It's finally time: The Idiot Red Dragon vs. The Yakitori Phoenix! The Battle to decide Rias' Gremory's fate begins!

Still on the School Building, everyone marveled at the immense amount of aura Michael was giving off as Riser looked upon the teen in frustration, even he was intimidated by the large amount of pressure given off.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Michael roared as the roof was visibly collapsing under the strain of the large amount of energy he was releasing.

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

"What's going on here?" Flying towards the commotion, Ravel Phoenix catches sight of the huge burst of aura before stopping herself,

"N-No way is that the [Pawn] doing this?"

From within the aura, Michael slowly gains an armor like form which resembles the motif of a dragon.

"This is it!" Michael roared as he raised his arm and swung it to the side thus stopping the great flow of dragon aura from releasing itself as it allowed everyone to see his new form, it was a Red Plate Dragon like armor with the Boosted Gear's Gauntlet now on both hands and it's green jewels were placed upon its shoulder's, chest, knees and arms as jet boosters were in place behind his back. Michael's face was revealed as he puts down his mask and visor.

"Prepare yourself, Riser. For this is the Boosted Gear's: Scale Male!" Michael struck a pose showing off the designs of the Armor.

"I-Incredible." Rias' eyes widened.

[You only can use this form for 15 minutes after that you will surely meet your utmost limit in this fight.]

'I know, but that's all the time I need.' Michael grinned, 'So let's do this Ddraig.'

[Right, Partner!]

Riser who looked upon the armor simply smirked arrogantly, "So this is the power you referred to earlier, but do you truly think such a thing as this can beat me Lord Riser?"

"I don't just think I can, I know I can." Michael smirked then said, "So are you done blabbing so we can actually start?"

"You, low-classed insect!" Riser was infuriated by the way Michael spoke to him, "I am Lord Riser, a Phoenix Nobleman of my family do not think that you have the slightest chance of defeating me!"

Michael looked at Riser in annoyance as his talking was wasting his time in general, not even the countdown itself was its main factor anymor.

*FWOOOSH!*

Riser begins to create a massive gout of flames from his right arm.

"Now perish you shitty pa-!"

"Oh, for the love of Maou will you just shut up!" Michael growled in annoyance as he cocked back his fist.

[Jet!]

*BAM!*

*SNAP!*

In a single motion the back of Michael's armor suddenly propels him at right using the jets on its back. As he throws a single punch at Riser's arm and instantly breaks it in one blow as the flames Riser collected were now gone due to Michael's interference.

"Aaaaargh!" Riser grabs his broken arm in pain as his flames start to cover it by regenerating it back to its original state.

But that wasn't the end, Michael quickly grabs Riser by the shoulder and cocks back his fist.

"Give me power!" Michael roared, 'First I have to power up my Touki if I wanna make the bastard squirm!'

[Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost!]

An intense white aura starts to surround Michael's fist as he roars,

"Here, comes the Great Hanamura's Right Hoooook!"

*BAM!*

*THUD!*

*CRASH!*

Michael dug his punch into Riser's face so hard that the man's body was flipped over and went crashing against the roof with great force that created a small crater where he landed.

"Gough!" Riser coughs up a small amount of blood at the punch but quickly steadies himself to land on both his feet as his flames then began to heal the injures Michael gave to him, "That h-hurt?"

Riser then picks himself up and shouts, "You! You how dare you, a Low-Class even land a hit on me that hurts this fucking badly!" Riser growled as a vein was easily seen popping up from the side of his forehead, despite his regenerative flames Riser could still feel the sharp blow Michael landed onto him.

'Buchou was right even with his flames healing him, he'll just be healed physically not mentally. If I focus on beating his ass a little more than I can get him to surrender or submit to my attacks.' Michael looks over to Riser then bit his lower lip, 'But still I want to break this guy by showing that he's not all that with just his talent!'

Michael simply watched Riser with a fierce glare and said, "If you have time to talk, then try to fight instead of getting cocky you bastard."

"!"

