Highschool DxD: Dragon's Ascent

Chapter 27: Total Nunsense

Getting Asia was not too big of an event for me. It is an easy get in get out deal.

Oh, wait. Scratch that. Because guess what?

I am a fucking idiot.

Why such harsh judgment you may ask?

Well, it is simple.

I don't fucking know Italian.

It slipped my mind that Asia was Italian because of the devil magic Issei had when interacting with her causing him to interpret her words as Japanese.

So... uh... what the fuck do I do?

Do I just have the fallen translate for me? That is vastly inconvenient. Shit.

Fuck it, just swallow your pride Takumi.

I pulled out my phone and dialled Azazel's number.

{"Hm? Takumi-kun? What's up?"} I rapped my foot against the ground while scratching the back of my head out of nervousness, I screwed up. I feel like such a failure.

" Heyyy , Azazel, I know this is a bit sudden but please tell me you have some sort of item that acts sort of like the translation powers you guys have." After a few moments of silence, Azazel replied.

{"Yes, we do. It would be quite inconvenient for our human agents to not be able to communicate with each other after all. Why do you ask?"}

"Uh, I dun goofed. I forgot that I don't have a translator built into my genes like you guys. Any chance I could get a hold of one of those translators you have?" I heard Azazel chuckle.

{"Haha, don't worry, I can get you one, it's a freebie, it's not like they are worth all that much."} I sighed in relief but annoyance nagged at me.

I am a (soon-to-be)master of alchemy, I shouldn't struggle with such trivial things such as racial difference. Alchemy should be able to triumph over such basic troubles.

But I thanked Azazel anyway and hung up, my mind was still hung up on a bigger problem this situation was compounded in.

Humans suck.

I was facing a slight wall. It felt like my stats were slowly starting to reach a slow cap. It seems like the average human's stats do not go up much more than 50. And it does not help that they are naturally weaker at basically anything compared to the other races.

Boosting helps me improve a ton but it has its limits.

So, do I become a Devil?

I don't know. I am not exactly fiending for Devil magic and other than that they are middling compared to the other races with the exception of their bloodline powers which I obviously do not have access to... yet.