DxD Chapter 86: Irritating x Interruption (Patreon)

~Serafall Leviathan~

"Boost!"

The moment the words left Takumi's mouth Sera felt his aura change completely, his magical energy levels spiked and with her eyes enhanced by magical energy she saw the changes that happened to Takumi in detail.

The wings of light on his back that she assumed were made of light were instead cracked and faded away like a sheath hiding the real wings, revealing a huge pair of red draconic wings underneath and with that, Takumi's eyes went from teal to a nuclear green that started glowing, similarly, his reddish brown hair changed to one that looked red hot metal including the glow.

"Damn, he looks hot." Almost all devils were attracted to power, and Serafall did not consider her an exception to the rule, the fact that this was her self-proclaimed brother who suddenly showed this much power definitely helped turn her on.

Takumi inspected his new powered form with a confident smirk before locking eyes with Serafall and grinning widely like a child.

"Seems like I will be able to put up a better fight now Sera." Takumi held out his hand and then snapped his finger, the sound echoing across the wasteland.

Crackle! Crackle!

Serafall watched in wonder as the moment Takumi snapped his fingers, several star-like spots of light came to life, floating around him like a cosmos.

Strangely, she couldn't sense much, if any magical power coming from those stars but her instincts honed from years on the battlefied told her that those spots of light were not safe.

Then.

"Here Sera, have a taste of the sun."

The spots of light expanded and Sera felt danger.

"Nuclear Blast."

Serafall was not very knowledgeable about science, but even she recognized the term nuclear blast, and instantly knew those spots of light were bad news. She quickly put up a fivefold barrier of ice as the earth shattered and rumbled.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

The sounds of explosions drowned out every other sound in a 100-kilometre radius as several dozens of focused nuclear explosions were fired toward Serafall's barrier, hammering against it with dozens of blows. Beam after beam coming down on her barrier like mortar fire.

Serafall was feeling very proud at this moment. But still, she sent out a wave of ice energy that stopped the nuclear fission that was occurring to open an opportunity to dash in and intercept him, because that nuclear barrage was frankly very annoying to deal with and seemed very spammable as Takumi looked like he could've continued bombardment for days.

Serafall dashed in and Takumi's eyes recognized what she was trying to do, but instead of teleporting away and resuming bombardment the dragon in him was too prideful to back down the from challenge. So he took up a boxing stance and goaded Serafall who smirked.

"Let's see how well you do with hand-to-hand combat Taku-tan!"

Serafall got in range and threw a blitzingly quick jab toward his eyes that he managed to block by raising his arm but still grimacing in pain at the weight behind it, Serafall was no slouch with reinforcement magic. She threw out another jab just to frown from the sensation, with the second jab Takumi's block seemed way sturdier.

A beat later she noticed the bright red scales now covering Takumi's arms, she quickly followed her two jabs with a whip-like sidekick that Takumi blocked with his shoulder but was still sent skidding away.

'His defence is good.'

This time, Serafall let him have a moment to breathe to let him go on the offensive and go on the offensive he did, throwing himself at Serafall with an unusually fast straight but it was too simple, people often rushed Serafall thinking she was only good with magic in the war like she was Ajuka when she was skilled at both close and long range.

She quickly deflected the straight and sent a blinding jab toward Takumi's chin, hitting it square on and sending his head yanking back but his lack of sight didn't seem to affect him as he tried to sweep her before she did a little hop and drove her knee into his gut, sending him back again.

Ptui!

Takumi spat a glob of blood onto the ground before wiping the blood from his mouth and facing her again as they exchanged blows, she saw him visibly improve as they fought but it was clear that Takumi would never get an inch of ground in close combat, it was simply not his forte and Serafall had decades of experience turning the bones of devils into powder with her hands.

For every blow Takumi got close to landing she broke 10 bones of his. Not that those held him down for more than a single second. They exchanged blows over and over until Serafall hit his face a bit too hard and sent him flying back.

"Oh shit! Are you okay Takumi?" Serafall watched as Takumi got up, cradling his broken face, she got a bit too nostalgic about her days fighting in the devil civil war that she applied a bit too much force.

"Yeah, I'm fine, but this clearly isn't working." He said that but she could see the irritation and anger on his face, he unfurled his wings again and took to the skies his magical power surging, Serafall readied her wand just in case and roused her own magical power as she watched Takumi soar.

"Let's finish this!" His magical soared even higher, increasing in a volatile manner until it approached even hers. Serafall felt a twitch of excitement. It had been decades since she let loose.