Once Riser's arm and injuries are fixed, the man glares at Michael with pure anger, "You! How dare you do something like this to me!" Flames start to surround Riser's body as it intensifies to the point to where it was unsafe for anyone to stay on the school building.

*FWOOOOOOOOOOOSH!*

"Finally." Michael quickly uses the jets of his Armor to avoid the flames which engulfed the entire roof.

"Michael-san!" Asia called out from his side as she and Rias were still nearby.

Michael looks over to Rias and Asia and shouted, "Quick, Buchou, Asia! Get to a safe distance. I'll take care of this guy once and for all!" Michael points to himself with his now clawed gauntlet's thumb.

"Right." Rias hesitantly nodded at this as she saw Michael's serious face to her gave her the sense that she can actually leave this up to him alone. As Rias turns to fly off, she looked back to Michael and said,

"Michael make sure to show him what happens when he messes with the Occult Research club!"

Michael looks back at Rias with a grin and said, "Hai! Buchou!"

On his command, Michael's mask and visor equipped itself on as he looks down at the large amount of spiraling flames on the roof.

Taking their chance to get to a safe distance away, Rias flew herself and Asia a few meters away from the battle and lands on the ground to watch.

Still awaiting Riser's chance to attack Michael readies himself as he focuses his Touki to surround his body for extra protection.

'The armor of the Scale Mail may block out some of his attacks, but Ddraig warned me before that the flames of the Phoenix can even scratch the scales of a Dragon depending by the force the flames are being shot at!' Michael thought then saw Riser finally make his move.

"Huuuuraaaaaa!" Riser covers his entire body with his brilliant flames and Propels himself at Michael with impressive speed, "You brat prepare to turn to ashes!"

"Then try it!" Michael shouts as he surrounds himself with a large amount of red aura and propels himself back at Riser.

[Jet!]

"Huuuuuoooo!" Michael and Riser shouted as their charge towards one another lead to a huge...

*CRAASH!*

*BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!* *BAM!*

*DOON!*

The two large masses of red aura and flames clashed as they flew higher up into the sky and shot themselves into the ground as their hand to hand brawl commenced with both opponents clashing their fists with each blow as they tried to size the other one up.

"You seem to have gotten some moves, but that won't help you now!" Riser then imbued his fist with flames and shot it across the mask of Michael's mask and his face.

*BAM!*

"Goooough!" Michael coughed out a large amount of blood as half of his mask was cracked, 'Damn even with the armor on his punches still hurt as hell!'

Suddenly the cracks were getting fixed by Ddraig.

[I'll handle all damage given to the armor. Focus on fighting, Partner!]

'Right!' Michael nodded then observed Riser getting ready to use a more dangerous move as a large mass of flames engulfed his arms.

"Now burn you shitty low class trash!" Riser roared as he began his attack but was unaware of his raised arm being an opening.

Looking up, Michael chuckled and roared, "Your wide open!"

"Hah!" Michael placed his hand upon Riser's chest and gathered enough demonic energy to shoot back the arrogant man into the air with a medium sized magic bullet.

*DON!*

"Tch!" Riser grunts as he shrugs off the bullet with a little annoyance as the attack actually stung him a little, "Damn You!"

Raising his arm up while supporting it with his other hand, Michael started focusing the dragon power into his raised arm to attack Riser.

[Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost!]

'Come on react!' Michael begged as his power slowly grew gradually.

"Hm? You believe that power input is better than mine, we'll just see about thaaaat!" Riser fired a large mass of flames towards Michael who simply smirked,

"You activated my trap card, you bastard!" Michael roared, "Dragon Wave!"

*DOOOON!*

*CRAAASH!*

As his hand released a red wide wave of dragon power which collided with Riser's attack which caused smoke to rise up from the explosion.

*SNAP!*

"Augh!" Michael gripped his right arm in pain as he just felt a few of his bones crack under the pressure.

'Dammit not now... I can't keel after just this much!' Michael moaned out.

[Partner, the dragon power is still too much for you to use!]

"I know, but I still have to use it if I wanna beat this guy!" Michael then readied his boosters as he flew into the large smoke cloud as the call resounded,

[Jet!]

