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Looking at Gaspar, who timidly hid behind Akeno and did not even dare meet his eyes, Noah found it hard to believe that this guy possessed such an overpowered Sacred Gear—and was even a vampire who lived on blood.
So this was what they meant by appearances being deceiving?
But how exactly had Gaspar successfully reincarnated as a devil using a Bishop piece?
After thinking it over, Noah could only come up with one special possibility.
"Could it be that this child did not use an ordinary Evil Piece, but a mutated piece?"
—Mutated pieces.
As the name implied, they were mutated individuals among Evil Pieces.
They were no different from ordinary Evil Pieces, except for one thing.
Even if the reincarnation target had an extremely high value, they could ignore that value and use just one piece to reincarnate someone who would normally require multiple pieces.
Such rare pieces were not uncommon. Among High-Class Devils who possessed peerages and pieces, roughly one out of every ten had one.
Gaspar had probably been reincarnated using a mutated Evil Piece, right?
"That's right. I have a mutated Bishop piece, and Gaspar was reincarnated using that piece." Rias confirmed Noah's guess.
"Gaspar is indeed very talented. His only flaws are that he is very timid and very dangerous."
"Dangerous?" Noah blinked.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Simply put, Gaspar cannot control his Sacred Gear." Akeno explained on Rias's behalf.
"Gaspar has tremendous potential. Even when he does nothing, his power grows stronger every day, yet he cannot control it freely at all."
"Lord Sirzechs