Open House Conclusion and I get a new Vampire Kouhai! Oi! If you don't stop crying I'll smack you upside your head! Pt. 2

Having left the school building and parting ways with Saji, Michael summoned his magical floating cloud Sirius to help him arrive at Kai's recommended destination for his training. It took a while, but he was finally able to track Kai as landed in the large forested area near the school where the man patiently stood in a clearing.

Getting straight to business, Kai began Michael's training regimen after being told of Michael's current knowledge on the opponent's strength and ability.

"So Michael-san, you finally met the White One, so how was it?" Kai asked.

"I lost…" Michael kicked a nearby rock.

"How bad?" Kai asked.

"…" Michael remained quiet.

"That bad, huh?" Kai commented.

"Well, it would have been fair if I could do the Welsh Drive too." Michael growled.

[But you can't yet. Remember, patience.] Ddraig reminded.

"Fine." Michael groaned.

"Yeah, I know but what how was it knowing that your old friend, Vali was your eternal rival?" Kai asked.

"Well, it was weird at first, but you get used to i- Wait Shishou how do you even know about Vali at all?" Michael questioned.

"Remember, Michael-san, I know everything." Kai crossed his arms.

"Whoa, really?" Michael gasped in amazement.

"Nah, I just heard the report about it from, Gremory-sama." Kai chuckled.

"Figures…" Michael looked to the side.

"So now let's begin your training." Kai said then went on to explain, "You said that Vali can use this Vanishing Drive ability to hide his presence and disappear before attacking right?"

"Yeah, it was hard to tell what he would do each time he'd disappear like that." Michael nodded with a look of frustration, "He's too fast for me to catch."

"That may be the case, or it might be that your eyes are just too slow to detect him." Kai rubbed his chin.

"My eyes? What about them, Shishou?"

"Michael-san, in a battle, people tend to always rely on their sight to focus on the opponent in front of them, but right now your opponent is someone who won't be a close range fighter that can be seen by eye sight alone. He will use your sight against you and attack any blind spots that you keep unguarded." Kai explained.

"So what you're saying is that I have to use something other than my eyes to find Vali?" Michael asked.

"Correct." Kai nodded.

"But how am I supposed to do that?" Michael wondered.

"Well, first, before we start, we need another part of your training to be done. Ahem, Shura!" Kai snapped his fingers and created a gold magic circle.

"Wait, you mean that brat's coming here?" Michael was irritated with the kid ever since he met him.

Suddenly appearing from a magic circle was the young boy, who was excited to see his father.

"Hello, Papa! Did you call for me!" Shura waved.

"Yes, today, I want you to help work with Michael-san." Kai smirked.

"Awwww~! But he's an oaf, it would be a huge waste of time." Shura pouted, "And besides, I don't want to help him I just want to play with you like you promised."

'This kid is getting on my nerves.' Michael thought.

"Shura, I already told you that I would play with you when I'm completely free and if you do this I really promise to play with you later, okay?" Kai smiled.

"But you said that last time." Shura turned around and crossed his arms, "And I don't have to help if I don't want to."

'Wow, this kid is really talking to Shishou like that, he must be really brave.' Michael gasped.

"Shura." Kai said with a serious expression, no, it wasn't that it was the expression of a father about to lay down some punishment as an angry aura enveloped Kai loomed Shura, "Do you really want me to spank you in front of Michael-san right now?"

"N-No, Papa... I'm sorry... F-F-Forgive me." Shura shivered in fear bowed his head with a frown on his face.

'Whoa, Shishou just scolded his son, it feels weird to see something like that happen but I guess I wouldn't know how that feels since I don't necessarily have a dad myself.' Michael scratched the back of his neck and looked down.

Then Michael looked up and noticed something off about Shura did he had that monkey tail before or was it…?

"Now Michael-san, I want you to wear this." Kai ties a blindfold around Michael's eyes.

"Hey, why am I blinded?" Michael asked as he walked forward and tripped over on his own feet, "Ouch!"

"Shishishishi!" Michael could hear laughter, but it was from Shura whose voice was more childish than Kai's.

It seems that laugh was an inherited trait after all.

"Shut up! That was just because my shoes were untied." Michael shouted in defense.

"This exercise is to help you develop your hidden sense and ability to react when the time is crucial." Kai explained, "Shura, will do everything in his power to cripple you by throwing huge balls of hardened ice at you."

"C-Cripple?" Michael stuttered in fear.

"Well, I could say kill, but Shura is too young for that sort of thing. Sera-chan prefers it if he didn't copy my mannerisms because they seem to be quiet ruthless." Kai looked back at Shura and smiled, "Now Shura make sure to only break a few bones when needed to. Remember, anything to the head, chest, and below the torso must not be fatal but they can still be hit, understood?"

"Oi, you're making this sound like a game, Shishou…" Michael's face turned pale.

"Okay, Papa!" Shura gasped happily as opens his palm to create a chunk of ice the shape of a baseball, "Yaaaaaaay! This is going to be fun"

'You know, I just remembered hearing Rias say something about this kid being a prodigy...' Michael began to sweat at that passing comment.

"Oh, and Michael-kun, let me see your broken arm." Kai smiled.

"Oh, sure." Michael stuck his arm out the wrong way.

"I'm over here." Kai called.

"Oh, right, sorry." Michael stuck his arm out while still facing away from Kai.

"You really do need this training, don't you?" Kai shook his head and simply walked over to Michael as he grabbed the young man's casted arm.

"Oooh! That's where you were!" Michael said upon realization.

"Now let me just progress the rate of healing your hand needs." Kai flows a calming wave of aura which felt different from the types Michael has seen or made before as Michael started to gain more feeling of his left arm, "There done."

"Whoa…" Michael took off his cast and flexed his arm, "Shishou, what was that?"

"Hmhmhm. It's a Sage Art or usually named Senjutsu it's a power similar to your Touki it allows the user to control and read Ki. This technique allows the user to even control both time and space after mastering it." Kai explained and folded his arms behind his back.

"That's awesome! Can you teach me that?" Michael smiled excitedly.

"No." Kai rejected.

"Huh, but w-why?" Michael whined.

"It's dangerous in the wrong hands."

"But I'm no stranger to danger."

"I know, but I don't trust this technique to be put in your hands." Kai shook his head.

