"[Forbidden Balor View]?" Hyōdō said, shocked after Gremory explained the reason for the time stop.

"Yes. That's the name of the [Sacred Gear] Gasper possesses. It's very powerful." Gremory answered as we had moved back to the clubroom to continue talking about Vladi.

"To stop time, isn't that close to breaking the rules?" Mitt asked curiously.

"Yes, that's true. But Ichigo's doubling power and [Hakuryuuko]'s halving power are both against the rules too, you know?" Gremory explained while everybody else nodded in understanding "The problem is that she's not able to handle it. Because of that Gasper had been sealed till now. Unconsciously activating her [Sacred Gear] was seen as a problem."

"How'd you make Vladi, who has such a powerful [Sacred Gear], into your servant, Gremory?" I asked, as I've been wondering how someone powerful like Vladi can become a Devil "I doubt a normal piece would work for her."

Gremory brought out a book from a mid-air, flipping its pages till she found the right one and presented it to us "It's a [Mutation Piece]."

"...[Mutation Piece]?"

"It's different from the usual [Evil Piece], bodies that clearly require more than one piece to be reincarnated can be reincarnated in one piece and it's a piece that can make such a phenomenon occur." Yumi answered.

"Buchou possessed that piece." Himejima-san added.

"Usually, for High Class Devils, 1 in 10 Devils possesses a single [Mutation Piece]. It's an irregularity born when the [Evil Piece System] was created, it's kind of like a bug but it seems like it was kept for fun. Gasper-chan is the one who used that piece." Yumi explained further, getting nods in response from the others

"The problem is Gasper's ability."

"Buchou, what do you mean?" Asia asked innocently.

"She possess a rare ability and it seems her [Sacred Gear]'s power increases when she's unconscious." Gremory answered with a smile "Maybe because of that, every day her power is increasing. From the previous conversation we can say, in the future, there's a possibility she may attain [Balance Breaker]."

O.O

"...She naturally getting stronger each day? That insane." I muttered out in surprised. Anime protagonists have the plot armour that makes them becomes so power in such a short while... But this is just taking things to the extreme.

"Yes." Gremory answered before putting a hand on her forehead "It's a critical situation. However, because my evaluation was accepted, it seems I was judged that I may be able to control Gasper now by the people that evaluated me. Maybe because I have Yumi, who has attain [Balance Breaker], and Raiga being as strong as he is."

"...Uh, e-e-even though I don't want you to talk about me..." Vladi's voice came from the cardboard box next to my feet... I feel sorry for Vladi at how scared she is of the outside world that hiding in a cardboard box made her feel safe. I don't know what kind of suffering she went through, but I can tell it's maybe more traumatising then Yumi's past with the [Holy Sword Project].

"Judging by ability, maybe after Akeno and Raiga, she would be next. Even though I say half vampire, she's from a pure-blooded vampire family with a good lineage, and has a powerful [Sacred Gear] because of her human half." Gremory explained "She's well-endowed with the abilities of vampires, and excels in human magic wielded by wizards as well. If not so, then she probably wouldn't have been made a [Bishop] with just a single [Evil Piece]."

"Buchou, vampires are weak against the sun, right? Is she gonna be fine outside?"

Gremory nodded in response at Hyōdō's question "She possess the blood of a special vampire known as Day Walker which can move in the day, so there's no problem. However, she may dislike it."

"I hate daylighttt! It's better if the sun disappeareeeeeed!" Vladi shouted

"Bit of an understatement, Gremory..." I muttered out loud before looking down on the box "Vladi, If you don't learn to control your power, you could hurt any of us here by accident. Also if you don't attend class then you'll have trouble opening up to others."

"No! I am fine inside this cardboard box! The air and light of the outside are a natural enemy to meeeee! Please let me remain a girl who lives in a cardboard boooooox!" Vladi screamed back.

"Doesn't she need blood? She's a vampire, right?" Ray asked.

"Since she's a half vampire, she doesn't thirst for blood as often. If you supply the blood for her once every 10 days then there's no problem. Though it seems she originally didn't like drinking blood." Gremory answered with a nod.

"I hate blooooood! I hate fish tooooooo! I hate liver as welllllll!" Vladi cried out in response.

"...A good-for-nothing vampire."

...Thanks for the vote of confidence, Tōjō.

"Uwaaaaaaah! Koneko-chan is a meanieeee!"

"For the time being, till I come back, Raiga, Ichigo, Koneko, Xenovia, I'll leave Gasper's training to you. Akeno and I will be going to the meeting place for the top of the 3 factions." Gremory explained "And Yumi, it seems Onii-sama wants to hear in detail about your [Balance Breaker] so accompany us."

