In one direction two people were running away at full speed. It was a pair of pawns twins, both having green hair and small bodies, the two were running while carrying chainsaws. They were frightened and decided to run away at top speed, they wanted to survive as they felt like their lives were one step away from ending.

Unfortunately, the two were truly unlucky.

"Well, well, well. Who would say, I found myself facing two girls at once, how unlucky of me and you two." A voice said in front of the duo. The two instantly prepared themselves for combat but when they saw the opponent they did not know if they should be scared or not.

The person that appeared was none other than Komaeda, his body having become a bit thinner as he stood there with a presence that made both of the twins fearful of him, but the most striking thing about him was that his eyes were strange. It was like they became swirls of darkness as he stared at the two.

"I must say, you two truly are lucky. I am not good at direct combat and if you can eliminate me you probably could deal quite the damage to the enemy. Wouldn't you two who lack anything special and unique about you, the run of the mill nobodies that will disappear of the world without accomplishing anything, like to try and make a name to yourselves? This is your hope, your last big chance of reaching hope." Komaeda said, his eyes swirling in darkness as the two pawns started feeling dizzy.

As the swirls on Komaeda's eyes continued turning the two girls started feeling stranger and stranger, not long after the two started hearing a voice in their head over and over again.

'Being the stepping stone for hope is the best.'

'Working for hope is everything.'

'Only those working for hope deserve to live.'

'Hope.'

'Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, Hope, HOPE!'

By the end of it the two simply stood there and could not do anything else, their eyes to becoming swirls of darkness as they stood in place.

"... I guess this is as much as talentless people can accomplish. At least I will give you all meaning in your lives, go and find Riser and make sure to force upon him as much pain and misery as you can, my fellow stepping stones!"

"Yes, we shall Hope's servant." The two said in deadpan voices before turning around and start moving to where their target was. Whenever they went unlucky things started happening as buildings falling and almost hitting them or the dust in the air hitting the two in the eyes directly.

But they had a mission as stepping stones of hope, and they would follow through with it.

Komaeda looked at the two with some fondness but behind him as a line of defense Narberal could not help but shudder at what she had seen. This was her boyfriend's Balance Breaker, Telos Tyrant Karma (Ultimate Karma Tyrant). It makes those affected by it be controlled by the user and follow any instruction. While under control the puppets create bad luck constantly and those that are targetted by those puppets become the target of the bad luck or good luck depending on the situations (if it is to attack it is bad luck, protect or guard creates good luck). The puppets never stop until either Komaeda releases them or dies, even deactivating the sacred gear does nothing about it.

It is a subspecies Balance Breaker and if Narberal was honest she had mixed feelings about this Balance Breaker since it was not a 100% success rate, if the enemy was strong enough or had an unusually high mental fortitude it would not work but against these twins, they never stood a chance.

"Hahahahahahaha, this is my first present to you Hope-sama! I swear I will make the stage even better for you to shine even brighter and make sure that everyone can feel your presence." Komaeda started laughing maniacally. and Narberal was only looking from the side. This was just another proof to her that while the rest of Joseph's peerage is much stronger than Komaeda he definetly is the most dangerous one. He is simply terrifying in all aspects.

On another area Riser was desperately trying to survive. Lo'lo was running behind him, a maniacal smile on his face as he continuously hit Riser whenever he got close enough. The knight he had with him was long since left behind, Lo'lo offhandedly slaped her away as if she was a bug buzzing around his ears.

Of course, this move ended up sending her through five buildings and destroying them all. He was just that absurd strong. Riser saw that and had to focus and try his best not to piss his pants, that sort of physical power should be only possible for those in the top 10 of the rating games, not for amateurs like them!

Opening his wings Riser took flight, Lo'lo tried to do the same but he simply sucked when it comes to flying so there wasn't much he could truly do.

Not that the air was that good for Riser, shots from Rias' base started ranging as Mukuro sniped Riser using her sacred gear. In a matter of seconds, he was filled with holes and no matter how much he regenerated she simply continued making sure he looked like swiss cheese.

On the ground he had to run from the behemoth that was Lo'lo, on the sky he was simply prey for Mukuro, he truly was starting to doubt slightly his chances of winning this.

