~Day 2~
"Uuuunggh…"
Izuku's eyes flutter open as he awakens from his slumber. He then shoots them open and shot his head up off of his pillow, getting himself into a sitting position on the bed.
"What the..?" Izuku maneuvered his head around his surroundings to see that he was in his assigned room. He then sighs to himself, understanding how he got here.
"Dammit. I've passed out in the baths because of those four being too close to me."
Izuku then slowly lifts his covers up and sighs another breath of relief to see that he's been clothed, but by who, was a question that made him feel nervous again.
'I swear, if it was Akeno-senpai, I don't think I want to know what she did to me while I was out cold.'
"Well you'd be surprised that it wasn't the big breasted girl"
Is what Izuku heard from his left hand, "What do you mean by that?"
Izuku asked but all he got was silence which made him sweat, "Oi! Don't just leave me their without a response!"
And again all he heard was silence which made him sigh in disbelief.
Stretching his arms upwards, Izuku went towards the bedroom door to open it.
"No point of thinking it now...or rather I might have to deal with it once I head down to eat breakfast" sighing With that said, Izuku went ahead to the kitchen to have his breakfast, closing the door behind him.
"Morning, folks."
The Gremory Devils along with Ibara were sitting at a round table, turn their heads to see Izuku walking in their direction with a hand up greeting them.
"Ah, Good morning, Izuku," Kiba greeted with a wave back.
"Izuku-san!"
Izuku widens his eyes a little when Asia suddenly got in front of him and bowed her head to him.
"Um… Asia..?"
"I'm sorry about what happened last night!" Izuku blushed at her apology, understanding exactly what she was talking about.
"Hey, don't worry about it," Izuku says to her with his hands up, wanting to drop the subject as soon as possible. "Let's just forget about it and move on with training, alright."
Asia blinked at his immediate answer, but nodded in response nonetheless.
"Oh, okay."
"Hey, Izu?"
Izuku's attention was now drawn to Rias while he took a seat in an empty chair.
"Yes."
"Before we continue training, I'm giving you guys a lecture about the war of the three Factions."
Izuku nodded his head which made Rias smile at him while avoiding his face while having a small blush, 'His little friend was very lively' she thought.
Rias' servants along with Ibara were now seated at the round table while Rias gave them, mostly Izuku and Asia and also Ibara lectures about the three Factions.
"Good question," Rias said, beginning to answer a question both Izuku and Asia had. "The answer dates back quite a bit, some say close to an eternity ago. Devils, Heavenly Angels, and Fallen Angels were at war."
Rias frowns before continuing.
"It was a massive, destructive, three-sided battle, which ultimately ended in neither victory, nor defeat. Every single battle fought ended with several of our members wiped out, or missing."
Izuku narrows his eyes at the information given to him while staying quiet so the lecture can go on.
"Our lifespan, since Devils have their low birth rates, are nearly eternal to ensure our population. Yet, our existence as a species are at risk due to the impact of that war. Most of the family lines consisted of pure blood, upper-class Devils that made up what is known as the 72 Pillars."
Rias sets her sights on Izuku and Asia before continuing from there.
"Due to the casualties of the war, only 34 of the Pillars remain; three of them, you and Asia and also Ibara know of: mine, the House of Gremory, Sona's, the House of Sitri, and Riser's, the House of Phenex."
She redirects her attention on everyone.
"It was then, that Devils first began recruiting humans to replace the numbers in their houses. After that, the Rating Game came about. This allowed Devils that were the masters of their households to provide recently converted humans with combat experience, as well as show off their own abilities. Nowadays, the games still has quite an impact. One's record in the Rating Game has a huge influence on their nobility and status."
Rias lets out a sigh after the lecture, feeling a little tired from speaking this long.
"Okay, I think that's it. Before we get back to training, let's have some tea."
"Sounds good," Akeno agreed with Rias as she stood up from her chair. "I'll go make it."
Asia turns to her direction and stands up next.
"I'll come help you."
"Hold on, Asia."
Asia's attention was now on Rias, who was smiling at her.
"Oh? What is it, Buchou?"
"Well, I'd love to learn more about you and Ibara's life as former holy sisters."
Asia makes a confused expression with a finger on her chin with Ibara simply having a curious look on her face.
"You mean right now?" Ibara asked.