"Yes, Buchou. Rai-kun, sorry but I'll leave Gasper-chan to you." Yumi said while I just nodded in response "Alright then. I'll have a go. Well, since Ichigo-san, Kala-sensei, Raynare-san, Asia-san, Mittelt-chan, Koneko-chan and Xenovia are here too, you guy can try and think something up. Probably."

"Gasper-kun, you should start getting used to the outside, you know?" Akeno spoke across to the cardboard box only to hear in response

"Akeno onee-samaaaaaaa! Please don't say stuff like thaaaaaaaat"

"Ara ara, that's troubling. Raiga-kun, I'll leave it to you." I gave a nod in response to Himejima-san before the trio left... Now how to help a Hikimoro vampire that fears the outside world, becomes a nervous wreck in the presence of other people, can't finish a sentence without stuttering or screaming from the start, can't control her OP [Sacred Gear]-

"Then, Raiga-kun, shall I thoroughly discipline her? A weakly is no good. Leave her treatment to me." I blinked as Quarta began to pull on a rope attached to the box to get Vladi outside... I got a bad feeling about this.

"Eeeeeeeeek!" Vladi cried out in fear "N-N-N-No way, I don't want to fight against the user of the [Holy Sword: Durrandaaaaal]! I-I'll be destroyeeeeed!"

"Don't scream, Gasper." Quarta replied while continuing to drag the [Dhampir] inside the box to the great wide world "If you like, shall I prepare a cross, holy water, and also attack you with garlic?"

"Eeeeeeeeeek! Garlic, noooooooooo!" Vladi screamed back.

"Better stop her before she accidentally kills Vladi."

"Yeah... That's probably a good idea." Hyōdō agreed as we moved after the unpredictable [Holy Sword] user and the [Dhampir] inside the box.

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I stood in front of Quarta, who was holding [Durandal] in her right hand, while I held on Vladi's collar in in order to prevent her from escaping and running back to her little box. Well, at least we were able to prevent Vladi from getting killed "Quarta, you can't just bring forcefully do something to someone that they don't like... Especially threatening her with a powerful [Holy Sword] like [Durandal]."

"Let me go, Raiga-saaan!" Vladi cried out but I just ignored her pleases.

"Why can't I?" Quarta asked with a child like innocence... Which doesn't suit her physical form at all "'A healthy spirit starts from a healthy body' and it would help her."

"That may be in the case of you but such a thing doesn't work for everyone and you could make her more scared then trying to help her."

Quarta took a moment to think on what I've said before lowering her head as she realised that she might cause more trouble "I guess your right..." With that she dismissed [Durandal], Vladi relaxing slightly with the Holy aura disappearing.

I turned towards the blondie vampire before sitting down to look at her at eye [LvL] "Vladi, I'll let you go if you're willing to try and stay outside for awhile. Keeping yourself away from everyone else will not help you in the future, as you have no control over you [Sacred Gear]. Now, we can do things my way or I can let Quarta have her way."

Vladi paled as she looked even more scared then before as she quickly nodded in agreement "A-A-Alright, Ra-Raiga-saaan. I'll try."

With that I let go of Vladi's collar, watching the [Dhamper] nervously look around the area. I watched Ray, Asia, Mitt and Phenex-san move to talk to Vladi while I thought of how to train the [Bishop]... Maybe I can use the [Desert Flames] to make an [Illusion] and have it as a target practice for Vladi, so that nobody can get in the cross fire of [Forbidden Balor View]'s power and I can practice with that flame.

After a few minutes of letting the others get to know the [Bishop], I approached Vladi in order to tell her of my training "Right so now you're more comfortable outside, we'll work on some target practice." I said to Vladi, giving me a nervous nod from her.

"I want you to aim at is this..." Pausing for a few seconds before creating a small dose of [Desert Flames] and willed it to take form on what want it to be.

"Aye sir!" Vladi eyes widened as she looked at the blue haired cat with wings on its back, floating near her.

"Happy?"

"Hai. He's made out of [Desert Flames], so you can't hurt him. Now, what is more important at the moment is that you can learn to activate your [Sacred Gear] at will rather the hitting the target so take your time." I explained, Vladi nodded as Happy moved to avoid Vladi's [Sacred Gear] from affecting the others. I kept an eye on Vladi, who was trying to focus on activating her power, while looking around at the others... She's too worried about the others, thinking that they'll get in the crossfire of her powers.

Asia, Mitt, Phenex-san and Tōjō are sitting around in a nearby spot, talking about something while Leone, Quarta and Ray was standing on either side of me to watch and encourage Gasper training.

I felt arms wrapped around my waist from behind but I didn't need to look back to know they belong to Kala. She hugged me tightly to her body "How long do you think she'll need to learn?"

"Not sure... She needs to find the trigger on how to [Forbidden Balor View]."

