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* She is called out on this behavior in Chapter 19, as her mindset has her continually push situations without a clear plan for handling the consequences. Both in fighting Issei specifically and in underestimating the Khaos Brigade's tactics.

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* She **She is called out on this behavior in Chapter 19, as her mindset has her continually push situations without a clear plan for handling the consequences. Both in fighting Issei specifically and in underestimating the Khaos Brigade's tactics.
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She is called out on this behavior in Chapter 19, as her mindset has her continually push situations without a clear plan for handling the consequences. Both in fighting Issei specifically and in underestimating the Khaos Brigade's tactics.

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She *She is called out on this behavior in Chapter 19, as her mindset has her continually push situations without a clear plan for handling the consequences. Both in fighting Issei specifically and in underestimating the Khaos Brigade's tactics.
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She is called out on this behavior in Chapter 19, as her mindset has her continually push situations without a clear plan for handling the consequences. Both in fighting Issei specifically and in underestimating the Khaos Brigade's tactics.

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Currently at 19 chapters, it can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14181002/1/I-m-Too-Sober-For-This here.]]

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Currently at 19 20 chapters, it can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14181002/1/I-m-Too-Sober-For-This here.]]



* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler:Rias's mysterious new Pawn, Bennia, turns out to be her second ''Knight'']].

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* BaitAndSwitch: [[spoiler:Rias's BaitAndSwitch:
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mysterious new Pawn, Bennia, turns out to be her second ''Knight'']].''Knight'']].
** [[spoiler:Bennia]] eavesdrops on a conversation between ADLH!Issei and Irina, and concludes that, based on their dialogue, Irina is allowing Issei to touch her breasts. She's actually letting him touch her Angel wings.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Shirou punches Issei in Chapter 10 after the latter pushes his buttons one too many times. Considering the fact that Issei had spent most of the scene being an unapologetic hypocrite, he deserved it.


* {{Foil}}: Issei to Karasuba. Both are dragon emperors with mental issues that make them difficult to be around, both are very blunt and sharp-tongued, and both are devoted to their parents. However, Issei was provided with multiple teachers, has a sane Ddraig, and prefers to mope about his rotten luck while giving the many people whom have the means and the willingness to help him the cold shoulder; Kara had only ''one'' teacher (albeit an ungodly powerful one), her Ddraig is batshit insane and keeps trying to dominate her, and yet she tries to take the initiative and confront her problems head-on while also being utterly (and openly) devoted to the very small number of people (her parents) who tried to help her. This also extends to when they get into an argument: Issei tellingly does not refute any criticism leveled towards him, preferring to change the subject or say clichéd lines; Kara is actually willing to answer any claims made against her before firing back, and prefers to stay on-topic.

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* {{Foil}}: Issei to Karasuba. Both are dragon emperors with mental issues that make them difficult to be around, both are very blunt and sharp-tongued, and both are devoted to their parents. However, Issei was provided with multiple teachers, has a sane Ddraig, and prefers to mope about his rotten luck while giving the many people whom have the means and the willingness to help him the cold shoulder; shoulder (though it should be noted that some of those trying to help him are also desiring to utilize him and have not been forthright with him such as Ajuka and Sirzechs); Kara had only ''one'' teacher (albeit an ungodly powerful one), her Ddraig is batshit insane and keeps trying to dominate her, and yet she tries to take the initiative and confront her problems head-on while also being utterly (and openly) devoted to the very small number of people (her parents) who tried to help her. This also extends to when they get into an argument: Issei tellingly does not refute any criticism leveled towards him, preferring to change the subject or say clichéd lines; Kara is actually willing to answer any claims made against her before firing back, and prefers to stay on-topic.
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** Chapter 18 has Irina give a possible explanation for this: following her failed attempt to control Ddraig when she was a child (which led to their dad getting mauled), Karasuba felt she ''needed'' her brother to be stronger than her just in case she went off the deep end again, so she tried to toughen him up, but her methods were flawed and there was realistically no chance of that happening; but rather than acknowledge that, she dismissed him as lazy and unmotivated.

