Bab 32: A Harmless Duel
When I saw the message Irina was telling me about, I was a little surprised by how politely Rias had requested me to visit the Occult Research Club at school this evening.
"Katarea, wanna tag along with me?" I asked the dark skinned beauty laying on the couch with her head resting on my lap.
She was watching TV with a thoughtful expression, so she wasn't exactly focused on the screen.
"What are you thinking about?" I asked again by gently caressing her hairs with fingers.
"I became a Servant to a boy centuries younger than me and I love to call him Master." Katarea stated with a expressionless face and looked up at me, "How the prideful have fallen." She smiled cheekily, "I think I am a pervert."
"When was the last time you had sex?" I asked genuinely, because I knew she was experienced from the way she gave me a blowjob earlier.
"Before the Civil War?" Katarea thoughtfully furrowed her brows, "I used to have several maids when my Clan was still alive."
"So you are one of those." I chuckled in amusment, "The rich lady type who loves to have a lot of servants."
"That changed after the Civil War." Katarea shook her head with a remorseful sigh, "I had to started looking after myself and secretly make sure that my niece was alive and safe."
"Your niece, Ingvild." I pointed out, "You said she's in a stasis because of her Coma. Are you sure she's going to be alright?"
"Nobody knows that she even exists and her body is safe in a secret location, which only the two of us know about." Katarea answered and scowled at me, "You do remember our promise, right?"
"As if I'll forget." I snorted in response and pinched her cheeks, "So, are you coming?" I came back to the topic.
"You didn't tell me where we are going." Katarea sat up on couch curiously turned to me.
"The school that you almost got destroyed." I answered with a meaningful smile, "Rias says she needs my help with something and I would be paid for my efforts."
"Oh, I know about it." Katarea remembered the conversation Sirzechs had with his sister, "You were asleep, so you don't know."
"Don't know, what?" I frowned.
"Your Sister wanted help with the Damphir Servant she has. If I am not wrong, I believe her name was Gasper." Katarea nodded in response, "She has sacred Gear that can stop time, so Sirzechs had suggested Rias to ask for yourself."
"As if I would." I rolled my eyes, "That's her problem."
"That's why, he also suggested her to make a deal with you." Katarea smirked at me, "You know how Devil are known to make deals, right? It's something like that."
"So that's what she said about compensation." I comprehneded and looked at the message on my phone again with a confused frown, 'But why does she have to send a picture of herself to me?' She was weird.
"So, you coming?" I looked back at Katarea.
"Why not?" Katarea grinned, "I get to tease the Devils and sister of Sirzechs." She realised that Rias was related to me as well, "Y-You don't mind, do you?"
"Nah, just don't harm them." I stood up and patted her head, "Let's go after dinner."
"Hm." Katarea nodded with a bright himself and grabbed me into a bear hug, for some reason. I was taller than her, but she had that natural air of maturity around her.
After we had a peaceful dinner, I teleported us to where the Occult Research Club building should be, but I was astonished to see a completely new building standing there. The Structure of the building was mostly same, but it had that newly furnished vibe and scent.
"What is she doing here, Kitagawa-san?" I heard Kiba's voice behind and turned around to see him wielding his sword at Katarea.
"Easy, Kiba." I waved off at him with an friendly smile, "Katarea is my servant now, so she's no longer your enemy."
"What is it that I am hearing?" I saw Rias approaching us with a deep frown on her face, "You have made the enemy into your Servant?"
Akeno, who was along with Rias as usual, gave me a confused stare.
"Are you perhaps jealous that I have accepted him as my Master?" Katarea grinned at the Crimson haired Bimbo.
"Ara, Ara." Akeno giggled and innocently smiled at me, "You're quite into the BDSM play it seems, Kitagawa-san."
"Oh, he is." Katarea grinned meaningfully as she challenged the Queen and stood up for me.
Rias's cheeks brightened up at the statement and shot a flustered glare at me, "A-Alex."
"What?" I scowled and raised an eyebrow at her, "Weren't you the one who called us here?"
"I called you." Rias corrected by faking a cough to compose herself, "At most, I had expected Irina and Xenovia to be here."
"Oh, so you don't know." I realised and decided to inform her, "Irina and Xenovia have gone to the Underworld with Grayfia." I nonchalantly placed my hand on Katarea's waist and pulled her closer to me, "Katarea here gave us quite the information about the traitors secretly working with the Old Satan Faction, so the matters are a little tense."
"You let them go to the Underworld?" Akeno was genuinely surprised, "I don't know if that's a bold decision or stupidity."
"Who do you think you're talking to?" Katarea called out to Akeno with an offended frown, "Tell your Servant to know her place, Gremory."
Rias was startled by the outburst and helplessly looked at me, because even if not a Maou, Katarea was an Ultimate-Class Devil.
"Its alright, Katarea." I patted on her back with a meaningful smile, "They are people I know for a while now."
"And as for the question." I turned back to Akeno, "Xenovia and Irina are strong and I trust their capabilities. Not to mention, Grayfia would be looking after them."