"I guess that's true..." Ray commented "I mean, Gremory said that she only activated it when she was scared before."

"Should we just scare her then? It would help her activate it." I shook my head at Quarta's suggestion, rejecting it instantly.

"No... She needs to learn to be able to find how to trigger it on her own." I explained as I continue to watch Vladi staring at Happy, trying to find the trigger in order to activate her [Sacred Gear] "If we scare Vladi, she probably wouldn't notice how it activated and considering [Forbidden Balor View] doesn't have a physical form like [Boosted Gear] or [Twilight Healing], she needs control first to avoid potentially lethal friendly fire."

"Oh, hey guys!" I looked to my right to Saji, wearing a jersey, army cotton gloves and was also holding a small shovel for flower bed use, approached us before looking surprised to see Happy near by "Wait, is that Happy?"

"Saji, what's brought you here?"

"After hearing that there was a hikikomori servant whose ban had been lifted, I came to see it a bit."

"Ah. That person is over there, practicing with Happy." I replied, signalling towards Vladi as Kala let go of her hold on me.

"Oh! Wait, it's a girl, huh! Not to mention blondie haired!" Saji spoke happily... I feel like messing with him right now.

"Sorry to say this, Saji, but that's a guy cross dressing."

"Well, this is swindling. More like, since he's wearing girl's clothing, it would be to show it to someone, right? And since he's a hikikomori, it's too much of a contradiction. It's quite difficult." Saji spoke depressed and confused.

"That's right. It's an incomprehensible cross dressing habit. Also I can't say anything about it suiting him." Hyōdō added with wide grin as she picked up from where I left off as Kala, Leone and Ray giggled "And, what are you doing Saji?"

"It's as you see. It's the maintenance of the flower bed. It's been Kaichou's orders since a week ago." Saji stated proudly "Hey, recently the events in the school have been many right? And also, next time [Maō-sama] and the others are coming here as well. It's the job of the [Pawn] of the Student Council, me, to make the school look beautiful."

I was about to comment on the last part when I felt a powerful presence appear near us, so I looked towards the source to see Azazel walking over to us calmly dressed in a yukata "Heh. The servants of [Maō]' family's Devils are playing over here."

"Azazel!" Hyōdō gasped surprised.

"Yo, [Sekiryuutei]. Kalawarner, Mittelt, Raynare. It's been some time since that night." Everyone else looked between Hyōdō, Ray, Mitt, Kala and Azazel before taking ready stances to defend themselves. Quarta holding her sword, Asia and Phenex-san moved to stand behind me while Hyōdō and Saji brought out their [Sacred Gears]... This might be a good time to see his strength.

[Obverse]

Character Name: Azazel

Alignment: Fallen Angel and the Gregory

LvL: 382

Profession: Fallen Angel, Cadre, Governor and Head Researcher of the Gregory

Title: Governor of the Gregory and Blade Governor

Fame: Governor of the Gregory

HP: ?/? Regen: ?

MP: ?/? Regen: ?

...I'm not really surprised at his strength. I can't believe that he's WAY stronger than Kokabiel, and that guy has the balls to start a war.

"Hy-Hyōdō, by Azazel you mean-!"

"I am serious, Saji. I have come in contact with this guy plenty of times." Hyōdō replied.

"Everyone calm down, he's not here to attack us..." I stated calmly with hands on my pockets "If he wanted to kill us, then this entire region would be destroyed in a matter of seconds... He's probably looking for Yumi."

"Raiga-kun is right, [Sekiryutei], Low Class Devil-kun." Azazel stated with a bitter smile "I wouldn't bully Low Class Devils. Since I was taking a stroll, I came to visit the Devils place. Is the [Holy Demonic Sword] wielder present? I came to see her."

"She's not here, Azazel-sama, if you had thought to call ahead you could have asked [Maō Lucifer] to arrange it." Ray pointed out.

Azazel scratching his head as he smiled sheepishly "I guess so... But its not very fun doing everything by the book. A unique [Balance Breaker] would be interesting for my research." Azazel replied, disappointed at not finding Yumi around. He approached closer to the group before pointing to a certain tree behind us, where Vladi is currently hiding behind it.

"The vampire hiding over there." Azazel continued towards where Vladi was hiding with Happy sitting on his head "You're the possessor of the [Forbidden Balor View], right? If you can't use it properly, then it will become a thing that causes harm to others. As a Support type [Sacred Gear], if you can supplement the deficient aspects, it should be fine but... Now that I mention it, the research of [Sacred Gear] by Devils didn't progress much. If you invoke it via the 5 senses, if the [Sacred Gear]'s owner's capacity is insufficient then, it will move naturally, and it will be extremely dangerous."

"You could try and avoid being so creepy with Vladi, Azazel." I stated as Azazel started staring into the [Bishop]'s eyes, making her tremble.

