The Twist We Need

Surtr

Sirzechs had called Issei into the throne room for a reason. Pacing around in her throne room, Sirzechs was confused and worried if this was going to be a good idea. 'Making Issei meet him could cause the two to get in trouble and for Issei to get hurt. Is this really a good idea? Maybe having him meet Tanin would have been a better idea, but Grayfia suggested doing this was the better thought.'

Before long, Issei busted the door down, still evidently exhausted from their earlier session of training, and turned his head towards Sirzechs and raised his fist. "I am ready for my mission!"

Sirzechs looked at Issei, noticing the fact that he was still wearing his ripped-up shirt and noticed his bare skin. Issei didn't have abs, but just seeing his skin was enough for Sirzechs to faintly blush. Before anything could be said, a large man with orange hair walked a little ahead of Sirzechs and laughed, "This is who you want me to train with?"

Standing in front of Issei was someone that was very widely known for being powerful in the underworld, especially when considering his origin.

"Partner, the power I am sensing from this being is through the roof."

Hearing Ddraig praise the man, Issei began getting heavily cautious. 'How powerful? Sirzechs levels?'

"Nowhere near that level, but it's closer to the level of Grayfia. That territory of power is known as run away or get fucked." In seconds, Issei felt the sheer power that was being emanated from this man and began getting nauseous.

"He's just a child. What did you even see in him?" In a second, Issei watched as Sirzechs slammed her knuckle into the man's head nearly knocking the man out.

"Knock it off Surtr."

Hearing that name, Ddraig widened his eyes in recognition and screamed, "That can't be! How do you have the legendary fire giant of the Norse Pantheon, Surtr, in your peerage!"

Sirzechs were going to explain the true origin to them but decided against it since it wasn't her place to tell. She simply nodded before explaining, "I decided that having two hot-headed loafs train together. Let me introduce Issei the ultimate rook! Surtr!"

Surtr puffed his chest out in pride while staring down at Issei, who looked amazed. "So, what should we begin with training today?"

Issei tilted his head before saying, "I haven't trained legs in a while." It was as if it was a telepathic message but the two immediately locked their eyes and Issei started shaking before running out of the room.

"Oh no you don't! We are training legs today!" Surtr dashed behind him and began carrying Issei with him to the special gym that Sirzechs had in her palace.

Sirzechs looked confused about how fast it happened. They were just strangers, yet they already had a plan to train. "Issei wasn't that fast in training with me!" She was jealous with how fast the two were working together.

Grayfia walked into the room with a smile while carrying a box of cookies. "Huh? Where did Issei go?"

Sirzechs blinked at her before saying, "I sent him to train with Surtr."

Placing the box down onto the table that was near her, Grayfia clapped her hands together and cheerfully smiled. "I'm glad the two are becoming great friends. I'm going to deliver these to the two right now."

Running out of the room and leaving Sirzechs to remain still processing everything that happened. It was only like thirty seconds, and she was left alone.

With Grayfia, she ran down the hallway before reaching the special gym that they had that had some magic in it to increase the difficulty. This allowed gravity magic to occur, if need be, for magic of increasing the weight of certain equipment such as barbells and dumbbells to make it more difficult for mass monsters like Tanin to train. Opening the door with a smile, Grayfia quickly lost the smile and began frowning.

In the middle of the room was Surtr screaming at Issei, "Harder! Push harder! That's nowhere close to enough!"

Issei had a barbell filled with a couple of plates and was forced to squat at a slow tempo. Gritting his teeth and releasing grunts of extreme pain, he could only push harder because Surtr wasn't alone encouraging him.

"Partner if you don't do 15 reps right the fuck now! You are worthless!"

Ddraig was also against him.

"That's right!" Getting close to Issei, the orange-haired monster simply whispered into his ear, "We're nowhere done yet. Right after this we will be doing Bulgarian split squats. After that, we will be doing leg extensions with a superset of sissy squats."

Gulping in fear, Issei nodded before pushing himself even further for the next rep. Grayfia screamed, "Surtr! What the hell are you doing?"

An angry Grayfia rushed into the room and tried to help Issei, but Surtr intervened before she could reach him. "Don't interrupt him training."

"You're going to kill him!"

"No pain no gain."

"This is ridiculous!"

"You're treating him like he's a child."

Grayfia started to release her magic, beginning to drop the room's temperature to nearly freeze, but it began heating up once Surtr began counteracting her power with his. Releasing flames to increase the temperature, Surtr looked unamused.

Grayfia began having a cold look on her face, but instead of being afraid of women like in typical shonen, Surtr held his ground and glared back.

"What? Sirzechs told me to train him. Now let us be." Turning his head back to Issei, Surtr remembered something and said, "We also need to kill your hamstrings before combat training."

Issei could only nearly collapse upon hearing this. "Isn't this..."

Being interrupted, Issei looked at Surtr who looked disappointed. "You're not human anymore. You're half devil, a good amount human, and with that sacred gear you're damn well a portion dragon. I am going to push you beyond the human limits, beyond the devil limits, and beyond that dragon limit. If you don't listen right now, I will bring Tanin."

Grayfia entered in, "Oh no you won't!"

"Surtr! Bring in the big guns. Bring Tannin here and tell him that he can train a boosted gear wielder," It was as if Surtr could imagine the cruel grin on Ddraig's face because that is exactly what Surtr did. He sent the message to Tanin.

Grayfia had enough and released her full power but was silenced with a single finger from Surtr, "Do you really think you can take me and Tannin down? Plus, we can easily persuade Sirzechs with saying that we are making Issei into a monster for her. Just know, this is for the best." With that, Surtr tuned her existence out and began pushing Issei even further beyond in his training.

"Another 2 sets left! Remember, working out is upper body, training is lower body! You want those tiny legs to grow stronger, then you will need to push this training session to the max!"

"Yes coach!"

Smiling faintly in hearing Issei listening to him, he watched as Issei pushed another rep and was done with a set.

"Do it 'till your body aches. Do it 'till you can't stand up straight. Do it 'till you're sick of it. Then do it some more."

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