"Now that's just hurtful…" Michael dropped his head in shame.

"But I can do it too, Papa, you taught me." Shura raised his hand and smirked at Michael.

"What, you little…" Michael growled if he wasn't blind he would kick the little guy's butt.

"And besides even if I wanted to teach you, you'd at least have to be a Youkai or a hybrid of one to learn this." Kai scratched his head.

"A youkai? You mean those Japanese monsters?" Michael gasped.

"Yes, they exist. I thought you'd have known by now since you do go to school with one, wait no, I detect more than one but they must belong with someone else in that school in order for that many to be present." Kai muttered to himself.

'I go to school with youkai creatures?' Michael thought, 'I guess they are under some disguise to keep hidden.'

"So, wait, if you two can do it then that means you're a-" Michael gasped.

"Correct, I was a Monkey Youkai before being turned into a Reincarnated devil." Kai nodded and revealed a monkey tail from behind his back. The tail just suddenly grew out of nowhere as Michael was stunned by the revelation.

"Oh my Maou!" Michael shouted in surprise, "You're just like Son Goku, but instead you're not aliens and are actual monkeys!"

"Well, you're not completely wrong because Son Goku before that anime you call Dragon Ball came out was from Journey to the West as his actual name is referred as Sun Wukong the 'First Generation Monkey King while I am the Third Generation Monkey King after my mother." Kai explained as he summoned his staff and twirled it around his head.

"M-Mother? Wait, that means Shishou's mom is!" Michael gasped.

"Correct again, my mother is the only daughter of 'The Great Victorious Fighting Buddha' Sun Wukong and I'm his grandson, Kai Sun Wukong." Kai gave a V sign.

"Oh my god-ow! I think I might faint!" Michael trembled about to fall over until he caught himself wanting to know before, "Shishou you're super actually Sun Wukong's relative even this pipsqueak?"

"Yes, but Shura and because he's a hybrid it's possible for him to learn senjutsu." Kai explained as Shura puffed out his chest in pride as his monkey tail waved back in forth, "He's even learning techniques I could pull at his age already."

"Mmmhmmmm! So now don't you understand that you'll never attain such power me and Papa can use you oaf?" Shura mocked while sticking out his tongue.

"As soon as this blindfold comes off, I'm so going to kick your face in brat!"

"Try it, Oaf!"

*CLASH!*

Both Michael and Shura butted heads together and growled.

"Now now, Shura, remember, you're still struggling to learn how to balance natural energy with demonic energy as a novice, you still have a long way to go. I won't accept any arrogance, understand?"

"Y-Yes, papa..." Flinching from the scolding, Shura respectfully bowed his head out of respect.

"And as for you Michael-san, your ability to use Touki without learning of Senjutsu is already substantial for you since your body is developing to handle and control your life force, and in fact this training regime gives me an idea... Put out both your arms.

"Sure, but what for?" Michael did the action.

"Ha!" Kai used a hand sign to create a pair of golden cuffs to surround Michael's arms and ankles.

"What the hell?" Michael blinked then suddenly felt something pulling at his arms.

*CHNNNNG!*

"Tch!" Michael suddenly felt the cuffs tighten and enclose his legs and arms together decreasing his mobility, "Shishou what are these things?"

"Michael-san, I have created for you Spirit Cuffs. These are to help you in your training to increase your Touki output. As of lately, I noticed that your output increased to a somewhat below average than before meaning your progression is slowly working but it's time to increase it even higher." Kai explained.

Kai looks to see Michael struggling to move his arms and legs with no avail.

"To move, you must cover your entire body with Touki to stabilize movement." Kai gestured with his hand and rolled his wrist.

"Use my Touki?" Michael grunts as he concentrates and begins to draw out white aura which surrounds his arms then legs until his body was covered in the pure white aura of his life force, the actions were able to help him move again as his arms and legs that were still cuffed were released from the tight pressure of being forced together.

'I did it, but using this much is going to tire me out after 5 minutes.' Michael used his concentration to keep up with the aura cascading across his body but doing this would be difficult if any longer than it needs to be.

"Good, now you must stay like this after dodging about 50 of Shura's attacks." Kai said as Shura conjured about 50 piles of ice chunks the size of baseballs.

"Wait, I'm supposed to stay like this the entire time?" Michael freaked out as he could already feel himself lose grip of his concentration.

"Yes, and don't get all scared and worn out now. If you do then those cuffs will go back to restraining you, this will help increase your output of power and stamina making it easier for you to stay longer in Balance Breaker and somewhat be able to use its power without any backlashes." Kai poked Michael's forehead.

"So I have to fight blinded and restrained?" Michael asked, "But this is only going to make it harder for me to train!"

"Training was never easy, if it was then everyone would be a high-class devil or fallen angel." Kai said.

"Touché." Michael sighed in defeat before roaring, "Alright, I'm ready let's do this!"

Michael readied himself and faced Shura with a grin, "I, the Great Hanamura won't fail and by passing this I can finally show that arrogant prick Vali that I'm his rival!"

"That's the spirit, Michael-san, now Shura, are you ready?" Kai asked Shura.

"Hmm!" Shura nodded while picking up to chunks of hard ice.

"Good, now let's beg-"

"Wait!" Michael shouted.

"What is it, Michael-san?" Kai looked at Michael in confusion.

"There's something I want to ask you about." Michael raised his hand.

"Go on." Kai nodded.

"I want to ask you about someone called The Hunter." Michael smiled.

"…!" Kai's was shocked after hearing that then grew an unexpected smile,

"Tell you what, I'll tell you about it on one condition: Dodge about 100 of Shura's attacks consecutively without getting hit and do it in this single night only then will I tell you about it." Kai explained.

"Really, then I accept!" Michael grinned, "All right, kid, show me what you got I can take it and dodge it in no time flat!"

"Are you sure?" Shura snickered as he juggled one ice ball in hand.

"Yeah, I'm ready so do it and I'll dodge it!" Michael readied himself.

"Ooookay~!" Shura sang as he cocked his arm back.

'Wait, this seems very familiar!' Michael gulped.

"Here's the pitch!"

*BONG!*

"Duuuuuuuuuuuah!"

Shura tossed the ice ball with incredible strength that it was hard for Michael to even try to detect as it hit him in the nuts.

