Chapter 43 Protagonist Logic

What he saw before his eyes was Latia sitting on Riser's lap with her back to him.

The slender waist was hugged by Riser and Latia's slender hands were wrapped around that bastard's neck.

Their faces were close together and their head movements were careless, from his perspective, he felt this scene was like a pair of overheated lovers kissing.

A burst of anger and jealousy welled up in his heart, and Issei could no longer stop himself from screaming.

"Riser! Let go of Latia, you bastard!"

But it didn't work.

The two people still did it for a few seconds before finally ending it.

Issei was panting with anger, he was angry at having to watch the woman he liked do this in front of his eyes.

Latia and Riser stared at Issei as if they were looking at strangers.

"Who are you? Do you know me?" Riser asked in confusion, but his hands were still hugging Latia's soft waist.

Latia's face turned red, but she did not resist and even leaned her back against Riser's chest.

This sight fell into Issei's eyes, making him even angrier.

Latia must have been threatened by Riser!

Yes, that's for sure.

And Riser, you bastard, are you pretending to be stupid or have you lost your memory?

The Dragon King won't be fooled by you!

"Stop pretending Riser, we met yesterday at Rias' birthday party. You're a villain! You bullied people, even slapped Latia's cousin viciously at the birthday party!"

Issei pointed at Riser as if he was a villain, even bringing up the matter of Diodora being slapped by him last night.

He glanced at Latia as if to tell her that Riser was not a good person.

Riser looked at Issei with funny, of course he understood what this protagonist wanted to do.

[Want to throw the bad guy card at me in front of Latia? Call me a villain? But Issei... What you said is true. I am indeed a villain, I won't even deny it.]

He glanced at Latia who was in his arms and said, "Latia, I don't know who this person is, but what he said is true. I slapped your cousin until his face was swollen and blue. I did it because I was upset with him... You won't be mad at me for doing that, right?"

Issei sneered, he looked at Riser as if she was an idiot. But he was happy and almost laughed, with this, Latia must have a bad impression on Riser.

Your relative was beaten up by the person who was hugging you, won't you have a bad opinion of that person?

Even though he knew Latia was being threatened by Riser and already thought Riser was a bad person, but with the addition of a cousin being beaten up, Latia must be even more disgusted with Riser.

But it seems Issei forgot or perhaps lacked EQ so he didn't understand what kind of relationship Latia and Diodora had.

Do they have a good relationship despite being from the same family?

Does Latia care if something bad happens to Diodora?

Even though the other party is her cousin?

The answer was Latia's current indifferent expression.

She even stared at Issei as if he was stupid, but she immediately turned her gaze to Riser and that gaze became gentle.

"Of course not, Riser. I'm not mad at you, in fact I'm happy that you slapped that annoying cousin of mine."

"Huh really?"

"Yes~ if you want, I can call my cousin to come here so you can slap him again."

Latia smiled, she was currently acting with Riser. But she didn't lie that she was happy that Diodora was slapped by Riser, she was really happy about it, even feeling satisfied.

Riser looked at Issei with a smile on his face, he was really smiling at him.

"See? Latia doesn't seem to mind, and is even happy that I slapped her cousin. So um... You, I don't remember who you, but please leave immediately and don't disturb my date with Latia."

Issei could not believe what he had just heard.

He did not understand why Latia was even happy to know her cousin was slapped by Riser.

Then he realized, Latia was being threatened, why would she even dare to say her honest opinion?

Issei felt that it made sense.

But Riser, what did you just say?

"Enough Riser! Stop pretending you don't know me. And you said you were dating Latia? I don't believe it!"

"Latia, stay away from this trash. I know you were threatened with something by him, but now that I'm around, you'll be fine."

Issei smiled confidently and extended his hand to take Latia away, but that woman did not move from Riser's lap and instead gave him a disgusted look.

"Excuse me, but do I know you? Please don't act like we know each other. You'll make my boyfriend misunderstand."

"Latia, you... We met a few days ago at your house."

"No, I don't know you."

Latia denied firmly, her voice sounding loud, even making the people who were eating at the other tables hear her.

Those people laughed and even started mocking Issei for being pathetic.



Issei's face darkened, he was being treated like a clown?

He didn't blame Latia, but he looked at Riser with a look of hatred in his eyes.

[Riser! You bastard, you forced Latia to play the game of pretending not to know me to make me angry and disgusted, right? Good, you did it!]

[Now this Dragon King is really going to have a serious fight with you! If I defeat you in front of Latia, Latia will definitely believe that I'm reliable and she won't have to fear your threats anymore!]

What kind of logic is this?

The heroines had known for a long time that Issei had a brain problem, but they had not expected it to go this far.

