71 NGJ Chapter 71: Audience Side
---[ 3rd Person PoV | Vieving Booth ]---
Serafall hadn't really expected things to go in this direction. She had lived for hundreds of years yet she has yet to see a Rating Game as abnormal as this.
She had expected Rias to challenge Riser to Rating Game, she knew Rias well after all as a friend of her dear sister. Though she hadn't expected the Magician her sister liked, or should she say sorcerer? To join Rias in this battle and as a human nonetheless. Even though she did not know much about him he looked very interesting from what little they interacted.
After all a human being able to wield powers that operate similarly to Senjutsu and Youjutsu is unheard of. And a necromancer of his calibre even more so.
What she had expected even less was the Governor of Fallen Angels himself inviting himself into watching this Rating Game. Thankfully the relationship between Fallen Angels and Devils was quite fine recently so it wasn't anything big but...
"Why the hell are you here Azazel?" Serafall did not trust him a single bit. Azazel always went and did as he pleased. Unfortunately as the Satan of Foreign Affairs, it was her job to deal with him. And dealing with Azazel is never easy.
As expected nearly all the viewing parties were incredibly shocked at Azazel coming here. Especially the Lords and Ladies of the Clans. They did not understand simply why Azazel himself of all people had come to view the Rating Game between their children.
Of course, they would be confused, they weren't even the highest ranked Clans like Bael, from their perspectives this was simply a children's quarrel due to Rias being childish and refusing to marry Riser.
Something told Serafall however that this was linked to Akira. Hearing her accusing tone Azazel shrugged.
"What? I can't come to watch my friend? I really wanted to see Akira's battle for myself. After all, even I haven't seen him fight yet." Serafall narrowed her eyes.
Hearing his reasoning everyone present had different reactions.
Serafall fell deep in thought at this answer. She knew Azazel tended to befriend those he was interested in as his little projects but this seemed more than that. And he even implied that he himself did not know the full extent of Akira's powers.
Really, Akira was getting more and more interesting by the day.
On the other side, the Phenex family consisting of Lady and Lord Phenex were confused. They themselves did not really consider Akira a factor here yet the Governor of Fallen Angels himself had come to watch him?
Zeoticus was nervous about this human mage that had made a friend of the governor of the fallen angels being involved while Venelana was more curious.
'So that is the boy Rias likes so much. He certainly looks handsome. I really wonder if he can truly pull it off.' She already was favouring the boy for going so far out of the way to help his daughter to the extent of facing a Phenex. 'How romantic.'
On the other corner, Grayfia was internally panicking. But thanks to her stoic expression no one noticed.
'If he truly has made friends with the Fallen Angels Governor then disposing of him will be far more troublesome.' She could only hope that Akira would barely win against Riser and not draw any more attention to himself so that she could finally end him for making her endure such humiliation.
Sirzechs himself greeted Azazel too and invited him to join in on the booth to watch Akira. He did not particularly think too much about their friendship, Akira being friends with Azazel while being under Rias meant that Rias would also have a relation to Azazel which was good in his books.
And so everyone started watching the fight.
...
Serafall was getting equally pissed off, disappointed and worried.
She was at first quite surprised at how well the human magician was handling the Phenex. But in 10 seconds that surprise turned to slight disappointment. If anything she may have expected too much for a human mage against a Phenex.
And then she was pissed off, not only did she already dislike a scummy playboy like Riser but this bastard was taking it too far. She saw that he was planning to at least ruin the Mage that her sister liked and even she herself was partial toward, it was hard to find such a charming and handsome young man that actually played along with her. Even she couldn't help but wince as Akira's arm was seared off.
After that, she was worried, if Akira was brutalized beyond repair here how would Azazel react? He clearly had expectations for him and if he were ruined here and Azazel took it personally the already uneasy peace between the Races could get worse. She couldn't help but crush the chair under her with her grip, she just wanted to go down and beat the Riser brat into the ground herself.
Her gaze shifted to the side to gauge Azazel's reaction but what she noticed was amusement. In contrast to the others in the room Venelana was nervously holding her fist to her mouth, Lord Gremory looked relieved which kind of pissed her off, Lord Phenex looked all too smug while Lady Phenex looked unimpressed.
Though she did see Sirzechs expression tighten while Grayfia looked p i s s s e d. Though she could understand, after that was the chance of basically her sister getting out of her arranged marriage with Riser. Even so, she could not refrain from asking Azazel.