"My keys!" Michael cried as he grabbed in between his legs.

[That must hurt.]

"It does!" Michael squeaked but stood up straight once more, "But I can't give up now I have to keep trying!"

"That's the Michael-san I know now begin!" Kai slammed the bottom of his staff into the ground.

"Here take this, fat oaf!"

*SWISH!* *SWISH!* *SWISH!* SWISH!* *SWISH!* *SWISH!*

Shura begins tossing the ice balls with great strength and speed as he would always get another batch and throw them at Michael.

"Whoa! Yikes! Ouch! Quit it!" Michael cried as he ran away from the assault of ice projectiles into the thick woods.

'Okay, got to stay moving this will help me stay focus and-ouch!' Michael suddenly gets an ice ball to the back of the head.

"Haha! Your it you, fat oaf!" Shura laughed as he then vanished from behind Michael and reappeared before Michael holding huge ice projectiles the size of basketballs. Is he having fun doing this!?

"What the?" Michael gasped as he sensed someone ahead of him.

"Take this!" Shura chucked the Ice-Orbs with great force.

"Not good!" Michael cried because he suddenly lost concentration on his Touki making the cuffs activate and restrain his movement.

*DON!* *DON!*

The two orbs hit the ground and created medium sized craters.

"Aw~! They missed!" Shura cried.

"Damn it, I got so startled that I lost control of my Touki. Ngh!" Michael struggled to get up and forced out more Touki to surround his body thus disengaging the effects of the Spirit cuffs on his wrists and ankles.

"Hah!" Throwing down a huge ice projectile the size a of beach ball Shura almost crushed Michael who rolled out the way just in time.

*THUD!*

The projectile created a huge crater.

"That was close." Michael gulped then shook his head, 'I'm starting to get tired after forcing this much Touki out of my body! It's hard for me to see if I can take on and dodge about 10 at a-all.' Michael picked himself up on all fours before remembering Rias and everyone else, he realized thinking like this won't help at all, 'What the hell am I doing this isn't going to help me it'll bring me down and it won't help me beat Vali!'

Suddenly the words of that guy ran through Michael's head.

-Hm a tie? No, why would I ever be in the same place as you it's just ridiculous. -

'I'll show him that I'm strong enough to take him on! I'll show him that I'm more than capable of being his rival! I'll show him just how Great I am!'

"Rooooaaaaaaaaar!" Michael picks himself up and roars, "Let's do this!" He starts running again, his breathes were heavy it seems using this much Touki to move again exhausted him out.

"Come on, you're still running?" Shura laughed as he was pursuing the teen to his left with no trouble easily matching Michael's speed. It seems by the look of cockiness in Shura's face that he can keep this pace up without getting tired hell it may be that his speed even surpassed Michael's by a margin itself.

'This kid's fast so this is the prodigy known as Shishou's son?' Michael bitterly smiled.

"Bring it!" Michael shouted.

"Consider it brought!" Shura thrusts his hand forward and created a light blue magic circle which fired upon thousands of blocks of ice at Michael.

"Guuuuuagh!" Michael crossed his arms and took the attack head on, 'Crap this hurts!'

Michael gets pushed back into a tree, panting hard as his bruises started to effect his mind's concentration.

"Try to dodge this!" Shura fired two golf ball sized ice chunks which with enough force can pierce through a body like bullets.

'Uh-Oh is he attacking I can't tell with this stupid blindfold on!' Michael thought in frustration as his mind couldn't keep under control.

"Remember, make your mind clear." Kai exclaimed up in the air as he ride on his floating red cloud, Stratus. He was surveying the fight from overhead to get a better sight of the training, "The less distractions you have the more easily it is for you to picture the next attack!"

"Clear my mind?" Michael panted, "Yeah, he's right clear my mind…How do that!?" Michael panicked as he ducked out of the way to avoid the ice chunks which dug into the tree and caused it to fall over.

*THUMP!*

"Darn missed again!" Shura stamped his foot on the ground.

"Okay, okay, clear your mind, Hanamura." Michael exhaled then inhaled, "Clear it…"

'Clear your thoughts…' Michael made his mind go blank after a few more calming breaths, 'Clear. Your. Mind.'

"If you're done running then prepare to get pummeled!" Shura fired another barrage of ice orbs at Michael who stood there motionless without moving a single inch.

"Relax and clear my mind…" Michael whispered as he felt something strange in his head it felt as if he was seeing an image of what is coming after him. It didn't feel safe it was like it wanted to cause him pain so he instinctively dodged by swaying his head to the right as the first Ice chunk then raised his leg to dodge another soon after Michael started to use the images in his head to dodge the 20 projectiles shot at him.

"How the-?" Shura gasped.

"Now this is getting interesting." Kai chuckled as he sat down on Stratus.

"Don't think that was me trying, so try taking this you, big moron!"

Shura jumped high in the air and created a large magic circle which rained down a heavy barrage of ice orbs the size of basketballs.

'I can see it!' Michael saw many images in his mind allowing for his body to react and move instinctively.

*DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!* *DON!*

As the projectiles rained down on the teen, Shura smiled to himself knowing no one can handle that many attacks and think about dodging them.

"W-What?"

Well, he was wrong.

"…" Michael swayed his body to dodge each of those fired projectiles.

"H-He dodged all of them?" Shura started to sweat as he lands.

"No." Michael shook his head as he felt some blood trickle down his cheeks and arms, "I was only grazed by them I wasn't able to dodge them completely."

'This isn't good enough, I have to be able to dodge them without getting hit at all or it will be useless.' Michael strained his right arm for his arms to be kept apart as his concentration was starting to run low, 'And I better do this before the cuffs finally get to me.'

"This time I won't miss." Shura's body becomes enveloped in an ice blue aura.

"Come on." Michael beckoned his hand at Shura, "I know how to feel and react on time now this time I'm ready now let me show you how this is done!"

XXX

[5 Hours of dodging later.]

'Still bored?'

[Yes...]

XXX

About 5 hours later, Michael was under a pile of ice blocks as his progressive training abruptly stopped once his concentration to use Touki on his body started to simmer down and lock his limbs together. Michael was only able to dodge the projectiles at least about 50 times at least about 5 sets consecutively.

