DxD: Emperor of Chaos

CHAPTER 12

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Floating back to the clubroom after the destruction or incapacitation of the familiars, he re-entered through the window as he gave his report.

“Riser had sent out 5 familiars, I blew them all up.”

“S-So that was you? Phew, I thought it was that Yakitori’s peerage…”

Hyoudou breathed out a sigh of relief… On Buchou’s lap. Huh, why the… Oh. Ohhh, yeah, he forgot about this. Now that he focused on the pervert’s magic signature, he realized that it just went up by 170%, damn. She must have already unsealed some of the Pawns’ power in him. It still was little when compared to him, but once he Boosts himself, he would be a nuisance to deal with.

Buchou took her cup from the coffee table.

“That’s good, now they will have to send someone in the air for reports of the situation if they want a bird’s eye view… The Queen Piece then. Well done, Akira. You just made my planning easier now that the Queen Piece is not in the mix.”

She stopped the conversation as she placed her hand over her ear which held the earphone piece. A few seconds later, she replied.

“Thank you, Yuuto, Koneko. You don’t need to use more energy, come back to the clubroom and we will continue from there.”

Getting comfortable in his seat, he closed his eyes as he first checked his demonic energy reserves. They were about… 90% full, that’s not bad. He could gain 10% back easily in 10 minutes. Summoning his Twice Critical, he Boosts himself to increase the energy regeneration rate by 2 times while Buchou briefed everyone with their battle strategy once Kiba and Toujou came back.

Reaching 100% again, he sent the Sacred Gear back into his soul as her briefing mentioned his name.

“Akira, you have an important duty. I have no doubts in my mind that Riser wouldn’t give her Queen a Phoenix Tear, so when she appears and starts to fight Akeno, I want you to intercept her and change places with Akeno, as she will be important in aerial support against Riser’s peerage. With your current abilities, I have faith that you will stall her enough till the end of the game, perhaps even beating her.”

“Got it.”

“For now, though, stay here with Asia and me. I will mobilize you once Akeno follows through with our plans on the gym.”

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A few minutes go by as he waited, his mind playing music to kill the time, his legs tapping on the wooden floor as acoustics when the P.A. system sounded.

[Riser Phoenix-sama’s three Pawns and one Rook retire!]

Standing up from his seat, he immediately concealed his presence and body before blasting into the air through the window. Getting his bearings and looking at the whole field, he summoned his Sacred Gear and scans the area before quickly darted himself towards the flying devil who had her arm raised forward, aiming at Hyoudou and Toujou.

[BOOST!]

Like déjà vu, he suddenly remembered what was going to happen, increasing his speed and forgoing his concealment and energy suppression as he used Instantaneous Movement on his whole body, disappearing and reappearing in front of the Queen of Riser who had her eyes widened at the sudden appearance.

*BOOOM!*

The air between Riser’s Queen and himself exploded, causing both of them to reel back at the blast and increasing the distance between themselves.

Fuck, she has quick reflexes, and since she is a Queen, her durability rivalled his. That was smart, hitting yourself and your opponent with your own ability rather than getting hit. This lady was smart.

And considering that he didn’t even take any damage from the sudden explosion, that meant that…

Yep, as the smoke from the explosion settles, he watched as she floated without any bruises or burn scars. Hell, her clothing didn’t even show a single tear in them after being point blank in an explosion.

“Sorry, but I can’t allow you to bomb my peerage members, we need the numbers. You’ll have to deal with me instead.”

He said with an apologetic tone as he got into his combat stance. The Queen stared at him before laughing.

“You? A simple Rook dare challenge me, a Queen? Surely, you jest.”

*DUN!*

Intense pressure loomed over him, but it gets pushed back by pressure of his own, creating sparks from their pressure clashing against one another.

“Nope, not jesting at all. You’re gonna have to play with me for the rest of the match while my team’ Queen decimates your teammates.”

Saying it as a fact, a burst of demonic energy flared around his body before he disappeared with Instantaneous Movement, reappearing beside the Queen with a fist ready to erupt forwards.

*BANG!*

He threw the punch, and his fist hits… Something hard. A fucking orange barrier. The woman was fast enough to create a barrier hard enough to tank a hit, what a joke. The power behind the punch pushed the barrier a few feet back, so he had the time to press on his communication device.

“Contact with enemy Queen, tell Akeno to go crazy.”

Cutting the line, he gets into his combat stance once more before soaring in the sky to catch up to the Queen who’s speeding away.

*BO-BO-BO-BO-BO-BOOOM!*

Several explosions blasted instantly around him, but he managed to tank it due to covering his whole body with demonic energy to withstand the booms. That doesn’t mean that it was not taxing, the explosions caused his energy levels to drop slightly.

