Seeing all this, Kozue smiled.
When she caught Issei, Kozue was afraid that the world would somehow try to save the protagonist, but none of that happened.
Still carefully, Kozue led Issei to her dimensional shop and thought about what to do with him.
Seeing that the world would not somehow save Issei, Kozue thought about taking away his Sacred Gear.
The Red Dragon Emperor's gauntlet was a powerful artifact that would drastically increase Kozue's power.
But what discouraged him was the fact of having someone connected to his mind.
Thinking of a way, Kozue devised a viable plan.
I would take Issei's Sacred Gear and give him Ddraig's body.
And after that, he would sign a contract with the red dragon to be his battle partner.
The details of this contract were beneficial to Kozue, but it basically boiled down to Ddraig having to help Kozue in battle and a few other details.
Of course, Ddraig had to agree.
With Ddraig's confirmation, Kozue bought a form from the dimensional shop to give Ddraig a body.
He could have bought a full adult body for Ddraig directly, but Kozue didn't have enough points.
Wanting to spend as little as possible, she chose a ritual to create a specific body and that way she would spend fewer points.
In this world, throughout history many magical rituals were created to create a body, and Kozue only had to choose one of them.
The first part of the ritual was to obtain a sample of the DNA of the body he wanted to create, DNA which he obtained by buying a drop of blood from Ddraig when he had his complete body.
And the rest was following the steps of the ritual to use that blood and rebuild a juvenile dragon's body.
Of course, Kozue wasn't an expert in magical rituals, so he also paid points to have the dimensional shop perform the ritual.
Ddraig's body was that of his youthful form, so it will take a long time for him to return to his adult form if he does nothing but absorb the magical energy of the world.
But it could speed up the process if it ate other powerful beings or precious materials.
But with his current strength, Ddraig would be in great danger if he went out right now, so in the short term he will be under Kozue's care.
That, and the fact that they were in his dimensional shop, gave Kozue the assurance that Ddraig would not break his word.
And if Ddraig refuses to sign the contract after regaining his body, Kozue will not be lenient.
Since Ddraig is weak at this time, Kozue would easily capture him, erase his mind and personality with mental magic, and turn him into an obedient pet.
But none of that was necessary.
Ddraig did not break his word and gladly signed the contract.
With the contract signed, Kozue had a training partner and an assistant for future battles.
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The days passed and Kozue continued with her normal life as a student and her training did not stop.
His training sessions with Rias and his peerage are after school, so he was returning to his normal routine hours later lately.
And then he would go out to see Robin and Mikita and continue his physical and magical training.
He told his parents he had joined a club, so he would return home a few hours later and eat on his own so they wouldn't save him lunch.
After arriving home, he would spend some time with his parents if they weren't working before going out under the pretext of visiting some friends.
And if his parents weren't home, he would just leave a note saying he would be back in a few hours.
If anything happened, his parents could call him on his mobile phone.
With the magical artifacts they had secretly inside their bodies, Kozue was less worried about their safety.
And just in case, he also took care of any stray demons that were nearby.
Kozue spent all her time focused on her training, and didn't know when the plot would begin until she suddenly felt several energy signatures entering the city and gathering at the abandoned church.
Knowing where they met, Kozue was sure who they were.
For several days, Kozue spied on them from a distance thanks to her Observation Haki.
Using the points he had gathered so far, he was able to improve his Observation Haki and its range reached up to one thousand meters.
When he couldn't spy on them himself, he let Robin watch over them with her Devil Fruit ability.
Mikita also joined thanks to the monitoring spells that Kozue managed to secretly place.
Thanks to various spells, such as invisibility and other illusions, Kozue entered and left the abandoned church as if nothing had happened.
And because he kept an eye on the fallen angels, he learned their plans.
This group of fallen angels had arrived in Kuoh City to keep an eye on Sacred Gear wielders.
And especially to Issei.
Kozue learned that somehow Azazel, the leader of Grigori, knew who had a Sacred Gear and that Issei had the Boosted Gear.
'I suppose Azazel is qualified to know someone's Sacred Gear,' Kozue thought.
The leader of Grigori is a well-known scientist with a special interest in Sacred Gear, so it didn't seem strange to Kozue that Azazel knew that Issei would be the next Red Dragon Emperor.
The days passed and the fallen angels did nothing suspicious.
But that didn't last forever.
New orders supposedly arrived, and the message came accompanied by some street exorcists.
And here things took a sharp turn.
Azazel's new orders were to eliminate the Sacred Gear wielders because they were a danger to Grigori.
And with the help of the exorcists, the fallen angels must watch out and be wary of the demons who attended Kuoh Academy.
Kozue knew that Kokabiel planned to kill Rias and Sona to start a Great War between factions, so he sent his subordinates to study the situation in Kuoh City and be sure to carry out his plan.
With new orders, the fallen angels got to work.
And while the fallen angels would deal with the Sacred Gear wielders, the exorcists targeted the demon contractors.
Seeing the exorcists' fearless behavior in confronting Rias and Sona, Kozue realized that Kokabiel wanted to know if the two younger sisters of the Satans from the demon faction had any bodyguards.
Seeing that one of the fallen angels was heading towards its first victim, Kozue got up and left her house.
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Dohnaseek was the first to head towards his objective.
Among the four fallen angels who arrived in the city of Kuoh, Dohnaseek was the one who loved to fight the most, so he wanted some action by chasing his victim and forcing him into a desperate fight.
His victim was a human who possessed a Sacred Gear that allowed him to manipulate the earth, so Dohnaseek was certain that the weak human would at least put up a fight.
Dohnaseek found the human while he was on the street and used magic to clear the place of unnecessary people.
And after 10 minutes, the human was fleeing desperately and entered an alley with a winged, hooded pursuer on his back.
He entered the alley a few seconds later, only to find it devoid of any signs of life.
'Where is he?' he wondered.
Before entering the alley, he had put up a barrier to prevent interruptions, so he was supposed to easily find his target.
But he didn't, and he wondered if his target had left the underground area.
If so, Dohnaseek would regret not having finished off his victim beforehand.
Suddenly…
Are you looking for someone?
The hooded man suddenly heard something behind him and acted accordingly.
A spear of light formed in an instant in his hands and stabbed behind him.
A smile could be seen on the man's face.
Dohnaseek thought his target hadn't fled and had only used his Sacred Gear to hide underground and appear behind him to attack him by surprise.
He could already picture his target stabbed by his spear of light, with a large hole in his stomach.
But soon, her smile froze at what she saw.
A completely black hand had caught his spear of light.
The hooded figure tried to back away, but the grip of the black hand was strong.
CRACK
And with a single pinch, the spear of light was shattered to pieces.
The destruction of the light spear awakened him, and he jumped back, preparing a new light spear.
For a moment he wondered who the young man was, but he didn't get distracted and raised his hands.
In Dohnaseek's eyes, all humans were weak insects.
If only he knew how wrong he was