"Of I was just checking the [Sacred Gear]..." Azazel replied, turning to the rest of them before focusing on Saji's [Sacred Gear] "Is that [Absorption Line]? If you're practicing, try using it. Connect it to this vampire, if she invokes it while you're absorbing the [Sacred Gear]'s excess energy, it would probably run less wildly."

".....M-My [Sacred Gear], it can suck the power of the opponents [Sacred Gear] as well? I thought it simply absorbs the opponents power and weakens them....." Saji spoke, confused at hearing Azazel's explaination.

"Seriously, it's because of this that recently the [Sacred Gear] owners don't try to know the power of their [Sacred Gears] well enough. The [Absorption Line] holds the power of 1 of the legendary 5 [Dragon Kings], the [Prison Dragon], Vritra. Well, this was found out thanks to recent research. That thing can connect to any object, and can scatter that power. If it's a short time, it's possible to separate the line from the owner's side, and connect it to some other person or object." Azazel spoke with a sigh.

"The-then, the line on my side... For example I can connect it to Kōjiro or some other person? And then the power will flow into them?" Saji asked confused.

Azazel nodded "Yeah, if you grow, the number of the lines will also increase. If you do that the output of absorption will increase many times as well."

Saji became quiet from Azazel's explaination about his [Sacred Gear], which reminded me on what Kokabiel said about his obsession with [Sacred Gears].

'His [Sacred Gear] collection hobby is abnormal.'

"In improving the [Sacred Gear], the fastest way would be to drink the blood of the host of the [Sekiryuutei]. If you let a vampire drink blood, then they'll gain power. Well, do the rest yourselves." Azazel spoke before turning to leave and the stopping to face Hyōdō "Sorry for Vali, our [Hakuryuukou], for coming into contact with you on her own accord. I am sure you would have been surprised, right? What, she's an unusual girl but she doesn't think of settling the rivalry between red and white immediately."

With that Azazel left without another word, everyone else relaxing slightly while exchanging troubled glances before Saji sighed "...For the time being, shall I use my [Sacred Gear] on the new face-kun over there. In that state, let's try using his [Sacred Gear] and practice. In exchange for that, next time, I will have you help me out with the flower bed."

"Fair enough, guess." I said as everyone else nodded and we started on Vladi's [Sacred Gear] training. Saji connected the tongue of [Absorption Line] on Vladi and then using it to suck the excess power from her. After that Happy became the target of Vladi's aim, stopping it for a few minutes and making me lose control of the [Desert Flames] that made it until the time stopping was over.

As we continued on, we found out that people that gotting stopped by Vladi's [Sacred Gear] was completely stopped, to the point of consciousness that they only felt some malice before it happened. Also the closer things got in her field of vision, the longer it got stopped as with being farther away granted a greater range of vision but the stoppage time was shorter.

Due to Vladi's inexperience with her [Sacred Gear], only certain things within her field of vision was getting stopped and it seemed like she hadn't gained conscious control of it yet as there was accidents of her glancing at others and parts of there body getting stopped which caused the Vampire to run off while yelling sorry... If I didn't used the [Earth Flames] to lift her into the air.

Soon Gremory returned with some sandwiches and, surprisingly, without Himejima-san and Yumi with her "How is it? Is the practice making progress?" Gremroy asked, worry in her voice.

"Buchou, this is tasty!" Asia spoke between bites, and I have to agree with her. This is really good, better than anything that I've made before.

"Fufufu, Arigato." Gremory said with a smile "The ingredients weren't a lot so I was only able to make simple ones."

"Tasty!" Saji let out with a groan as Hyōdō and the others explained about Azazel appearing.

"I hear Azazel has substantial knowledge about [Sacred Gears]. Advice about [Sacred Gears]..." Gremory said while she looks like she'staying to think on why Azazel appeared "Maybe he had spare time to give advice to another person."

"Rias-senpai's back, I will be going back to working on my flower bed." Saji said before taking a couple of sandwiches, and then he left to work do the job that Sona asked him to do.

"Saji-kun. Thanks for going out of your way to keep my servants company. You have my thanks." Gremory thanked the blondie servant of Sona.

Saji's face reddened at hearing "I-It's alright. You're Kaichou's precious friend and I saw some new possibilities regarding the [Sacred Gear]. But I have to work on the flower bed as well, so... Later, Kōjiro. Work hard."

"Yeah, and thanks for helping us out." I replied as Saji left.

Gremroy turning to where Vladi was resting under the shade of the tree "Gasper, you can still continue on right? After getting sucked by Saji-kun, your power has been regulated to a perfect level, for the remaining time I will also keep you company in the training."

"I-I'll do my besttttttt." Vladi stammered in response, moving to stand back up again so they could continue practising.