Takumi breathed in and his chest puffed up before he opened his mouth, forming a ball of green fire in front of his mouth that he just packed more and more energy into, she could even see him adding those stars into it and divine lightning crackling around the orb.

The magical power increased to dangerous levels, at a point where thanks to the holy lightning, Serafall wasn't keen on letting it touch her. If it did, it would take her arm off. And then Takumi finally unleashed it. Just the sound of it was so vast it drowned everything else out.

"Explosion!"

All of his stored energy transferred into the attack he breathed out that dwarfed mountains in size, so hot that the nearby mountain range had already melted to slag, it was no attack to scoff at, it would no doubt incinerate a lesser god.

But Serafall was not insignificant.

She poised her wand against the ray of pure destruction with a smile.

'I better limit the range a little so I don't get yelled at~!'

When the other Satans had their unique abilities to fall back on like Ajuka's Kankara Formula which was the nightmare of all magicians or Falbium's Absolute Defense which even gods couldn't get past or Sirzechs being Destruction Incarnate towering over even almost all gods himself. Serafall had no such abilities. So, how did she keep up with them and be recognized as a Satan?

Simple pure sheer talent.

She was simply the most talented Sitri, ever. She had trained her ice magic and combat ability to the level that even gods of ice couldn't match her prowess with ice. Her ice and cold were even beyond the level of Absolute Demise, a Longinus handcrafted by the Abrahamic God.

She was Serafall Leivathan, a Satan whose Ice was second to none.

"Celsius Cross Trigger!!!"

And it froze over.

One moment, the beam of pure destruction was heading her way, and the next moment, it, and everything, every single thing around them without distinction was frozen over, so cold they crumbled. Not a thing was spared.

She had transformed a portion of the underworld larger than Italy into a frozen wasteland in a single move. Not a single signature of life remained, not a blade of grass.

Serafall rubbed her head in exasperation. Even though she restrained the area she still caused a lot of unintended damage.

'Yikes, I'm totally getting yelled at. But it's not like Taku-kun's blast would have done any less damage.' It would have been even larger than that, besides, freezing stuff was better than erasing it with heat. Serafall shok her head adn noticed Takumi falling out of the sky and quickly rushed over and grabbed him out of the sky, cradling him like a kitten.

"Ooh~! You've gotten so much stronger! You make me so proud Taku-tan!" She nuzzled his hair which had gone back to normal while Takumi's teeth clattered.

"So damn cold. My pride has been thoroughly crushed, I am humbled." Takumi muttered to himself watching the wasteland subjected to Sub Zero temperatures.

She had just snuffed his strongest attack and froze a country-sized landmass along with it. They were in different leagues.

"Aww~ look at you all tuckered out! Do you need big sis to warm you up all nice and cosy with her body warmth~?" Serafall asked teasingly as Takumi hung limply in her arms.

"...I am too exhausted to reply, I just want some sleep right now and nothing less." Serafall cooed and rubbed her face against Takumi's dead-looking one, he had just spent basically all of his energy and then some on a single attack and now he was paying the price for his hubris.

"Alright then~ since I won I will take you home and pamper you lots~" As she was fussing over Takumi another female voice rang out.

"So this the new Red Dragon Emperor claiming to be the son of Ddraig? I almost thought that Ddraig somehow managed to escape with his energy so closely resembling his." Serafall turned on her heel to see a large azure-coloured dragon fly down and land on a mound of glaciers she had created, looking over the pair with a curious and bemused expression.

"What are you doing here Tiamat? If you are here for my brother you can forget about it, I am not giving him away!" Sera held onto Takumi tighter while glaring at the dragon, her and Tiamat were around the same level of strength and she would be fully willing to put the paws on the old reptile if she tried to lay a claw on her Takumi.

The dragon shook her head, clearly exasperated by her undoubtedly childish behaviour.

"Your weird relationship aside, I am just here to see the boy claiming to be the son of Ddraig and his ability so closely resembling his. And because I needed to have a talk with the little Red Dragon Emperor. You see, Ddraig and I had a score to settle."

Takumi closed his eyes and sighed in exhaustion as the aura of the azure dragon washed over him, clashing with Serafallas as metaphorical sparks flew in the air.

Sometimes being popular was truly a curse.

A/N: Serafall is kind of a monster, Takumi has stepped into the hard hitter zone but he is just at the base of the mountain in terms of ultimate power levels.  Hope this fight was good enough to display the current power levels and show Takumi's current arsenal. Also tried to add a little backstory to Serafall the canon never gave.

And Tiamama is finally here too, it was rather inevitable with Takumi calling himself Goch and turning the entire underworld upside down. Two prideful dragons meet, I wonder how that will go.