On another area the knight that was launched by Lo'lo was standing up to see another knight looking at her. Kiba was positioned a bit further away but on an important street that would surely be used by at least one of Riser's peerage members when they had separated all around. He was not that happy with it through, it was like everything that happened was going squarely according to Joseph's plans as he had ordered Peko to follow another path to ensure something else and Kiba had to continue where he was.

It was true that this place was important, but it was not so much so and he knew it would turn meaningless soon enough as a new plan was already in motion by Joseph and Kiba's king's orders.

The knight of Riser was named Kalarmine, she was a typical knight-like person and as soon as she stood back up she had to spit what she had on her mouth. Multiple teeth fell together with the blood, one side of her face was completely bloodied and her left arm she used to defend herself hang lifeless without being able to move. Her state was such that Kiba felt all his instincts as a 'knight' saying that he should go and help her, but he knew he was here to eliminate her.

Thinking so he created a demonic sword with his sword blacksmith before engaging her directly. She could not see on one side, which normally would mean he should aim for that side, but his honor demanded him to at least fight her on the side she could fight back instead of taking advantage of the advantage he had.

He knew that his decision was not one that anyone from Joseph's peerage would ever agree, they were all extremely pragmatic and would take whatever opportunity to win the easiest and fastest way possible, but Kiba was different. He was a knight, and he had his own pride of carrying such title.

However, his decision of making this a more fair fight resulted in a stallement as Kalarmine's sword was one of the best the money could buy and its powers were enough to match Kiba's creations, not that it mattered in the great scheme of things. This was a small fight that was not that important on the great scheme of things.

As Riser was starting to get tired he saw something he really did not expect. Rias, in all her crimson glory, was standing in the path he was going through. It was only then that he realized that he was being led to her, but he was okay with that. He wanted to defeat her and this was a prime chance for that so he did not hesitate to swoop down with fire covering his form.

His thoughts were only in winning at this point, everything else was merelly an extra if in comparison. The pressure over him was such that he did not had the luxury to stop and think about what to do exactly.

But as he was close to hitting her he was instead blown away by a blast of draconic fire. Phillufy, who had managed to sleep throughout the entire game until now to the point of not waking up even when the base was under attack, was finally up to fight as Joseph woke her up and bribed her with special cookies for her to come and help beat Riser.

Riser sneered as he saw the flame about to hit him, but when he was engulfed in dragon flames of Phillufy he was instantly charred black. While Phillufy was usually extremely lazy and gluttonous it was a fact that she descended from two dragon kings, her talent was possibly the highest amongst the young dragons and Tiamat, her mother, said once that it was not impossible for Phillufy to reach Heavenly Dragon level if she actually tried to.

So yeah, Riser did not stand a chance.

As he clashed on the ground he saw himself surrounded by Rias, who was covered in a lot of power of destruction, Gonta, who looked suspiciously like a super sayian with his hair rising from all the energy he was releasing, Koneko, who was there mostly to beat this flaming bird, and to complete Riser's nightmare was Lo'lo who had showed up just in time to close the circle around.

It was then that messages started sounding.

"Riser Phenex, four pawns and one knight, retired"

"Riser Phenex, three pawns and one knight, retired"

"We did it, death." Kirika said as she sat on the ground exhausted.

"I know, it is still tiresome through." Shirabe said while sitting down and starting to play with an yoyo.

Kirika and Shirabe had fought an intense battle against the more experienced devil, but the fact it was two on one and their better weaponry ensured their victories even if it was not nearly as easy as they could have wanted.

The fight was quite troublesome, the equipment on Siris' body was strong and her sword was quite great as well, clearly, a masterpiece bought with a lot of money. She also had some magic equipment to protect herself, but it was not that useful in the end. She was simply not that good, but she did manage to make a number at the two new pawns of Rias.

But honestly speaking, even with the lacerations that allowed one to see bone (thanks to Shirabe's attacks with her saws) and the fact she almost lost her soul (Kirika's sacred gear's scythes had an effect similar to a reaper's scythe, but she could create as many as she wanted and launch them) Siris was still the luckiest one of Riser's peerage after Ravel. Even the three pawns that were silently eliminated by Solution had their bodies filled with acid and were under intensive care with risk of death. And the two pawns under the effect of Komaeda's Balance Breaker were slowly loosing their minds and being replaced as simply dolls of Komaeda's madness, trully a terrifying and logic defying sacred gear that fully deserved its status of Longinus.

