"Please..."
After eating at a small restaurant, Gorou strolled through the city with Rei.
Although he hadn't expressed himself much during their walk, the atmosphere between the two men was pleasant.
'I feel like I'm being heard for once,' were Gorou's honest thoughts.
While not being a man of few words, Rei is a good listener.
However, all things must come to an end.
"You have to go back to the church now."
"Please."
This is how Gorou found himself with a teenager kneeling in front of him.
Rei didn't want to go back.
"Is there something about the laboratory that bothers you?"
If that were the case, he seriously thought about correcting it.
When he created the humans and the artificial devil before him, Gorou decided to house them in the laboratories.
Why?
They're too striking in appearance to easily stay under the radar.
"Not visually, but I'd like to stay by your side to better ensure your protection."
His tone was deadly serious.
Gorou was stunned for a moment by his words, but he realized the logic behind the devil's statement.
But...
'Keep a healthy young man under my roof with my insatiable wife in bed? Nah... bad idea.'
He prefers to wait for Soji Okita's awakening.
"Thank you, Rei..."
Rei stood up, displaying a slight smile on his face.
Unfortunately, the next words temporarily erased it.
"But my safety isn't your priority right now," he said, placing his hand on his shoulder.
"The laboratory... no, your sisters need you, and I have this," he showed a bolter attached to his belt.
Rei hesitated for a moment before nodding.
After seeing him disappear down the street, Gorou's gentle expression vanished.
'This kid is loyal, but questioning decisions for my well-being could be a problem...'
He still had tests to put the devils through.
Currently, Rei is a 7/10.
He passes.
If he had failed...
'It would have been painful to kill him.'
Without knowing it, Rei earned the right to live thanks to his loyalty and taciturn personality.
...
"You seem in good shape, Issei."
After removing his bothersome clothes for more house-appropriate attire, Gorou shares a family meal.
'He's in a more... joyful mood than usual.'
Despite his nonchalant expression, Gorou's words and actions differ greatly from his thoughts.
For example, his absent hand on the table is currently caressing Miki's thighs under the table.
However, she lightly pinched him.
The perverted act under Issei's nose went completely unnoticed by the poor boy.
"Um, I met a girl today," he said in an abnormally happy tone.
Issei talked about his encounter with Asia Argento without hiding anything.
Unfortunately, this information was poorly received by Gorou.
Why?
This news simply shows Issei's inability to keep his word regarding Raynare.
'He's had a month with a Longinus, which literally possesses a heavenly dragon.'
But Issei hasn't evolved enough during his days with Rias and her peerage.
As he is, he could beat a low-ranking stray devil with luck.
However, Raynare's case is impossible.
'I'd better train too, to avoid ending up like this kid.'
The exoskeleton has limits.
He's already thought about creating armor similar to Warhammer 40k's Terminator, but it will still require considerable strength on his part.
The solution is controlled doping and physical training to maximize his already great genetic potential.
Of course, he must monitor his health throughout the process.
He's not Jack Hanma.
As for martial arts...
'I'll do like with the clones and inject myself with the experience of the best in their field.'
He now knew what his priority was, aside from supervising Soji and Alpha's awakening.
The dimensional portal will have to wait a bit.
His personal strength now takes priority because the canon is advancing too fast at his expense.
"I see, and you seem to really like this girl... have you imagined her current situation?"
Issei looked toward Gorou, clearly confused.
The man sighed before reminding Issei of the fate of Sacred Gear users in the supernatural world.
"I... we have to help Asia!!"
Issei suddenly stood up from the table, but Gorou immediately stopped him.
"Think for a minute, do you really think your mistress will help her? Do you even have real proof of her situation?"
"I... you can get it... can't you?"
BAM
After Issei's words, his father immediately gave him a right hook to the face.
"Honey!!"
Miki immediately intervened.
Gorou didn't look toward his wife but kept his eyes on his child...
"Issei... are you a man?"
Issei didn't maintain eye contact with Gorou, a disappointing reaction.
Grab.
After going around his wife, despite her protests...
Gorou grabbed Issei by the shirt collar.
"Kid, do you think the supernatural is a game? I gave you a month to deal with a simple mid-rank creature, but there's little progress."
Bitterness wasn't hidden in Gorou's voice as he spoke about Raynare's case, or Yuuma Amano.
"Now you want to send your 'daddy' to take care of saving a girl you like? Against a supernatural organization? Do you have any dignity? Answer me, Issei!!"
SLAP.
It wasn't Issei who intervened, but Miki.
"Sorry, I... I got carried away, honey." After apologizing somewhat to Miki, he left without finishing the meal.
No, he wasn't sorry.
He just wanted to appease his pregnant wife and not stress her too much because of a teenager playing with things... beyond his understanding.
'Asia won't die in this timeline, I'll see to it.'
As for Issei?
Gorou just hopes he'll seriously start seeking strength.
He doesn't want to explain everything to him because that would be too suspicious.
Issei must find Ddraig by himself or vice versa.
"I'm leaving..."
After warning Miki of his departure, Gorou returned to the laboratory in a calm and somewhat solitary walk.
Miki didn't respond to his departure.
But this tense situation in the Hyoudou family made a certain red-haired devil happy.
"Sorry to disappoint you, Rei, but we have a raid to prepare," he said while taking Soji Okita's DNA.
"Are you in trouble?"
Rei's question caught him slightly off guard, but Gorou just smiled without confirming or denying.
The two men spent the entire night working under the white light of the laboratory and sometimes in the workshop.
Rei wasn't created for this purpose, but he just wanted to help his creator.
An attention that earned him an 8/10 in Gorou's book.
Fortunately for everyone (readers),
This was a DxD world without integrated BL or yuri, but with normal hentai and slice-of-life stories.
Thanks to his subsequent experience in the field of knowledge and experience transfer, Gorou was able to finish without difficulty.
He assimilated all of Okita's martial knowledge without inheriting his thirst for combat, which was a correct advance in his plans.
He even made two chainswords, for himself and Rei.
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"Here, this is your birth gift."
Gorou had dark circles under his eyes from lack of sleep, but his smile was genuine.
"I... I don't know what to say *ow*"
Rei's "happy" face was obscured by a grimace caused by a sudden migraine.
A phenomenon that occurred when Rei touched the blade of the chainsword and not the handle.
Gorou smiled more because he was satisfied with the effectiveness of the basic and efficient device.
"Sorry, I forgot to warn you never to touch the blade."
Rei nodded after seeing the inscriptions written on the blade.
Normally, such simple weapons wouldn't have caused a problem for a high-class devil like Rei.
However, things are different with a few modifications.
'I mixed the metal with the little mithril in my possession, and I engraved biblical verses on the blade as a bonus.'
Rei literally touched the word of the Biblical God.
A stupid action for a devil.
For comparison, Issei felt terribly uncomfortable in an abandoned church.
So a chainsword that was mixed with magical metal cooled with holy water during forging?
Unfortunately, he lacks magic to complete these blades.
"I... I'm going to sleep, then I'll take care of those ravens in my city."