Standing near the ice covered teen was a chuckling Kai and a yawning Shura.

"Papa *Yawn!* I'm…tired." Shura rubbed his eyes and yawned.

"Yeah, I guess making you help train Michael-san was a little rough on you. Sorry." Kai rubbed Shura's head, "Make sure to go back to your mother she'll take care of you."

"But I want to…go back with *Yawn!* you~!" Shura whined lazily.

"Sorry, Shura but I'm still a little busy with work I promise next time." Kai started throwing empty promises again; he created a magic circle underneath Shura to transport him back home to rest. He knew Shura was growing tired of this but there was no other way to say this nicely due to always being occupied with work (Mainly things that entertain him).

"Papa, you always say that though~!" Shura yawned/cried as he teleported back home to rest.

"Forgive me, Shura, but I still have something to talk about with Michael-san." Kai raised his staff and used his demonic power to melt the ice with fire.

"Blblblbbbh!" Michael shook his head as the spirit cuffs forced his wrists and ankles together.

"You did well so far, Michael-san." Kai sat next to the laid back Michael.

"Thank you, Shishou, I'd give it to you face to face but I currently can't move and I'm still blinded." Michael's body was auto-resting as he looked up in the early morning sky with his blindfold on.

Kai pulled off the blindfold, "Better."

"Almost, but it's a start." Michael groaned.

"For your attempts at dodging, you were successful and met the original requirement." Kai smiled.

"So does that mean you'll tell me about the Hunter now?" Michael ask with hope in gleaming in his eyes.

"Nope because I said 'original' not new. You were able to dodge about 50 attacks blindfolded, not 100, you successfully fulfilled the requirement for this training, but we'll still continue on with something different later this night." Kai explained.

"Darn it, I couldn't do it and I really wanted to know who the guy was too…" Michael said in exhaustion.

[But you were able to gain some more time in your Balance Breaker state because of it.] Ddraig complimented, [But you're still not able to handle too many boosts in it though.]

"Really?" Michael sighed, "Well, at least I learned something from doing this and maybe now I actually stand a chance of getting back at Vali."

Kai looked at Michael with a smile and asked, "Michael-san, may I ask why you're so interested in the Hunter anyways?"

"It all started because I heard Kokabiel say something like that when I beat him and also I got really curious once Aniki said something about me needing to ask you and he sounded really serious so I wanted to know what's so special about this guy?" Michael's mind was always one to get curious to know something secret.

Kai's body shook a little once he heard Michael say the word 'Aniki' instead of Sirzechs, "U-Um? Michael-san, may I ask you why your calling Sirzechs that?" Kai's smile was hidden by a strained tone.

"Well, he said I could call him that and I do, it's actually gotten easier to call him that now." Michael shrugged.

"Oh…I see." Kai said with an annoyed expression as he looked away, something about Michael saying that didn't sit well with him and if Michael were to see this he wouldn't even begin to understand why.

"Well, since you're so interested in the Hunter and you did do half of what was recommended I'll tell you a little about it." Kai smirked.

"R-Really?" Michael smiled and sat up using his excitement to unlock his hidden burst of energy to sit properly.

"Yeah, I see no reason not to tell you and even if you wanted to get at a small summary of information from Sirzechs you'd have to get permission from the other 3 Maous first."

"Wow, is it really that serious?" Michael blinked.

"Mmmm-hmmm." Kai nodded.

"So can you tell me why this guy is so important; is he someone famous?"

"Well, infamous is a better way to describe him, but besides that, the Hunter is a being who has been suspected as an abnormality in the world of mythologies. He caused destruction and devastation towards places with strong devils, angels, monsters or even gods." Kai looked up in the sky.

"Gods? That sounds powerful." Michael said in awe.

"Indeed it is the Hunter is seen as taboo in existence even the Angels have no way of seeing how such a creature was born by their system. But for devils the Hunter is seen as a menace because of what he did during the Great War."

"A menace just what did he do?" Michael asked.

"He did something no devil or Fallen Angel would do, you may have heard some people say that the 4 Maous died in the war but never heard how they did well let's just say our Mr. Hunter decided it was in his best interest to hunt down the top graded prey of devil society." Kai stuck out four fingers.

"So you mean he killed the 4 Great Maous!?" Michael shouted in shock.

"If only that was the only thing he did but it gets worse he created a sword out of their demonic power and blood. Using the materials of his prey to create more weapons such as the way of a true Hunter." Kai sighed.

"But he killed people though." Michael gulped.

"It doesn't matter to him if you are something he hasn't hunted then you're just as good as dead, kids, women, the elderly he would hunt anything which interests him." Kai shrugged, "And do you know what the most interesting thing about him is?"

"What?"

"He's a 100% full blooded human." Kai smiled as the morning sun brightened and blackened half of his face.

"WHAT!?" Michael screamed as he was completely shocked, how could a human do something as powerful as kill all of the Devil Kings.

"What you think I'm joking?" Kai said with a smile but his tone had a threatening tone in it.

"N-No!" Michael shook his head in fear, "But doesn't it seem strange that a human can do all of this?"

"No because if a human was able to slay down Dragons in his spare time, decapitate hydras, make hunting and skinning a minotaur a game for sport then no it wouldn't." Kai shook his head, "And he's human but he's not exactly human just his body which is why he's been able to live as long as he should up to today."

"Wait, he's alive still!?" Michael gasped and trembled in fear.

"Yeah, he's been alive since the Great War. Wait, no he's been around even before that…" Kai said to himself.

'Ddraig, do you know the Hunter?'

[No…me and Albion were already killed after that happened, I was so filled with rage when the other factions interrupted our battle that I lost all reason of thinking and did what I wanted.] Ddraig sighed in depression.

'Why are you sad?' Michael asked.

[I'm not just lamenting over how easily angered I was until death.]

'But you're still alive, well, in me at least.' Michael smiled.

[Yeah, I guess this is a downgrade but still things could be worse…]

'Oi! Don't sound like that when I'm trying to cheer you up! Geez!' Michael spat.

"But don't worry, the Hunter won't claim anymore prey now." Kai chuckled.

"He won't?"

