The Esper Devil ( Esper OC X Highschool DxD )

Chapter 11 - Contact

The phonecall ends, Rias seemed really angry, guess I shouldn't have tried to hide it from them, but I didn't think they would get into battle so soon

As the leader of the fallen angels I, Azazel, never had any real experiences with espers, but there sure are rumours about how dangerous some of them are

Frankly, who could imagine we would ever have to worry about espers in our territory... times sure are changing

Well, I promised Rias that I would explain everything to them, but in fact I don't know much.

So I told her I would bring a friend of mine, actually, I thought about contacting her as soon as I suspected it, but if I was wrong she would never let me hear the end of it

It won't be so hard to convince her to come, she's really interested in espers. I guess we could say that the way I feel about sacred gears, she feels about espers

I pick up my telephone and dial her number

It rings only a few times before someone picks it up

"Dark Devil Casino, how may I help you?"

The voice on the other side is not hers, but rather one of her servants

So she still uses her workplace as her HQ? What a workaholic...

"Hello, Mayumi! Long time no see!"

"Ara? Azazel-dono, is that you?"

The soft voice on the other side answers on a confused tone

"Yup, that's me. Listen, there has been a bit of a situation over here and I need to speak with Liliana, is she over there?"

"Uhm, this might be a problem, Liliana-sama is here, but she's busy at the moment. Is it important?"

"Yes, it's actually very important for her to know about it, something weird has happened in the town I'm currently working at and we gonna need her help"

Mayumi's gentle tone turns serious after what I told her

"Is it related to the Khaos Brigade?"

Just like most of the High-class devils, Liliana and her peerage have been busy dealing with the terrorists as well

"No, at least I hope not, but could you please call her?"

"Uhm, okay, hold on a minute"

The call goes mute for a few seconds and then I hear another voice from the phone

"Dark Devil Casino, it's Liliana here, what do you want Azazel?"

Ugh, what a way to welcome an old friend

"C'mon, don't be like that"

"Like what? The only reason you would be calling me instead of dad or mom is because you need something from me that you can't tell them."

I smirk, she is as sharp as always, better get her interested before she hangs up on me

"Well ya know, remember when you told me once about those espers from an especific family? Their name was Kageyama, right?"

"Y-yes... what about them?"

"If I told you I have one of them right here on Kuoh Academy, how fast would you come over?"

There's a silence on the other side of the line

"Azazel, if that's a joke you better stop right there, I'm not in the..."

"Tatseyo Kageyama, son of Shigeo Kageyama and Tatsumaki 'Tornado of whatever', he is right here in this school and it happens that he came into conflict with Rias Gremory's peerage less than an hour ago"

Another silence follows

"A-a-are you serious? So that's what Manaki was talking about..."

"Uhm? Did you notice anything over there?"

"No, it's nothing! Are Rias and her followers alright?"

Something seems fishy about what she said, but I decide to let it slide since that's not what I called her for

"I'm surprised, why do you think they lost the fight?"

"There's no way a Kageyama would lose a fight to them! They are among the strongest espers in history!"

She is right, apparently Rias and her peerage suffered a crushing defeat by the hands of that brat Kageyama.

"I don't like admiting it since I am their sensei, but you are right, the Kageyama boy did a real work on them, not even together they were able to defeat him, not even the Balance Breaker Sekiryuutei"

"Amazing, as expected of the Kageyama espers! But why did they fight anyway? If Tatseyo is studying there he wouldn't have simply attacked them, don't tell me Rias deliberately attacked him?"

"No, nothing like that, in fact he was the one that attacked first"

"W-what? Why?"

"We have no idea, just as we have have no idea as to why he let them go"

"He let them go?! They didn't escape?"

"No, that's one of the things that's eating my students from the inside and that's why I want you to come"

"I see, all of this is indeed very weird... so you want me to shed some light on them?"

"Well, it's actually more than that, as you know, there are not a lot of people in the underworld who know about the existence of espers, Rias included, so she is desperate trying to find out who was the one that kicked their butts and she thinks I can give her an explanation. Seeing that you are the only person I know who is really interested in espers, I thought you and your friends could pay us a visit and explain it all to them and maybe... well, I was thinking about handing the situation to you, since they already have so much in their hands"

"I understand, but wait a minute, so they don't know anything at all about Tatseyo? You just said they had a fight and are at the same school."

"The boy has been hiding his presence ever since he arrived at the academy, so they haven't noticed anything abnormal about him yet, and when in battle it seems that he was wearing some sort of disguise and not even Koneko-chan, the Nekomata, was able to tell who he was besides the fact that he was human."

"Disguise? You mean a black robe with a plague doctor's mask, right?"

This girl, she really knows her stuff

"Yeah, how do you..."

"Kyaaah! I knew it! Tatseyo-kun hides his identity by using those clothes! It's kinda weird, but so coooool~!"

She is talking like a fan-girl!

"So, will you come?"

"Of course! Tomorrow at dusk, Kuoh academy right? Expect me and my peerage!"

She hangs up. Now I'm more worried about how Rias and her will get along, I didn't had much choice, but I hope calling her was the right decision