DxD: The Holy Knight! Chapter 7 7: Misunderstandings

"Issei!"

Erging from the magic circle were all the mbers of ORC led by Rias.

Seeing Issei lying on the ground, the others could hardly believe their eyes. Then, they glared angrily at Yasuhiro, who was standing to the side holding the excalibur blessing.

"How dare you..."

Rias directed her fury at Yasuhiro, and a massive, crimson demonic aura imbued with a destructive will surged into the sky.

"Wait, Rias, we should get Issei back first, maybe there's still hope."

Akeno rationally pulled back Rias, who was preparing to blow everything in front of her to smithereens.

Hearing Akeno's advice, Rias cald herself slightly, restrained her imnse demonic power, and looked at Issei lying on the ground with a touch of self reproach.

If she had resolved everything before letting him go back, none of this would have happened.

She never expected that Issei's brother was such an extre, fanatical believer, only madn would harm their own family.

Yasuhiro's current posture was indeed misleading, and there were also so traces of a fight between the two of them around the area.

From these traces, it wasn't difficult to tell that only one side was chasing the other.

Yasuhiro didn't offer any further explanation.

He simply ignored the group and bent down to pick Issei up from the ground.

However, in the eyes of Rias and the others, this scene looked like a desire to completely exorcise him.

"Koneko, Akeno, get ready..."

Rias's anger, which she had just suppressed, was reignited.

"A Holy... Sword..."

Before she could finish speaking, Yuuto glared at the holy sword in Yasuhiro's hand.

He gritted his teeth and used sword birth to create two demonic swords, slashing them toward Yasuhiro.

No, it would be more accurate to say he was aiming for the excalibur blessing.

"Excalibur."

As Yasuhiro moved, Rias got a clear view of the excalibur blessing in his hand and imdiately confird its identity in her mind.

No one understands holy swords better than a devil, Rias would never mistake it based solely on the holy power emanating from the blade.

"It's a holy sword! This is troubleso. However, whoever dares to harm a servant of gremory will pay the price."

The trouble Rias ntioned wasn't simply about the holy sword itself or even its strength.

The Holy mnights who possessed holy swords also held unusual positions within the Church, and there was more...

"Koneko, Akeno."

Seeing Yuuto relentlessly attacking Yasuhiro, Rias directed Koneko and Akeno to help. She knew that Yuuto alone was no match for him, and she decided to see if there was any hope of saving Issei.

"Lightning strike."

"Huh!"

Yasuhiro looked at Yuuto, who was wielding his demonic swords and hacking at him like a mad dog.

With a slight exertion of his right hand, he used excalibur blessing to shatter the demonic sword in Yuuto's hand. Then, he grabbed Yuuto's head and threw him forcefully into the descending lightning magic.

Akeno was terrified, but it was already impossible to pull back the strike.

Yuuto was struck by the lightning and imdiately lost his mobility, collapsing limply to the ground.

Imdiately after, Koneko's fist arrived right on cue. However, her monstrous strength had no effect on Yasuhiro, who blocked it with his hand.

Without showing any rcy or pity, Yasuhiro struck Koneko on the back of her neck with a quick, short blow, instantly draining her strength.

Like Yuuto, Koneko collapsed to the ground.

"My, my, you really don't know how to treat girls well, you'll never be popular with the ladies."

Akeno, dressed in her shrine maiden attire, spoke casually, but the shock and tension in her eyes were undeniable.

Her fingers were slightly sweaty as she stood ready, not daring to attack rashly lest she follow in Koneko's footsteps.

The most surprised was Rias, who had the deepest understanding of her servant's strength.

Both Koneko and Yuuto had the strength of Middle class. Even if she were to fight the two of them together, it would take her so ti.

Moreover, Yasuhiro easily handled them while also dealing with her Queen, who has the strength of a High class.

Ultimate class strength.

Rias made an initial assessnt of Yasuhiro's strength and prepared for a retreat.

Rias felt completely helpless.

The strength of an ultimate class was beyond what she and her peerage could currently contend with. Even in the underworld, an ultimate class was considered one of the strongest beings.

Many clan leaders were only at the high class level in terms of strength.

"If you insist on continuing, I don't mind... Rias Gremory, but you might lose a servant with extraordinary potential."