And it is best not to say anything of the last three pawns remaining, they never even saw Narberal coming as she launched a thunder dragon at them, the burns caused by the intensity of the attack were such that their survival was still in question even with the Phenex Tears being liberally used.

Now the only ones remaining on Riser's side were his Queen, to knights, Riser, and his two roo-

"Riser Phenex, 2 rooks Retired."

Yeah, no rooks left.

Joseph's P.O.V.

Well, that was easy enough.

No, scratch that, it was TOO easy. I mean, seriously, you'd expect two rooks to be able to take at least one punch but when I showed up in front of them they attacked me at the same time but all I had to do was launch two restraining magic circles to stop them in place before giving each one punch. And now they are there, and there, and there, and a bit over there... yeah it was too much.

Seriously, losing both arms they tried to defend themselves and having their chest cavity smashed to the point their heart's condition was in doubt with just one punch I didn't even try that hard, it was pathetic. If they trained at all then they might have been able to take that punch, but now I fear Ravel's reaction when she sees how I likely crippled and possibly killed two of her brother's peerage members.

Not that finding replacements for him would be hard, any brothel would have a selection for him to choose from, he does seem to think of his peerage as holes to fuck after all. I guess he isn't fucked up enough as it is huh?

Anyway, now I should give Rias the time to ensure she can vent her frustrations in Riser and I know for a fact that with Phyllufi and Lo'Lo there than it is for sure that they are fine.

Suddenly, I heard a great sound and comotion to the west and saw a giant robot standing tall.

Well, I guess Riser's Queen at least is not completely useless. But considering she is facing Peko I doubt she will be able to do much very soon.

"Wait a second, I know that face from somewhere." I said pensively as I realized from where I knew it. Oh hell no! "Oh hell no!"

In the west section of the battlefield, an interesting fight was going on as metal clashed with metal. On one side was Iruma Miu, the Queen of Riser and user of a powerful sacred gear, on the other was Peko that was using a simple steel sword (Joseph had ordered her to use this simpler blade to avoid the higher nobility knowing that they had Nothung for as long as possible since there would be some that would try and take it away by force if needed).

The two were clashing with great intensity. Miu was far back, she created a large number of robots that were fighting off Peko with all they had but they were not able to stop Peko completely. But even so Miu was not in that high a danger since she had created a pair of robots she put under her feet to transport her from one side to another, her speed and the interference of the robots were just about enough to make the two keep a approximately constant distance.

Peko was growing frustrated, she had already been injured before due to Kasper's peerage members and now that she had to defeat Miu she could not even do that right! She was better than this but she was having to limit herself in her speed and with such a low quality sword she had to be extra careful in only damaging the joints and places that were not as guarded.

In the end Peko got pissed enough to decide to actually go at 60% of her speed instead of 30%, that was still slow for her as the fastest in Joseph's peerage but it was still leagues above any ordinary knight and Miu's robots failed to stop her in time.

Peko cut upon Miu's body, but the sword Peko was using had been damaged during the previous squirmish with Miu and the previous fight against Kasper's peerage, breking just as she was about to slice Miu in half. Now Miu only had a superficial cut in her body but she was still terrifyied. She could only think of how alone she was right now and how she wanted someone to protect her. Normally Miu had K1-BO, or Kibo, as a protector but he was destroyied and her king was nowhere to be seen, he having ordered her to stop 'poluting my great air with your stupidity' as he so eloquently said.

She was scared, her body trembling as she wanted to survive against this 'sword demon' as she would later call Peko, she was so afraid that she could not even think about simply retiring to protect herself, her emotions in a mess as she could not help but scream, scream for help and protection above all else.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

And that was the moment it happened. From inside her backpack/sacred gear a voice sounded.

"Balance Breaker: Imperial Guards of the Mechanical God!"

And her backpack flashed out of existence. Instead Miu was covered in an even more revealing outfit that looked like a toga used by the Greeks of old but showing even more skin as well as a pair of mechanized gloves covering her hands. She did not know exactly what to do but an instinct within her told her of what she could do with this Balance Breaker, so moving her hands she made all the pieces of robots around fly in the sky together as Peko took a step back and prepared herself to whatever may be necessary.

