Finally Getting Some Meat~

⪼ In Training Ground⪻

Rias, with her peerage, was doing some light exercises.

"Rias-sama… where do you learn these… unique movements?" said her graceful maid Grayfia, who was 'supposed' to help her with her control in magic, but Rias has been loitering around doing 'eccentric' exercises.

Rias, on the ground, glanced at Grayfia and responded "These are called 'Planks,' which are supposed to help your core body."

"But Rias-sama, I can see that these… planks are doing nothing to your body. If you use magic to hover in the air with your feet on the ground might be helpful… but this?" Grayfia questioned the strangeness of the situation.

Rias acted like she heard nothing. She noticed it did nothing to her devil body, but she wanted to try it after looking at it many times during her visions; she called now. It's undoubtedly not that she has a tiny, massive crush on Tenshi and wants to imitate him.

Abruptly, Rias felt her body stiffen. Then darkness overwhelmed her as she went unconscious.

Grayfia, who was helping Kiba, suddenly heard Akeno, Rias's Queen, scream "RIAS!"

Turning to the side, Grayfia saw Rias trashing on the ground with her eyes rolled back. It looked like she was having a seizure.

Grayfia rushed towards Rias. Placing her hands on Rias, Grayfia started scanning hurriedly with her magic for any abnormalities.

Suddenly her hands started burning; from her nails to fingertips, they slowly began to crumble.

"Move!"

Grayfia gets pushed away as destructive demonic magic starts gushing from Rais. Disintegrating her clothes and ground while floating above the floor.

Venelana teleported and moved Grayfia away for her safety after noticing massive POD (Power of Destruction) in their training area.

Power of Destruction, or POD for short, is a unique ability from the Bael clan. It has the power to almost disintegrate anything with enough power.

Sirzechs Lucifer, the brother of Rias, is renowned for his usage of POD. He grasped it to the extent of being able to erase anything in its trajectory.

Venelana, with her own POD, resisted Rias's POD, but it wasn't enough. It was known in the Gremory family that Rias was born with enormous demonic magic and POD over her brother Sirzechs when he was born.

It was the reason Rias hated training, as she felt no matter how many times she trained, the control of her magic was progressing very slowly. And another reason is that her dominant sin is Sloth. And second, being wrath.

All devils are born with at least one sin -Envy, Lust, Sloth, Wrath, Pride, Greed, and Gluttony. These sins can influence any devil's personality. A sin can help a person or make them sabotage themselves.

Each devil can have different 'effects,' even if they share the same sin.

For example -Lust.

One person can lust after a woman's body, while another feels lust for power, money… so on.

"Let me help" said Sirzechs, who arrived hurriedly after Grayfia notified him of the situation.

Sirzechs, with his POD, which he perfectly mastered, started to decrease Rias's POD with his own. However, what he is doing does or will harm Rias. It can injure her body or magical capabilities, but she might disintegrate herself if she continually releases POD without stopping.

After a while, Rias returned to normal and slept comfortably in her mother's embrace, strangely with tears in her eyes.

"Will this be a problem?" Zeoticus questioned. While he cared for his family, he cared more about Rias's engagement with Riser Phenex.

All Venelana, hearing him, wanted to rip Zeoticus to shreds, but fortunately for Zeoticus, Venelana was holding Rias in her embrace, so she didn't want to disturb Rias.

"It may be cruel, but father is right… we need to deal with the issue, or these kinds of incidents will occur more… and severely hurt someone or even herself." Sirzechs said as he looked at Rias worriedly. It was known in the underworld that Sirzechs is a heavy bro-con, so it is clear as day that Sirzechs is the one suffering the most.

Abruptly Rias opened her eyes, hugged her mother, and started howling "NEED TO SAVE HIM" again and again.

Sirzechs, observing this, cast sleep magic to make Rais settle down and sleep.

"I will call Ajuka… this is a serious problem. It can alter her psych, and it can also be connected to that boy" Sirzechs said while staring at Zeoticus, his father and the Head of House Gremory, for permission.

Rias's peerage was also troubled about Rias. Especially Akeno, who was very close to Rias, is concerned with slight tears in her eyes.

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⪼ Back to Tenshi⪻

As the despair and fear overwhelmed him, he heard a loud *thump* a footstep.

"ROOOAAARRR!!!"

A thundering roar sounded through the area, causing both Tenshi and the worm-like creature's bodies to stiffen.

Tenshi looked up and saw a gigantic creature with the head of a lion with demon-like horns, a leopard-like body, dragon-like wings, and a scorpion tail. It looked like a manticore, which is the size of a building.