Seeing Riser up ahead Michael focused his sights and continued flying after the man.

"You bastard!" Riser shouts as he fires a huge ball of flames at Michael who quickly jets himself to the right avoiding the attack and hiding himself in the smoke.

Riser then panics and looks for the hiding boy, "Damn it, where did you go!?"

[Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost!]

Riser then heard the Sacred Gear's call and waited for Michael to come out to attack but he was then met with a strange red light coming his way, he smirked and said,

"So an all out frontal attack is what your doing, but I won't let you get any close to me before turning you to ash you little-! Wait is that even the brat?" Riser then notices the red light was growing more closer and more intense by the second but then he soon realized it wasn't Michael but a,

"Dragon Shot!"

"A beam!?" Riser gasps as he narrowly escapes the range of the attack.

But suddenly overhead of Riser was a fast approaching Michael with both his hands locked his head as he roared, "Geronimo!"

[Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost!]

Both of Michael's arms were covered with a thick red aura as he slammed them down on top of Riser's head!

"Holy Shi-Guaaaagh!"

*BAAAAM!*

*BANG!*

Riser received a strong blow to the head and crashes into the ground below with great impact to where his body created a large crater.

As the smoke clears, Michael was seen panting in the air while his two arms twitched in pain.

"Kch! Come on, body... Just hang in there for just a little bit." Michael winces in pain, he used too much dragon energy to charge the damage output for his attack.

[Partner, you must remember using too many boosts in your current state can kill you. Boosting for that distraction and surprise attack continually unleashed all of my power within your body. Continuing will it will only serve to cripple you if you can't focus the right amount needed to fight with.]

"Yeah, I know, but because of it I can stand toe to toe and fight this douche!" Michael grunted as he remembered the distant memory of him training with Kai as the man almost killed him by firing a huge sphere of demonic power at him.

The enormous pressure which headed his way was staggering and as soon as he caught the attack head on he was almost engulfed by the attack.

DEATH.

That was all he could think of at that very moment, everything was going black as his body was steadily burning away from the intense energy. The blood he shed evaporating and his skin cells quite literally being seared off his body. It truly was a pain that he couldn't suffer to endure.

The stray notion of simply giving in soon became comforting.

Until, the thought of Rias came to the forefront of his mind. Was he really going to leave her to face Riser alone without even being there to repay her?

Not just her but Asia and Raynare too, he worked so hard to get them into his life, and he'd been given a second chance to properly the Bishop. Was he really going to let them suffer the way he had.

Saji, Akeno, Koneko, Kiba, Motohama, Matsuda, Irina and even...Him. His friends, the thought of just suddenly leaving with so much regret it wasn't worth it. Just the thought of it all unbelievably hurt him.

Experiencing so much pain from so regret it hurt way worse than DEATH itself!

And that was moment, he snapped, that was the catalyst that had to be set off within him to finally understand and grasp what was finally in front of him. As one punch from his punch was enough to shatter the encompassing sphere of destruction.

Seeing the sphere disperse, Kai had observed the Low-Class Devil with a mildly amused expression. What once was a mere devil shakily standing up against his barely serious attack was replaced with a striking red dragon armored young man as his eye glared through the shining green eyes of the mask just before the form dispersed as Michael fell back in the little crater, pushed to his absolute limit.

To be forced to literal brink and face all that at once was maddening, but then again after pulling himself out of it. He considered the trauma to be more than worth it to reach the level and mindset that he needed to accomplish one thing...

"To fulfill Rias' dream to make it come true and repay her...I'll gladly push myself over the edge if I have to." Michael smirked as he just realized he said Rias' name without permission again but didn't care as the moment right now could decide Rias' fate itself!

Watching from afar both, Ravel and Yubelluna watched the fight with frightened expressions as they couldn't bring it upon themselves to get into the fight between a dragon and phoenix.

Landing down on the ground, Michael looked at Riser, who slowly picks himself up from the crater as he covers his face to laments on what was currently happening.

"Nonsense. I am Riser Phoenix, a devil blessed with immortality and a High-Class noble born within the higher echelon's of the Underworld's best while this simple boy was just a pathetic low class servant, who was barely anything as a human. How can such trash even put a scratch on me let alone touch me."

