Highschool DxD: Crawling x Chaos

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~Yuta Yukimura~

I felt the cold sweat on my back as Rias glared at me half heartedly. I could tell that she was angry at me but at the same time, she knew she couldn't be mad at me because I had asked for permission.

But damn did having my boss who can easily disintegrate me with a flick of her fingers angry with me put my balls in my throat.

To recap for you, the voices in my head. After my defeat of Viser, I was carried back to the ORC by Koneko of all people, it was quite awkward being carried by a girl that barely reached my chest but she didn't seem to mind. Hell, she even complimented me.

'...Nice smell.' I don't know what that counts for but its a pretty girl complimenting me.

But yeah, this is how I ended up here, facing down an angry red lioness.

I averted my eyes, this was quite awkward huh?

After a few moments of suffocating silence, Rias sighed and got up, walking toward me in silence before...

Pomf

Contrary to any expectation I had, Rias simply held my head and pulled it toward her breasts, burying me in them much to my confusion, I expected to be hit or worse.

"I want to be angry at you. And I am, not because of what you did but because you willingly threw yourself into danger." I wriggled my way out of her bosom and tried to give her a confident smile that just ended up being shaky instead.

"Well, I trusted that you guys wouldn't let her do any real injury to me. And I did ask for permission." Rias sighed and slumped her shoulders, I could hear her heart beating like this.

"You just know the right words you have to say to get out of trouble don't you?" I smiled at that, if I was good at anything, it was getting myself out of bad situations. "But my point still stands, Yuta-kun, why were you so willing to throw yourself into danger when you didn't have to?" And then she added.

"And don't think I forgot about your new powers. I'd like to hear about them. Not to mention the familiar you had."

I looked to the side.

Yeah... I suppose it was time to come clean.

Or I suppose as clean as it was beneficial to me.

"I... discovered an ability I had. I don't know if it's some bloodline from my ancestors or a sacred gear or whatever. But I keep developing new powers." Rias tilted her head while furrowing her brows to think.

"Developing new powers? I can't say I heard of that before but it's not unbelievable, Akeno did tell me about your cooking power. Still, that doesn't explain why you rushed headfirst into danger." I scratched my head, she was weirdly insistent on that topic huh?

"Well, the way I get new powers is... a little strange. I randomly get more powers, I wanted to see how I measured up to a stray devil-like Viser when I had the chance, there doesn't seem to be any demerits to it. They usually develop when I actively do things and push myself so I thought I'd try my luck there." Rias looked at me with a thoughtful expression.

"Hmm, that is indeed strange. Maybe it's a mutated sacred gear? I'll have to ask my brother and Lord Ajuka. But, I'm glad you have a good ability, you fought rather impressively there you know? Even Kiba or Koneko may have struggled against Viser." I furrowed my brows.

That wasn't likely, the way they held themselves against Viser with such confidence told me they barely considered Visser a threat, maybe she would have been able to hurt them on the off chance she tagged them but I did not have glowing hopes for Viser even in such a scenario.

"I wouldn't consider what I did particularly impressive. Viser was about as smart as an animal at best, she didn't bother to protect her vitals and forgot about me the moment my familiar attacked her." Rias gave me a small smile.

"If you want to be modest about yourself then that's fine I suppose." She chuckled like she found it funny but I honestly didn't consider it impressive, if she were any smarter I would have had to rely on Kiba to bail me out.

"Also, don't think I forgot about your familiar friend, who was she? I know you didn't visit the familiar forest and sky elementals are very rare." I averted my eyes.

"You know, I found her... around." Rias quirked an eyebrow.

"Around?"

"Yeah... around. I just met her and then she became my familiar. You know, chance encounters, shiny Pokebeast in a bush." Rias giggled a little and shook her head.

"Well, if you don't want to tell me it's fine. Your familiar is clearly serving you fine so there won't be any problems." I made a show of breathing a sigh of relief, I really did not want to explain my gacha creating or summoning fully sentient entities foreign to the world.

