The Red Hope (Highschool DxD AU)

Daywalker v Dragon Emperor--Round Two

*Millicas POV

"ORYAAA!!!"

Whoa, that's huge!! This maybe is the Sekiryuutei's ultimate technique?!

...although, I did hear there are some others. Two of which are called 'Dress Break' and 'Pailingual'. Now that 'Dress Break'... sounds impossible. There's no way a clothing could be broken... right?

As for 'Pailingual', I wonder why everyone's keeping quiet about it...

Impressed as I was when I saw the size of the ball of energy hurtling at Kouya, I became terrified when I saw his reaction.

He's thrown his shield away and was standing calmly, with no stance at all. Really, is he being sane?!

"Kouya, please don't be a fool!! I don't wanna lose you... yet."

Futile! My shouts were lost amidst the 'GUUOON~' of the energy ball...

IS HE REALLY GOING TO TAKE THAT KIND OF POWER HEAD-ON?!

BLAST!!

FLASH...

"*grunts while looking away, eyes narrowed..."

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--the smoke cleared...

Next thing I know, the area was filled with gasps of horror and awe, including by those in the family box. Grandpa's expression was hard to describe. Grandmom held her calm pose, lips tight and eyes opened wide. Rias gaped. Even maid-mode Mom was covering her mouth with one hand. And I... we all were...

...witnesses to a miracle.

Kouya emerged unhurt--not even a scratch. Well, that's relieving, but... but how?! I didn't see him even trying to avoid it...?

No matter how you saw it, he just... took the shot head on.

Is anything like that possible, for real?!

I turned to Mom beside me.

"Mom..."

"Yes?"

"Mind giving me a pinch?"

Duh. Not a dream...

"Impossible!! You... nuts... took that head-on, and... and yet... how?!"

Down there, Issei was putting into words our insane enchantment.

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*Kouya POV

Keh... to think I'll be up against this crap of a perv... To think that I got transferred here because of a team that included the likes of him!!

That flash was blinding indeed, but aside from that...

'Red Dragon Team', my butt.

So here's what happened. Lady Erissa's team, of which I was a part, was 'defeated' during a time-attack Rating Game match. Before it begun, it was agreed the loser would give up one of their members to serve for a time in the winner's camp. Princess Erissa picked someone of the lowest level in her team. Not that she looked down on me.

On their side, the prize was Rias herself.

Even then, in the actual match, all Rias and her comrades did was try to hold us off using Kiba's and Xenovia's swords, Koneko's brute force, and Gasper's time-stopping ability. I have to admit, this last one we didn't have.

So let me put this straight: no amount of non-time-related magic, Devil-ish powers or whatever, will even harm--not hamper--us; because we just don't have faith in it. This is our rule. On top of that, we're Daywalkers.

If the Devils would like to blast each other off with many kinds of colorful spells, go ahead. But they will find us intact, and closing in.

So to try and defeat us (if you could), you would want to use either actual weapons--and not of the common type at that--or your own strength. That was why neither Rias' Devil-ish powers, nor Akeno's lightning, nor Rossweisse's bunch of mumbo-jumbo worked, and why they relied instead on those who possessed what I mentioned that could slow us down. Indeed, in a time-based match, that would count--and it did.

Now that perv over there, I guess he was lucky not to have to use his Dragon Boost during the last match, since he was up against Kaigen--a Two-star--with strength on par with Koneko.

Seeing how his ultimate movement turned to dust before me and everyone present must have roasted him--and I bet, having used up a crazy amount of energy for that blast, he'll be rendered immobile for a while. I still have my sword, which I now gripped more tightly. I might even have the leisure to re-equip my fallen but otherwise intact shield.

Now then, taste the steel of Vladista, you perv! And this from one of its lowest ranks!