Rias and Akeno were preparing for the competition by doing stretching. Of course, there was a whole crowd of people, mostly men, who wanted to gawk. Hyodo was ready to tear everyone who was gawking into pieces, but Rias's soft gaze calmed his ardor.
The first few minutes of the competition went as usual, but in the excitement of the game, strengthening spells began to flash out every now and then.
Sona hit the ball and it went to the Gremory team. The head of the family stepped back to receive it, but her foot fell into a small hole and her body began to fall. No one had time to understand anything. A void formed in the place where Issei was sitting. Rias did not have time to fall before she felt herself being picked up in arms. Opening her eyes, she saw the brown predatory pupils of a dragon in front of her.
"Issei? When did you?" The dragon silently examined his mistress's face. After a few seconds of such staring, Hyoudou put Rias on the ground, but the girl took a step on the leg she tripped on and immediately began to fall, but the brown-haired man managed to catch her and picked her up, carrying her to her family.
"President, are you all right?"
"No, everything is fine. Issei, you want to play? I'd like to sit out of this one."
The dragon thought about the offer for a few seconds and then announced his consent with warm air. Rias explained to him exactly how to play.
"The main thing is not to overdo it, okay?" Issei agreed and went out onto the court with Akeno.
"Huh? A change of player?" You don't mind Sona, do you?"
'I don't mind, so shall we continue where we left off?"
'Yeah." The ball began to fly from one side to the other, occasionally falling to the ground and bringing points to one team or another. After some time, Rez and his company came to watch the competition.
Hyodo immediately noticed this and sharpened all his senses. Rez and his cahoot all felt the increase in the dragon's power level.
Rez approached Rias, who was sitting on a chair. "What happened?"
"None of your business."
"Why are you doing this, I was being kind."
"If you don't want to lose your life, then disappear."
"Why are you so angry? I was just asking what happened to you." Rez approached Rias with his face, grinning stupidly.
The air was pierced by the whistle of a racket and the next second, Griffon's face was crumpled from the hit and his body turned around its own axis and sat on its butt. The red-haired guy rubbed the place hit by the ball.
"Wow, such accuracy at such a distance. I have to admit that he is no newbie to this."
"If you come near me again, you won't get away so easily, so disappear."
"Okay, okay, I'm afraid my teeth won't survive the next hit. I'm going, good luck to you."
"Get lost already."
Rez stood up from the ground and dusted himself off before heading off. Issei walked up to Rias to pick up the ball. After picking it up from the ground, Hyoudou looked into his mistress' eyes for a few seconds, causing her to blush.
"Oh, come on, I didn't call him." The dragon looked at Rias's face for a few seconds, then agreed with her words by releasing a wave of warm air.
When tennis ended with Sona's team winning, everyone began preparing for the third event.
The third was volleyball. Both teams had four people. The match was very heated, since winning it meant winning the competition. Strengthening spells began to appear here and there, making the ball fly like a jet.
"Well, Issei, maybe you should give up?" Saji tried to spur Issei on, but the dragon wasn't going to give up, because his owner was watching him. Rias asked Hyodo not to use magic. If the brown-haired man could use magic, he would have won a long time ago.
The score was almost even, both sides had one ball left to score. Hyodo was preparing to serve, but he noticed that Rias narrowed her eyes slyly and nodded. The dragon understood everything and threw the ball up and prepared to serve. At the last moment before the ball touched, a higher-order strengthening spell flared up in the palm of his hand and the ball disappeared from sight after touching the palm.
No one understood anything. A fairly large dust circle appeared on the opponents' territory, after which the ball hit the wall of the academy.
"Huh? What was that?"
"Did someone see something?"
"How did that even happen?"
The judge stood silently for a few seconds and then announced the victory of Rias and her club. "The Occult Research Club has won."
The members of the Gremory family approached their mistress and celebrated their victory. Everyone except Issei. The dragon silently approached the head and looked into her eyes for a few seconds.
"Issei? What's wrong?" The brown-haired boy picked up the scarlet-haired princess of destruction and sat on the ground, placing her on top of himself, which made her blush very deeply. "I-Issei, what's wrong? Everyone is watching." Hyodo simply silently looked into his mistress's eyes.
"President, does that mean we won?" Asia asked at this moment.
"Yeah. That's all. Let's get ready to go home."
"Okay."
The family packed their things and headed home. Issei carried Rias in his arms despite all her protests that her leg didn't hurt anymore. In the evening, after changing her clothes, Rias lay down on the bed and immediately fell into the dragon's tenacious embrace, but this time she didn't resist.
Not only because there was no point, but also because nothing would have worked. Issei fell asleep almost instantly, and Rias followed him into the kingdom of Morpheus.
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