Tenshi suddenly went to his knees, and the worm-like creature in front unknowingly turned into a flat paste.

The manticore creature glanced toward Tenshi. And Tenshi, kneeling on the ground with his head face down, was oblivious to this.

*sniff* *sniff* The manticore creature moved near and sniffed him, causing Tenshi to shiver uncontrollably.

"%*&^%$#" came a terrorizing sound from the manticore's mouth. It said something Tensho wasn't able to understand.

The manticore raised its sharp finger size and deliberately made a large slash on Tenshi's chest.

Tenshi whimpered but kept his mouth shut, afraid of provoking the gigantic beast in front of him.

Suddenly, the pressure Tenshi was feeling was gone, and the manticore disappeared, leaving only traces of its large footprints to tell of its presence.

Tenshi looked at his chest, which had a large black slash mark. Then, deciding to leave, he dragged off the knocked-out imp, which was still alive, back to his cave.

Arriving back at the camp, he was warmly embraced by the worried Liya, who had been waiting for him since morning.

"There there ouch…" Tenshi struggled to calm the overly excited Liya, who jumped on him and started licking his face.

Suddenly Liya smelled something, leading her to look at his chest, which was still bleeding.

"Yeah… I got hurt on the way" Tenshi lied while cuddling Liya.

Liya, in return, suddenly lit up, engulfing Tenshi in blue light.

Tensho felt all his exhaustion and pain go away. Then, staring at Liya, he replied "You can heal?"

Liya didn't hear and was still glaring at the unhealed chest, beginning her to release another session of blue light.

No matter how many times Liya 'healed' Tenshi, the injury didn't disappear, causing anger and frustration.

"Ahhhh" Liya yawned as she felt tired of using her power too much.

Tenshi rubbed her forehead and said "It's alright. It doesn't hurt much, and come; I brought food."

Tenshi then pointed out the Imp he dragged inside. Liya studied closely at the tiny red creature, which was smaller than her.

"Grrr…" Liya then growled, revealing she didn't like it much.

Tenshi was busy setting up a campfire near the entrance where there was no water.

After roasting the Imp, Tenshi said "First time eating meat in a very long time… Cheers~"

Liya gave her own victory roar to celebrate Tenshi's success in bringing food.

*Nom* Liya started feasting on her meal while making adorable faces.

Tenshi looked at Liya warmly and smiled, deciding he had waited enough, so he took a bite of the wide chuck of roasted Imp meat.

'Humm… it taste-' suddenly, he felt a pain in his chest.

Liya paused eating and looked at Tenshi, hearing him drop the meat.

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"Grr…" Tenshi, who went unconscious, woke up rubbing his chest in pain.

"Damn, one after another… why is this happening to me?" Tenshi questioned out loud, getting frustrated at his situation where feeling déjà vu is a common occurrence.

"Says a boy who has eaten the flesh of a demon without care" spoke a majestic being in the air with its massive white wings almost covering Tenshi's entire field of view.

"Samael?" questioned Tenshi, feeling familiar with the being's voice. Though weirdly, he didn't get scared in front of this colossal being.

"Haha… Did you fuck Luck or a bastard from her? I can't say I met no one as lucky or unlucky as you in my entire life… hahaha" laughed Samael with his majestic voice.

Tenshi sighed at his misfortune. He couldn't say anything, as he felt what Samael said was correct —a plane crash into Hell, encountering demons and surviving with only losing my arm, facing a massive beast that can flatten the entire area with a wave of its palm. Those are pretty unfortunate events for him.

"Yes… You have impressed me… or at least entertained me enough to answer some questions… So I will merely answer the question I like" Samael said while chuckling, thinking about Tenshi.

Tenshi slumped, thinking he could get some answers he wanted, but still satisfied knowing he would at least get some answers from Samael.

"What is happening to me?" Tenshi asked.

"Smart of you to ask such a vague question expecting me to tell you everything… but still dumb enough to be obscure… I will say your body is rejecting demon blood coursing through your veins" Samael responded.

Tenshi clicked his tongue, thinking he had tricked Samael.

I mean, what can you expect from a 16-year-old kid?

"So am I turning into a demon? And can you tell me what race I am?" Tenshi asked.

"No, you are not turning into a filthy demon. On the contrary, you are gradually turning into something beyond… I will explain no further" Samael said as he withheld explaining further about the race.

Many theories came to Tenshi's mind. Finally, opening his mouth, he said, "I believe my father is not special enough… and you answered I am 'turning' into a special race… So does that mean it is related to you?"

Samael simply nodded and said anything.

Tenshi, understanding the situation, asked his next question

"Who or what was that beast, and why did it leave me alive?"

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