Request

'This feels so wrong...' thought Vahn, his expression a mask of calm, but his face beet red as Koneko, lying across his lap and propped up by his left forearm, enthusiastically licked and suckled his right index and middle fingers. Their contract permitted her to consume his essence directly, and sucking it out through the fingers was evidently one of the least perverse methods...

"Master's life force...it's so big..." Koneko mewled, her face even redder than Vahn's as she hugged his hand to her chest and added, "Koneko can feel her insides expanding...it's too much...nya..."

Though Vahn assumed Koneko was just being lewd, Rias and Akeno were genuinely surprised, their brows rising quite a bit as the former asked, "Is that true, Koneko? Have you already reached your limit...?"

Noticing Vahn's confusion, Akeno explained, "Devils have an upper limit on the amount of Demonic Energy their body can contain at any one time, influenced by their pedigree and various additional factors. Under normal circumstances, even a Low-Class Devil would need to drain several dozen humans in quick succession to reach their limit, and the process can take anywhere from several minutes to an hour, depending on the health of the person supplying their life force. The fact Koneko has already reached her limit in only a few minutes indicates she wasn't holding back, yet here you are, looking just as healthy and handsome as always..."

"It does make sense, though," affirmed Rias. "After all, no ordinary human could endure relations with multiple Devils for an entire evening. If I didn't periodically get to see his peacefully sleeping face and poke his cheeks, I would think his stamina was inexhaustible..."

"That's because it is," contended Vahn, caressing Koneko's abdomen as he met the markedly more mature Devils' gazes and stated, "I only need to sleep to reset my mind. I can get tired, but my stamina replenishes so quickly, I can fight and train indefinitely as long as I don't seriously injure myself..."

"Oh? Then do you want to try contracting Akeno now...?" asked Rias, her blue eyes glistening with intrigue. Akeno's capacity was tens of times that of Koneko's, but since Vahn didn't appear even a little worse for wear, she was curious to ascertain what his limits were.

"Ara? Will Vahn-sama also make me his pet~?" asked Akeno, narrowing her sleepy eyes into one of the most seductive yet terrifying expressions Vahn had ever seen.

Recalling how intimate he and Akeno had been the previous night, Vahn found himself at a momentary loss in response to her query. He felt there wasn't much she wouldn't readily agree to, even without a contract, so he just stared at her for several seconds until Rias proposed, "Since you will potentially become her primary or sole contractor, have her pledge loyalty to you as her second Master. You can also request that she becomes your wife, but I won't allow you two to marry before we do."

"Is that an option...?" asked Vahn, directing the question at Akeno.

Beaming in amusement, Akeno reminded, "What a contractor requests is entirely up to them. The only restriction is your ability to provide sufficient payment, but since I want to serve and become your bride, the price will be no more than what you are willing to award me..."

"Then...I want you to become mine..." said Vahn, forgetting to specify that he wanted her to become his bride. He was going to correct himself, but before he could, Akeno's smile broadened into a narrow-eyed expression of euphoria as she hummed, "Request approved~" in a silky, sensual tone before making her way over to him. In the process of moving it out of the way, she nearly sent the coffee table between the two sofas crashing into the club room's entrance, but Vahn only looked over at it briefly before he met her gaze, staring up at him with an expectant smile as she sat in seiza on the floor.

With Koneko promptly removing herself from his lap without him needing to ask, Vahn intended to extend the fingers of his right hand for Akeno to suckle, but the slight narrowing of her eyes as he did so made it clear she had a different extraction method in mind. Thus, while it was more than a little awkward with Koneko sitting next to him, observing his actions with an unwavering, unblinking gaze, he undid his belt, scooted forward to the edge of the cushion he was sitting on, and let Akeno extract his life force using the second-most direct method...

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Feeling a sudden and drastic increase in Issei's stress levels, Rias, who was mid-way through seating herself onto Vahn's lap to confirm her own contract with him, adopted a prominent frown, remarking, "I need to put a leash on that boy..."

Seeing Rias abruptly rise, confusion marred Vahn's face as he asked, "Did something happen...?"

Instead of immediately responding to Vahn, Rias, retrieving and donning her panties, said, "Akeno, please prepare a gate," before turning to him to explain, "Issei appears to have gotten himself into more trouble. You and Koneko should go and play at her place for a bit. We'll continue this in our room later..."

With Akeno having already prepared the gate, Rias made her way over and gave Vahn a parting kiss before departing immediately after. Devils were remarkably durable, and she trusted that Kiba could hold his own, but if she wanted to guarantee-avoid a scenario where she had to treat Issei using a similar method as before, she needed to prevent him from sustaining serious injury.

"There they go..." muttered Vahn, deflating atop the sofa as he was once again reminded that he needed to get much stronger or, at the very least, learn how to teleport.

"Nn...but your naughty kitten, Koneko-nyan, is still here..." said Koneko, making Vahn feel a lot better as she abruptly licked his right cheek and began grooming his hairline near his right ear. He was a little surprised when she used her right hand to resurrect his lower half, but he didn't stop her as, during their bath, she had tentatively asked if he was okay being with girls who were much older than him. When he asked why, she confided that she was not only older than her appearance suggested but that she also had a twin sister he should avoid at all costs...