"Yes, for you see he's been sealed and imprisoned inside another dimension and must stay there unless someone stupid enough frees him then he'll just do what he wants and goes back to slaying legendary people or creatures that have popped up over the years." Kai laughed, "He may even go after the Heavenly Dragons because he sure as hell hasn't hunted them yet."

"That isn't something to be laughing about." Michael's face went pale.

"In the top Rankings of the Strongest of the World, the Hunter is an oddity. In his prime, the Hunter would be ranked with Number 3 when casually battling while openly being on par with Number 2 when actually serious." Kai smiled with excitement.

"I-Incredible, he's that strong and just for a human too." Michael said to himself, "But wait what ranking is he if he's so strong?"

"Doesn't have one." Kai shook his head.

"Why?" Michael asked.

"Because he's not allowed since he's an abnormality in the worlds of mythologies." Kai explained.

"But he's just human."

"Technically, his body may be human, but he's certainly not human in spirit though." Kai laughed.

"In spirit?" Michael tilts his head.

"Well, you see the Hunter is an abnormality because in soul, he used to be-EEEHHH!" Kai made an x sign with his index fingers, "Times up, your 50% earned information has reached its limit."

"Huh?" Michael's eyebrow twitched, "WHAAAAAAAAAT!?"

"I told you already, you did the original amount of training so you get half of the information with a little lie just for fun." Kai chuckled.

"A lie?" Michael blinked.

"Yes, out of everything that I've said to you I've made a slight lie." Kai stood up and stuck out his tongue while doing the V sign.

"Aw, really why do you have to play me like that Shishou?" Michael sweatdropped.

"Because it's fun and entertaining to see you figure the truth out on your own. Now go on, shoo, I'll see you about your next step of training later." Kai rubbed his chin and started walking off.

"But I'll have to go to school, and I'm way tired." Michael tiredly moaned.

"So not my problem." Kai stood up.

'Damn it, I knew he would say that.' Michael sighed.

"Um, Shishou what about my Spirit Cuffs aren't you going to take them off?" Michael asked.

"Why would I do that?" Kai wondered.

"Huh?"

"To better extend your control of Touki, you must wear those cuffs in everyday life to make it less stressful for you." Kai pointed out.

"But I can barely move like this though." Michael grunts as he tried to move his restrained body.

"I'll make sure to replenish your stamina with Senjutsu before sending you off to school. Also, I'm entrusting you with a password to break the cuffs when needed during your daily life they will be cloaked in disguise to keep hide from any unwanted eyes." Kai smiled.

"Why not now? I can handle myself with the gained power I have." Michael chuckled.

"No, you must break these cuffs when you believe the time is right." Kai shook his head.

"So when will the time be right?" Michael asked.

"I dunno that's what your supposed to find out." Kai wagged his finger.

"Actually, this sounds confusing, but the heck with it, the Great Hanamura can handle this!" Michael grinned, "So lay down the password on me Shishou!"

"Okay, so the password is-." Kai began.

(Evening)

Standing on the ground floor of the Old School Building was the Occult Research Club about to open the Sealed Classroom which held the Bishop. Michael was anxious to know what was behind the door ever since yesterday. Throughout the whole day he couldn't get the thought out of his head while trying to maintain the spirit cuffs which make it hard for him to do simple tasks.

Just as Rias told them only the new members: Michael, Asia and Xenovia didn't know who the Bishop was but now they'll find out.

"My Bishop lies within this room. The child's been able to leave the inside of his room during some nights but seems to place an inner seal to keep himself in. He really dislikes leaving the building let alone his room." Rias said.

"Wait, so he's a shut in?" Michael asked.

"But this child is the top breadwinner, you know." Akeno brought up.

"Really, you mean for devil jobs?" Michael gasped.

"Using a computer the Bishop makes special contracts." Kiba explained.

"What we can use computers?" Michael groaned in complaint, "Damn it and I was starting to hype myself to get more contracts but that just ain't fair well whatever this Bishop better watch out because I'm not losing to them!"

"…It was never a contest nor will it ever be one Baka-senpai." Koneko insulted with her eyes closed.

"Don't push me out the ring yet Koneko-chan I still have a lot of fire in me to keep going!" Michael growled then joked,

"Well whatever let's meet the Bishop I want to make them feel so uncomfortable."

"Michael-sama! No." Raynare scolded.

"What I'm just being honest I mean have you met me?" Michael asked.

"…Sadly yes." Koneko nodded.

"I wasn't talking to you…squirt." Michael insulted.

*Chiiiiillllllsss~!*

Koneko gave Michael a scary stare which made him tremble in utter fear. Everyone scooted away from the soon to be dead man.

"J-Just kidding!" Michael laughed nervously while looking away, 'Aw great now I can still feel her glaring at me she must be really pissed!'

"And making them uncomfortable won't be that hard for you Michael-kun." Kiba gave a coy smile.

"Really?" Michael blinked.

"Now then I'm going to open the door."

Rias said as she started undoing the seal with a magic circle. Which disappeared and removed the tape and locks on the door.

'I wonder what's in there it must be some stone cold loner kind of character that'd be kind of cool!' Michael thought in excitement.

"Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

From within the room cried a high scream.

"Stone-Cold and awesome no! Annoying definitely!" Michael covered his ears and shouted.

"…Your one to talk." Koneko shut her eyes in annoyance as she covered her ears.

Sighing to herself Rias opened the door and had on an expression familiar to the situation. Entering the room was like entering a toddler girl's room filled with some stuff dolls varying in size as the wallpaper was pink. But it was almost a girl's room because there was a freaking coffin in the middle of the room.

"So is the Bishop a girl or…?" Michael turned back to the three: Asia, Raynare and Xenovia who shrug in turn.

"Good day, I'm so glad to see you're looking well." Rias approached the coffin.

"W-W-What is going on?" The voice cried it sounded like it belonged to a girl or a very young boy it was difficult to tell.

"Ara ara, the seal got removed so your able to go out now so come now." Akeno walked towards the coffin and opened the top. She had a very gentle voice it seems her experience with whoever it is starting to surface.

"Noooooooooooo! I don't wanna! I wanna stay here! I don't want to meet peopleeeeeee!" From within the coffin was a young bishoujo who looked to be in their first year in high school as she had platinum blonde hair and pinkish-violet eyes as her hair was styled in a short bob cut with several fringed over the forehead as she had pointed ears. She wore the Kuoh Academy girl's school uniform with thigh-high socks.

