Life In DXD

From next day onwards they all started to do their training as Tatsuya had told them except for Rias who slacked off on her training, though she too trained a bit so as to not make the others suspicious. The rest of his team had already informed him about her slacking off but Tatsuya decided to let her do as she pleased as he was finally enjoying the holidays and were not training then on his own, much to their relief.

Tatsuya though was still resting quite a bit helped Isami in using her sacred gear more efficiently. Ddraig had told them that she was close to achieving the Balance Breaker and tried to help her in achieving it.

During the whole time that Kiba was training he realised why they all say that Tatsuya was a devil when it comes to training. He has been taking hits from Asia from that day onwards and though he didn't suffered any injuries, he still felt quite a lot of pain.

But despite all that he felt that the training was effective as both his evasion speed and endurance has improved over the time.

Akeno has also started to utilize the powers of her queen piece and because of that her speed and strength have improved a lot. She was also made to do her magic training by continuously exhausting her mana and then repeat it again when she was recharged and because of this both her mana pool and magic strength increased a lot and not she is officially stronger than Rias.

Koneko's reaction speed has also improved as she was made to fight blindfolded which increased her ability to sense with her other senses. Her strength and speed has also increased though she is still the slowest in her team except for Isami who could get faster than her after boosting.

And just like that their training continued and tomorrow would be the day that they will be fighting with Riser in the rating game.

Currently it is the middle of the night and Tatsuya is lying on the ground and is observing the beauty of the night sky. Suddenly he felt someone's presence near by and said, "Don't you think that it is time for you to sleep Isami."

Isami who was dressed in a tank top and shorts came closer to him and said, "I can say the same thing to you as well."

She then gave a short smile and said, "I cannot sleep, and since I was not able to find your presence nearby I decided to search for you."

She then sat on the ground as well and asked, "What are you doing here though?"

Tatsuya smiled and said, "Just enjoying the night sky here, The sky in the city is not as beautiful as the one we can see here."

Isami looked up as well and said, "Yeah, it is truly beautiful."

She kept on looking for a while and then said, "Arigato."

Tatsuya who heard her blinked in surprise and asked, "For what?"

Isami looked at him with a smile and said, "For helping me become a girl once again, training me in using my sacred gear, making me stronger, helping me make a lot of good friends..." Isami kept on saying things and Tatsuya finally said, "Isami"

Isami looked at him and asked, "Yeah?" Tatsuya then said, "I was not the only one who helped you, Rias was the one who took you in after you decided to become a girl again, Koneko and Kiba trained you as well an-"

Before Tatsuya was able to continue he was suddenly kissed by Isami making him completely speechless.

She then released him from the kiss and said, "I know all about how others helped me. But it can never change the fact that you were the one who helped me the most throughout all these days."

Tatsuya who looked at her was still in daze but soon got out of it and thought, 'Now that I think about it what she said could be considered true, I am the one who is helping her all the most for all the time she has been a devil. Not even her own king has helped her that much.'

Isami then looked at him and said with a blush on her face, "Accept this as my thanks" ans started to close in again for kiss but just as their lips were about to be touched they heard a *cough**cough* sound.

Both of them suddenly got startled and moved away from each other and turned around to look at the person who disturbed their moment and saw Rias standing there wearing a night gown and glasses and was holding a book in her hands.

Isami who saw her wearing glasses came stopped being nervous and asked, "Prez is your sight bad?"

Rias who was feeling a bit uneasy Seeing both of them kissing each other came out of her thoughts and said, "No, my sight is not bad at all. These just help me concentrate a bit better while studying." and showed her book.

Isami looked at the book and asked, "What book is that?"

Before Rias was able to answer Tatsuya said, "A book on various strategies that could be used in a rating game."

Rias was surprised to see that Tatsuya knew what book she was reading but shrugged it off.

Isami then asked, "Prez do you mind if I ask, why do you not want to proceed with the marriage?"

Rias who heard the question was silent for a while and then sighed before saying, "Because I am a Gremory. This marriage is only taking place not because Riser loves me but only because he loves the Gremory in my name."

Isami the remained silent for a while and then asked, "Do you hate being a Gremory?"

Rias shook her head and said, "I don't hate it infact it could be said that I am quite proud of my name but being proud doesn't mean that I don't mean that I like a aspects of it."

She then looked in a direction as if thinking of something and said, "From a young age people has been praising me and treating me kindly but that was only because of the Gremory in my name, to them I was not Rias but the heiress of the Gremory clan. Even my own father set me up with Riser saying that it was my job as being the hiress of Gremory clan, he put the Gremory name before me and that's why I don't want to be married to a person who only like the Gremory and not the Rias behind that name."

She then looked down with a saddened expression and said, "My only dream is to make others recognise me not because of me being a Gremory but because I am Rias. I want to marry a person who likes me because I am Rias. That's why I came to the human world. Here people don't look at me with me being a Gremory but because I am Rias. I feel happy here rather than being in Underworld where my only worth is because I am Gremory."

She then had a determined look on her face and said, "That's why there is no way that I am going to loose tomorrow. I will show them that I can become great just being Rias and not a Gremory."

Isami then looked at her and said, "I don't know if it will help or not but I admire you(a bit) not because you are a Gremory but for who you are." Rias then smiled and so did Isami.

Both of them then looked at Tatsuya to which he raised his eyebrows and asked, "What?"

Both of them didn't said anything and kept in looking at him and after finally realising what they were trying to ask he said, "You want my opinion on this as well, huh."

Tatsuya then sighed and said, "To put it simply I don't care about all this stuff. I only judge a person by how he acts in front of my eyes. If I deem him worthy of my respect then he gets my respect of not even if the whole world were to collapse then too he will only see me showing him my middle fingers. I don't even care about that your brother is a maou so judging you on the basis of you being a Gremory is simply a waste of my time. I will only judge you from what I see about you and till now I have seen that you skipped your training a lot."

At this Rias got surprised and looked away from him and Tatsuya started chuckling also with Isami.

He then looked at both of them and said, "Now it is already very late and I advise you to go in and have some rest, tomorrow is a big day for both of you."

Both of them nodded their heads and then Rias said, "What would you be doing? Shouldn't you come in and sleep as well?"

Tatsuya lied back on the ground and said, "Nah, I will stay just here and enjoy the night sky." and closed his eyes.

But soon he noticed someone lying besides him and asked, "Both of you what are you doing now?"

Rias just came closer to him and said, "Just let me sleep like this for tonight."

Isami said, "And I am here to make sure that you don not do anything perverted."

Tatsuya looked at her with a deadpan expression and said, "You are the last person that I want to hear that from."

He then sighed, "Well, do as you want but I cannot guarantee that Miyuki will not freeze your body up for doing this."

Both of them just hummed and then silently drifted off to sleep.