The Twist We Need

The Details

"This is the last time I am going to do this! What the fuck is happening with Issei?" Surtr pointed his finger at the hatchling, who was currently floating in air.

"Break time." Issei continued floating while Ddraig was screaming at him.

"If you do this shit again! I will eat you from the inside out! I hate floating. Just. Fucking. Fly."

"I didn't think you thought of me like that. Eating me inside out. Sorry, I don't care if you're an immortal fire-breathing dragon, I don't swing that way."

"You know what I meant!" With that, Ddraig began throwing himself around and shaking Issei's mindscape.

"Okay! Stop." This was causing Issei to get a massive headache.

"No. I don't think I will."

"Fine, don't stop. If anyone asks us about us being the Red Dragon Emperor, then I will tell them that we should be named the Breast Grabbing Emperor."

Ddraig gasped as he heard that. There was no way that he was going to let this happen. Sitting down quietly, Ddraig remained docile. Tannin facepalmed while Surtr grinned with maliciousness. "Wait, why is Surtr grinning?"

"Surtr... He will make sure you're titled the Breast Grabbing Emperor." Widening his eyes, Issei could hear his heart beating.

"Ddraig..."

"Partner..." They watched as Surtr began skipping away happily.

"Let's..."

"BEAT HIS ASS!" Ddraig amped Issei with his own power from within the Boosted Gear and the youngster rushed at Surtr.

"Come back here, UNC!"

"You'll never catch me alive!" Surtr continued running as fast as he could.

"Move faster!" Ddraig began powering Issei even further beyond.

Now, while Surtr and Issei were running around like children, Grayfia was sitting down on her couch thinking to herself about what her and Sirzechs conversed. There was no way that she was going to back down. She couldn't think about the thought of being married to someone who she doesn't love and consented in being with for her entire existence, especially when devils live far longer than humans to the point where they were reaching several millennia of age before dying. She couldn't even dream of letting her little sister-in-law live a life like that.

She needed a way to save Rias, and her only hope was to bring Issei into the mix. Rias's entire peerage was not going to handle any members from Riser's peerage, let alone Riser himself. Issei was young to the supernatural world and could be the perfect way to fight against Riser if they were to hit Issei's ego. Once a high-class devil's pride was hurt, hell was to follow suit. However, Issei was the Red Dragon Emperor that was being trained by the strongest peerage of all time. She didn't want to use Issei, but she knew that Issei was someone that could fold Riser in half. He's part dragon, flames at the level of Riser's were just a warm shower for him. Grayfia felt confident to the point where she knew that Riser would get demolished.

Before she could think much further, she began hearing people running outside of her room. Being a maid, she got up and began investigating who was causing the ruckus within the Lucifer Palace. Opening the door, she was met with Issei and Surtr running around in circles.

"I'm going to beat your ass!"

"You can't even catch me!"

Issei screamed and leapt towards Surtr who simply stopped running causing Issei to just miss Surtr and slammed his face right into Grayfia's leg. "OWE!" Getting up and turning around to glare at Surtr, "Come here!" Before Issei could rush at Surtr, Grayfia reached forward and wrapped her arms around him. Issei, being stopped from moving, looked confused.

"Good job Surtr! Thank you for bringing Issei to me. Saved me the trouble for finding this problem child." Grayfia lifted Issei in her arms and walked into her room before locking the door.

Once inside the room, Issei looked at his surroundings and finally processed what was happening. He was basically kidnapped by Grayfia.

"Issei, I needed to speak with you. It's urgent." Hearing the tone of Grayfia's voice, Issei turned around and nodded. "I know the reason for why Sirzechs is acting the way that she is."

"Oh boy, here comes the backstory." Ddraig spoke within Issei's mind, which Issei mentally rolled his eyes. "I can literally hear your thoughts dumbass!"

'Fuck you, you old ancient lizard. Do what those ancient lizards are good for, being dead.' Returning his attention back to Grayfia, leaving the red lizard to continue having a tantrum within Issei's mindscape, Issei watched as Grayfia locked the door. 'Fuck, I think some bad shit is about to happen to me right now.'

Grayfia walked to her couch and patted the seat next to her for Issei. Once sitting down, the entire story was told to Issei. Starting from the paper that reinforced the marriage between the two households and the continuous pressure that was built onto Rias to marry Riser. Finally, she began telling Issei the truth of why Sirzechs couldn't do anything and why she felt so powerless and saddened seeing her little sister being brough this judgement.

"Let me get this straight, there is nothing that the most powerful devil that Hell has ever seen in its history can do to save her little sister?" Grayfia nodded to Issei's claim, blowing his mind even further. "How? She could literally lift her hand and erase majority of the beings in the world, from what Surtr and Tanin keep telling me about their master's power."

Before Grayfia could say anything, Ddraig intervened by forcefully summoning the Boosted Gear. "Welcome to politics Issei. The entire world tries to suppress Sirzechs power to make sure that she is controlled. The only reason why Sirzechs doesn't act out is because she has seen that it would cause another war."

Grayfia sighed and moved the subject away from anything related to politics. "Issei... I need your help. You can save Rias and save Sirzechs from her own hatred."

"How?"

"You see, the many higher ups have seen the rating game between Riser and Rias and were disappointed with how long Rias lasted, especially when she nearly took down Riser's entire peerage alone. Her power nearly eradicated Riser's entire peerage but was quickly subdued from Riser's resilience. You see, this was Rias's first rating game and she was able to perform this well against someone who has gone almost undefeated for a while. We can use this against Riser, pushing for the agenda that the higher ups were not pleased with the result."

Issei began having his brain cells begin functioning where he finally began catching onto why he was brought here, "You want me to be there to fight him and announcing that I am the Red Dragon Emperor to interest the higher ups in agreeing to this fight."

Smiling and hugging Issei, Grayfia could only hope that this could work. "Yes... I know that this might be manipulative, but you are the only way to erase this marriage from happening. We don't have much time to devise any other plan especially when Sirzechs doesn't want to speak of this matter. She has submitted to reality."

"Sirzechs had saved my life before. This is the very least that I can do to repay the debt." Getting up, Grayfia couldn't help but wrap her arms around Issei. Slamming his face right into her chest, she didn't care if this was appropriate or not, she was thoroughly excited with this. Finally, what felt like a roller coaster of disappointments and disasters, the nightmare that has haunted the Gremory family was coming to an eventful end.

Squirming in her hold, Issei was a blushing mess. This was the second time this was happening within two separate days was wild to him. This was too new and too fast for the boy, especially when the girl that was interested him last time killed him.

Now... A hatchling was going to fight the full-grown birdie.

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