"Aza-" He cut her off.
"Don't worry about little Kira. Just keep watching." Not understanding his sheer confidence she kept watching and she soon understood why.
Akira stepped out of the rubble, unharmed, wearing new clothes that made him look handsomely buff. With murder in his eyes and wielding a chain that extended from shadow alongside his pseudo-sacred gear like Shortsword.
And he clearly knew how to handle that chain because the way he handled that sent shivers even up her spine when he held that expression. And her suspicion was proven right as Akira whipped with that chain fast enough to pass through like Riser like butter.
"Oh my, what ferocity." She could see Lady Gremory's eyes widen and get a smile on her face. She was the same, she could not help but root for Akira here as the handsome underdog. But she still could not wrap her around how he had healed so fast. Apparently, the rest too as she could see Lord Phenex looking like he was sucking on a lemon. While Grayfia's eyes were widened.
...
Serafall had never seen a rating game this entertaining nor a beating this satisfying before.
She also could not help but revel in the shocked gazes of everyone after Akira had stopped simply attacking Riser but instead moved onto manhandling him. She would bet that Riser would regret having regeneration at this point.
Lord Phenex looked outraged and probably wanted to object and maybe complain Akira was cheating but his protest died in his throat when he was shot a glare from both Lady Venelana and Grayfia. By now Sirzechs expression lightened while Grayfia looked steeled.
But Luciferdamm, did Akira look hot as sweat glistened down his muscular frame and his tight black shirt as he swung those chains like an expert playing an instrument while he held a smile without exertion, it did not help that he had the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen.
Boy, Sona really did know how to pick them.
...
"What the!?"
"!"
"What...?"
"How!?"
"Ahahahah! AHAHAHAH!!!"
Serafall's eyes went so wide they looked like they might pop out of their sockets. And she was fairly certain that sentiment was shared across the others.
She was rather confused and honestly baffled when Akira stopped playing whack-a-mole with Riser as the whacker and just... let Riser beat himself up. It was rather gratifying for her that even Azazel was confused.
Her heart beat hard as she watched Akira get wailed on for a good minute at least without any retaliation before he did something that surprised every single person in the room. Even the ones that knew of his peculiarities.
His punch that hit Riser, shook space itself. That punch itself was strong enough to hurt even the strongest of the high-class devils. As shown when the punch POPPED Riser's head like a grape and sent him crashing through the entire building.
As if that wasn't enough he near instantly teleported without a magic circle behind the flying Riser and his hit flashed red-black once more and space distorted as Akira demolished Riser again with his "Black Flash." as he called it.
And he did it again. And again. She knew that each of those would have killed Riser if he wasn't a Phenex. By the end of the onslaught, Akira was standing over a broken Riser. Yet again what he did next shocked Serfall to her core.
"No way!" She couldn't help but exclaim as a smile tugged on her lips. Was this really happening?
Akira had really given Riser a Phenex tear. She had never seen something this disrespectful yet this fucking cool in a rating game before. Your opponent just saying I am not done with you and fully healing you.
Maybe Sona wouldn't mind sharing?
Before absolutely demolishing you once more. She would call the 3rd round even worse than the previous ones. Akira managed to parry and counter just about everything Riser threw at him. She could see that Riser was s c a r e d. Even restored to full condition he was still getting manhandled. She wouldn't be surprised if Riser pissed his pants halfway through the 3rd round.
Thankfully for Riser Akira did not throw out any more black flashes or she was scared that Riser would actually piss his pants and Akira would even collapse the subdimension.
She had to remind herself that Akira was in fact a Necromancer. He was a magician, a Necromancer that relies on its undead. Was demolishing a Phenex in a fistfight.
She saw how hard he was beating his ass. The Phenex family looked Aploleptic but they couldn't complain when the Judge hadn't declared foul game. And by the end of it Riser was kneeling on the floor, his face pressed up against the ground by Akira's foot while his body shook like a beaten dog.
By the end, Riser basically begged to forfeit.
Serafall couldn't help but smile along with Lady Gremory and Sirzechs as Grayfia the judge declared.
"Riser Phenex-sama has forfeited."
"Rias Gremory-sama has won this game."
A/N: And so the Season 1 is basically over. What did you guys think about this chapter? Do you like how I handled the reactions? I would love to hear your thoughts about it.
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