Riser then picks himself up and uncovers his face to see something rather shocking.

His blood... His pure devil blood which had been spilled by the hand of a lower class devil, the very same one, who dared to stand on the same stage as him.

Riser's regenerative powers might have healed his injuries, but not fully as he still felt that the blow landed upon him was a bit special than any ordinary hit he had received before. But the most infuriating thing about this current predicament was that Michael was looking down at the man with such dismissal in his eyes.

"Get up, we're not done yet. I know that wasn't your actual best, so why don't you stand up and actually fight me because your wasting my time!" Michael said with a dominant tone.

"You!" Riser lowly growls as his wings of fire flares out wildly behind him as he then shouts completely enraged with frustration, "Wasting your time? Stop kidding yourself just because you possess the power of the Welsh Dragon doesn't make you any better than me, Lord Riser!" Michael still kept giving Riser a lax stare through his posture as Riser then trembled and clenched his teeth.

"You think your better than me, well, you are not!" Riser ranted but still did not receive a response from Michael.

"I am a Pure Blooded Devil, Riser Phoenix, a superior to you a former Human! Everything that I am is superior to you in every way! It should be! But still a low ranked nobody like yourself is still damaging me even though my biology should top yours! How!? Just how are you able to do this you piece of shit!?"

"You really want to know?" Michael chuckled as Riser clenched his fist and increased the output of his flames.

Michael removes his mask and visor to give Riser a challenging smile, "Simple, I, a low ranked nobody, simply trained to reach you. And it only took me a whole week to do it too..."

"!" Riser gasps at this then screams, "Don't you...FUCK WITH MEEEE, SHITTY BRAAAT!"

*FWOOOOOOOOOSH!*

Riser launched himself at Michael with incredible speed that not even the [Pawn] was prepared for and landed a devastating punch to Michael's face.

"Uarrgh!" Michael coughs up a moderate amount of blood before Riser continues to attack Michael with a flurry of punches non-stop.

*BAM!*

*BAM!*

*BAM!*

*BAM!*

*BAM!*

*BAM!*

Each hit Michael received forced him to cough up a moderate amount of blood as he was helpless under Riser's continuous punches imbued with his flames.

"Your just a kid who knows nothing about the real world of Devils. This engagement between me and Rias doesn't concern the likes of you at all! This action is important to the entire devil world! The greater good it greatly outweighs the stubborn feelings of Rias' wants!" Riser shouted as he wouldn't give Michael a chance to recover.

Michael's hair covered his eyes as he took on the blows more sturdily than before as he stood his ground and continued to take them all on.

"Hah!" Riser then knees Michael's gut then locks both his hands over his head then brings it down to smash Michael into the ground, "Perish!"

"Aaaaaaaaugh!"

*THUD!*

"Michael!" Rias cried out as the teen slowly picked himself out of the rubble.

Seeing this, Riser flies high up in the air and starts to collect a massive amount of flames in over his head.

"A low class devil such as yourself deserves death for messing with me, a High-Class!" Riser yells out over the top of his lungs as the ball of flames grew bigger with each growing second. But Michael still picked himself and stood in place as he stared Riser down with a sharp glare and said,

"Buchou's feelings are outweighed by what others want?"

[Boost!]

"Are you kidding me?"

[Boost! Boost!]

Michael growled at Riser's words, "I guess I was right from the start your not the man Buchou deserves she deserves better than you..."

[Boost! Boost! Boost!]

Michael puts on his mask and visor while grinding his teeth, "Buchou deserves to be expressive with her feelings for the sake of herself not the sake of others!"

A sharp aura leaves Michael's body when he puts both his hands forward and shouted, "Riser that's it I'm going to beat you here and now not as the Red Dragon Emperor nor Michael Hanamura but as Rias Gremory's [Pawn]!"

"This is it you, brat I'm putting everything I have into this attack!" Riser roars as the giant ball of flames was humungous and was about the size of half the battlefield, "Let's see you get up after THIIIIIS!"

