Highschool DxD: Crawling x Chaos-Chapter 39: Trigger

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Her kicks and fists flew right over me as I dodged them with ease, the thing was, not only did I already have great instincts, but I also had the benefits of a Queen and the Wind God's Ring, my agility was higher than a knight, let alone a rook's. While not quite in slow motion I was able to dodge her attacks with ease.

And I quickly made an observation.

"No underwear huh? Can't say I don't approve."

In addition to her revealing Qipao, she also wore no panties or bra, revealing her shaven beauty when she tried to kick me. She was quite cute too, a shame that she was a part of Riser's peerage which meant I would be stomping her into the dirt.

She blushed red when I dodged her strike again, growing frustrated by my comments and her inability to hit me.

"Stop dodging!"

I shook my head.

"Don't take it personally."

I used Void Shift to enter the Void Dimension, phasing through her high kick again before going around her and kicking toward her head, shifting back into the real world just as my hit was about to connect, landing a powerful strike to her head, launching her across the Gymnasium. I chased after her, entering the Void Dimension again before unleashing my blade wings and just as she was about to get out from the rubble I emerged from Void Dimension and slashed her with my guillotine wings, completely tearing apart her clothing and landing a deep X shaped cut across her midsection.

"Kyah~!" Who the hell screams like that when being cut? Those cuts are at least an inch deep.

But damn rooks for being annoyingly durable, I dodged another kick and slashed at her again, my wings too fast for her to dodge and drew blood again, we did this twice more before she finally couldn't move anymore and fell to her knees, teleporting out.

A bishop? I bet that's Akeno. I better increase my pace, I wouldn't want Akeno and Kiba to outpace me. I sped into the track field to see Kiba evenly matching blows with a knight dressed like... a knight with a cloth wrapped around her head. I shifted into the void dimension for the nth time and approached their battle from behind, and when the opportunity was right I re-emerged and slashed at her ankles.

"Gyah-! What the the!?"

"Eyes on your opponent!"

She wasn't able to react to Kiba with her recently slashed ankles, cutting her tendons, leading to him being able to impale her in the stomach, making her also vanish and Grayfia announced her elimination.

"Although I dislike the lack of chivalry, I appreciate the assist Yuta-kun."

I patted him on the shoulder and gestured to the rest of the school.

"Sure buddy, you should get on culling the rest, I'll take a little break to restore my energy." Using Void Shift so often was draining, granted I still had most of my reserves but I wanted to keep my stamina in reserves for when I would be facing Riser.

I turned off Natural Weapons and stood still, watching Kiba duke it out with a rook that was dressed like a Saturday morning cartoon villain with an edgy half mask, jacket with shoulder pads and belts everywhere other than where a belt should be.

Shaking my head I took a seat watching their fight, they seemed evenly matched, with Kiba not having enough firepower to land a decisive blow but her being too slow to land a good hit, it would go down to attrition at this rate.

"Really, someone oughta teach her how to wear belts properly."

"You're wide open!"

I turned my head to see 4 pawns trying to ambush me, 2 cat girls in skimpy schoolgirl uniforms with the tops cut so that their breasts were practically out and two maids. Of course, they weren't nearly fast enough to actually surprise me.

"You know, I don't think I even need an ability for you guys."

I moved fast enough that their eyes couldn't follow my movements before grabbing one of the cat girls, swinging her toward her sister and hitting her like a hammer, I ducked under the swing of the first maid and snapped her leg with a kick before slamming my elbow into her jaw, dropping her and being greeted with an expression of fear from the second girl. Her fear did not serve her as I grabbed her face and slammed it into the ground with my superior speed, strength and agility.

Huh, fighting without using any abilities feels weird.

"How dare you nya~!"

I leaned out of the way of the blatant fetish catgirl's swing and socked her in the jaw before pulling on her arm and slamming my knee into her gut and finishing up with an elbow to the jaw. Her sibling also went down similarly easily.

Honestly. I dont think Riser's paws are even actually fully combatants, it feels more like I am beating up his harem rather than his pieces.

Not that I am complaining about my job being easier, I am just taking any opportunity I can to criticize Riser. Speaking of Riser... I shifted my eyes to the sky where I could see a younger girl in twin drill tails wearing a pink princess outfit and bearing a striking resemblance to one Riser Phenex.

Ravel Phenex, and if she is in fact as immortal as Riser I should take her out now to get rid of a future problem. I opened my wings and started floating towards her, watching any movement she made with hawk-like precision and attention, Ravel turned her attention to see me approaching her and shrieked, probably because I was giving her the death stare I usually give to people I am about to put in the grave like Freed.

