Highschool DxD: Dragon's Ascent

Chapter 22: The Red Dragon Emperor

~3rd Person~

Rias hurriedly dragged the unresisting Takumi to the Occult Research Club. And both teens had wildly different ideas and thoughts in their heads.

'This is good, Takumi is finally back for some reason. I really need to set the record straight and apologize to him. I don't want him to avoid me anymore.'

'What the hell is happening...? My brain may be a little fried from not sleeping for 3 days and overusing Boost. She seems a little too agitated. Is this because of me not talking to her for a few days?'

The Takumi of right now was only held up by potions. He had been abusing Stimulant Potions(Coffee potion basically) for the past few days to make use of the most time he possibly could. This however led to a crash when he wasn't using the potions.

Eventually, Rias managed to lead the too-tired-to-care Takumi to her office(Club main room) and sat in front of him with her arms crossed and her head bowed slightly.

"Takumi-kun. First of all, I want to apologize. It was in our contract that I would give you my protection and I failed at that. But I don't want you to keep avoiding me. I want to make it up to you somehow."

Saying that Rias stared into Takumi's eyes in a resolute manner while Takumi just tilted his head in a manner that even she found a bit adorable with how out of it he seemed.

"I wasn't avoiding you though? Didn't I tell you I had something to do? It took a bit longer than I expected, that and recovering from the new holes put into my body. But yeah, you really did fumble that." Hearing his words Rias sighed in relief.

He did not seem like he intended to burn bridges with her at least. In fact, he only looked disappointed in her and nothing else. The casual manner of speech told her that he did not seem to think their relationship was too damaged.

She could work with this.

"Yes, I am sorry for that. That's why I want to make it up to you. But first I want you to have this." Rias handed Takumi a smartphone as he held it up in an inquisitive manner.

"That's a Devilphone, the latest best model that is not even commercially available. My brother gave me a few spares he got from Ajuka, I want you to have them so that we can contact each other when we want. Also, everyone's contacts are installed there

This made Takumi pause briefly before lightly smiling and nodding.

'A nigh unlimited access to information about the supernatural as long as said information is not confidential. Unlikely to have spyware considering who owned it.' It was truly a very useful tool.

"Thank you, Rias." Rias nodded and finally addressed the main matter.

"Now, Takumi-kun, what do you want from me? As long as it is within my power I will do my best to get it for you." Takumi raised his eyebrows at that.

"Are you sure about that? Anything?" Rias nodded seriously.

"Anything. As long as it doesn't my peerage members." This made Takumi close his eyes in thought.