Healing up with Asia, and getting a lecture on how to improve his evasion skills!

"Ow, ow..." Issei groaned as Asia healed his injuries from the training.

"Your reaction time has improved a bit over the course of the training, but your situational awareness needs work," Rias remarked. "It took you five minutes to notice that you were only having to dodge Kiba and Akeno's attacks and wonder where Koneko went. Remember what I said about keeping track of all enemies in a fight?"

"That it never means anything good, when you lose track of someone, because they are always going to be doing something you won't like while you're unaware of the surprise coming your way," Issei nodded as Asia moved onto his electrical burns. "Such as being about to attack you from behind, setting up a trap, falling back to bring reinforcements if you happen to be winning the fight, preparing a massive attack... or in Koneko's case, going to get something overkill to try to crush me with," he whimpered.

"So you remembered the lesson, but still fell into the trap," Koneko said flatly.

"Koneko, knowing something, and applying it in the heat of battle are two different things," Rias chided. "That's why we're training him."

"Also, to be fair, Akeno and I were on him like smug on Riser Phoenix, so he didn't exactly have much breathing room to think with," Kiba chimed in.

Issei briefly considered asking who Riser Phoenix was, but mentally brushed it off as probably some asshole in Demon Nobility Rias had to put up with. More important things first. "True, but obviously that's not an excuse that will fly on an actual battlefield, so we're going to continue this training tomorrow, right?" Issei asked, not backing down from it despite the absolutely miserable experience. He winced as Asia finished up with a goose egg on his head.

"Yes, also, pro tip, work on learning to look up more often," Rias added. "That's a skill most people don't have, even when it really would benefit them."

Issei nodded at that. That was how he had gotten the goose egg Asia was currently healing, Kiba had jumped up when Issei was distracted by dodging the steel beam, and clobbered him from above moments after it had come to a stop. "For homework, you're going to want to practice paying attention to your surroundings," Akeno added. "I'll be testing you on that some time later." With that, Issei got up and headed home, already trying to do just that. He had a lot to learn, but he hoped to become an absolute pain in the ass to hit in the future.