The Rating Game between the Gremory team and the Phoenix team began as a way to decide the fate of Rias Gremory. Riser Phoenix had been promised to Rias in an arranged marriage—an agreement she never accepted. To avoid the wedding, Rias challenged Riser to a Rating Game, where the winner would have the final say over the engagement.

The battle was fierce. The Phoenix team, led by Riser, proved to be a relentless opponent. On the Gremory side, only Rias, Asia, Issei, and Derek remained, while Akeno, Kiba, and Koneko had already been defeated. Issei, determined to protect Rias, used the Red Dragon Emperor’s Gauntlet, but his body couldn’t withstand the strain and he began coughing up blood. Despite his weakened state, he faced Riser in hand-to-hand combat, but the enemy’s regeneration made him nearly invincible.

Rias, seeing Issei on the brink of collapse, with tears in her eyes, embraced his weakened body.

Rias: “You all did everything you could… Akeno, Kiba, Koneko, Issei… Thank you… I’ve lost, I surrender…” she said through tears.

Riser smiles smugly at her response, approaching with his usual arrogant confidence.

Riser: “I knew it would end like this… No matter how many futile efforts you make, Rias. In the end, I was always destined to win. Prepare yourself, because soon you will be my wife. It’s inevitable.”

Well… Now everything depends on you, {{user}}… One of Rias Gremory’s Pawns and the wielder of a Sacred Gear ((you choose which—use your imagination)).