Yasuhiro looked at Rias and Akeno, who were on high alert, and couldn't help but speak up.

The power of light within Issei was recklessly destroying his body. If he didn't receive tily treatnt, he might actually die.

"Issei's alive!"

Rias exclaid in surprise.

Rias was a qualified master, always concerned about the safety of her servants.

This might be related to her background in the Gremory Clan.

"He won't die for now, but who knows what will happen in a little while..."

Seeing that Yasuhiro seed to have no ill intentions, Rias and Akeno slightly reduced their hostility, but they didn't lower their guard in the slightest.

"A Holy knight training a devil, that's a bizarre story you'd never even read in a novel!"

Akeno approached silently from mid air, observing that Issei was indeed alive, and then gave Rias a wink.

"I'm just helping him develop his sacred gear, after all, his master is a bit too shallow."

Yasuhiro spoke frankly.

In his view, even if his brother Issei was a bit of a waste, his master Rias still bore a great responsibility for not being able to fully awaken his sacred gear.

"My, my..."

"You..."

Rias glared at Yasuhiro. He had insulted her in the very aspect she was most proud of, how could she not be furious?

"Isn't that right? You couldn't even develop the Boosted Gear, one of the thirteen Longinus."

"What else could it be but shallow knowledge and shallow strength?"

"The Boosted Gear!!!"

This ti, it was Rias and Akeno's turn to be shocked, especially Rias. She had always known that Issei's sacred gear definitely wasn't a simple Twice Critical.

How could it be simple when it consud eight Pawn pieces?

She hadn't just looked up information once, but she never dared to think about a Longinus because it was too rare and sowhat unattainable.

"This is the Boosted Gear. Legend has it that it can double the wielder's power every ten seconds, until they attain power surpassing even Maous and Gods."

Rias noticed that Issei's left hand's Twice Critical had changed drastically, becoming the exact shape of the rumored Boosted Gear.

Seeing this, Rias was speechless and unable to refute it for a mont.

This confird Yasuhiro's assessnt of her as shallow in every aspect, which made her resent him.

Akeno, standing to the side, found it amusing to see Rias blushing slightly with anger and still unable to vent her frustration.

This was a rare embarrassing mont for the president, it was just a pity she hadn't brought a cara.

At the sa ti, Akeno also developed a interest in this ruthless knight.

...

Yasuhiro hoisted Issei onto his shoulder and glanced at Yuuto, who was slumped on the ground, still glaring hatefully at the Excalibur blessing.

"Yuuto Kiba, I know you're a survivor of the Holy Sword Project. You and your companions are a stain covered up by the Church."

"You deserve to die..."

Yuuto absolutely wouldn't allow anyone to use the Holy Sword Project or his friends as a talking point.

Especially now, those comrades hadn't just sacrificed themselves, but had also been regarded as a stain by the Church.

Yuuto could never accept it.

"I'm simply stating a fact, a fact you're desperately trying to avoid. Because of the Holy Sword Project, you hate and despise holy swords, and you want to destroy all of them."

"In fact, the holy sword is without fault, it's rely a weapon. Its goodness or badness depends solely on the person wielding it."

"You understand this in your heart, yet you've consistently avoided it, directing all your bla and hatred toward a cold weapon."

"No, I didn't..."

Yasuhiro's words undoubtedly struck a nerve with Yuuto, prompting him to instinctively refute them.

However, he felt that any rebuttal would be pale and powerless.

Yasuhiro turned around, carrying Issei on his back, and left, leaving them watching his figure recede into the distance.

...

"It seems our holy knight is kind hearted deep down."

Akeno observed Yuuto for a mont, the hatred in his eyes had dissipated, replaced by boundless confusion.

"Yes, Yasuhiro is a good person."

Koneko rarely praised anyone, completely unconcerned about his earlier ruthlessness.

The three of them understood the pain and hatred in Yuuto's heart well, but they didn't know where to begin or how to resolve it.

It seed that Yasuhiro's remarks just now were quite insightful.

"But his words are so infuriating."

Rias still harbored considerable resentnt toward Yasuhiro.

"Rias, honest advice is hard to forget."

"Akeno!!!"

---