After handling one more thing!

"Alright, time to write down the details of that Piece Transfer Spell for Grayfia, then head back," Issei remarked, Kiba grabbing him some paper and a pen. "Thanks, now, let's see..."

"Oh, Master, before you write down the mechanics of the spell, I should tell you about one feature I MAY have added in," Rias said to Issei, who paused, fiddling with the pen in his new left hand, looking around to make sure Raynare wasn't present at the moment.

"...what feature?" he asked, a little suspicious.

"Erm... Just a bit of an emotional booster... Basically, while you had your Pawn Piece power transfered to Raynare, all feelings she felt towards you were amplified a decent amount. Positive, or negative, they got the same treatment?" Rias told him, smirking a little mischievously.

"...why?" Issei questioned.

"Well, I think we both know that you're interested in her, given you're past the whole impaling you to **** thing, thanks to that previous wish you made," Rias replied cheerfully. "Of course, I also knew that you wouldn't want me outright mind controlling her to join the harem, and you want things to develop naturally, so... I just decided to accelerate things a little is all. Both negative and positive feelings, so regardless of where the chips fall, it's still organic, just with a speed boost of sorts. You probably don't want to give Devilkind that version of the spell though..."

"... definitely not," Issei nodded, deciding to let that small interpretation of the wish for the spell slide. She hadn't gone against any rules, after all, just bent them slightly. Rias told him how to do the spell while excluding that particular feature, and he began to write it down.

SNAP! Only for the pen to splinter between the fingertips of his new hand. It had more natural strength than the old one, after all. "...klutz," Koneko smirked in amusement as Issei groaned, retracting his now ink covered hand.

"...I somewhat take back what I said to Riser... NOW I'm seeing a downside to the whole trade," Issei grumbled, wiping the hand with painstaking slowness, not wanting more mishaps like cutting his right hand, or tearing the handkerchief he was using. "...still totally worth it though."

"You got a wish in mind for that arm?" Rias inquired.

"I was thinking just the ability to shapeshift it between human looking, and draconic at will. It will still be the arm of a Dragon, but one I can make look human unless I desire otherwise," Issei replied. "Sexual justification being me obviously not wanting to scare off any girls I may want to flirt with."

"That should work, we'll handle that once we have had enough time to plausibly come up with a spell to do that we can tell Raynare if she asks," Rias nodded. "Riser was right, the Welsh Dragon is powerful enough that I doubt I could undo it to the point where your arm returns to being Devil in nature."

"And it would probably piss him off and make him unwilling to work with me if we did that anyway," Issei replied. "I'm dumb enough to do a lot of things, but deliberately doing something to anger a Dragon is definitely NOT one of them..."

.....

Once he finally got the spell mechanics written down, he turned them over to Grayfia, and they headed to the spell circle, Raynare grumbling as she carried some food and drinks gifted to the Peerage by Sirzechs, who figured they'd want to celebrate their victory. And of course, given her position, she was the one stuck carrying everything. Retrieving the bags was what she had been doing during that whole conversation.

Once they were back in the Occult Research Club, Issei plopped himself down on a couch. "Whew!" he sighed in relief. "That was quite the time we all had!"

"Some more good news too!" Kiba grinned. "I heard through the grape vine that the judges gave up on finding a pretense to hand Riser the victory on some technicality. Which means we have officially won our first Rating Game!" Left unsaid was that once it was clear that the Lamp wasn't up for discussion anymore, said friends Riser had wouldn't be inclined to risk political backlash anymore. Given it was the primary reason Riser filed that formal challenge to the results in the first place, it was doubtful Riser particularly cared anymore anyway.

"Sweet!" Issei grinned. "Let's get this party started then!"

"Actually, before that!" Raynare huffed, plopping the bags down. "Don't you have another bit of business to attend to?" she asked, looking at Issei intently.

Issei blinked. "Um, what? Am I forgetting something important?" he asked Raynare.