The beginning will be really similar, I do want to change it up though, one thing I can say is that I haven't thought of any major change until the Peace talks arc. Tbh I haven't had much time to think about the plot, busy month and all.

This chapter ended like that because I wanted it to be a pure fighting one, this is one of my earliest attempts at writing such scenes and I was looking for some feedback, unfortunately, that didn't happen, neither here nor at the other places I posted, so the chapter just became a bit awkward.

It'd be a spoiler for me to answer that, but as the chapters catches up you'll see the answer to your question.

I'll do a training arc before the rating game against Riser, there I'll look into developing the Boosted Gear.

I don't know Ippo, but that is what I had in mind for him, an extra is that I know about dragon shot being a long-range attack option, and I'll use it, it just won't be his main fighting style.

That happened at the ending of Chapter 6 (Or the 8th chapter, since there are two interludes), sure I didn't make the scene where Rias put the pieces in her, but I thought it was clear that it had happened.

My choice to make it so he doesn't remember everything was an attempt to avoid those fix everything real quick stories, this is as much of a learning experience for me as it is a story for everyone. Perhaps you're right and the AU path would've been better, but I'm at a point where I won't drop the story (to begin another one) and I don't want to make that big of a rectification.

Now, I wrote this a while back, but I'm pretty sure Rias never told the MC that, granted he knew that was the case (as much as any casual viewer or reader of the original DxD franchise would know, i.e. the most widespread notion of the event is that she did let him die, but I received comments saying that in the LN she didn't know about all of that), in this story she did let him die, not because she was evil, she did it because she was afraid to go after the fallen and that turn out to be some ambush to her and her peerage, so she let then go with their plan to kill the SG user of the city, but she saw an opportunity, she'd have a recruit with little to no resistance in Issei... We don't see OG Issei's reaction to that because he's replaced as soon as it happens (sort off), the consciousness that takes over doesn't care, for one, it's thanks to Issei dying that he could be there, another point is that he couldn't do anything about it. If he rebelled he'd be a stray and they'd kill him, so he gave them a chance, and he formed bonds with them to the point where he doesn't care that something that he had no control over happened to the body he now owned... I do plan on developing Rias, this would've been an interesting way to do so, but it's not one I'll chose. If this makes you dislike the story to the point where you no longer want to follow it then that's on me, but it is the path I chose and I'll take the consequences it brings. (Sorry for the long reply)

Hey! First to answer your review. I know he wanted to do in the original, I know that Issei managed to fix it, but in here I wanted to make Riser different, I might have some plans for him, I might make him more than "The first villain of the story" and him not wanting the marriage helps me develop for that if that is the route I take with him... Now about you asking this here while we're at chapter 5, I'd ask for you to either wait until we're there, or just ask where you read it (QQ or FF.net) I'd probably answer there... That being said, I appreciate you putting it in a spoiler tag here (especially because this showed up to anyone that finds the story's page)... Thank you for your review, and for anyone wondering, yes this story has more chapters on other platforms, I mentioned them in this answer, and on another back on chapter 4, I think.

I started it at Questionable Questing and Fanfiction, they are ahead, however, I don't do daily updates. The ones here in Webnovel are only daily because I want them to catch up with what already is at those other places. FYI, at the other websites, I go by the same name as I go here, and the story is also called the same.

When I wrote this chapter I forgot about the devil's physiology, I was too focused on the technicalities of boxing and how I thought someone learning it for the first time would feel. I did try to remedy it in the future, perhaps once you read it you'll find it pleasing.

It is a gauntlet, the normal boosted gear, the one which appears in any image of Issei.

I don't know about other authors, but my reasoning to do it like this for this story is simply because I didn't want to make an OC, and Issei was a convenient and easy choice for an MC. As for there being too many Issei-centric stories, I don't know what to tell you, I think it should be obvious with him being the protagonist from the original show. Also, I've seen plenty of stories where the MC isn't him, granted the majority of them is at fanfiction dot net, so if you're looking for something like that, you might find some of them there.

Um... Thanks for the review, but uh... That particular phrase shouldn't be read like that, probably my fault for the way I wrote it, here how I wanted it to be: That all changed after the night that I first laid with a woman... And man! What a night! I think this only appears in the synopsis, so I'll change it.

I took it from the wiki, in the reference section for his appearance they said, "Book canon has priority over films." I don't recall reading his description on the book, but for appearance I'm going to use the book first and the wiki second.

I see transfiguration as a more practical discipline, since he didn't have much practice with it, he struggled more. Yes he'll be better in other fields.

In this story James' parents were Fleamont and Euphemia Potter, Rose Potter (that's the name I went with) isn't related to Dorea Black, only to her husband (Charlus Potter) but he's already dead.

That is the idea as of the 13th chapter, I don't think I'll change my mind in regards to the pairing, but who knows.

It is her, she's alive, her husband isn't though.

For Evan's imprisonment, they didn't mention the imperius during his trial, since his defence was made separate from the other they didn't think to use that excuse. At the end of it all, he didn't commit any crime while under the imperius effect, they used it more so to control him in order for him to not turn on them. I do get your point about the naming of the war, but since I’m writing in a perspective that the narrator is recounting the events, I think we can look past it and just imagine as someone telling the story during a time where the second war has happened. (Btw, I might have written something that contradicts this comment, if that’s the case, my bad. My brain isn’t good enough to remember what I wrote in these chapters without reading them back.)