"Oh no, not right away," Rias replied. "Let's wait for Akeno to get back with the tea before you talk about it."
"Oh. Okay then."
After Akeno came back to the group and served them and herself some tea, Asia went ahead in front of the group with the supplies she needs to begin her talk about the equipment.
"Let's see," Asia began as she and Ibara were facing the Devils. "Me and Ibara-san did a lot of exorcisms, so I guess we could talk about that. There are two things you need to perform one."
Asia reaches her hands towards a glass bottle of water with a glass cap keeping it sealed, which had a fake glass cross decorated on the cap, and presents the bottle to the group.
"The most important one is Holy Water. But Devils need to be careful when they're around it. It's vital that you never touch it."
"Will it mess up our skin, like how acid would?" Izuku asks with a tilted head and a raised eyebrow.
"Well, it will do something bad." Ibara gave Izuku an answer which he nodded at that.
"I figured that much. Why leave out the more detailed stuff?"
"It isn't just us, it's for you too, Asia," Rias interjects. "You're a Devil now, remember?"
Asia fiddles with her fingers while looking down at the bottle of Holy Water.
"Yeah, I know. I guess there's no point in talking about how to make it. So I'll move on to something else."
Asia places the glass bottle back on the table and then picked up a brown book, presenting that item to them next.
"The second item is the Holy Bible."
Asia looks down at the Bible with a sad look.
"I used to read it constantly when I was little. It was my favorite. But now, every time I try to read a single verse from it, I get a terrible headache, and I can't get through it and even hearing the words from Ibara still hurts"
"I'm so sorry for that Asia" Ibara said apologetic.
"Because you're a Devil," Rias says bluntly with closed eyes and a smile.
"You're one of us now, Asia," Kiba added with a smile of his own.
"You should write it down," Koneko suggested with a blank stare.
"Ufufufu~. Probably not a good idea," Akeno says to the three.
Asia makes a whining sound, getting everyone's attention.
"I just wanna read one verse! This one was my favorite out of all of them!"
She then skims through the pages to find said verse and stops when she found it, only to feel her head getting zapped when she started reading it.
"AAAAAAHHHH! I didn't even start yet!" She closes the book and bows her head. "Dear Lord, please forgive my inability to read your words. I promise, I've tried." She opens it back to the verse she wanted to read and attempts to try again.
*ZAP!*
"GAAAAAHH! Why do you hate me?!"
She keeps trying again, and again, only to feel the same results in her head with Ibara stopping her from going any further.
Izuku felt sorry for Asia while also sweating a bit, 'If it were any other Devil, I'll bet they'll wave the white flag right away,' Izuku says this in his thoughts. He then looks upward towards the ceiling. 'Though, I'm able to be off the hook when I say "Lord" in a way, like "Good Lord" this and "Thank Lord" that, I wonder how I'll react when I try to read it?' He thought about it for a while, but then shook his head afterwards. 'Nah. I doubt I'll be immune to heavenly words printed on paper.'
A little bit later was where we see Izuku on a field in the woods, with a neutral expressions on his face with no sign of the Gremory Devils nor Ibara, the reason for this was because he wanted to figure things out...more specifically, his memories and the powers he once used.
As he sent out his hands away from his body, he closed his eyes as he focused on his magic reserves.
'Focus, take form, and then'
He now opened his eyes as he watched a large ball of fire that hovered in the palm of his hands that it made him smile while feeling that familiarity.
"I'm glad" He said as he focused more magic on the fire and focusing more on creating objects out of it.
The third day came and Izuku would focus more on his magic the first thing in the morning from Akeno which resulted in him feeling he was being raped just for her staring at him and later on he will train his body to get faster from sword training with Kiba, strength from Koneko and getting knowledge from Rias and the former holy maidens.
This continued on with changes for everyone as well which resulted in everyone including Ibara to train their bodies since Izuku thought it would help to get them to focus more on that point than just rely alot on their magic reserve and the skill they're used to, which made them understand.
Then came the fourth day, where Izuku was seen focusing in on his Boosted Gear, the Sacred Gear that was with him since he was born...or rather it randomly chose him but he didn't mind in fact, he was grateful that the spirit of a Dragon was there, who he see as an older brother now that most of his memories are returning but only little by little.