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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: ADLH!Issei was explicitly stated to share his canon self's background, with the exception of having Karasuba for a sister and Twice Critical instead of the Boosted Gear as his Sacred Gear. In this story, it's mentioned that she once brutally beat him up when they were children, and throughout their childhood would try to one-up him in whatever hobby he tried if he didn't treat it as competitively as she did, killing his enjoyment of anything he tried.



* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Karasuba mockingly asks if Issei thought he could defy fate. He gives a cheezy response and tries to intimidate her, and when that fails, he stuffs her in a box--though he tellingly fails to answer her question, something she rubs in later.

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Karasuba mockingly asks if Issei thought he could defy fate. He gives a cheezy cheesy response and tries to intimidate her, and when that fails, he stuffs her in a box--though he tellingly fails to answer her question, something she rubs in later.later.
** Issei cuts off Zekram Bael's point about every major major conflict being treated as different than any before it (justifying his attempts to [[OpportunisticBastard take advantage of the current crisis in the process]]) by asking when the last time ''Ophis'' got involved in one. Even the old devil can't refute the point.



* BatmanGambit:
** Karasuba challenges Issei to a fight, both to satiate her bloodlust and get Shirou's attention. She loses the fight pretty handily, but got exactly what she wanted in the end.
** Issei deduces that Zekram's placing Shirou in the Rating Games is designed to kill Sona's dream of opening a school for Reincarnates regardless of Shirou's performance: if he loses, it'll be brushed off as not worth the effort; if he wins, he'll be put on a pedestal that few, if any, Reincarnates would be able to reach, so supporting the project would be pointless.

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* BatmanGambit:
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BatmanGambit: Karasuba challenges Issei to a fight, both to satiate her bloodlust and get Shirou's attention. She loses the fight pretty handily, but got exactly what she wanted in the end.
** Issei deduces that Zekram's placing Shirou in the Rating Games is designed to kill Sona's dream of opening a school for Reincarnates regardless of Shirou's performance: if he loses, it'll be brushed off as not worth the effort; if he wins, he'll be put on a pedestal that few, if any, Reincarnates would be able to reach, so supporting the project would be pointless.
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** From the same discussion, Issei's opinion of Karasuba condemning his counterpart for failing to stop Rias from altering their mothers memories. He points out the boy had ''just'' learned about the supernatural, been ''killed'' the night prior, and was made an underling of the devil in question, who also outclassed him in every manner imaginable, leaving him in an understandable state of shock and helplessness. He promptly concedes Karasuba's anger was understandable when rather than use any of the above arguments, his counterpart said [[OpenMouthInsertFoot "there were boobs"]].



** The AdaptationalVillainy of the dragons in ADLH (especially Ddraig) is noted to be extremely unusual by Issei, who discovers that ''something'' inherent in the universe steadily drives them more and more feral.
** In the aftermath of their rematch, Issei takes apart Karasuba's status as an AxCrazy BloodKnight, and the reasons she continues the persona. Not only does her fighting style make her a nightmare in terms of teamwork (many of her attacks being just as likely to his friend as foe) but also guarantees ''massive'' collateral damage, making her unsuited to combat in any location with civilians. While she insists that said fighting style contributes to her status as TheDreaded, he counters that it is scarily easily for savvy enemies to exploit by putting her loved ones in the crossfire, and leaving her devastated in the aftermath. He even brushes off her insistence that her status as TheDreaded protects them, pointing out that joining Shirou means she's no longer a WildCard, and that anyone going against her new boss is long past the point where death threats (no matter how painful) hold any more significance than the litany of others they'd be subjected to.



* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Issei is not particularly impressed with his counterpart, whose character is more in line with canon!Issei. He doesn't mistreat or insult him, but he still seems to hold expectations for him that GAIWP!Ddraig knows the other Issei will ''never'' achieve.

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** ADLH Issei quickly deduces that something horrible happened to his counterpart based on the simple fact that despite being just as perverted as him, said counterpart hasn't so much as uttered a word about harems.
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Zigzagged with Issei is not particularly impressed regarding his ADLH counterpart. Despite expressing reluctance to interact with his counterpart, whose character is him, once he does the two bond over their shared love of harems and porn. He even expresses sympathy with said counterpart having to grow up with [[AxCrazy Karasuba]] as a sister, and teaches him several ways to use Twice Critical more in line with canon!Issei. He doesn't mistreat or insult him, but he still seems effectively. That said, he's greatly annoyed by his counterparts [[OpenMouthInsertFoot tendency to hold expectations for him that GAIWP!Ddraig knows say the other Issei will ''never'' achieve.worst thing]], as well as his general lack of common sense. Also has shades of IHatePastMe given how long it's been since his teachers knocked those traits out of him.