"I think it's alright." Rias meaningfully nodded at Akeno and looked back at me, "And the reason I had called you-"
"Gasper." I interjected her with a nod, "Katarea told me about it, so I'll get to the point." I crossed my arms, "What's your deal?" I asked seriously, "Depending on your offer, I'll decide if you are worth my time."
"I would've preferred discussing it in our new Occult Research Club room, but anyways." Rias sighed and crossed her arms as well, "In exchange for helping Gasper, Yuuto will teach you some of his Sword techniques."
"You.." I couldn't even get mad and a sigh escaped my breath.
"Why, what's wrong with my offer?" Rias frowned at me in confusion, "You have a Sword, so need to learn how to use it, don't you?"
Katarea wasn't interfering with our conversation, because she didn't know anything about my abilities and skill sets, except for a few.
"Why do you assume I don't know how to use a Sword?" I questioned her with a sweet smile, "Do you know who defeated Freed on the day of Kokabiel's invasion?"
"It was you?" Yuuto's eyes went wide in astonishment.
"You must've used your Longinus or Power of Destruction." Rias accusingly scowled at me, "Even I could have defeated that insane Priest."
'Not when he had the Holy swords.' Yuuto wanted to say, but held back with a nervous smile.
"I defeated him in a one on one sword fight." I answered with a smug smile, "To prove my point, I can also defeat your Knight right now."
"A sword fight." Rias stated carefully, "No magic, no use of Longinus and Pure sword technique."
"Correct." I nodded in acknowledgment, "And if I defeat him, I'll agree to help Gasper, but in exchange, I'll ask you of anything in the future."
"T-That.." Rias took a step back with a mortified expression and a deep blush on her cheeks, "What are you plotting, Alex?"
"Nothing silly that you're imagining in your mind." I answered by pursing my lips and gave her blank stare.
"Ara Ara~" Akeno innocently smiled at me, "If not for Buchou, don't tell me you're going to ask for me, Kitagawa-san."
"I might." I chuckled in response and teased her with a meaningful smirk.
"No!" Rias exclaimed and immediately stood before me and Akeno, "You cannot ask for any of my Servants! I won't trade them to you!"
"Wait, that's possible?" I frowned in disbelief because I honestly didn't know about that.
"So that wasn't your plan." Rias sighed in relief and relaxed herself, "In that case, it's alright." She shot me a smirk, "I accept your deal, but in case you lose to Yuuto, you'll help Gasper for free."
"It's too much, but I honestly don't care about it right now." I shrugged in response and looked at Kiba with a smile, "Is this place good?"
"The Alliance have placed a barrier over the school, so we should be alright." He replied and looked at his master for permission.
"Go get him, Yuuto." Rias cheered for him with an encouraging smile, "Show him what the Knight of Rias Gremory is capable of."
Katarea rolled her eyes and simply stepped away from me, to give us the space to have a fair duel. Rias and Akeno did the same and stood on the opposite side of the field.
The Night and dim lighting around the field didn't bother us, because it was the time Devils had the best vision.
In my case, vision simply wasn't a problem for me. Because I could detect people in every angle around me through their energy signature, even if I am somehow incapable of seeing them.
"I am not going to use my Excalibur." I stated when I saw Kiba was ready to fight me.
"In that case —Sword Birth!" He activated his Sacred Gear and a Longsword materialised on the ground before me.
"Will that do?" Kiba asked me with a friendly smile and I pulled out the sword into my right hand.
I gave the sword a few swings and nodded at him in appreciation, 'I don't know the name of his Sacred Gear, but its ability to create sword is similar to my Structural grasp.' I noted with a thoughtful scowl, 'I think I'll have to research on the Sacred Gears a little and see what potential they have.'
After all, my knowledge of the world was awfully limited due to Rias' tits having the most screen time.
Rias covered her chest with a shy expression when she noticed my gaze on her breasts. And by the intense stare Akeno was giving me, Rias wasn't the only one to notice that.
"Your focus should be somewhere else, Kitagawa-san." Akeno suggested me with an innocent smile, "Or is it Rias that you want, after all."
"A-Alex!" Rias exclaimed at me with her face blazing with the same colour as her hair.
"Why are you shouting at me?" I argued back with a perplexed frown, "I didn't say anything like that!"
Rias agitatedly looked away from me and crossed her arms with a pout.
"Whatever." I snorted and turned back my focus to my opponent, "What are you waiting for, Kiba?"
"Oh?" Kiba smirked at me in astonishment, "Are you sure about giving me the first strike?"
"Go ahead." I scoffed and gestured him to come at me.
Kiba prove why he was called a Knight, when he displayed incredible speed as he rushed at me with his sword. Still, I simply parried his sword and pushed him away from me.
"Didn't I tell you?" I smirked arrogantly and launched a sequence of quick attacks, each one of them aimed at his vital spots. I didn't care about the deal anymore, because it was a matter of pride now.
Of course, I could've easily defeated him by utilising the powers of my Saiyan physique and later called it a loophole in the conditions, but where was the fun in that?
If I am duelling to prove my Swordsman skills, then I was going to do it right.
Kiba was pushed back with several cuts and bruises on his bodies, by trying to dodge and parry all my attacks that could've landed a critical blow on him.
