High School DxD: The Game Master

Sona looked at Rias, "Are you implying there might be stronger versions?"

Rias shrugged her shoulders, "Given the name, and everything else we've seen so far, it would be on theme for there to be stronger versions.

Of course, that's assuming this version even works at all. I'd suggest we take it and give it to my brother so he can pass it to Ajuka for testing."

Sona didn't even need to think about that before nodding her head in agreement, "Right. Grab your potion and let's get out of here. We still need to do something to deal with the death of Issei.

We also need to find the person that made this dimension and figure out if they were trying to murder the boy or if it was an accident."

Given how weak Rias said the rats were, she wasn't above believing that the death of Issei had been a complete accident. Rias grabbed her prize potion, and the four of them made their way to the exit.

The moment Akeno, the last one out, crossed the threshold, the portal vanished as if it had never been. At the same time, Akeno's eyes widened slightly, "Oh my."

All three other girls turned to face her immediately. Rias, concerned for her Queen, was the first to speak, "What? Did something happen?"

Akeno nodded, "Yes. It's strange but, the moment we left the pocket dimension, I felt a very tiny bit of energy enter and merge with my demonic power.

It's made me the very smallest bit stronger than I was when we entered it."

Rias blinked in surprise, then her eyes widened as her body began to vibrate in sheer joy, "Are you saying you got EXPERIENCE POINTS?!"

Sona sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. Tsubaki just shook her head in exasperation. Akeno though, smirked at her King and nodded imperiously, "I believe I did."

Rias's excitement changed as she gasped in shock, "I missed out on gaining experience points! That's not fair!"

She'd clearly forgotten the Least Healing Potion she was still holding in her hand as she violently pouted at the missed opportunity.

Still, this brought up another curiosity about the pocket dimension Sona decided to discuss, "So, you got stronger, even if it's just a tiny amount, by beating the 'monsters' in the 'dungeon' like some sort of RPG game? I mean, it fits the theme of everything else but that's just..."

Rias sighed and nodded, "If just some tiny rats could give enough of a power boost to be noticed, no matter how small, it brings to question whether or not stronger monsters would give a stronger boost.

Even if not, just the small, but noticeable, gain would have everyone fighting to get their hands on the person who made all this possible. Even more so than the potion would." She looked Sona in the eyes, "This could cause a lot of problems."

Sona nodded in agreement. When word of this got out, it would cause a feeding frenzy in their territory as everyone who wanted to gain power descended on them.

She had no doubt that something like this would get out eventually, it always did. They needed to be careful of many things, not least of which was also making sure that random civilians did not happen to wander into the pocket dimensions and die.

Speaking of, Sona sighed, "We have a lot of work to do tonight. We need to deal with Hyoudou-san's death."

As she mentioned that, both of them froze and looked at where the portal entrance had been. Sona groaned and looked accusingly at Rias, "You left his body in there."

Rias attempted to distract Sona by acting cute, "So much was going on I forgot, teehee pero."

The flat look of near repulsion she got in reply made Rias sigh, "Alright, I messed up.

How about I take care of wiping memories? School hasn't been going long so it should be easy enough to make people forget he even attended and have it so he died over the summer. It will give his parents closure at least."

Sona sighed but nodded her head, "Fine." She held her hand out, "Give me the potion then and I'll contact my sister to get it to Ajuka-sama.

And don't you EVER teehee pero me again. That was so gross."

Rias pouted but, reluctantly, gave the potion to Sona who immediately released a pair of wings from her back and took off into the sky. Tsubaki gave her goodbyes to Rias and Akeno before following her King.

Rias turned to Akeno and sighed, "Come on, at least we can use the city-wide spells for this. Though we'll need to do the details in person."

Rias and Akeno both released wings from their backs and took off as well. Simple spells made it so people wouldn't notice them as they made their way toward their destination.

Ryuji yawned lightly as he walked toward the entrance to the school. His first weekend had been nice and relaxing, minus the homework he'd had to do.

He did think he wasn't doing enough to grow his power though. He might not be super familiar with the source material of his new reality, but he did know there were beings within it that could destroy the entirety of the Earth with a misplaced sneeze.

Well, they might not be that strong, but he was sure they were close enough that it didn't matter. So, that meant he needed to make his first scenario, get someone to run it, and have them spread the word so he could run more and more to gain power.

He wasn't sure what the limits of his powers were, or even if they had limits. He also had no idea how strong he was compared to others, but he was going to go with 'weak as hell' and be happy if he was wrong.