The Black Dragon

Tricky

Laying atop a made bed is the unconscious body of Zato and got his left is Asia healing him.

"He's hurt real bad," Asia says as Hinata walks to her side and looks down at her son.

"That's what happens when you fight the Bone Collector," Hinata says as she crosses her arms 

"Bone Collector?" Rias questions as Hinata glances over her shoulder at her.

"Raidou Cero, Rank 13, his title The Bone Collector. He's a brutally efficient fighter who rocketed to the near top of the rankings three years ago. If he's was given a little more time he would have ranked within the top ten. Easily casting out Fuji and probably taking Hilling's spot." Hinata says as she grips her wrist. "Besides Mitsuki every person to ever fight him even if they won suffered at least one broken bone, that's where he gained his title of The Bone Collector. His fighting style revolves around breaking bones to either kill or symbolize his opponents. Hell when I fought him, he managed to break my right wrist." Hinata explains with a wave of said wrist. Shaking her head Hinata turns to face Rias and her friends. "Anyway, that's not important right now. Isn't that right Zato." Hinata says with a smirk as behind her son sits up while rubbing his face.

"What happened," Zato asks himself under his breath as he rubs his face. "Last thing I remember was getting my ass handed to me before everything went black." Looking around Zato sees his mother, sister, and the ORC. "What are you guys doing here?" Zato asks surprised to see the ORC at the Cero Family Estate.

"Your mother invited us, but I don't really know much beyond that," Rias answers with a nervous smile as she scratches the back of her head.

"We'll talk about it later but right now, I assume you have some idea of what's going on?" Hinata asks while looking down at her son who stands and moves his body around to get rid of that stiff feeling.

"Yeah, knowing how this place runs I have a pretty good clue. So let's skip the formalities and get straight to it, who am I fighting?" Zato asks as Hinata smirks

"Good you're pretty much up to speed," Hinata says as she walks over to a tv mounted on the wall and presses the screen only for it to turn on. The image on the screen is that of a boy looking to be around Zato's age, he is a dark-skinned boy, with dark purple hair, and pink eyes, and is wearing a long dark blue cloak with a purple gem near the collar.

"This is Russo Cero, currently ranked 100 within the Cero Ranking. His title is The Trickster." Hinata explains 

"The Trickster?" Koneko asks.

"His fighting style resolves completely around dirty fighting and cheap tactics. When we fought he tried all manner of dirty tricks to win." Zen explains. "His favorite tactic is to poison his opponent mid-fight but he doesn't use it every match, there's a fifty/fifty chance he'll use it here," Zen tells her brother.

"You two fight, who won?" Akeno asks as Zen looks toward her.

"Oh I won, but it didn't feel like an actual match like he gave up halfway through," Zen explains.

"Russo has a body that's physically weak and his ability to use magic is piss poor at best. Due to how rare it is for Mitsuki to actually bear children and the fact that four out of the five are or are on their way to becoming the strongest the Cero Clan has ever seen paints a bad picture for the only one who's just flat-out weak with no special powers to back him up." Hinata explains. "So one day he found out that dirty tricks could even the playfield and let him win against people far stronger than him, presser points, blinding poisoning, cheap shots, using hidden weapons, everything game for him within the ring," Hinata says as Zato looks at her.