"I only know one person who uses such brutal sword skills." Kiba scowled by giving me an intense stare, "And that man is supposed to be dead."
"You're no half bad, Kiba." I smiled at him by avoiding the topic, "I am a quick learner, what can I say?"
I took the stance by holding my sword back in my right hand and it shocked Kiba with his eyes going wide and wider at me. After all, the stance was what he had used in our duel earlier.
"Thanks for teaching me some of your neat tricks, like the redirection to avoid fatal blows on the body and other defensive movements." I stated with a smirk, "You use your legs a lot to position yourself against your enemy, though I don't know if that's a flaw or a good thing."
"It usually works if my opponent has a slow reaction time." Kiba replied and I nodded in acknowledgment to that detail.
"So what do you say?" I asked and glanced at Rias with a cocky grin, "Are still confident in defeating me, even though you have to yet to land a single blow on me?"
"I won't give-"
"No." Kiba was interrupted when Rias stepped forward and scowled at us, "The Duel is over I admit defeat." She clenched her fists by helplessly glaring at me, "You tricked me."
"You were the one who started this game." I argued back with a sweet smile and plunged the sword back into the ground, "Now, where is Gasper?"
"He's in his room." Rias pouted and turned away from me by folding her hands, "What about the deal?"
"I'll ask you when I think about something?" I leaned forward and seductively whispered into her ears, "Maybe-"
"Ara Ara, Alex-kun~" I was interrupted by Akeno who was staring at me with a meaningful smile.
The meaning was, She wanted me to stop because I was unknowingly about to cross a line.
Rias looked away from me with flushed red face and went ahead of us into the Club Building.
"That was a great display of sword skill." Katarea complimented me as she approached us and stood next to me, "Even if your opponent was a Knight of a pathetic High-Class Devil, your performance was great."
"No need to be so rude, Katarea." I warned her with an innocent smile, before Akeno or Kiba could express any rash reaction to her words. I didn't wanted to get involved in unnecessary fights.
"I-I guess, your opponent did have some skills of his own." Katarea stuttered anxiously and lowered her gaze at me.
I wrapped my right arm around her waist and she jolted in a gleeful shock with a cute gasp.
"Ara Ara." Akeno giggled with a mischievous grin, "I guess you do know how to control her, Alex-kun."
"She is my adorable servant, after all." I chuckled by firmly grabbing her tender ass over her white skirt. Of course, Akeno and Kiba were oblivious to what was happening behind our back.
'M-Master.' Katarea looked at me with a helpless pleading expression, because if I don't stop teasing her now, she might not be able to resist herself from pouncing on me in front of everyone.
"Let's go to the Club room." Akeno suggested.
"No, it's too late." I shook my head in response, "Tell her I can meet Gasper tomorrow, after school is over."
"I guess that's alright." Akeno nodded in acknowledgment and gave me a meaningful smile, "Good night, Alex-kun, Katarea-san."
The woman had a sharp sense, so I am sure she could tell that we have already established some form of relationship, for Katarea to be so loyal to me.
"Same." I replied and nodded at Kiba as well, who nodded back to me with a friendly smile. The next instance, we disappeared from the grounds of the Occult Research Club building and reappeared in the living room of my house.
"Master." Katarea called out to me with a sly grin and seductively bit her lower lip as a signal.
Instead of replying back to her, I expanded my domain and brought us into the peaceful marble reality of bright sky and green grasslands.
"W-What is this?" Katarea looked around herself with a stupefied expression, "Did we teleport?"
"No, this is my Marble Reality." I answered nonchalantly and walked a distance away from her, "Marble reality is a dimension that exists in a separate plane from the real world we live in."
"A-And why are we here?" Katarea had understood that we weren't here for the reason that was the first thing in her mind tonight.
"Are you perhaps doubting my loyalty to you?" Katarea frowned when she thought about the possibility.
"To be honest, I don't need to go so far as to create a marble reality if I wanted to kill you, Katarea." I answered with a sigh and shook my head, "No, I know you won't betray me even its to save your own skin in future, in case I was on the verge of Death."
"That." Katarea was taken back by my words and started doubting herself, "No." She firmly replied, "I'll betray you, if it's to save my Niece."
"Good answer." I smiled in joy and honestly wanted to hug her right now.
"What do you mean?" Katarea was even more confused now, "I just said I would betray you."
"To save your Niece." I nodded in acknowledgment, "Who is already in my protection."
"O-Oh." Katarea comprehended the meaning behind my words and realised that I had never doubted her in the first place. A shy blush appeared on her cheeks, "T-Then why are here?"
"Of course, we are here to fight." I answered blatantly with an grin, "I need to know what my Servant is capable of, so no need to hold back, Katarea." That was the point of creating this harmless Reality Marble, after all.
"W-What?" Katarea took back a step with a fearful expression, "You are stronger than me, Alexander."
"And that's the reason I'll hold back." I assured her with an innocent smile.
"In that case." Katarea grinned and her Demonic powers flared exponentially, "While I don't possess Powers of the actual Leviathan, I'll show you what I am capable of!"
I scoffed in response and gestured her to come at me.
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