Asia tilted her head as Raynare and Xenovia looked at one another in question as Kiba and Koneko who knew about the situation bitterly smiled or (Koneko) let out a sigh.

"So it was a girl and what with the pointed ears is she a foreigner?" Michael said in curiosity and looked at girl in the coffin who tried to shrink away into her coffin and away from Michael's sight, "Well it's another blonde like Asia so I don't mind so I guess there are two Bishops who are blondes now at least that's a match."

Hearing a chuckle from Kiba Michael turned around and gave a contradicting look, "What's so funny?"

"It's a he Michael-kun." Kiba smiled.

"…What?" Michael responded with a derp face, "Could you repeat that I kind of heard something else when you said that."

"He is right you know this child is a boy." Rias looked back.

"But he's wearing female clothes." Raynare said.

"He just has a hobby for dressing into female clothes is all." Rias shrugged.

"So what your saying is that this girl."

"Boy."

"Boy, isn't a girl because he definitely has the face of one." Michael pointed.

"Yes." Rias nodded.

"Good to know WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!" Michael screamed loudly.

"Eeeeeeeeeeek! I'm sorry! I'm sorrryyyyyyyyy!" The now supposed boy shrieked in fear due to Michael's voice.

The loud shriek caused Michael to cover his ears in pain as he shouts, "SHUT UP! Your screaming is hurting my ears you Cross Dresser!"

"Uwaaaaaaaaaaah! I'm sorry! Please don't yell at me!" The boy cried even more.

"And why the hell are you wearing girl clothes anyways!? This isn't normal!" Michael shouted.

"B-B-But girl's clothes are super cute and I really like cute things."

The boy gave a teary eyed cute face.

"U-Um!" Michael blushed then apologized, "Well sorry I didn't mean to be so-!"

Michael stopped himself and shouted with a terrifying face, "Don't fuck with me! Damn you for messing with my emotions! Shit and here I thought you were someone like Asia or at least a super nerd like Saji since your good with computers!"

(With Saji)

Putting down a book Saji places a finger to his forehead and raised his hand as a strolling Sona walks by.

"Saji what's wrong?" Sona asked.

"I don't know but I feel like someone, somewhere just insulted me." Saji used telepathy.

"*Sigh!* Saji for the last time just because you're a devil does not mean you have telepathy." Sona shook her head.

(With Michael)

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek! Please don't hurt me! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" The boy was in utter fear under Michael's screaming.

"What did I say about screaming like that!?" Michael grew more pissed by the minute.

"Michael." Rias walked close to Michael.

"Uh-huh?" Michael responded and looked back.

PUUUUUUUULLLLLLL!

"Ouch! Okay I learned my lesson please let go of me!" Michael screamed.

"Good Boy now apologize to your fellow servant." Rias acted like she was training a dog.

"Look I'm sovvy." Michael slurred.

PIIIINCH!

"Ow! Ow! Ow!"

Michael cried as the pinch grew harder.

"Say it right and like you mean it." Rias scolded.

"Fine." Michael puffed out his cheeks and gave a fake smile to the boy as Rias released him, "Sorry."

"I-It's fine." The boy calmed down still a little unsure of how to respond to someone new,

"B-B-B-B-By the way, who are these people?" The boy pointed to Michael, Xenovia, Asia and Raynare.

"These are new servants who came while you were occupied here. The pawn, Michael Hanamura; The knight, Xenovia Quarta and like you, the bishop, Asia." Rias introduced.

"But what about h-her?" The boy pointed at Raynare.

"Oh she is a Fallen Angel." Rias explained.

"Uwaaaaaaaaaaaah! A F-F-Fallen Angel!?" Gasper trembled in fear as he felt frightened that an enemy to devils is in the same room as him.

"Don't worry she's a friend to us devils now so you have no need to be afraid of her." Rias smiled.

"Eeeeek, even so the members increased by a lot!" The boy cried.

[It seems to me that this boy must have some issues to cause him to act like this.]

'You think I haven't even heard a single thing after he screamed the last time.' Michael rolled his eyes and placed his hands on his hips.

"Wouldn't it be better to go outside? Yes it's not healthy for you to stay in forever and the seal is gone so why not get out?" Rias tried to persuade the boy gently.

"Noooooooo! For me the outside world is impossibleeeeeeee! I am scared! I am scared of the outside! In any case, even if I go outside it would only cause trouble for otherssssss!" The boy wailed.

Angry that the boy was still whining and refusing to listen Michael pulled him by the arms as he approached, "Come on you little twerp you heard the lady outside we go!"

"Eeeeeeek!" The boy screamed.

Then within that second a flash of light appeared and the boy who Michael grabbed disappeared out of thin air.

"He's gone?" Michael blinked in surprise.

"But I didn't even see him move at all." Xenovia was also surprised along with Asia and Raynare.

Everyone who knew about the boy let out sighs as they looked in the corner to where he was trembling in fear of Michael.

"There you are!" Michael shouted.

"Don't get angry! Don't get angry! Please don't hit meeeeee!"

"That was strange…Just now for a second…" Asia covered her mouth in shock.

"It seems like he did something to us." Xenovia said.

"Yeah, how did he do that?" Michael asked.

"This boy possesses the sacred to stop time only for a fixed interval of time when excited. It only works when something he wants to stop is within his view." Akeno explained.

"Wait he can stop time? Sacred Gears can do that!?" Michael gasped, 'First Kiba and now this kid what's next you can make colossal monsters with these things?'

"Say you kid you want to trade Sacred Gears?" Michael pointed at Gasper.

"E-Eh?" Gasper trembled and started to tear up.

"Oh come on your sacred gear is awesome and I'll trade my Boosted Gear for that right now!" Michael shouted.

[No! You can't just trade me like some kind of training card!]

"I'll even throw in this annoying dragon spirit for that sacred gear!" Michael said desperately.

[Stop it!]

*SMACK!*

"OW!"

Ddraig took control of Michael's arm and made him smack himself.

"Eeeeeeeek! I-I don't want to have a dragon in m-me!" The boy cried.

"Darn…" Michael snapped his fingers, "And I wanted to prank a lot of people by stopping time what a shame."