** Despite expressing reluctance to so much as interact with his counterpart, Issei gives his counterpart plenty of tips on how to improve and is quite patient while explaining the mechanics behind them.



** Issei and GAIWP!Ddraig give one to ADLH!Ddraig in the aftermath of the formers rematch with Karasuba, noting that his sense of pride has no basis given he's been sealed away for millennia, and his greatest achievements during that time have boiled down to torturing whatever poor sap ends up saddled with him. They even point out his insistence on being an AxCrazy lunatic has actually ''hindered'' his current host, despite her immense potential, and left his reputation as something akin to a rabid dog rather than the mighty dragon he once was.



* SmarterThanYouLook: Asia may be a hard-drinking ditz, but she's pretty sharp. Notably, she can tell when injuries are self-inflicted, thus Diodora Astaroth's attempt to get her excommunicated by healing an injury he inflicted upon himself--and therefore giving him the chance to forcefully add her to his Peerage--didn't work.

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Asia may be a hard-drinking ditz, but she's pretty sharp. Notably, she can tell when injuries are self-inflicted, thus Diodora Astaroth's attempt to get her excommunicated by healing an injury he inflicted upon himself--and therefore giving him the chance to forcefully add her to his Peerage--didn't work.work.
** Karasuba is an AxCrazy BloodKnight, but even when [[TheBerserker completely enraged]] she retains enough presence of mind to set up a WoundedGazelleGambit, and picks up on the tricks Issei teaches her rather fast.


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* StupidEvil: Issei and Ddraig's opinion of the latter's ADLH counterpart, noting his insistence on his hosts acting as he does, i.e., an AxCrazy maniac willing to kill anything and anyone who so much as inconveniences him, and eroding their sanity until they comply makes them significantly ''less'' effective than allowing them to develop naturally. They consider Karasuba to have grown as strong as she has ''in spite'' of him rather than because of him.


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* XanatosGambit: Issei deduces that Zekram's placing Shirou in the Rating Games is designed to kill Sona's dream of opening a school for Reincarnates regardless of Shirou's performance: if he loses, it'll be brushed off as not worth the effort; if he wins, he'll be put on a pedestal that few, if any, Reincarnates would be able to reach, so supporting the project would be pointless.
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* TheBerserker: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] with Karasuba. She seems like one at first glance and Illya joyfully labels her as such, but Issei notes that she ''can'' put some thought into her attacks and she ''is'' a highly skilled swordswoman.


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* UnfriendlyFire: Karasuba is such a bloodthirsty, mentally damaged sadist that she would be a hindrance to anyone trying to aid her (or is at least on the same side as her) in combat. Issei is asked to fix that problem, since she's now part of a Peerage and needs to learn about teamwork.
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* ManipulativeBastard: ADLH!Ddraig convinced Karasuba that Dragon Emperors are supposed to be nihilistic, anti-social destroyers in order to isolate, and therefore have more control over, her. Issei bluntly declares that such behavior is reserved for ''Evil Dragons''.

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Currently at 18 chapters, it can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14181002/1/I-m-Too-Sober-For-This here.]]

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Currently at 18 19 chapters, it can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14181002/1/I-m-Too-Sober-For-This here.]]


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* CurbStompCushion: The outcome of Karasuba's fight with Issei in Chapter 19 was never in doubt, but Kara actually manages to surprise Issei a couple times and he admits afterward that she earned a solid "B", which is even more impressive when you consider he only ''just'' told her of other ways she can use Boosts.


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** Neither Issei nor Ddraig are impressed to discover that ADLH!Ddraig tried to get Karasuba to act like an Evil Dragon instead of a Dragon Emperor, which explains why she's so cynical and not as powerful as she could be.
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*** And then Ophis shows up and sends Issei crashing through several walls with nothing more than a ''finger poke''. Issei doesn't even ''try'' to fight back, preferring to simply bolster his defenses while trying to think of a way to escape or talk her down. Skull.

