Beyond Critical - Chapter 21.2 (Patreon)

Rather predictably, Rias' big plan to train for the upcoming rating game against Riser Phenex, was to head up to a huge manor her family owned in the mountains overlooking Kuoh.

To Kaito, it was a complete shit show from the very start.

Instead of just teleporting to the manor and getting down to business, multiple hours of valuable time were wasted as Rias decided they should all walk there, and that the hike up would be good training for Hyoudou if he carried a large backpack all the way.

In theory, that was a good eye to train his stamina, the application of it though was horrible. It was a one time thing, so absolutely useless in the end. Training the body physically needed devoted repetition.

Carrying a somewhat heavy backpack on a few hour hike, wasn't going to do jack shit for the pervert.

From there, once they arrived and picked out some rooms to stay in during the ten days they'd be living at the manor, Issei's 'real' training began.

To start things off, he was to learn fencing from Kiba, and from the get go, that was through sparring.

He lost.

Horribly.

Kaito had zero idea why someone who didn't have any swords at all to use, and who's main weapon was a gauntlet, needed to be taught fencing, or sword play in general beyond getting some experience with fighting them, but that shouldn't have been a priority at this point.

Next up, was Himejima teaching Hyoudou and Asia to finally draw out their magic power. Something that honestly should have been taught to them the very first day they reincarnated, or at least in the first few.

Kaito had no idea why the hell they hadn't been taught it.

Rias needed a kick up the ass there.

Finally, Hyoudou was pit against Koneko and sparring in hand to hand combat. And the only time he managed to touch her, was when she was denting his face in with her tiny fists.

It was honestly pathetic.

The worst of it was though, Hyoudou wasn't actually the source of the sheer pathetic style of training going on.

Well, at least not solely.

Kaito had long since retired to his room, not even bothering to stick around for dinner, which Hyoudou was also being made to help prepare, for whatever reason when he should have been resting to prepare for training going ahead and to maximize the benefits his body would gain from the training he'd already gone through.

He wasn't going to eat anything that clown touched with his filthy jizz soaked hands.

Not to mention the food they were making was just standard and not anything to help promote muscle growth or anything like that. Just because they had supernatural bodies now, did not mean they could afford to cut back on vital proteins.

In fact Kaito knew for a fact his body was even more calorie reliant now for fuel, he'd long since noticed such a thing from the first supernatural changes his body had went through after he turned his organs into that of a dragons.

'I miss Yanagi and Irina.' he thought with a sigh, staring up at the ceiling of the bedroom he was situated within.

He hadn't even been able to train himself because Rias wanted him to watch their training and wanted him to help training Hyoudou going forward.

Just as he'd expected.

Because it wasn't like he was going to actually be in her peerage after the rating game and she knew that, so she wanted to get the most out of him while he was in her peerage.

A knock on the bedroom door drew him from his thoughts. Sighing, Kaito sat up from the bed, then got up and made his way over to the door and pulled it open.

He was somewhat surprised to find Himejima waiting on the other side with a pleasant smile, dressed in her kuoh school uniform that honestly left very little to the imagination.

Weird, she'd been in miko robes earlier, why had she changed into the school uniform at this time?

'Whatever,' he dismissed it, Rias' whole peerage were full of weirdo's, trying to understand their thought process was a fallacy straight from the start, "Something you need Himejima?" he asked.

"Good evening Kaito-kun," Himejima jumped straight to the first name with familiarity, "I was hoping I could come in and have a chat with you?"

Odd, he'd barely ever said two words to this girl in the entire time he'd been at Kuoh, but whatever.

"Sure." Kaito shrugged and stepped aside to let the older girl in, before closing the door.

Himejima smiled and walked straight over to the bed and plopped her sweet curvy ass down on it, "So Kaito-kun, you've been surprisingly quiet today," she noted, "I was expecting you to be a lot more vocal, especially after your outburst against Riser."

"Should I have?" Kaito asked, raising an eyebrow at her, "This is all just a waste of time for me, when I could be back home with my girlfriends or getting actual proper training of my own in."

"Ah, Rias did tell me about that actually, fufu," Himejima giggled daintily, deep violet eyes glinting with mischief, "Two girlfriends that Rias walked in on you having sex with, how scandalous."

Really Rias, broadcasting his private life?

"I don't want to hear that from you Himejima," he snorted, giving her a deadpan look, "Not when you're flashing me right now."

And she was, the way she was sitting, he could see straight up her skirt and see the purple and black lacy floral thong she was wearing.

"Ara ara, don't you know it's not polite to point it out when a lady's underwear is showing?" Himejima tittered, "And please, call me Akeno, or maybe Akeno-neechan."

"I'll pass on that last one," Kaito rolled his eyes, "Fine, Akeno, what do you want? I assume it isn't just to flash your underwear at me?"

"It could be that," Akeno grinned at him and spread her legs open a little more teasingly, "I mean, you were very manly today when you lost your temper against Riser, maybe I fell for you and I've come to you in hopes you'll ravage me silly."

"That wasn't manly at all," Kaito clicked his tongue, though he was more annoyed with himself for having to take a moment to peel his eyes away from the contents of the older girls skirt, "That was a complete lack of self control and having a temper tantrum. Only little kids throw temper tantrums like that."

He was man enough to admit it, he hadn't been able to control his instincts. As always, he was lacking and needed to improve himself further.