"For others that would be a blessing." Raynare sighed in relief as Asia nodded.

"What was that?" Michael asked suspiciously.

"U-urp!" Raynare froze.

"I-It was nothing Michael-san." Asia waved her hands and sweatdropped.

"Hm?" Michael pointed at his two eyes then back to the two girls,

"The Great Hanamura has his eyes on you."

"I wouldn't mind if you had more than your eyes on me." Raynare said seductively for that instant.

"Huh?" Michael blinked.

"What? Huh? Who said that?" Raynare shrugged.

"Hmmm?" Michael rubbed his chin.

"Because he can't control his sacred gear by orders of the Archduke and the Maou, Sirzechs-sama, he was sealed." Akeno explained further.

'Well that seems legit for a reason I mean stopping time to do what you want sort of is dangerous in my opinion but if it were in my hands then I would be allowed to use it freely!' Michael laughed.

[No you'd run out of control unable to stop what you've done and fix what you broke.]

'O-Oi! Give me at least some cred, Ddraig I can be careful and responsible if I wanted to.' Michael said back in defense.

"…No you can't." Koneko said with a blank expression.

"…!" Michael looked down to his kouhai and thought with a nervous expression, 'Did she just read my mind?'

Hugging the boy in girl's clothing Rias said, "This boy is Gasper Vladi. He's my bishop. For the time being, he's Kuoh Academy's 1st year student. Also before being reincarnated he was half human and half vampire."

"V-Vampire?" Michael blinked in amazement as he knew things would get stranger but fun around the club as of now.

(In Kuoh Town)

Sitting in the park by himself Kai was starting to think about the conversation he just had with Michael. Usually the thoughts of the boy getting stronger would get him excited but strangely the topic of the conversation got him grasped into something other than fighting. Maybe it was just talking with the boy who got him to be so interested or maybe it was because…

'It was interesting to see Michael-san's progression but he still has a long way to go.' Kai scratched his head and smiled, 'But for him to pass the first stage of his training so fast in under one night is amazing maybe this rival of his is a real good motivation for him to improve.'

Suddenly the word 'Aniki' popped up into Kai's head,

'I certainly have a few words to ask that Sirzechs before the meeting he better have a good explanation or I'll show him the price of angering me.'

Kai thought in annoyance.

"Haiiiiih!" Kai sighed and scratched his head in frustration, "Thinking of this will only give me more work when I'm already doing one as it is. But I did promise Shura I would play with him when I'm not busy but that will only pile up more work for me in the end. Geez thinking this much is really starting to hurt."

"More work? What work you barely look to be doing work right now."

A female's voice caught Kai's attention as a shadow was cast behind him.

"Hmmm?" Kai turned behind to see a tall bespectacled woman with a voluptuous figure. She has tan skin with long brown hair tied into a bun with a headset as she wore a dress that was extremely low-cut and had a high slit on it which exposed a large portion of her breasts. She is Katerea Leviathan former leader of the Old Maou faction and current advisor to Serafall Leviathan.

"What are you doing here?" The woman asked with a judgmental stare.

"Oh hello, Katerea-chan." Kai smiled in a carefree kind of way and raised his hand.

"Hello? Is that all you have to say to me?" Katerea gave a half lidded stare.

"Um yes~!" Kai laughed and shrugged.

"Well then hello to you too, Kai-kun." Katerea strained the name, "Do you want to know what I was doing today Kai-kun?"

"No, not really, I'm kind of in my thoughts right now, so if you could-"

"Today,"

"And here we go." Kai sighed.

"I had to handle and set up meetings for the 2 Maous and their sisters when I'm only supposed to help Serafall with hers and you with Sirzechs but since you weren't there I had to do your job alone while babysitting your son who keeps on asking when you will come to play with him because he said and I quote 'Papa promised he would play me and Papa never lies.' So yeah that's been my entire day." Katerea then looked at Kai in annoyance as the man was rubbing his chin in thought,

"Are you even listening?"

"Hmm-Huh? Oh, yes, of course I am." Kai nodded.

"Don't lie! You're not listening at all!" Katerea crossed her arms under her chest, "You've been absent-minded the whole time!"

"…" Kai kept quiet as he was slowly breaking out of thought.

"Look! You have a position and responsibility now! You can't just walk off and do what you want without telling anyone anything especially if you're socializing with a servant who doesn't belong to your family." Katerea scolded Kai like a child, "And speaking of family, you barely see them at all, especially Shura who's always asking about where you are! Serafall can't fill in your spot as parent forever she has duties and so do you."

Kai suddenly gave her a serious expression and said, "I know that, but I still have lots of work to do, so I don't have time to do all of that and besides I'm a devil and I can do whatever I want! We're allowed to be selfish beings."

PUUUULLLLLLLLL!

Katerea looked annoyed then grabbed Kai by the cheeks.

"That doesn't mean that we have to be irrational about our duties as advisers. It was you who suggested this for you, me and Zethyr and you have to take responsibility for it by living up to your word." Katerea was annoyed that such a selfish man like this was able to convince her and the other person to join up with him as advisers to the 3 Maous. She too is of the Ultimate-Class such as Kai, but still physically weaker than him.

"Nah!" Kai meant to say no but his stretched face messed with his words.

"You have to live up to your responsibilities, no matter what the cost, and if you don't then it will reflect poorly on the rest of us!"

"Scrwew iwt! Nowt my prwobwen"

"What!?" Katerea continued pull Kai's cheeks even more, and then she started to calm down and release his cheeks, "Why should I even bother with you it's impossible to get through that thick skull of yours."

Kai rubbed his cheeks in pain and winced with a childish/angered face, "Ouch! That wasn't very nice."

"Now tell me what your supposed 'work' was right now."

"If you must know I've been sensing faint traces of power gathering around this area preferably around Kuoh Academy and they aren't any allies of ours."

"You have then why not dispose of them yourself before they cause trouble." Katerea knew Kai was always happy when there would be battle so she was confused why the man didn't take the chance to do it.

"Because each time I would get a faint trace it would vanish before I can get to them." Kai explained, "They must be using some kind of ability to do this because with my Senjutsu I can sense and find any person from within this area."

"They're able to conceal their presence that much, to where even you a master of Senjutsu and can't find them?" Katerea rubbed her chin.