He doubts that a single explosion would get him out of commission head-on without the protection of his demonic energy, but he wasn’t keen on experiencing burn injuries.

Raising his demonic energy output, he blasted towards the Queen, but he keeps getting bombarded with explosions, slowing him down just enough for the Queen to fly away a good distance.

A good few minutes went by and the cat and mouse chase continued, his demonic energy levels dropping to a low 50%, and the Queen has gotten used to his Instantaneous Movement’s burst of speed.

With nothing else to show, he decided to go all out, his demonic energy flaring ferociously. His training with the 4 intended techniques… He couldn’t manage to complete them in time. However, he managed to get one down consistently.

He glared at the Queen who now had a smug expression, looking down on him.

“I thought we were going to play? It’s not fair that only I get to enjoy this.”

She mocked as she sent another dozen explosions his way, causing him to strengthen his aura as it gets bombarded with High-Class level firepower. He grits his teeth as he felt his demonic energy reduce rapidly. He needed to do this, NOW!

“As long as the strongest Piece goes down, then it will be my win!”

He stopped chasing her and floated in the air, with his hands to his sides clenched, his body slouched while his legs were slightly bent. He needed to close the distance, he was sure that the woman had a long time to train all her abilities, while he just reincarnated just over 2 weeks ago. The ability and skill level were too far of a gap.

So, he simply had to close it with surprise and speed!

“NGGGHHHHHHRRRRRR!!!”

He grunted out with exertion as his aura started to get sharper and jagged. The temperature around him heats up, causing visible heat hazes that radiated around his body as the air screeched. Pulses of demonic energy bursts from his body, causing gusts of winds that blew on trees and dust on the ground.

The Queen stared in confusion at the sudden change as the color of his aura turned from blackish red to a pinkish red. His muscles swelled, and veins grew larger on his face as he yelled out the technique’s name upon finishing his power-up.

“KAIO-KEN TIMES THREEEE!”

“Kaio- what?“

*POWWW!!!*

In an instant, Akira crossed a good hundred meters in a split second with demonic energy before throwing a full-powered uppercut at the Queen in the jaw, sending her in the air with her body rag-dolling from the sudden attack.

Following it up, his aura flared before he smashed her stomach with a knee kick, and then continuing the combo with rapid punches and kicks that hit her nose, neck, solar plexus, right thigh, left liver and right cheekbone in quick succession, the sound of the strikes arriving a few milliseconds late from the fast speed of his attacks.

Twisting his body, he generated momentum by spinning before landing a 720° roundhouse kick that crashed into the woman’s side, angling his kick perfectly as she shot like a comet towards the ground.

*BOOOOM!*

All this happened in a second with no resistance by the Queen at all. Well, it’s more like she couldn’t even react to his attacks than accepting the hits. From the hundred of meters in the air, he watched as the rest of the participants looked startled at the sudden situation.

“Koff!”

He spat out blood that clogged his throat and wiped the dripping blood from his nose with his hand. Heh, looks like even a level 3 Kaio-Kenwas too much for his body right now, his whole body hurts so much that tears started forming in his eyes even after dispelling the technique.

The principle of the technique was simple enough, he amplified his demonic energy by condensing it by 3 times, like a blacksmith folding iron over and over again to make it stronger, and then releasing it throughout his entire body. His cells could only hold so much, so while he gained a 3x boost after his Twice Critical’s Boost, the drawback of the technique was him damaging his body.

But he could still move. He blinked the tears away, he had a fight to finish. He assessed the situation up in the air, looks like Buchou, Akeno and Asia were confronting Riser, while Toujou, Kiba, and Hyoudou were in the school field fighting against the remainder of Riser’s peerage.

It looks like they were about to lose from their faces of exhaustion, but Toujou, Kiba, and Toujou seemed to have won their fight from the excessive swords sticking out from the ground. Hyoudou’s Boosted Gear looked different too, must have gotten his second power up and transferred his Boosts to Kiba’s Sword Birth.

Pressing both ends of his palm together, he aimed towards the group of peerage members who quickly moved to check on their Queen. Yeah, he could clearly see Riser’s sister grabbing a vial to try and administer the instant healing item.

Reeling both arms back to near his right rib, he channeled as much demonic power as he could currently push out.

The concept was simple. Like a Ki Blast, but concentrated into a single point, in a stream of energy like a beam. The beam of his childhood hero.

His hands shook from his exertion, the center between his cupped hands shimmering a glow of blue. The blue glow grows into a ball of neon blue, the size of a baseball, its luminosity so bright that it covered the whole simulated arena in blue.

The winds burst outwards… The earth trembles… The air screams...

He shouted to the heavens above.

“KA ME HA ME — HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”

He thrusted his arms forward, and the world was painted in a blue brilliance.