( Yuuki's POV )
Issei: President, who is this pretty girl?
Yuuki: Issei... Gasper is a boy.
Issei: Huh!? That can't be, Sensei!
We gathered in the club room to talk about Gasper, and the first to speak was Issei, who mistook Gasper for a girl, I can understand his confusion, I corrected him, but that was almost too unbelievable for him, so Rias had to intervene.
Rias: This is the last member of my peerage, Gasper Vladi. He cannot control his powers and has been sealed for a while. And yes, Issei, he is a boy.
Yuuki: And you called me here to fix your little control problem, I suppose a new kind of supplemental gear should help.
Rias: I know you're very busy, sensei, but I thought you'd be resistant to Gasper's abilities. I'm sorry I have to ask this of you.
Yuuki: Don't worry, I appreciate taking on specific tasks; it's good experience for future experiments, and besides, I can't ignore a request from my lovely students.
Rias blushed slightly at my words and a small smile appeared on her face, but she quickly returned to her serious demeanor.
Yuuki: Well, before I get to work, Issei, could you call Ddraig?
Issei was somewhat confused by my request, but before he could ask any questions, his sacred gear activated and the voice of the red dragon echoed throughout the room.
Ddraig: [ What do you need from my teacher? ]
Yuuki: If a piece of your Sacred Gear were torn off, would it grow back or would it be lost forever?
Ddraig: [ That depends on what you take. If you were to take some scales, they would grow back almost immediately, but other parts would take more time and energy, but as long as my core remains intact, everything can grow back. ]
Yuuki: Fantastic, would you mind if I took a few small samples?
Ddraig: [I don't mind, but you'll have to ask my partner. ]
Issei: Well, if Sensei needs it, that's fine.
Yuuki: perfect!
Using the Ascalon sword, I took some escape and some pieces of the gem from the back of Issei' hand, then I left the clubroom while my head filled with ideas to fulfill Rias's request.
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( Mitsuki's POV )
As the leader of the third exploration group, I took a cargo flying ship with a decent arsenal and my team consisting of my sister Mitsuha, Kyoko, Kyoka, Linze, Elze, Kanzashi, and Tatenashi.
The signal I chose to follow was currently the weakest signal we had detected, not a goal that the third strongest Sekirei in the family (excluding non-combatant, goddess-level members) should take but I had a feeling this could be one of our most dangerous missions, I could feel it in my gut, or maybe I'm wrong, either way I'm going to be ready for the worst.
When our flying ship crossed the portal created for us, the first thing we saw was an empty plain, with only the sounds of nature to be heard.
Mitsuki: I'll go down for a better view.
Kanzashi: Huh? Isn't it better to keep exploring from the ship?
Mitsuki: I'll have a better sense of the situation if I'm on the front lines.
Elze: I support that notion.
Tatenashi: It's such a waste to explore a whole new world behind glass and monitors.
Tatenashi opened the fan she always carried with her, and the word "adventurer" was written on it, That perfectly captured the feeling of the three of us, and the others could do nothing but resign themselves to it.
Kyoko accompanied the three of us to the ground and the others slowly followed behind us in the flying ship.
Although we were excited to explore, all we found was the occasional tree.
I was starting to get tired of this constant meadow when we came across something mildly interesting.
Tatenashi: Those are some tall trees.
What we found was a forest that stretched for quite a distance, but the most striking thing was the size of the trees in this forest, Those were strangely tall, around twenty meters high or more.
Mitsuki: Wait, I hear something.
While we were admiring the tall trees, I heard a distant sound and I closed my eyes to concentrate, I identified the distant sound as heavy, rapid footsteps; that was something a human could not create.
Mitsuki: That way!
I turned in the direction of the sound and the others did the same, with weapons ready in our hands, I had a new sacred gear katana that Yuuki had created using part of the zanpakuto he had taken from the world-traveling soul-reaper he defeated; he had also created two other sacred gears with fragments of the same zanpakuto, but I'm not going to talk about that now.
We received an alert from the girls on the flying ship about a creature approaching us, but by the time their message arrived, we could already see the creature on the horizon, and I must say, that thing was disturbing.
Tatenashi: Why do I always seem to encounter the most unpleasant creatures when I travel between worlds?
Tatenashi was right, the creature running towards us was unpleasant; it was a giant over ten meters tall, It was humanoid in shape and completely naked, but it didn't appear to have any reproductive organs, so we didn't see anything dangling while it ran, but his running style compensated for that; his arms were flapping erratically and his head was thrown back a little.
I didn't sense a single kind or friendly vibes from that creature, so I prepared to attack.