Just as I was about to slot in Devil Trigger and pull the trigger Ravel crossed her arms and shook her head with a panicked expression but I didn't stop approaching her with my slow, almost serial killer-like speed as she panicked more and shouted.

"W-wait, please! I am not a combatant! I don't want to get hurt either, my mother made me participate to see how rating games worked in person! Please don't hurt me..."

I locked eyes with her, there were tears in the corner of her eyes, and there was no faking that. Was I really that scary for her? Regardless, if her words were true I was more than ready to let her forfeit, the last thing I wanted to do was waste my energy before fighting Riser.

"Is that so? Then forfeit and I won't hurt you, I prefer to not hurt pretty girls in the first place anyway." She heaved a sigh of relief with a brief bit of pink dusting her cheeks.

"I'm glad... alright, I forfeit, I'm not getting hurt for my idiot brother's sake."

"Good girl, it seems like you don't have a death wish, unlike your brother." Ravel blushed briefly before she was teleported away. Now that the largest potential problem was out of the way, it was time to clean up the rabble and march into the Boss' lair.

Woosh! Boom!!!

Well, that was before a giant pillar of flame erupted to the sky from where I remember Riser's base being and falling down toward the Occult Research Clubroom like a meteor, crashing a barrier spell like it wasn't even there and hitting the building and demolishing it.

Fuck.

I turned to Kiba, that was definitely Riser, I may have overlooked the fact that he probably wouldn't sit on his ass all game while we all trounced on his peerage. No, why would he wait if he is threatened to lose the game? He can just blitz Rias and there was nothing we could do about it.

At least, that's what he thought.

"Kiba! Regroup with Akeno and take care of the mobs! I've got a chicken to fry!"

Kiba nodded to me before I split Void Shift back to Void Travel and Ghost Form, replacing Ghost Form with Iron Manipulation before I entered Void Travel, I ignored the slowed-down monochrome world around me before sprinting toward the Occult Research Club.

'Riser Phenex, you're dead meat.'

I slotted in Devil Trigger.

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~Rias Gremory | 3rd Person~

Rias winced from the hiss of fire as Asia healed her from the side with Twilight Healing, all of their clothes were burnt to a crisp and she could see Koneko standing in front of her protectively, in front of her was an angry Riser cloaked in fire wearing a scowl.

"You know Rias, I was going to let your peerage slowly suffer and get worn down by my peerage to demoralize you but unfortunately your little have friends have made me a little angry. So I think I'm gonna skip that step and get to it after the wedding."

Rias summoned forth Power of Destruction, although she knew it wasn't strong enough to keep Riser down she was confident in atomizing him repeatedly until help arrived. Seeing her ready to fight his expression got even worse.

"So you still resist me!? Fine! I guess I'll start with this one."

Just as he raised his fist cloaked in flames to attack Koneko the entire building shook as the figure of Yuta appeared in front of Koneko, facing Riser, although Rias couldn't see his face she could feel the room get colder despite Riser's flames.

But then, not only that the entire room was blinded by a bright flash and an explosion of raw, unfiltered magical power that did not reach them as hundreds of pieces of metal flew in faster than the eye could see and homed in on Yuta's figure.

When the light and the wave of demonic power died down her eyes widened at the sight in front of her, in place of Yuta was a large demonic creature, around 2 meters tall with a body that looked like jagged armour formed from metal, with two large fierce iron wings behind its back, the strangest part was the head that resembled a monster with horns curving down and an uncovered mouth filled with rows of fangs.

'Iron Emperor Devil Trigger'

Rias' mouth hung open.

'That's so fucking cool.'

The creature opened its eyes that glowed a molten orange glaring through Riser, sending a primal chill down his spine.

"Start with who did you say?"

But before Riser's lips could move, the devil did.

Boom! Crash!

And with a single punch, he completely shattered Riser's face and sent flying him through the old school building.

A/N: Yuta has come a long way, that training arc really gave him an insane, he could match a Rook in physical combat even if he didn't use any of his abilities. I hope I was able to convey how strong Yuta has become in this Chapter. 

Speaking of, the Devil has Triggered! For those who were confused about the Iron Emperor part, that's Yuta using Devil Trigger with Iron Manipulation. Like DMC, he Devil Trigger with different focuses like Dante with Cerberus, Rebellion, Nevan etc.

Yes, that also means that Yuta has a Devil Trigger for almost all of his abilities. He is going the full transformation route and honestly, it's pretty fun coming up with Devil Trigger forms.

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