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Ravel produced her fiery wings, and flew about to avoid Raynare's Light Javelins. One grazed her cheek, only to be healed up, though she hissed with pain as she did. Holy attacks were harder to recover from. "How is this possible!?" she demanded. "What kind of Devil uses Holy attacks!?" Ravel demanded, blasting fire out of her hands like a flamethrower, forcing Raynare to dodge.

"Oh, that? I'm actually a Fallen Angel. Issei has all eight Pawn Pieces, but developed a spell that transfers the power of one piece to someone else, as well as Pawn status, without actually making me a Devil~!" Raynare smirked, reaching into the school uniform she was still wearing as she let her feathered wings out, and Ravel's eyes widened.

"That's cheating!" she growled, dodging another Javelin, before Raynare flew right at her, and punched her through the gut. She screamed as pain flooded her nerves, and she pulled back, regenerating, but slowly. Her eyes widened as she saw the cause: a cross, held between Raynare's fingers. Raynare went for another blow, but was hit by a hasty fireball, which sent her into the side of the building.

"Urk," Raynare grunted as she pulled herself out of the wrecked wall. "Afraid not," she gloated, dusting herself off, wincing as she felt the burns. Also, her midriff was now exposed. "No one ever made a rule against it, because no one's done something like this in your Devil Rating Games before. And before you say anything about the cross, that's also not banned, right? Why would it be? No Devil would bring one, they'd just be hurting themselves just carrying the damn thing long before they ever had a chance to use it on an opponent~! So no one ever thought to ban it! That's right... Issei is basically Rules Lawyering some advantages for our side!" Ravel snarled at the sheer audacity of it all.

Issei meanwhile was doing his best to hold his ground against Isabela, and doing a fine job, trading blows with her. She had the advantage at first, but then Issei got more Boosts in, and now Isabela was on the back foot. "Shit! How did you get so strong so fast!? It should have taken you several more Boosts to keep up with me!" she was demanding, before Issei's hand found her breast.

"Sorry, not explaining!" Issei smirked, jumping back from her fist as she tried to punch him. "And I'm ending this now! Dress Break!" he declared, snapping his fingers.

Isabela froze as she found her garments disintegrating. She sputtered as she covered herself, though not freaking out as much as the last two victims. "What is this!?" she demanded. She didn't get to ask any further questions as Issei used Explosion, and Dragon Shot on her while she was too preoccupied with her nudity to dodge. She gave a cry of pain as she was engulfed.

"Riser Peerage, 1 Rook, retired," Grayfia's voice announced.

Kiba of course, was clashing blades with his own opponent, who was keeping up with him pretty well. "Sorry, but I need to end this," he told her, and rushed in. She saw his arm swinging his current blade for her side, and raised her own to block. Shunk!

Her eyes went wide, and she looked down, seeing that same blade shimmer into view along with the arm holding it as the one she had tried to block vanished. "What?" she gasped, falling to her knees.

"Apologies for the underhanded trick, but as I said, this Rating Game has too high stakes for me to expend too much stamina on a duel," Kiba replied. "That sword I just made with my Sacred Gear? Renders my arm and itself invisible while projecting an illusion of them elsewhere. You were defending from the wrong angle."

"That's... Cheap," she groaned, before vanishing.

"Don't I know it," Kiba sighed, rubbing the back of his head.

"Riser Peerage, 1 Knight, retired," Grayfia spoke again.

"Ugh, this is ridiculous!" Ravel whined as she backed up quickly from Raynare, avoiding more Javelins. "Six Pawns, both Rooks, and a Knight gone, and we have yet to take a single piece? I would have thought Yubelluna would have at least taken the Rook by now... We're still going to win, but this will be an embarrassing Rating Game to look back on later..." she groaned.

"Heh, and we'll have a Queen and a Bishop to add to the taken pile before long!" Issei grinned as he stepped next to Raynare with Kiba.

"Tsk. You're overestimating yourselves too much," Ravel smirked. "I'm not sticking around to fight all three of you, especially not with your cheap Holy user, and as for Yubelluna... Sure, she might be facing two opponents, but she's Big Bro's Queen for a reason. Plus, she has a nice little trump card up her sleeve, even if they manage to put up a decent fight," she added, digging out a vial of something.

"...what is that?" Issei asked, narrowing his eyes.

"These? Phoenix Tears," Ravel smirked. "Our family trademark. They restore the stamina of the one who uses them and heal all wounds. Sadly, we're only allowed to bring two doses, but they're very effective. No doubt Yubelluna is letting them get some hits in, wearing them out... And at any moment now, she'll be pulling the rug out from under them when she restores herself to full strength!"

"Oh, that's bullshit!" Issei protested, and Ravel raised an eyebrow.

"...you literally have no right to talk. You've got a healer yourself, and you're fighting as dirty as sin! Don't even get me started on the Fallen Angel you smuggled in! The rulebook's going to need a rewrite after this!" Ravel lectured.

Issei gave her a flat look. "Bitch please, we're just evening the odds. You and I both know that we were being set up to fail from the start. First Rating Game for an incomplete Peerage, against a full Peerage that has won so many? This whole thing was blatantly rigged, and you know it," he replied.

She snorted. "We both know that Rias would be much better off in Riser's hands. Both for her, and for Devilkind as a whole." Raynare's ears perked up slightly. The words were vague, but something was off about the way they were describing Rias.

Issei shot Raynare a glance, then Ravel, wordlessly trying to tell her to shut up before she revealed anything concrete to the Fallen Angel. Fortunately, she got the message. "At any rate, I'm taking my leave," Ravel turned in the air.

"And what makes you think we'll let you go so easily?" Kiba asked, sprouting his own wings.

Ravel smirked and pointed towards one direction, and upon turning their heads, they saw the rest of Riser's Peerage, two Pawns, one Knight, and one Bishop, running right towards them. "Because you're about to be too busy to stop me," she answered smugly, before flying off.

"...I see arrogance runs in the family," Raynare stated dryly, before they turned to face their new opponents.