"I am Karlamine, Master Riser's knight. Knight of Gremory what do you think we settle this sword-to-sword."
After Akeno told Issei to do his part, he met up with Kiba. The two of them soon found themselves facing a young woman with light brown hair and green eyes. She wore armor that looked like a mix of a European knight's armor and a Japanese samurai's. At her hip, she carried a broadsword and a dagger.
Kiba chuckled, "on my honor as a swordman, I accept the duel". He said as he headed straight for the baseball pitch.
"Huh, are we fighting her?," asked Issei, he cussed under his breath.
They approached Karlamine slowly.
"I'm Yuuto Kiba, knight of Rias Gremory".
"And I'm her pawn, Issei Hyoudou".
Karlamine jumped into action immediately, she dashed toward Kiba.
A demonic blade appeared in Kiba's hand and blocked Karlamine's swipe.
Crank! Clank! Whoosh!
Their blades met once, then twice, while some swings missed and cut through the air. They created some distance before moving again at incredible speed. Kiba swung horizontally, aiming for her shoulder. She blocked the attack, then tried to front-kick his stomach. Kiba stepped back, avoiding the kick. She pursued him and swung her sword diagonally, but he parried the attack, sliding his blade across hers. She immediately read his intention and swung her sword upward.
Their blades met two to three times per second. They also used anything at their disposal to try to take an advantage, even resorting to kicking and punching if need be.
Issei watched the two fight, his eyes couldn't catch up to their speed, to him they kept appearing and disappearing in diffrent spots across the field.
"You look bored."
"—!"
Issei spun around and two people in front of him. The most noticeable was a girl with short, light brown hair and grey eyes. She also wore a plain white mask that covered the right side of her face. She was one of Riser Phenex's Rooks.
"Good grief, all she thinks about is swords, and now she's found a cute boy who shares her hobby."
This time, it was another girl who spoke. She was a young girl with dark blue eyes and long blonde hair tied into twin tails with large, drill-like curls. If Adrien had been there, he would have definitely made fun of her for that atrocious hairstyle.
"Boosted Gear! Boost!"
The princess-looking girl sighed in exasperation. "I'm not going to fight you. Isabella, fight him."
Isabella, the half-masked girl, walked toward Issei slowly. "That was always the plan anyway."
Issei looked suspiciously at the blonde girl, but Isabella eased his worries. "Don't worry, she's not going to fight you. Her position is quite unique. She's Lord Riser's sister and Bishop, but she usually just watches. So let's do this, Pawn of Gremory."
Issei was taken aback by the revelation, as he immediately thought Riser was an incest for having his sister join his harem. During that brief moment of distraction, the masked girl lunged forward and threw a punch at his face. He instinctively moved to the side, dodging her attack. But she didn't stop. She began attacking him from all angles, throwing kicks and punches from seemingly impossible positions.
Her movements were extremely strange, but her attacks had both speed and power. She suddenly threw an elbow strike, which Issei dodged by a hair's breadth. For some reason, Issei was unusually good at evading attacks. Then she hit him with a question mark kick that struck his jaw.
"Gahh!"
His body hit the ground and rolled a few times before Issei managed to steady himself on his right knee.
"Boost!"
She did not let him rest and attacked again. She threw a front kick aimed at his chest. He crossed his arms in time and blocked it, but his body still slammed violently into the ground. Isabella then stepped on him.
"You're not bad. I might have underestimated you a little. But that's all. You're still very weak."
Whooosh!
A sword cut through the air. The blade was made of crystalline ice. Karlamine tried to dodge it while also blocking with her own sword. It was Flame Delete, a demonic sword created by his Sacred Gear, Sword Birth, and it was capable of freezing even flames themselves.
Kiba threw a feint, then redirected into a thrust aimed at Karlamine's neck. With no other choice, she blocked the attack, and her sword shattered. She immediately jumped back and unsheathed another sword from her hip.
"You think that's all I've got? Think again!"
A roiling whirlwind of red-hot flames began to swirl in the middle of the baseball field, centered around Karlamine.
"That lunatic! Has she forgotten that her own allies are still here too?!" Isabella spat as she raised her arms to shield her face.