Abilities and Traits? That can be explained away but fully sentient alien beings couldn't.

"Well, if you ever feel the need to, remember we are open to helping you train your abilities, don't be shy to ask for help Yuta-kun, you are a part of this family." Rias hugged me one last time before letting go.

"Now, it's quite late, you should probably head home and get a nice sleep, today must have been quite exhausting." I could assent to that, I felt pretty darn tired after fighting in a life-or-death battle.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

I laid in bed tired, I decided to skip working out today as I had enough action for the day, and I had a lot on my mind to think about.

Stray Devils. Seeing one in front of me made me think about my current situation in more depth.

I could have been in Viser's position, intentions or not, the moment you abandon your king you are an outlaw. If you rebelled violently it was a direct death sentence.

If I ran away I would be labelled an outlaw by a race I had no choice in being a part of and be imprisoned and or be put to death. How screwed up. But I could understand.

It's rare that I get angry, I've felt too much unfairness in life to be quick to anger, even if someone spat in my face I would probably feel irritation rather than anger. My emotions are usually chained down heavily by my logic, I did not get to live a life where I had the privilege to express my emotions.

But even so, I did not like being a slave.

So, what did I think about my current situation? It was complicated.

Rias was a good person, as paradoxical as that is for a Devil. She was kind, patient and caring. We knew each other for so little but I had a feeling she was already willing to throw down for my sake if things came down to it. I was very good at seeing through deception.

Being dropped in a volatile world with a power that was incredibly valuable to a fault, maybe being taken into Rias' peerage was a good thing. She was the best king you could have around, not only that she was a good pillar of support and a very strong back to hide behind.

If someone wanted to get me they would have to get through her first, if they wanted to get to her they needed to get through the Gremory Family first.

So, I did not feel particularly bad about being reincarnated into her peerage. She was the best boss you could get, and if you were weak you had to serve one boss or the other, no way or the other. So finding her could be counted as good luck since I was weak at the moment.

It was a dog-eat-dog world, might make right and the right. Especially in a world with such power discrepancy.

But.

It puts a very bad taste in my mouth. Being a slave, being forced into a servant position in a society that did not care about my life. I didn't dislike Rias or her being my boss, I disliked the fact I was not strong enough to avoid being put in such a position.

So, how would I solve this problem?

I shook my head, thinking such complicated thoughts weren't going to help me right now. I should live my life first before trying to find out what I am going to do with it.

What was going to help however was the ticket I got from Viser.

Feat Achieved! Defeat Viser without help +1x Gold Ability Gacha Ticket

Oh yes, this was going to help a lot. It's been a while since I got a Gold Ticket, I only got the one when I got turned into a Devil, was slaying Vizer that impressive? Well, compared to my other feats it certainly was. Vizer was an opponent clearly out of my weight class and I managed to kill her pretty handily. It may not be anything out of the ordinary for my fellow peers but it was certainly a hurdle for me.

I didn't feel anything about killing her of course, I had killed before and had no gripes about taking a life, I took my first life when I was mugged with a knife, I pepper sprayed him and pushed him on the ground before jumping on his neck.

I couldn't afford to have him track me down afterwards so I made the pragmatic and correct decision to take his life. Death was no stranger to me, I had seen it take plenty of passengers aboard.

Anyway, I am feeling itchy with a golden ticket burning a hole in my pants, time to roll that thing.

Give me something good.

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Rolling Gold Ability Gacha Ticket...

An Elite Ability

[Elite - Ghost Form]

|Rarity: Elite| |Class: Breaker, Stranger, Mover|

Allows you to enter a Ghost Form, while you are a ghost you can freely fly and phase through any mundane material while being immune to physical damage, you are also immune to mundane forms of detection. Likewise, you cannot interact with the material world. When in Ghost Form, you take double damage from elemental abilities, you are also vulnerable to all things ghosts are vulnerable to.

