Nope, help arrives!

Issei suddenly felt himself get grabbed by the back of his shirt and yanked away, just as the light shell went right through where his head had just been. He blinked as he realized he was clear on the other side of the basement. "...eh?" he asked, blinking, honestly surprised to still be alive.

"You okay?" Kiba asked from behind, still having a hold of Issei's shirt. He had moved immediately after the teleport, using his speed to grab Issei, and his momentum to pull him away.

"Yeah, thanks... Top marks for timing," Issei chuckled as Freed growled.

"Another shitty Devil, eh?" he stated, before charging with his light blade.

"Beat it, now!" Kiba shouted to the client as he blocked Fred's light blade with a sword he conjured with his sacred gear. The client didn't need to be told twice: he was running upstairs while Freed was busy. "Not very gentlemanly of a man to charge someone and swing swords at them," Kiba remarked, perhaps a bit hypocritically.

"Oh please! Let me guess, you two are lovers?" Freed snorted, making Issei splutter, and go red as Kiba just looked at Freed flatly. "Who's on top, and who's on the bo-" He got no further as Koneko came through the circle, and proceeded to punt a couch at him. CRASH! Freed found himself sprawled under said piece of furniture.

"...well, we found a bottom right there," Issei chuckled, before coughing. "Need a moment alone with the couch?"

Kiba laughed at the quip, and even Koneko had to smirk a bit as Freed went beet red with fury. "Do I LOOK like J.D Vance to you!?" he roared as he threw the couch off, seething. Before he could make another move, lightning came down on him, courtesy of Akeno, who had just come through the teleportation circle. "Argh!" he cried out.

"...to think, an Exorcist was where a client was," Rias noted as she also appeared. "You okay, Issei?"

"I'll live... Hopefully..." Issei groaned.

(Side note about the J. D. Vance joke. I make jokes about politicians in general, that was not meant to roast Republicans as a whole. Nor am I going to go into detail about my political views, that's a can of worms I just don't want to deal with. I will just make whatever jokes I have the material and opportunity for in general, while hopefully not crossing any lines, lol. But with how hot the political atmosphere has been lately, I feel the need to make that disclaimer.)