But some of them panicked knowing Issei intended to fight with Riser.

They are of course worried about the latter!

Ophis who heard Issei's inner voice, was stunned as she was relaxing in the living room while watching Tom & Jerry.

She hurriedly took her laptop and tracked down where Riser or Issei was now.

In just a few seconds, she had hacked into the CCTV camera inside the BBQ restaurant.

"I almost skipped the villain vs protagonist drama!"

"Just in case, I should contact the police to go to their place immediately."

Although Ophis knew Riser was strong, but she was actually not sure if he was as strong as Issei who seriously wanted to fight?

Issei was the Dragon King, the number one mercenary king abroad!

Although that man didn't seem very strong so far as he had even been defeated by Riser many times.

But Ophis knew Issei was never serious back then as he still did not use his Dragon King heritage. It wasn't that Issei didn't want to use his Dragon King heritage, but according to the information he had gathered so far. Issei couldn't use it often for some reason.

But it's not impossible! Since he hadn't used it for a long time, then this time he might actually use it, especially when he said he would fight seriously this time.

At the police station, Roygun actually wanted to go to the place where Riser and Issei might fight. The goal is of course to use this opportunity to put Issei in jail again.

It didn't matter if the other party was set free again by his connections, she just wanted the chance to beat the man up personally in the name of justice.

But alas, she did not know where the two men were fighting. There wasn't even a phone call reporting about...

Suddenly her cell phone received a message from an unknown number.

She opened the message and was astonished at the contents.

"BBQ restaurant at number 7 Kuoh street... Two people are fighting inside the restaurant."

"This... Who sent this message? Whoever it is, this message must be about where Riser and Issei are right now. The timing is too perfect."

Roygun was excited, she did not doubt the contents of this message and immediately gathered a team to drive the police car to destination.

At the Gremory residence, the pale-faced Rias was lying on her bed with a fever. She had been like this since fainting in the garden that night.

Hearing that Issei intended to fight with Riser, she was worried about Riser and wanted to get out of bed to do something.

But her mother who was sitting next to the bed prevented her, she didn't allow her to go anywhere before she recovered.

"Mom... Riser... I have to go look for him right away."

"Silly girl, you have a fever!"

"But, mom..."

"There is no but. And are you sure you want to find a man who makes you like this? Hm? Left you passed out alone in the garden for over 4 hours. Luckily one of our servants found you, otherwise..."

Rias's mother, Vanelana Gremory had a disgruntled look on her face while talking about Riser.

Although she knew what Riser had done for Rias over the past three years and she appreciated the future son-in-law for his loving dedication.

But she knew now that Riser had changed, no longer obsessed with her daughter, even becoming indifferent so it was her daughter who had to chasing him.

She also knew her daughter was wrong for treating Riser badly before, but who would like to see their daughter left alone outside while passed out?

As a mother, she just wasn't happy that her daughter was being treated like this.

Rias sighed at her mother's dissatisfaction with Riser. She looked at her mother and said weakly. "Mom, it's not Riser's fault... It's my fault, please don't blame Riser..."

Looking at her feverish daughter, and continuing to defend Riser. Vanelana sighed, it seemed that her daughter had really fallen in love with her fiancé whom she had always rejected.

Now her daughter seemed to really regret it.

It's just that she doesn't know if her daughter is a bit too late or too late this time?

Back to Riser's side.

Riser released Latia from his arms to the side and immediately caught Issei's fist that was about to hit his face.

Looks like the protagonist is really serious this time.

Riser rose from her seat, her legs immediately became shadows and kicked Issei in the chest.

*Boom!

Issei was thrown several meters, crashing into many tables of people who were eating, and was almost thrown out of the restaurant. But he remained standing with a surprised expression before it was replaced with anger and contempt.

As a Dragon King, he felt humiliated to be beaten down by a wealthy second generation like Riser. Although Riser was obviously a cultivator and not the usual rich second generation, but the important point was that he came from a rich family.

As an orphan and poor at the start, Issei hated people who were born rich.

Even after he became rich and had a lot of money after becoming a Dragon King, unless the rich person was a beautiful woman, he would always have a dislike for rich people.

This is the double standard that Issei has.

Especially when he saw Riser's appearance who was very handsome and many of the women he liked went to him. He felt a deep hatred for Riser and wanted to kill that bastard.

[Riser, you forced me to use the Dragon King's power. You should be honored to die after seeing the Dragon King's power! Ahahahahaha!]

A crazy laugh echoed in Issei's heart and a green aura immediately surrounded his body.

The people in the restaurant were already panicking, many of them ran out of the restaurant, but there were also some who were watching from a distance while they were with their cell phones. After all, the green aura on Issei's body was unusual and many ordinary people were interested in seeing such supernatural things.