As she mover her hands the robots she created before and the steel around them from the buildings started creating her robot. It was humanoid, her red chest and shoulders but with the chest looking suspiciously like a truck's front, the legs and arms were in blue and the head was also blue looking like a helmet you would see on a knight. Anyone that had any past in being a geek or a otaku would recognize that one, it was a functional copy of Optimus Prime in all his height and grandeur. Not only that, as more metal started coming more and more robots were beginning to form as Optimus Prime stood in front of Peko.

In the distance it was possible to hear Joseph gushing over this awesomeness, something that Rias would also be doing just as much if not for her being too busy by destroying over and over Riser's crotch while Lo'lo kept him in place with a foot on Riser's chest while punching his face.

Honestly, Peko was not that impressed. She was not particularly interested in most of the things her master enjoyed so seeing Optimus Prime was not enough for her to go crazy like her master was doing in the distance and… was that a phone in his hand?

Anyway, Peko could feel the power in this mechanical creature's body, it was not insignificant and its size and reach would make it somewhat difficult of a battle. Peko wondered why all her enemies during this game were the worse types for her to fight against, but decided to ignore that, she had a mission to fulfill.

Thinking that she brought out the sword she had strapped in her back, it was no Nothung but it was much better than the one she was using before. It was a heavy black katana that was made using rare materials by the best blacksmith the Barbatus house could find, it was supposed to be her main weapon even if it lacked any inherent magic but with the addition of Nothung this previous Katana became her secondary weapon. But for this fight it would be enough even if she knew Joseph would not be that happy with her showing her Katana.

Holding the Katana at the ready, Peko readied herself as the first wave of robots charged towards her. She was no fool, according to her mental calculations it would be best to deal with the small robots first, wave by wave, whilst decreasing the distance between herself and the Optimus Prime robot. She had seen that, through the gathering of metal, that there was a special receiver built (as cliché as it had been) on top of its forehead. If she managed to strike that, then she would be able to cripple the enemy force enough for her to get the chance to end this fight. When faced against enemies one is weak against, it would be best to try to find a way to quickly end the battle before things turned unfavourable.

Just as the first wave, which looked to be consisting of robotic canines, reached her position, Peko gripped the hilt of her Katana and, once she saw the last and best possible opening, dashed right through the wave itself... whilst dozens of slash marks appeared over their exposed vitals which resulted in them falling to the ground in useless heaps.

With the Katana in hand Peko accelerated towards Miu, her form blurring as she used the entire area as a pathway to her target. Optimus Prime punched the area where she was about to arrive, but with one swing of her katana the dust was cut and a gash appeared in the robot's arm. That allowed the second wave to assault her, a wave consisting of more canines but with Knights mounting them. Each of them had javelins for left arms and grenade launchers for right arms, arms which they aimed at Peko and unloaded a rainfall of Grenades on her.

As a response to this, Peko flipped into a defensive stance, performing a technique taught to her by her father meant for both offensive and defensive purposes: The Seikuken. A combat method that involves controlling the entire radius within one's arm length, creating a spherical shield around oneself. It can be used for offence and defence, but Weapon users, such as Peko herself, had the capability to extend the range to several feet around them with the additional length of their weapons, allowing them to defend even at mid-range. More experienced fighters can even extend the range with minimal lengths by using air pressure (just like her father). However, a Seikūken with a larger radius is not necessarily better, as this can make it easier to generate openings in the Seikuken's defences. Besides having a larger radius, having a Seikūken with a very small radius can also be useful too.

In Peko's case, her Seikuken could extend to the reach of her sword, and she had already overcome the limitations behind this technique resulting in her gaining one HELL of a defensive and offensive powerup. As the rain of Grenades fell on her, Peko unleashed her techniques power, resulting in every Grenade which entered her line of striking range being cut, cut co clean and precisely that they wouldn't have had a SINGLE chance to detonate. Not in a million years. The Grenades fell down to the ground, useless before Peko broke the Seikuken and broke into a mad dash, slipping through the second wave by sliding beneath the Canine steeds... slicing through their tendons to stop their mobility before brutally executing them from behind. She used the last one to get some air though, doing this by jumping onto the Knight's shoulders and using it as a stepping stone to jump high into the air.

