Highschool DxD: Crawling x Chaos

A/N: Hey guys, I have decided to do a double CxC release week to spare you the Cliffhangers.

Next Up(Sunday) - Higschool DxD: Crawling Chaos 

~Yuta Yukimura~

I raced through the void dimension with blitzing speeds like a plane, covering the distance to the riverbank in record time, even as I approached, I was able to read the situation from the distance, Irina's body was being tended to by Rias, her body was covered by numerous light cuts and some lacerations, clearly not aiming to kill her but to harm her.

The moment I was close enough I phased out of the void dimension and landed roughly next to Rias with a flinch, Rias faced me with hardened eyes as I let Xenovia down who righted herself from being dragged across the void with me.

"Rias, what is the situation?"

"Irina! What happened to you!? Wait... where is Excalibur Mimic!?"

Xenovia hurriedly knelt down to her injured friend and supported her while saying something with very concerning implications. I looked to Rias for an explanation she readily provided.

"Koneko's familiar found her like this and we came here as fast as we could, we don't know how this happened to her."

I bit my lip. If I hadn't removed the Observer's Mark on Irina the situation wouldn't be nearly as bad. As I was wondering and calculating the possibilities of what could have happened another teleportation circle appeared, with Akeno, Kiba and Asia coming out of it. Asia ran towards Irina and activated her sacred gear to heal her.

"Don't worry, I'll heal you!"

Thanks to Asia's expertise with her sacred gear Irina's condition improved at a visible pace, her eyes fluttered open and her mouth trembled. Seeing this Xenovia talked to her friend.

"Irina! What happened to you!? Who did this to you!?"

"Everyone... run... please... we... can't"

Xenovia's expression paled at that, seemingly remembering something through her haze of panic. Even I didn't manage to spook her this bad, the dread in her eyes was far too real. That was concerning.

Before Irina could get some more words out another teleportation circle appeared, branded with the logo of the Sitri. Sona and her queen stepped out of it with serious expressions.

"Sona, you're here."

Sona nodded toward Rias and knelt down toward the girl Asia was treating while her queen stood by her side dutifully. Seems like I wasn't the only one Rias had called thankfully.

"Of course I am. This looks quite concerning, while Asia managed to heal her wounds, she is suffering from exhaustion and lack of energy. I can take her to my recuperation room. We can't get anything out of her like this."

But just as Tsubaki was about to bend over and pick up Irina I stopped her, making everyone look at me. That would take too long, we needed information now.

"Yuta-kun? What are you doing? We need to take her for her to rest."

Sona gave me a cautious look while I shook my head as my shadow spat out a lunchbox into my hands. My most expensive one, the same dinner I gave "Penelope" that recovered exhaustion, stamina and magical power.

"I'm gonna make her recover, time is of the essence. You should know what my food can do."

She furrowed her brows, getting up and crossing her arms.

"I don't think she is in an eating condition Yuta-kun."

Ignoring Sona I knelt next to Irina as Xenovia made some space for me without thinking much of it.

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."

Then, under the shocked eyes of everyone, I shovelled the food into my mouth vigorously and chewed. Then I grabbed Irina by the back of the head before smashing my lips onto hers and forcefully feeding her like a baby bird my food. Her lips were very soft and smelled faintly of cherry but that was the least of my concern at the moment. In fact it barely registered at the moment.

"I-Irina!? You-!" "What?" "Huh!?" "Oh my~" "As expected" "Great idea Yuta-san!"

Various noises of outrage, shock and disbelief were voiced as I forcefully fed Irina, I saw her visage quickly recover colour as she regained her vigour, I fed her another mouthful as her eyes snapped open and her limbs flailed around in a panic. Seeing the life come back to her eyes I removed my lips from hers as she rolled over and stood on all fours, taking deep breaths before wiping her mouth.

"I-I can't be a bride anymore!!! Sob! My first time taken by a deviiilll!"

I levelled an annoyed gaze at her. This was not the time for this bullshit.

"I think you meant thank you but sure. Now what the hell happened to you?"

That snapped Irina out of whatever episode she was having while Xenovia shook her head and muttered what I could only guess was a variation of 'This dumbass...' but seeing Irina quickly grasp her bicep in panic and her eyes widen in a panic the ridiculous mood was quickly drowned out by muted concern.

"Kokabiel he-!"

Koka- who?

My answer was given quickly and painfully when the entire city was covered by a barrier in an instant. I felt a cold dread burrow itself in my heart when I saw the kaleidoscopic barrier. Covering the entire town in a barrier in a split second, that was a feat that I could only imagine Grayfia being able to do.

Woosh!

Hearing the sound of wings flapping all of us collectively turned our eyes to the source of the sound. Only to find a very tall and gaunt man staring down at us with a malevolent grin. He had jet-black straight hair, pale skin, blood-red scleras, and a long flowing robe over his large body.

But the most striking thing about his was the five pairs of jet-black wings sprouting from his back. The sheer amount of magical energy radiating from his body made me feel dizzy.

Five pairs meant... the level of an Archangel or a Cadre.

"A fallen angel with ten wings... he is a Cadre..."

Sona said with a quiet tone filled with caution as the man stared down at us, seemingly with amusement as he laughed to himself.

"I'm surprised leaving out a bait worked so well, like sharks to blood. Little Lady Gremory, we have never met before, have we? My name is Kokabiel."

My knees felt weak and my arms felt heavy as his attention turned to Rias. I moved closer to her and grabbed her wrist. If he does anything, any sign, I would pull us into the void dimension.

Giving me a glance Rias moved forward, with far too much confidence than she should in this situation as she puffed up her chest.

"Good evening Mr. Kokabiel. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance. May I know why you are here?"

