Chapter 26 - Sparring

The ceremony continued normally without any mishap. Soon it was Rias and Sona's turn to receive their pieces.

Leo, I watch the whole process with curiosity. From the moment they touched the monument until they received their evil pieces, except for the brightness emitted by the monument, everything was too normal ...

Leo could not feel anything coming from the monument but even so, he was able to feel the magic of the person who touched the monument for a brief moment but once he came into contact with the monument any trace of magic disappeared completely.

But Leo was not demotivated so he took his time to analyze any changes in the monument.

"So it worked like that ..." Leo thought to himself. After examining the changes in the monument, Leo managed to get a superficial idea about how it worked.

'Once they touch the monument, it emits a small pulse of demonic energy towards the person who is touching it, this causes the receiver to respond with their magical pulse to the monument, then the monument will receive it and emit another pulse that it is the fusion of its demonic energy and the demonic energy of the person who is touching it' Leo thought to himself.

He could only discover it's functioning up to that point, later, he was not able to feel anything for which he speculated that the monument created a different pulse of magical energy for each person to "communicate" whit that person.

"But, for what?" Leo thought without being able to explain why the monument would want to communicate with the person.

'How complicated ...' Leo thought to himself. Although he was quite intrigued to know how the monument worked, he could only retain his curiosity.

"Leo" Sona called, she had just picked up her evil pieces.

"Mn"

"I'm going to accompany Rias home, she wants to include Akeno in her nobility as soon as possible ... Are you coming with us?" Sona said with a small smile. Since she and Rias had already received their evil pieces, she had no reason to stay longer.

"Sure, no problem"

How Rias was in a hurry, the group did not take long and they went to the Gremory clan.

When they approached the Gremory family's mansion, Leo could see a woman who was familiar to him.

When they approached the Gremory family's mansion, Leo could see a woman who was familiar to him.

"Welcome home Rias," said the woman with a smile. The woman was Venelana Gremory the mother of Rias.

As in the anime, Venelana had short linen hair and violet eyes, compared to Rias when she was older, her figure made the men drool.

"I'm back," Rias said with a smile.

"Venelana-sama" Sona greeted while bowing slightly.

"Ara ... Sona, it's been a long time without seeing you" Venelana responded to Sona. Sliding her gaze to Leo, Venelana tilted her head curiously.

Noticing Venelana's gaze, Leo stepped forward.

"Nice to meet you Venelena-sama, my name is Tomika and I am a friend of Sona." Leo bowed slightly as did Sona.

"Ohya ... what a lovely boy" Venelana smiled.

Listening to her, Leo could only smile awkwardly.

"Laughs how was the ceremony? I heard Riser was there too. "Venelana asked carefully. She knew very well the rejection that Rias had towards Riser so she always avoided the subject but at this moment, she was quite worried about Rias.

"Nothing happened," Rias said with a forced smile.

Turning, Rias looked briefly at Akeno and then at his mother.

"Well ... Akeno seems to feel quite impatient so I apologize." Rias didn't want to take any longer, after all, she didn't want to discuss the wedding issue with her mother.

Looking at her daughter running away from her, Venelana sighed regretfully before leaving.

Upon reaching the courtyard of the Gremory family, Leo saw the girls who were quite discouraged. Knowing it wasn't

"Looks like I've made you wait," Rias said as he looked at Akeno.

"You don't have to worry about Rias-sama," Akeno replied.

Without further delay, Rias took a chess piece from his pocket, exactly the Queen. Like her hair, the piece was color red, blood-red.

Walking towards Akeno while holding the chess piece in his hand, Rias placed the Queen piece on Akeno's ċhėst, at the same time, a crimson flow of demonic energy surrounded Rias's body.

Once the piece touched Akeno's body. The red piece began to glow and entered her body.

After a moment, a bright crimson glow illuminated the place and the devil's wings appeared on Akeno's back.

Leo who was watching this, let out a sigh. As with the monument, he was not able to feel anything coming from the chess piece.

'For now, no matter how hard I try, I will not be able to discover anything about the system of the evil pieces.' Leo thought to himself.

Ignoring the master and servant duo that they were discussing something Leo didn't know. Leo looked at Sona curiously.

"Sona" Leo called.

"Huh?"

"Are you okay? You look quite discouraged." Leo looked at Sona who was decayed, with concern.

"I'm fine ..." Sona said with a forced smile.

"Sona t ..." Before Leo could finish, Akeno interrupted.

"Leo-san ... I was thinking about testing my skills and was wondering if you could help me," Akeno said.

"E ... ok" Leo said awkwardly, never expected Akeno to ask to fight him.

'I'll have to talk to Sona later, she looks pretty discouraged since we arrived,' Leo thought as he looked at Sona who looked even more decayed than when she met whit, Bane.

Focusing his attention on Akeno. Leo examined her from head to toe.

"So, she wants to get used to her powers as a devil ..." Leo thought to himself. As a fallen angel, Akeno was surely quite strong in itself but surely she didn't know what her abilities were like a devil.

"I'm very sorry for the inconvenience Leo-san ... Akeno insisted that you were the most suitable person to help her," Rias said apologetically.

"Nothing happens. Besides, I would be happy to test the skills of the famous priestess of thunder." Leo smiled.

Listening to him, Rias sighed in dismay.

"If you want to fight him, they will have to do it away in another place, I don't want them to ruin the garden," Rias said seriously, he didn't want to damage her mother's plants.

"So what are we waiting for? let's go" Sona said. Her dėsɨrė to see Leo showing her abilities surpassed her.

Leo shook his head when he saw Sona who was previously discouraged, cheer up magically.

The group headed to the training rooms so that Akeno and Leo could play without destroying anything.

As soon as they arrived, Akeno spread his new wings and flew awkwardly to the center of the training camp.

"Leo-san, I hope he doesn't hold back against me and..." Akeno said as soon as he reached the center of the field but stopped when he discovered that Leo was not with Rias and Sona.

Examined the field, Akeno found Leo on the other side of the field looking at her with a smile.

'Fast' Akeno thought to herself.

Not only was Akeno. Sona and Rias were also surprised by Leo's speed. A moment ago I was with them and now I was on the other side of the field.

Smiling before his reactions, Leo looked at Akeno who was frozen in the air.

"You don't have to worry about that... So, let's start?" Leo said with a smile as he stretched his body.