Ceasing her grooming behavior, Koneko rubbed her head against Vahn's cheek, her golden eyes glistening with desire as she suggested, "Master should transport us to the Corridor, nya...Koneko-nyan wants to spend a lot more time with him..."

"Sure. I could use some stress relief..." responded Vahn, not expecting that, as a result of his words, he would be spending the next hour staring at Koneko's bottom, swaying about in front of his face as she attempted to follow Akeno's example...

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"Issei's luck is something else..." muttered Vahn, enjoying the feeling of soaking in a large porcelain tub with Rias reclining against him. It was a bit silly, but his request for her was to take baths together, so that's what they were doing as she recounted how a Stray Exorcist had killed Issei's contractor and, to make matters exceptionally more complicated, how the nun he wanted to befriend, Asia, was the man's accomplice.

"It's baffling, that's what it is..." muttered Rias, closing her eyes, exhaling an exasperated sigh, and shaking her head. She knew Issei wasn't at fault for any of the events he had been involved in, but ever since he became a member of her Peerage, it felt like he was continuously getting into things he shouldn't be involved with, mandating constant supervision. Without it, he would have died no fewer than four times in a single week...

Catching Vahn a little off guard, causing him to feel a wide array of very positive emotions, Rias entrusted her weight to him completely and said, "I'm glad you're here with me, Vahn...I honestly don't know what I would have done had you not arrived. It's like you were sent here specifically to solve all my problems..."

"I don't mind if you think that..." responded Vahn, his voice lower than usual as he removed his right hand, which had been folded on top of her diaphragm with his left, to caress and gently cradle her lower abdomen. Nothing was growing in it just yet, but his intuition and Sis assured him it wouldn't be long, so long as he and Rias both desired a child...

"Then that is precisely what I'll do..." muttered Rias, placing her hand over Vahn's and smiling. She ordinarily avoided conventional baths as her long hair, which extended nearly to the back of her knees, tended to get in the way. With Vahn filling her with a lot more than just life force, however, she felt that even bathing in mud would be endurable so long as he was there holding her...

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"Please allow me to train using the Corridor...!" exclaimed Issei, leaving Vahn a little taken aback after the brown-haired youth dragged him to an area behind the central school building before appealing to him with his head lowered and hands clasped, rubbing together.

"I let you train using it every day," reminded Vahn.

"I know that..." responded Issei, raising his head with a mix of emotions ranging from pain to frustration visible in his eyes as he explained, "But I'm way too weak right now. I know you have better things to do than to humor me, but if you could just let me use it for a few nights, I can't even put into words how much I would appreciate it..."

"I heard about what happened from Rias," revealed Vahn, his expression serious as he asked, "You want to save that Asia girl, right?"

"That's right..." confirmed Issei, a glimmer of rage building in the depths of his eyes as he explained, "Asia isn't a bad person, Vahn. She even put herself in harm's way to prevent that psycho bastard of an Exorcist from trying to kill me. My instinct tells me she's gotten entangled in something she never wanted to be involved with, so I have to do something..."

'He reminds me of an anime protagonist...' thought Vahn, exhaling a faint sigh. Objectively speaking, Issei was being a complete idiot, but heroes were heroes specifically because they stood against the grain and never gave up even where others would have quit.

"Does your house have a spare bedroom...?" asked Vahn, causing Issei's to light up as he confirmed, "We do. But are you really okay with coming over to my place? I'm already inconveniencing you a lot as is."

"It's more convenient for both of us if I do," responded Vahn, appending, 'Besides, if I'm already present at the scene, I won't have to worry about being left behind when Rias invariably has to come and save you...' in his mind.

"Great! Then we'll head over after club activities!" exclaimed Issei, feeling happy to have made such a considerate friend. He still envied and slightly resented Vahn for hoarding all the girls in the ORC, but he was more than happy to let bygones be bygones of their emergency training enabled him to save Asia. And since Vahn himself was pretty strong, they could maybe even team up together and launch a raid on the abandoned church where Asia was being kept, just the two of them...

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"Someone as handsome as you is friends with our son...?" asked a woman with tired, hazel eyes and dark brown hair fixed into a ponytail with loose bangs, her expression one of open-mouthed incredulity as her son, Issei, introduced Vahn to her and her husband.

"Is he blackmailing you...?" asked a thin, incredibly lanky, glasses-wearing man with notably gaunt features, slight facial stubble, beady brown eyes, and spiky brown hair reminiscent of Issei's but significantly shorter with a receding hairline. He was Issei's father, Hyoudou Gorou, and like his wife, Hyoudou Miki, he couldn't believe his son had a friend who wasn't a weirdo or an irredeemable pervert. Fortunately, this didn't stop them from giving Vahn permission to stay the night, giving the latter his first look at Issei's room, covered in posters of scantily clad anime heroines and inhabited by dozens of action figures and many more figurines...

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