Riser waves his arms down at Michael and fires the massive ball of flames.

'Ddraig, I'm going to use all the power I have to end this so I need you to direct me at Riser once I do!'

[Right, Partner let's show then what the Sekiryu-! No, what Rias' Gremory's [Pawn], Michael Hanamura can do!]

"HELL YEAH!"

[JET!]

Michael propels his entire body towards the large mass of flames and thrusts his fist forward and roars, "Bring it on you stupid Yakitori!"

[Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost!]

Michael's constant boosting has caused the layering of power around his armor to increase exponentially.

'I have to take it on headfirst or the blast may reach the ground and hurt Buchou and Asia!'

Looking down upon the rushing Michael, Riser simply chuckles and crosses his arms, "Hahahahaha! How foolish to think you'd kill yourself by taking my attack head on maybe I've broken a screw in that empty head of yours to think properly!"

"Don't laugh yet you prick! I still have an ace up my sleeve!" Michael thrusts his fist forward and roars, "Now Magnum!"

[MAGNUM!]

All the aura which covered the armor now surrounds itself around Michael's arms as he gets with a few feet away from the fire ball.

"Now just a little more..." Michael concentrated on the boosted gear one more time.

[Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost! Boost!]

[JET!]

Michael used the last remaining boosts to increase the speed of his jets as his fist makes contact with the intense fire ball.

"Guarck!" Michael grunts in pain at the intensity of the flames as he could feel the intense heat penetrate his armor through his fist.

"Hahahahahahahahaha! Yes, die by the flames of the Phoenix Family you, stupid brat!" Riser laughed.

"Gck!" Michael grinded his teeth as he cocks back his other fist before punching the fireball with it.

*DON!*

"Shit it burns, but I won't stop here!" Then he fired his other fist towards the attack once more pushing the fireball back.

*DON!*

"Buchou has to win this!" Then again...

*DON!*

"For her dream to come true!" And again...

*DON!*

*DON!*

*DON!*

*DON!*

*DON!*

Michael's punches kept on going as they smashed into the large mass of flames rapidly with no rest, "Dragon Rapid Fire!"

"Ora! Ora! Ora! Ora! Ora! Ora! Ora! Ora!" Michael shouted as his punches were digging into Riser's attack slowly pushing it back to the man who watched in fright.

"I-Impossible, he's actually stopping it!?"

Riser's face grew pale at the sight below.

"S-Seriously? H-He's a monster! That's it, I have to end this now!"

Riser put his palm out forward, and tried to add on another blast of flames to completely crush Michael, but then felt somewhat exhausted as he tried to do so as the amount he fired was by a little amount doing little to stop Michael, who continued to push through and attack.

"The hell? My flames aren't coming out as much like before!" Riser gasped.

"What's happening?" Asia asked.

Hearing this from her position, Rias said, "Riser used up all of his stamina to create a massive ball of flames of that size, he can heal himself and use the power of fire and wind at any time of his disposal but his stamina isn't immortal like himself."

"A-Almost t..there!" Michael's fists grew numb through the intense heat and pain of the overuse of his dragon power but he still kept firing off his fists at the fire ball, finally after a few more minutes Michael was able to control the lengths to where he could push back the fire ball as he cocked his fist back once more and said, "RISER!"

"G-Get away!" Riser jumped at Michael's sudden call then answered.

"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Michael fires his punch at the fire ball one last time before it gets thrown back and hits Riser himself who was too slow to dodge.

"Uaaaaaargh!" Riser screamed in pain.

'It burns! It burns!' Michael thought in agony but pushed on nonetheless.

Michael cocked back his fist once more and propelled his whole body through the fireball as he aims directly fire Riser. But the intense flames were too much for him as his armor starts to slowly break off starting with his chest plate then his greaves, his gauntlets, and lastly his mask as Michael's unprotected body was now traveling through the scalding phoenix flames. With his armor off now Michael would have succumbed to the flames and died were it not for his last reserves of touki barely shielding him, he continued pushing forward until he could see the silhouette of the Yakitori ahead!

"Uuuoooooooooh!" Michael roared as he got closer to Riser.

