Highschool DxD: Dragon's Ascent

Chapter 19: Path of Innovation

~Rias Gremory~

This was bad.

In fact, it was very bad.

She had messed up. She had messed up big time.

One day, everything is going fine, chatting with Takumi, helping him with the supernatural side of the world and trying to subtly convince him to join her family and then bam.

Fallen Angels that she didn't even know were in her town suddenly attacked Takumi, nearly managing to kill him before he managed to handle them before she was able to arrive there to help him.

Takumi, the person who she made a contract with. One of the largest factors in that factor was that HE was under HER protection. She was responsible for protecting him.

Yet he was attacked, nearly killed, in HER territory. The territory she was supposed to rule as the king of. Yet he was attacked right under her nose by Fallen Angels who were camping here for a while .

There were no words strong enough to express her frustration. She felt like she was slapped across the face and then had cold water dumped over her.

And then after that, when she was about to rashly execute the fallen angels, probably causing more work for her already overworked brother and even more so for Sona's sister. She was stopped from doing that by the man she failed to protect in the first place.

After all of that, even she would lose confidence in her competence if she were in his shoes.

To make up for that whole fiasco, she interrogated(interrogation in the lightest term, they spilt the beans the moment she asked) the fallen again herself after Takumi was nowhere to be found and she was baffled.

Takumi, who was already new to the supernatural side of the world, was able to beat 4 fallen angels by himself. Apparently skilled in martial arts enough to one-on-one fallen angels, capable of harnessing ice and lightning with ease, moving the ground, and even creating potent explosives in vials.

He was a prodigy, one that was either rapidly improving or was already strong and very good at hiding it.

Even Sona's sister, Serafall Leviathan was impressed with his feats and wanted to go see him herself but he was nowhere to be found at that moment. So she just took the hostages for negotiation and left with the promise of seeing him for herself later.

Speaking of nowhere to be found.

He was nowhere to be found.

Literally, she hadn't seen him in 3 days.

If she was frustrated before she was now downright anxious. Because it seemed like Takumi did not want to show his face anytime soon.

She was scared, rightfully so, they weren't able to find him. He wasn't in his house and he had called in sick for school several days and they let him on the understanding that he needed to recuperate.