Rias looked undaunted, was it confidence born from having the strongest satan in history as a brother and feeling untouchable after the Riser fight? I did not know.

Kokabiel snorted, I did not know if that was a good sign or not.

"Hah! That crimson red hair, just like your brothers. How sickening."

He narrowed his eyes and I felt my breath cut short but Rias seemed completely undeterred. Rias, I know you are a bold action girl but this is a cadre who doesn't seem very favourable to us and erected a barrier. Trapping us.

"Could we know why you decided to visit Kuoh without warning? I can't image a Cadre coming here for a social visit."

Kokabiel chuckled darkly while I shuffled my abilities. Devil Trigger, Chaos Entity Release, Shadow Storage, Void Travel. Fighting was useless, so I just went all in on survivability. Since I didn't replace much I could still swap out Shadow Storage and Chaos Entity Release if need be. 

"That's right, I got bored so I decided to have some fun around here. Especially that academy of yours. I figured if I ran wild in your headquarters Sirzechs or at least Serafall would have to come running."

...There goes all hope of this being able to deal with a reasonable discussion or diplomacy.

Even Rias seemed shaken by this, and so did Sona as Rias stiffened her posture.

"But... that would restart the great war!"

Kokabiel spread his arms in a maniacal manner as he laughed at her horrified expression.

"Of course I know that already, that's why I am doing all of this in the first place! When I stole the Excaliburs I expected Micheal or Gabriel to come retrieve them, but instead, they only sent two snivelling babies armed with Excaliburs of their own. I'd feel insulted but at least he hand-delivered the Excaliburs to me."

Rias's eyes widened.

"But why would you want to restart the Great War?"

Kokabiel sneered at her, mocking her as if the motivations of a madman were obvious.

"I just couldn't stand the boredom."

Now my eyes widened.

Was this guy... for real?

"I couldn't withstand the boredom and stagnation after the Great War, no thrill matched it. Neither Azazel nor Shemhazai seemed interested in starting another war so I took to my own hands. Instead of claiming glory for our race he instead wanted to sit with his thumb up his ass and play with his collection!"

My breath felt cold, this was a genuine madman. And unlike Freed, he wasn't an opponent we could beat. His energy levels were similar to that of Grayfia. I wasn't confident in being able to land a punch on Grayfia. Let alone defeat her.

And unlike Grayfia, he was a fallen angel, his main power was my biggest weakness. Every word he spoke felt like staring down the end of a barrel.

"So I thought, why not have the devils start it? If the two devil heiresses and sisters of Satans were killed in their own town Serafall and Sirzechs would have no choice but to start the war. It will be glorious! This town is just a fuse waiting to blow that will shatter the fragile peace between the factions!"

"He is insane."

I wanted to try and use the Void Dimension to try and run but if that barrier presumably prevented teleportation, would it stop my Void Travel? And what would happen if I left? Everyone here would die.

"So, then the Sister of Sirzechs Lucifer, Rias Gremory. The Sister of Serafall Leviathan, Sona Sitri. Let's start a war! I'll be waiting for you all at your Academy, what better place to kill you all than there? Of course, try to escape and you may test my patience. I give you all 1 minute."

With that, he was gone, flying off so fast we could barely see the blur.

Rias and Sona exchanged looks.

"My peerage will handle maintaining barriers to keep the town safe. I'll join you Rias."

Rias nodded to Sona who was clenching her fists.

"Everyone, we are going!"

I gritted my teeth, what the fuck were we going to do? Could I do anything against Kokabiel? But then again, if he wanted to kill us, he could have done so already. I nodded to Rias' words as everyone got covered by a magical circle to teleport us to the academy while Sona went to retrieve her peerage.

When the red light consumed us and we teleported we could see a golden glow in the distance, knowing to head there without even exchanging words we sprinted there to find Kokabiel sitting languidly on a floating throne while under it, a portly man with a manic expression was chanting in front of an object so holy that it gave me a headache just looking at it.

Seeing our concern, or in Kiba's case, a murderous gaze Kokabiel laughed while the man chanting in front of the holy object seemed to not take us to mind. No, more like he was so focused the world around him may not have even existed.

"Don't mind him, I simply heard of a man wishing to assemble Excalibur and found it amusing, a war trophy even. I wonder how long it will take for Serafall and Sirzechs to notice. Oh well, until then, I will play with you all. It's nice to have appetizers before the full course. But..."

"The Excalibur!" "No! My sword!"

Ignoring Irina and Xenovia's outrage Kokabiel casually created a spear of light the size of a house and tossed it away.

BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!

"Grhh!" "Kyah!" "Guh!"

Like a small nuclear bomb, it completely annihilated the large gym and a part of the forest while creating an explosion of light that reached the clouds and shockwaves that nearly knocked everyone off their feed. My skin felt warm even from that distance.

"I don't think you all will last long if I start playing, so why don't you play with my pets in the meantime? Just so you can warm up."

With a flick of fingers, several magical circles lit up, summoning numerous Demonic Beasts from them, like Cerberi, demon snakes, goat demons, and such.

I tightly clenched my fists.

This did not look good.

Feat Achieved! Don't run away from Kokabiel

+1x Gold Ability Gacha Ticket

[New Quest: Survive]

A/N: Yuta saves Irina by feeding her like a baby bird. Which is too much for her maiden heart. Yuta will have to make it for Irina somehow after stealing her first kiss. Fortunately for her, if Yuta is anything, he is responsible.

Anyways, welcome to the shit hits the fan part everyone! Where Yuta, who has only been a devil for around a month has to survive against a Cadre... somehow. This can only go so right, at least it is sure to be a spectacle. What did you guys think about the start of the Kokabiel fight? I'd love to know.

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