"!" Looking into the ball of flames, Riser gasped as he could see the sight of a red western dragon behind the approaching Michael.

"Dragon Buster!"

*SMASH!*

Michael sees Riser up ahead and fires his red aura clad fist at the man's gut as he completely passed through the entire fire ball.

"DAMN YOUUUUU!" Riser cried as the punch forces the man to vomit out a terrifyingly large amount of blood, looking down at Michael Riser could see a dangerous killing intent within Michael's dragon eye which filled him with fear.

"If you ever mess with me, my friends, or even Buchou again, then I'll make sure to crush that will of yours to ever stand in our way again, understand?"

Riser's eyes dyed in fear at the proclamation.

*THUD!*

*BOOOOOOOOM!*

The fireball then grew highly unstable and explodes sending both Michael and Riser falling in different directions.

The impact of the explosion sent Riser falling to the ground with a loud...

*DOOOON!*

Crashing into the ground below Riser's body laid out in a massive crater.

"Riser-sama!"

"Onii-sama!"

Ravel and Yubelluna flew over to Riser's side to pick him up only to have the man's body slowly light up and disappear as he trembled in not only pain but...fear,

"N-No...more, please..."

[Riser Phoenix-sama loses. He has retired. Thus this ends the Rating Game. Rias Gremory-sama's team are the victors.]

The final announcement rang through the demolished replica of Kuoh Academy as everyone grew the correct responses.

"Impossible, we, the house of Phoenix have lost?" Yubelluna's eyes were filled with disbelief.

"..." Ravel was staying place as she remembered the words of the Pawn go through her head.

-You listen little girl if you don't want to get caught up into something you may regret then don't come near the School Building Roof!-

Ravel remembered Michael's very words and could feel a slight heroic vibe from it even though it wasn't meant to be taken that way. But still it was able to make her blush a little.

But as for Michael...

[Burst]

Suddenly all of Michael's physical energy disappeared after that last hit as he was left mentally alright. The boy was covered in burns, bruises and some blood it was rare to see anyone stay alive with these injuries. All that remained of Michael's clothing were his red shirt as his school jacket was burned off, his tattered pants, and his single sneaker as the other foot had lost its own along with the sock.

'I guess the side effects of using the Balance Breaker didn't disappear when I gave up my left eye.' Michael thought then said,

"Hehe, but who cares we won..." Michael smiled as he was slowly plummeting towards the ground as his body was incapable of moving.

[Your actions during this game were quite dangerous and suicidal. In my years as a Dragon, I have never seen such a host attempt these actions before that is why I may have to consider you the most Reckless Sekiryuutei in history.]

Michael smiled and said, "I don't care, I was able to win an kick the crap out of that douchebag Riser, nothing could spoil this moment for me." Michael smiled.

[You do realize you are falling to you death, correct?]

"I am?" Michael looked beneath to see the fast approaching ground below, "Oh I guess I am-HELP!" Michael suddenly cried in fear.

[Well your Balance Breaker has improved because of the price you paid, but that only means it will be more harmful for you in the future, your current state puts your body in a temporary state of rest meaning you a vegetable until 24 hours have passed, but that is the correct price to pay for achieving Balance Breaker when you were barely half ready to handle it.]

"OI! Ddraig, why are you talking about this now? Help me, I'm gonna die!" Michael cried out pitifully as his calm state of mind from before turned into panic.

[Moron, I haven't forgotten about you, but it seems your the one who's forgotten someone else.]

"What the hell does that even mean!?" Michael screamed until he heard a call for his name.

"Michael!"

Turning his head to the side, Michael could see his master flying to him as fast as she can.

"B-Buchou." Michael smiled as he got caught by Rias just in time as the two land onto the ground.

Felling the woman hug him tightly, Michael could see Rias was happily crying,

"You did it...You really did it." Rias sniffled.

[Kukuku, enjoy yourself Partner you've earned it.] Ddraig then cuts the link and lets the scene play out.

Michael who was smiling gave Rias a tired look and said, "Yeah I did, so don't cry Buchou, please?"