As she ascended, the Optimus Prime Robot swung its right fist towards her, thrusting forwards and, from its wrist, a set of five missiles shot out and flew towards her. Each of them aimed themselves towards her breasts, torso and face, according to her calculations of their trajectory, but Peko remained calm ever more. 'I have about 4.54 seconds before they impact... at least a couple seconds more than usual...' The young Knight thought to herself as she eyed Miu… who looked to be about to run at the slightest sign of danger.

… Not on her watch. She had wasted WAY too much time fighting this bitch, she'd not let this slide any longer!

Once the missiles had gotten close enough, Peko aimed her sword and made a backhanded swing, flicking a missile aside before planting her feet onto it. She then bounced over each of them, using them as stepping stones to fall towards the Optimus Prime. Seeing that its enemy was coming closer, the robot threw its opposite fist towards her with its elbow joint releasing a stream of infernal flames, flames which increased its propulsion speed, its aim being to knock her out of the skies. Unfortunately for it, Peko had anticipated this attack, and thus she responded by flipping over the punch, flipping down the arm, and jumping towards the robot's neck...

"Hah!"

...to perfectly decapitate the damn thing.

"Whaaaaaa?!"

Miu's shriek filled the air as she fearfully tried to get away, much to the ire of the stoic swordswoman as Peko, in a moment of reflexive action, reared her Katana backwards before hurling it like a javelin, impaling Miu through the back of her head and knocking her to the ground. She became unresponsive in seconds as her form vanished into blue sparkles.

Riser Phenex: One Queen, retires

Back with Riser he just heard how his queen was defeated and could not help but curse her.

"That useless whore, can't she even take down one enemy or serve as a defense to me?"

As Riser said that he was distracted just long enough for Rias to launch a wave of PoD at his face, his smug smile vanished as his face was consumed by the destruction power, even if it regenerated quickly enough.

As Riser was about to say something else Koneko appeared behind him and gave a punch with her very basic Senjutsu, this one was not as obviously damaging but the feeling it left was not any weaker than the strike from Rias. Riser tried to attack her by launching a wave of fire, only to have it stopped by a hand from Gonta.

"Gentleman protects friends so Gonta do the same, bad person Gonta can discipline." And with that Gonta gave one punch with the same hand that took all the fire Riser launched, the punch was strong enough to nearly throw Riser to the other side of the arena if not for Lo'lo who intervened by dropkicking Riser on the floor, which cracked to the point if it was any worse the whole arena would be broken in two.

Riser turned to Lo'lo and yelled.

"How dare a mut like you touch someone as nobles as me!?"

Lo'lo simply shrugged and said with a smirk on his scarred face.

"Sorry, but I don't see any noble here. All I see is prey, and you is an annoying one." And with that Lo'lo bitchslaped Riser who had his entire lower jaw removed from his body in impact, only for it to regrow after a few seconds.

"You all don't understand? I can keep on with this little game as long as I want! I am a Phenex, I never tire and I never LOSE!" Riser yelled before Rias launched another ball of PoD, blasting him to nothing as he started regenerating.

"Regenerate all you want Riser, I will still beat you!" Rias answered as she created an even greater amount of PoD before launching it at Riser just as he finished regenerating. This time he managed to answer it by launching a large amount of flames at the attack, cancelling it out in the end.

"Dearest Rias, you know you yourself can't beat me. I am a superior brand of devil, you and this lot will never defeat me!" Riser said as he laughed even as he ignored another strike from Koneko.

However, just as Riser was about to say more magic circles started appearing around him as a larger one covered the ground, from the larger one darkness covered everyone inside as the viewers could no longer see anything. Those nobles that were spectating the fight started cursing as they demanded to be able to see what was going on, but there was nothing to be done.

Joseph had made his move, he had spent a considerable amount of time trying to understand the inner workings of the viewing from the spectators, he had decided since before the match that beating Riser would demand not only winning against him but also making him give up, and while doing so would be more than a pleasure he knew that it would demand excessive violence. Ultimately Joseph would become the son-in-law to the Phenex house and it would not look good if he were to be views torturing Riser, but such a good chance to inflict pain on him was far too good to pass up so he decided to be creative.

Using the magic knowledge that he had Joseph spent much of the game not actually fighting to ensure he could focus on determining how to better close up from view spectators, this way he could go as wild as he wanted before allowing Riser to admit defeat.

Inside the spell's effect area Riser was struggling madly. The magic circles around him were locking him in place so thoroughly that he had no hope of moving at all much less attacking anyone, he was no different from a normal human being in shackles.

