68 Chapter 68 This is going to be fun.

Sirzechs, seeing Riser wasn't going to accept, stepped in. "I believe that sounds more than fair. After all, my queen Grayfia herself has had interaction with this sacred gear and classified it as very near Longinus class." Riser, seeing Sirzechs spoke his piece knew there was no way out. After all, he couldn't argue with the king of devil society. "And you, Shin Hyoudou, am I correct to assume you want the bride?" Sirzechs asked.

"Uhh, no, I don't want the bride," Shin said, shocking everyone. "The contract broken? Sure. But marriage? Yea gotta say no to that one. Not my cup of tea." Sirzechs let out a breath of relief, he thought Shin was about to screw everything up. But, this would do just fine. "And..." And now Sirzechs was worried again. "I also want a bag of your finest beef jerky!" Sirzechs facepalmed. Sure, it wouldn't ruin the deal, but who asks for a bag of beef jerky in this situation? A thought briefly crossed his mind that Shin would fit in perfectly with a certain meat and booze loving pantheon, but only for a moment.

"As idiotic as that request is, I'm sure it is more than doable. I would say it is a fair deal, would you not heads of the Gremory and Phenex pillars?" Sirzechs asked, turning to where Zeoticus and Robin were sitting. To which he received a nod. "Very well then. Grayfia, if you would please." Sirzechs asked of his queen and wife, to which she nodded and began creating the battleground that Riser and Shin's fight would take place in.

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Shin stood on the battlefield Grayfia created for Riser and him to fight. He was surprised how quickly she was able to create it, as it only took no more than ten minutes. The battlefield looked just like the one he saw in the anime, which now that he was actually on it, he understood just how big it actually was. It was much bigger than he was expecting, the battlefield capable of being compared to multiple football fields stacked side by side.

"It only occurred to me just now, but I never did see you do anything in the rating game between Rias and myself. Why is that?" Riser asked Shin.

Shin rose his eyebrows and looked at Riser. Knowing that cameras were currently on them and that their audio would be heard by everyone, he would have to come up with a bullshit excuse. Luckily, bullshitting came naturally to him. "Rias is a big girl, she can handle herself. I wanted to give her the chance to prove that she didn't need someone to fight her battles for her. After all, what message would that send?" Shin bullshitted perfectly.

Riser smirked. "And yet, here you are, fighting her battle for her. Her knight in shining armor." Riser mocked.

"Haha, believe me, Riser, I'm no knight in shining armor. And it was just a mishap of unfortunate circumstances that I'm here fighting you. Merely a bad matchup. After all, how is someone like Rias, who yes, has a lot of strength, but low stamina... Supposed to beat someone who heals from all injuries done to themselves in seconds, at a very low cost to their stamina. Possibly the worst advisory Rias could go against." Shin answered, which actually held some truth to it. Although, he knew she could have won if she just used her brain and prepared for the fight ever since she found out about it instead of waiting for years. Until the very last minute to prepare.

"Hmm, perhaps your right." Riser said.

Shin smirked. "Although I must admit, there is a part of me that's glad she lost." Riser rose an eyebrow at Shin's statement. Shin balled up his fist and looked at it. "Ever since I've been reincarnated, I've wanted to get in a fight. And not that stray devil or rouge fallen bullshit. A real fight. A fight so hard I'm nearly falling unconscious from exhaustion. The kind of fight that gets your blood boiling with excitement. I can only hope you give me that fight." Shin said, the bloodlust obvious from his tone of voice.

Riser bellowed quite loudly. "Your quite the battle monger, aren't you Shin Hyoudou." Riser smirked at Shin.

Shin smirked back. "I suppose I am."

"This is going to be fun." Riser remarked.

Shin clinched his fist and unclenched it. "I can only hope so."

In the spectator's booth, Sirzechs sat, a small part of him excited to finally see what Shin's sacred gear was capable of with his own eyes. From the accounts Rias, Shin's sacred gear seemed to really be something with seemingly no limits, it didn't help that Grayfia told him that his sacred gear seemed to be very near, if not at, Longinus class, which admittedly puzzled him as that would mean there was 14 Longinus class sacred gears.

"What do you think the chances are of this Shin Hyoudou winning this fight?" Robin Phenex asked Zeoticus.

Zeoticus hummed and scratched at his crimson goatee. "Hm, to tell you the truth, I haven't got a clue. From what I understand, Shin is quite the prodigy, however not in the sense that he has overwhelming strength. Due to his sacred gear, he has a vast array of magic that he can use with the only inhibition being his imagination. However, he's still just a newborn, he has very little experience in fighting. If this was a battle of strength, I would say without a doubt that Shin would win with his overwhelming large array of magics. However... This is a battle of attrition. At this point in time, I would say it's a coin toss on who will win." Zeoticus said.

Robin nodded in response. "Yes, you may just be right. However, I have faith in my boy, and more than that, I have faith in the Phenex bloodline. I don't mean anything against the young Hyoudou boy, but I just don't see any way he could beat the Phenex regeneration." Robin added in his two cents.

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