Michael could tell Asia was nearby watching, but he could feel that she was watching with teary eyes and a smile.

"You moron." Rias smiled and grabbed the side of Michael's cheek and stares at his dragon eye with sad eyes,

"You gave up your eye to the dragon in your boosted gear to gain more power correct?"

"Yeah, and I already achieved Balance Breaker in my training. So you don't have to worry it was actually able to increase the time I can stay in it for a little while, and besides a person like me had to rely on skill since I don't have talent. Now I can make sure you'll never get messed with by that stupid yakitori jerk again." Michael smiled.

But after hearing this, Rias narrows her eyes at Michael and looked even more sad.

"You do realize that it will never turn back to normal?" Rias said.

"Meh! I don't care I would gladly give up more parts of my body to Ddraig if it means you'll smile again." Michael chuckled light heatedly, "I'd rather be a freak than watch that smile of yours disappear.

"Michael..." Rias said with her eyes growing wide as her tone was astonished.

"I know the others will be sad when they find out, but I don't really want them to because it's my choice to do it." Michael smiled, "And seeing you win is a great way for me to repay the kindness you've shown me, The Great Hanamura."

Looking off to the side Rias said,

"Michael, you may have prevented this engagement, but more others will come in. If that were to happen then you will..."

"What are you talking about, no more engagements will ever happen again as long as I'm concerned."

"!" Rias looks back to see Michael's grinning face.

"Because from now on I'm gonna stay by your side and make sure your happiness comes first before anything else okay, because I want to protect you, Rias." Michael smiled with truth behind his words.

Rias blushed at Michael's words as it took Michael a little more time to digest what he said.

"Oh crap! Sorry, Buchou I used your name without permission again! Dammit, I ruined the moment and I thought I sounded so cool until I screwed it u-Mmmrph!" Michael cried out and shook his head but the he felt Rias touch his cheek once more and lean herself forward...

*Chu~*

Overlapping Michael's lips were his master's, Rias as it was a soft kiss which left Michael speechless (Partly because he was in the middle of a mouth hug).

'A-A kiss?' Michael's brain was flipping out, 'I'm kissing Buchou!'

After a minute passes, Rias broke the kiss and giggled, "My first kiss. Isn't something like that treasured by girls in Japan?"

Michael simply nods with a blank face as his voice was taken away once he was kissed.

"What's wrong aren't you happy with your reward?" Rias said in wonder.

Suddenly Michael got the ability to speak once more, but it was in a high pitched voice, "N-No, its just that it surprised me, yeah, surprised me."

"I see, so was it your first kiss too?" Rias asked.

Michael looked to the right then left suspiciously before nodding, "Y-Yeah."

(In the monitoring room)

"That liar." Saji shook his head and sighed, "But good for him he won though, but now I'm being left behind by him."

Sona looks over to Saji and sternly said, "Then you'll just have to work harder too, Saji."

"Hai! Kaichou!" Saji bowed then realized a sharp killing intent filling the air, he slowly turns back to see a smiling Raynare looking at the scream with tears streaming down her dark eyes.

"Ufufufu, Me and Michael-sama are gonna have alooooot to talk about when he comes back! Ufufufufufu!" Raynare was clearly peeved off about Michael losing his supposed first kiss.

(With Michael)

Auuuuuuu...!"

Michael could hear the disappointed cry of Asia behind him and Rias.

'I'm sorry Asia and Buchou, but...you must never know.' Michael thought.

"And while we're still on the topic of physical contact, say Michael what would you do if I were to give you my virginity?"

Rias' words rang through Michael's head before the teen could calm down after the kiss.

"Y-Your WHAAAT!?" Michael screamed.

Rias smiled teasingly, but stopped when she felt Asia get between her and Michael as the red haired girl lost her grip on the boy and let him fall on the floor.

"Ouch!" Michael twitched in pain.

"Asia, what are you doing?" Rias crossed her arms.

"Michael-san is injured so I have to heal him before its too late." Asia looked at Rias with teary eyes as a glint of a challenge resided in them.

