At the VIP display room, Austin along with his mother, sister, and daughter were sitting watching the rating game of Rias against her cousin, Sairaorg Bael, the one hailed as the strongest devil of this young generation despite not having inherited the power of destruction, the Bael`s clan unique power.
But today, Sairaorg was in for a big surprise along with the whole underworld who were watching the match because they would see a version of Rias never seen before, a version that would shock them all.
"Aren`t you excited to see Rias fighting the one hailed as the strongest among the young devils?" Suddenly, a motherly mature voice said making Austin who was looking at the huge display screen in front of him look at her.
She was Venelana Gremory, Rias`s mother.
'Why did she come? Wasn't she going to watch the match along with her husband and son?' Austin thought as he looked at her warm welcoming smile as walked and sat right beside his mother on the right while on the left, his sister was watching with sparkling eyes as this was something she had seen for the first time.
Meanwhile, Nezha was leaning against her father feeling comfortable with a glass of juice in her hand that Grayfia had prepared beforehand for her.
She didn`t care about any of the women around her father at all, to her, they were just concubines, the only wife to her father was her mother, the most beautiful woman in the whole universe.
'Hmph, they can`t compare to mommy!' she thought while puffing her chest with a smug smile.
Anyway, Austin looked amused by her behavior as he smiled while patting her head softly making lean more against his touch while enjoying her juice which was actually an apple juice.
For Venelana, she hit it off with Amanada as both were mothers though she didn`t know the kind of relationship between her and Austin who was her son. If she knew, then their causal conversation wouldn`t be like this. On the other hand, Amanda looked at Venelana with a wary look as she could see the subtle glances she directed at her man, although she felt so possessive, her nights with her son made her more tamed and obedient.
'I wonder, what happened with mother-in-law? She told me that she had a way to solve my problem and that I should wait until she reaches me herself.' Austin wondered, his mind drifting to the conversation between him and his mother-in-law who had some questionable motives toward him.
Sigh!
He sighed as he shoved the subject at the back of his head, for now, he was going to focus on the match of his student.
At the meantime, at the waiting room.
Rias was with her peerage giving instructions and plans for the coming fight.
"Now, as I explained before, Sairaorg had a powerful group in his peerage showing great versatility and power in offense and defense, especially his queen, the unique power of her family, the Hole, enables her to absorb any kind of attack using any kind of energy and release it back, very similar to Tsubaki`s mirror alice but at a whole another level." Rias said making nod as they knew of her ability, after all, the Abbadon family was famous of such ability, like the Gemory and their power of destruction.
"The next is the bishops, Coriana Andrealphus and Misteeta Sabnock, both are from the families of the 72 pillars, though they are extinct by now. However, we can`t just ignore them, they are powerful and can turn the tables if we aren`t focused…."
And so on, Rias began talking about each member of Sairaorg`s peerage, their weaknesses, strengths, how to counter their attacks and defend against them. She showed a completely different personality than usual, the way she spoke like a strategic commander with the enemy`s plan clear as the sun to her.
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Austin watched as the rating game started.
The rules the same as what was depicted as in the anime, based on strength and peerage with Rias getting a value of 8 while Sairaorg getting 12.
The place was a replica of a floating platforms where a pair of 6-sided dice determined which pieces could be moved and deployed.
'Let`s see how much you have improved, Rias.' Austin thought as he watched the dice rolling giving three.
According to that, Rias sent in her knight, Kiba while Sairaorg sent his own.
The two faced each other on a grassy battlefield where Kiba showed great agility and strength along with refined sword skills putting ahead of his opponent.
The match ended quickly when Kiba used his balance breaker and won the first round making the old devils who were watching at awe and nod in silent agreement that Kiba was stronger than Sairaorg`s knight.
The second match began as the diced rolled ten. Rias sent her rook, Koneko and Rossweisse, while Sairoarge sent his rook and other knight.
Rossweisse with her elemental attacks providing support in both defense and offence, while at the same time attacking with her sword showing a sword mastery that surpassed Kiba himself by leagues.
Austin looked with a gleam in his eyes as he watched her graceful movements, he hadn`t met her before since he first trained Rias, maybe once or twice but she always seemed to be busy with something, maybe training herself in her own way.
Anyway, the match continued with Rosswiesee giving a very hard time to her opponents, but then Austin narrowed his eyes as he looked at the petite figure of the white-haired Koneko, although she was strong but not enough against Siaroarg`s rook, he overwhelmed her completely.
'She still couldn`t get over it after all.' He thought as he sighed.
"Is there something wrong, Papa?" Nezha said as she looked up at him.
She could feel her father`s emotions shifting for a moment.
Amanda, Anabelle, and Venelana along with Grayfia who was standing right behind Austin, looked at him after hearing Nezha`s question.
"Nothing honey, everything is okay, just things might get harder from this point on." He said with a smile as he looked at her before patting her head affectionately making her sigh in delight which earned Anabelle`s and Amanda`s envious gazes as they couldn`t show their forbidden love in public, not that Austin cared anyway.
'After all, those who don`t see, just stay stuck at a point never moving on.' He added inwardly.
Back to Rias.
She had the same thought as Austin as she saw Koneko struggling against her opponent.
"That`s I put her with Rossweisse." She said as she observed how Rossweisse defeated her opponent so easily before moving on to Koneko`s opponent and with a strong ice spell, she froze him making him unable to continue the fight which earned them another victory.
Then the matches continued.
Until suddenly, when Sairaorg himself stepped in and Rias rose as well intending to fight him by her own wanting to show the fruits of her training and how strong she became.
[Sorry for being late dear, got to do somethings. Now everything is ready~~] A black gothic system window appeared in front of Austin`s eyes that none could see. He could her deep mature voice filled with sensuality grazing his heart making it flutter for a second.
'No problem, you got your reasons.' Austin said inwardly to her despite questioning if she had a viable reason at all. After all, beings like them are so quirky.
[Thanks dear, anyway, hope you are ready for a wild ride~~] her voice echoed in his mind carrying with it a mischievous hidden intent.
'What do you mean?' Austin asked before out of nowhere, a dark swirling portal opened in front of Austin giving a very eerie feeling.
"Mom, take Nezha for a second." Austin said handing his daughter to his mother as he felt a very bad premonition coming out of that abyss like portal.
And although Nezha felt reluctant, she allowed herself to settle in Amanda`s warm arms.
Everyone became tense as the portal a very dark and corrupted energy that made them feel like falling apart.
Then suddenly, a delicate white hand came out of the portal before it caught Austin`s shirt collar and pulled him inside much to his shock as he couldn`t resist for even a moment before darkness swallowed him.
After that, the portal disappeared in the way it came leaving everyone dead silent staring at the place where the portal was with sheer horror.
They couldn`t understand a thing before Amanda screamed loudly.
"AUSTIN!!"
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A/N: I know what you are thinking, things had become boring and you don't have the desire to continue.
Well, it's the same with me too, many different things are running in my head currently, anyway, things will get different from this point on, though I started with some events of the dxd world, it will get rounded and focus on Austin and his coming fights plus some steamy moments, I will try to increase if u want.