Nighttime fell. Izuku's eyes flutter open when he was having a hard time trying to sleep. Because of this, he decided to get a glass of water to drink, in hopes he can sleep a little easier.
But first…He had to escape from the grasp of one Ibara who was holding onto him like a pillow and the thing was, this was the first time she's ever done this and she was placing his head in between her breasts in her sleep, which made it difficult for him to sleep.
The way she held onto him, like he was going to leave and never come back made him sigh because he believes Asia felt the same way...but right now, To escape for a drink of water, he had to move very slowly to get out of bed because of how sensitive he thought her breasts would be, since he had to get his head out of them. Next, he wiggles around like a worm slowly and quickly replaces his body with his pillow so Ibara would still hold onto something and not wake up. He then waited for a while to see if she'll still be asleep after doing all of those procedures. To his relief, she was still asleep, nuzzling her face onto the blanket he placed in her arms while purring up a storm like, this made him chuckle while placing the blanket over the vine haired girl and went ahead and tip-toed his way downstairs towards the kitchen, slowly but gently closing the bedroom door behind him, not making a sound.
As soon as Izuku made his way to the kitchen, he grabbed an empty glass cup and filled it up with water from the sink. He then proceeds to drink out of the glass, chugging every last drop of water. He pours himself another drink of water and drinks that amount again. Satisfied with the two drinks, he wipes his mouth with the back of his hand, puts the glass cup in the sink and begins to make his way back to his room.
"Izu? You're still up?"
This made Izuku to blink in surprise when he heard the voice of Rias call to him and turns his head towards the direction of the voice. Upon seeing her, he noticed that she was carrying a black book that looked like a journal, and was wearing circular glasses, and a pink night gown that he mentally thanked that it wasn't revealing.
"Oh, Hey Rose. Yeah, I guess I'm having a hard time falling asleep."
Rias lets out a giggle and smiles at her Pawn.
"Good timing. Will you come with me? I need to chat with you about something."
He just shrugged his shoulders and only nodded his head as he followed his King.
Both teens made their way to the column and entered the building. As soon as they did that, Rias sat down behind one of the pillars and crossed her legs in front of her while adjusting her glasses.
"Um, Hey Rose?"
Rias sets her attention to Izuku when she heard him start to speak.
"Yes, Izu?"
"I've been meaning to ask, what's up with the glasses? Do you need them to read certain text, or something like that?"
Rias giggles at his question.
"No. I just wear them because they help me think clearly. I guess I've been living in the Human Realm for too long, huh?"
Izuku let's out a gentle chuckle while sweat dropping.
"I… don't think that would be the case…"
After getting that out of the way, Rias went ahead and talked to Izuku about why she called him here.
"Really? That's your plan?" Izuku asks her after hearing everything she had to say.
"Yeah, it is," she answers with a sigh while staring down at the pages of her book. "But it's not a very good one, I'm afraid. According to this manual, We still have a lot to worry about."
"How can you say that?" Izuku questions with a perplexed look. "Judging by how you look, you must've been working out a couple of strategies"
Rias lets out another sigh while pushing her glasses back on her face.
"While I understand where you're coming from, keep in mind we can't control what the opponent will do." She then narrows her eyes while scratching her feet together. "Besides, our strategy isn't the only thing we've got to worry about."
"Oh? What is it?"
"It's Riser," Rias answers with a bitter tone in her voice. "Their last names: Phenex is appropriate for them too. While he is a Devil, he's also a Marquis counted among the 72 Pillars. We've got our work cut out for us."
Rias closes her book and places it down to her right side before giving Izuku her full attention.
"His ability is the same as the beast his family is named after: Immortality."
Izuku couldn't help but narrow his eyes at that word, "I know for a fact that the Phenex turns to ash and puts itself together like it was never destroyed, man talk about a powerful ability, I'm surprised that's even allowed"
"It just is," Rias replies, understanding the young man's words "He's indestructible. He regenerates immediately after suffering a fatal injury. Riser's win/lose ratio is eight to two. However, those two losses were accepted out of respect for a family he's close to. In other words: he lost on purpose against them."
"Huh, so he does have a heart behind that arrogant Yakitori Bird brain of his, man talk about surprising" Izuku said which made Rias slightly chuckle but she continued from there.