"Then if that's the case let me hold him while you do it." Rias walks over to kneel next to Michael, but Asia scooted to the spot where she would have stayed.

"Asia, what are you-?" Rias tried to do it again but Asia then blocked her once more.

"Auuu..." Asia's cheeks puffed out.

"Asia let me hold Michael while you heal him, he is my [Pawn] so move." Rias ordered.

"No, this way of healing him is much more efficient." Asia then looks to Rias with suspicious eyes then places Michael's head on her lap and starts to heal him again. This action then stirred an argument between the [King] and [Bishop] as they were unaware of Michael passing out when his head hit the ground.

'Why me?'

(In the Underworld)

Standing on a terrace was the current Maou, Sirzechs Lucifer, a handsome man with a young appearance as if his age was in his early 20's, he has shoulder length crimson red hair and blue-green eyes as his power as he wore a rather fancy looking robes and a fancy mantle on his shoulders.

And right beside him was his best friend and personal advisor, Kai who is the husband of the current Leviathan and Brother-in-Law of Sona Sitri. He is also the father of the current next-next head of the House of Sitri.

Smiling, Kai hums next to a smiling Sirzechs, who looks at him with quirked eyebrow,

"Now what's gotten you so happy, I mean aside from you destroying my Father's planned engagement for my sister with the new Red Dragon Emperor."

"Oh, you know I'm just happy that I could see Riser-san learned his lesson in all of this." Kai raised his finger in the air and smiled.

"Oh really and what lesson would that be may I ask?" Sirzechs chuckles.

"The lesson today was to never speak ill of my family while we're in the same room, or should I say dimension." Kai answered then rubbed his chin, "But I supposed he learned not to mess with an underdog especially if the underdog has the Red Dragon Emperor helping him out."

"So you were still furious with Riser when he was speaking ill of your child, but if you wished to you could have asked me to use another method of breaking up the engagement with no violence but instead you persuaded me to do the opposite and offer my little sister a rating game. May I ask why?"

Kai opened his eyes and smirked, "Because...it was fun to watch and it gave me the chance to interact with the Sekiryuutei up close and train him for my amusement."

Sirzechs simply laughs and said, "You never change it's always fighting with you, but I do see why your interested in the boy he is rather...strange but its not so much a bad thing just a unique one. I'm just glad that my sister has a trustful servant by her side." he continued with a slight joyous chuckle,

"He even stated he wanted to become a Maou, he's truly interesting indeed especially if the Welsh Dragon wants to be a future leader for the devils."

"Yeah, but I know the future will not get boring any time soon my friend because if the Welsh Dragon presides here then very soon..." Kai said looking up at the unchanging sky of the underworld.

"Yes, I know very soon the two forces of Red and White will clash as the fated duel between the Welsh Dragon and Vanishing Dragon may draw nearer than expected."

Appearing through a magic circle, Grayfia walks over to the pair and bowed, "I hope you two enjoyed the game."

"We did and thank you for spectating, Grayfia." Sirzechs nodded as Grayfia bows in respect.

Kai looks in the air and smiles, 'Michael-san you've grown strong, but not strong enough soon I expect you to reach the level of a High-Class and someday eventually give me the challenge I seek.'

"Well see both of you later, I have business to attend to." Kai walks past Grayfia and raised his hand in the gesture of farewell.

"Whenever you say something like that I start to worry you'll cause trouble." Grayfia said looking back at the man.

Kai raised his hand then shook his head, "Not this time, Grayfia-san. I actually do have business to attend and it involves meeting with "him"."

"I see well then keep safe and remember to return soon or Serafall will throw tantrum at your long disappearances." Sirzechs gave a bitter smile.

"Understood." Kai groaned as the thought of such a thing could happen during his absence...again.

Kai nods then pulls something out of his pocket which seemed to be a letter.

"Grayfia-san, can you please give this to Michael-san once he has recovered?" Kai handed her the letter.

"Yes, and may I ask what is it?" Grayfia asked.

"These are contact lenses for his new dragon eye so he can disguise it and also there is a gift for him inside he has to read himself." Kai chuckled then smirked and winked, "So until we meet again!"