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Hell fucking yeah! An Elite ability? And this one seems incredibly good too, luck really is shining my way recently, its almost foreboding, good luck is almost never a good sign.

But that wasn't all.

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You have acquired 5 abilities +1 Active Ability Slot

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I felt a new imaginary notch open inside me and checking the Status showed that my active ability slots had indeed increased. That just bumped my versatility up by a decent chunk. Now if only I figured out how to decrease the ability slot cooldown of switching between abilities.

Whenever I swapped out an ability slot, let's say from Regeneration to Natural Weapons, I would have to wait 10 minutes until I could replace that slot again. I haven't felt any problems because of that yet but in a fight it could prove a pain in the ass.

Anyway, while I had a new toy to play with, I had a bed sensually calling my name to come to dreamland with it.

And I did not want to miss my appointment with Sandman when I was this tired.

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~Yuta Yukimura~

Ghost form was fucking amazing.

Although the restriction of getting double damaged by elemental attacks wasn't good everything else made up for it. I tested it by getting Cloud to zap me and damn it hurt.

First of all, I could fly, sure I could do that with my devil wings too but I have no idea how to use those. And besides, flight with Ghost Form was different.

I can freely move in any direction while completely ignoring gravity and physical barriers. My speed was easy to control and I was considerably faster in Ghost Form than in human form.

If I really put my mind to it, with my enhanced Devil stats I could clock in about 60 kmh, but with Ghost Form, it was double that at 120 kmh with almost instant acceleration and deceleration.

It was hard right now but I'm sure I will be able to flicker between Ghost and Devil form to dodge attacks and retaliate. The only fault I have with it is that I can't halfsie it.

Either I was fully ghost or not. I couldn't pull a Mirio and phase my arm through someone's punch and clock their jaw. Speaking of Mirio, I discovered that turning off Ghost Form while overlapping kinda resembled his.

I tested it by leaving a single finger inside the ground and turning it off, confident in regeneration being able to at least save a finger in the worst case. The result was the feeling of my finger being roughly shoved out and feeling sore.

A few more experiments showed that I was squeezed out at approximately 40-ish kilometres per hour so no clever exploits there.

I tested all of this along with the invisibility in the park where I started running since it was the weekend. I was trying to build up my stamina, by sprinting again and again, feeling the burn in my lungs and then feeling them fade was satisfying, with every lap completed, I was getting less tired each time.

Sure, it would be a while until my stamina became truly tremendous but I appreciated having visible growth to motivate me. And man was perfumer a blessing, sweating was not as unpleasant when your sweat smelled like some nice mild perfume.

To amuse myself while walking I decided to get up to a little mischief and summoned the Cloud Elemental while not truly manifesting her so that other people couldn't see her but she could still use her abilities at a reduced capacity.

Yes, I was using my Elemental Familiar to flip skirts for my amusement while walking. Why not? I was an evil and devious devil now, sin and debauchery were in my blood now. And the women of this town were almost all attractive for some reason.

But while I was going on my merry way I encountered something I did not expect.

"Oh no... they are everywhere!"

A nun face down ass up, grabbing clothes with her butt and panties fully exposed.

...And I thought this world was strange enough.

A/N: Yuta finally comes clean... ish, he reveals just enough to make it advantageous to him but not enough to raise a lot of uncomfortable questions. Luckily Rias trusts her servants to a fault and never forces them, even if she is curious or needs them to, if she doesn't use Koneko to use Nekomata mode and Akeno to use her holy lightning she won't force Yuta to spill the beans if he really doesn't want to.

Also, Yuta finally gets his first Elite ability and it's a good one, if not a bit vulnerable in DxD but it is very useful still, especially with the amount of synergies it had. And now that Yuta has unlocked the second ability slot he has a lot of synergies to discover, seriously, the abilities Yuta has have some of the most Synergies, especially Ghost and Natural Weapons.

If you guys have any synergy ability ideas I would love to hear them.

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