As Rias and the others saw this Joseph approached, he had a smile that was overly refreshing in his face as he turned to Rias and said.

"Rias-chan, be a dear and use all your power added to what your pawn has been accumulating to teach this idiot a lesson. But please be sure to leave some of him to me, I have some educations I need to input in his little brain to ensure that our future encounters will not be such that would affect the image of the house Phenex or my own, as well as teach him some proper manners." Joseph said, 'teaching' Riser how not to mess up with him in the future and ensuring that he would not try to interfere with his relationship with Ravel was on the top of his 'to do' list.

Rias nodded firmly, she looked at Issei who nodded his head and was to touch Rias when Joseph's voice rang near his ears.

"And don't try to touch my woman more than needed, otherwise you will be losing one head later and I can't assure you which one."

Issei felt a shiver ran down his spine, it was not that needed of a warning as he would respect his king anyway, but Issei could feel that this treat was less about now than it was for now onwards. Also, the fact Joseph said 'my woman' was not lost on Issei.

'Tch, lucky bastard gets all the best Opai.'

Ignoring this Issei channeled his power into Rias, the red-haired girl moaned as the new wave of power entered her being and Issei was mesmerized by her beauty for a moment, but that faded when he saw Joseph smile that showed promises of making him like a certain bald man from Game of Thrones that was a master of whispers.

Yep, Issei's excitement died down instantly... kind of. What? He is a healthy pervert and the sexiest girl he has ever seen in right by his side so what else is to be expected?

Rias, who failed to notice any of that, raised her hand to the sky. Her energy skyrocketed thanks to the new energy Issei transferred her. With righteous fury burning in her eyes she lowered her raised hand to point right at the currently bound Riser, a magic circle in her hands as POD focused in her hands like never before as she shot the said blast.

There was no sound, no explosion, just the utter annihilation of most of Riser's body as he couldn't even yell in pain as his lungs were gone much like most of his organs. There was a unprecedented pain running through his as not only his healing was taking much longer to properly enter in effect due to the POD eating away at him whenever he tried to recover. Normally he would overpower it by simply having more energy than Rias but with the addition of Issei's Boosted Gear the reality was quite different.

The burns made from her current POD were not ending as they kept silently eating away at Riser, like a silent and cold fury that was making sure he would suffer the most he ever did in his life. She only stoped the power when she saw the blond jerk begin to turn purple, the lack of oxigen close to killing him.

As he recovered he laughed a bit and said.

"See? Even your best can't stop me from healing was incapable of making any real damage into me. I am supreme just like a true Phoenix!" Riser said making everyone wonder if he was alright in the head.

"Well, I guess this is it Rias." Joseph said, Rias looked shocked as she thought she had lost due to not being able to make Riser give up even after almost killing him but when she saw Joseph's expression she calmed down. "Now you must leave me and him alone for a while, I promise that when I am done he will be just about ready to give up on this game." Joseph explained.

Rias nodded and turned to leave, Issei trailing behind her even as he didn't understand why were they leaving.

"Buchou, shouldn't we try harder to make the chicken give up?"

"There is no need Issei. All we have to do is leave this place so as to let Joseph do his work, he would probably restrain himself if I am there as he doesn't want me seeing anything that might tarnish his image that I have." 'And I do like when my man shows what he is there for, he truly is perfect for me'. The last part was what Rias thought. She understood clearly that the Barbatus family was not a peaceful bunch and that knowing torture techniques was a necessary part of their position, but the fact he tried to avoid letting her see him doing this was his own form of carrying for her.

Or at least it was what she thought, actually, the reason was to not let her see the mad smile on his face as he slowly turned to his prey.

AN:

And this is what I did so far, following that I still didn't write but if there is anyone willing to help by being a Beta reader it would be great as with this I could restart working on this fic. Another thing, I already am posting the third option I mentioned before, the one where the MC is the younger brother of Rossweise and I think it is going well. I am thinking on trying my hand on one where the MC is the son of Griselda and Vasco as well as having the Sephiroth Grail that is mutated to form 7 cards inside it, the seven class cards.

It is just an idea for now but I could change it depending on a Beta's help. Everyone is welcome and experience isn't a requirement, just being able to give ideas and point out mistakes.