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*** And then Ophis shows up and sends Issei crashing through several walls with nothing more than a ''finger poke''. Issei doesn't even ''try'' to fight back, preferring to simply bolster his defenses while trying to think of a way to escape or talk her down. Skull.

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* BatmanGambit: Karasuba challenges Issei to a fight, both to satiate her bloodlust and get Shirou's attention. She loses the fight pretty handily, but got exactly what she wanted in the end.

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Karasuba challenges Issei to a fight, both to satiate her bloodlust and get Shirou's attention. She loses the fight pretty handily, but got exactly what she wanted in the end.end.
** Issei deduces that Zekram's placing Shirou in the Rating Games is designed to kill Sona's dream of opening a school for Reincarnates regardless of Shirou's performance: if he loses, it'll be brushed off as not worth the effort; if he wins, he'll be put on a pedestal that few, if any, Reincarnates would be able to reach, so supporting the project would be pointless.



* BigNo: Issei gives one when Shirou asks if the visual novel about him is explicitly pornographic, then goes on to explain why it isn't.

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* BigNo: Issei gives one ("WRONG!") when Shirou asks if the visual novel about him is explicitly pornographic, then goes on to explain why it isn't.


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** Issei also makes it clear that, despite his quirky behavior, he is ''very'' grateful to Shirou for taking him in and is all too happy to get rid of people who are pestering his host.
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When asked about the Irina from his world, Issei starts talking about "him", then slowly realizes that Irina was a girl all along. He calmly excuses himself from the room, then unleashes [[ClusterFBomb a torrent of swears]] at this realization.


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** Issei has another one when he realizes that Irina is a girl. And his voice rises in pitch when she introduces him to [[spoiler:Fou]].

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Currently at 17 chapters, it can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14181002/1/I-m-Too-Sober-For-This here.]]

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Currently at 17 18 chapters, it can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14181002/1/I-m-Too-Sober-For-This here.]]



* AbortedArc: In-universe. Issei pulls the plug on whatever Zekram Bael was planning for Shirou via intimidation on Shirou's request.



* TraumaButton: Thinking about women's asses causes the scars on Vali's own ass to throb, so he has to suppress his burgeoning ass fetish.

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Thinking about women's asses causes the scars on Vali's own ass to throb, so he has to suppress his burgeoning ass fetish.fetish.
** ADLH!Issei shows PTSD symptoms at the mere sight of Angel wings, as shown in Chapter 18.


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* WontTakeYesForAnAnswer: Shirou assumes that Issei will be reluctant to get Zekram Bael off his back and has a list of things he's prepared to do in return for Issei doing so. To his surprise, Issei immediately agrees to do it because he considers Shirou a friend ''and'' he hates Zekram's guts, regardless of which version of Zekram it is.
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** Koneko has gotten into a tussle with ''Serafall'' at least twice. Over ''Shirou''. Were it not for Shirou's brotherly affection for Koneko, Serafall would have squashed her like a bug in an instant.
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Currently at 16 chapters, it can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14181002/1/I-m-Too-Sober-For-This here.]]

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Currently at 16 17 chapters, it can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14181002/1/I-m-Too-Sober-For-This here.]]
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** Diodora Astaroth tries to intimidate Shirou into surrendering Asia to him. Shirou tells him bluntly and to his face that he isn't even a ''small'' matter, which Issei (whom Diodora also tries to act dismissive towards) treating him with equal derision. When he starts making threats towards Asia directly, Shirou is just about to butcher him, and Diodora's life is only saved by Issei using his phone trick to give him a splitting headache--not because he doesn't think the little shit deserves to die, but because killing him would cause problems for Ajuka (Diodora's older brother), whom Shirou is on good terms with and whose help Issei is counting on to get back to his world.

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** Diodora Astaroth tries to intimidate Shirou into surrendering Asia to him. Shirou tells him bluntly and to his face that he isn't even a ''small'' matter, which with Issei (whom Diodora also tries to act dismissive towards) treating him with equal derision. When he starts making threats towards Asia directly, Shirou is just about to butcher him, and Diodora's life is only saved by Issei using his phone trick to give him a splitting headache--not because he doesn't think the little shit deserves to die, but because killing him would cause problems for Ajuka (Diodora's older brother), whom Shirou is on good terms with and whose help Issei is counting on to get back to his world.



* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Vali once tried to say "no" to Ophis. She promptly bit him in the ass so hard that it left scars, which ends up damaging his ass fetish.

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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Vali once tried to say "no" to Ophis. She promptly bit him in the ass so hard that it left scars, which ends up damaging suppressing his ass fetish.

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Currently at 15 chapters, it can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14181002/1/I-m-Too-Sober-For-This here.]]

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Currently at 15 16 chapters, it can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14181002/1/I-m-Too-Sober-For-This here.]]



* ArmorPiercingSlap: PlayedForHorror when Ophis starts slapping Shirou in Chapter 16 for [[spoiler:dissolving UBW before she was done basking in it]]. It might seem comical on the surface, but given her infinite strength, Shirou is all too aware that each slap could ''kill'' him if Ophis puts enough strength behind it.



* FoodAsBribe: [[spoiler:After Shirou manages to enrage Ophis by dissolving UBW before she was done relaxing in it ''and'' getting her hopes up by showing her Excalibur, she demands that he make it up to her for her now greatly increased homesickness. He sheepishly offers to take her to the nearest (intact) kitchen and whip up a meal for her, but Serafall intervenes before she can respond.]]



* MoodWhiplash: [[spoiler:Shirou pulls Ophis into his Reality Marble in the hopes of getting her to back down with an endless supply of anti-dragon weapons. Instead, Ophis is overjoyed because, being "unlimited", the realm feels almost exactly like the Dimensional Gap she was evicted from, thus allowing her to relax for the first time in millenia. She even throws a childish tantrum when he dissolves it.]]



* NoSell: Shirou, like in [=ADLH=] proper, is immune to everything holy. As shown in Chapter 12, this includes Issei's phone trick, much to the latter's surprise.

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Shirou, like in [=ADLH=] proper, is immune to everything holy. As shown in Chapter 12, this includes Issei's phone trick, much to the latter's surprise.surprise.
** Shirou uses at least ''three'' Noble Phantasms against [[spoiler:Ophis]], including Excalibur, and they don't inflict any damage whatsoever.



* SanitySlippage: ''Something'' is causing the Dragons to become increasingly feral, with even Ophis beginning to suffer the effects. Issei deduces the cause in Chapter 16, but hasn't offered anymore details yet.



* SingleStrokeBattle: Ophis casually defeats Sairaiorg, Regulus, and Xenovia with nothing more than a ''finger poke''.



* SupremeChef: Shirou. Even Issei doesn't hesitate to compliment his cooking skills.

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* SupremeChef: Shirou. Even Issei doesn't hesitate to compliment his cooking skills. Ophis is so awed by his cooking skills that she decides to abduct him.
* SweetTooth: Ophis likes chocolate. After tasting some homemade chocolates made my Shirou, she decides to kidnap him and make him her personal chef.

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*** And then Ophis shows up and sends Issei crashing through several walls with nothing more than a ''finger poke''. Issei doesn't even ''try'' to fight back, preferring to simply bolster his defenses while trying to think of a way to escape or talk her down.

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*** And then Ophis shows up and sends Issei crashing through several walls with nothing more than a ''finger poke''. Issei doesn't even ''try'' to fight back, preferring to simply bolster his defenses while trying to think of a way to escape or talk her down. Skull.
** In Chapter 15:
*** Issei defeats Jeanne with a Dress Break while casually chugging a beer.
*** Karasuba crushes Heracles' skull like a grape.
*** The Maous easily fend off the members of the Old Satan Faction.

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Currently at 14 chapters, it can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14181002/1/I-m-Too-Sober-For-This here.]]

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Currently at 14 15 chapters, it can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14181002/1/I-m-Too-Sober-For-This here.]]


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* InSpiteOfANail: Karasuba still kills Heracles by crushing his skull.
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Currently at 13 chapters, it can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14181002/1/I-m-Too-Sober-For-This here.]]

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Currently at 13 14 chapters, it can be read [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14181002/1/I-m-Too-Sober-For-This here.]]

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