"Ever since the Rating Game was put into affect, the House of Phenex has dominated the playing field. They always had the highest scores. Hmph! Can't say I'm surprised." Rias began to hit the sides of her feet together while having a frustrated look on her face. "How are you suppose to lose if you're immortal?"
Izuku tilted his head a bit, "I wouldn't be so sure, Rose"
As soon as she heard that nickname she saw his confident smirk on his face that confused her.
"Huh? What do you mean by that."
Izuku let's out a chuckle and crosses his arms while keeping his smirk intact.
"What you said about the Phenex Devils isn't entirely true. While they can regenerate after receiving a devastating attack from their enemy, it doesn't make them entirely immortal. They can still die. After all, they are Devils, aren't they?"
Rias widened her eyes after hearing such words come out of her Pawn's mouth.
"How… How can you be so sure of that?"
"let's get the obvious out of the way, since they're Devils, there's no way they can regenerate after being attacked by a Holy power, so they can't be resistant to light. Also, they have something that I have no doubt that they'll use in the game in case they do underestimate us: Phenex Tears."
Rias becomes surprised again at the information he dug up.
"Phenex Tears? You mean the expensive medical liquid that can heal any injury, including severed limbs?!"
"Yup," Izuku answered with a nod. "And if I were to guess who's going to use it, I think they'll be given to the Yakitori Bird Brain's Queen, who I believe is called Yubelluna"
Rias narrows her eyes at her feet while scrunching her toes.
"You may be right, Izu. I would do the same thing if I were given Phenex Tears."
"Hey, what's with that face?" Izuku asks, noticing how stressed she looks right now. "Like I told you, you've got nothing to worry about. Now that I've found their exploits, and learned that they're not entirely immortal, I can use that knowledge and beat down on that man whore until he's out cold."
Rias widens her eyes again at the determination in Izuku's voice.
"B-B-But… Even if you do know their weaknesses, he'll still regenerate!"
"Then I'll keep beating the shit out of him," Izuku counters, surprising her again. "Like I said, I'll keep at him until he's out cold. I'll show that bastard that just because he's 'immortal', it doesn't mean he can't die, and can't be defeated."
Izuku then gently places his hands on her hands making the latter's cheeks tinge an unnoticeable pink.
"You're freedom is on the line, Rose. And I refuse to have that taken away from you just because of how 'important' this forced marriage is to the Devils! If you want my opinion, reincarnated Devils, including myself, are the reason the Devils are still living on!"
He removes his hand from her hands and slams his right fist into his heart, giving Rias a serious expression.
"Let me make this vow. I, Izuku Midoriya, your ultimate Pawn, will do whatever it takes to get you out of your marriage with that Yakitori prick! I promise that on my life, Rose."
Rias looks on at her Pawn, eyes beginning to soften at hearing him make such a vow. Despite the Phenexes' reputation, and their impressive regeneration properties, she was amazed that Izuku was still willing to fight in order to set her free. She places a hand to her chest, feeling her heart beating as she had his vow in playback in her mind, making her tear up at his determination.
Izuku noticed the look she was giving him and started to act a little shy, scratching the back of his head and sweat dropping.
"Sorry, that was pretty cringe worthy, wasn't it?" He asks her, feeling embarrassed after making the vow. "To be honest, I never planned out the exact words for the-"
Izuku paused his talking when Rias suddenly grabbed his head. What she did next made Izuku widen his eyes with a dark blush.
"Uh… Rose..?"
Izuku's head was now buried in Rias' Bosom. Usually, he would freak out a little, but since it was just the two of them, he calm down for a bit but He was still flustered at the fact that she placed his head in between her fleshy mounds, despite her being clothed.
When Izuku used his eyes to look up to her face, he was surprised to see Rias smiling at him with softened eyes and tears threatening to roll down her cheeks.
"Thank you, Izu. Thank you so, so much."
Izuku blinks once. Then twice. He then allowed her to keep his head in her cleavage to keep her happy, knowing that she was now quietly crying. But she wasn't crying in sadness, she was crying in joy to have such a motivated servant.
To make her feel a little more better, he wraps his arms around Rias and got in a comfortable position with her until she stopped crying.
She smiled even more as she leaned down with Izuku rising his head up more so the two were able to have their faces closer, feeling each other's breath and as if their mind had no control over their body, their lips met, feeling each other's warmth, enjoying each other's taste as they got even closer.