"Nope." Kai shook his head.

"This is really troublesome if this is some kind of attack from a certain faction then the Fallen Angels and Angels may get the misconception." Katerea rubbed her chin, "We know it couldn't be from 'them' because they are still hiding somewhere within the underworld. So whoever it is must be planning something to gain something but what?"

"Such a group of dangerous powers gathering like that isn't it easy to know what they're after is pure chaos?"

Turning around to see an approaching Zethyr come out from the shadow of a tree wearing a serious expression as normal, Zethyr like Kai and Katerea was an advisor but to Ajuka Beelzebub another Maou of the Underworld. Zethyr is named Zethyr Lucifer a Full Pure-Blooded Devil who is a descendant of the former Lucifer. He defected from the Old Maou Faction due to reasons unknown (right now) and works with allies he used to name as enemies.

"Z-Zethyr-san?" Katerea stuttered.

"Shishishishi! Look who came and in a scary way too how long have you been there?" Kai asked.

"I don't have time to play with you Son Kai all I came for is because you called me here and I wanted to get it over with before I'm detected by 'him'." Zethyr crossed his arms.

"By who?" Kai asked.

"That would be none of your business." Zethyr said as his expression grew to that of annoyance.

"Really, because to me Michael-san was really trying his best to beat his Rival the White Dragon Emperor. Say Zethyr-san, do you know of a boy named Va-?"

*SHIIIING!*

Creating a long claymore with a golden/black blade and gold/black hilt with a white hand guard out of a black/gold magic circle in thin air, Zethyr points the blade directly at Kai's neck.

"Do not ever utter that piece of trash's name to me or I will kill you." Zethyr said with a cold voice.

"Okay, okay, I'll stop, but do you truly believe you can get away with saying something as cliché as that?" Kai stood up and summoned his staff.

"Not again…" Katerea rubbed her forehead.

"I will make your head roll." Zethyr threatened as he readied himself to cut off Kai's head.

"No thanks, I like my head between my shoulders but thanks for the offer though." Kai smirked excitedly as he grew ready to knock the wind out of Zethyr, "So what's the score now, hm? Is it 659 to 659, or 876 to 876 between us? Either way, we're still tied, so let's break it, okay?"

"Fine by me, I'd rather permanently break it by ensuring you die." Zethyr showed a small smirk of excitement

"W-Wait, you two, what are you about to do?" Katerea groaned.

"We'll resume our talk later, Kate-chan! Make sure to help me with my duties while I handle this thanks!" Kai raised his hand.

"Wait, no, you can't just-!" Katerea tried to retort.

"Don't talk like you have the battle already in your hands right now." Zethyr said with half lidded eyes.

"So let's start round 876 or was it-? Nah forget it! Let's just get to it!" Kai chuckled as he snapped his fingers and sent both he and Zethyr into a personal area in some other space to fight without causing damage to the real world.

"Those two never seem to act right when there's something serious about to happen, and since they'll be fighting, it will be hard to estimate when they'll be done." Katerea shook her and rubbed her temples, "But if worse comes to show, the threats that may appear will have to deal with the Factions and their guards protecting their leaders during the Summit."

"Excuse me, miss."

Walking past Katerea was a handsome man about 17 years of age with blonde platinum hair, he has brown eyes and he is about 5 foot 11 in height and has a muscular body. He has one scars placed upon his cheeks, he wears a long green leather coat opened to show a blue stripped dress shirt underneath, black jeans, black boots with green accents and blue laces. He keeps around his neck a silver necklace with a sword crest on it.

"Sorry." Katerea apologized then went back to thinking on her own until…

*STARE!*

The image of two silver draconic eyes were behind her causing her to react and whip her head around to catch sight of the stranger who passed only to find that he was already gone.

"What was that just now?" Katerea said to herself, finding it hard to sense the presence of the man, she would search out for him but realized she doesn't have time to worry about such things because right now she has to now set up a meeting for the Gremory Family's Knight about his Balance Breaker.

Disappearing from sight with a Magic circle Katerea left the area only to be spied on by the man who passed her leaning behind a nearby tree as a 4 foot 11 female figure dressed in a black hooded coat swung her feet on the branch, playfully.

"So what do you think of her, a descendant of a Maou sure is strong, right?" The hooded figure had a childish voice and giggled.

"She's only strong in terms of magic ability, I need a real challenge which involves both Strength and Magic. Anything less than that is useless to me." The man wasn't interested in the slightest.

"Wowie~! You're so hard to please at times, ya know?" The girl giggled.

"I'm not so hard to understand, and besides..." The man place a hand to his chest, "The both of 'us' believe that a battle with a strong opponent who's missing a vital area of strength is lackluster at best."

"Geez! You're such a weirdo, talking to yourself like a friend like that." The female figure jumped off the branch and landed on the ground and did a cute pose which didn't help considering the black coat covered her face, "But I guess that's normal considering that you're not necessarily normal at all."

"Your one to talk, you're not so normal yourself." The man coughed.

"Well, duh! What part of me is normal to you?" The figure laughed madly as she removed her hood and showed the man.

"Nothing." The man answered bluntly as he looked the figure in the face.

"Hahahahahaha! I know, right? I'm pretty fucked up on both my face and in my head, right!?" The female laughed before putting on her hood.

"…" The man kept a stoic expression.

*SHIINE!*

Suddenly Magic Circles with Dragon markings appeared underneath the two as one was green while the other was…red?

"It seems that we're being called back." The figure laughed.

"Yeah, let's go they're probably finished talking with those stray magicians." The man stood up.

"Righteo~!" The figure hopped and gave a thumbs up, "Things are starting to get exciting, so you can count on me~!"

The man just looked at the figure in disinterest and sighed, "Just don't get in my way, or you're dead."

The man teleported through the magic circle.

"Aw! Hehehehe! I can tell by his voice that he hates me, well I'm not just going to reject that hate because spoiler alert! I hate him, too. Hahahahahaha!" The figure laughed as she began to disappear, "But he's not the biggest person that I hate because that's reserved for the biggest Black Winged Bitch in existence, Azazel, so I hope he's ready to die~!"

The figure's body emitted an enormous surge of scarlet dragon aura before…

*ZOOM!*

...they disappeared without a trace.