DxD: The Holy Knight!

"Welcome back."

Rias and Akeno were faced with an unusually familiar scene.

It felt as if their experience in dorte was a dream. It seemed unreal yet it remained fresh in their minds.

Especially after seeing their own posture and the tea on the table still steaming slightly, everything felt out of place.

It was not until Yasuhiro spoke that the two of them snapped out of their daze.

"How long were we gone?" Rias looked at the steaming cup of tea in front of her and asked the question, trying to prove that she could not believe what she just saw.

Yasuhiro smiled and said, "Including the time it took you to wake up from your daze, it shouldn't have been more than three minutes."

"What an incredible journey." Akeno sighed.

The various scenes that occurred in dorte within the illusion were still fresh in her mind.

"The journey was full of wonders, but the person who created it is clearly on a higher level," Rias glanced at Yasuhiro and said.

"It is rumored that dorte was destroyed by the burial agency. This journey has undoubtedly confirmed this claim."

Yasuhiro did not respond to Rias.

She wasn't surprised by the result. She hadn't intended to extract anything useful from this guy.

It'd be more interesting to dig deeper on her own rather than try to force the answers out of him.

"How did you feel when you saw him use lightning?" Yasuhiro asked Akeno.

"I felt his control, and that power that acts like the might of the world." Akeno pondered for a moment then answered.

The biggest characteristic of Dulio and his lightning was its variability, which was often seen by others as a sign of absolute control.

What Yasuhiro deliberately kept from her was the truth behind that control.

Dulio's terrifying mastery over the weather and lightning wasn't purely born from his talents alone, it was largely the work of his sacred gear, zenith tempest.

Yasuhiro didn't intend to tell her that fact outright.

He was waiting for Akeno to fully digest the experience over time.

By letting her believe such control was achievable purely through personal training, she would slowly push her own limits to uncover the true nature of her skill.

Rias clearly recalled the raging lightning that Dulio unleashed just before the destruction of dorte.

It seemed that the lightning only destroyed the city, without causing any energy leakage or impact on the plants and trees outside the settlement.

In particular, thinking back to the investigation done by the underworld, dorte only had residual light power.

There was no trace of lightning or anything like that, which was obviously different from what she saw in the illusion.

Rias remembered what her brother told her during his spare time when he was teaching her how to train.

He said that if someone had an exceptionally strong control of their own energy and could even control their power to a certain limit during battle then even after the fight was over not a trace of their energy would remain.

This would easily avoid many future troubles.

Though, he also said that there were few people in the world who had such powerful control over their powers.

"Yasuhiro, is the person who destroyed dorte a secret trump card that the church trained?" Rias couldn't help but ask.

"Rias, we may be familiar with each other but since you know he is the secret trump card that the church trained."

"Don't ask further." Yasuhiro gave her a long glance.

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