Chapter 44: Peerage
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Lelouch tuned out the rest of the conversation as Issei expressed his shock at other Devils being in their school. Though he did wave politely from his relaxed position as Rias introduced him to Sona's Peerage.
He'd had a similar reaction almost a month ago, he also decided he really didn't want to hear the boasting between Issei and one of Sona's Pawns. Lelouch couldn't sense much energy from the blond boy, he guessed he was only recently Reincarnated.
In fact, he'd say that the blond who had arrived with Sona was probably the weakest Devil in the room right now magically speaking, aside from Asia.
Issei was stronger than a few of Sona's Peerage, but Lelouch couldn't get a good enough read as only the blond Pawn, Sona, and Sona's Queen were distinctive enough for him to tell.
If Lelouch had to he could deduce the basic capabilities available to everyone in Rias' Peerage by now, but he wasn't used to trying to sense Sona's Peerage members.
Rias was easily the strongest followed closely by Akeno.
Koneko and Kiba had about the same level of magical power, though Koneko was far stronger physically.
Lelouch, thanks to his month of training under Akeno, was only just weaker magically than the other Knight and the Nekoshou. Kiba was still faster than him while Koneko was physically more powerful.
Issei was below him and Asia even further below him, though her Sacred Gear made the most of her lack of power.
If Issei used his Sacred Gear, he could reach about Lelouch's own level of magical power only after a couple Boosts at this point in part because, while it doubled his power, it took a while to double it enough to reach that point.
When Issei's base power was too weak then effectively doubling his power could only do so much. Currently it was similar to doubling at a base power of thirty, maybe forty to fifty.
While if Issei was doubling his power at a base power of one hundred, there would be a significant increase, far greater than it was currently.
Of course, such numbers were simply hypothetical since it was difficult if not impossible to quantify magical power.
The boasting and proxy boasting soon tapered off however, to Lelouch's relief. Apparently Koneko had been right a few weeks ago when they were taking out the Fallen Angels in Kuoh. Heirs to the Pillars were rather dramatic.
He had no leg to stand on when it came to that kind of criticism, but Lelouch wasn't going to let it stop him from complaining to himself about it.
Apparently another reason why Sona had arrived was because there was a time conflict between Rias and Sona's plans to get Familiars for their newest members of their Peerages.
"A contest, huh." Lelouch murmured as he considered Rias' suggestion, taking interest in the two Kings' conversation while ignoring the pissing contest between the two Pawns over Asia.
"Whoever wins gets to make their request first." Rias said with a smile. Sona looked interested in her proposal. Rias smirked, she felt they could handle this no problem.
"Surely you're not suggesting a Rating Game?" Sona questioned causing Rias to snicker slightly, reassuring the Sitri heir slightly. Her friend wouldn't be that careless after all.
"Oh no, we'd never get permission for that." Rias waved off the suggestion as ridiculous.
"True, plus now's not the time to be drawing attention to yourself now is it." Sona taunted her rival slightly.
"Don't go there." Rias shut down that avenue of conversation rather quickly, drawing Lelouch's suspicion.
'I wonder what that was about.' Lelouch hummed in thought, suspecting it was the reason Rias had yet to even mention the Rating Games to the three newest Devils. He'd had to learn about them from Akeno.
It was almost like the red-haired girl was avoiding the subject entirely. 'Strange.' The rest of the conversation went towards detailing what kind of competition they should have, since they apparently couldn't both go this week.
"I know." Rias announced eagerly. "We should settle this the old fashioned high school way, with sports!" For some reason that declaration filled Lelouch with a sense of trepidation.
He hoped he wouldn't have to do too much. Training and fighting was one thing, but sports?
The Devil Knight couldn't repress a minor shudder.
The next day, Lelouch lay back and stared at the sky on one of the hills of Kuoh Academy, ignoring the clamor as hundreds of people gathered around the tennis court to watch the match between Rias, Akeno, Sona, and Tsubaki.
That, or try and catch a glimpse of their panties as they were wearing rather short skirts with their tennis uniforms.
"I swear, it's like they're enjoying teasing damn near the entire male population of the Academy." He murmured to himself, before closing his eyes with a sigh.
"You can come over if you want Koneko." He announced to his friend, who was looking back and forth between his relaxed form and the crowd watching the match.
"There's no point in getting involved, tennis isn't a team sport beyond doubles so it's not like there's anything we'll be able to do to help Rias and Akeno win.
" Well, unless he surreptitiously flicked a few Void Shots at Sona, but if Rias needed him to cheat to help her win she shouldn't have agreed to have a tennis match be the deciding factor.
Koneko decided Lelouch's argument made the most sense and meandered over to lay down next to him, leaning into his body slightly for warmth as the fall cold started to nip at her exposed skin.
Lelouch wrapped an arm around the petite Devil's shoulders as she tried to sap some of his body heat, knowing she didn't like the cold.
When the screaming from by the tennis match reached a crescendo Lelouch felt the urge to blast every one of them with a Void Shot to shut them all up.
His right hand twitched slightly before he got a handle on his Wrath, drawing Koneko's attention.
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