"That's not going to work!" Suddenly, another sword appeared in his other hand, and the torrent of flame was sucked straight into the hilt of Kiba's sword. The wind ceased, and the baseball field fell into silence.
"Repression Calm, a sword that vacuums intense winds into the hilt," Kiba said with a smirk.
"How many Sacred Gears do you have?!" Karlamine shouted in anger.
"I have but one, Sword Birth. It has the ability to create numerous demon swords, each with its own attributes and properties."
"So you... forge them?"
Kiba nodded as he pointed his palm to the ground, and suddenly a huge number of swords shot out of it. Each was a different type and shape, and all of them aimed at Karlamine.
"Boost! Explosion!"
A massive ball of energy formed in Issei's palm. He raised both hands upward, pointing them at Isabella, who had lowered her guard, and held the energy ball like a Kamehameha.
"Second Ultimate Move! Dragon Shot!" he screamed. A blast of energy erupted outward, engulfing Isabella in an instant.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaarghhhhh!" Isabella screamed in pain. Her body turned transparent and disappeared immediately. The blast continued upward, tearing through the sky.
"One of Lord Riser's rooks has been eliminated"
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"All right!" Issei shouted.
"Tsk... it seems we underestimated that Pawn," Karlamine said, clicking her tongue in annoyance.
"Here they are."
"Where's Isabella?"
"Don't tell me she lost."
Three girls arrived: two Pawns and one Knight. Karlamine regrouped with them, and Kiba approached Issei.
"Oh, it seems my brother decided to fight Lady Rias one on one," Ravel Phenex said as she looked toward a place high above. Everyone turned their attention to the roof of the new school building.
Standing on the roof were two figures: one with raging wings of flame, and another with a pitch-black pair and crimson hair.
"My brother must be feeling generous today, considering how completely we're crushing you. He's probably taking pity on Lady Rias. If the match had gone on normally, we would've obviously won. At this pace, all of you would've been defeated before he even needed to step in himself!", Ravel Phenex snickered.
"The president isn't weak, and soon Akeno will come and we'll turn the tables", It was Kiba who answered as pointed his sword at the group of girls.
"Yeah! We will definitely win."
"The Crimson-Haired Princess of Ruin, the Priestess of Thunder, Sword Birth, and the Boosted Gear. Those are certainly impressive titles. But your enemy is the Phoenix. No matter how extraordinary your powers may be, you cannot bring down the immortal bird," Ravel's face turned serious. "From the start, Lady Rias never had a chance against true immortality. Karlamine, the Knight is yours—but if you fail, we'll all move together. Don't disgrace the House of Phenex any further."
Karlamine nodded.
"Siris?"
"As you will my Lady."
A tall young woman with long black hair with a dark blue tint and brown eyes approached Issei, she was wearing a white top with black accents that is modeled after a Chinese cheongsam, red shorts, and armored knee-high boots. Siris unsheathed her sword from her back, it was a large and wide blade.
"Ni and Li you're up too".
"Meow"
"Meow-meow?"
Two young twins, they looked like teenagers. They resembled each other a lot, with the difference of one having red eyes and blue hair, and the other having blue eyes and red hair. Both of them were Nekomatas, and Pawns.
They dashed at high speed toward Issei, flanking him from both sides while Siris swung her large blade from the front.
"Boosted Gear! Boost!"
Issei dodged backward, avoiding the blade that hit the ground and cracked it, but just as he landed, two kicks hit him simultaneously at the back of his knees. He lost balance and fell to the ground, but he used his hand to lunge himself upward, jumping over Siris.
"Huh? I can do tha—Aaargh!"
Ni had thrown Li into the air, and she hit his stomach with a kick. Issei landed on the ground again, sliding backward on his knee. The shadow of a blade appeared above him, and he rolled to the side immediately, avoiding the blade as it hit the ground again.
"Ahh shit! Give me a break!" Issei glanced at the rooftop again. It appeared that Riser and Rias were talking to each other. He needed to get there as fast as possible to help her.
"Ddraig, land me your strength!"
"Dragon Booster!"
His gauntlet flashed a red light and a high kick came toward his head at the same time, he ducked low and shouted.
"More!"
"Dragon Booster: Second Liberation!"
