The battle has concluded—
Undoubtedly, the Rias of this world emerged victorious.
With the engagement broken, the two girls breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a profound sense of freedom.
This sensation was extremely refreshing and put them in a pleasant mood.
Perhaps in the eyes of the elders in their families, arranging the engagement was for their own good.
Even if they didn't understand now, or even hated them, they would surely be grateful once they matured in the future.
Personalities that didn't match could be tempered; people always grow.
But they overlooked one single point.
That was their current feelings.
Even knowing they felt uncomfortable, the elders could not truly empathize with them.
"Sister Rias is so amazing,"
Ravel Phenex remarked with admiration.
Ravel Phenex was the youngest sister of the phenex family, and also the most beloved.
Because Riser Phenex wanted to collect beautiful girls of various attributes, he had taken Ravel into his peerage.
Of course, while he had become somewhat arrogant from mixing with the dregs of society, he wasn't so depraved as to lay a hand on his own sister.
If he actually dared to do such a thing, the phenex family would beat him to death.
Regarding Ravel, Riser felt mostly brotherly affection.
Collecting beautiful girls for his peerage was to satisfy his own desires.
In reality, the relationship between these two siblings was actually quite good.
"I actually lost."
Riser was somewhat in disbelief, but when he considered that Rias's brother was that Great Personage, it wasn't hard to understand.
She was the sister of the current Lucifer, Sirzechs, the hero who inherited the Power of Destruction of the Great King Family and ended the Devil Civil War.
For such a person to awaken her magic power early and reach the level of a Ultimate-class Devil was not unacceptable.
At least it was better than being ruthlessly crushed by the Breast Dragon Emperor, which would have left him with a psychological shadow of extreme fear toward dragons.
It was also fortunate that Riser didn't have a protagonist template; he had no 'old grandpa' in a ring, nor did he shout any cliches about how tides turn every thirty years.
"You've grown slack, Riser."
The Rias of this world had a faint look of excitement in her eyes, which she then concealed.
Finally free.
Thinking about how she could get close to her parallel-world self in the future without the occasional internal discomfort of having an engagement, the Rias of this world couldn't help but smile happily.
However, facing Riser, she naturally wouldn't let her emotions show.
Though, truth be told, she didn't actually hate Riser as a person.
After all, he was a Pure-blood Devil, a noble among Devils, and had received a good education.
Especially the phenex family; compared to traditional Devils, they were already equivalent to the reformist faction.
Their values were relatively similar to humans, rather than the unruly Devils of the past.
Hearing the evaluation from this world's Rias, Riser was first stunned, then gave a bitter smile.
Not all Pure-blood Devils can become Ultimate-class Devils; one should say that the Ultimate-class Devil level is already equivalent to the limit for Pure-blood Devils.
Devils are a race that relies heavily on bloodline talent; Low-class Devils are generally just Low-class Devils, and it is very difficult for them to reach Middle-class.
The same goes for Middle-class; they are already the backbone of the Devils.
High-Class Devils are generally Pure-blood Devils, and a few underdeveloped ones might not even be able to reach that rank.
Ultimate-Class Devils are generally the heads of Devil noble houses and the like.
As for the God-Devil level, that is already top-tier combat power.
Transcendentals, for instance, are already beyond standard specifications and are generally not included in such calculations.
Transcendentals are directly counted within the rankings of the entire world.
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With the engagement ended, the names of this world's Rias and Sona had gained some renown.
However, let alone stepping onto the world stage, they were still quite far from even the main stage of the Devils.
Sona wanted to create a school that ignored social class, which was an extremely difficult task.
When Rias had initially done this, it incurred the malice of the entire Devil Council.
It was just that all this malice had been crushed by Rias.
Sona wanted to realize her dream, but she couldn't do it the way Rias did; she could only take it step by step.
Compromise was inevitable in that process.
Fortunately, she wasn't an ordinary noble either, but the sister of a Demon King.
Happy times are always brief.
Soon—the new semester had already begun.
At this moment, Rias was fiddling with a red orb.
Just like in the previous world, Rias had taken out Issei Hyoudou's Sacred Gear, the Boosted Gear.
Dragons and heroes always share a mysterious attraction.
Just like destiny.
To prevent the women she had her eye on from being snatched up by someone else, Rias had no choice but to nip this potential source in the bud.
But she didn't want to kill Issei Hyoudou; after all, this Issei was different from Makoto Itou—he was a bit perverted, but he was a real man.
So at most, she would take away his Sacred Gear, ensuring he would never be involved with the other world for his entire life.
Although this approach was very self-centered, compared to killing him, Rias was already being very gentle.
After all, she was the strong one now.
"Speaking of which, did the 'me' of this world want to go for a power-type build?"
Rias murmured.
Should she give the Sacred Gear to her?
After thinking about it, she still felt a bit of discomfort.
Forget it; the magical device she handcrafted was much stronger than a Sacred Gear anyway.
There was no need to use the Boosted Gear.
Besides, having Power of Destruction was enough; the doubling ability was quite redundant for Rias.
By learning the Hakai Hōteishiki, reaching the realm of the Dragon God was inevitable.
The only difference was talent and the time it would take to reach that Dragon God realm.
Going even further was only natural.
"Whatever, never mind."
Tossing it casually into some dusty corner of her spatial magical device, Rias looked out the window.
"That child should be arriving soon, right?"
Rias said softly.
Asia Argento was originally a nun who possessed the Sacred Gear 'Twilight Healing,' which had an indiscriminate recovery ability.
Because she treated Theodora Astaroth, who had pretended to be heavily injured, church personnel discovered that Twilight Healing could heal Devils, and she was subsequently expelled from the Church.
This was because they believed that a power capable of healing Devils already belonged to the category of a witch's power.
They would praise her as a Holy Maiden when needed, and cast her into the ranks of witches when not, treating her with cold indifference.
There are always such fools at any time, who only know how to bully a kind, airheaded girl.
As for Theodora Astaroth, he was a nun-con who specialized in toying with nuns and Holy Maidens.
He loved to see the sight of an original Holy Maiden falling into depravity; many girls had already become his playthings.
In Rias's world, this guy was caught during his very first operation, sentenced, and became a member of the daily mining crew.
Because he was a pure-blood High-Class Devil, he would have to do that mining work until the end of time.
There was nothing to be done about this world; if she encountered him, she could intervene, but there was no way to help those who had already been victimized.
No matter what, she couldn't save everyone.
What she could do was give Diodora a slash and then have Sirzechs arrange things for those victimized girls.
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