In this way, Kozue and Koneko used the various training equipment to train different muscles in their bodies and recovered quickly with the help of Kozue's water element spells.
Kozue and Koneko's joint training lasted 1 hour, and during this time it was noticed by the group.
As Kiba approached to ask Kozue to heal him, and Akeno smiled from a distance as she continued practicing her lightning spells, Rias became excited by Kozue's magic and even more enthusiastic about the idea of adding Kozue to her peerage.
As Diablos, they could not use light element spells to heal themselves, and besides the famous phoenix tears which were very expensive, the Diablo race could only use water element spells to heal themselves.
Learning water element healing spells was also difficult, with the Sitri having almost a monopoly with their hospitals due to their great affinity with the water element.
Other Devils had learned healing spells of the water element, but they were very few and earned a lot working for large families in the Underworld.
One of the reasons why human mages were in demand among the nobility was for their magical abilities, with healing abilities being the rarest.
If it became known that Kozue could use water element spells to heal someone, many devils would make her great offers to join their peerages.
Unaware that he had fueled Rias's desire for him, Kozue finished his training with Koneko and joined Kiba's training.
Having sword skills from the world of One Piece, Kozue never stopped her fencing training.
Kiba greeted him with a smile, as he always increased his swordsmanship skills after facing Kozue.
¡CLANG! ¡CLANG! ¡CLANG!
The duo fought with all their might in pure sword skills.
Kozue did not use Touki, Haki or Magic, and Kiba did not use his Sacred Gear.
Using only sword skills, the duo remained evenly matched for 20 minutes.
But it quickly showed Kozue starting to gain the upper hand, as from the beginning she was holding back her great physical strength at Kiba's level in order to improve her sword skills.
Seeing Kiba slow down, Kozue did too and continued competing with pure sword skills.
And after another 10 minutes, Kiba finally showed an opening that Kozue took advantage of and sent the sword flying in Kiba's hands.
¡CLANG!
Flying several meters, the sword finally fell and buried itself up to its hilt in the ground.
"Good fight," the two young men said with a smile as the fight ended.
While Kiba stayed behind to digest the experiences he gained from fighting Kozue, Kozue headed towards Akeno who was launching several lightning element spells in rapid succession.