"Maybe, but I wouldn't say it's manly to bottle everything up either and never voice your anger, I've known a man like that, and for all his power, he was a weakling because of that," Akeno shrugged with a smile, "After all, what would you do if it was Yanagi-chan or Irina-chan in Rias' place?"

…Is that seriously what she was getting at? Fine, if she wanted to play that game, then he'd ride this out and see what she was really after.

And also it seemed Rias had let slip that his other girlfriend was Irina, which meant her peerage probably knew.

He'd need to keep an eye on Kiba.

"He wouldn't have left that room alive," he told her bluntly, "Grayfia or no Grayfia, I'd have killed him. Nobody in that room could have stopped and damn the consequences, I wouldn't have given a shit if Sirzechs Lucifer rolled up in there to stop me either."

He already had a measure for how people at that level fought now thanks to Serafall, and he was way beyond the him who fought Serafall now. While he couldn't have defeated Grayfia, he for sure could have kept her busy long enough to kill Riser.

Between his light abilities and Arondight, and the fall back method of fully converting his body into that of a dragons if needed, it was a forgone conclusion in his mind.

"Oh my," Akeno cupped her cheek as her lips curved into a large smile, "Quite the boast."

"That's not a boast, it's a fact," he snorted, "I can't beat either of them in a fight, yet, but I wouldn't have needed to."

"Very manly indeed," Akeno giggled, "It's almost a shame Rias' little plan to recruit you through marrying you didn't work out."

And a sudden change in topic. He couldn't get a bead on this girl at all.

"Uh-huh, and why is that?" Kaito asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I mean, it's obvious is it not, fufu?" she gave him a cattish grin, "If you were, you'd be a lord of the Gremory house and as Rias' husband you'd even have some power over her peerage members like myself. Weren't you the one that offered to join the peerage if we all warmed your bed? You could have had your way with me anytime you wanted."

Rias told her then, huh? But then, she should have also told her, he wasn't serious at all and had just been doing that to fuck with Hyoudou.

Oh wait…now that he thought about it, didn't she have a whole thing for netorare? But not in the traditional sense of a man stealing a woman from another man, rather, she got off on the idea of being the other woman and stealing the man of another woman, and she especially loved the idea of doing it to Rias, her best friend for some reason.

"…And so what, you've come here to offer to suck my dick?" Kaito asked drolly with a roll of his eyes, "Because I'll tell you right now, I'm not Hyoudou, you don't get to play the teasing blue baller with me and back out." he threatened.

Honestly, he was more or less bluffing. Of course Akeno Himejima was gorgeous with a body that would put a succubus to shame, and he wouldn't lie that the instinctual desire to fuck her cross eyed and make her squeal was there, and Yanagi had even already given him permission if it came to such a thing.

But that was all that was, instinctual desire. He felt nothing for this girl beyond that, except maybe some pity for her past and how she felt about herself. Unlike Yanagi and Irina, Akeno was a mess of issues that the only way he could see to fix was smashing at them with a sledgehammer.

And he so didn't need that drama, that wasn't what he was here for.

"Well no, I'm actually here to get started on the basic magic lessons you need to learn in order to use your magic properly," Akeno beamed at him, "But well, you are the big bad strong rook of the Leviathan that Rias recruited to beat Riser, if you came at me, I'd have no way to stop you and you'd be able to overpower me easily and do whatever you want with me." she added, reclining on the bed, propping herself up with her hands, and with a bold gesture, pushed her chest forward and out , causing the buttons of her shirt to strain against the sheer size and weight of her ample bosom.

"Why not just say that from the beginning?" Kaito sighed in annoyance, ignoring the pulse of lust that ran straight down to his groin, "You're a real mess of a girl you know that? This isn't a good look you know, this comes across as a real honey trap kinda thing. Hot as you are, we've exchanged maybe three sentences in total, your sudden interest in me is fishy as fuck."

"What if I told you I wasn't all that fond of Fallen Angels, in fact, let's say I hate them and find them filthy and disgusting," Akeno replied, wide smile not dimming at all, but a dark almost perverse anger appearing in her pretty violet iris', "And that, I got very interested in you when I heard you killed one of their leaders? No, not even just killed, you took everything he was so proud of and made it your own, besmirching his legacy and leaving him as nothing but a pathetic fool who will only be laughed about in ages to come?"

Oh for crying out loud.

"So what, now you're tune is changing to offering yourself up as a reward for killing Satanael?" he asked dryly, "You've usually got such pretty eyes you know, a lot like Irina's actually and even Serafall's, not so much now with the seething hate I can see in them right now."

Akeno blinked at his reply, and her cheeks actually flushed a bit at his compliment, "No wonder you have two girlfriends, you know how to strike a maiden properly don't you?" she giggled wiggling her eyebrows and not faltering despite the flush on her cheeks, "Besides, fallen angels dirty everything, so it's no wonder they make these eyes of mine you find so pretty, ugly when talking about them."

"I never said ugly," he replied bluntly, before sighing and running a hand through his hair, "Besides, I'm already very well aware of your hatred for Fallen Angels."

Fuck it, he was just going to ride this out.

The composed look on her face vanished instantly, and the seething hate fled from her gaze instantly as Akeno's eyes flew wide open with shock, "You…know?"

"I made sure to be very well informed of the Gremory and Sitri peerages, and you would not believe the information you can find on you guys, you're a hot topic in the supernatural world," Kaito smirked, actually liking it as the flow of the conversation landed on the other foot now, "From Koneko and her sister, to Kiba and the Holy Sword project and even yourself, the half fallen angel daughter of Baraqiel."