The gauntlet, a crystal form of extraordinary power, had taken on a new shape. Besides the gemstone set on the back of his hand, another had appeared farther up his arm, and the overall form of the gauntlet had changed ever so slightly.
Suddenly new knowledge on how this power worked flowed into his mind and he grinned. He sudden grinned, he gathered demonic power into his legs and jumped high in the air and screamed at Kiba, "Kibaaa! use your sacred gear!"
Kiba, who was fighting Karlamine, jumped backwards and plunged his sword into the ground, "Sword Birth!".
Countless demon swords burst from the ground.
Issei reached out his hand toward it and screamed, "Boosted Gear: Second Power, Gift!"
"Transfer!
A metallic rumbling echoed through the area. The whole athletic field had turned into a sea of swords. Blades of all kinds rose from the ground and stretched toward the sky. All of them had been created from Kiba's power through Issei's second ability, Boosted Gear Gift, a power granted by the Red Dragon Emperor.
Boosted Gear Gift allowed him transfer Issei's accumulated power to another person or object to increase their own potential.
"What!"
"What just happened!"
The blades skewered Riser's servants tearing through their bodies.
"Two of Lord Riser's Pawns, two of his Knights, and one of his Bishops have been eliminated".
Then at the same time.
"Lady Rias's queen has been eliminated!"
They didn't even have time to celebrate their victory as the announcement of Akeno's defeat echoed throughout the battlefield.
"What!"
"—!"
BOOOMMM!!!!
The ground shook hard as an explosion burst out from where Kiba had been standing. Issei froze and slowly turned to look that way. Smoke covered the area, but as it began to clear, blood spilled out from inside it, and Kiba was nowhere to be seen.
"Lady Rias Gremory's knight have been eliminated"
"Another knight crushed!", echoed a voice from above, Yubelluna smirked then flew toward the rooftop of the building without looking at Issei.
"Nghhhhhaaaaaaaa!", Issei's screams echoed through the battle field.
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"Rias dear, Riser has been waiting for you"
"Still talking in the third person, you're as weird as ever."
"Don't say that to your beloved fiancé."
"Fiancé? I don't think you have won yet."
"Oh please, you might as well resign. I would not like to hurt that delicious looking body of yours."
Rias became furious. A crimson magic circle formed in front of her hand, and she fired a bolt of Destruction. The attack traveled at high speed and hit Riser square in the shoulder, erasing it along with part of his arm. But Riser looked completely unbothered. Flames took the shape of his missing limbs, and new ones began growing in their place.
Rias fired attack after attack, but it was useless. Riser simply stood there and took them head-on. He regrew limb after limb as he slowly walked toward her. Then flames erupted from his body, and he shot forward at high speed. He grabbed Rias by the neck and slammed her downward, they broke through the roof tiles of the new school building and crashed through floor after floor until they reached the ground floor, where he slammed Rias against the ground while still holding her by the neck.
Rias coughed up a mouthful of blood as she panted heavily. Asia, who was still on the roof, trembled in fear and fell to her knees.
Riser was on the higher end of High-class Devil, while Rias was still around the middle, and the difference between them was painfully clear.
"Riaaaaasss!", Issei darted through the school entrance.
"Boost!"
That was it, it was finally the moment where he could avenge and save his president and his love. Issei's wings extended and he did something he's never been able to do before, he flew at high speed at Riser.
"Taaaaaake thaaaa-", Riser caught the flying Issei by his face without even flinching, flames condensed in his palm and exploded outward.
BOOOOOOMMMMMM!
Shock waves exploded outward, all the windows in the new school building shattered to pieces. From the smoke, Riser could be seen still holding Issei's body, which was burnt brown head to toe.
"Riser didn't kill him, just taught him a lesson, If you want him alive, resign," Riser said in a cold tone.
"Issssseiiiii!", Rias screamed as she crawled toward Riser and grabbed his calves, "I Give up! please! Don't hurt him anymore! please Riser". She begged as tears fell down her face and landed at his feet.
"Now, now Rias dear", Riser let go of Issei and crouched next to Rias.
"The Rating Game has concluded, Lord Riser Phenex is the winner".
Suddenly, someone grabbed Riser's hair from behind.