Highschool DxD: The Game (Early Work)

Part #21 We fight a Phoenix. (The Battle Part 2)

(Third Person POV)

Long after the battle was over and the Occult Research Club had lost... Issei had woken up to get a recap of what happened from Grayfia.

Issei: "The others... Where are the others?" He asked the powerful woman.

Grayfia: Miss Asia is here at Lady Rias' instructions to tend to you, Mr. Issei, but the others are attending to Lady Rias in the underworld. And that boy..." She paused. Issei knew exactly who she was talking about.

Grayfia: "...That boy was rushed into intensive care after he began flickering in and out of existence." She told him.

Issei: "What?! Is Kyu okay?" He asked Grayfia.

Grayfia: "I do not know." She told him.

At that moment, a glowing blur rushed past them and a poster featuring a half-naked woman on Issei's wall got vaporized.

Issei looked for the source to see Kyu sitting on his window sill.

Kyu: "Yo." He greeted the brunette with a simple wave of the hand.

Issei: "Kyu! Wiat... Why did you do that?!" He asked Kyu before crying over his destroyed poster.

Kyu: "It's filth. Absolute filth." He answered before shooting light beams at the rest of the posters.

Issei: "Nooooo!" He shouted.

Issei: "Do you know how much those cost?!" He asked the boy.

Kyu: "Your dignity." He answered. Issei grabbed his heart and fell onto the ground before sobbing.

Kyu: "Hi Grayfia-san. I'm looking forward to our fight." He told the maid.

Grayfia: "As am I." She responded.

Issei: "Kyu, why were you disappearing an reappearing?" He stopped sobbing for a second to question the boy.

Kyu: "Um..." He said.

(24 Hours Ago)

Kyu: "ID Create. ID Escape. ID Create. ID Escape." The boy in his hospital bed continued muttering to himself as he disappeared and reappeared.

Doctor: "What the fuck is happening?!" He asked the nurse beside him.

Nurse: "I DON'T KNOW!" The nurse replied, she was panicking even more than the doctor.

Doctor #2: "GET HIM IN THE I.C.U! QUICK!" They shouted.

(Present Time)

Kyu: "Hehehe... Don't worry about it." He responded. Kyu had gotten about five levels in ID Create from that, so making the doctors worry was worth it in his eyes.

Issei: I... did not get strong enough." He spoke his thoughts.

Issei: "I'm so weak... Why am I so weak...?" He asked himself.

Kyu got off of the window sill and sat next to Issei before bonking him on the head.

Kyu: "You tried your best. If you had trained anymore, you would've broken yourself." He told the brunette. Although Kyu knew that he should've helped Issei train more. But he would make up for that, he had to.

Grayfia: "You do not appear convinced. Lady Rias abided by the decision of her house. Also, settling things in battle is what she desired." She told Issei.

Kyu: "You say that. But there were other options." He said to Grayfia.

Grayfia: "Would you care to explain?" She asked Kyu.