The heroines who heard Issei began to worry about the development of the current situation.

They wondered if Riser would be okay?

Although they didn't know how strong the Dragon King's power was, but they knew Issei was serious about killing Riser this time.

Making them panic!

Latia who was beside Riser was also panicking, she didn't expect Issei to be this crazy.

Today she had only planned to make a deal with Riser while eating together at the restaurant, but why did it turn out like this?

If this wasn't a novel-related plot, she wouldn't believe it.

"Riser, why don't we just run? That man looks really dangerous..."

Not knowing when, she was very worried about Riser's safety. But when she saw Riser from the side, she froze seeing the man's hand enveloped in a cyan-colored light.

What is this?!

Wait, she just remembered Riser wasn't an ordinary person because he was a cultivator.

Was that cyan light also one of his superpowers?

In fact, Latia knew quite a bit about the existence of superhumans like cultivators in this world as a young lady from a big family like Astaroth.

It was just that this was the first time she had seen one in person.

And she was surprised of course.

As expected of villain and protagonist, these two people were no ordinary people!

Riser looked at the heroine and stood beside him and said, "You can go or wait here Latia. I will deal with this madman."

"You... I'll just wait for you here."

"Huh are you sure?"

"Um."

Latia sat back down and took a position to watch.

Riser's lips twitched at this, he felt that this woman changed very quickly, from being initially worried to being excited to watch the show.

By the way he and Latia were actually just pretending to be dating to disgust Issei, even the kiss scene before was also just pretending to be a kiss and their lips were stuck together. It's just bringing the face closer with an ambiguous gesture that makes people from a point of view like Issei misunderstand before.

But the goal was achieved and right now Issei really couldn't bear to vent his frustrations anymore.

Well him, Riser was the same, he wanted to test his combat power now to fight Issei without using any sneaky tricks like the poison when he disguised himself as Deadpool before.

Exactly why was she so bold to confront Issei without a disguise now? It was because of the information Ophis had given her a few days ago. After reading all that information, he didn't have to be so afraid of Issei's power abroad anymore.

At least now he had a way to overcome Issei's power abroad. Even if Issei gave orders to his troops or connections to unite to destroy the Phenex family.

Now he was not without a way to deal with that situation.

So now he really wanted to punch Issei in the face without worrying about his background.

Riser walked slowly to the center of the restaurant, Issei did the same. Currently the two were face to face with each other.

"Riser, you're going to die today." Issei said with a fierce green aura enveloping his body, his eyes also glowing with green light.

Riser smiled, is this the power of the Dragon King? In the original work, it was indeed depicted with a green-colored aura that could increase Issei's combat power hundreds of times. It was really a cheating ability, but the current Issei should only be able to use 10% of his Dragon King power because his Dragon King inheritance was incomplete.

This means that the Dragon King power Issei is using now can only increase his combat power by ten times.

With Riser's current power, he felt that he could still face Issei now, especially with the addition of his rank five martial artist cultivation base and his current rasen energy.

This meant that the current him was not even inferior to a rank eight martial artist like Issei!

"Oh? Are you sure you can kill me? Hehe now I remember. If I'm not mistaken you are the Hyudou Issei who once barged into my engagement ceremony and yesterday too you were forced to kneel by me in front of many people because causing trouble at my fiancé's birthday party."

With a mocking grin on his handsome face, Riser looked Issei up and down.

"You seem to have the illusion that my fiancée is engaged to me because forced and you want to save her like a hero? Hahaha hero save beauty, do you want to imitate a certain anime protagonist? Issei... How old are you?"

"You..."

Issei's fists were clenched, what Riser said pierced his heart, he wanted to argue, but he was not good at words. So he just stared at Riser with a more ferocious face, even his fists began to move to punch Riser's face.

Riser laughed at the sight of the protagonist not knowing what to say, he dodged Issei's fist and at that moment he slapped Issei's face with his palm covered in rasen energy.

*Snapped!*

The slap was so hard, Issei's head turned sideways, his body tilted and he was thrown aside while rolling around.

Issei stared at Riser in disbelief, there were palm prints on his face, but what surprised him was...

[No way! I've enveloped my body with the Dragon King's aura! Why did Riser's slap hurt so much and even knocked me away? No, something is wrong here!]

[And that cyan light in his hand, why does it look familiar? I feel like I've seen it somewhere before.]

Hearing Issei's inner voice that was so shocked and disbelieving.

The heroines were happy that Riser didn't seem to be weaker than the protagonist.

Meanwhile, Riser grins wickedly at Issei familiar with his rasen energy.

He has a evil idea to make Issei vomit blood by revealing his other identity to him.